Allow players to choose approximate spawning area.

[RavenousSix 4]

As most of you know, the majority of people that play the game on large PVP servers want to spawn somewhere near Elektro, that is where most of the good fights go down.

 

Why not split up the map into quadrants and players can choose where to spawn when they initially log into a server, or after dying and clicking Respawn.

 

This will create more activity all over the map, because players will choose to spawn themselves in areas they have not explored.

 

It will also allow for easy/close re-spawning to hot zones of action and prevent all the dead/suicided bodies we all see on a PVP server.

 

Everyone I know just wants to suicide to get a closer Elektro spawn to keep fighting on PVP servers, why not just let us pick the Elektro quadrant spawn and spawn us randomly near the area we want to be at.

[Jasonperson 78]

No, people will not go to unexplored areas, they will just go to electro. Only like 5 people on the server would choose different. If you are unconscious and float ashore you don't get to pick where you wash up either.

[TEST_SUBJECT_83 465]

Yeah!

They could add a map that lets you cycle through different spawn points like Battlefield does!

There can even be a giant "Deploy" button too!

;)

[tarascon 50]

This topic has already been posted.

[thesodesa 99]

I'm not liking the sound of this.

 

Random spawns in the middle of nowhere are better, because they go along well with the whole disorientation aspect of this game.

[MetapoliC 263]

This is not BF or CoD and I hope you can see a clear difference between these games. If you want PvP in this game, do so but you have to gear up first and then you have to go to the location where you think the players might be. Ok now you are in, let's say Elektro, you have your weapon, your ammo and some medicine. The PvP starts, somebody goes down and let's say you are alive. You took a shot or two, some of your stuff is ruined, you've spent your ammo on your enemies. Now you need to replace the ruined stuff with new, food, maybe clothing, ammo. What I'm saying is - you're trying to survive and you simply can't be in a fight for hours because of ammo, maybe zombies and medicine. It makes the game more real you know. What you want is to turn this game into something like BF where only PvP matters, please no, this is a survival game...

[voxframe 31]

Dislike.

 

It's a pain yes... But a much needed and appreciated one. Makes death that much worse.

[taco86 156]

People can already choose their spawn area via endless suicides...  Put some real penalties in the game for mindless bambi self killing and I'd agree to some very limited spawn choices that of course have the chance of dropping you across multiple square km.

[RavenousSix 4]

This is not BF or CoD and I hope you can see a clear difference between these games. If you want PvP in this game, do so but you have to gear up first and then you have to go to the location where you think the players might be. Ok now you are in, let's say Elektro, you have your weapon, your ammo and some medicine. The PvP starts, somebody goes down and let's say you are alive. You took a shot or two, some of your stuff is ruined, you've spent your ammo on your enemies. Now you need to replace the ruined stuff with new, food, maybe clothing, ammo. What I'm saying is - you're trying to survive and you simply can't be in a fight for hours because of ammo, maybe zombies and medicine. It makes the game more real you know. What you want is to turn this game into something like BF where only PvP matters, please no, this is a survival game...

 

I never said this was BF or CoD, I'm simply suggesting a feature that I think many players would enjoy, despite others here disagreeing with it.

 

The way people gear up on this game is by server hopping to fresh unlooted servers to get loot anyway. You can easily go to an empty server with no risk and gear up without fear.

 

If the devs wanted full realism then they'd do something like what most other games do where there are a couple of central servers that are controlled by the gaming company and you have no choice of server hopping and your character is always on a fully populated server. This would make the realism go to the next level, as you have no option to server hop on empty servers to get all the loot you need at low risk. I don't think anyone wants that.

 

If anyone can go to an empty server and loot and then spawn into a populated server to fight, doesn't this remove the 'realism' portion of it for you?

 

What is so real about looting a bountiful server full of loot with nothing but AI zombies to fight and no real human beings?

 

Most people gear up then go PvP. What I'm saying is give us a way to spawn near looting or fighting points so we don't spend hours walking around areas with no action or no good loot.

 

If what you like to do is walk around different areas and play it like a survival game, then really you will try to survive and not get killed and so you won't have a big issue with this feature anyway.

