A way to identify your mates

[juand21 0]

Actually is really difficult to identify your mates if you find other guys and sometimes that second you spend asking your mate who is he may produce your dead by enemy fire.

Is possible to add a new customizable item like an armband or something similar (helmet, etc..)?

You could change its color with a rightclick and select to use or not by the same way.

[Soldier of Failure 14]

Been suggested a lot lately. Probably because its a good suggestion :D.

I approve.

[SystemiK 366]

Armbands are being reserved for some type of faction mechanic they would like to try later in development. Maybe some other type of indicator...

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

whatabout using the scrollwheel.

=> "Form Group"

then the group-founder can hover a player next time himself and use the scrollwheel to

=> "Add Player to Group"

- Now the name of that player is always shown, as long as he is 500* meters away. Here it does not matter on what kind of difficulty-server you are. It is shown on Regular, Veteran and Pro. (This is the Idea I like most. that way I could easily see who is who of my mates. Who sits in that tree on the other side of the road, who is crawling into the house from front and who from back.)

- Or there is a blue Icon shown on that player (above his head or in the center of his body).

- Or the clothes of the player become special. like blue jeansclothes, for example. (if he wears a camo or ghilliesuit that one becomes blue).

If you dont want to have that player in your group anymore you can use the scrollwheel and expell him from group in a little group menu. There you can also promote and demote users to groupleaders.

[scrollwheel] - => Group - - => Expell Member - - - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Promote Member- - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Demote Member - - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Leave Group - - - - => Sure? Y/N

The system automatically removes a player from the group if he made two* groupkills in 24* Hours (aka teamkill = kills another member of that group). Edit: I wrote "one groupkill" before, but once it can happen on accident. second time means it was intentional OR the player is a moron. I also added the time-limit now.

(sorry about the - - - lines, tab-spaces are not working. :( )

* suggestion-digits. Its up to the devs to decide how much/far it should actually be.

[Eiskrem-Kaiser 54]

+1

Sure, it might not be something rocket wants to add, but since I always play with mates, I'd like to see a feature like this. Right now it is impossible to travel around in larger groups and engage other players without the danger of shooting your own mates.

In reality you'd be able to recognize your group members. This doesn't work in DayZ though.

Either a group system like you propose or more customization of clothing etc. Rocket already confirmed the latter though. He said something along the lines of armbands.

But don't put shiny icons over a players head please. We need to figure out a way of marking your friends without breaking too much of the immersion. Maybe combine this with rockets idea: Give your groupmembers a colored armband only your group can see. Something like that.

[octopos 26]

whatabout using the scrollwheel.

=> "Form Group"

then the group-founder can hover a player next time himself and use the scrollwheel to

=> "Add Player to Group"

- Now the name of that player is always shown' date=' as long as he is 500* meters away. Here it does not matter on what kind of difficulty-server you are. It is shown on Regular, Veteran and Pro. (This is the Idea I like most. that way I could easily see who is who of my mates. Who sits in that tree on the other side of the road, who is crawling into the house from front and who from back.)

- Or there is a blue Icon shown on that player (above his head or in the center of his body).

- Or the clothes of the player become special. like blue jeansclothes, for example. (if he wears a camo or ghilliesuit that one becomes blue).

If you dont want to have that player in your group anymore you can use the scrollwheel and expell him from group in a little group menu. There you can also promote and demote users to groupleaders.

[scrollwheel'] - => Group - - => Expell Member - - - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Promote Member- - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Demote Member - - =>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - => Leave Group - - - - => Sure? Y/N

The system automatically removes a player from the group if he made two* groupkills in 24* Hours (aka teamkill = kills another member of that group). Edit: I wrote "one groupkill" before, but once it can happen on accident. second time means it was intentional OR the player is a moron. I also added the time-limit now.

(sorry about the - - - lines, tab-spaces are not working. :( )

* suggestion-digits. Its up to the devs to decide how much/far it should actually be.

Your intension is good, but this solution is way to artificial. Maybe an one hand animation, like hand signals, or phrase(?) codes. Ex: You saw a player and user pharse on (that is inside the game already!). 'Team Up!" , we answer with "Fall Back!" , but in arma these action are procedural, or context relative.

You have to select many levels of options to get one phrase, a faster way would be better =]

[Niemand (DayZ) 12]

yeah but if you are in a firefight you can not always wait for the guy to stand up, salute and turn around himself 3 times. You have to aim fast and shoot fast. And a visual, like coloured clothing or an armband would be perfect.

[duddbudda 33]

armbands and a greater choice of skins are WIP

in the meantime, learn to recognise faces, weapons, packs and how to use the Z key when your overwatch says 'prone'

'all my friends have nametags glowing at 500m' is fake and gay

[ViciousJ 6]

Yes please.

Even something like being able to pick the color of your shirt/vest would help greatly as people could somewhat differ from each other that way.

Right now it can get extremely confusing. Some mechanic would be greatly appreciated