Flies buzzing for no reason, corpses vanishing

[hatesauce 99]

Date/Time:

around 10pm PST

What happened:

Can hear flies buzzing around everywhere, noticed a corpse vanish when i attempted to loot it.

Where you were:

Not sure

What you were doing:

running around/looting a corpse

*Current installed version:

1.5.8.4

*Server(s) you were on:

a few different ones

*Your system specs:

AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor

Graphics Memory: 512 MB

ATI Radeon HD 5670

4.0 GB RAM

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

*Timeline of events before/after error:

[aphex187 52]

Yip i've now ran back to where my corpse should lay and all i can hear are flies and no body and no loot! Also hearing flies buzzing in random places but again no bodies!

One of the guys last night kllled a bandit, his body stayed there for around 3mins then vanished.

[grezvany13 56]

The random flies are because you smell, which makes sense since there are no working showers in Chernarus anymore. ;)

The disapearing bodies... they will be removed from the server after some time, so seems normal. You were just too late.

[Strategos (DayZ) 190]

Yeah i'm seeing this as well.

[OUT FOX EM 22]

The random flies are because you smell' date=' which makes sense since there are no working showers in Chernarus anymore. ;)

The disapearing bodies... they will be removed from the server after some time, so seems normal. You were just too late.

[/quote']

Not the case. Since the latest patch, bodies disappear immediately when a player has disconnected or respawned. I literally watched my friend's body disappear before my eyes when he disconnected, only seconds after being killed.

[-1para- oblivion 0]

I can comfirm this. Getting the noises, but there are no bodies. I cna also confirm what OUT FOX EM said, I saw 2 bodies literally dissappear infront of me about a minute after the players had been killed.

[Sergio Leone 3]

+1

Died north of Cherno (damn zombies broke my legs and ate me), my friend was in a house about 10 meters from my body and was waiting for me to respawn.

I respawned at Cherno ("whoa, what a luck", I thought) and was at that place a few min's later, but discovered nothing but flies.

My friend also confirmed that he saw my body just a minute ago and the next moment he turned his head it was gone.

[willjad11 2]

Same problem here.

[Senrain 148]

Yeah, I was in Elektro and shot down another survivor on the hospital roof. He was pissed off, so I decided to stoke the fire of his rage a bit and say, "Nice AK." His corpse then disappeared, and he replied with. "No AK for you."

No AK indeed.

[DarkMagik 0]

Happening to a lot of servers I hear. Happens to every body I loot.

[robollama 1]

Spent like 2 hours to try to get back all my gear from my old body but when I got there, there were only flies buzzing and no body :'(

[Bridude 2]

I should have posted this in "Bug Reports" but I wasn't sure if is was a bug at the time.

Anyways same problem:

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6595&highlight=fly

[AgEnT_Oo795 0]

Yep, this happens to me, needs to be number one priority for fixing.

[hatesauce 99]

I actually think this is simply a case of corpses vanishing or "sinking" too fast but, the flies stay. The bug is the corpses vanishing too soon.

EDIT: Apparently rocket is quite aware of the issue check this out

Here is the current changelog' date=' I'll update it as I go:

Changelog:

* [FIXED'] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for a while)

* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)

* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)

* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)

* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)

* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)

[SensenmanN (DayZ) 5]

I killed a guy who immediately sank into the ground (2-3 seconds after being shot dead). The buzzing stayed around for quite a while.

[OUT FOX EM 22]

I actually think this is simply a case of corpses vanishing or "sinking" too fast but' date=' the flies stay. The bug is the corpses vanishing too soon.

EDIT: Apparently rocket is quite aware of the issue check this out

Here is the current changelog, I'll update it as I go:

Changelog:

* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for a while)

* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)

* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)

* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)

* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)

* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)

That's a little worrisome. They used to stay for a very long time -- I once recovered my own stuff 50 minutes after I died (I actually checked the time on my phone).

Now they disappear when the player disconnects or respawns, instead of how it used to be. However, judging from those patch notes, it doesn't sound like he knows the actual cause of the issue, but instead thinks they're simply disappearing too quickly and has lengthened that time. I'm thinking they'll still disappear when a player disconnects or respawns, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[duddbudda 33]

got killed in one of those random 'super strength' 12000 blood insta-kills in a house in grishino yesterday

UK7, ~2:30pm, shooting zeds on the stairs in the only orange enterable in grishino, didn't even think the zeds could reach me, suddenly dead

two mates sat on my body as I ran from kamarovo (bullshit am I letting a glitch take an M16 with 7 clips, a PDW with three clips, an M4 CCO SD with one clip, a coyote backpack, three blood bags and two frag grenades from me) but as I enetered the house my body disappeared before their eyes

someone else on the server went to loot his corpse but was forced only to hear its flies; we had killed him about an hour before and successfully looted his GPS and coyote

and another chap I murdered during that same raid on stary sobor disappeared in the ten minutes between me killing him and going to check his corpse

[tiff_lee 0]

I think there is more to this than just a case of a corpse disappearing too fast to loot, from what I have just experienced this problem is being completely abused.

A survivor and bandit having a shoot out on some stairs and by the time I arrive the bandit is down, I put the survivor down but before I have time to loot either of the bodies they disappear only for moments later the very same survivor I just shot reappears standing and kills me!?