1.19 and 1.20 Movement Changes

# Changelog
Reduced the speed of the player when running up/down steep terrain
Increased the inertia of the character when accelerating
Character slows down more when running turns
Character running speed is slowed down in medium water levels
Item wetness now influences their weight again
Weight of the carried gear now impacts player movement inertia

# Takeaways
Inertia related events are now affected by weight, which can be increased by wetness of character
Moving through water slows you down
Running up or down hill slows you down

# Useful Links
https://dayz.fandom.com/wiki/Stamina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h0zNB4HIg&t=12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmKUUuzBops

Chernarus Strategy

# Best Spawns by Distance

- East Chernogorsk 6800 meters
- Balota 6800 meters
- East Prigorodki 6900 meters
- South Berezino 7500 meters
- North Berezino 7800 meters
- Any other spawn would not be reasonable to attempt if going for the best run possible.

# Best Route

Spawn East of Cherno and run to the Stroytel Medical Building (1800 meters), run to Stary Sobor Medical Building (3500 meters), run to the South point of NWAF(1600 meters)
Total 6900 meters

General Movement Knowledge

---NOTICE---
These calculations were performed on 1.16.  With the movement changes of 1.20, these calculations could be slightly different.

# Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to be a knowledge share about DAYZ and its current movement. This information has been tested for 1.16 and is subject to change in future updates.  written and calculated by tyshoe

# Travel Methods

You run at ~6.66 meters per second.
You jog at ~4 meters per second.

# Overview

With a full stamina bar, you can run for 25 seconds covering about 166 meters in game.  It takes 20 seconds to recover your stamina while jogging.  During the recovery period, if you are jogging, you'll cover 80 meters.  This means, to expend and recover a full stamina bar, you will spend 45 seconds covering 246 meters.  We will call this period "one cycle".  If you take the total distance of a route you'd like to travel, you can divide it by 246 meters and this will be your "total cycles".  You can then multiply the total cycles by your cycle time (45 seconds) and it will give you the most optimized time for that distance.

# Example

To the east of Prigorodki (east of Chernogorsk) there are player spawns.  If you take the distance between those spawns and the closest point of the wall, its roughly 6900 meters.  Take this number and divide it by a distance per cycle (246 meters).
6900 meters / 246 meters = 28.04 cycles
For simplicity, we will just say 28 cycles.
Take the total cycle count and multiply it by the time one cycle takes (45 seconds).
28 cycles * 45 seconds = 1260 seconds
You can take this number and divide by 60 seconds to get the time in minutes.
1260 seconds / 60 seconds = 21 minutes

# Equations

- Cycle Distance = Running Distance + Jogging Distance
- Cycle Time = Running Time + Jogging Time
- Cycle Count = Total Distance / Cycle Distance
- Total Time = Cycle Time * Cycle Count

# Explanations

- Running Distance - distance covered by using one full stamina bar
- Jogging Distance - distance covered by recovering one full stamina bar
- Running Time - time to run one full stamina bar
- Jogging Time - time to recover one full stamina bar
- Cycle Distance - total distance for a cycle
- Cycle Time - total time for a cycle
- Cycle Count - amount of cycles to cover a total distance
- Total Distance - distance between point a and point b
- Total Time - time between point a and point b

# Epinephrine Auto-Injectors

Epi-Pens removes stamina consumption for 60 seconds.  This means if you time an Epi-Pen usage right, you can run for 110 seconds before needing to regen stamina. During this time you will cover 732 meters.  To get 110 seconds of running, uninterrupted, you'll need to run for 25 seconds (depleting a full stamina bar) then inject for 60 seconds, which will refill you stamina bar, and after 60 seconds, you'll start consuming stamina again, for 25 seconds.
Time: 25 + 60 + 25 = 110 seconds
Distance: 166 + 400 + 166 = 732 meters

# Epi-Pen Optimization

The best possible time without epi-pens would be about 21 minutes.  If you were to utilize 9 Epi-Pens, you could get about 17 minutes and 20 seconds.  This means that each Epi-Pen you use, you will save roughly 25 seconds.  Keep in mind that all of these calculations and assumptions does not take into account other random factors as well as player choices.

# Resources

The following was used to help generate this information and calculations

- Modded servers and [DayZCommunityOfflineMode](https://github.com/Arkensor/DayZCommunityOfflineMode)- to find speed of character[](https://github.com/Arkensor/DayZCommunityOfflineMode)
- Vanilla servers - to find how long to deplete and regen stamina
- [Fandom.com](https://dayz.fandom.com/wiki/Stamina)
- [iZurvive](https://dayz.ginfo.gg/)

Liviona Strategy

# Best Spawns by Distance

- Topolin 5600-7000 meters
- Radacz 5800-7000 meters
- Bielawa 7000-8000 meters
- Gliniska 7000-8000 meters
- Any other spawn would not be reasonable to attempt if going for the best run possible.

# Best Route

Spawn South of Topolin town and run straight to Swarog Radar Tower Building
Total 5600 meters

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## General Rule Update
* Removed rule that required runs to be performed on high population server.  This rule had no effect on the current state of the speedruns.

## Removed Style Variable
* Style Variable was an early idea that no longer suites the current state of the speedruns.  Some previo

Name	Author
1.19 and 1.20 Movement Changes	tyshoe 3 years ago
Chernarus Strategy	tyshoe 3 years ago
General Movement Knowledge	tyshoe 3 years ago
Liviona Strategy	tyshoe 3 years ago