mrbiggles

Yep I know that now I did have the game before but lost the install files. Now I am buying it again but it will not be steam as me and my brother in law have organised a day over christmas to get stuck into it. Cant wait:yay: Also the two problems were interlinked, once I deselected the second instance I was able to join the online games & the error at the start disapeared.

OK thanks very much, I will give it a try.

I have spent the best part of 10 or so hours trying to get multiplayer to work on the steam downloaded version of ARMA2 OA. I get "you have been kicked off the server" or "this server requires battleye" I also get: "DLCsetup\PMC\PMC_Data\addons\air_pmc.pbo" - decryption of headers failed. I have attempted to install battleye 47 different ways...... I like this game but would just prefer a working version of it. I have spent well over $100 on all of the addons etc & have had no success in getting assistance from either steam direct or the forums here. How do I get my money back from Steam? so that I can go and purchase it from another provider? Ultimately I will just put a chargeback on my credit card but I would prefer to get this game working on multiplayer as when it is working, its worth the money.

This is the second time I purchased this game - its a great game. Its a real shame I cannot play online though..... Did they name steam because its a steaming pile of crap?? The distribution system should not interfere with the ability to play a game. Whenever I try and join a server that has Battleye enabled, it kicks me off. I have tried replacing the dll file, reinstalling from the exe, reinstalling by right clicking the steam icon, running steam as administrator. I read through the entire thread that deals with this problem & there seems to be a large number of people having had the same problem & no single concrete answer on how it is supposed to be fixed. I have installed the following from steam about 3 days ago & they are the latest versions (I think) ARMA2 ARMA2 - OA Private company British forces I run Win 7 - 64 bit 16GB of RAM 2x 6850 radeon cards 2x velociraptors in raid 0 (it runs as smooth at full settings:yay: Still, my enjoyment comes from playing online & I cannot do it, it is really frustrating.

Just installed this game and getting the same problem, all I want is to get online and have a game......

I have crossfire working in ARMA2 with both windows 7 & Vista. Working is a loose term though, it makes absolutely no difference to the benchmarking scores in game. From my point of view at least, I completely agree with the article and am going to hock off my 2 graphics cards and do what I should of done in the first place and buy a decent single card.

They cannot be hookers because I tried everyway and there is no way I can find to pay for one of them.

No they definitely used to annoy me as well, I just dont bother helping anyone that cannot help themselves. A description of the problem in the title is very important. People that cannot be bothered to post the solution to the problem after asking for help are an irritation as well. I think they should in circumstances such as this bring back flogging.

On the surface ranking seems like a good idea until you see a group of muppets in game purposely shooting each other then reviving, shooting then reviving etc. As they say in Thai boxing "The belt is in the ring"

Scenario 1 We are going to drop you off on a large sparsely populated island with no mission objectives to talk of where you will be working in co-op with heaps of other people who a) you dont know and b) dont know what they are supposed to be doing either. People who are serious about simulated combat enjoy spending hours waiting for something to happen, and if you dont like it, we can transport you via a long boring chopper ride to the nearest BF2 theatre. In our mature level Co-Op missions which dominate the servers (and rightly so, it keeps heathens away) you can expect immersive action for 1 minute out of every one hour playing time, which is a great way to learn tactics and strategy. Scenario 2 You are put into an area where the enemy is seperated by less that 800m with 10 humans against 10 humans. Because the action is so condensed, you are able to quickly learn what does and does not work and are able to make large changes in the score by working together using tactics and strategy. Conclusion Small PVP maps are a better environment for a beginner to learn how to play the game in a team environment. Its a shame there arent any...... Went on last night and 20 out of the 20 servers I could play on were Co-Op. Whenever there is a server that has PVP, it quickly gets crowded and is hard to join.

Nothing is impossible for the person that doesnt have to do it! Thanks for the patch

The thing is, I really dont care if I win, I play a game for the games sake. Just give the option, if people dont take up on it then have the AI auto populate to fill in and they can go play on the other team. I can think of nothing more exciting than defending a town against a much larger force. Team work using spotters, AA, mortars and an effective defensive system would be so damn exciting, and the acheivement felt in actually preventing a towns capture would be so much better than the current goal of "awaiting orders" that are in most maps played.

Why do Co-Op & PVP game modes have to exist? Too repetitive to play against other people? So you would rather a spontaneous AI that is made to simulate a real persons actions but dont want to play agains an actual person? Its like wanting a blow up doll over the real thing!!!

What I am really failing to grasp here is that when you go into a Co-op game, its always against AI. Now lets take that phrase AI for a second, its artificial intelligence right? It an attempt to get a computer to behave like a human would in the same situation. I have a revolutionary idea, leave the Co-Op games exactly as they are with one minor exception, just replace the AI that defend the objectives with real people. Co-Op people still get to play their game the way they want and the people that enjoy playing against another human & in a defensive role also get some enjoyment. I cannot see why that would not work. Remove the AI from the game, its not that hard really, then everyone is happy! I cannot see how doing this would detract from the co-op game style in any way unless of course the AI behaves so differently to a normal human that it changes the way the game works, in which case all the more reason to remove the AI from the game. Its a self defeating argument, if the AI behaves just like a human then it makes no difference if they are AI or human, if the AI does behave differently then it should be removed to make the game more accurate. I am at the point where I am tempted to shelve the game for 6 months to see if it becomes more exciting. I can live with the bugs, the patches and all the other things that come with a new game, what I can not live with is wandering around a virtual world for 2 hours being bored, I can do that in the real world. Its great that people recommend learning the editor etc, however some of us purchased a game because we want to play it, not to tinker with creating the perfect map. I see no reason why those maps out now cannot allocate the AI positions to real people eliminating this massive void at the moment of being able to play an exciting game. The game is really boring on the big co-op servers out there at the moment, and I know I am not alone in thinking that. These servers are going to be the determining factor in whether this game retains a big self sustaining following and be able to convert some of the single dimensional players (like myself) into players that can work well in a team and play the game at a higher level. .

If its a military simulator as the name suggests then the fact the mission is not balanced means its more realistic. If every game was balanced in every way including expertise of the participants then it would always end in a draw. I would love to play a game where I have to defend a small area against a large opposing force. Khe Sahn, Monte Casino, Somme, they were all real and unbalanced....