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ArmA 2 Free - campaigns not working, signature is wrong...

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Hello,

Just installed ArmA 2 free.. looks like I've got to get the full game now! On the website it says that the free version fully supports campaigns for ArmA 2 vanilla. I've tried a few, but none of them work. On startup, I get a warning that states, that the signature of xxx.pbo is wrong.

Extracted under Bohemia Interactive/ArmA 2/Campaigns, which is the folder I created as per instructions.

Maybe they need to be re-edited to point to ArmA 2 Free instead of ArmA 2? Signature maybe points to the version needed, and addons etc., dunno.

I wanna try a campaign!

How?

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A2Free doesn't support campaigns.

Edited by W0lle

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I'm going out on a limb to say that you are trying to play campaigns that require addons or Operation Arrowhead. Try ones that need only Arma 2.

Actually, the game doesn't support any campaigns after all.

Edited by Celery

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It seems more like a bug, aka BI did not consider and test that campaigns folder is also part of the pbo loading space.

Ref:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=ArmA_2%3A_Free_Public_Beta&diff=62438&oldid=62402

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/21040

Let's hope BI fixes it. Voting the ticket may up the chances to see it done.

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It seems more like a bug, aka BI did not consider and test that campaigns folder is also part of the pbo loading space.

Ref:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=ArmA_2%3A_Free_Public_Beta&diff=62438&oldid=62402

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/21040

Let's hope BI fixes it. Voting the ticket may up the chances to see it done.

More likely they disabled it.

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ARMA 2 Free don't support campaigns in any form ... only standalone missions ...

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Yeah, whupsie:

Custom campaigns for Arma 2 can also be used.

I do see the problem though, as custom campaigns are addons. How to solve? Is it possible for end users to de-pbo those campaign pbo's and play them as standalone missions? Or will it break down completely for lacking data from previous missions?

I've done this myself, and added needed stuff that caused problems, but I wouldn't expect somebody new to the game start doing that.

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I do see the problem though, as custom campaigns are addons. How to solve? Is it possible for end users to de-pbo those campaign pbo's and play them as standalone missions? Or will it break down completely for lacking data from previous missions?

I've managed to do that fine..

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If you were to depbo a campaign and stick each mission file into the folder you load missions in the Editor from, then you could play them I'm sure. If a campaign is well-made there should be fail-safes in place for if a variable that's meant to be passed by other missions is not, so they shouldn't break.

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