Ok, so it's been about a week since I was able to join any servers. I was able to play just fine in 1.5.7 and earlier versions until I was shot in the back and killed in 1.5.7 by someone during an intense standoff with a friend against 40+ zombies in Novy Sobor. The mod is installed correctly, I've ran mods in Arma often enough to know if that was the issue, but I've tried reinstalling the files just to verify anyway. I have tried the majority of the servers, all of them with low enough ping to join at least. I have waited for half an hour or more, quit and rejoined the same server waited more several times, moved on and tried the same thing on another server with the same results; trying servers with low numbers of players online, servers with many players online, etc. I have restarted the PC and done the whole process over again. I have attempted this at various times throughout the day, each day, with no change in results. Occasionally after waiting a half hour or more of "waiting for server response" I spawn in the debug forest, with no HUD and no sound whatsoever beyond voice chat (and no the volume settings are not turned down. Other game types work fine HUD and sound-wise). Sometimes after spawning in the debug forest if I hit esc>respawn I will respawn in the debug forest again and I will have my old inventory and I can move, BUT I still have no HUD and no sound beyond voice chat, I can venture into towns, search them top to bottom I will see not 1 single item, and not 1 single zombie. Not even a tin can or old corpse. No other players either but that one in particular could be chance. I traveled all of the southern coast with this same result in each town, farm, and village, from Pavlovo south to Komarovo, and from there east to Elektro. Also if I respawn in debug forest and am able to move, usable items such as soda, food or flares in my inventory do not come up as options to use in scroll menu or via pressing F. I can however change guns and shoot the gun I have ammo for, even use the flashlight on the Remington 870. Beyond the occasional immobile person in the debug forest or stray rabbit there is nothing to shoot anyway. I emailed the Dev team via the "contact the team" about my issues and methods I've tried to resolve them with and and was told simply "try to play at another time or another server - this may solve the problem by itself". I think that after using the process of elimination and trying as many servers I could at various times day and night each day for a week that this is quite clearly not the case. The only thing that makes sense to me at this point is my character data in the database is corrupted somehow or I am simply being blocked. This being the funnest game ever it's driving my nuts not being able to play and team up with friends. I've exhausted every possible fix I could think of and every possible fix I've read about, such as the method of reverting to 1.5.6, joining, respawning, then re-upgrading to 1.5.7. all to no avail.

Ya there's plenty of other things to do, but not a day goes by where a friend asks if I want to join them in DayZ. Sure I WANT to, but I can't... If you need something to record video and have an Nvidia card check out MSI afterburner. It captures really good quality video, don't know if it works on ATI cards though.

I'd love it if someone would fix it so I can play already. I've sent every bit of information you;d need via forum and email several times now.

I've updated to 1.5.8.2 and still cannot join any servers. :(

Just for kicks I removed everything Arma related Re-downloaded and reinstalled over night. Unfortunately nothing changed.

I guess that's something I may have forgot to mention, I was asked to provide those as well via email. I emailed them the RPT and player ID, player name and never got a reply back to that particular email. Data corruption makes the most sense, I'm not sure why someone couldn't just have a look and see if that is the case. I would myself were it possible.

I can only hope the update will somehow correct this when it comes out... if I find anything that works I will definitely be posting it here.

Wow pal, I get pissed and make my fair share of condescending comments, but you're just being an ass. Also, your spelling as well as your grammar skills are impeccable, keep it up broski.

I suppose your router or PCs firewall might be related to the issue. I would not suggest leaving either of them off for an extended period of time, but you could turn them off temporarily as a test to see if one of them is the issue and then forward ports accordingly. If the only software firewall on your PC is Windows firewall than it's unlikely to be the issue, but a software firewall such as what come with Kaspersky and other internet security suites could potentially block Arma. Changing firewall settings on routers varies quite a bit, search the model if you don't know how.

