Is it suppose to take hours to find my friend?

[Ghost083089]

Is there not a way to find my buddy? we bought the game today, been looking near 4 hours and dying from starving not finding one another, respawn, and try to find each other again. No luck, not very fun so far, feels like I paid to do chores almost lol. Is it suppose to be like this? Coming from The Forest, 7D2D, Raft, etc, I would say this game is more a pain than a joy, so I really hope I am missing something.

[Deaths]

Get you and your friend to try to use this online map, www.izurvive.com Also, alot of modded servers use a party mod with a ingame map, this can be useful to people just starting to get to know map.

[Ghost083089]

I actually tried that app, did not do us any good at all. Just showed where places / icons were. Died many times, never found each other at all. I requested Steam refund. Honestly, this is the worst game design I have ever seen. It was just a constant chore for nothing. I sadly left a negative and requested a refund, far from a fun game which sucks because I thought it had potential to be real fun for my buddy and I. Hoping my refund get approved fast, really a dull dull experience for new players. The fact that we spent 4 hours today and not being able to locate one another that whole time is... well... not very fun to say thew least,

[Mad Mike]

Yes and no. It would not be DayZ if you spawned with friends, that said you do not spawn just anywhere as there are a set of spawnpoints. As you learn them you will find each other much faster.

[Ghost083089]

Originally posted by Mad Mike:

Yes and no. It would not be DayZ if you spawned with friends, that said you do not spawn just anywhere as there are a set of spawnpoints. As you learn them you will find each other much faster.

Only, we die before we see one another, and that is not from any Zombies by the way. I have no idea how this game gets new players interested, this game mad me hate it in only a short time, each minute getting not boring, but outright frustrating and not rewarding at all. This is not a good game to pick up with a buddy and hope to enjoy, it was just running until you die hoping to find my friend who is next to me on their laptop, wondering the same as I am, how this game has any fans unless you go solo?

[Ghost083089]

I hope others like the game, it had potential, I thought personally it was beyond bad, it was a chore to do anything. Where the fun part is to be had I did not see. I thought we would like the game, as we do with 7D2D, The Forest, Raft, etc. Nope, not this game. It was honestly the worst game I have tried. My buddy and I wasted our afternoon and did not even see one another. I know most dont care to see this, and think whatever to my concerns. But, when a new game like this does not come out, it is for a reason. Less fans, less motive to continue these types of games. If there is even crafting in the game, I would not know. Never had a chance to enjoy anything, it was all empty, no one anywhere, no way to learn the controls. No way to find one another, no way to really do anything without likely searching the net for days. I did not buy it to study it, I wanted to have fun...

[Sasori Kigaru]

Originally posted by Ghost083089:

I hope others like the game, it had potential, I thought personally it was beyond bad, it was a chore to do anything. Where the fun part is to be had I did not see. I thought we would like the game, as we do with 7D2D, The Forest, Raft, etc. Nope, not this game. It was honestly the worst game I have tried. My buddy and I wasted our afternoon and did not even see one another. I know most dont care to see this, and think whatever to my concerns. But, when a new game like this does not come out, it is for a reason. Less fans, less motive to continue these types of games. If there is even crafting in the game, I would not know. Never had a chance to enjoy anything, it was all empty, no one anywhere, no way to learn the controls. No way to find one another, no way to really do anything without likely searching the net for days. I did not buy it to study it, I wanted to have fun...

The game doesn't hold your hand, and that itself doesn't make the game bad. It just makes it a game that you don't like, which is fine. Personally? I love the game, more so now that its been optimized (I've played since before it left early access). To find my friends? I find a road. If I'm in a town or city, I follow the road till I start leaving in in which there will be two signs. One going out, one going on. Both tell you the name of the city/town. There are other signs that tell you what city you're travelling to if you're following that road.

Anyway, once you know what city your in, you have your friend find out theirs. Once you both know, pick a point on the map to meet up at, but not straight away. Loot buildings, find food and water and focus on your own survival first. Unless they're in a closer city. Honestly I can help you survive if you want? But if this game isn't for you, it wouldn't be fun for you. So just play whatever is fun for ya.

[76561198996820454]

If you want all the survival aspect and 'hardcore' completely ripped out of the game, join one of the hundred modded servers that add loads of content, makes it 10x easier, more of a pvp gunfest and where some you can even choose your own spawn point every death.

Seeing as you already requested a refund is likely doesn't matter now anyway.
You said you spend 4 hours player the game, and steams refund policy is <2hours. So possibility is that you won't even get your refund.

