charger451

Ok had this problem where I logged off up North, came back on hours later and found myself on the beach with no gear, not even default gear to be exact. I'm over the tantrum of losing some hard earned gear, NV goggles, map, yada yada. So now I just want to start all over as if I never played the game before with the default pack but no matter what server I log on to I'm pretty much without any sort of protection or is this something new that came with the latest update? I know they took away the pistol on first spawn in but now you get no pack as well? I'm thinking that just re-installing dayz files isn't going to do it for me... I like to play night time and can pretty much set gamma and contrast up to see enough to get by so if I'm shooting in the dark with this to at least have the default pack again and start my chacharacterer? ARMA 2 96493/95 DayZ 1.7.2.5 DayZ Lingor .34

Its frustrating to lose items but even worse when you want to just start over and not have even the default items. I am a noob right now and didn't realize or just didn't take into consideration to get killed and respawn with the default pack. I was just really hoping for a miracle that I would continue to log back in and all my stuff would magically be there. All is normal now and I decided to just play the game for what it is and not get so caught up the equipment so that way if this happens again I won't have that feeling like I want to jump out a window. Thanks for the help. I'm all better now. :beans:

"The DayZ 'team' has what's called a 'Hive.' Think of this as a central database where everyone's character data is stored.. that is, your coordinates, your inventory, stats, everything." If this is true then why after I logged out last night with a pack full of gear and equipment in the woods up North, logged back in today and was on the beach with nothing, no backpack, no gear...nothing? I tried several servers including the one I log from last night and the same thing on every server. I did run into a situation a while back where I had nothing but logged back into another server and everything I worked for showed back up. This is a great game concept and worth its weight in gold but I think we've passed the point of frustration and gone right into ridiculous. I don't wanna hear its another glitch, glitched don't happen randomly...do they? I read every post I could find but nothing seem to deal with this exact situation. It seems to me that it would be cut and dry that your data is saved upon leaving the game and when you return it should be still intact, even if your server hop or log on and off a few dozen times on the same server, a save is a save. Not giving up on this mod but I am hoping for some exexplanation STEAM Version ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead Beta Patch 96061 Loading with DayZ Commander AMD 3.1 Dual Core 8 GB Memory Nvidia 9800GTX+ Windows 7 Ultmate

Well I posted my specs to share input and data since thats what these forums are mainly for aren't they? Not really to complain but to put across issues so that the developers can look into it and because somewhere in this forum in a sticky it said I should. Also I was looking for an answer and I guess I got one, maybe not what I wanted to hear but at least this thread wasn't flooded with "Hey, I have that crap happen to me as well" so thats a good sign. Now I realize that yes it must have been a "glitch" and I was just the lucky one to get it. I am pretty new to this mod so I can't say that I was playing on a private server or not, unless most of the ones that come up in DayZ Commander are private then I guess I got what I paid for. Appreciate the quick response - Happy hunting. :rolleyes:

Had this happen to me a few times now. I log into a server and play for a little while, duration not important. After finding a safe place I log off and go about my day. Later come back to play, join a server and before the loading screen finishes in the lower left hand corner it says that my character is dead. I lose everything even before I get to play again. Anyone else experience this? Does it matter actually where you log off at, I mean is there a rule of thumb as to a location that won't kill you when logging back in? I have all updates, game and computer. I know this is an Alpha version so I'm aware there are bugs but have yet to find this particular one. Windows7 Ultimate AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000 3.1GHz 8 Gigs Ram EVGA 9800 GTX+ Yada Yada

Same here. Logged off in a secure spot, came back on a few hours later and joined a server and everything I had worked so hard to get was gone, backpack and all. This game is a great concept and I'm sure the bugs will be worked out but I don't think I wanna start out fresh every other day...takes way to f*ing long to find anything as it is. Took hours to find what I had and I didn't get killed by a Zombie or another player, joining some random server wiped me out! Now thats a frigen bummer.