Bandit/Hero Skin Stuck?

[9103 9]

I received a bandit skin the other day and I have administered over 50+ bloodbags and numerous other painkillers, morphine, epis since then without ever shooting or killing a player and it seems im stuck with the skin.. my buddy finally got his hero skin in far fewer than me but he had never received the bandit skin prior...

Does anyone know how the skins are determined these days? Are you stuck with a skin once you get it? Can bandits not redeem themselves?

Sorry if this has been covered already... I searched for a topic on this and didn't seem to find exactly what I was looking for that is up to date since the last patch.

[Hetstaine 10852]

someones been a very bad bandit...

[9103 9]

someones been a very bad bandit...

Nah... situation was... I was a new spawn... guy ran up to me and aimed his M4A1 at my face... i asked if he was friendly.. no answer... I saluted him.. no answer... he kept moving the barrel in circles around my face like he was outlining it... So i looked in his backpack and saw a DMR with 2 mags.. took it out and shot him down... I felt it was justified.

Was hoping to redeem it and get a hero skin but it seems im stuck with this bandit skin.

[jdz (DayZ) 238]

Trying to cheat your way out of a bandit skin, huh?

[9103 9]

Yep im trying to cheat my way out of the same skin i was cheated into I guess... thanks for the help guys. Was just asking if its an issue or not or if this is intended. If so, cool- just wanna know whats a bug and whats not.

[9103 9]

As someone who is attempting to go about the game in a way that is "playing nice" it would be nice to not have a towel on my head is all... not trying to cheat any system by having a hero skin to trick people. I feel I'm jipped if there is no way to get this towel off my head is all.

[Hetstaine 10852]

Nah... situation was... I was a new spawn... guy ran up to me and aimed his M4A1 at my face... i asked if he was friendly.. no answer... I saluted him.. no answer... he kept moving the barrel in circles around my face like he was outlining it... So i looked in his backpack and saw a DMR with 2 mags.. took it out and shot him down... I felt it was justified.

Was hoping to redeem it and get a hero skin but it seems im stuck with this bandit skin.

Yeah i read that one, i have only been the bandido skin twice now, recent one because i shot a guy who ran over a chick in the middle of a street in Krasno then was ragging him/her (lol) in side. Both times i have got the newspawn one back very quickly, within twenty or so minutes. If you got headwrapped from being a newspawn survivor ..and have done 50 bags it seems weird..unless the guy you killed had like 8 kabillion humanity and you sucked it up in reverse.

Who knows ?

[9103 9]

Yeah i read that one, i have only been the bandido skin twice now, recent one because i shot a guy who ran over a chick in the middle of a street in Krasno then was ragging him/her (lol) in side. Both times i have got the newspawn one back very quickly, within twenty or so minutes. If you got headwrapped from being a newspawn survivor ..and have done 50 bags it seems weird..unless the guy you killed had like 8 kabillion humanity and you sucked it up in reverse.

Who knows ?

Thanks for the info. I got the bandit skin right after i shot that guy and the only previous instances I had was shooting a guy who shot at our heli. Its possible that guy had a lot of humanity, but he did not have a hero skin on himself so I'm not so sure. He was a regular survivor like myself. I've had this towel on my head for a couple days now and I've been playing a medic role for my group ever since in hopes that I could get the thing off my face but i've had no luck... either im incredibly sunk in the bandit hole or im bugged. Was curious if anyone else had a similar experience or a suggestion to possibly reset myself if im bugged (maybe putting on gillies/camo and taking back off, etc).... which I have not tried yet.

[Hetstaine 10852]

See if you can't close a door on yourself and bleed out, grab a new spawn maybe.

[9103 9]

Yeah I may do that after I've exhausted any other ideas... gonna try the gillie/camo clothing and see if i can get it to trigger something.. if not I will have someone put me down or do it myself... hurl myself off the international hotel.

[Hetstaine 10852]

we expect an update after the suicide :D

[9103 9]

we expect an update after the suicide :D

Lol, I will let you know if the towel lets you fly or not.

[Parasprite 35]

You never wash it off completely.

[9103 9]

Alright guys... update:

I went and got a camo clothing.. put it on and took it off... It took the towel off and I was a regular survivor again... I then decided to go ahead and jump off the international hotel in cherno after our heli dropped me off... I spawned fresh and still had no towel on my head so I figured I was on the right track... we went to a hospital and gathered up some medical supplies and did a grind of getting hit by zombies and applying bloodbags just to see if the "20 blood bags from neutral humanity gets you the hero skin" and sure enough, right around 20 (about 17 and some morphine and painkiller administrations) my screen ticked the ocean and I was given a hero skin...

So i guess the trick is, either put camo clothing on and off and/or kill yourself and spawn fresh ... One of those set me back to where I should have been (neutral) after our adventures as a medic.