Let me start off by saying I am about fed up with the Dayz Mod and how ridiculously complicated it is to do anything. PlaywithSix, DayZCommander, and Steam - all offering what seem to be the same product, but how should I know - each one is several gigabytes to download so there's no way I'm waiting for each one so I can test them all. It seems that every single tutorial out there has a slightly different way of doing what SHOULD be a very straight forward task. Each one uses one of the three above, but you often times don't know which until you start reading the tutorial. Most of them are outdated, I haven't found a single PlaywithSix tutorial that uses the latest GUI. The new Stand Alone version isn't helping either, only supplying even MORE variation in the ways you could install the game. All I want to do is start from scratch, download the DayZ Mod, and join a server. A couple years ago I downloaded Steam and bought Arma II and Arma II Operation Arrowhead. I then downloaded PlaywithSix and started playing on a server. A couple months later I deleted both pieces of software as well as *some* of the game data. Today I am attempting to reinstall it and play once more. Lets take a look at a step by step of whats been done. Keep in mind this was all following tutorials online for how to supposedly fix one issue after another. 1. Install Steam 2. Download Arma II and Arma II Operation Arrowhead by going to "Library" and clicking "Install" 3. Download the latest version of PlaywithSix 4. Click on "Games", go to "Installed", and select "Arma II Combined Operations" 5. Go to "Mods" and select "Original DayZ Zombie RPG - @DayZ" made by the dayzdevteam 6. Go to "Servers" and attempt to navigate this section 7. Select a server and hit "Install" where the join button should be. 8. Finally click the play button that has appeared A message appeared saying that BattlEye could not be started or something like that. 1. Go to battleye.com 2. Download "BE Client for Windows (32-bit) - v1.223" 3. Put it in the Expansion > BattlEye folder for Operation Arrowhead. So at this point I tried joining it again and I was stuck at "wait for host". Another server I tried actually got the chat started in the lower left corner but lost connection twice. So I gave up on that server. I look up issues with "wait for host" and tried a couple solutions. 1. Download "ARMA2_OA_Build_94876.zip" file 2. Run program within 3. Get error message that the installed version is newer than the beta version I read that some files need to be deleted in order for this to work. The tutorial DID say I was supposed to moving to a LOWER build number not a higher one. Which I am. 1. Delete several files that I will not name for the sake of time. 2. Try again. 3. Same error message 4. Put files back in respective folders I deleted 4 files - two were put back so there is nothing to worry about. The other two were files in the BattlEye folder. Now this intrigues me. I had lost them and tried to get them back off the internet, but nobody mentioned them anywhere. Every screenshot of the folder on google images doesn't show them. What it DOES show is a BattlEyeUninstall file or something like that. I did not have any uninstall files. I still do not. I only have BEClient and BEServer. 1. Attempt to join the server one more time. 2. Stuck waiting an hour for it to download "2 mods" - neither of which I know the name of nor did I tell it to download. I'm completely lost to the point where I'm not even sure where I am in this post of what I've left out. I do not know what to do. Every server I see, every *ing single server I see, has some kind of issue. Not a single one has a ping, most are empty, thousands have the wrong version, and the ones that are left require another Mod on top of another Mod. I just want to join a simple vanilla server (maybe more vehicles) and play. Thats it!