 

Even if this doesn't work out for everyone, they could leave the old way of Respawning in there without choosing where to spawn, you could press a Respawn Default button and it will do it the exact same way as it does it right now.

Edited April 13, 2014 by RavenousSix

[RavenousSix 4]

No, people will not go to unexplored areas, they will just go to electro. Only like 5 people on the server would choose different. If you are unconscious and float ashore you don't get to pick where you wash up either.

 

That's the thing. People might go to these areas. You actually don't know that nobody will go to the unexplored areas. Some people want PvP others want survival and exploration.

 

Not everyone knows right off the bat that all the action is at Elektro.

 

Some people that have not seen all of the map might choose to spawn at a North quadrant to check out the huge North airfield.

 

You can't say nobody would do it, you can't speak for everyone.

[RavenousSix 4]

I'm not liking the sound of this.

 

Random spawns in the middle of nowhere are better, because they go along well with the whole disorientation aspect of this game.

 

That's the thing. The spots are not random in the middle of nowhere. They're always at the coast on the road. They're never in the center of the map or up deep in the North.

 

It's always the same spawns on the coastal road.

 

This also creates fresh spawn hunters, who do nothing but camp these popular spawn points to do nothing but mess with fresh spawns or kill fresh spawns.

Edited April 13, 2014 by RavenousSix

[AlphaDogMeat . 493]

Most people gear up then go PvP. What I'm saying is give us a way to spawn near looting or fighting points so we don't spend hours walking around areas with no action or no good loot.

 

Anything that disrupts or annoys PvP'ers is fine by me.  I'd be happy to see you kicked backed to the Alpha warning screen and locked out of the server where you just died for an hour or so, but that's probably not practical.

[TheScruffyBandit 382]

Absolutely not. Would only add to the deathmatch mentality we're struggling with.

[RavenousSix 4]

Anything that disrupts or annoys PvP'ers is fine by me.  I'd be happy to see you kicked backed to the Alpha warning screen and locked out of the server where you just died for an hour or so, but that's probably not practical.

 

You want to disrupt or annoy PvPers in a game where real players play vs. each other and survive. If you want to play a zombie game go play Left 4 Dead, why are you so anti-PvP on a game where PvP is clearly a lot of fun?

 

Absolutely not. Would only add to the deathmatch mentality we're struggling with.

 

What is the struggle here with exactly? People that want to survive know about the PvP hotspot areas and avoid them if they want, or they can go fight if they choose to.

 

What do you really want from this game? To fight zombies and find more food/water to keep surviving?

 

That doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. I like playing vs. other humans not AI.

[AlphaDogMeat . 493]

You want to disrupt or annoy PvPers in a game where real players play vs. each other and survive. If you want to play a zombie game go play Left 4 Dead, why are you so anti-PvP on a game where PvP is clearly a lot of fun?

 

 

Clearly it isn't a lot of fun according to the constant whinging about the lack of the entire murcan arsenal of weapons and equipment left lying around in the streets and the lack of an option to insta-spawn in the enemy's base equipped with twin shoulder-mounted chain-guns and a .50 cal in each hand.  Or how much more awesome this game would be if we had giant robot suits in the hangars at Balota?  And no zombies.  And big cities with skyscrapers.  And attack helicopters.

 

No, this is not he game you are looking for.  I hear CoD now has sharks with frickin' lasers, though...

Edited April 15, 2014 by alphadogmeat

[RavenousSix 4]

Clearly it isn't a lot of fun according to the constant whinging about the lack of the entire murcan arsenal of weapons and equipment left lying around in the streets and the lack of an option to insta-spawn in the enemy's base equipped with twin shoulder-mounted chain-guns and a .50 cal in each hand.  Or how much more awesome this game would be if we had giant robot suits in the hangars at Balota?  And no zombies.  And big cities with skyscrapers.  And attack helicopters.

 

No, this is not he game you are looking for.  I hear CoD now has sharks with frickin' lasers, though...

 

Your sarcasm is hilarious, however if this game lost it's PvP factor all the money being poured into it would vanish and it would only have a few 'niche' players like you playing it.

