Originally posted by Cap'n Bells:

hmmm "Main Menu" has Changelog in yellow on LHS.. but the "escape" key menu only has 4 options in white letters in mid screen.. with no yellow text at all. If you went to Main Menu you quit the game..imho.. so the last save "a few minutes earlier is probably where you are actually.. If you were in the "escape menu" the game only pauses for solo play not on a server.. which of these happened?

I don't understand the first part of your comment sorry.

I am pretty sure I covered everything you asked in my original post?

As originally stated, I hit escape to go main menu and it was single player.

I actually died and had to run back to get my stuff. I saw the entire death animation while in the menu while in the paused state, usually everything even smoke pauses - so no idea what happened.

The reason I didn't quit right out is because I was just on a quick call and don't see the point restarting the game and wasting all that time for everything to load.