DayZ is most fun with friends, but first, you need to find them. In this guide, we'll give you three ways to meet up with your friends within minutes.
How to find your friends in DayZ (TLDR):
On Guided.news we have implemented the interactive map of IZurvive. Here you can create a group, invite your friends and create markers visible to all. To find your friends you can now even turn on points of interest like water towers, churches etc.. This way you can locate your position and aim for a common goal.
It can be an advantage if you already know the maps in their broad outlines and can quickly recognize landmarks. Which landmarks you and your friends will find along the spawns on Chernarus & Livonia, we will show you in the next method.
An obvious way to find your friends in DayZ is to know your way around. Or rather, it's enough if you can identify the town names. Identify is enough because at least on Chernarus they are written in Cyrillic letters. Based on these place names, you can then use an in-game map to find out where you are.
Even easier, if you and your friends start together, you'll all spawn on the coast in Chernarus anyway. Look around. What can you see, special structures or an island?
Landmarks along the coast of Chernarus (north to south):
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On some servers of the PC version of DayZ, you always have an in-game map, which you can open with the 'M' key. Here, you can set a marker by double-clicking and displaying it as a 3D marker. A 3D marker is always displayed, even when the map is closed. Like a HUD, it shows you the distance and the exact location. This way, you can find your friends in DayZ without much effort. Just set a marker at the meeting point and walk there.
On some servers, there is already a built-in group system that you can use to invite your friends. If you belong to the same group, you will be displayed to each other in various ways:
Although this method is the simplest, it is reserved for players on the PC. Because officially this feature is not, but part of modifications. Most modded DayZ servers that you can find in the DZSA launcher have such a map.