Death & lost gear
Death in EXO is expensive, but it does not send you back to the start.
What happens#
| Thing | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Cash | Drops into your corpse entirely, balance becomes 0 |
| Gear and weapons | Stay on the corpse, anyone can search it |
| Bank balance | Never lost |
| Reputation | −5 % on any death except at a clanmate's hands |
| Where those 5 % go | Killed by a player — to them; AI, a fall or a vehicle — gone |
| Kill streaks | Reset either way |
| Base, garage, clan, perks | Kept |
The body#
A corpse lasts 30 minutes, then disappears with everything on it. Corpses do not survive a server restart — die five minutes before one and the gear is gone.
A death marker shaped like a coffin appears on your map and minimap. Only you see it, and only your latest death — a new death moves the marker. It lasts as long as the body and disappears if you fully reconnect.
Combat mode#
After any combat event you carry a combat flag for 60 seconds. It triggers when:
- you fire a shot;
- someone fires within 45 metres;
- a bullet passes within 15 metres or hits within 18 metres;
- you take or deal damage;
- you are inside an active raid zone.
Every new event extends the flag by another 60 seconds — it does not stack, it pushes the end back.
While flagged you cannot build, dismantle structures or use the suicide button.
The only exception is the last 30 seconds before a scheduled restart, where the penalty is disabled.
Inside the trade zone other people's gunfire does not flag you. But a flag set before you entered still ticks down its 60 seconds — running into the zone and logging out immediately will not work.
Suicide#
The F2 menu has a suicide button. The cooldown is 10 minutes and it survives both relogging and server restarts. The button is blocked while in combat.
It works like any other death: the body keeps all gear, cash drops, the marker is placed. Suicides do not appear in the killfeed.
Losing less#
- Keep money in the bank. The starting limit is 250,000; a perk raises it to a million.
- Do not carry everything at once. Anything not in your hands drops with the corpse too.
- Remember where you died. You have 30 minutes to get back, and the map marker shows the spot.