rescuing your loot

[Error]

So are we still in the stone age of the game or can i find my loot after i die?

[Anonymous Helper]

No, this is the age where you can choose to play on easy difficulty and keep your inventory upon death or you can choose to play normal or higher difficulty and loose it if you die.

[Error]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

No, this is the age where you can choose to play on easy difficulty and keep your inventory upon death or you can choose to play normal or higher difficulty and loose it if you die. :cybereye:

Literally every survival game has a timer where you can collect your loot apart from this 1. So no this is a time where devs can't do the simplest of things.

[Butthead]

yeah i kinda agree, i dont want to play on easy difficulty just so i dont permanetly lose my inventory but i still want that challenge where i can lose it but i can still retrieve it

[MasonSTL]

dont die and you wont have to worry about it ;) though I kind of agree, would be nice to be able to retrieve loot... but this game is already pretty easy... idk maybe?

[Error]

Originally posted by MasonSTL:

dont die and you wont have to worry about it ;) though I kind of agree, would be nice to be able to retrieve loot... but this game is already pretty easy... idk maybe?

I agree at the easy part with resources, but it's more of the case when it comes to the new recipes, i got 3 of them and as i came out the water the shark got me, and then the bird a few seconds later. After i got on my boat i was about to put stuff away and put the recipes up the bird got me again ( i was under 2 roofs, it never happened when i first got there which is why i thought i was safe). The devs say it's our fault for dying and deal with it, yet they can't program damage properly.

[Zapp Brannigan]

That's one of the only real differences over easy. Use less food/water, take slightly less damage.. hardly anything to get all weirded out about. Just play on easy, since that's what you want.

[Canuck024]

Originally posted by MasonSTL:

dont die and you wont have to worry about it ;) though I kind of agree, would be nice to be able to retrieve loot... but this game is already pretty easy... idk maybe?

Not trying to be snarky, but I suck at most games, but I haven't died in this one; I play on normal

[SupurDave]

Originally posted by Error:

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

No, this is the age where you can choose to play on easy difficulty and keep your inventory upon death or you can choose to play normal or higher difficulty and loose it if you die. :cybereye:

Literally every survival game has a timer where you can collect your loot apart from this 1. So no this is a time where devs can't do the simplest of things.

this just isn't true. I've played a few other games where your loot is lost permanently on death. sure the devs could put in more granular dificulty options but that's up to them where they allocate their time on updates.

[Pain Weasel]

With some of the issues currently in game (bird killing you while inside rooms on your raft then respawning on the exact spot of your death but losing everything for example) it would be nice to be able to recover at least some of your loot.

My suggestion: Craftable or discoverable "safe" backpacks.

Allow players to obtain a backpack that increases inventory space and upon death the bag drops (and floats to the surface) and any item in the extra inventory slots can be recovered. Don't make them too big, maybe 4 slots or something (or multiple sizes requiring discovery).

Everybody wants more stuff to craft, more inventory would be welcome, and the ability to put prized loot in a bag so you have less of a chance of losing it would be nice. Win-win-win in my book.

[Error]

See Pain get is, unlike the devs and most other people (either have it or dont play the game on any difficulty). You can just add something small doesn't have to be everything but enough to be a game changer. Can't believe so many people are stuck up there own ass's to have somehting as small as a loot saver reguardless of how much it saves.

[Error]

Originally posted by SupurDave:

Originally posted by Error:

Literally every survival game has a timer where you can collect your loot apart from this 1. So no this is a time where devs can't do the simplest of things.

this just isn't true. I've played a few other games where your loot is lost permanently on death. sure the devs could put in more granular dificulty options but that's up to them where they allocate their time on updates.

I have over 300 games, i counted up how many of them are survival games where you can drop loot upon death (not including games like the forest as you keep your loot on death) and my findings are:

57 games total (i may have missed a few)
51 of those games you can rescue your loot
4 of them you couldn't (included darksouls 3 because im not sure you can retrieve the souls you lose, also didn't include raft)
The last 2 i couldn't remember if you drop your loot or not.. (my bad but if you want to add them to you can't, feel free)

So yeah i guess this just isn't true but they sure fall into the really damn lazy aspect of it.

[ShiroNeko]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

No, this is the age where you can choose to play on easy difficulty and keep your inventory upon death or you can choose to play normal or higher difficulty and loose it if you die. :cybereye:

Or you could have option to get where you died and get your items back.
Or add permadeath to normal mode because you know. Survival. It's not real survival if you respawn after you die.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by FL4K:

Or you could have option to get where you died and get your items back.

I don't disagree with the idea but the decision is ultimately up to the developers. I play on easy to avoid losing anything myself.

Feel free to add the suggestion to the Suggestions / Ideas sub forum and maybe devs will eventually change it.

In the mean time there are mods that can make you not lose items on harder difficulties. Actually most aspects of the game can be changed by using mods.

Originally posted by FL4K:

Or add permadeath to normal mode because you know. Survival. It's not real survival if you respawn after you die.

Hard mode is essentially ironman mode if you play solo as you can't revive without help from someone else. Whole point of difficulty levels is to allow people to choose the difficulty they're comfortable with.

[ShiroNeko]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

Originally posted by FL4K:

Or you could have option to get where you died and get your items back.

I don't disagree with the idea but the decision is ultimately up to the developers. I play on easy to avoid losing anything myself. :wizorbwink:

Feel free to add the suggestion to the Suggestions / Ideas sub forum and maybe devs will eventually change it.

In the mean time there are mods that can make you not lose items on harder difficulties. Actually most aspects of the game can be changed by using mods.

Originally posted by FL4K:

Or add permadeath to normal mode because you know. Survival. It's not real survival if you respawn after you die.

Hard mode is essentially ironman mode if you play solo as you can't revive without help from someone else. Whole point of difficulty levels is to allow people to choose the difficulty they're comfortable with. :lunar2020playfuldog:

Yet there is no difficulty i'm comfortable with. In easy mode you keep your items while on normal those items respawn and there is no middle ground where you lose your items but have a chance to recover them. You know, like when you can recover your health after you lose it.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by FL4K:

Yet there is no difficulty i'm comfortable with. In easy mode you keep your items while on normal those items respawn and there is no middle ground where you lose your items but have a chance to recover them. You know, like when you can recover your health after you lose it.

As I said, it's ultimately up to the developers. It's their game and they designed it that way. If you want to suggest changes to the design, it's better to do so in Suggestions / Ideas sub forum.