Map: player position

[Bruni 0]

A friend of mine and i played a round dayz together.

We both found a map in a building, when we looked at the map we saw our self as blue dots, an sometimes on the map orange dots appear and disappear a few seconds latter.

When we put the mouse over them we see as description "man".

Does this mean another player?

My friend and i always have the description "survivor".

Sometimes i see players on the map and my friend not and vice versa.

Sometimes i dont see him on the map but he sees me there.

Can someone explain why this happen?

thanks,

Bruni

[ZogVarnoka 26]

The orange dots are usually zeds.

For anything to appear on the map you must see them first (LoS). Not sure what the range is for things to appear.

This feature is not turned on for most servers and is tied into the difficulty settings of the server. I would advise playing on servers without this feature to become used to terrain association to find location on map. Most servers do have "left shift-right single click" waypoints enabled though.

[Bruni 0]

You're right it is only possible on a few servers.

Thanks for you help.