Getting started on Dayz

[pendergrassjmt 0]

Hi, I am new to dayz and just got the mod today. I was able to play on a server for about 20 min and I left the server to find one with a little more people on it. Since I left that server I have not been able to enter another one. I individually had to download all of the mods for Arma 2 IE: operation arrowhead, british armed forces, and private military. I keep getting the code saying that downloadable content has been deleted. I was invited to play through someone elses server but it kicked me out saying the dayz addon could not be found because he was playing through combined ops. Any help would be appreciated I would really like to not have paid the money for these and not be able to play. thanks, Teddy

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Hi, I am new to dayz and just got the mod today. I was able to play on a server for about 20 min and I left the server to find one with a little more people on it. Since I left that server I have not been able to enter another one. I individually had to download all of the mods for Arma 2 IE: operation arrowhead, british armed forces, and private military. I keep getting the code saying that downloadable content has been deleted. I was invited to play through someone elses server but it kicked me out saying the dayz addon could not be found because he was playing through combined ops. Any help would be appreciated I would really like to not have paid the money for these and not be able to play. thanks, Teddy

 

Welcome to the forums pender, can you post a screenshot and or type out the errors your are getting so we may better assist you?

[pendergrassjmt 0]

The main one I get when trying to play with the mod directly out of steam is "you can not play\edit this game because downloadable content has been deleted" After that portion it comes up saying that I don't have the right files for all of the Arma 2 mods including Arma 2 as well as bringing up some gun codes, vehicle codes, and clothing codes. I tried to screenshot but seems like my computer does not like to screenshot while in game. When i'm running through dayz commander it gives me an error code about all the files not being in arma 2 and the mods. I've been working on this for almost 3 days now and I think I narrowed down the issue to the missing files. I went through steam and tried validating the file cache and as expected one file was missing. The code from steam says that it is missing and it will be reacquired. The only issue is that my steam does not automatically download the missing file like I have seen on the videos that have been posted. So if anyone knows where to get the missing file or get steam to manually download it that would be great to. Dayz commander will also not let me download any of the dayz mods only the original dayz. Any insight on that? Thanks again. Oh I almost forgot I am currently not running through the mod as I expected the mod would mess with the commander. I do not even have the mod installed on steam because one of the tips I got was that I did not need it.

Edited January 17, 2015 by pendergrssjmt

[pendergrassjmt 0]

I also do not have the actual combined operations package. I downloaded all of the mods individually. Not sure if I messed up there or not?

[pendergrassjmt 0]

Finally figured out how to get the screenshot. here it is.