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SSD helps loading times primarily. According to Dean, DayZ does a lot of streaming off the drive (due to the big map I suppose), so moving to an SSD could help lower stuttering.

This problem is getting worse and worse. I used to be able to play DayZ: SA for weeks and I wouldn't lose my character unless I was killed. In the last month or two, this has changed completely. Every time I try to play DayZ, I lose my character when trying to load a server. It will give me a red message, saying it was unable to load my character data, so it has been reset. So practically every time I play the game, build up my character, and acquire loot - I lose it when I switch to a different server. I'd say the likelihood of my losing my character upon switching is about 10%. So one out of ten times when I join a server, my character is lost by the DayZ Database. What happened to the servers to cause them to lose the character data so constantly? Is there any awareness regarding this issue? Seems like a very long time before this immense game-breaking bug is going to get any attention or fixed.

It doesn't work like that. As soon as I'm given that red message, my character is certainly lost. I know this because no matter what server I join from there, it will says I spawn in 30 seconds instead of 60+, indicating that it already has new character data for me anywhere I go. It doesn't matter if I move, don't move, join the same server, join different ones, etc. - makes no difference.

Bump. Just tried playing again. Made all my way Vyborg, found an AKM and a mag at the nearby barracks, then from my empty server, I attempted to log into a 40 player server...and bam, hit with the red error message again. I think I'm beginning to figure something out - maybe you can't log out near buildings, trees, or other objects. Usually when I log out, I log out in closed off areas near walls to avoid being detected upon log in. Maybe the server isn't saving the correct character coordinates and when logging onto another server, it thinks the character is inside a wall, thus corrupt? I just can't quite figure out how every other single person isn't getting walloped with this issue. DayZ used to be my favorite game. I used to log at least a dozen hours a week. Now I can't even play for a few hours without being hit with game breaking bugs. It's really frustrating. I'm going to make another trouble-shooting thread and perhaps someone has pinpointed some useful detail to do with this issue...

I run the game just fine at 1697p, all settings turned all the way up. (60+ outdoors, 35 FPS in cities) Looks fab

That's a possibility but isn't what's happening to some of us (like me). I honestly don't know how more people haven't had this issue, but it really only occurs to me if I'm playing DayZ all day. If I play DayZ all day, it's likely that my character will be given a red-message reset once, sometimes even twice.

I joined servers that were in the middle of the hour that had 35+ players and it still gives me the character reset. I don't think there's any way to really avoid it.

Does anyone know if either of these character-loss scenarios are addressed in .50? Ever since my last post in this thread I've stopped playing, because I can't justify wasting an hour or two to gear up if I just constantly randomly lose my character before I get to any actual action.

You can already spawn pretty much all over the map. I once found myself spawned up in Vyborg, when I needed to be in Electro ASAP. I killed myself and was spawned right outside Electro in the next minute. I wouldn't pretend that this is a balanced game where hiking across the map instead of instantly spawning across the map actually means anything. The only thing it means is that you're a fool who likes to waste your time. If you like to waste time running - good for you. Most people prefer not to waste their available play time hiking.

People who run halfway across the map when they could've jumped off the cliff 5 ft away from where they spawned and instantly spawn where they'd like to be are the ones who are hilariously bad. I mean, if you feel better about wasting more of your life hiking in a PC game, then you're a very sad, strange individual. Most people actually want to appreciate their time on this planet, not sitting there with a quarter lodged in their keyboard.

This is a necessary feature and required for full vehicular awesomeness.

Just happened again. Happens every day I play now ffs... I can't remember the last time someone actually killed me. It sucks. It really does. This should be the #1 priority bug to be fixed but something tells me they aren't aware of how huge of a problem this is... It's always a different server that causes it too. I guess all I can do is stick near the coast and don't bother collecting loot. It's a shame. Fun game when it works.

I don't know. I do know that I get a lot of kills at Vyborg and the military base South East of it. It's a nice mix up of freshies and military geared people (at both spots).

You could always force social interaction. Grab an AK, start looking for freshies, start recruiting - they will either listen or die.

One time I tried rejoining the same server as soon as it gave that message, it didn't get my gear. Then I tried joining a different server ASAP after receiving the message, it didn't get my gear. 3rd time I just waiting before joining another server, that didn't help either. To clarify, this is the problem when I join a server and it says in red text at the bottom left, "The server was unable to retrieve your character data so it has been reset" or whatever it is.

Seems like the servers have had problems loading data from the hives. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like this was a bug introduced in .49 because I haven't seen so many people complain about it, and I never experienced it until this patch, and I've experienced it 3 different times. I wasn't able to rejoin a different server to get my data back, either.

RPGs were in the DayZ mod...why not? Good against vehicles, not terribly effective against infantry, fun to use. They can totally be balanced to fit into the DayZ gameplay experience, just determines if you want people to potentially have access to such arsenal...

In my last day of playing DayZ, I've encountered 3 different players talking to themselves. Often it sounds like these players are talking in Teamspeak or Ventrilo but don't realize that they have the same push-to-talk key bound to DayZ. Usually when I hear other players talking, it lets me sneak up on them and kill them before they realize what happened, and that's what I did each time. But are there really that many players who are stupid and don't realize they are broadcasting their voice inside the game? Or are these players really lonely and just hoping that a friendly player will hear them and try to talk to them? Do you constantly broadcast voice ingame with no one around? If you do, why? Do you see other players do this?

You guys know that if you alt+tab, you can still hear VOIP even when minimized, right? That's exactly how I've come across these bozos. I'd AFK in Vyborg and after 20 minutes I'll usually hear someone bumbling into their mic. I get ingame and scout them out to discover they are completely alone. They usually go "Oh god stop!" or "Why are you killing me?!", or something silly when I shoot them.

Honestly guys, drums aren't that rare if you know where to look. I've found 5 in the last day or so.

Is this in stable?

Cool, thanks for the warnings guys, your loss is my gain.

Anyone get this error message? Anyone know how to avoid it? I was just trying to join the Grey Matter server which was 33/40 and it loaded completely normally, except that after the countdown, it simply gave a red error message in the chat box saying it couldn't load my character so it has been reset. This is my 3rd character who's life has been ended by the game, and not a player character. Up until my last month of playing the game, I haven't experienced a single unfair death or reset, and now it seems to be happening en masse. Any tricks for avoiding this problem? It's a pretty annoying problem...I had 3 drum mags, fully decked out AKM - you know, an absolutely loaded character. Doesn't really seem worth acquiring any loot until this is ironed out, it's pretty lame when I don't even get to experience a proper death... Instead of deleting the existing player data and creating new data so quickly and nonchalantly, maybe it should back up the existing data, create a log file and create some useful information so it doesn't happen again?

Did you reconnect or just wait? When I hit escape, it showed that the scene being loaded was exactly where my character left off, and it just sat there saying "Please wait...", I was hoping if I quit and rejoin another server quickly enough it would save my character, but alas, I was a fresh spawn. :( I manage to take a screenshot before his disappearance. Rest in peace Vyborg bandit, your legacy will live on. (That's where I logged out btw, I find it highly unlikely I was killed upon logout).

Do you pick the Dean Hall model and get moist with excitement?