PvtRAGER

I have Combined Operations and I tried multiplayer for the 1st time today and had the hardest time finding a server. Most servers listed just having ? for the ping. I find less than 10 servers with pings less than 100. I'm only able to connect to maybe 2 of them all the others I'm kicked out or session lost. The servers that I can connect to have 3-4 players and there isn't really anything happening. My question is, are there not a lot of "pure" servers at this point? I'm aware of mods like A.C.E. but I wanted to try the pure version of the multiplayer first but am not having much luck. As a new player to Arma 2, are most US servers using add-ons that I need to download if I want to be able to enjoy the multiplayer portion of this game?

Yeah my menu is the brownish one. I appreciate the help man, C5 sounds promising. I just ordered upgrades for my rig (practically bought a new computer lol) so once my rig is good to go, I'll give multiplayer another shot.

Um, I'm not entirely sure lol. Combined Operations has 2 discs. First one says Arma 2 the other OA. I leave OA in my dvd drive and play from that one. I believe I'm playing Arma 2's campaign off it, Harvest Red? My desktop shortcut says Combined Operations too, so its gotta be the one. I got high speed cable. I don't know the data rate though.

I've played Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Played and loved Project Reality but deleted it because only UK servers were only active most of the time and my ping was way too high. I've heard ARMA 2 was super buggy and not worth playing but I finally tried both the demo for ARMA 2 and Operation Arrowhead and both are incredible. I'm on the verge of purchasing Combined Operations, but I'm worried there aren't a lot of US servers and I'll be playing single player all the time (eventually gets old) I live in New Hampshire btw. Thanks to anyone who answers this, high hopes that I'll be buying this game.