JeffersonAirplane

"What indicates it is a major update?" The changelog?

You can always tell how new a player is by their level of frustration with the game... 5 weeks ago waiting 20 minutes just to play or respawn was the standard and expected. Logging into a server within 10 minutes was considered quite fast. And that was before some ~275,000 new players have started hammering the server on a regular basis. Just relax, breathe, and wait. This is the most major update to the game since 1.0, of course there will be hiccups.

No, it's not. Then again chatting on a forum isn't ever going to solve any problems at all. Just give it some time to let the updates propagate. If it's still broken tomorrow at this time then we know there are real problems.

It doesn't matter why you bought it. The fact is DayZ is free. You may feel like you paid for DayZ but you didn't. It doesn't matter whether you use capslock or say it a million times. You paid for Arma2, not DayZ.

Longest survivor in my group/clan was alive for 41 days while playing between 1 and 8 hours a day depending. He would still be alive right now if I hadn't run him over with our car after he got out of it :(

The save menu option will only appear in specific places for certain vehicles. If you have trouble finding the save menu try facing your cursor just to the left of the driver's side door.

When you put a backpack into a container it's contents are emptied into the container first. Protip: Vehicle and Tent Containers have room for Guns(and tools), Items(food, blood, ammo, etc), and Bags. There are reserved slots for each type. It can be full of one and not the other.

vehicle parts need to be in your active inventory, not your backpack, to use them while interacting. same thing goes with jerry cans.

So hatefiend you seem like a pro, when is your mod coming out? Can't wait to try it.

If you think wind, gravity, and other factors don't come into play while shooting the various weapons in the game, you are flat out wrong. Try a mod called "The Shooting Range" and turn on projectile cam. Enjoy.

If this "game" doesn't have want you're looking for then play something else. Your gripes are ridiculous.

I was actually reading intently until you described Resident Evil as a simulation game... Why are you trying to compare the realism capabilities of the Arma2 game engine to the gameplay of a mod made with the engine? Can you name an engine that would have been better suited to make this mod? Especially in the timeframe in which it was created? (Rocket has said he did most of the leg work of the mod to get it into a playable state in about 7-8 weeks)