Death by login

[Darkwater (DayZ) 63]

As the topic says, I died while logging in.

So some more background;

I played for a few hours on Norway 14 server, had a reasonably good start with a DMR in a military camp and got some good stuff from a player that unloaded his magazine on me and didn't hit me at all. Got a M4A1 CCO SD, Nighvision as was of course the meatiest of the loot. So you can imagine it was a nice thing to start off with after dying and loosing quite a fair bit of stuff just a few minutes earlier. If this stuff was or was not hacked/duped, I do not know. All I know is that I got it fair and square from someone that apparently couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

Anyway, this happened in Cherno and I bailed north into the forest and then east to meet up with a friend of mine to play together when he finally managed to log in (which he in the end didn't, but that's not the issue here). As I get to Elektro, a few hundred metres north east of the barn that is to the west of the popular sniping point, I decided to log off to see if I couldn't find a better server for us to play on since my friend struggled with logging in.

Well outside of the game and in the last window where you can click "OK" and go back into the game or click to get back to the main menu of ArmA2, I hear that he might be able to log in after all. Being one of the few active servers at that hour I decide to click that magic "OK" button and go back inside. And this is where shit hits the fan. As I log in, everything is normal, I hid in a tree, it was dark and no one should be able to find me, perfect, nothing to worry about here. Then, as the final message pops up, "Setup completed, please wait" I see the text saying "Wesker has died" (that is me) and I suddendly appear in the middle of the ocean. I loggofski and relog again, appearing at the shore, east of Elektro, but with absolutely no gear whatsoever. Not even a can of beans! Yet my stats still remain, 0 zombie kills (I hadn't killed any because Zeds deserve love too), 1 Murder (the twat tried to kill me first) and nothing else. It's obviously the same "life" and character, so why has my gear vanished?

In the end, my friend didn't even get to log in, so what a waste that was, eh? So all in all, is this a common bug? My body was gone too. Did the tree kill me and eat my corpse?

[Fonziе 159]

Earlier today, I ran to the coast and logged off near Kamyshovo. My friend comes online, so we decide to go up north to get him some gear from some elite leewt tents. When I'm loading in, I get the stats screen that you get before you die. Then it says setup completed and I spawn in the debug plains. I think well, this is weird, I guess I'll spawn somewhere at the beach. I reconnected, and so I did. The strange thing is that I had nothing, I was only wearing my ghillie suit. My debug monitor wasn't resetted either.

Lost an M4 SD, an M9 SD, a Dragunov, a can of Mountain Dew and a radio among other things. I got something good out of it though, as I found a pickup on my way up north along the western border of the map and I almost have the same stuff I had before I magically vanished.

Also, my friend never got in either. Maybe this has something to do with that.

[Darkwater (DayZ) 63]

I wish I was as lucky, but I seemed to have spent my luck on that start after dying a few minutes earlier. I'm still as naked as can be, the only thing preventing me from killing myself is the hope and wish that somehow my stuff will magically appear back again, which it has done on one occation a few weeks back. Now, my stuff isn't awesome cool and it does give me the fear of dying for a few days so to be without it is actually somewhat of a relief, but then again I want to be afraid of dying and I want to have to plan my raids on Elektro/Cherno without going in Winchester/Lee Enfield blazing.. which somehow always pans out better anyway.

[Doc Glock 2]

This happens to me on occasion but I haven't lost my gear because of it. I wonder if we're gonna lose our gear after the update due to this bug. That just sucks.

[Darkwater (DayZ) 63]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, I have updated to the 1.7.2.5 version. So it could very well be that... but it was just a sad timing for it to happen

[Crunkit 0]

Same issue here. I just updated to the new patch. I logged onto a different server and got the " X has died". My character still has the same amount of health (2000) but all my gear is gone as well. I had a lot of good gear and I am not happy about losing it.

If anyone discovers a solution or gets an answer, (Even if its a "you're screwed" then please post it here)

Edited August 13, 2012 by Crunkit

[LordCreepy 0]

Checking in to tell you that this happend twice to my friend today.

we played on a relativly high ping server (roughly 120ms).

My Buddy logged out to take a piss and while he reconnected he simply dropped dead right beside me and spwaned totally naked at the coast.

His corpse contained all his stuff so he fought his way back to me naked dying on starvation. (his hunger thirst stats etc. didn't reset ; not even his skin resetted tough he was wearing civilan clothing)

conclusion if you die to this bug --> run to your last known location and loot your body.

Only way to get your stuff back I guess.