Spawning on beach.....???

[mikey182 3]

Riddle me this.

Im stood in cherno woods last night. Log off, come on today on a random server, and Im spawned to the beach.

Run back to cherno. Come off the game to eat.

Log back in on another random server.....Im now at the quarry in soly.

Still got all my gear like but whats the deal with that? Not had this problem before....

[NightRipper 284]

No, before you'd log in and you'd be in the debug plains. Then, like everyone did for months, you'd come into the forums and whine about it. So rocket made it so you spawn on the coast with all your gear instead.

Unfortunately, rocket seems to have forgotten that you can't please anybody, ever.

[allen (DayZ) 4]

night your a moron man, this spawning at the beach is total BS and i dont play anymore right now beacuse of it....why spend my time and setting tents and having an atv in a camp site far from anyone just to log back in at the beach?

yea i have a map and compass and very good gear but still very bad bug....

they have had plenty of time to fix this BS.....my hopes for a standalone game worth a dam is fading fast............

[mikey182 3]

That doesnt answer my question. Im not hating here, just wondering if theis is a bug or something?

If I join a new server will this happen everytime?

Edited August 14, 2012 by mikey182

[NightRipper 284]

night your a moron man, this spawning at the beach is total BS and i dont play anymore right now beacuse of it....why spend my time and setting tents and having an atv in a camp site far from anyone just to log back in at the beach?

yea i have a map and compass and very good gear but still very bad bug....

they have had plenty of time to fix this BS.....my hopes for a standalone game worth a dam is fading fast............

M'kay so spawning in the debug plains is better?

Incidentally, why are you raging at me, you're not even the OP.

Let me break this down one more time: initially, sometimes people would spawn in the debug plains when logging in. Recently, rocket disabled the respawn option. Rather than forcing you to either run 10+ kilometers to get back onto the map area, or sit there twiddling your thumbs while you waited for your character to die of thirst, rocket changed it so that anyone spawning in the debug plains would automatically be transported to the coast, with all their gear still on them. It's all in the changelog, by the way.

rocket did something rather helpful by making you respawn on the coast rather than the debug plains. My point about this was that, like most things around here, no good deed goes un-whined-about, including this one.

Edited August 14, 2012 by NightRipper

[mikey182 3]

Yeah, well why not fix the bug all together?

Great, much appreciated - its not so bad as the debug planes.............

But im still puzzled...

AS TO WHY IT HAPPENS

What is the solution or prevention to this bug?

[Lepryy 54]

M'kay so spawning in the debug plains is better?

Incidentally, why are you raging at me, you're not even the OP.

Let me break this down one more time: initially, sometimes people would spawn in the debug plains when logging in. Recently, rocket disabled the respawn option. Rather than forcing you to either run 10+ kilometers to get back onto the map area, or sit there twiddling your thumbs while you waited for your character to die of thirst, rocket changed it so that anyone spawning in the debug plains would automatically be transported to the coast, with all their gear still on them. It's all in the changelog, by the way.

rocket did something rather helpful by making you respawn on the coast rather than the debug plains. My point about this was that, like most things around here, no good deed goes un-whined-about, including this one.

Ok first of all, I haven't heard of nor have I seen anyone spawn in this "debug plain" for a very very long time. Everything was fine. You log out to get a sandwich, feed the dog, whatever, come back 20 minutes later and log in and boom, right there where you logged out at. Now, as soon as I put on 1.7.2.5, BOOM, right there on the shore by Balota airstrip, twice in a row.

My point is: why not make people spawn WHERE THEY LOGGED OUT AT, and not in debug plains or on the coast. It was going good there for a while, why fuck it up?

[NightRipper 284]

Yeah, well why not fix the bug all together?

Great, much appreciated - its not so bad as the debug planes.............

But im still puzzled...

AS TO WHY IT HAPPENS

What is the solution or prevention to this bug?

No one knows. I hear the answer's at the top of the tower at Green Mountain, however. It's written on a can of Mountain Dew.

[flexho 78]

It's like you guys have no patience and the only thing you do, is whine and rage. Quit it already. Report the bug and then stfu. It isn't helping the Dev team to clean up these BS threads.

So Allen, you do know you play in a Alpha game right? Not many games offer that chance. I don't want to make a wall of text, but a Alpha game is basicly ONE BIG TEST PLATFORM. So expect alot of bugs. Rocket made a smart move, which NightRippe here just explained nicely and calmly. Can't wait for the standalone? Stop playing then. And replieing on the forum.

To Mikey182. Yes, this is a bug, that's all i can say. The only help i can give is, either try switch to a diffrent server nexttime you get ported to the beach and see if you are still there or at the location you logged out. (I've tried that before, and it actualy helped to check another server).

