Died (in coop) and our bags are in a place that requires special equipment... game over?

[MrGowdy]

What happens when you die, and you need special equipment to get to where you died? Is the game simply over at that point? Don't recall the last time we manually saved but there is no way we can get back to our bodies without special equipment.

Searching online doesn't seem to turn up many results.

[Kingangus]

Bags will not despawn unless the host leaves or you die again, so I recommend just speedrunning to the cave with the rebreather and or climbing axe to get your stuff back. But if your bag is stuck on the side of the sinkhole or something and theres little chance of getting it back, its not that bad grabbing most of the essentials back. At the end of the day the modern axe is the #1 tool and things like the plane's soda, meds, and axe respawn after loading a save.

[SOLIDUS0422]

If it's in the sinkhole grab a turtle shell

[MrGowdy]

We're struggling with motivation to keep playing after this happened. We're fine dying once in a while and having to run all the way back (and sometimes fight) to get our stuff....

However, having to run a few caves to maybe get critical progression items that are required to even get back to where we were isn't a fun experience. Top that off, there is no map in this game, so trying to remember exactly which cave entrance and which direction within those caves everything is... again not fun for us.

I guess the game is just designed this way and those who still play it must be OK with this design. We aren't right now.

[MrGowdy]

I should mention, not only did we die somewhere you have to use a specific item to get to... but we died because one of us got stuck in a rock somehow and couldn't move... a large enemy "spawned" and 1-shot my friend. Then, after watching the enemy continue to try and attack him, I was pretty sure I could revive from a safe location... NOPE, magically the enemy glitched sideways and did another 1-shot attack on my friend that also somehow hit me from pretty far away.

[RequiemsRose]

There is a map in game actually, in single player you get taken right to it the first time you die. In multiplayer, you have to find the cave climb entrance at the main village, it's right in that first cave chamber along with the compass.
It may feel defeating to die and functionally lose your gear, but honestly you can replace or upgrade everything in that pack in less than a half hour. The plane axe may not always spawn back in time to grab that again, but the map exists in the same cave system as the modern axe, a cave that also contains meds, food, rope, sodas, tape, dynamite, and relatively few enemies (3 to be exact, if you take the proper path from main village to the small village near yacht...if you spot a creepy, you went the wrong way).

[Heretic Jules]

If this happens, what I do is just enable developer console and godmode your way into that cave or spawn the tool you need to get to the bags. Games are only so fun until you reach moments like this and it kills your desire or motivation to keep playing. At that point, use developer console to make it fun again, then disable and reload after you get back. If you get to a point like this where it kills your motivation, ♥♥♥♥ authenticity and use consoles or "cheats". Life is short. Enjoy your save games.

[turrón master]

depends on where its lost. if its reachable under most any circumstances, id keep trying. if its literally impossible or you'd give up hope long before you do get it back, just cheat. a game aint worth playing if all your progress is essentially locked after a single mistake, or something outside your control.

[MrGowdy]

Game should have been designed so that this isn't possible. I guess this is an Indie title so can't expect that much?

In any case we haven't gone back because this situation killed our motivation to keep playing.

We died a few times and had to run back and get our stuff, in some cases it was really difficult with enemies spawning and us not having our gear...

But to die in a spot you literally cannot get back to unless you replay a large-ish portion of the game, screw that. And we don't want to cheat to fix it... we'd rather just not play.

I think that speaks volumes to the issue, if a situation can kill two people's willing to to even bother playing it's likely a problem.

[Vanidas]

I understand that losing stuff can be pretty frustrating, but... Did you save AFTER this happened? If you didn't, did you not save before-hand? You should absolutely be saving your games at every available opportunity. If you guys were trying to speedrun and didn't have any sort of base before you got that far in the game, you can always drop a temporary shelter, or save at the places the map provides you with.

I don't mean to sound condescending, but I'm really confused. It sounds like literally everything had to go wrong in order for this to happen. If you didn't save at any point (which would've meant you didn't build a base), didn't mark your location, and for whatever reason didn't have a chance to revive your friend or withdraw from the situation... that sucks. But this sounds like it could've been avoided with a minute of preparation tops.

[RequiemsRose]

The save aspect may indeed be helpful. If you simply don't save after the death you can reload from before it. I kind of assumed they had fallen into the sinkhole as their method of death, that's one of few places that's unreachable without proper tools (or tricks) and easy to die in. Plus it has multiple creepies to fit that "large enemy spawned in and one shot them" part of the description. If that was the case, it may also be why they couldn't revive the friend. I know when I play tour guide I warn people "you fall in there, I'm not saving you" because it can be such a pain to go in, or moreso, back out of there. Plus, unless I decide to spider-crawl down the walls immediately (or chance the river jump), I'm certainly not reaching them before the timer runs out.