BadContrakt

I can only search for servers like once every 5 minutes. And then if I hit refresh again, no servers will pop up and I have to close Arma III completely and wait 5 minutes until I try to search for servers again. I have 2,525 hours into this game and it has been this way since the first hour. I ask other people if they have this problem and some say no, some say yes. Let me go through it very slowly so there's no confusion. I launch the game. I go to Multiplayer. I go to Filter. I type in "King" to search for King of the Hill missions. I hit Enter. It finds hundreds of servers. I think "Nah. I would rather play Wasteland." So I go back to the Filter, and type in Wasteland. Then I hit Enter again. The browser finds nothing. It sits there and does nothing. I can try different words, I can even search "King" again and it will still show nothing. The only thing that fixes it is shutting Arma down and waiting a few minutes. Then I can re-launch the game and search for servers one more time again. If I don't find the server I want right away, well, I will have to wait 5 more minutes for Arma. This has been happening since the day I bought Arma III and has happened on my PC (through like 5 Window reloads) and on my laptop as well. Re-installing the game or attempting to fix the game does nothing. When you guys were coming out with that new launcher server browser I was really excited because maybe that would work instead. Nope. The launcher server browser does the exact same thing.

I've actually had 3 different internet providers and lived in 3 different apartments through owning Arma III and this problem has always happened. I have fast and very stable internet that never gives me any problems at all. This problem has nothing to do with my internet.

Nah my internet is perfect. No lag ever. Didn't change anything for me unfortunately.

Yup! I haven't taken the time to test other weapons but yeah, the M14 is an obvious one!

This is no game-breaking issue, nor is it a bug. It's simply a "goof" by the BI developers.

Episode 3!

King Me Episode #2! Lots of kills and thrills!

Enjoy!

Of course there are always exceptions to a large rule! I didn't want to go into so much detail that the thread got off-topic though lol. Um I know for certain that the M14 (Marksman DLC) does it. I know for certain that the Lynx does it. Haven't really checked many others. I could though, and I'd probably find that a lot of the others do it as well.

How is this still a problem? When the Eden update was on the approach I was very excited. I figured for sure that BI would fix how the server browser just randomly stops searching for servers in multiplayer (Internet). Considering that they were adding a browser to the launcher I figured certainly they would fix the in-game browser at the same time. Everyone I know has this problem as well lol. It's insane how it's still an issue! If you don't know what I'm talking about... This is the explanation. Launch Arma. Go to Play - Multiplayer The server browser appears. In the Internet tab, you create a filter called "King of the Hill" and press refresh. You may refresh 3-4 times while searching for a server or attempting to join a full server and then... It just stops refreshing properly. You hit refresh and no servers appear. None. You hit refresh again and still the same result. In order to fix this I actually close Arma completely and wait 2 minutes and start it up again. That will give me another 3-4 good refreshes and then it will do it again. This has happened to me and everyone I know for my entire 2,400 hour Arma 3 career, on multiple PCs, with multiple different hardware setups. This problem has nothing to do with hardware or software. This is a BI issue that's gone on for too long.

Not a day goes by that I don't die specifically because of an Arma issue.

I always thought that video was just a troll lol. You can actually do it?

That masterkey though! Haha! Looks like an old Remington 870 that was taken apart and retro-fitted onto the gun. Love it!