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Hand torch too strong, and gags not working properly

Bug

Improvement

Environment

Balance

Issue Key

DZG-260

State

Awaiting internal testing

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

shitbird69

Created

Aug 7, 2026

Views

101

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Platform

PC Steam

What happened?

  1. i will first talk about the torch " exploit " the hand torch is stupidly op, i play namalsk, pve and survival is a big aspect of the map, i just learned about the torch trick today, people don't really make fires anymore they just put a torch with 2 rags in a tree or in any house on the ground, and they get the heat buff + everything defrosts in like 3 mins, it is broken really messes with the survival aspect of namalsk and that's a shame, a fire with 6 logs and 10 twigs takes a long time to dry clothes and to heat food up,i hope you guys will do something about that, you get better effects than a campfire without the cons because a fire because it generates almost no smoke and light, you juste have to stand on it and it takes 2 rags to give you a 1+ solid heatbuff with 6 rags you get a 3+ heatbuff in about 5 mins, coming back after two years on the game, i was wondering why i almost never was seeing people making fires nowadays, that's why.
    the hand torch is op in namalsk

  2. the gag does not fully work as intended : sometimes, the muffeled part of the voices and the grunt effects simply do not work. i used to play gagged the whole time before because it muffles the breath holding sound effect, the sneezing sound effects, the grunting sound effects when you're wounded, you even sound different when you're shift meleeing, very satisfying, it has been about 3 years that it is totally bugged for me, and it does not work half the time, the only way to get my character to have the gagged voice and voice effects is to day and pray for the bug to not happen a second time. the bug is persistent throughout the life of your character, so relogging does not work.

    those two issues i talked about are not a big problem in maps where the weather is not cold like namalsk or sakhal, but it is a big disadvantage or a big "glitch" abuse for the torch i would say. it is my first time posting, sorry if the format is not perfect, thank you for reading

Reproduction steps

Well to reproduce that, you just have to log on sakhal or namalsk, and see for yourself that you get the heatbuff in like 3 mins when you were originally hypothermic, heatbuff that you do not get while sitting next to a fully stacked fire.


And for the gag, you just have to spawn, and gag yourself with one rag over and over again whenever you kill yourself and spawn again, you'll see that sometimes it works, but most of the time it does not work, to see if it works, you just have to gag yourself and hold shift while punching to swing a full speed punch, if your swing grunt sounds muffled, then it works, if your swing grunt does not sound muffeled when gagged, you just have to kill yourself because your character is bugged and will never have the ability to have the gagged voices and grunts

Exact build version (optional)

1.29

Where did it happen?

Community

Is it modded?

Yes

Expected result

Section
is_modded = "Yes"

Mod list

the mods do not matter because the same happens in vanilla but whatever.

WindstridesClothingPack ; Advanced Weapon Scopes ; Namalsk Survival ; Namalsk Island ; DayOneServerPack-Namalsk ; Dayone ; CF

Load order / launch params

Activity

    19 days ago

  • shitbird69
    created issue19 days ago
  • 19 days ago

  • 89commented
    19 days ago

    The mods matter if you experienced the event on a modded server; if you were reporting about an official server then you wouldn't need to include them.
    Bistudio can only provide support for things present in official DayZ; generally if a player wants to report a bug, it would best if they could reproduce the bug first and test it themselves on a server that only has 1 mod at the most; which would be a simple admin tool. (Like community online tools; the admin tool lets you spawn items, teleport, simplifies the testing process.)

    Even in this context, I don't know whether all of these things in your report are 1:1 with the official game.

    Since you're playing namalsk anyway, I would recommend that you create a mod that resolves your disagreement with torches, and advertise it to the namalsk servers you like to play.

    The muffled voice thing could be a bug in official; they'll probably test it either way, but it would be better if you could provide more certainty that the issues occur in official. If you are capable.

  • shitbird69commented
    19 days ago

    " if you"re homeless buy a house "

  • 17 days ago

  • l909
    changed state to
    AWAITING INTERNAL TESTING
    17 days ago
  • 14 days ago

  • 89replied to a comment
    14 days ago

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Issue Key

DZG-260

State

Awaiting internal testing

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

shitbird69

Created

Aug 7, 2026

Views

101

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