I recently bought this game to play with my friends, but when we joined a server, we all spawned miles apart and had no idea where we were in relation to each other. I asked about how to find them in chat and the only responses I got were to look for landmarks. Every house is just a wooden box, and all natural features look the same, so that didn't work. Eventually we gave up after 2 hours of searching.
Why isn't there a proper way to spawn with/locate your friends in Rust? It's a multiplayer only game and you're pretty much fucked if you don't team up with someone, so a feature like this would be very useful.
Learn how to navigate the map by natural signs and landmarks. The sun behaves in a predictable way. Icy terrain spawns in the north, desert to the south. The map is bound on all sides by water. Use mountains and other details for reference.
When in doubt, run to the division between desert and grassy land and run either east or west along the fringe until you hit water. Unless you end up at a lake or inland sea, you [I]have[/I] to meet each other if you all go the same direction and don't die on the way.
If you want teleportation, play on a modded server that includes it, but it won't be in vanilla.
[URL="http://garry.tv/2013/06/21/the-story-of-rust/"]Welcome to Rust.[/URL]
the map isnt hard to navigate
Were you playing Legacy? Or current Rust.
If it's Legacy then yea...I can understand but the new map on the current Rust is so easy to navigate to.
you need to learn to tell the difference between those "wooden boxes" and natural features, because they are not identical, just similar.
if it's legacy, use the road and the rad sites as landmarks. if experimental, do what elix said, but add to that using one of the individually shaped large mountains as a fixed orientation point. pick something you can recognise. use screenshots and share them via your profile.
or check out rustafied for their experimental [URL="http://www.rustafied.com/rust-experimental-guides/#/how-to-find-your-friends-in-rust-experimental/"]guides[/URL] on this subject.
another solution is to choose one of the modded servers, most of them support teleporting to your friends. (/tpr and /tpa)
Yup, like everyone else says, you have two options. Play on a modded server, or learn to play properly, and navigate using the sun, biome borders, mountains and landmark, like everyone else does...
I remember getting lost in legacy after 140+ hours exposed to the map, since playing it back in Sept. Once I journeyed from my familiar mountain near civilian 2, I was near lost.
Rust is just the Same. I am good once I see familiar areas, but beyond that, I am at the mercy of the barbarians and those damn nasty wolves and bears that seem to be able to attack from a distance (bug).
It's all about putting in the hours and learning the map, sorry to say.
[QUOTE=spiritchill;46911376]It's all about putting in the hours and learning the map, sorry to say.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, and this is the whole point of the game: you wake up naked on a desert island. The only reason you have a rock and a torch is because the game would be pretty slow without it. Waking up with a GPS or a smartphone would take a way a lot of the environment.
If vanilla wait for an airdrop or have the admin spawn some and then meet at the drop point which is at the moment always in the same spot.
It's super easy to find people in the new Rust. It's not like in Legacy where you had mountains blocking every view.
Here are some ways I find my friends in under 10 mins every time.
* On most servers on experimental you usually have clear view to a massive snow capped mountain. If you can't see it then run up a hill and look for the tallest mountain. Often times I use that as a point of interest when meeting people.
* Biomes are layered in nearly every server, if not all. You have your Snow Biome up North, Grasslands in the center, and Deserts to the south. Figuring out what Biome you're in is key to navigation.
* Press F1 and type kill. It's feels cheap, but it's a great way to get around the map quickly. If my friend is in a snow Biome I kill myself until I end up in that biome and go from there.
* Dev Landmarks are also nice, but I feel they kind of fucked it up. There use to be one of each, now I see two to three wolf statues and three to four light houses on every server. I can't say look for the light house anymore because my friend sees one on the opposite end of the map. For me I know there are only one in each biome, but explaining that to Newmans is a pain.
* The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. BAM North, South, East, West figured out.
* You can share pics on steam. Take a pic and show it to a friend on Steam so you can match up locations.
* Create your own landmarks. I don't mean to physically create your own, but you can. I played on a sever today where there was an insane amount of ore in the center of the desert. So I told my friend if he saw that then he was near to me. Another was a light house with three small islands near it. Another was the "Point Tits Mountain". Whatever you see and can remember you can make a landmark I.E. what a landmark is.
Besides that you can also use player made structures. There use to be a massive player made tower near my base. Some asshole built it on a rock and had the ultimate sniper tower. Props for the idea, but sucked for everyone else. Did prove to be an excellent landmark though. Another was a giant pyramid.
There are many more ways of finding your way, but the key is to use all these together. Use the sun to figure out NWSE and use basic landmarks with that. Example: I'm directly North of the Desert Lighthouse. Head North till you hit the first forest and my base is in there. It's as simple as that.
[QUOTE=Moist Cake;46916382]* Dev Landmarks are also nice, but I feel they kind of fucked it up. There use to be one of each, now I see two to three wolf statues and three to four light houses on every server. I can't say look for the light house anymore because my friend sees one on the opposite end of the map. For me I know there are only one in each biome, but explaining that to Newmans is a pain. [/QUOTE]
Yup. I'm sure they'll be adding more, but for now you have to go "the lighthouse with a satellite dish to the far west" or "the satellite dish that's a 10-second sprint across from the take" or whatnot.
sun rises in the east and sets in the west
at it's highest point the sun is pointing north - which indicates the world of rust is in the southern hemisphere
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