halcyonmaus

It's not just dysync / being shot, etc. About 6 times now I can consistently recreate this bug, where after climbing to the top of a ladder I pause, and insta-death screen. Exact same timing every time. The top of schools / firehouses seem to be the most consistent. And it's not falling then dying, I get up, on the roof, 1 second pause, death.

The problem is servers showing up in the standard whitelist that aren't actually communicating with the global hive, so you go on that server (or are on one, and leave it) you get fresh spawned and lose everything.

Doubt it's hacking. The spinning thing is a known bug, as is the 'teleporting'. It happening when another player appears is rare and coincidental but still going to happen once in a while.

Known bug, dozens of thread on it already. Please use the search function. :)

It may have been combat logging, but there's a known bug where very often killed players' bodies are de-spawning when they respawn / leave the server. Rocket has commented on it on Twitter.

Tested this myself last night, you're right but still wrong-- Just not being hungry/thirsty isn't enough, I sat for almost an hour last night testing this and never regen'ed at all. So then I just went crazy and ate/drank a LOT, never got the full message and never saw 'healing', but I did begin to regen after eating/drinking quite a bit (color coming back, etc.) Eventually I did get a 'healthy' status, but I did regen without ever seeing 'healing'. So there seems to be some hidden amount beyond just not being hungry/thirsty that triggers regen, but you don't have to be full or seeing 'healing' for it to be happening. I wonder if it's still bugged a bit?

Just an FYI, if you go on this server be prepared for clan members that should probably be playing The Sims: My Little Pony edition. If you shoot one of their members after coming across each other, both armed, in a barracks, that member will combat log, then the server admin will call you a **** gobbler in global chat and warn you 3 dudes are now hunting you. Mad much? If he said 'Friendly!' I never heard it, and I'd have shot him anyway, he was armed and why should I trust him?

It's a known issue where non-whitelisted servers are showing up when they shouldn't be. I just used a fresh span and hoped a couple dozen servers to see which saved my toon and which didn't, added the ones that did to my Favorites so I know they're safe. Best thing to do at the moment until they get the problem fixed. There's a thread going on the Troubleshooting forum listing safe servers.

Deje, let it go man. People enjoy playing different ways, and you're entirely cool to think there's a potential being wasted, but it's not up to your subjective taste to tell other players what they should be enjoying or how to play a game they paid for, are playing in a way they enjoy, etc. Again, they're not hacking, they're not cheating. It's funny you're telling people having fun maybe they should just play something else. You're the one not seeming to be having fun, shouldn't it be you looking for a different game to play if this one isn't giving you what you're looking for?

It's a game meant to be enjoyed. You're basically just ranting over and over about how other people enjoy the game. If this was meant to be a PvE game, it'd be one. It's not. If people are KoS'ing every time because it's what they enjoy, tough. It's not wrong because it's not what you enjoy. They're not playing it wrong just because it twists your jimmies. You can call it 'deathmatch' all night long, but it's entirely different. Deathmatching (Quake, CoD, etc.) are pure competition with an equal baseline at the start of every match. There's no gear, just points, K/D ratios, etc. There's nothing competitive about PvP in DayZ, past a small extent (obviously people will varying levels of skill in gearing up, combat, etc.) But it's not fair, ever. Someone will be better geared than you, have more friends with him than you do, see you first, have better latency, get lucky with a Mosin shot, whatever. There are much bigger stakes in DayZ PvP than in-game in a deathmatch style game. It's more brutal and unforgiving, because you can gear for 4 hours and lose it in one shot to a guy you never saw. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Doing the equivalent of name-calling because you don't like it doesn't make you right, you can call KoS'ers CoD babies or whatever all day, but you still have to deal with it if you want to survive. They aren't hacking, they aren't cheating, they spawned on the coast with the same flashlight you did. If you care about surviving above all else, you have to play with that equation. If you want to take the risk of being friendly because you enjoy that 10% chance you just made a new friend / had a cool interaction, that's AWESOME! I'm happy you get to do that. Ironically all I have to say is live and let live, man. Play and let play. Edit: If the game truly was better in a deep and broad way before there was rampant KoS'ing, then I'd imagine the devs would have done more by now to introduce drawbacks to KoS-style play. Maybe they still will. But no matter the consequences, some guy is going to shoot you anyway, either because he was panicked and worried you'd shoot first, or he just wanted your stuff and wanted to poop on your parade. It's as much a part of the game as anything else whether you like it or not, and again it bears mentioning that a lot of people just enjoy playing that way. They paid their $30 too, you just have to live with it.

We can play the semantics and moral highground nonsense to death (as if they hadn't been done already); point is, it's a brutal game, and KoS is just part of that. It's very risky to leave someone alive who has the means to kill you if you trust them. It's a survival game, that's part of survival. I'd never kill a bambi or even someone with an ax I run across and can easily escape, but if you have a gun or a big pack and I'm in need of something you're likely to have, I'm not trusting you, I'm taking your stuff if I can because that's the best chance to survive longer. All posts like this say is, basically, "People who play that way are bad." Well, okay, they know that too, they like being the bad guy. You like to band up and be a good guy, you enjoy that so go play that way. It helps you sleep at night, so great! I'll light a candle for you in the honored halls of Valhalla or something while I dine on your beans.

I did some quick testing tonight, and the following are confirmed safe to not lose your toon: US 775-2 hosted by GameServers US East 1-41 hosted by MPGS NY 3-320 hosted by TGB-Clan US 1-145 hosted by MPGS US East 1-12 hosted by MPS

Yes! So glad to see others addressing this issue; it seems that some servers that aren't genuinely whitelisted are showing up regardless. I've lost 5 well-geared toons so far and it's infuriating. When I get back home later tonight I'm going to start running through a bunch of servers with a fresh spawn and check which ones save over and which don't so I can't +Favorite the safe servers. Once I have several confirmed I'll post them in this thread -- good idea, OP. Hopefully this problem gets fixed soon. FYI, I've been careful to only join servers with the current version # listed and even tried sticking to the mass servers (i.e. US - East hosted by by Gameserver, etc.) and they are NOT necessarily safe, at all.