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Being teleported to the beach was, as said above, added in as a temporary fixed to combat corrupted coords (the ocean and debug spawns).

Any Hive-enabled server, yes.

DayZ will spawn a very large amount of entities (all of the loot, the zombies, etc) when compared to a normal ArmA play session. Especially in towns. This will add to the stress on your system.

Most of the loading problems have been fixed, and you should get in any server with a relatively nice ping pretty quickly. When you find a melee weapon (hatchet or crowbar), right click on it in your toolbelt to move it to your main weapon slot.

Can't help if you want to be smart.

Where and when?

Tell him to completely shut down Steam and re-run it as administrator (right click).

With certain rifles, yes. The DMR for example.

Hack is used there as a verb. hack vb 1. (when intr, usually foll by at or away) to cut or chop (at) irregularly, roughly, or violently

What kind of graphic settings are you attempting to run this on?

This guide assumes you have purchased ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA/ArmA 2 CO from Steam. -> Download and install both games. Run OA at least once to get a nice BattlEye install. Download the DayZ mod from one of the available mirrors: http://dayzmod.com/?Download Navigate to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead (Windows) and create a folder named @DayZ there. Within that folder, create another called Addons. Extract the contents of the DayZ download into this Addons folder. Visit http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php/ and download the latest patch (green box, .zip). Once this is complete open it up and run the .exe found inside. Then, open the beta folder found in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta. Copy the "arma2oa.exe" from here and paste it back into your main directory (C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead). You will be replacing the old one. Next download the updated BattlEye client from http://www.battleye.com/download.html (You'll want the "BE Client for Windows (32-bit)" build under the "v1.61.94945+" bullet).. Find C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\BattlEye and replace the BEClient.dll inside there with the one you've just downloaded. Now open your Steam library and right click on Operation Arrowhead. Find the Properties option and open "Set Launch Options." Paste this: -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -mod=@Dayz into the text field and click Ok. You're ready to play. To launch DayZ: Run Operation Arrowhead through Steam and when given the option, choose to run the game as Combined Operations (this is mandatory and must be done every start up!). Finding a server: Once the main menu loads up click on Multiplayer. Once there click on the Filter option and enter "DayZ" (without the quotes) in the Mission field. Now your list will only produce DayZ servers. If you run into any trouble, let me know :)

This guide assumes you have purchased ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA/ArmA 2 CO from Steam. -> Download and install both games. Run OA at least once to get a nice BattlEye install. Download the DayZ mod from one of the available mirrors: http://dayzmod.com/?Download Navigate to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead (Windows) and create a folder named @DayZ there. Within that folder, create another called Addons. Extract the contents of the DayZ download into this Addons folder. Visit http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php/ and download the latest patch (green box, .zip). Once this is complete open it up and run the .exe found inside. Then, open the beta folder found in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta. Copy the "arma2oa.exe" from here and paste it back into your main directory (C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead). You will be replacing the old one. Next download the updated BattlEye client from http://www.battleye.com/download.html (You'll want the "BE Client for Windows (32-bit)" build under the "v1.61.94945+" bullet).. Find C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\BattlEye and replace the BEClient.dll inside there with the one you've just downloaded. Now open your Steam library and right click on Operation Arrowhead. Find the Properties option and open "Set Launch Options." Paste this: -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -mod=@Dayz into the text field and click Ok. You're ready to play. To launch DayZ: Run Operation Arrowhead through Steam and when given the option, choose to run the game as Combined Operations (this is mandatory and must be done every start up!). Finding a server: Once the main menu loads up click on Multiplayer. Once there click on the Filter option and enter "DayZ" (without the quotes) in the Mission field. Now your list will only produce DayZ servers. If you run into any trouble, let me know :)

they are zombies.

I ran into a repairable one yesterday, latest version.

You will know when you see it.