vanishing bodies?

[lukasaurus 1]

Last night, north of Balota, three of us survivors were running across an open field. One of our mates lingered behind and got shot at. We all hit the deck and tried to figure out where it was coming from and the guy behind was killed. The two of us still alive started making it for the trees, and I got shot at but made it over a hill. My other mate was crawling around, trying to find the bandit.

I manage to sneak about and locate the guy, hiding by a rock near a rock wall. I aim, fire and take him out (AS50). He does the die animation and it says down the bottom "Ricky was killed". We all cheer over skype because it is the first encounter we have had where the majority of us have survived (we are pretty casual players). I decide I want to get out of there, in case he has friends, but my mate thinks we should find his body, since his gun sounded the same as mine (AS50), and to me, it looked like he had an AS50 and camo outfit. But it wasn't where I shot him. He definitely died, no doubt about it. But there were no flies, and no body.

Could he have logged out the moment he died and his body vanished? I noticed a few minutes later he was on another server (I use DayZ commander and was able to add him as a "friend").

Edited September 10, 2012 by Lukasaurus

[Ajvkorn 72]

he alt + f4ed. Due to it taking a few seconds to kick in the command, you can die, but the body disappears. Welcome, to dayz.

[twitch13 49]

yeah, that happens. you might also want to check the surrounding area, bodies have been known to teleport a short distance for some reason.

[lukasaurus 1]

He still died though right? Like, he'll log back in and be dead.