Playing on the same network?

[Cooto3s (DayZ) 0]

Hello :)

I have some trouble with the mod. Or perhaps it's not the mod at all, that's what I'm trying to figure out.

I love this mod, and my brother has bought a new pc just to be able to play it.

The pc is due in 2 days, but he just couldnt wait,

So we made him a steam account on my pc, and purchased another copy of arma for him.

Everything went fine and he played for hours, but when I logged into my steam to get my character, all I got was his :(

I thought the characters was somehow connected to the cdkey.

So the question is, is my character lost? And will we be able to have 1 character each once he gets his PC, if we are playing on the same network?

Running v1.7.1.5 atm with the beta.

Thanks.

[dcskill 117]

Characters are connected to the CD Key. Did your brother get your character when he first logged on?

[Cooto3s (DayZ) 0]

No he got a fresh character and spawned at kamenka I think.

Do I have to change the key manually somewhere in-game perhaps?

I noticed he also had the same in-game name as me.

[dcskill 117]

Yes. Your CD Key is in your Arma 2 file in Regedit. I don't know how to input or switch CD Keys through this method. You might just have to share the same character until he gets his own pc. :\

[Cooto3s (DayZ) 0]

Yes. Your CD Key is in your Arma 2 file in Regedit. I don't know how to input or switch CD Keys through this method. You might just have to share the same character until he gets his own pc. :\

Ah so atleast it will work once he gets his own PC :)

Thank you very much for the help.

[Cooto3s (DayZ) 0]

My brother got his PC and unfortunately we are still having problems.

Most likely due to what we did earlier when we tried to have both our characters on the same PC.

Before I continue I got to say that I realize that this issue has nothing to do with the DayZ mod. But I'm hoping that someone else here might have had the same issue, and know how to solve this.

Everything went well to begin with, we played for a few hours with no problems, with the exception that our characters was switched. His character was saved on my PC, while my character was saved on his PC. So we had basically swapped characters.

Today, when we tried to get in, we first encountered a little glitch. When we joined a server, the person who joined last would get instantly kicked.

But when we joined different servers, we found that we were both playing the same characters. Like we were playing on the same CD key.

My brother turned his game off, because he thought it was some sort of glitch, but now when he tries to start the game up, it gives him an error saying "Bad serial given during setup" and the game is terminated.

I have tried reinstalling twice, but it doesnt seem to help one bit.

Is it possible to somehow delete the key from the registry so it's placed back in properly after I re-installed the game?

I'm running windows 7 at the moment.