Survivor in Berezino with Sack on his head?

[marsmars 155]

So I entered the Supermarket in Berezino and there I found a survivor standing there, and he had a burlap sack on his head. He was fully geared, but was not moving. There were Zombies near him but they were not attacking him (they did attack me)

 

Anyway I try to talk to him, no reply. He is still not moving, so I just take his stuff (he had a shotgun, water bottle, compass, and some more useful stuff). He didn't move but he did not look dead either.

 

Anyway what do you think is the deal with that? Am sure if someone had kidnapped him, they wouldn't leave him fully geared? Maybe he put the sack on himself by mistake or something?

[Demoth 366]

Currently there is a chance that dead or knocked out players will get back up on some people's screens. I had to shoot someone outside of the fire station in Elektro. On my screen he got back up but for my friends he was face down and dead. I wasted 15 additional bullets on him because again, on my screen he looked alive.

It's just a bug.

[gorillaCHEEZ 19]

Probably dead, glitched standing

[solodude23 649]

Yeah he was dead. I think you can only loot live players if they're handcuffed.

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

I encountered someone kneeling down and bleeding in a building the other day. I decided to help out and started bandaging them, at which point it told me I was bandaging "Unknown Entity". Figuring it was a bug (I've seen this a few times before), I just clobbered them with my axe and took the vest and clothes they were wearing.

As for the burlap sack, I put one on myself earlier. Made no difference to me and I don't know if I was wearing it for anyone else as I was on a hardcore server so had no 3rd person.

[Monkfish (DayZ) 339]

Yeah he was dead. I think you can only loot live players if they're handcuffed.

I've been able to take stuff off a live person before, although they had previously handcuffed me so that might be a bug.

[applejaxc 2500]

 Figuring it was a bug, I just clobbered them with my axe

 

So I guess we haven't come that far from cave men. XD

Edited January 25, 2014 by Applejaxc

[crazykage 1063]

I have found fresh spawns on some high pop servers that were just standing there, bleeding.

 

Attempts to walk up and communicate yield no response. The character model continues to bleed, seemingly indeffinately, while the characters head periodically looks around, up, down, left right, etc.

 

Attacking the players with mele weapons does damage, causing more blood sprays to appear, but does not KILL the stationary player, even after 30 or 40 swings with a fire axe. The only change appears to be that more blood sprays keep appearing, on the character model and all around it, in the air.

 

I have seen this several times. Its very creepy...

[africanhungergames 192]

Or it could be someone using the glitch to spawn a copy of themselves in case they die. The glitched character will look at you and does look alive.