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Thx. I tried form Armaholic, downloaded fine but couldn't join the server as kept saying missing content. DayZ Commander fails on the download for both the Tavi downloads, saying cannot be found. I ended up trying PlayWithSix and that downloaded everything automatically and it let me into the server OK last night. I tried again earlier today and its failing again. Sigh.

Ah Ok thanks for that, will give it a try!

Went to play on my usual Epoch server last night and noticed they had change the map to Taviana. I tried to download it with DayZ Commander but it wouldn't work, giving an unable to find error. I googled and found http://dayztaviana.com/ but this has expired. Any idea how I can download Taviana to be able to play with Epoch? Thx!

Thanks. 780 is out of my price range unfortunalty and the 760 was pushing it too but thought it might be worth it. I have just actually found a place selling the R9 270X OC Boost with BF4 included for $120 less than the 760, so for me I think that seals it on the R9 270X. I think that should still be a fairly decent card for me anyway. Also I have access to a 24" monitor so that will be better and considering I get 20fps on my MBP and dipping to 15fps in the cities, this should be a fairly decent jump I guess. Might actually be able to hit something without it stuttering :)

OK, have had enough of trying to run DayZ on my MBP, dont get me wrong it runs OK but on a 15" screen it sucks, plus ARMA3 just aint gonna cut it on this so I'm going to build myself a rig. I;m OK on all the other parts but I've been away from PC gaming for long enough that graphics cards are not what they used to be. So rough specs I'm gong for. i7-4770 (not k) 16gb DDR-1600 1TB 7200HDD (data) and 128Gb SSD (boot) Single 1080p monitor Not for graphics I'm undecided between the EVGA GTX 760 or the Sapphire Radeon R9 270X. Reviews seem to favor the 760 but not by much and the price difference in NZ is significant with the 760 costing $100-$150 more than R9 270X so I'm not sure if its worth it. I wont be doing SLI/Crossfire so will be going mATX with this, and I'm doing i7 / 16gb because I run a lot of VMs as training for my work so this helps with that. Any thoughts?

Maybe in this case the humanity loss is worked out by how many pieces you put that poor little survivor into :)

Puk because when i was growing up my nickname was Pukka, as in a British reference "who ate all the pukka pies", as i was, shall we say on the larger side. Lost pretty much all the weight when I got into pro-racing but the nickname stuck to this day :)

With the latest patch I went from playing on public hives and one private, to just a single public hive where the admin made some changes such a lowering the infection rate, increasing the gear slightly and putting more antibios in. Made is so much more enjoyable again! Its still a pain to find gear and antibios like it should be, but its nothing like the mess that vanilla DayZ is at the moment. But apart from that my other reason as the spawn snipers that were becoming all too common.

Agreed, thanks Anti. Nothing against the Devs at all as we wouldn't have this mod at all without them, but something is fundamentally wrong with this version that what Anti is suggesting is a good idea so thanks for that and have my beans.

Actually guys I'm going to take a break from DayZ for now. Its just too dam buggy for me to actully enjoy it at the minute. Tonight was just looting a house in Staroye when a Z came in, no biggy went to headshot.....nothing. Couple more shots, nothing. He gets one punch, infected (FFS!). I end up emptying 2 full makarov clips into him and nothing!!!! So that was that. Respawn, running from the coast and snipped! Respawn right next to a f-ing Zed, 1 punch and infected. Screw this, there is a fine line between fun and dam frustrating. Will leave it alone now and wait for standalone.

Thanks Phuftbucket. Its a private hive one actually, as I tried lots of the public Orcon ones and kept seeing hackers all the time so have been private every since. Ah well. Will take take a look at the Balotabuddies one thanks :) Thanks RougeNZ - Will drop you a PM as I tend to play around 8-9pm weekdays too. Losing interest in the game at the current patch tbh though. Just had a quick run around now, found myself and M9SD and M14AIIM and a map, then got glitch bunched through a wall by a zed and an infection on the first hit ffs. So ran to the hills to wait to die and got sniped on the way. :(

So the thing which has been peeing me off so much recently is the lack of antibiotics and high infection rate. So tonight I'm starting as a new spawn in balota. First thing I find is an M4A3 CCO(!!!!!!) and then the next thing is a M9SD (!!!)! At this point I'm starting to pee myself with excitement, never found this grade of weapons before so am well excited! Anyway,I'm next to Cherno, 3 players on the server so I risk it to get some more kit, run into the supermarket get an Alice Pack, Map, Matches, Compass!!! Think stuff this I'm getting out of dodge now so start heading for the hills, get agrooed so run into a red residential and OMG there are antibios!!! I pick them up and just start heading for the hills when........ I start hearing music in my headset?? Er what..... I look around and a bandit comes round the corner and starts dancing, no word of a lie! I start to empty my M4A3 CCO into him but nothing so quickly realize its my first hacker. Then yup, I cant move, then I dance, then I die. FFS!!!!!!! :(

Im going off the mod too tbh. Been playing it 3 months now, really enjoyed it to start with but since the latest patch its not fun and I finally realized tonight I need to call it quits for a bit. Spawned in Elec, found nothing but ammo, no guns, no hatchet, no matches, but a hunting knife. Broke into then hospital, empty cans, nothing else ffs! Ran north heading towards Bez checking everything I could on the way, nada. Got as far as Staryoe and was about to loot a barn when a Zed punched me through the wall, 1 punch, infection and broken leg FFS! Oh well, time to play something else I think. There is a big diff between challenging which this game was before, to down right frustrating now.

I'm the same and am actually going to take a break from DayZ for a bit now. The loot spawn camping zeds is taking the piss when you are a new spawn, added to the total shoot on site regardless mentality now is ruining it for me. The last 2 days I must have had 10 new spawn attempts, each time I cannot find jack all but every loot point has zeds which agro and 9/10 i get punched to the floor first time and before I'm up I'm infected. I've tried going into cities but get shot on site when unarmed, tried going into the rural but no f-ing loot. And apart from all this, the times I have found anything, I nearly always end up getting infected on the 1st or 2nd zed punch so thats it, no chance of finding antibos so its a death sentance. To me its taken the fun out of it tbh. And the last straw for me was just on a new spawn, run into elec where I spawn, find a map, m14, m9, gillie, alicepack and then I glitch thru the firestation wall and fall to my death. Dammit. :(

I have put 40hrs into DayZ since buying it a couple of months ago and never saw a single vehicle. Then last night I found a dirt bike in Zelono, drove it into the woods to hide it and came across a lada fully repaired! I crashed the car about 2mins later though LOL :)