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Nintendo Switch 2 — Game crash causes character/progress loss on official servers

Crash

Issue Key

DZG-476

State

Need more info

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

wilddornberry

Created

Aug 26, 2026

Views

29

Attachments

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Platform

Nintendo Switch 2

What happened?

My game crashes and when I open the game back up the character I was playing with on that same server is no longer there. After the crash, my character is not simply wiped or replaced with a fresh spawn. The server appears to roll my character back to an older character state from earlier in the day. That earlier character had already been intentionally killed, but after the crash it reappears with its previous equipment/progress. This has happened more than once.

This current play session that I just crashed in was at least 2-3 hours of play and I seem to be reset to the begging of it with a character I only briefly had and purposely killed off before this character that I developed for a few hours.


This is the second time this has happened today. I have lost probably 8-10 hours of gameplay between the 2 times this has happened with the first one being a character I had over multiple days/play sessions.


This is the kind of thing that makes a game unplayable. If possible please restore me to where I was when I crashed at about 10:30pm pacific time zone. My player was in the town of Mogilevka.


The picture included is of my screen after I reopen the game after the crash. The character on screen is a previous character with gear that I had on the same server that I killed off at the beginning of this play session.

Reproduction steps

On official server: 3467 North America - LA Chernarus

The first crash happened as I was approaching the town of Nizhneye on foot. Literally doing nothing else.


The second crash happened right after I put a tire on a car in Mogilevka.

Exact build version (optional)

Where did it happen?

Official

Is it modded?

No

Expected result

Activity

    about 21 hours ago

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    AWAITING INTERNAL TESTING
    about 17 hours ago
  • l909
    Moderator
    commented
    about 16 hours ago

    Hello.
    We have tested this, crashing the client while walking, changing tire or building walls but we were unable to reproduce the issue you are describing. In case it occurs again in the future, can you please provide an exact time/date (with timezone), the server ID and the ID shown in the main menu next to the game version? Thank you

  • l909
    changed state to
    NEED MORE INFO
    about 16 hours ago
  • wilddornberrycommented
    about 12 hours ago

    I'm confused, I did provide you with all of that information in the details above. I typed out that info but also included a screen shot from the main menu that showed that info.

  • about 2 hours ago

  • wilddornberrycommented
    about 2 hours ago

    It just happened again... Interestingly when I loaded up the game about an half an hour to an hour ago the character on the screen was the old character I described earlier but when I loaded in the character I had lost last night was back. So I happily started playing and right as I killed a chicken my game crashed again and when I loaded back in this time I was a fresh character and I lost all progress on my old one.


    One thing to note: When loading up the server after crashing it says "taking longer while waiting for previous session to end" or something like that.


    This is a real bummer I am loving the game but I have lost SO much loot and play time.


    Going to try uninstalling the game and reinstalling and hope that fixes it.


    Details of this crash:

    Official Server: 3245 North America - NY

    Time of crash 5:10pm pacific time

    Version: 1.30.163631

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Issue Key

DZG-476

State

Need more info

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

wilddornberry

Created

Aug 26, 2026

Views

29

Attachments

image.jpg