Death Recovery: Beacons & Safe Containers

A network failure before spawning is a specific exception

Update 0.4.0.182 protects equipped gear when an internet connection failure prevents you from spawning into a raid. It does not state that every disconnect after spawning restores your loadout. Keep this exception separate from death, beacon returns and safe-container recovery.

Sources: Update 0.4.0.182

Know what each recovery item does

Ordinary beacon

Return to the raid without your lost kitPlace it at a useful return position. Beacons can be picked up and moved.

Unplaced beacon in your equipment

Return at the original spawnThis rule requires a beacon; it is not a promise of a free respawn without one.

Tactical beacon

Return with random Agency rental equipmentThe official update describes rental gear, not restoration of your previous loadout.

Safe container

Recover the contents you chose to protectEquip an actual container and put the items inside it. An empty container slot protects nothing.

Personal equipment

An exception to equipment loss on deathThe Steam store excludes personal items from its death-loss rule. This does not protect an ordinary weapon just because you bought or carried it.

Sources: Official beacon and safe-container explanation · 250 Shades of Liberty · SiNisterFPS recovery explanation: 17:04–24:11 · Active Matter on Steam

Choose between evacuation and waiting for help

1. Check whether another operative can reach you and send the available SOS request for help. The official update allows operatives to revive players outside their own squad too.
2. If you want to wait for a revive, you can decline safe-container evacuation. Consider whether the area is still reachable and whether enemies can loot your body.
3. If you choose container evacuation, it recovers the protected contents. The creator’s walkthrough explains that the container is consumed, so plan to equip a replacement. Recovery does not include every item in your backpack or on your body.
4. If using a beacon to return, plan around its placed position or your original spawn if it remained unplaced. Treat retrieving the old equipment as a separate, risky trip.

Sources: Official beacon and safe-container explanation · 250 Shades of Liberty · SiNisterFPS recovery explanation: 17:04–24:11

Empty temporary storage before the next raid

The same temporary-storage rule covers recovered safe containers, Robot Dog loot and equipment from rental raids. Recovery is not finished until you have moved the items you want to keep.

1. Open the temporary recovery stash after returning to the shelter.
2. Move the recovered items you want to keep into your main storage. Make space there if necessary.
3. Check that no wanted items remain in the temporary stash before queueing again.

Sources: 250 Shades of Liberty