Wife and I were playing tonight on our server (3738 PVE PS4) and fighting one of the weird blade 2 vampire stormship trooper boss bugs… She ended up dying. Shortly thereafter as I kitted this idiot bug around and occasionally jabbed daggers into it waiting for her to run back, her body just up and disappeared. Loot bag popped out so I thought, okay no worries. She can just grab her shìt from the bag. Couple minutes go by and the loot bag just up and vanishes as well.
Thinking, okay well maybe it just disappeared for me, she can still see it perhaps (has happened before)?
Nope. All her gear, I’m a matter of a few minutes just POOF
Didn’t even give her a chance to try to come back and reclaim it. Then I got to thinking how bullshìt that is. Because when npcs die… 1. It takes forever for their corpses to pop. 2. Even after they pop they leave behind loot bags that persist in the world much longer than my wife’s did tonight (especially the EMPTY ones)
So I don’t know how you want to qualify this as… a bug, a glitch, maybe corpse settings are jacked, but it certainly does explain why sometimes you go back for your stuff, and it just isn’t there. The game eats it.
Not directly addressing the bug but why didn’t you simply take her Stuff? You can simply harvest her corpse even on pve…
BTW how long did she take lol, your corpse stays 15 minutes and like you said the bag stayed a few minutes aswell, lol
Her corpse didn’t stay for 15. I didn’t grab her stuff because I figured the bag would stay, I also didn’t think trying to play starship trooper would work out too well being encumbered with all her crap on me. I thought about it, I just didn’t do it. I didn’t expect it all to vanish that quickly.
Anyway… This all happened maybe in the course of 5 minutes tops, from death to corpse pop to bag to no bag.
Are you sure that there wasn’t another player taking it? Sometimes you can’t see others for a while, you tend to see a weapon if you are lucky until their character gets rendered in.
Yeah I’m pretty sure. Our server had been invalid most of the day and earlier, before this happened, I had checked the player list, there were only like 5 people online besides us. Two of them we know, and even had an misunderstanding regarding looting a corpse in the past where he’d went out of his way to track us down and return what he took. Soooo possible, I guess. But kind of unlikely.
But yeah corpse looting shouldn’t be happening on PVE, although I know some people “don’t approve” of PVE but it is possible, and does happen.
Anyway, it’s not a big deal… We’re kind of use to randomly losing all out shìt at this point. Just thought perhaps this might have something to do with the corpse run issues a lot of us have been having lately.
And regardless if PVE players have the approval of PVPers, being able to retrieve items from your corpse is an intended function, and as such players on all servers should be given ample time to be allowed to do so.
That’s cool due, everyone has opinions. I for one think that whenever you log into a PVP server, your coordinates should be broadcast to everyone else on the server and a ‘kill the newly logged in or be killed’ scenario should ensue.
but it is possible, and does happen.