Character force delete?

[Say Drake]

Took a break for a week, forgot about being in a prospect and when coming back its telling me my character is permamently lost? what is this crap? lvl 44 and start over? LOL

[aggromagnet]

Yep. Start over or play a better game... :P

[Rhaane]

Sorry I feel for ya. I really don't understand this design decision

Scenario 1 - you are actively playing and the 7 day timer on the game is plenty long to complete mission such that it is not an intriguing time frame. thus virtually meaningless

Scenario 2 - you are casual and or forgot you joined someone for an hour the last time you played. Lost forever.

What is this mechanic suppose to prove? Punish the ones that drift in and out of your game? I really don't see the point.

[Say Drake]

I liked this game a lot but this is just garbage. I had to quit playing because the prospect i was in the middle of just kept getting an error and closing my game. So i just let a few patches go through now im punished for their errors. Wish i could refund this piece of crap

[Morgindale]

Especially that could be fixed so easily.... let's say time left is 5 days - you take a week off and log back in again. And instead of seeing a MIA character, let them join the session with let's say 10-15min left on the clock... so they cannot progress further BUT they can get back to the dropship in time if they want. Or simply remove that whole "feature", just return the player to the space station. And if you're actively playing while the timer runs out, just switch to a cutscene where your player goes to the dropship...

In your case with a lvl 44 character - normally i'm not into this and i think a lot of other players greatly disagree, but look into "Cheat Engine" and the already available Cheat Tables for it - haven't tried them, but after a short search, one of them is able to "Set Player Modifiers (Movement Speed, Experience Bonus, ...)" - since this isn't a PvP game, for me it would be ok - better than wasting money on a game, get frustrated and never play it again.

[Morotstomten]

just drop in in the desert biome, start killing cougars and hyenas and you will level up in no time at all, thats what i did after i messed up the talents on my first char, got to 25 before i even started doing the mission which was to get to the riverlands, by the time i got back to the dropship i was 29

[Resin]

It’s funny you mention this. If you watch the second game trailer they talk about prospectors thinking they have a lot of time with the mission clock and that’s when they die. Seems like an Easter egg warning.

[Retro]

this just happened to my friend (who rarely gets these games) she doesn't want to play ever again now lol RIP guess i'll be soloing now.

[Creamy Goodness]

Not sure if this is a new thing, but there is an option in the bottom left corner to remove your player from prospects. I had the same issue and was able to just hit this button and abandon any gear I had, but I kept my character.

[TRIADA]

yes the remove from prospect button should still work and you should be able to get it back

[Grambo]

Yes, but you lose ALL your workshop items. For me, that was a very painful thing... It basically cost me everything I'd earned in 80 hours of gameplay.

[TRIADA]

I made my opinion on that lovely game feature quite clear but many ppl seems to love it...till it happens to them I bet.

P.S funny part is when I did my test and poke a bear in hardcore few days back I did get my pickaxe back..so maybe they change remove from prospect to only give you your body but not items? That would be so so good move..

[Morgindale]

Today they resurrected every lost character for everyone - but only this time - because it's Christmas :)

[LuckyLuke]

Originally posted by TRIADA:

yes the remove from prospect button should still work and you should be able to get it back

Yes. And the devs could insert an undocumatated hidden button to get the character back. Or they yust eleminate this timer trggered Character deletion crap.
Triada, this post is not against you, it should show, what things the devs have implemented.

[hazelrah]

Originally posted by Morgindale:

Today they resurrected every lost character for everyone - but only this time - because it's Christmas :)

and now that they have the code to bring back characters, it'll be some shti we have to pay $$ for.

[LuckyLuke]

Originally posted by hazelrah:

Originally posted by Morgindale:

Today they resurrected every lost character for everyone - but only this time - because it's Christmas :)

and now that they have the code to bring back characters, it'll be some shti we have to pay $$ for.

Hey be fair. Errors are made, costs time and is human. In every game you pay also for the solvage of a bug!