MidnightReverie

Just started playing the game about 3 hours ago. I started out on the docks of Chernogorsk at night time, googled the map of Chernarus and it was easy enough to pinpoint where I am exactly with the docks. Made my way to the edge of the town, met another new player on the way, we didn't shoot at each other but he was very cautious, always have his LOS on me and always keeping a distance away from me until I'm out of sight. Found a tent and a dead body in the yard of a small building on the edge of Chernogorsk, found 2 cans of food, but also found myself surrounded by a wave of zeds with no way to proceed forward. I climbed a ladder up a platform, shot a zombie to attract the rest of them to me and killed all 13 of them while they were standing around at the bottom of the ladder trying to get up. As the wave is cleared I continued my way west to get out of town towards the Balota airstrip. Looted several small houses on the way, found lots of Markorov ammo, bandages and soda. Arrived at the airstrip with no incident, I looted all four hangars and the control tower and I hit the jackpot. Found a map, watch, toolbox, 2 chemlight, more bandages, morphine injectors, and lastly an AK74 with 3 clips of ammo. Now I have an abundant supply of food, ammo for my primary and secondary weapon, I'm not sure what to do anymore besides trying to look for a bigger bag. :-/ Overal I find the mod to be very good, its selling point is definitely its ambient atmosphere, suspenseful tension and the challenging difficulty. I never played ARMA before and I found the inventory system to be one of the worst I have ever seen in a video game, it's just utterly counter-intuitive and absolutely awfully designed. The night was also way too dark, I was literally starring at a pitch black screen with absolutely no way to tell where I'm going because apparently I can't even see 1 feet in front of me even though the sky is littered with shining stars. It may make the game that much more challenging and scary at night, but it just isn't realistic at all. I also find it very disappointing that there are so few buildings you can actually enter. I also wish there is some kind of a central hub where players can trade and sell their items to each other. As for now I just don't feel like there is any purpose at all to find new and better weapons or items. If the whole point of the game is to survive, I have already found enough food, a good reliable primary and secondary weapon plus a never ending supply of drinkable sea water, technically speaking I have survived the zombie apocalypse. Allowing players to sell and trade items to each other gives looting new items more meaning and give the game more direction. If anyone here has played a free zombie MMORPG called Dead Frontier, it should be like that. Ok that's all I have to say.

Agreed. Not being able to see even a meter in front of you out in the open on a clear night sky is utterly unrealistic.

I'm downloading the mod for the first time. I used DayZ Mod Updater to automatically update my DayZ mod, it's currently in the extracting files stage but it has already taken literally 5+ hours now and it's still extracting, I checked the Addon files and it doesn't seem like any new files have been added at all. Is this a glitch?

Did everything you said. When the game loads it indeed says @dayz at the right side of the screen, the mod is loaded. But when I try to connect to a server it says: You cannot play this mission, it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.

what do I need to do to play a simple mod.....

I tried to get into a server, an errors occurs: your dayz.pbo are not signed by a key accepted by this server. To play on this server, remove the listed file or install additional accepted keys. What does that mean??

No, I don't think my Day Z mod is up to date, refer to this other thread I started: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3045

Can anybody help please?

I did that too, but where and how can I update them to the latest version? I tried to get into a server, an errors occurs: your dayz.pbo are not signed by a key accepted by this server. To play on this server, remove the listed file or install additional accepted keys. What does that mean??

That's also the same version of the DayZ updater I'm using.

Updating still extracting files..................... -_-

Just did that. The same thing happened. It found all the rar files in the folder, skipped all the downloading of the rar files since they already exist and skipped straight to the extracting files stage. It's still seems to freeze at that stage forever. What the heck is going on? I really want to play the mod......been downloading and extracting the mod literally since 11pm last night. can anyone please help?

I manually created the folders and ran the updater, it's still taking hours to extract the files.

Well I just double checked it, that is indeed the location of my steam folder, or do I need to add \@dayz\addons at the end of the path?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\ isn't this the correct path?