 

Like it or not the success of the game comes from the PvP portion more than you like to admit.

 

I want to survive and fight other intelligent human beings. That's why I enjoy the game.

 

I guess you just want to go around whacking AI zombies all day.. sounds like lots of fun!

[AlphaDogMeat . 493]

Your sarcasm is hilarious, however if this game lost it's PvP factor all the money being poured into it would vanish and it would only have a few 'niche' players like you playing it.

 

Like it or not the success of the game comes from the PvP portion more than you like to admit.

 

I want to survive and fight other intelligent human beings. That's why I enjoy the game.

 

I guess you just want to go around whacking AI zombies all day.. sounds like lots of fun!

 

And I guess you just want new maps for CoD - with Payday masks.

[ghasteater100 5]

I don't think people should be able to chose their spawn, but I do think that they need to be fixed, no matter how many times I suicide I always seem to spawn in solnichniy.

[So Sexy 259]

I agree with OP, 99% will spawn near Balota and Elektro, more loot for me! ))

[DemonGroover 8836]

No, i like the idea of randomly spawning on a beach - it signifies DayZ to me.

[RavenousSix 4]

And I guess you just want new maps for CoD - with Payday masks.

 

Nah I just want you to go back into the DayZ wilderness and pick berries to survive and find new water streams to drink from.

[massacrorBKK 64]

Nah... No way to choose respawn in any way... Because it is just the logic of the game. Furthermore, today people are asking to be able to choose respawn location, what will they ask tomorrow ? Respawn fully geared ?!?

 

Maybe you don't get it but there is a life in that game between shooting other humans, kill brainless AI zombies and pick up berries in the forest (there's no berries in the forest by the way... not yet).

 

If you didn't see that, I think you are missing the point with that game. The fun is to have contact with other players, but when you meet other players it don't have to 100% of the time finish in a blood bath. Excitement in game come when it is not sure and not comfortable to meet strangers. You don't know how they will behave with you and what you should do. This way of playing give a lot of adrenaline too.

 

Finally.. PVPing all the time must be boring as well...

[AlphaDogMeat . 493]

Nah I just want you to go back into the DayZ wilderness and pick berries to survive and find new water streams to drink from.

Your QQ tears are delicious enough.

[dallas 5195]

If you plan to stay alive for more than 10 minutes, it shouldn't matter where you spawn.

[RavenousSix 4]

Nah... No way to choose respawn in any way... Because it is just the logic of the game. Furthermore, today people are asking to be able to choose respawn location, what will they ask tomorrow ? Respawn fully geared ?!?

 

Maybe you don't get it but there is a life in that game between shooting other humans, kill brainless AI zombies and pick up berries in the forest (there's no berries in the forest by the way... not yet).

 

If you didn't see that, I think you are missing the point with that game. The fun is to have contact with other players, but when you meet other players it don't have to 100% of the time finish in a blood bath. Excitement in game come when it is not sure and not comfortable to meet strangers. You don't know how they will behave with you and what you should do. This way of playing give a lot of adrenaline too.

 

Finally.. PVPing all the time must be boring as well...

 

Actually PVPing all the time is where all the adrenaline is at. Avoiding it is where it's not. I don't get an adrenaline rush looting an empty server. I don't know about you.

 

I was being sarcastic about the berries since it's all this other guy wants to do apparently. He can't grow a pair and PVP, it's "too risky" and "too scary" for him.

 

The game is PVP for a reason, each player decides on their own what they want out of the game. I'm simply requesting a feature that would make the game better for me personally.

 

I don't see how it would change it for anyone else. Right now the game decides where everyone spawns, adding a feature to let people decide where they spawn won't hurt or change the game for the worse, there is plenty of space for everyone it's a 225 square km map. Any majorly populated server has a lot of PVP fighting going on. Despite some players not liking this or wanting this, it's what's happening and I enjoy it, and it will continue to be this way.

 

That's what makes the game good, everyone does what they want, otherwise it would be as boring as any other single player non PVP AI only game that I won't touch.

Edited April 25, 2014 by RavenousSix