Gear loss

[AJMcP]

Do you think in gear currency/gear return will occur for the crashes that happen and cause you to lose gear?

I understand crashes happen - especially in a newly release beta game. But I've lost a fair bit of gear now (90K in game currency worth) and had current quests reset progress when crashing. So I've essentially completed them multiple times without actually completing them due to being reset.

This is coming from a game where monetary rewards from quests have been reduced following streamer feedback from their play-test. This however is now a released game with bugs causing you to haemorrhage money on kits (which cannot be recouped as no easy way of making good amounts of money). This will get progressively more challenging, as money reduces further and quest difficulty increases necessitating better gear.

[BigTrackBalls]

when the game crashes or server crashes you get what you had before the crash. Where it really screws you up is when the server/game crashes when you're retrieving your gear. That's the only time I've seen where a crash causes you to lose your stuff.

[AJMcP]

Originally posted by BigTrackBalls:

when the game crashes or server crashes you get what you had before the crash. Where it really screws you up is when the server/game crashes when you're retrieving your gear. That's the only time I've seen where a crash causes you to lose your stuff.

I've had multiple crashes now where I've loaded the game back up and all gear lost. Depends on the circumstances of crashing - seems to be around 70% chance to lose all gear equipped if you crash during a heli ride (based on my personal experience so far). I have also had it happen to me in general game crashes when in base or out doing missions, but this is rarer...

Quests resetting seems only to happen when crashing during a heli ride, but just as frustrating - especially if you've done quest lines such as hazardous treasures from rooms being open already and don't have the key.

[GWOP-W×TCH]

Originally posted by BigTrackBalls:

when the game crashes or server crashes you get what you had before the crash. Where it really screws you up is when the server/game crashes when you're retrieving your gear. That's the only time I've seen where a crash causes you to lose your stuff.

Nah, there are times you crash, then reopen the game, your character has his kit, you join the same Operation and the same server region, spawn in base camp with your gear that you've been running with for an hour or more, then get an error about "Saving player persistence" and it wipes everything you had for hours, your active tasks, and other things.

[AJMcP]

Originally posted by GWOP-W×TCH:

Nah, there are times you crash, then reopen the game, your character has his kit, you join the same Operation and the same server region, spawn in base camp with your gear that you've been running with for an hour or more, then get an error about "Saving player persistence" and it wipes everything you had for hours, your active tasks, and other things.

Not only with that crash unfortunately. Also with some non-error code crashes too.

[BigTrackBalls]

Originally posted by GWOP-W×TCH:

Originally posted by BigTrackBalls:

when the game crashes or server crashes you get what you had before the crash. Where it really screws you up is when the server/game crashes when you're retrieving your gear. That's the only time I've seen where a crash causes you to lose your stuff.

Nah, there are times you crash, then reopen the game, your character has his kit, you join the same Operation and the same server region, spawn in base camp with your gear that you've been running with for an hour or more, then get an error about "Saving player persistence" and it wipes everything you had for hours, your active tasks, and other things.

From my own playtime (nearly 100 hours) I've only had the gear wipe from a retrieval crash. I've had my quests wipe once from the heli crash, but I still had my equipment. The worst one and it seems to affect you at the beginning or not at all is the invisible head/missing inventory glitch. However the hotfixes seem to have put a pretty good dent in the amount of invisible pmcs out there.

[AJMcP]

Originally posted by BigTrackBalls:

From my own playtime (nearly 100 hours) I've only had the gear wipe from a retrieval crash. I've had my quests wipe once from the heli crash, but I still had my equipment. The worst one and it seems to affect you at the beginning or not at all is the invisible head/missing inventory glitch. However the hotfixes seem to have put a pretty good dent in the amount of invisible pmcs out there.

Seems like you've had a lucky time with it. I had been too until today where I've had at least 12 crashes causing quest reset and loss of gear.

[Ad Hominem]

I think they changed something about crashing bc 90% of my crashes now I am not losing any of my gear. The only thing you can really do to offset this (somewhat) is bring home junk to sell.

Also as you go to more areas you will find nicer gear on the bots, nicer gun builds with nicer optics and such, which means you can take some of that home to use later.