Won't Update to 1.7.2.6?

[kstone 2]

I was playing earlier on today and now I tried to join a server to play with a friend and it says the sever has a different version of the client. This would normally not be a problem because normally I can update directly from Play withSIX but I'm encountering a problem where the update isn't available. I also browsed around to try to find the new update and install manually but cannot locate a download for it. I've attached a screen shot of my problem to this thread as well.

Please help me with this I just purchased the game recently and I would rather not have spent 30$ just to be frustrated over simple stuff like this, Thanks.

[Wuggie 7]

wow this is all 1.7.2.5 over again aint it...

let me run down the things you will get in this post

"you didnt pay for the game, you paid for arma2, this is a mod"

"its alpha"

"dont use sixupdater/launcher use dayzcommander"

"get the how to run with sixlauncher without it autoupdating for 1.7.2.5 as its the same thing: http://www.mediafire.com/?r8gbj76e631lxw9 "

think thats about it

[Zarniwoop 1193]

"dont use sixupdater/launcher use dayzcommander"

Sound advice. Worked awesomely for me.

[sickboy 60]

Both SIX Launcher and Updater do not support multi-version, but Play withSIX (the replacement for SIX Launcher) does and .6 has been available since the moment it got released yesterday;

http://getsatisfaction.withsix.com/withsix/topics/why_cant_i_update_to_the_latest_version_of_dayz'>http://getsatisfaction.withsix.com/withsix/topics/why_cant_i_update_to_the_latest_version_of_dayz

And no this isn't the .5 situation all over, for starters .5 wasn't supposed to be widely adopted and as such we weren't authorized by DayZ Team to mass release it.

However that drove us to add multi-version support (currently just Stable and PreRelease (latest), more is coming) to Play withSIX, and thus that situation shouldn't occur anymore.

For Support questions, ideas and feedback, please refer to our support forum http://getsatisfaction.withsix.com/

Edited September 7, 2012 by Sickboy

[Trickster (DayZ) 10]

I have just spent hours waiting for the update (ISP totally blocks any kind of P2P traffic), to get it on playwithsix. It's only after hours of searching that I found that page on your website. I'm sorry but, that is not even slightly intuitive. It was in no way obvious that I'd have to click the ARMA II logo to change settings, rather than the settings button at the top. I know at least 6 other people on my friends list who I just told this to, and none of them had thought to click it. I've know doubt some people will say "LOL IT WASN'T OBVIOUS FOR YOU? U DUMB?" but honestly, that's not intuitive. I would honestly make it an extra tab at the top, or an extra tab within settings, because there are probably 10s of thousands of people in this position now, who have no idea how to update.

[sickboy 60]

Hi Trickster, cheers for the feedback.

TBH I was thinking exactly the same :)

Although the "Update to pre-release versions" setting should be enabled by default already, I agree it is not very logically placed.

I think we can not only find a better place for it, but also improve the handling in general:

http://getsatisfaction.withsix.com/withsix/topics/improved_multi_version_support

Feel free to comment!

Edited September 7, 2012 by Sickboy

[Wuggie 7]

i dont see how the fix from 1.7.2.5 do NOT work the same way here, i did exactly the same as i did back then to get it started..

so no matter what the intentions are, the "fix" was still the same for me...