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It stopped for awhile in my game, but after a recent restart it appeared again before anyone even logged on:

I know there are no guaranteed timelines, but how long typically do the experimental releases last before going stable? Weeks or months? Are fresh installs recommended between versions? I'm getting attached to my A20 world and will be dreading that potential wipe.

Crossbow got buffed too. I found a L2 compound crossbow that does 98 damage with iron bolts. Drops most basic zombies with single headshot. Loving it.

I've got the same issue on mine. Started today. Wasn't doing it before. Server made it to day 20 or so then it just started up.

Question: Have the mechanics of feral sense vs. stealth been detailed yet? Does stealth just reduce feral range detection or is more going on with light/noise/distance? Anecdotally, I have found with only 1 rank in stealth I am able to do stealth archer with some success, but it is definitely more challenging than before. The biggest difference feels like multiple zombies wake at once rather than the one at a time before. I'm rather enjoying the extra challenge.

One weird thing I'm noticing on my 10k RWG dedicated server world is many POIs have trees growing inside of them or next to them so the branches are inside. Also many trees in the middle of roads. It feels like maybe something glitched with placement during generation. Nothing seems broken in game just oddly placed.

Quick comment on my new favorite feature: Feral Sense. My friends and I are 'good' at this game and usually have very few deaths. We had early game down to a science and used to get well established very quickly. On warrior difficulty with feral day & night on we are getting our butts kicked a lot! The game feels super scary again which it hasn't for a long time for me. It was rare to be surprised before and it happens all the time now. I had about 10 nearby zombies visit me in a house while doing a tier-1 fetch... it didn't go well, but was so much fun. If you are a veteran player and haven't tried it, I highly recommend it!

Can the rest of you please stop hitting refresh hoping to see the release news? It is interfering with my ability to constantly refresh. Thank you.

It would be nice to see an appended patch notes to see how many issues were resolved as a direct result of findings of streamer weekend. Not to justify it, but maybe convince a handful of folks who railed against steamer weekend

They have said repeatedly its an estimate and depends on severity of issues discovered. I'd much rather they delay hours or days and get a major bug patched than get an unplayable release and wait weeks/months for a bigger patch.

Does anyone know if anyone of the streamers this weekend have shown the setup/configuration of dedicated server on A20? Specifically thinking about the random gen on a server. The normal game random gen looks super streamlined now, but curious if it is all still controlled by a config file on dedicated server.

Thank you! It worked! I was running the commands directly from the SteamCMD command prompt rather than the Windows CMD prompt which may have been the problem. The update appeared to be run exactly the same, but for some reason running it from the Windows command prompt finally took it to 19.5. Thanks very much for the help.

The system is a Win10 Pro VM dedicated for the server with no other apps running on it (dual processor/32GB RAM) Full command is "app_update 294420" from the steamCMD prompt. Also attempted "app_update 294420 -beta" with the same results. Steam>app_update 294420 Success! App '294420' already up to date. I'm familiar with clearing the download cache on the client side, but I'm not sure how to do on the server and a quick Google only showed client side instructions. Could you point me to directions on clearing the download cache?

I attempted to update our dedicated server to 19.5 with the "app_update 294420" command and it appeared to download new components and update successfully, but after it completes the game still shows version 19.4 and won't let 19.5 clients connect. Attempting to run the command again gives "Success! App '294420' already up to date." Any help would be appreciated.