How do I transfer my Arma 3 profile to another account?

[LonelyGangstr]

I bought a game on another Steam account and want to transfer my progress to a server?

[ShelLuser]

Arma 3 is first and foremost a single player game. So if you want to transfer progress from one game (account) to the other you simply need to copy its datafiles.

Now servers are another thing, that's not possible unless it's you whos running the server. Because this would basically require to move datafiles around on the server itself, and I pretty much doubt any server owner is going to "just" do so.

[LonelyGangstr]

Thank you

[Valen]

Your Arma 3 profile exists in 'Documents\Arma 3', or 'Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles'. The first is based on your Windows useraccount name. You can't change the name of that. The second contains all the secondary profiles you made in-game.

The server doesn't need your keybinds or graphics settings or player avatar face and voice pitch. It also cannot do anything with your savegames.
But some 3rd party scenarios save their state to a file called profilename.vars.arma3profile. You can transfer that to the profile folder used on/by the server and rename the file to match the profile name used by the server. Then the saved content should show up when you run the same scenario on the server.

[LonelyGangstr]

Originally posted by Valen:

Your Arma 3 profile exists in 'Documents\Arma 3', or 'Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles'. The first is based on your Windows useraccount name. You can't change the name of that. The second contains all the secondary profiles you made in-game.

The server doesn't need your keybinds or graphics settings or player avatar face and voice pitch. It also cannot do anything with your savegames.
But some 3rd party scenarios save their state to a file called profilename.vars.arma3profile. You can transfer that to the profile folder used on/by the server and rename the file to match the profile name used by the server. Then the saved content should show up when you run the same scenario on the server.

Will I get my progress back on the server?

[Valen]

Depends on the scenario/mod that you want to play the mission of.