[v. 1.5.7] Respawn bug

[Mortimer (DayZ) 0]

Date/Time: 12:20 pm / 14.05.2012

What happened:After a gunfight with a bandit I died. After clicking abort and disconnected, I came back to the save I had when I started today at 11am. Along with my friend who died in a matter of minutes between us.

Where you were:Nowy Sobor

What you were doing:Looking for a car mostly =)

*Current installed version:1.5.7

*Server(s) you were on:Norway 3

*Your system specs:Irrelevant

*Timeline of events before/after error:from 11 am to 12:20 pm.

[sorophx 25]

this is not a respawn bug. the servers don't save your progress since 1.5.7 has been rolled out. spent 2 hours today with my friends. we all were rolled back to yesterday's position when we switched servers

[trauma.au 14]

Mine was saved.

[iibuxy 0]

happened to me too, played for 3 hours or so. got nice stuff then server did restart, got back in then im where i quit yesterday...sucks :'I

[Malaclypse 3]

Fell victim to hacker at 7:15AM CST approx, sent email to dayzdevteam, next time I died I respawned with all the stuff I had before the server was hacked. I move to cover, log off to eat, log back in on a different server, and I spawn in Cherno, bleeding to death with only a revolver. Watlol.

[ocbaker 0]

I have this bug too, Clinging onto 1.5.6 servers. I can't play this if it does not save.

[harsh 1]

Yep, same problem here. Twice now I've played for an hour or so and picked up more kit only to log out to do something else, log back in later and find myself back in the apartment complex in Cherno from a previous logout point, missing all the new items and back to the gear I had back then. At one point I was up round the back of Stary Sobor after a brisk hike north and ended up back there again. If your character doesn't save correctly, It really takes away the motivation.

[Nil (DayZ) 0]

I ran into this last night. I played on a FR server for a few hours, then disconnected like I usually do, but when I later joined another server I was back where I had started. It was as if I hadn't played at all (missing new items, etc). This character has existed since before 1.5.7, btw.

[yast 0]

I've had the same problem the last three times. The only time I didn't have any problem was the first one.

[Sneakyskittle 2]

Sooo any news about direct chat? cant seem to find but 1 server with it working... Someone message me about it plx

[Rickard 2]

Sooo any news about direct chat? cant seem to find but 1 server with it working... Someone message me about it plx

Do you really think this was the right topic?

[ZiaAnulla 0]

My group of friends and I had the same issue, three times. he new update came out and we respawned else where. We'd spent days running around to find each other and get together and then this happened. The only plus side was that we still had the items we collected. After that we worked to find each other again. Most of us grouped together again and were on our way to pick up another when one of our guys logged out and logged back in. He noticed that he was waaay back where we'd shot a sheep and he'd gutted it for meat. So we decided to test it ourselves, because if progress wasn't being saved we were going to stop playing until it got fixed. We found out we were stuck back there as well.

Then this morning we logged on and ALL of us respawned in different locations again!

What gives? I know this is in alpha, and it's a great game, but this is soooo frustrating.

[Riemer 23]

I think this is happening everywhere most likely, as it happened to a lot of people on US1

[robertstuartmarshall 1]

I was playing 1.5.7 and was on my 3rd or 4th day, doing well. I was right up in the north east of the map, not far from that wrecked ship on the rocks. I logged off safe and sound yummy.

When I joined a server today I was right down on the south coast, near Kamenka with many a happy spawner firing off Makarovs nearby at anything that moved.

This happened once, but I think that was down to the jump from 1.5.6 to 1.5.7. This latest one was saved in 1.5.7 and started again on 1.5.7. No biggy, but i did get killed by the train of zombies that were rushing about thanks to all the gunfire noise lol

[ZiaAnulla 0]

This happened to us twice though. All after the new update

[hishnik 23]

I've had this issue already few times, getting kind of frustrating, especially when you start at save with no navigational gear (e.g. no map/compass), and find things like GPS/map+compass.

Persistent throughout variety of servers, and after the location reset.

First sighting of this bug was night before the DB reset. I kept being spawned back to the sign in Novij Sobor. After the reset, i was spawned west of Kamenka, and it magically saved me in Kamenka... Not a perfect location to spawn from cold start... :)

p.s. OP should rename the thread. Add the 'character data' or 'inventory issue'. I was looking for place to post this, and saw this post linked in another thread. To me 'Respawn bug' is the spawning in debug forest :)

[spinager 152]

So I was on this morning. 3am PST. I join a server, I spawn close to Cherno. I explore a skeleton looking building next to some railroad tracks. 4 stories I believe. I agro some z's, then I climb up the stairs of a yellow crane. Wanting to die to spawn in a new area, I get knocked out by the zombie which climbed up after me. As the hourglass screen pops up and depletes, I get the de-synch symbol. After a while I die. Try to re join a server but it was a bit too late(early) I log off.

Now I spawn at the top of the crane, with the hourglass not depleting. I cant chat, or press esc to get to the menu and respawn. Is there anything I can do to respawn!? The only idea I have is to make a new character in Arma. I hope that works.

*EDIT 1* It seems that the hourglass does deplete. But it seems it's depleting at a rate of 1 pixel width of the hourglass every 20minutes :/

*EDIT 2* I tried making a new profile in Arma 2 but it seems that the character is linked to the server in another way. So i spawned in the same location with the same problem. Bought on Steam. Since I cant make a new character, is there a way to reset my character!? I dont want to be stuck like this forever.

*EDIT 3* As you can see the hourglass is depleting but it is very very slow. Might just have to wait it out.

*EDIT 4* Its been a little less than 2hrs since edit 3 when i left the game running trying to wait it out and the third screenshot shows how much hourglass progress.

[TOPMO3 119]

I guess I'll jump on the band-wagon with this thread. Play last night from about 10:00pst, till about 2am. Logged out at 2:30am, logged back in because I was suspicious of the night before, when none of my progress was saved. Sure enough, I was rolled back to where my character was around 10:30pm. The game stopped saving after that, and I lost all my progress. Killer :( but oh well it's alpha, I'll just do it again tonight.

[Chronic Ryan 10]

I have found that my items and such are being saved but my position on the map is not. Every time I logged on today I found myself on the coast.

[hishnik 23]

In my case the items arent being saved, nor the location. Really upsetting, as my friends have either maps or compasses and i got none of that, so i feel like i'm starting from semi-scratch every time.

I know that dev's read forums and have their hands absolutely filled with other things atm, but any dev input would be awesome, maybe even sticky the thread until the problem goes away, to avoid re-threading it :)