Joining a MODDED SERVER -- [NEW PEOPLE READ]

[MetalMilitia]

Admins are (STILL) seeing a lot of people TRYING to connect, and immediately getting disconnected, because they are loading in **WRONG.** I had another post on this, I wish they would sticky this because **1/2 a million NEW people coming into an 11 year old game is quite honestly BONKERS.** -- Discord is y6wM8mDscX or hunt me down here on steam -- FRIEND CODE IS 10557959 -- with any questions. 20,000 hours in the game between PLAYING and DEV work, so no BS here, just trying to help.

Unfortunately, many new folks are trying to join modded servers incorrectly, so please, **PLEASE, follow this advice:**

1. **Open the game from Steam**, it will run the **LAUNCHER**. FROM THE **LAUNCHER (NOT FROM IN GAME)...** -- This isn't the Arma3 dark ages, you only need the built in launcher....

2. FROM the **launcher**, Select the **MODS** tab on the LEFT hand side of the launcher.

3. In the TOP RIGHT CORNER, before you join ANY NEW SERVER -- select **UNLOAD ALL MODS. --** Do this before you join **ANY NEW SERVER!

ALWAYS UNLOAD ALL MODS WHEN CHANGING GAME TYPE, OR ATTEMPTING TO JOIN A NEW SERVER!** UNLOAD ALL MODS IS YOUR BEST FRIEND IN CONNECTING TO NEW PLACES! -- ALWAYS FROM THE LAUNCHER -- NOT IN GAME![/b]

4. Pick your server of choice, and select **JOIN.** (**ALSO RECOMMEND YOU BOOKMARK ANY SERVER YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BY CLICKING THE STAR NEXT TO THE SERVER NAME** -- that way it will be easily found within your **FAVORITES TAB** in the future!) After that you should see what mods are required to join that server. Select **SETUP DLCS AND MODS AND JOIN.**

5. Let it **DOWNLOAD ALL THE MODS** -- Some can be rather large, but you should see the status of the download on all of them. After the mods install, it should connect and join the server automatically once all the mods have completed. If it **doesn't AUTO CONNECT** once the **mods are COMPLETELY DOWNLOADED -- head back to the servers list on the left hand side of the launcher.** If you bookmarked it, it will easily be found in the **FAVORITES TAB.**

6. Join the server and **LET IT LOAD** as well. If it's heavily modded, things can take a minute. HAVE PATIENCE :) -- The loading time will vary on how many mods, how big the mission file is, and how much customization is on the server. Some places can take 10 seconds, others can take 1-2 minutes to load everything that is on the server!

Hopefully this helps a few new people coming in off SUMMER SALE that are not able to connect to servers/mods they want. Please consider giving this a **temporary STICKY** for all the new people coming in. It's **BLATANTLY OBVIOUS** to us server owners that the new people influx is having **MASSIVE PROBLEMS** connecting to **MODDED SERVERS.**

Good luck!

PS : Make a profile and change the username lol. If you are trying to connect with the user name ADMIN, ADMINISTRATOR, USER, or something of that nature -- some servers will auto kick you for having that name. So make sure you create a profile as well....

[SwineyPTSD]

NENE DU HEHE

[MetalMilitia]

Ok , well, just trying to help. 700,000 people to an 11 year old game, and nothing but immature response heh. Watching people attempt to connect and fail all day across numerous servers ain't a good thing, just thought it would help.