Lose equipped weapons on death?

[BareNakedSlayer]

Just a check here. I died in the first mission one time messing around. I spawned at the boat with nothing but clearly needed to head back to where my bag was located to pick up my swag. BUT, I didn't spawn with any weapons and what I had equipped was not back at the bag. Are they gone forever, or is this just a bug?

I haven't played a lot but this is probably one of the most fun VR games I have played in a while.

[EnmityFree]

I found it better to just reload the last save and start the level over. Sometimes it seemed like I was able to keep a weapon or two, but mostly it was just all gone if I had it equipped, and getting to my backpack without dying yet again was a task

[BareNakedSlayer]

Originally posted by EnmityFree:

I found it better to just reload the last save and start the level over

Ultimately, that is what I did. I was just curious if this was a bug or intentional. I tried continuing and found it really hard as there isn't much in the way of weapons in that first area. Or maybe i"m just not exploring good enough.

[Kurtino]

Anything in your side pockets are kept, but if something was in your hand it'll be on the floor or in your bag, because you dropped it as you died.

If you can't find the weapon after retrieving your stuff, it's either on the floor somewhere but you missed it, it broke as you died (I'm pretty sure weapons suffer a durability loss when you die), or it glitched through the map and is gone.

[BareNakedSlayer]

Originally posted by Kurtino:

Anything in your side pockets are kept, but if something was in your hand it'll be on the floor or in your bag, because you dropped it as you died.

If you can't find the weapon after retrieving your stuff, it's either on the floor somewhere but you missed it, it broke as you died (I'm pretty sure weapons suffer a durability loss when you die), or it glitched through the map and is gone.

Thanks for the reply. So I should have still had my gun but probably lost my knife in that case. good to know. I think I just ran into a bug then. I'll look around more next time I die... which I think is probably inevitable.

[Grom]

I find game mechanics like that so annoying, I don't think the English language has a word for that. You've just played two hours to completely search the level for the best loot, try to get back, get overrun and die, respawn with nothing but a broken bottle and have no chance to get your loot back. That is completely ridiculous and not a bit encouraging.

[BROKIN]

respawning to get your loot back is the time to stealth and crouch and sneak past zombies. You CAN sneak across the whole level unseen it take a lot of time and patience. hopefully on the way back to your loot you find a spoon or bottle. But I usually just restart level unless I had something I really wanted to bring back.

[senpai]

When I die the first time in a mission, I respawn at the boat with all my holstered/held weapon inside the bag.
Everything else, I'll have to get the dropped bag to retrieve.