[flexho 78]

My point is: why not make people spawn WHERE THEY LOGGED OUT AT, and not in debug plains or on the coast. It was going good there for a while, why fuck it up?

Yup, they obviously do this on purpose to troll a guy like you. kkbye.

[spaz31 1]

My buddy and I found a possible solution to this, join servers with the 1.7.2.5 patch, or the very least, stick with the same server.

Also...did everyone forget that this game is in Alpha or is this bitchfest 2012?

[Toybox 36]

Well I'm not running 2.5 (still on 2.4) and its happening to me as well, Every time I log of I get ported to the beach. Logged of quick to go have tea, still on the same server, bam from Gorka to the beach...It is getting old having to make this trip over and over again.

[aussieshooter8 5]

Look, I don't care that the game is in alpha version, it never used to do this, I was able to meet up with my friends and travel together. That is one of the most fun and unique things about Dayz and now it is impossible. I'm not b*tching, i'm just saying that this is a game breaking glitch for me, my friends and for many other people. I've never heard of this "debug plains" before and it has never effected me before either. All I know is that in the most recent update, there has been some glitch causing me to spawn at a random location, even though my character never died.

Patches are meant to make the game better, not worse. This is just my opinion, don't judge me for it.

[jem73 7]

if the debug plains thing was such a big problem then why didn't it happen to a bunch of people. nobody i know had that problem except for being sent there by hackers, though everybody i know has been teleported to the coast multiple times. We also lost our stuff at least 1/4 of the time (except for ghillie suit)

It doesn't matter if you stay on the same server. Eventually, and more than likely daily if you play a lot, you will get stuck on the loading screen or will have to leave due to a hacker/server suddenly is not stable. Back to coast again with the chance of no gear! Unless you are a lucky bastard and have the perfect server with no problems, you will be deeply effected by this glitch/feature/whatever it is!

[mcmillan716 0]

This happens to me all time. But when I spawn on the beach, I have the bandit keffiyeh, but the rest of the skin is the normal survivor. Finally I don't see my backpack. After 5 minutes the screen becomes white and I return to the original form. Sometimes when I spawn on the beach, I lose all my equipment...

[sostronk 334]

If you leave the game by methods other than disconnect (if you Alt+F4) then you will end up spawning on the coast. Its seems to be a temp fix/solution to players who are avoiding death by Alt + F4 during a firefight.

[SmashT 10907]

Most likely you closed the game when stuck on a loading screen, when you are loading the game places you into debug forest, then moves you to your location when you finish loading, I am only guessing here but it's probably done so you dont get killed by players/zombies before you even finish loading into the game. If you abort/escape/close the game when you are stuck on loading the hive will think you are in debug forest still so the next time you get in a server it will spawn you back at the coast.

A temporary fix, if you know of a server that you have no problems joining is to alt tab when stuck on the loading screen, launch another copy of the game, it will ask you if you want to close the original, click no, once you are in-game where you were supposed to spawn, alt tab to the game stuck on loading screen and close it either by alt f4ing or cntrl alt deleting and ending the arma process with the lower memory usage.

Once most servers and sixlauncher update to the latest version it should occur a lot less as the main reason people get stuck on the loading screen is because they tried to join a server on a mismatching version to their own.

Edited August 15, 2012 by smasht_AU

[foxdie_01 121]

Last night, my 4 week old character, packing some pretty tight equipment just bugged. after ussual 10minute wait and 6 or 7 seven different loading screens i find myself in the debug plains. I disconnect, reload on cherno coast and Everythings gone, not even the starting bandages or painkillers and with a broken leg for good measure, yet my stats still show my previous values. (zero murders btw)

I'll probably wait for warz or dayz standalone now. I've poured hours into this alpha and this is a real slap in the face.

I actually wonder if keeping dayz running as it currently stands is doing more damage to its reputation than good being publicly active in its current state.

[elasticz 35]

My buddy and I found a possible solution to this, join servers with the 1.7.2.5 patch, or the very least, stick with the same server.

Also...did everyone forget that this game is in Alpha or is this bitchfest 2012?

Dude, nobody keeps in mind that it's an alpha mod.

And even if they do they think alpha means it's 100% flawless except for a few graphical details.

To be honest, I thought they added the fact that you spawn on the coast when you enter a new server because people were serverhopping for gear.

[stickybuds 0]

yea this really does happen everytime you get stuck on loading now, so its a worthwile problem, and Ive also never gotten stuck in debug before. but smasht_AU thanks much for the temporary solution, will do for now