Death in water

[Blaze1961]

When ever I have died in the water I can't find my body or backpack ( I am playing single player). I knwo the simple answer is just don't die in the water. I was just wondering if that is a glitch or am I just blind.

[Sirius Lee]

No-one's answered this yet and I would like to know as well. Does your body rise to the surface or sink or stay floating at the same depth where you died? I'm up to oil harvesting and have already died once with my first lot of oil and all my other stuff oc.
Can't find Sarge either, he swam off to kill something and now he's lost.

[Captain Sparx]

I've had a few instances where after dying in the water, my body rolled down a slope all the way to the bottom where I couldn't reach it... If I die closer to shore, though, it usually stays put.
Though, there's also been a problem of disappearing backpacks in general. I couldn't find my backpack on land after dying a few feet from my base earlier, and I've had the problem quite a few times. So, that could be your problem, too.

[Dreamsquasher1]

My bag has always been in the water when I have died, body is gone though, due to sharks eatting it. Can be hard to spot if its in a reef or something though.

[Sirius Lee]

Thanks for the quick reply Cap'n. I've had to right it all off, 20 mins to find your body without a drop marker is just ludicrous. Shows no respect for a players time.

[SilvaDreams]

Originally posted by Frayed Knot:

Thanks for the quick reply Cap'n. I've had to right it all off, 20 mins to find your body without a drop marker is just ludicrous. Shows no respect for a players time.

I'm sorry the dev's don't give you a big glowing pillar of light that says "YOUR LOOT IS HERE!!" but I think I would have to hate them if they added that in.

[Todgins]

Originally posted by Captain Sparx:

I've had a few instances where after dying in the water, my body rolled down a slope all the way to the bottom where I couldn't reach it... If I die closer to shore, though, it usually stays put.
Though, there's also been a problem of disappearing backpacks in general. I couldn't find my backpack on land after dying a few feet from my base earlier, and I've had the problem quite a few times. So, that could be your problem, too.

Yeah we've had a few missing bodies/loots (one which my friend fell off a cliff right near our base) and he bird was sitting right where the loot should have been.

Originally posted by SilvaDreams:

Originally posted by Frayed Knot:

Thanks for the quick reply Cap'n. I've had to right it all off, 20 mins to find your body without a drop marker is just ludicrous. Shows no respect for a players time.

I'm sorry the dev's don't give you a big glowing pillar of light that says "YOUR LOOT IS HERE!!" but I think I would have to hate them if they added that in.

Sure the way you exaggerated it is a little too easy, but the death marker you get to see once (and hopefully screenshot) is hardly accurate and very hard to find if you are not familiar with the area in which you died.

Not being able to see around upon your death (Seems fine) also doesn't help in conjunction with the "around here marker" as you have no time to search for a quick landmark by your body. Perhaps fading vision to give the player 10 seconds to take in their surrounding (Im next to 2 pointy rocks and a really big tree with the mountain to the north -- sort of thing).