Stuck in the Sea of Purgatory

[vpope 28]

There is a bug currently (1.5.4) where when you transition from survivor to bandit or visa versa, you will get a black screen saying "Requesting Character Data"

First thing you do

GO PRONE!

If you disconnect and re enter the game you will find yourself swimming in the middle of an endless sea surrounded by other people. all your items will be gone and you will be unable to get out unless you kill yourself and re spawn.

HOWEVER!

you can prevent getting stuck in the sea of purgatory by waiting for the debug monitor to update fully and show that it has saved, when your screen goes black the debug monitor shows 0 kills of all kinds and 0 humanity , wait for these figures to update and for Unsaved to = false , you can then dissconnect (FULLY) from the server and rejoin , you will be in the same place you were before you changed HOWEVER all the items in your backpack will be gone. There is no way to work around the backpack bug.

Some people have waited it out and eventualy your screen comes back and you can continue with no need to disconnect but your items in your bag will always vanish on transition ..

I hope this is helpful to some of you.

[Highpants 2]

This is what I believed happened to me.

Same situation, I shot a bandit and a survivor within seconds of each other, hitting -350 humanity. After that, I stepped backwards and got "Requesting Character Data" while I was moving.

At the moment, I am in the "sea of purgatory" when I'm able to join the server, I fear for my pack :o

Link to General Discussion thread on matter. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=796

[benneh1 1]

As a side note, if you do respawn in the water, it isn't endless at all. I've twice spawned there (earlier builds) and swam back to shore and continued on within the same life...

It's simply the water to the far South West of the map. Swimming North will take you to the land mass, at which point you can run East and rejoin the map...