I think I've got the fix. It's battleye related it seems. I watched this vid and works a treat now. Just had a couple hour session with no issue.

Anyone able to supply some 'expert' advice on this? Hoping to jump on tonight if I can fix it...

Got it through Steam. I've tried using steam to play it, I've also tried playing it without steam. I've also tried launching it without Dayz Commander, still no joy. Continues to come up with Wrong signature file blah blah blah .pbo I deleted the whole Expansion/Addon folder which kept coming up with the corrupt files. 4gb later download it still wasn't fixed. Beyond deleting my whole entire Arma 2 and Arma 2: OA files completely and starting from scratch. I don't know what else to do. Even then, I've got no confidence it'll fix the problem as it seems intermittent. It wont let me play at all in the evenings when I get home, yet yesterday morning it allowed me to play for a good 15-30 mins and the only reason I left was because I had to.

Hey guys, I'm still getting the same problem I've even tried deleting the whole 'addons' folder that the signature files had issues with etc and reinstalled... and still nothing...

Hi guys, Sorry to post another of these, however I've done a bit of searching and not had much luck. After being able to play perfectly fine for the past week tonight I start getting issues saying 'you have been kicked' and in game the guys are telling me its because of some signature file. Now I've tried deleting the @DayZ folder and redownloading the game. I've tried copying files from Arma 2 Addons folder to Arma 2 OA addons folder which I saw on another post here (I might also add, this was not a 'fix' as suggest, but completely fked the game by having random Arma 2 load images amongst other menus etc pop up for Dayz, before finally getting kicked). I've tried updating to the newest Arma 2 version. I've tried validating files through steam for both Arma 2 and Arma 2 OA, then opening each one by one, THEN going into Dayz and still it's borked. Can anyone please provide an actual fix for this, something that'll finally get me back in game. It's so frustrating that its doing this all of a sudden when it was perfectly fine a day ago and I havent even touched the game files. Thanks Mirkz

I don't understand why people dislike the current night? I think it's good. It's usually very good, I've only come across one or two areas (middle of woods for example), where it's so black you literally can't see in front of you etc. I'd hate for them to 'fix' it by making it so you're actually a lot more visible/easier to see by other players. It'd also lose some of the 'feeling' by losing that darkness... I think it'd be fantastic to mix in some 'fog/mist' in certain areas, or maybe with weather changes if it's possible. Very glad this is going standalone... I'll happily purchase it.

Was playing on AU 1 last night with a guy I don't really know other than through forum posts on another site. We loaded up TS and were having a general chat whilst we looted a few things in our separate spawn areas before joining up outside Elektro as the sun set and the darkness set in... The rest of the night went something like this.. By the time we met the guy I was with had an enfield and a revolver... me on the other hand, had been able to scavenge an mp5 clip a grenade and some other useless junk. He handed me the revolver as, although it was empty, he thought it would be a good deterent for anyone with a hatchet that might try to start something... good ole poker face. We decided we'd check out the power plant first. We went up to the hill to check it out from a distance and watch for a while before entering. We had seen someone climb the ladder to the smoke stack and then we never saw him come back down... shot dead perhaps ? I decided I'd move in closer, we had also spotted another person running around in the compound. As I was getting closer someone entered from the other side, the front, whilst I headed around the back. My friend kept watch the whole time. We ended up having a close call... one of the guys inside had spotted me and wanted to try and kill me. He came around the front, and just as he pulled his pistol out and aimed at me... "Bang BANG" two shots ring out and hit the ground around him, he panics and runs, realising there's someone out to get him. He runs around the other side of the trees trying to get a shot/sight of my friend. My friend finally found him and put a bullet in him... dropping him to the ground. I ran around and collected some gear... FINALLY.. a shotgun and plenty of ammo. We ran into the compound grabbed some loot and left via the front. We climbed the hill in front of the entrance... running away from zombies. I turn to see a quad sitting right next to us. SCORE! We quickly check for snipers, just in case it was bait. I jumped on... he jumped on and we left... direction... north west... but we were low on fuel. We stopped at two places trying to find fuel. Eventually we ran out and we were stuck in some small town. Luckily we found a petrol tank after spending 30 mins scouring the place hunting for some. We filled a tank and made our way back... filled up and jumped on, we were almost on our way again, but first to fill up some more jerry cans so it didn't happen again.. On our way through town we hit a few bumps... literally.. first one.. landed .. PHEW! second.. not so lucky... we rolled. luckily we survived... but our quad was unable to be used any further. We salvaged what we could and legged it further north. Eventually we came across a downed chopper... we got in there once the zombies cleared out a little.. we had just finished looting our spoils when we hear something over the comm's along the lines of "two targets spotted at downed bird" ..."Oh shit... that's us!" I said in surprise... "We've gotta go.... NOW".. we started to jog away from the chopper at first... We then hear confirmation of the mysterious voice... "2 targets are leaving the chopper"... and not a second later "Shoot to kill, shoot to kill." I panic, "RUN!" I yelled... "Zig zag... just keep running!", we we're hoofing it as quickly as possible, darting all over the place. Shots ring out from the mysery sniper/s... we couldn't determine where they were coming from, but I think it was behind us... I take a hit.. shocked I stumble... and start running again. To the trees and bushes... then over the field beyond and into the forrest. My friend and I had been split up, but thankfully using TS we could still talk and see how we each were. I was bleeding... I found a safe place and bandaged myself... by this time I needed food.... BAD... I was in the red.. I had approx 4200 blood left. I was safe... for now. My friend was still close enough to radio chatter, "FRiendly, guys.... we're friendly" They mumble something else apparently and then say "Have a good night". I still didn't want to be anywhere near there. I wanted to get away... and fast, but first I needed to find my friend. I had hidden behind a barn, I couldn't check it out for loot because zombies were inside and I didn't want to risk it. My friend went in and scouted it before we finally met up.. he was finding it hard to see me due to my new camo I had put on after looting the chopper. That's good, I thought... but those guys saw us easily... had to be thermal or NVG, which means we were still targets if they were far off. We came across another small town. and we went in seperate directions, desperately trying to find some food for me. I was searching another compound... long warehouses etc... nothing... nothing.... nothing.... nothing. The last place to search was a building at the end of the compound.... matches... YES! I tell my friend to meet with me at the house, I give him a revolver and ammunition I had found laying around. We meet up then run into the bush.. my meal meter flashing now... I was desperately trying to cut some trees... I needed wood and fast. It came up showing I wasn't in a forrest, across the field was another big batch of trees... surely I can get some there! We sprint over... I grab some wood.. finally.. I'd never made a campfire before, but thankfully was able to work it out quickly.. Wood on the ground then lit it and then cooked the meat... PHEW! FOOD! I put out the fire as quick as possible to avoid being detected, just in case those snipers were still about. We then set out for Stary... not long after we decided to log off... We were still alive... we had almost made it to the infamous NW Airfield... will we see it soon?... only time will tell...

