overweightninja

Am I the only person that's bothered by the fuel bug? 06/09 "Confirmed bug with fuel. Server side. Preparing an additional server-side fix for that. Vehicles will reset their fuel state on reload." After staying on 1.7.2.4 for ages its annoying that the version purported to be all stable and fixed up is even worse, artifacts aren't the end of the world, I can always restart the game, having to refuel the chopper every single time we play is getting pretty irritating though. Cheers

Depends on budget, you get what you pay for. £220 won't get you anything close to a "gaming" PC though.

Hacks, sounds amusing though.

You're actually paying for Arma, which (after several years of patches admittedly) works just fine, DayZ is a free mod so this point doesn't really stand. I will however agree with most of your comments about this game requiring patience etc, but it sounds like the OP has already elected to take the plunge. O/T: Gamersgate is another option if you want to go the digital download route, I have several OA CD keys and two copies of the base game and DLCs (for myself and flatmate) spread over GG, Sprocket (Bohemia) and Steam and GG and Sprocket would definitely be my preferred options, Steam is workable but it's more work to get the game setup and running as you have to fanny around copying .exes and stuff. Cheers

This, it's a good idea though so IMHO you're mistaken if you think no one else has come to the same conclusion, I've got at least one group camped near my base and I've had other survivors try to trail me to base/ambush me in Berezino the last couple of nights.

Ditto, I was having numerous problems with NWAF, this update plus latest beta, at least one of the artifacts orginated from the barbed wire at the checkpoint on the road into NWAF, the others I suspect are again from the military corpses but didn't get close enough to confirm. It's not all bad news though, my mate set video memory to default (no such luck for me, tried all different graphics settings, flush etc) and had no problems after that, I'm sure he had a fun evening guiding me by compass directions and waiting for me to get close enough to see his feet! :D Overall I'm pleased with how the mod is at the moment but I'm surprised this bug hasn't been knocked on the head already as it's a bit of a gamebreaker and seems to be affecting a significant amount of players, please prioritise finding a fix over adding dogs or whatever. Cheers

It's not perfect but I've found a way that's relatively stress free, put an @ in front of the folders for each DLC, then create two shortcuts, the launch options for mine are as follows: Normal Arma 2 - "-beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -mod=@ACR;@PMC;@BAF" DayZ - "-beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -mod=@dayz" As long as you've switched back to your "original" CD key prior to launching the game the DLCs should work and you'll be able to swap CD keys for DayZ at will. Hope that helps.