Death and respawn

What you lose#

When you go down, a bag lands on your body and a body marker pops up on the map for everyone, with the amount. Inside:

• All your cash, minus a cut that vanishes on the way: only 80% stays in the bag.
• Your bought weapons, the ones in hand and the ones in your bag, with whatever ammo was left. Your starting knife and pistol don't drop.
• Whatever you were carrying: loot not yet cashed in, jewels, tools, drugs, snacks and medkit.

The first one there searches the body (E): your bag opens next to their inventory and they take what they want. One searcher at a time, crouched, out in the open. The body stays 10 min, longer if someone hangs around.

What you keep: your bank, your reputation, your garaged cars, your apartment, whatever sits in your safes.

Downed#

If someone from your gang is online, you don't die right away: you stay downed for 60 s, and they get a warning. A crewmate with a medkit ($2,000 at convenience stores) picks you up on the spot after 8 s on their knees, at full health. Whatever dropped has already dropped, though, and you get no protection when revived.

No buddy online? A medic henchman does the same job, no medkit needed, if he's close enough.

Nobody coming? Hold E for 2 s to give up and respawn. In a cell, no reprieve: you die outright.

Where you come back#

1. In prisonIf you're serving time, you come back in the yard. See Prison.
2. At homeIf you own an apartment and set it as your respawn point.
3. At the nearest spawn pointto where you died, otherwise. Killed by a player, you come back at least 400 m away from them: no spawn-killing.

You come back with your knife and pistol, untouchable for 10 s (until you aim, shoot or punch).

Killed by#

The death screen shows who got you: their photo, name, gang (with its emblem), level, the weapon, their health and armor at the time of the shot, the distance, and whether it was a headshot or from a vehicle. Killed by the cops, the card just says "The cops". If your killer died too, you'll know.

If the screen offers it, H swears revenge.

Logging out mid-gunfight#

Disconnecting less than 30 s after trading shots with a player, or with stars on your back, drops your cash on the ground just like a death (same cut lost). Your stars wait for you if you're back within 30 min.