I just had one of your types teleport me to a chopper and drop me outta the sky within 3 mins of me logging in. You deserve everything you get.

Yet to visit Cherno, tend to hang out in Elektro a lot, and it's often crawling with people. Usually find it difficult to find guns/loot because it's all gone.

People seem to forget here that although there are plenty of hacks in BF3, MW series, CS etc. It's more frustrating in dayz purely because you have to literally spend sometimes hours hunting for loot to build up an inventory/arsenal. You don't spawn with a full kit of gear every 30 seconds or whatever like you do in those FPS games. That, I think... is more the reason people are frustrated by it.

Buffjesus, pretty much have my settings as that already. It's just a shame because although everyone hates a bandit etc. I'm sure everyone here is guilty of standing their ground and taking someone else out who may be a threat, whether to life, or loot.. it's hackers like this that destroy the game. I would much rather die at the hand of a bandit than be teleported to a completely random spot and either killed, or left to duke it out with everyone else.

Hi guys, So it's been a few days now since I started playing this game. I love the idea of it.. I can deal with the glitches, I can deal with bandit chumps that just want to ruin your day. I can't deal with the annoying hackers, especially when it's basically game breaking. You get teleported and respawned into one area with 40 other people. Some start to panic and start shooting everyone. Other times there's an invisible bandit waiting to shoot you... and another time, as per today, I was teleported to what someone was calling the 'thunderdome'. Now after you've spent hours and hours sometimes just running through forests etc to get to a certain area, sometimes you spend that time going through towns slowly to dodge zeds etc, it's really irritating (as I'm sure everyone here knows), to have some cyber dickwad pull you from where you are only to have you meet your fate elsewhere. Now once everyones dead, they have to start from scratch, gearing up, and getting to whichever location they can/want to etc. I can be content for now with everything else, it IS an alpha, I get that..., but the severity of these hacks is something else. I've never come across something so irritating that just makes you want to turn it off and walk away...

216.185.114.85:2302 is the server IP. Twice we were all dragged to a roof top and killed off either by falling off or gunshot by invisible person.

How does that happen...

Hard to say just now being that I'm very fresh to the game. So far I've hung around Elektro to gather gear and supplies. I've started to head into the hills, but I'm waiting for friends to start playing too, so I don't want to stray too far from the coast just yet. I'm one of the friendly ones. I'll usually hide from another player until they've gone past or I'll chat with them, but other than last night's effort, I don't tend to hang around with them too long just in case.