spawning with friends

[wouter (DayZ) 2]

i think it would be good if you can choose with who to spawn , so you can spawn with your friends

[joed9988 16]

i think you should choose where u spawn or random but if you choose where u spawn it makes u wait 5 mins or somthing actually nvm the game already does that 5 mins sitting at a loading screen.

[Orbmaniac 7]

Wouter, people most often respawn when to far away from friends, and when close starts walking to each others.

i can already see it happen. 4-5 bandit friends spawn together and start looting and killing like no tomorrow in city.

[joed9988 16]

well i meant on a fresh respawn if u want to spawn with a friend

[Orbmaniac 7]

i know. i was implying that.

[Arnie (DayZ) 21]

I like the idea but make it conditional to accomplishing something

Add a few distress beacons at locations near the coast like the military field hospital, maybe 3 or 4 other locations spread along the coastline.

The distress beacons spawn zombies

The distress beacons need to be activated by a player

The player activating the beacon codes the signal, two digit code would do lets say I activate one and code it 44.

Spawning players get the message "distress beacon active would you like to spawn at it" Y/N if Y enter code if N then spawn randomly

Beacons stay active for 5 minutes only.

[aversionfx 63]

I'm not really keen on essentially allowing a single player to serve as an anchor point for all of his buddies to drop in on. Although you may be real-life friends with the people you're playing with, that doesn't translate to the game - you're all just a bunch of random people. I don't think extending in-game advantages to having people on your friends list (for example) is the way to do this. Not to mention, it kind of spoils the immersion of the game if, instead of having to navigate your way inland, you can just teleport to a friend.

[KnT47r 51]

The way I look at it is this;

I'm currently at work, if I were to look out the window and see a group of guys mauling some poor bystander I wouldn't just be able to look over my shoulder at all my mates - who are also at their places of work - and go "Well shit guys, let's get the fuck outta here" I'd have to leave work, dodge the zombies, somehow contact my mates and then somehow meet up with them.

That's kinda how it works in game atm so I like it

[Arnie (DayZ) 21]

I'm not really keen on essentially allowing a single player to serve as an anchor point for all of his buddies to drop in on. Although you may be real-life friends with the people you're playing with, that doesn't translate to the game - you're all just a bunch of random people. I don't think extending in-game advantages to having people on your friends list (for example) is the way to do this. Not to mention, it kind of spoils the immersion of the game if, instead of having to navigate your way inland, you can just teleport to a friend.

Well i don't mean let them spawn on your head close but in the general area 1600 meter radius would do. Added advantage would be that these points would probabl become points of interest for snipers / murderers drawing some of the attention away from Cherno and Elektro.

[wouter (DayZ) 2]

well you guys aswers are good but with spawn i mean only when you where dead , so actual respawn ,if you die and then just spawn with a friend , and a friendlist would be a good idea aswell , thatway you can see if your friends are online and on wich server they would be

[Kingyo 2]

Good idea. For those NOOBS, like myself, that spend at least 20min trying to find his buddy on a map he doesn't have-yes, I know about ALT-TABb'ing to see online maps-it's still difficult.

[wouter (DayZ) 2]

well my buddy almost found me , then sudenly he got shot my a sniper , it sucks bad

[ozjace 35]

An easy fix is to be able to create a party in the lobby and only add and remove players via the lobby and you can all fresh respawn together. Im sure thats a pretty easy mod

[wouter (DayZ) 2]

well we r all lucky the mod is in beta :P so things can be changed ;)

[Falcon_Hunter 1]

i think it would be good if you can choose with who to spawn , so you can spawn with your friends

I agree this is a neat feature that should be added to the game it would make life easier for everyone!

But not choose who to spawn the player you chose sends a request to the person and if they wan't them to spawn on them they can accept or deny the request.

Edited July 20, 2012 by Falcon_Hunter

[dekodageko 1]

I believe that a friend spawning feature will be a great idea.

It will also add to a bandit lifestyle.

[jay.pis 32]

This would only work with a friends feature implemented.

[highpanda 3]

Would be nice

[Dub Impact 2]

I see ups and downs to this such as stated before gorups of bandits spawning together and uterly butthurting any one near by.

The ups are sapwning with friends obviusly and not running across the map to each other.

But i have also found if you dont like weher you haev spawned and want to be closer to them hit exit and respawn it will kill you and you get a new spawn point. All tho i almost would say thats unfair too.

[shadow293 6]

I'd love to have the ability to create a group with friends. It doesn't have to make you spawn with friends but at least have tags above their heads when near them. Also maybe have a diamond symbol that you can see from anywhere in the game to find your friends like in vanilla Arma 2 with your units. I just started playing DayZ with some friends and it's a lot of fun!