I don't mind having scattered spawn places. I don't mind finding my friends. But what I do mind is that get spawned in the same fucking town EVERY fucking time.
I mind that whenever I am close to my friends someone shoots my dick off when I am looking at the map on a crossroad.
I mind that EVERY fucking time I get close but change server, I get spawned in a completely different spot, on opposite sides of the map. So you have to start all over again.
THIS IS DAYZ: spend hours to avoiud starving, get some basics and (almost) find you friend. Maybe you found them, hours later. What's next?! Oh. server restart.
Server is not listed. Join new server. Random spawn, and you have to find eachother again.
This is not about finding friends and playing together. This game does everything to make sure you will NEVER see your friends again.
Its a isolation simulator. A game that makes you even feel more alone than the outside world.
so depressing. and some of you lonely people dont want that changed. so the devs say "nice, we dont need to work - let make a repeater for the next major update instead" - oh wait, that was already in there, in version 0.9, but they took it out for 1.0.
Great work guys. I am impressed. No I am not.
There would be sooooo many easy solutions, that both fit the engine, and the story and the game. But instead I see only laziness...
Options:
1. Join friend = spawn next to him; easy nice and clean. no harm done.
2. Join friend = spawn nearest spawnpoint, also nice easy and clean. still no harm done.
3. Build / make a spawn point = you friend will need to assemble the ingredients, and build something for you. Teamplay is enhanced.
4. Spawn mid-air and parachute. Get thrown out of a helicopter (where are those??? you PROMISED!) open chute, so at least you have some control to steer in the right direction. This might save you an hour walk, or avoid getting spawned in the forest or an empty town where you starve to death before you can even start looking for your friends.
5. Get that freaking bicycle! Why is this not in the game yet?
6. Get a moving train to avoid getting killed on the bridges when you try to get south in Livonia to your friends.
7. Even when time is going 64 times faster, the time I starve to death doesnt makes sense. I am a healthy full grown person, and I can take 1 day without drinks and at least 2 days without food.
In Dayz, the equivolent would mean that I die if I don't make it to the supermarket 10km walk from here. Ill never make it in Dayz.
If you're all about realism, and want to make me find my friend, at least keep it real and fix that shit.