Cannot connect, multiple issues.

[Omanah 0]

Hello guys,

I bought Arma 2 this morning and was able to play the game without no issues this morning (pre steam sale). I am trying to play this afternoon and I am running into a few issues that I think have to do with player load.

Any server that I join I need to create a new character, which I know I have to do because I just died on the last server. But it takes like 10 minutes to create a character and once it seems like it took I am just in a field and cannot move. Anyone else having this issue, or anything that I can do to fix! Oh, and it never came up with the prompt to chose male or female!. Thanks guys, happy hunting.