Add Global Player Icon into the default DST Game!

[Kanasuke]

The Global Player Icon or Global Positions Mod are so essential to being able to cooperate in DST it is wrong to leave these out of the default experience. So many people I see who are clueless of the existence of the mod and spend all their time in-game asking, "Where are you?", or "Where is the base?". There are people who don't even know how to use mods on steam! They end up having a horrible experience of the game in multiplayer.

 

Give the player the option to turn player map icons On or Off. It is the most needed addition to the game right now! For pvp you can have it set to disabled by default.

 

 

[Michi01]

I think mods like Global Player Icons make it a bit to easy to find other players. I mean this is a survival game and it should be at least a bit difficult to find the others.

[Chesska]

I think mods like Global Player Icons make it a bit to easy to find other players. I mean this is a survival game and it should be at least a bit difficult to find the others.

 

You can skype with a friend and use natural landmarks to find each other. You can screenshot your game or your map and share the file.

 

Let's be realistic here, having a way to find your friends in this game isn't going to take anything away from it, it'll only add to it. If you want to be "immersed" a.k.a. you want to be lost as **** and never find your friends, turn the suggested feature off. The person suggesting it even said it should be a toggle.

 

That being said, the mods are extremely functional right now and as long as Klei doesn't update the game code in a way that breaks them I'm fairly satisfied myself.

 

I do agree though, Klei needs to start taking some of the better user mods and incorporating them in the base game. Give a credit to the mod makers as well, I really respect what they do for the community by making utility mods like that and sharing them with us.

[Kanasuke]

I think mods like Global Player Icons make it a bit to easy to find other players. I mean this is a survival game and it should be at least a bit difficult to find the others.

But this is Don't Starve Together.  I want to survive with others. I want to overcome the difficulty through cooperation.

 

The difficulty you are suggesting is that the host should escort every guy that joins (to the base) and use the chatbox a lot to give vague directions to the guy (regardless of whether they leave in 5 minutes anyway). And the difficulty imposed on the joining player should be that they should experience a lot of frustration following vague directions, even more frustration if the existing players don't want to help, and that if they never end up locating the base, they should play solo and set up their own base. 

 

What it does is it promotes solo play. I've joined these games before, people do their own thing, not because they prefer to, but because it becomes impossible to cooperate w/ others since even on a hunting mission you can lose track of the position of the other.

 

And also it is very unfriendly to the newer players to wonder around for 20 minutes and not get help because it cost too much for the host to help them. 

 

I don't want to implement my version of the game onto others. If you want your difficulty, you can keep it. I'm asking for there to be a global player icons 'option'.

 

You can skype with a friend and use natural landmarks to find each other. You can screenshot your game or your map and share the file.

But not everyone plays with friends, I play this game 100% with strangers and no possible voice chat. 

 

 

PS: Also there should be a north south east west indicator of some sort. An ingame compass. You don't need a compass in single player, but in multiplayer it's crucial.

[Michi01]

PS: Also there should be a north south east west indicator of some sort. An ingame compass. You don't need a compass in single player, but in multiplayer it's crucial.

*COUGH*