DayZ ARMA CO Banned for clicking "Server Control" while Steam downloading update

[IWaZzAI 1]

I bought this game a few days ago and was playing DayZ with the latest beta using the ARMA2 launcher found at "armaholic.com"

I was in a game and hit abort, went back to the multiplayer stup screen where it lists all the players in the server and then clicked the "Server Control" button down the bottom left. I'd never seen if before and wanted to check out what was in that menu. Anyway a message came up and said somthing about being kicked from the game. And now whenever I try to go back in to any server it says "you were kicked from the game"

I exited the game and thought if I restart the game it might fix it. But when I tried to load the game through the launcher mentioned above a message came up saying "cannot open D:\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\Addons\anims_e.pbo" thats when I realised steam was in the middle of downloading updates to the files (changing files i guess as well). I assume that this was happening while I was in game as well because I didn't launch it through steam, and steam didn't know I had it open so it might have changed files while I was in game. Causing a ban i guess..

Anyone know the correct process to resolve this issue? Help would be much appreciated. I feel like buying it was a huge waste if I get banned for steam updating it after only having it 3 days.

[boneboys 0]

This should be asked over at the DayZ forums, in the Troubleshooting Forum or If needed the Ban appeals forum.

Normally a Global Ban by BE will not be dealt with by the Dev team, you must contact BE support.

Opening the Server Control is something that will, in certain cases result in the game shutting down with a BE message, this is one of the messures taken to restrict different scripts being added.

I have tested the function (a while ago) and was able to rejoin the server straight afterwards.

Please make a post or Search the DayZ forums to see if anybody else has the same problem.

Boneboys.

[TG Marksman X 10]

This is an issue with what Steam updated. It is all over the official DayZ forums. This is a Steam problem and not the fault of BIS.

[Placebo 29]

It's possible this isn't necessarily strictly DayZ related so I'll move it to troubleshooting :)

[IWaZzAI 1]

Here's the solution. Thanks for the posts, especially pointing out people were chatting about it on the Official DayZ Forum

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/45202-fix-for-being-kicked/