Dead Without The Choice to Revive?

[Solopopo 330]

In every server I join it says I am dead. The option to respawn is greyed out. This happening to anyone else?

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

Rocket commented on this:

 

 

The issue is now known, and being fixed in internal branch tomorrow. Expect I might have in experimental by the end of the week, perhaps we could squeeze in a hotfix for the next maintenance period on Wednesday on stable.

The issue relates to the order of processing of connection/disconnection. It only really affects a server under full load. During this time, when a player clicks respawn - their "death" notification is occuring, then the player is attempted to be saved. However, the save function still has it's failsafe enabled - it goes "oh, no alive character let me create one". It's also disabled from setting death state, as a precaution (only a specific method is allowed to record death). So what happens is your old character dies, and a new clone gets made - probably with no blood and no health but alive == 1.

It's a good example of the very complex logic issues that we have and are trying to untangle. As we hotfix and/or fix issues we can inadvertently create further issues. It didn't appear in higher FPS because the requests occurred in a dependable order so the character was saved prior to being killed (kill messages have priority over all messages in the db client).

 

DevTracker: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171820-reddit-rocket2guns-on-cant-respawn-you-are-dead-on-joining-any-server/

 

reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1x2vzq/cant_respawn_you_are_dead_on_joining_any_server/

 

 

Good news is, rocket twittered:

 

We are preparing to master an update to Experimental Branch today to test fixes for some serious issues. More information soon. #DayZDaily

 

 

I'm pretty sure that will contain a hotfix for this problem too...

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171858-reddit-rocket2guns-on-rocket-we-are-preparing-to-master-an-update-to-experimental-branch-today-to-test-fixes-for-some-serious-issues-more-inf/

https://twitter.com/rocket2guns/status/431398207851995136

Edited February 7, 2014 by LaughingJack

[Solopopo 330]

That makes sense. I was playing on a full pop server. I just came back from farming full gear the legitimate way, lagged, got killed by someone who logged in behind me, and now can't respawn at all. FML

[LaughingJack (DayZ) 767]

What you can do is switch hives until it is fixed...that should help. So if you play regular go to hardcore and vice versa :)

Edited February 7, 2014 by LaughingJack

[Solopopo 330]

I loaded experimental branch to see if it would fix itself when I changed back to regular branch. It worked!