I too had the same problem yesterday just after the update. I updated the game and decided that I would play some. I joined my regular, Favorited server. Upon logging in, I recognized that I still had my character but it was pitch black and only 3 other people were on the server. So I decided to give another server a try. I found one that had about 25 players and joined. It was a regular, stable server just like my favorite server. Upon logging into this one, I spawned in the NE without any of my loot, I was a freshspawn. I immediately logged out and logged back into my favorite server. I spawned in as a freshspawn again. I tried multiple servers to no avail. Restarted my game, steam, my PC, and nothing. ATM I am looking for solutions as teh character I had has been alive since April and I would hate to lose him.

I know for a fact that this is my account. I also know that my character had to exist because I have a screenshot of the character I lost. It was taken on April 26th and it was on a regular server. I did take a very long break before I started playing again a couple of weeks ago. I also have a video of when I started playing again. I can link you to both the video and the screenshot if you would like.

UPDATE: I have uploaded all the screenshots to my steam screenshots.

I have also made a folder of screenshots that have the date on them.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6fzQ51y8DQUVnFmS2I5cGV4aTQ&usp=sharing

And the last bit of evidence I have of the character is the video which I posted here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw24V6sXiwM

Thanks you for replying, here is my Steam ID URL

http://steamcommunity.com/id/lonestarrr