Inventory frozen

[takfar@gmail.com 24]

Hey guys. I've been playing with a friend for a week now. So far so good, we had been making good progress, but a strange bug plagued him today. After we walked a long way and looted several places, he had some connection problems, and then had to disconnect. Once he reconnected, he had all the same equipment he had at the time he logged in, about an hour before! We thought it was am isolated bug, and continued playing for about and hour more. Again he had a connection issue, and when he came back he had the same equipment again, none of the new loot he was carrying was saved. In both cases his location was saved correctly, and he reconnected in the same place he was at.

After this second problem, we decided it wasn't just a coincidence. We ran back to our base camp and started to do tests. He tried disconnecting from the server, going into another server, restarting his PC, reinstalling the beta and reinstalling Day Z. Nothing worked. Now, it's not game-breaking, since we know it'll happen, and it could actually be exploited, since he had an m16, a lot of ammo, lots of cooked meat and other equipment on him; he only needs to drop some of these on the ground and reconnect and there they are, again in his backpack (and also in the ground). We do not want to use this exploit, tho, and we're both annoyed by the hassle the bug is causing us (he can't take other important items in his character when logging out, because they'll be overwritten by that same old inventory). The only thing we didn't try was a respawn/death, and we don't want to do it, since his char is a few days old already.

So, has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a known cause or solution? I was completely unaffected by it, btw. My character plays and saves just fine.

[meta87 25]

The connection issue is causing the "save player" packets to not be sent to the server/hive. Thus restarting him when he re-logs at his last save that made it through.

Edited July 16, 2012 by Meta

[takfar@gmail.com 24]

And yet his position in the map saves? I don't undersatnd... Also, the connection thing only happened twice in a 3 hour-long session. All the rest of the time, before and after, we were looting towns and killing zeds with no problems whatsoever. Is there anything he could do to try and fix this? Or should we just wait until he eventually dies and hope it fixes itself?

[Velaxis 7]

Have the same problem seems it will be that way untill there is a patch. Fair few other people are having a problem with it as well who are unable to advance in loot. Yes it does make it easy to dupe. I think it happened after the last patch. After work tonight I am going to try and install the newest beta and see if that has an effect. Or go back to a previous verson of Dayz.

[takfar@gmail.com 24]

Thanks for the input. We'll play it as is for now (saving all his new loot in a tent) and wait for a patch, then.

[reid_1 7]

Yep same thing happens to me. Even when I died I still lose all my items upon connecting

[takfar@gmail.com 24]

I suppose we're fortunate he had the bug while fully loaded (and all items are restored upon connection), then...? very annoying, nonetheless.

Edited July 16, 2012 by takfar

[hobojo1234 1]

Yes, This had been happening to me too... played the game for about 8 hours yesterday on a single server before i found this out =(... happened to me today too... i hope they fix this asap...