Brettflan

I think food and drinks are at a pretty good scarcity level. For people who don't know where to look and are only occasionally finding the low grade buildings with 1-3 loot piles which are often junk, I can imagine that finding enough food and drink could be a bit stressful. Running through a supermarket a short while ago in 1.7.1.5 I found quite a bit of canned food and drinks, though, so I full understand more seasoned players thinking they're too common. Drinks did seem more common than canned food, but since thirst seems to affect you more quickly than hunger now (I could be mistaken), it seems sensible enough. Overall, this does seem like a nice and solid release.

http://www.dayzmod.com/downloads.php I'm personally using the recommended Six Updater method. It automates updating once you're past the initial set up, which is nice.

I'd just like to reiterate, if you're noticing fewer zombies around, it seems to be caused by zombies frequently spawning inside solid (no interior) buildings and remaining stuck there. Makes for an overly easy time inside cities.

Only major problem I've run into myself is the complete lack of food and drinks. Seems like some other loot types are likewise not showing up as well, though I can't pinpoint anything. Found loads of tools of various sorts in civilian buildings which was kind of nice for a new start (hatchets, watches, matches, hunting knives mainly), though I of course understand it's not the way it's supposed to be. Still couldn't find anything to eat or more importantly (since I could hunt with the tools) drink after a couple hours wandering around including through various buildings in Cherno, so I logged out in the supermarket in the hopes of finding food and drink quickly enough after logging in later to keep from losing too much blood. Oh, and as others have mentioned zombies are apparently spawning very often inside solid buildings which have no interior, and remaining stuck there. Seems to greatly reduce the number you see wandering around in a city, obviously making it too easy.

Right, they fixed that. Still gets plenty dark, but you can now make out some features around you again.

Rejoice, the latest ARMA2 beta patch fixes the recent pitch-black problem with earlier beta patches.

I was having the same problem with those two errors trying to run ARMA2:OA. Running the "verify game cache" on it and on ARMA2 would always indicate it found and fixed 1 broken file every time I ran it. As suggested above, simply shutting down Steam and re-opening it fixed the problem for me. Now it starts up without any errors. Thanks. :)