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Finding Your Location

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Now I've been playing DayZ for a while now, since the Summer of 2014. I have to admit, it was hard to play because of my PC being terrible but now I have upgraded I can enjoy the beauty of DayZ. Anyway, to the point, there needs to be an in-game way of finding your location in DayZ.

 

This means without opening the map on Chrome or Mozilla, a completely in-game function. I think you should be able to find your exact location (Roughly) in-game, using items in the game. The first is of course, a map and then a compass, simple enough. By having both theses items, when equipping the map in you hands you should have the option of "Check Location". However, there are some conditions for this.

 

Conditions for location

 

  • Must have the correct map, i.e. the full Chenarus map or the map that relates to your whereabouts. For example, if you have the full map you will be able to find your location anywhere, whereas if you only have a section, you can only find yourself in that area

 

  • If you have the wrong map, i.e. the area that you aren't in. Instead of nothing happening, the player should receive the message/command "I can't seem to locate myself", informing the player that they don't have the correct map.

 

  • The last main condition should be the time it takes to use the "Find location" command/ability. Let's be honest, map reading is going take time, but making a player wait for 30 seconds to a minute is not going to be fun, so I think it should be around 10-15s. I know it seems long but we have to take into account how long it would actually take for map reading and the DayZ time frame. We have to scale the time in according to DayZ, so 15s doesn't seem that bad to find your location.

 

 

The last thing to say is that this may require another item, such as a basic GPS, so if you have a Map, compass and GPS you can find your exact location, but if you only have a map and compass you could find your rough location.

 

Anyway, that's my suggestion. Please comment/ leave ffedback and hopefully it could be added into the game!

 

 

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find out where you are with a map+ compass:

 

find two landmarks (eg. towers, mountains, castles, etc.)

look at the compass for the direction (eg. 180° (south))

locate the landmark on the map and draw a line to the opposite direction (North)

repeat for the other landmark

if you got everything right, you are where the two lines cross

 

as long as we dont get any tools to draw on the map (like in ACE for arma2), you have to draw the line in your head (or on the real map on your desk)

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find out where you are with a map+ compass:

 

find two landmarks (eg. towers, mountains, castles, etc.)

look at the compass for the direction (eg. 180° (south))

locate the landmark on the map and draw a line to the opposite direction (North)

repeat for the other landmark

if you got everything right, you are where the two lines cross

 

as long as we dont get any tools to draw on the map (like in ACE for arma2), you have to draw the line in your head (or on the real map on your desk)

+1 to this, its a fairly simple process to deduce location from landmarks and would be great if they made it so you could draw on your map if you had a pencil.

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