Lf a buddie to start with

[kevinguit15 0]

Hello dear Survivors

I recently got tired of most of my games and i decided i wanted to give dayz another chance even tho i only have a good 5 hours of playtime in to the game of havin no friends that are willing to play the game with me.

In other words im Lookin for a friendly helpfull mabye even experienced person that wants to play with me on a occasional base if they friendship clicks that is if not no hard feelings and we both move on so to make a long story short

I am a newbie

i have nothing so i start clean

im not really knowledgeable of the game and not aware what everything does

No clue how to navigate the map or find out where i am (willing to learn tbh its a must so if someone can teach me that id be happy to)

so in short i dont have alot to offer then maby a hell of alot of fun other then that i hope someone feels generous or nice to start playin with me

My skype: Oblivionscythe you can add me there if interested or you can Response to this post Skype is defffo faster in response time

Regards Kevin hope to hear from friendlys out there

Kevin out

[not_today_son. 14]

How to navigate without compass / GPS on a veteran server:

If you spawn, remember what it said (for example: "Three Valleys"). That way u'll know where to head once you got the map of chernarus in ur head.

If you have a map but no clue where you are:

1. Open your map

2. Press Shift + Left Mouse Button to place a waypoint.

3. Close your map, take a look around until you see the marker. Notice the distance and the rough direction.

4. Open your map again, try to place the marker closer to you again (read: move the marker horizontally on a imaginary horizontal line) .

5. If the distance increases, you need to set the marker in the opposite direction (for example: more to the east rather than to the west).

6. Once you're within 2,000 meters, the direction of your waypoint might change a bit (for example: it's now more to the NW than to the West) - this means you need to adjust your marker both vertically and horizontally.

7. Repeat step 2 - 6 until you're marker is closer than 400m. you should then have a good estimation of where you are.

8. Profit.

Takes some time to get used to that process, but the more in-game experience you gain, the faster you'll find out where you are using this method.

Edit: Roadsigns can also give you a hint where you are. They might be in russian, but with a bit of thinking you should find out what it's trying to say, me personally, i can "translate" 90% of the roadsigns in chernarus, without knowing a single word of russian or whatever that language is.)

Edited January 16, 2013 by not_today_son.

[kevinguit15 0]

oke well thx for explaining this to me it helps alot ^^

Would you also be in for some gameplay toghter?

[CyanidC 39]

How to navigate without compass / GPS on a veteran server:

If you spawn, remember what it said (for example: "Three Valleys"). That way u'll know where to head once you got the map of chernarus in ur head.

If you have a map but no clue where you are:

1. Open your map

2. Press Shift + Left Mouse Button to place a waypoint.

3. Close your map, take a look around until you see the marker. Notice the distance and the rough direction.

4. Open your map again, try to place the marker closer to you again (read: move the marker horizontally on a imaginary horizontal line) .

5. If the distance increases, you need to set the marker in the opposite direction (for example: more to the east rather than to the west).

6. Once you're within 2,000 meters, the direction of your waypoint might change a bit (for example: it's now more to the NW than to the West) - this means you need to adjust your marker both vertically and horizontally.

7. Repeat step 2 - 6 until you're marker is closer than 400m. you should then have a good estimation of where you are.

8. ??????

9. Profit

Fix'd ^^

But that's a real nice idea on how to find where you are.

@OP

If you play on a server that just had sunrise or sunset, you can find where East/West is by looking at the sun, the servers run in real time and the sun, just like in the real world, rises in the East and goes down in the West. If i'm past Stary Sobor and have no compas, i like to play around Dawn so it's still slightly dark, but thanks to the rising sun i have a constant reminder where East is, it only works for a certain amount of hours though, as soon as it hits 12:00 on the server, the sun will be in the dead-south and then wander towards west.

Edited January 19, 2013 by CyanidC