Corpses instantly, or very quickly, disappearing (sometimes)

[DangerRuss]

I have an issue on my overpoch server with corpses occasionally disappearing instantly or very quickly after death and more often then not, not leaving a skull and crossbones. This doesn't happen on every death and I can't seem to recreate it, it just happens sporadically. Where do I even start to try to find this issue? No errors in the RPT.

 

Some mods I have installed

Souls custom coin system

NPC Bankers

Custom kill messages (pictures) with updated deathboard.

InifiStar safe zones

Snap Building Pro

Vectoring

Precise base building

Service points

Indestructible locked vehicles near plot poles

Take Clothes

DZMS

Welcome Credits

Basic mission side spawn loadout script

 

That should be all, not 100% sure if  Ilisted everything but this is definitely 99% of what I have installed. Any pointers would be a huge help thanks.
 

[AlexLawson]

Is this not just players hiding bodies.

[DangerRuss]

Is this not just players hiding bodies.

Correct, it is not players hiding bodies.

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[ElDubya]

I believe I had this happen on my server (Overpoch) yesterday. A player died, went back to retrieve his gear, his body was gone. Couldn't find anything on the admin map either, but he definitely died because I saw it in the logs. It's the first time I have ever seen something like this happen, but I just chalk it down to "because Dayz".

[DangerRuss]

yea unfortunately this seems to happen often on my server. but I can't find  a way to reproduce it. It just seems to be random.

[ElDubya]

Did you end up finding a solution to this DangerRuss?

[KamikazeXeX]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, I'm getting this issue on my Overpoch server too all of a sudden, no clue as to why, all i can tell is its as the player logs back into the server, they'll spawn and as soon as they notify me they've spawned their body disappears

[rentiger1112]

this could be due to the fact that your using the modified death messages with the gun icons, I had this issue for a while when I replaced player_death on the mission side and the server_playerdied etc. 

[KamikazeXeX]

Definitely not related to death messages or the server side/client side files being mixed up etc, thats functioning 100% fine, its after they die, get forced to lobby and then join back in, once they've respawned their body disappears.

[KamikazeXeX]

Just to update everyone that I have solved the issue but its VERY unlikely that you will have made the same mistake I have

I recently went through all my files optimizing things and adding error handling to things, and completely overlooked a aspect of the AI system when adding error handling, in ai_monitor I had this:
 

if (ai_clean_dead) then {
	{
		_killedat = _x getVariable ["killedat", 0];
		if (!isNil "_killedat") then {
			if ((time - _killedat) >= ai_cleanup_time) then {
				deleteVehicle _x;
			};
		};
	} count allDead;
};

When it was supposed to be:

 

if (ai_clean_dead) then {
	{
		_killedat = _x getVariable "killedat";
		if (!isNil "_killedat") then {
			if ((time - _killedat) >= ai_cleanup_time) then {
				deleteVehicle _x;
			};
		};
	} count allDead;
};

Effectively I had basically forced killedat to always return 0 meaning it'd never be nil, thus when it looped over all dead bodies it'd be returning 0 for players bodies, and as per the condition for deleting the body it would return true, and delete the body.

Edited November 13, 2015 by KamikazeXeX