[Mad Mike]

Originally posted by Ghost083089:

I hope others like the game, it had potential, I thought personally it was beyond bad, it was a chore to do anything. Where the fun part is to be had I did not see. I thought we would like the game, as we do with 7D2D, The Forest, Raft, etc. Nope, not this game. It was honestly the worst game I have tried. My buddy and I wasted our afternoon and did not even see one another. I know most dont care to see this, and think whatever to my concerns. But, when a new game like this does not come out, it is for a reason. Less fans, less motive to continue these types of games. If there is even crafting in the game, I would not know. Never had a chance to enjoy anything, it was all empty, no one anywhere, no way to learn the controls. No way to find one another, no way to really do anything without likely searching the net for days. I did not buy it to study it, I wanted to have fun...

It is a niche game... The mods will however have you covered no matter what game breaking missing feature issue you have maybe check them out. Good luck. Sorry.

[Smokey]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out because you failed at navigation, even with a 3rd party application.

If you can't even bother to look at the controls within the game then you only have yourself to blame, they are literally right there in the menu

[Sasori Kigaru]

Originally posted by Smokey:

Don't let the door hit you on the way out because you failed at navigation, even with a 3rd party application.

If you can't even bother to look at the controls within the game then you only have yourself to blame, they are literally right there in the menu

To be quite fair here, the controls don't tell you "Hey, put your mag, or your bullets into the hotbar and hold that button down to reload the weapon you're trying to reload."

Unless I'm blind, but I had to look that up online or try trial and error

[Smokey]

Originally posted by (Sasori Kigaru) Refrigeraptor:

Originally posted by Smokey:

Don't let the door hit you on the way out because you failed at navigation, even with a 3rd party application.

If you can't even bother to look at the controls within the game then you only have yourself to blame, they are literally right there in the menu

To be quite fair here, the controls don't tell you "Hey, put your mag, or your bullets into the hotbar and hold that button down to reload the weapon you're trying to reload."

Unless I'm blind, but I had to look that up online or try trial and error

Try using R and save hotbar space

[76561198996820454]

Originally posted by (Sasori Kigaru) Refrigeraptor:

To be quite fair here, the controls don't tell you "Hey, put your mag, or your bullets into the hotbar and hold that button down to reload the weapon you're trying to reload."

Unless I'm blind, but I had to look that up online or try trial and error

You can also just hold R to load a mag into a gun, or if a magazine is in your hand, hold R to load bullets.

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Ghost083089:

Is there not a way to find my buddy? we bought the game today, been looking near 4 hours and dying from starving not finding one another, respawn, and try to find each other again. No luck, not very fun so far, feels like I paid to do chores almost lol. Is it suppose to be like this? Coming from The Forest, 7D2D, Raft, etc, I would say this game is more a pain than a joy, so I really hope I am missing something.

You're missing map knowledge.. in 4hrs you can get across the entire map and back again...
Once you learn the map it takes no real time, you know where you are, they know where they are, meet in the middle. Pretty simple when you know how, just like most things.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by Ghost083089:

Is there not a way to find my buddy? we bought the game today, been looking near 4 hours and dying from starving not finding one another, respawn, and try to find each other again. No luck, not very fun so far, feels like I paid to do chores almost lol. Is it suppose to be like this? Coming from The Forest, 7D2D, Raft, etc, I would say this game is more a pain than a joy, so I really hope I am missing something.

You are doing the same mistakes every new player does.
You want to run before you learned how to walk.
The goal isn't to try and find the next thing but to secure your own survival first before taking the next step meaning going on a trip.
Get hydrated...get fed....go hiking. This isn't 7D2D where you can just grab and eat stuff on the go.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Ghost083089:

Originally posted by Mad Mike:

Yes and no. It would not be DayZ if you spawned with friends, that said you do not spawn just anywhere as there are a set of spawnpoints. As you learn them you will find each other much faster.

Only, we die before we see one another, and that is not from any Zombies by the way. I have no idea how this game gets new players interested, this game mad me hate it in only a short time, each minute getting not boring, but outright frustrating and not rewarding at all. This is not a good game to pick up with a buddy and hope to enjoy, it was just running until you die hoping to find my friend who is next to me on their laptop, wondering the same as I am, how this game has any fans unless you go solo?

You can't just spawn in and immediately run to one another and hope to survive. You need to start by gathering supplies and stabilizing your ability to survive before actually trying to meet up. Its like spawning in 7 days to die, but 10,000 meters away from one another. If you just run, you'll die before you meet up. You need to get supplies first.

I can spawn in and meet a brand new friend in the game in about 30 minutes or so. Sure, I know the map like the back of my hand, but that wasn't even from DayZ, that was from playing Arma 2 back before DayZ was even a mod.

Just because you want to play together, doesn't mean you should be from the very moment you log into a server. Solo play until you're supplied, then try to meet up and it'll go better. You mention 4 hours played. That likely means Steam will not refund you. If you should try again, ask for a bit of help learning the early game and do that stuff before trying to meet up with a friend.