DON'T LET STEAM UPDATE OA!! Game breaking!

[happylarry77 24]

Turn autoupdate off now and go in offline mode. This steam update breaks DayZ. Happening to a lot of people right now. Beware~

[01da 218]

Pfft... Steam.

[sistema 6]

My game updated by steam and this working perfect '---'

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

Just re-verify game cache and run again.

[Redshift 58]

Worked fine for me and another buddy of mine, but my second buddy is getting "wrong signature" errors when he tries to get on a server. Can't figure out how to fix it.

[sambody 44]

My steam haven't done anything bad to DayZ far as I know :P

[jordan2412 60]

Just re-verify game cache and run again.

Where do we do this? I get kicked from any server I try to join after the update

[SystemiK 366]

Well, I'm a glutton for punishment (and supposedly some sort of an alpha tester). Updating through steam now. I don't normally launch with steam but might as well give it a run and see how it goes.

EDIT:

Allowed steam to apply the patch. Using Steam I launched Arma 2: Combined Operations (right click Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead in Steam Library). Loaded into a server with no issues. I also launched the game with DayZ Commander as well, same, loaded into server with no issues whatsoever.

Verdict: Worked like a charm in my case, whether launching with Steam or with DayZ Commander.

Edited July 25, 2012 by SystemiK

[happylarry77 24]

I don't even use steam to run OA and DayZ, I just go straight through Six Updater... But the Steam update still messed with the files. Lots of forum posts about it, I just made it clearer and more noticeable. Just don't risk it.

[spankimus 71]

Definitely broke my DayZ, along with many others. Check the Troubleshooting section.

[Anton17 97]

Welp, since I just made this post in another thread, I might as well repeat it for the ignorance of fools...

Okay, lets get this out of the way, shall we...

IF YOU'RE PLAYING THROUGH STEAM, THERE IS NO WAY TO AVOID THE UPDATE.

If ARMA2 / DayZ is the only game you play through Steam, then you might be able to avoid it for a short while by using Offline Mode now and forever after, but chances are it will eventually bug out and you'll have to go online at some point to straighten it out. If you play other games, clearly this isn't an option, so get over it and just let the inevitable occur and allow the update to proceed smoothly.

Still having problems with the update in regards to the base game, DayZ or your relationship status?

WAIT FOR IT TO RESOLVE ITSELF - IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG.

Are we all better now? Good.

[Spartan114 21]

I'm running fine. Dunno what happened to you though.

[sarlac 10]

Funny, I haven't launched steam since I purchased OA with it. You dont need to run steam to launch arma. Why waste the CPU cycles and ram on steam when you can run the game without it?

[st0nedpenguin@st0nedpenguin.org 25]

It didn't do anything to mine.

I get the feeling a lot of people are experiencing shortcut startup issues.

[Sumdum 29]

Wunderbar. I hate the autoupdater sometimes. Along with 10Gb worth of TF2 shit I never wanted, things like this get a little old.

[i_deadly_i 10]

Damn i just logged in to steam to talk to people and now there's an update :( I ususaly don't use steam at all since I have had SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many problems with it. origin seems to have no connectivity problems and such!

[Voidfox 3]

Origin - blasphemy!

[Strogg 23]

Turn autoupdate off now and go in offline mode. This steam update breaks DayZ. Happening to a lot of people right now. Beware~

Luckily my laptop isn't connected to the internet right now. I expect by the time I wake up in the afternoon there will be a patch out already for the six launcher; if not then no biggie.

[A Bush killed me 189]

i really wish the dudes that make arma II would just say screw their game and help out dayz. No one played that terrible game any ways.

[sheogorath 0]

Stopped the update halfway through, and shut down steam. Still managed to break the game.

[Maxgor 2314]

Steam updating didn't bother my game at all. I could tell some were hurting though with how many were getting bad file errors trying to log into the server.

[daze23 549]

Wunderbar. I hate the autoupdater sometimes. Along with 10Gb worth of TF2 shit I never wanted, things like this get a little old.

then uninstall TF2

[Anton17 97]

Stopped the update halfway through, and shut down steam. Still managed to break the game.

What the fuck do you expect? Jesus christ. When an update happens, IT DELETES THE ALREADY EXISTING FILES AND REPLACES THEM WITH NEW ONES.

Stop the update halfway through? You moron. Of course it will break the game! You only have half the required files that it WAS TRYING TO UPDATE WITHOUT YOUR INTERFERENCE.

I see your genius logic but IT'S IDIOTIC PARANOID LUNACY THAT SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK.

[Sumdum 29]

then uninstall TF2

I did. The translation is that I can't play TF2 unless I want to constantly download a lot of crap. Thanks for the hot tip though.

[sheogorath 0]

What the fuck do you expect? Jesus christ. When an update happens, IT DELETES THE ALREADY EXISTING FILES AND REPLACES THEM WITH NEW ONES.

Stop the update halfway through? You moron. Of course it will break the game! You only have half the required files that it WAS TRYING TO UPDATE WITHOUT YOUR INTERFERENCE.

I see your genius logic but IT'S IDIOTIC PARANOID LUNACY THAT SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK.

Problem?.