So how do bodies/corpses work?

[Dank Nugs 3]

A fully geared guy ran past me within a hundred yards and didnt see me. Since i had nothing but a mosin I decided to try to take him out in hopes of getting his m4 or beans. I end up killing the guy and i take my eyes off his body for a second as im running over. Of course it vanishes and is nowhere to be seen once i get to the area where he died.

I thought bodies hang around for 10 minutes after the person is killed? (Which is so fucking stupid, i know its a placeholder, but 10 minutes? Thats nothing in this game) Anyway i basically killed this guy for no reason and wasted what scarce ammo i had. Did he log out and it glitched the body away? Or does this happen all the time? I just dont get how they can get bodies right in the mod and not the standalone.

At least i know they are working on more important things like bean reskins and spray painting guns...

[cazador 45]

This irritates me too, nothing more annoying than to get into a firefight and carefully take them out with headshots (so as not to ruin much gear) for their bodies to dissappear seconds later.

[doctorwhy 157]

IF somebody go to it first they can "hide it"

[StoutAle 69]

My guess is you shout him and he logged out.  Maybe as he was dying or maybe he wasn't dead.  I've never seen a body disappear as quick as you say without someone logging out.

[Irish. 4886]

I wonder if there is a clean up script like there was in the mods?.. Because the way that worked, if you set something down at JUST THE RIGHT TIME you could have it disappear. Same with bodies, zeds, etc.. The script ran like every 30 mins or something, and if you caught it just right, anything that was player interacted and on the ground would be "cleaned" off of the server and gone for good. I dont remember it being a huge issue, so I dont think it was so written in stone as I described it.. I mean I always made it back to my gear if the server did not restart, so?

[Danlow 63]

The bodies should stay for 30 minutes atleast, no matter if the killed person logs out or not. 

[Dank Nugs 3]

The bodies should stay for 30 minutes atleast, no matter if the killed person logs out or not.

This. If there is a specific reason as to why bodies cant hang around for 30 mins to an hour right now then i understand why its at 10. I just havnt heard a reason why the body timer is what it is tho

[Window Licker 504]

Yeah the body cleanup is done at the 10 min mark, I am curious about this as well perhaps they where simply unconscious and logged as they weren't marked as dead, they left when the 30 seconds was up?

 

If someone wants to test this I'll probably be on the experimental on Wednesday PM me asap to setup a time and location.

[BadAsh (DayZ) 1513]

This. If there is a specific reason as to why bodies cant hang around for 30 mins to an hour right now then i understand why its at 10. I just havnt heard a reason why the body timer is what it is tho

 

They stated the 10 min cap was temporarily. I think it is just one of the (many) things that have been temprorarily cut down, during this early phase before serious optimisation work begins, just so we can have a playable fps in the meantime.