Weird experience...can anyone explain

[Ramblin Hans 118]

I had a very strange experience over the weekend. I'd found a small town that I was working, nothing too high traffic but enough to log in and have a nice scavenge routine to try and get some stuff. Throughout the day Saturday I had work to do, so I'd log in, play for an hour-ish, then log out, then come back a while later.

Well, after a while I log in, and instantly it says I had died on the screen. But instead of the beach, I'm in a big open field, not grass / bushes / trees anywhere in sight as far as someone can see. A few animals roam in the distance, and a guy with an AK and a pack full of meat is sitting nearby. I don't have ANY equipment...no flashlight, no pack, nothing. I have the same health I had when I "died"/logged in.

Well, the guy with the AK doesn't reply to me, so eventually I log off and take a break figuring I'd cool off a bit and then start over. But when I logged in, I was alive! With my same health and all my stuff. But the bad news was I had no idea where I was. Fortunately I had a map in my stuff, and it showed me as being like 50km from where I was! And on the other side of some nasty places...so I had a quite an adventure getting back to where I was.

Any idea what this was about? My only thought is that I *think* I might have stayed in the lobby after disconnecting when I went AFK, rather than closing all the way back out to Six Launcher.

[komoter226@yahoo.co.uk 59]

I had the same experience. Just a bug while downloading data from the hive.

[Tenebris Draco 63]

Debug plain, just a little glitch in the system I'm pretty sure. Not 100% tho.

[Colditz 54]

It's a bug, you've ended up in the so called "debug plains". Rocket put a fix in that allows you to retrieve your character before that happened by just aborting and logging back in, voila, you have your equipment back, downside though is you'll spawn somewhere at the coast.

[Ramblin Hans 118]

Sweet thanks.