Beta patches?

[Snoa 0]

Hi, I'm starting to see more and more servers saying that I need a "beta patch" to play on their servers. I've looked up on them, and have found out how to install them, but I have the Steam version of Arma II, so would installing the beta patch be any different? Also, if I have a newer beta patch installed, can I play on servers that are asking for an older one? And what are beta patches exactly?

[moriak 35]

- how to run beta with steam - http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9314

- you can still play on servers with older/no beta

- there are a lot of new features in beta patches, e.g. longer range on direct chat (which actually works unlike on non-beta servers), server option to disable chat channels (global/side), etc. you can read the change log for the whole list

[Snoa 0]

Hm. I've read some thing about connectivity issues with some beta patches. Are these isolated incidents?

[moriak 35]

I didn't have time to try out the latest build yet (93666) but I've been using beta for quite some time and didn't have any serious problems.. I had to reinstall BattlEye when I started using beta but then it all went smoothly.. you just need to copy the executable as it is described in the guide after every beta update

[Snoa 0]

Whenever I try to install it, I get an error that says something like "Arma 2 OA is not installed on your computer or installation is corrupt" :\

EDIT: Wait nvm, I know what I did wrong xD