Tsunami (DayZ)

Not exactly new, (just haven't really posted before) I've died in plenty of frustrating ways before, however this one now just irked me enough to look into suggesting a fix. The problem is me being completely vulnerable for 20-40 seconds every time i log in. It's not a nap where I'd wake up prone, at least having lower visibility. it's my character, standing there, unable to react in any way for the better part of a minute. This is epically awful when I'm forced to log out due to server instability. It wouldn't be a complaint if i had complete control over my logs every time. There are several things that could be done to fix this, it doesn't have to be invincibility. 1. Fix server stability (i know that this is currently being worked on and the game is in alpha) - Every time the servers go down I'm in the same position of having no control of where of log in. I can be careful all I want, but getting me killed because of a server drop is just cheap. I would have no complaints on where I log in/out if server drops where a rarity. 2. Start me in a prone position - if you want it to be like my char just laid down for a nap then that's fine, but start me down on the ground, not standing up like some target dummy. 3. Don't have my character's shoot-able body actually load in until the world and controls are ready for me to use. You don't need to give an advantage to the person logging in, but i think that it should be fair or at least give them some kind of chance. I'm not afraid of being shot on login, I dislike not even having a chance to defend myself.

Bumping this because I just got forked hard by this. I can understand some concerns of people using this to check stuff out and server hop. However, there have been several times I really havn't had a say in where I log out at. Unless there can be some kind of gaurentee that i'm not going to be droped from a server randomly in a populated area. This will put your character back anywhere from 5-30 seconds ago from when you get the loosing connection message and has happened several times today alone. Fix that and I would see no need for login protection. Or get a fix for the 20-40 seconds that my character is just standing there uselessly with a black screen, unable to even try to blindly serpentine, get down, or god forbid log as i hear a hail of gunfire coming down on my forced blind/mute/paralized self. Maybe preload everythign then load the character in the exact time I actualy have access to my controlls, I'm fine with login and sprint to the nearest cover, but how it is now that isn't possiable.

My roommate was having the same issue and he swears he followed the steps on the site. However, it appears that he just grabbed one of the files needed. One of the missing files deals with controls in the game, so I'm guessing you might have done the same thing. you need these files. dayz_code_v1.5.8.2.rar 22-May-2012 00:08 138599 dayz_equip_v1.2.4.rar 21-May-2012 22:21 14866900 dayz_sfx_v1.1.1.rar 21-May-2012 22:21 30288650 dayz_v1.2.5.rar 21-May-2012 22:21 11080317