hacklemackle

Thanks, I will try this. Can't really get it to work. There are only 2 servers that don't instantly kick me for having too high a ping, and those two servers seem to be really quick, so that the "Waiting for server response" screen only flashes up for half a second. I tried about a dozen times, but it's not nearly long enough to get to the respawn option before my inputs get locked out.

Whenever I log into a server I instantly become stuck on a screen with an hourglass in the middle, I believe this means my character is unconscious. The problem is that every key press is locked out, I can't hit escape and respawn, I can't text chat and tell people to kill me (wouldn't work since I have no idea where I am anyway). The only thing that I can do is alt+f4. I've tried joining many different servers but the exact same thing happens. I've tried keeping it idling for hours at a time to make my character die of starvation/thirst but the hunger/thirst metres don't appear to really be going down at all. Basically I'm completely locked out of playing this game at all without making a new Steam account, repurchasing, and redownloading. Any other suggestions?