Boggy

I don't consider "what the fuck" to be 'more than somewhat abusive' of a term but to each their own. This is not a DayZ specific problem because it relates to the Arma2 beta patch. Yes, I need it in order to run DayZ but its not an exclusive issue... I'm still hoping for a helpful reply instead of one lecturing me on my approach :)

Kremator, no you didn't understand my post mate. I didn't downgrade DayZ to 1.5 (my DayZ version is 1.7.0), I just used Worrom's 'DayZ Mod Updater v1.5'. But the newest version of that is v1.6 and it still didn't work.

...Well I wouldn't want any potential responder to take it personally, no. I've just been frustrated by this process so many times in the past 3.5 hours that I am getting quite irritable. I guess I'll have to reinstall everything from scratch tomorrow. I don't have the patience for it now. So great that this happened right when I found a bicycle ingame...

No. Sorry to burst your bubble but there is no post that solves my problem. First off, DayZ was working fine for me until today. Then I kept getting stuck on the black "loading..." screen and realized I needed to install the new 1.7.1 version. So I ran DayZ Mod Updater (from Worrom) v1.5 and it failed at the sfx file. Then I used v1.6 of the Updater and it still failed. So then I figured I need to install the beta patch first. And then while extracting that I come across the wrong cd key error. I've launched the Sic Updater tool too and it did no help either.

Well, then please link it because I couldn't find that topic.

Every time i run the patch, it extracts and then gives me an error message saying WRONG CD KEY. I bought both arma2 and OA from Steam so what the fuck is the problem? I have restarted, ran as an admin, ran Steam as an admin, closed steam, nothing works. I used the latest build from here arma2.com/beta-patch If anyone has a helpful suggestion I would be immensely grateful.