Player respawn...

[Izeck]

First thing, if you are not going to be helpful, please don't post. If my question bothers you, please don't bother being rude about it.

Ok, so:

Is there a way to respawn with the same character (Like most survival games do)? I've had this game for a while now but I just can't get into it because it doesn't really feel like I'm making any progress.

It doesn't feel like there's any point to leveleling up my character only to have it die and lose all progress. What's the point of a leveling sytem if you will never be able to actually reach high levels?

Yes, I know I can make a new character with a different set of skills to pick up the slack of the other who died previously, but that's not what I want.

Are there any settings or mods that allow this?

Thank you in advanced

[KingeOrge]

When I started to play 2 years ago, I though the same... But over time I've learned that this is a game of "This is how you die". So the premise is simple: You are going to die in a ceetain point of the game so the point of the skills is to help you to survive a bit more, not for a long term use. Well if you are a perfect survivor yes, you can, but this game it's about imperfection and how to survive day by day... So the sooner you understand the meaning of this game, the better. So it pretends to be a realistic simulator in every sense, if you spent a lot of your time leveling a skill and then you do something stupid and die, I assure you that later in another game you will not make that decision....

[Kurogo]

KingOgre pretty much got it. So I'll just answer your last questions: there aren't any settings that allow you to respawn, and no mods that do it that I'm aware of.

[Nachoman]

@Izeck There are no mods or settings that do this but you can just go to your saved world and backup the map_p.bin file. When you die that file is deleted from your world's folder. Restore it and you'll have your character back.

That being said I highly recommend making a backup of your world's folder in case something happens. In my case, I've lost power to my computer and the save file became corrupted. That was it, the game was over- I lost all everything (and dozens upon dozens of hours) due to something out of my control. Another reason is that a game update can cause an issue. I experienced this in the IWBUMS branch a few months ago, After that branch was updated the entire screen was black and I could not see my character. Luckily I made a backup of that world and was able to troubleshoot the issue (with some help on the TIS) forums. We were also able to create a workaround so I could continue playing that world.

Other reason to backup your character would be to test something out. Some information cannot be found online. If for example you want to know what you can do with high levels skills. How can you find out if you keep dying over and over again? I think this also limits how many bugs the playerbase can find as opposed to the testers who have tools to create such scenarios.

I'm for saving player progress but the TIS team has adamantly said that they will never implement some of backup/restore system.

[pepe le moko]

It is not about the destination, it is about the journey.

[Izeck]

Thank you for your resplies. I guess I will uninstall it again (For like the 5th time). It's not my thing. I'm more of a long term "Let's build an empire while we struggle" player, not a "Let's see how much I can last" player.

[Gonzo Max]

Originally posted by Damien:

Wow your loss then, with the books its really not hard to level a skill to level 10. Typical millenial, "its too hard, ill just quiiiit" pathetic. Its not like you loose your base or all the loot you collect.

People enjoy different things, and that's fine. Calling someone pathetic because their view differs from yours is not. Play nice.

[Beard]

The only option that I found for you is hosting a server (Using the HOST button in the menu)
In the server options there is a setting called "PlayerRespawnWithSelf"
If you turn it on you will be able to respawn on your place of death and continue playing on the world after death.
The only downside is that it might cause slight lag to the game since you are hosting, otherwise there should be no problems.
You could try using the -nosteam start parameter to see if it would lower the lag.
Hope this helps!

[KingeOrge]

Originally posted by Izeck:

Thank you for your resplies. I guess I will uninstall it again (For like the 5th time). It's not my thing. I'm more of a long term "Let's build an empire while we struggle" player, not a "Let's see how much I can last" player.

In my last comment I told you that it is a game to learn not to make the wrong decisions and that you have to enjoy surviving day by day.... I'm going to tell you how not to die in any situation , but if you do that you will destroy completely the gampelay and the fun from the game and you will never learn to play well, but it's up to you, however I tell you and you decide whether to use it or not.

