Spawn Locations

[nakor 2]

Respawn roulette: repeatedly suiciding and reconnecting to get a better spawn location.

Basically the current spawn locations are A) crap - kamenka. B) Meh - Solnichy C) good - balota, electro, cherno, berezino.

When you spawn you have two options, take whatever the spawn roulette gave you or try again. Realistically, there is no reason to take a bad spawn because when you do, the result is that you are stuck in the jogging simulator traveling to a starting location with useful gear. So why spend all that time running when you can just spin the respawn wheel again?

My suggestion is, allow players to pick a respawn area and cut out the unnecessary running. When a player spawns put them into the game at one several random predetermined spawn location within a mile of the middle of the area they picked. This way random spawning is preserved, but players don't have to waste 20-30 mins listening to their character wheeze through the woods.

This would also make meeting up with people far less time consuming and obnoxious.

[Turin (DayZ) 3]

It's sad that people are respawning because they're too lazy to walk, but I think letting people choose where they spawn is a bad idea. It would be far too convenient for players to spawn close to loot hotspots.

And personally, I think anyone who has such a problem with travelling across the gameworld really has no business playing an open-world game of this magnitude in the first place. :-/ This game isn't for everyone. Just because you find it tedious moving around the map doesn't mean it should be dumbed down for everyone. Next you'll be asking for some kind of fast-travel system...

[Riis 22]

Easy fix:

disable/remove the respawn button forever and enjoy them tears.

[Soldier of Failure 14]

Removing the respawn button, I like it. Not only is it pretty much useless (for me,) It can cause grief.

*goes to click options*

*clicks respawn*

*had NVG, M249, M107 ect*

*cries*

[Miragenz 71]

I can understand why anyways, when i die after having reached day 10 or whatever, and i spawn at some shitty place like kamenka whilst all i want is to get started again and skip all the beginner stuff.

Not to mention that now you will end up attracting a dozen zombie since with the new zombie setup, i have a zombie on my tail after the first step i take, which isnt exagerating.

So if i can spawn at Cherno or Elektro savely without spending 15 minutes of running and being chased by zombies, i'll gladly do that, plenty of running to do afterwards.

[nakor 2]

Its too convenient to spawn within a mile of the pre-existing spawn points where you already appear randomly? Well following that kind of logic -less convenient is better-, we might as well spawn a mile out in the ocean and get warmed up with a good swim. What? Not convenient enough after all? Maybe this game ain't for you son *pat* *pat*

Removing the respawn button would be a waste of time. Players would just run into a zed - there is always one nearby - and get their respawn anyway.

Traveling across the game world isn't the problem. The problem is that there is a method to circumvent traveling that cannot be reasonably removed. I'd be interested to hear other ideas.