Switching packs with dead players?

[Edwin IV 0]

Stumbled across a dead player who had a Czech pack and I was wondering how I take his pack and get rid of mine?

[BurritoBandit 24]

Click on this pack, then click the arrow to the right. While in the gear menu.

Edited August 18, 2012 by BurritoBandit

[Edwin IV 0]

Do I have to drop my pack first?

[BurritoBandit 24]

Do I have to drop my pack first?

I don't think so...

[piparadox 1]

The safest bet is to "Open the backpack" on the ground, and open your own backpack and put stuff into the new backpack. Then simply take the backpack and it will put your own pack on the ground and pick up the new one. (Sometimes, the old pack can disappear so watch out!)

[Seattle 4]

The safest bet is to "Open the backpack" on the ground, and open your own backpack and put stuff into the new backpack. Then simply take the backpack and it will put your own pack on the ground and pick up the new one. (Sometimes, the old pack can disappear so watch out!)

confirmed and i read the topic title and came here to say the same thing. also if you want to put stuff straight into your pack, look at the gear on the ground then open your inventory, goto your bag and open it ti should look different and show you how many slots are left just like in your pockets. you will see the items on the floor and can add them straight to your pack instead of picking them up and maybe shuffling stuff around from your pockets into your bag.......then picking the rest of the stuff up and more re arranging........ but do empty your pack you are wearing first either into your pockets or into the other pack or onto the ground. remember packs will lose items if they are full and you add more stuff. and you can lose everything out of you pockets, and your pack too. i seem to think its in heavier waters you lose the pack and stuff. deeper east shore waters seem to roll more than the south beach waters do. or maybe thats just me i live near the sea so i unno i boat a lot too, wish there were more boats in dayz more types maybe a jet ski or speedboat, or even larger craft, a landing craft would be awesome. and on the sea note a carrier to explore fight army zombies and loot some milspec stuff? something out of sight and takes a lot of gas like a one way half way there point of no return trip. or else your in for the swim of your life and sick as a dog and gearless, or you raid that ship.

sorry for the tangent i live in seattle, we have a HUGE naval yard across the sound, it has a lot of ships tied together a LOT, my friends and i always thought seattle would make a great area for a zombie movie, we got cities, we got wildserness, and to be honest this games map looks a lot like the coiuntry side around here, and the rain, lol its like playing in the woods as a kid again. with zombies! im waiting for valve to make l4d3 in seattle, i mean they used psrt of our underground for l4d2...sigh.

on topic, careful with your bags. and if you see a czech vest keep away from it tis smaller than your starting bag and for some reason eats everything you put into it, mine did.

[kryvian 123]

My God.

>step away from corpse,

>drop own backpack,

>scroll on body>gear

>scroll down in menu

>click on his backpack, that is at the bottom of the menu

>you have successfully acquired a dead man's backpack.

>go to your previous backpack,

>open back pack,

>drag everything from old backpack to new one.

IF the other backpack is on a corpse most times they will swap.

IF there is a fresh new backpack on the floor, most times the old backpack will be destroyed upon swap.

[Nick Larking 0]

I have different question which either involves a glitch very possible, or an exploit used by the other player i killed.

I dropped my backpack (alice) on the floor, picked up his backpack (coyote) which has l85aw and as50 in it, looted some of his other stuff on corpse (rangefinder, GPS, NV goggles).

My skin switches to bandit, and my coyte pack (i was wearing it) changes back to an alice pack but i still kept the 2weapons that were inside (4junk in it got removed). All other stuff is still in my invent and old backpack still on ground.

5mins later i change back to survivor (humanity raised because of time?) and i revert back to that skin and still got the alice pack so nothing weird happens there.

So did the coyote backpack disapear and turn into alice from a glitch involving skin change or did i kill a player who abused a exploit/hack. Im personally leaning heavely towards glitch and if thats the case can someone explain how you can avoid it best.

(not really hijack as it still involves the same topic discussion and i didnt think it really required a seperate one)

Edited August 18, 2012 by Nick Larking