What you must do to never die is to install NecroForge mod, this mod allows you to do many things as spaw items, build freely, etc.. (you can watch videos on youtube) This mod also allows you to heal any injury or disease of the game. What you should do is subscribe to the mod but not activate it in the game yet.... play the game in a normal way and if your character is bitten, you fall off a building or you bleed out for any reason, all you have to do is go to the main menu of the game, activate the mod, go back to the game and use the "Reset Health" option this will cure you of everything that happens to you, reset your health to as it is at the beginning of the game, your character will be completely healthy. This can be done for any situation in the game, allowing you to live infinitely and never die no matter what happens because it also removes the zombification...

What I said, if you never want to die, that's the best option... the bad part is that you completely destroy the fun and learning of the game. It's up to you, I'd tell you never to use it because you can get used to always surviving like this, but I guess you won't listen to me.

[Tower]

Yeah this is a tuff game. NOt for every one u got have iron guts

[vin]

You can actually respawn in the same world. If you die and you did quit before and the game is saved, it will allow you to continue on the same world. Unfortunately, all skills will be lost, but if you are able to find your (un)dead character and kill it, you can get your stuff back. If you download a mod which allows you to regain your skills via cheats, you can practically reset your character.

PS: Not sure tho, I only play this game with mods, so It could be a feature of a mod. If you would check it out for me if it isnt possible without those mods, I can tell you the mod list

[S.A Blue Lighting of Zeus]

Im veteren of this game,i will told you in simple way,the whole story is,"this is how you die",not about this is how u survive or this is how u become very op like some other rpg game,u need to learn from dying,and skill list before at the start creating your character,all you need to do is,learn how to survive,hungry?eat,bleeding?bandage,weapon?scavage,build,survive,prevent how not be dead each time after u dead,this game is half realistic,like do not stand in the middle of fire camp,u will burn to dead,do not jump from 2nd floor,u will fracture your leg,just like in real life,do not let zombie bite u,you will turn,this is half real,cause real world do not have zombie,yet"so,each time you die,you will learn by yourself how not to die,and then,only start learning skill,the longest you know how not to kill yourself,you properly could max out all skill like me in mp,this take time,learn,repeat after each dead,this is how u play this game,not some like late game very op 1 hit everything

[Izeck]

Originally posted by Damien:

Wow your loss then, with the books its really not hard to level a skill to level 10. Typical millenial, "its too hard, ill just quiiiit" pathetic. Its not like you loose your base or all the loot you collect.

There always has to be some jerk. I specifically said "First thing, if you are not going to be helpful, please don't post. If my question bothers you, please don't bother being rude about it."

Yet, here you are.

[Landor]

Originally posted by Izeck:

Originally posted by Damien:

Wow your loss then, with the books its really not hard to level a skill to level 10. Typical millenial, "its too hard, ill just quiiiit" pathetic. Its not like you loose your base or all the loot you collect.

There always has to be some jerk. I specifically said "First thing, if you are not going to be helpful, please don't post. If my question bothers you, please don't bother being rude about it."

Yet, here you are.

Dude, it's the internet, of COURSE someone is going to do the thing you told them not to.

Really the best course of action would have been probably to not mention it, and not acknowledge them when they do show up, not getting any attention is what hurts them the most. Also reporting, which only the mods and you will know you did.

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

Technically, yes, you can respawn your character. You will just lose all of your skill gains. When your character dies, your world is saved. You can start a new character in the same world you were just in, everything intact. You can even find your old character now in zombie form. Like I said, you will lose your character skill progress though, but that's honestly not that huge of an issue.

[Nachoman]

@DeadlyDanDaMan Please lookup character respawning in gaming. When you respawn a character you don't have to enter a name and selecting gender, clothing, job and traits/attributes a second time. That is called creating a new character. What you're describing is continuing to play in a persistent world with a new character. Please level either electrical skills or medical skills (or both) to level 10 in vanilla without using any mods/cheats, die and tell me that is not a huge of an issue.