Jittering when using cleaver in melee

Animation

State

Need more info

Issue key

DZEXP-106

Access

Public

Space

DayZ

Project

Experimental Feedback

Creator

trollofduty007

Created

Sep 17, 2026

Views

118

Platform

PC Steam

What happened?

I was using the cleaver knife to fight Zombies, and noticed a peculiar jittering / twitching when I was using it.

Reproduction steps

Use a cleaver to fight zombies, predominantly blocking attacks, and observe

See the uploaded twitch clip for an example of this behaviour

Exact build version (optional)

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Where did it happen?

Official

Is it modded?

Expected result

This twitchy animation not happening anymore

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20260917_PerfectTangentialFrogAllenHuhu_ObCgL4xtjSZnOFIL_source.mp4

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Activity

about 2 months ago

trollofduty007
created issueabout 2 months ago
l909
changed state to
AWAITING INTERNAL TESTING
about 2 months ago

about 1 month ago

l909
Moderator
commented
about 1 month ago
l909
Moderator
commented
about 1 month ago
Hello.
We have tested the issue on our end but we were unable to reproduce it.
trollofduty007commented
about 1 month ago
trollofduty007commented
about 1 month ago
Hi!

Interesting, I did also notice the same issue with some other tools, Machete as one

It's possible it could be an interaction when you're on uneven terrain? I do have a life on EXP where I have a cleaver currently, will report back if I find any other variables