I have what sounds to be the exact same issue, I've carefully documented the problem and any bugs I've noticed in my thread here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3846 Perhaps we could merge this into my thread, seeing as how it is not a isolated issue like I thought. I've yet to find a solution and it's been a week now.

Ok, so now I've tried reinstalling AO and BattleEye and it has not really changed anything. I still spawn in debug forest if I wait a very long time. Apparently I am able to move as soon as I spawn there now, without hitting esc>respawn, besides that no significant changes. Here are some pics of spawning there, for what they're worth. These few in particular are interesting as it appears there was a locked version of myself (minus the custom face) with the exact same inventory as I had which I shot and killed. I expected it to kill me but it didn't. Although I grabbed some of the shotty ammo and put it in my inventory out of habit. http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109773576/39FB66525578B3889CA8A2D80DFF240D2AEBD42A/ http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109752180/78602ADBE21D9B9A24E3E791959B6855E748028C/ http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109766348/725F8222A936698184F17F7B3B843912DD0B0C68/ http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109737295/FD7B923A074648EDF964DDC0F9386BC0FF2B6316/ These ones are of a different survivor corpse I shot while in the debug forest, because well.. I really can't do anything else. http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109745809/062F87DA79EA9A57A4DEA1D361384BAB26345B10/ http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540675904109758962/24F552AE4E86A9C3F1D4536A127D087D8BB2DDD1/ I really wish a dev or even moderator would look into this. There is a serious issue with my character data, and I can't even get acknowledgement of the fact that it is an issue. I'm trying to be patient, but being ignored really sucks. I think I've documented the issue clearly enough to show it's going to take more than just "trying to rejoin". If I could fix the problem myself I would, but I can't.

I will try method 1 once steam redownloads AO (it was the only other thing I could think to try). Although other games on other dedicated servers such as ones running Domination have not given me a single issue related to battleeye. Hopefully that will be a fix, I really hope... Not to diss your other suggestions, but 2 is more of a non-method than anything. Waiting too long won't reduce the chances of joining a particular server. It will either work or it wont, the extra time is irrelevant. As for 3, if you've read this post at all, you would see I have. I've tried damn near all of them. No less than 15 servers each day, upwards of 30 some of those days. Setting it to join one, walking away to do things and coming back a half hour or so later to either no change or debug forest.

How possible would it be to make is so that when found and worn the bandit skin hides your user name, but having the survivor skin shows your name when being aimed at? At least with your name out there you have some minimal collateral for not being a douche nozzle. If you were spotted shooting at a player they could say "Hey player Ragi1ngD0ucheNozzl3 just shot me, watch out for him". Not to mention it would make up for the fact that visually each player is essentially a clone and indistinguishable from each other. As a bandit you'd want to be mysterious, unknown. Unless you're just out to make a bad name for yourself, in which case you could don unmasked survivor wear. In the off chance you read this Rocket, could you have someone fix my player data, it's corrupted or something. I haven't been able to play in over 5 days now, and I've been patiently trying different servers and times and waiting for a long time on each (30 minutes+). The dev team told me via email it will fix itself, I'm inclined to think that's BS since corrupt data does not self heal.

After reading this thread I'm curious if my reason for not being able to join any servers is being shadow banned for picking something up I didn't know not to. Maybe my data is just corrupt, but thinking back on some of the nice guns I've gotten off dead survivors I'm a bit worried. I just want to play. :-/ Also, if players can be banned simply by picking up items that are not allowed from survivor corpses can we at least get a damn list of items that we should not pick up? :huh: It would only be fair since considering the information in this thread it's essentially a gamble each time you pick up a new item, not knowing whether or not it will get you banned for it. There is no common sense about it, people won't simply know by default what is meant to be picked up and what isn't. It's an asinine policy to punish people who are not even the original source of the offending items.

Getting kicked back to the server browser is likely a issue with BattleEye, I don't know the method off hand, but try reinstalling BattleEye.