I to miss my Dayz along with most of my old clan members. We are all at a loss as to how we get our Dayz back to consistence reliability. I can't for the life of me get past unknown files and files not excepted errors by servers no matter what I try in either in game servers or Play with Six. I miss my Dayz after 2 bloody good years! And as you say the servers do appear to be dropping like flies.

I have been playing Dayz mod since the start but I think I have made a complete FUBAR of my installation and can't make sense out of anything! I played Dayz originally with ARMA 2 retail and Steam OA on Play for Six. First thing I did was to Activated my Arma 2 in Steam that was easy but from then on it has all gone to pieces and I need a lot of help. After activating Arma2 I noticed you needed to install it again so I uninstalled my old retail Arma 2 first, then I followed the instruction for setting up OA as Beta and adding -mod=@Dayz all this was fine but now I am left with Play for Six not recognising Arma 2 installation anymore only OA and I cannot launch OA within Steam without getting the error found on this forum on page one. So I followed the instruction and copied all 163 files from Arma 2 addons into Common OA folder but that bit I was not to sure with as 10 of those files seemed to conflict with existing files. So were they to be overwritten or added? That was not made clear,and I am still left with same errors as before. All in all what with my Steam installations gone to crap and heaven knows what the hell I have done to Play for Six I might just give standalone a try as I have yet to install that from my list of games I own and have never bothered to install.

I just started playing Epoch with my friends today after nearly 2 years of Vanilla DayZ and have no interest in base building but we like the Ai and various missions that Epoch offers. I don't understand the need to build a base when there is so much gear and vehicles available? I loved hiding my vehicle and tents and will always prefer that over having a safe base. But apart from that and getting used to the old style inventory again, me and my friends are having fun with missions and Ai and finding gear we have not seen in a long time. On a side note a lot of players do appear rather soft and are easily taken down compared to Vanilla but It is only my first day. I think Vanilla players had more to lose!

My only pleasure with Private servers is the introduction of some roaming Ai to liven up the place. Dayz zombies are just no challenge and only serve to annoy me. I need something other than sitting in the woods all day looking at the mushrooms. Been there done that! From the moment the stand alone was announced all I have wanted is exciting/challenging (for the right reason) Zombies. However I am begining to be sceptical on that front at present! Also Dayz.com did nothing to detract Hackers. I had given up playing until White list arrived. If no Private severs is the way forward then there better be some serious protection or forget it!

All I want from Dayz standalone is how the Mod is now at 1.83 coupled with smooth and none glitchy Zombies with greatly improved Ai that make them a proper challenge and not just a annoyance. That will do for me.

Hi Razor. Thanks for the reply.There may not be a big array of others complaining because no one can find a tent to test it LOL! I do have a char' still going in Vanilla Dayz.com and will test it when I find one.

A smoother transition between Zombie movement and attack an improvement now. What servers do you play on? 1.8 made it even worse now for me. Worst part of Dayz since the MOD started .

When are Tents going to be fixed? As of 1.8/1.8.1/and 1.8.2 they have been broken .Either they disapeer when placing on the ground or they refuse to save after a server restart. Also I have noticed on the 5 servers I mostly play on they have become as rare as night vision goggles! Does the spawn rate need to be that low? I suppose while they don't work is does not matter but if they ever gets fixed please look at the spawn rate as well.

Your not alone. Since 1.8.2 I have also experienced several zero spawns in the 4 servers I regulary play on. Sometimes even after a fresh restart. I was at NW airfield just last night after a restart and the entire base contianed not even a single empty can! I searched every building nothing! Also Factories/Supermarkets now seem to have a high chance of containing nothing for me as well now. I don't want to return to massive can food spawns like 1.8. I would like to see a total overhaul of this whole loot table thing to balance out all the items in the game, now we have also crafting items to consider aswell. I know that is a lot of work but without it Dayz seems to be sinking under its own success with all the new items we can possibly have on the Loot Table. The spawning in of items just seems completly broken ever since 1.77

I have been on 4 servers now and I can report that at least 50% of the time animals do not allow access to their gear after gutting them. I seem to remember this being a problem on a much earlier patch a while ago. And I too am having problems with Painkillers not working. Only a small issue but whats with all the Red road flares all over the loot tables?

How are the servers coping with lag with this patch? I thought they got rid of Zombies spawning in vehicles because of the way you could drive/fly around creating hundreds of zombies all over the place until the server starts to crawl under the pressure.

I have the same problem as you regarding not being able to join the 4 regular servers I used to play on. My cd key is still good though but myself and 2 other friends of mine have this problem after we updated 1.7 with the hot fix. Also the version number problem is also wierd as well for me as my install says I have the same version as the server but when I try to join I get that wrong version window come up with a different number to what I am being told ?Same as your numbers. I have to alter the filters to find servers to play on now and leave the 4 I was playing on until this is fixed. Only thing I can think of is the servers we cannot join have not applied the hot fix to 1.77