Help please? :) Cant play

[TrajanP 0]

Can't play. I bought my games off Amazon. Arma the CO pack.

and most of the guides on here are only if you got it off steam.

the retail guides dont work for me.

my filesystem for arma gets all screwy and fucked up and I dont know which addons folder to use (there's like 18 of them)

my operations arrowhead or whatever .. not sure where it belongs in the filesystem... blah... horrible day on top of it all... waaah

kinda just annoyed. but I really wanna play this mod

[boneboys 7988]

You should post in the help forum.

Make a folder named @dayz. In that folder make another one named addons.

Unzip all of the required dayz files into the addons folder.

Place the complete @dayz folder in your main ArmAII game directory. (C:/programs/BI/ArmAII).

Now make a copy of the arma2oa application, look in the Start line for this

"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2oa.exe"

add this -mod=@dayz

It should look like this

"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2oa.exe" -mod=@dayz.

Easy :ô/\ô:

There is a launcher that has been made by the community for the community, check it out.

Hope that helps.

[TrajanP 0]

Well did all that.

Done it like 50x lol. I dunno what is wrong but when I try to join a server it just says "Connection Failed" after a few seconds.

I did exactly what every installation instruction has said.

[-=Grunt=- (DayZ) 0]

Is your firewall blocking the game?

Connecting Failed is because of your connection. If it says missing files, then you're missing mod files.

[boneboys 7988]

Ah ha, if this is your first try at MP with your ArmA2 game you might try connecting to a vanilla CO multy player game.

I helped someone last week who had a similer problem.

Once he played ArmA on-line the problem solved itself.

I seem to remember that at time of release the game required some form of on-line validation.

This may not be your situation but it's the best I can come up with at the moment.

Good luck.