Arma 2 OA Respawn Not Working

[valkyrie4488]

I play Lan games by myself against the AI casually just to enjoy the game, and for the most part on the map 16 mountain warfare. Well today i tried to play a game, but every time i get killed the camera just stays above where i was killed and it doesn't respawn. I have tried everything i can think of, and everytime i try to verify the integrity of the game cache it say's 1 file faile to verify that Steam will reaquire it which it never seems to do and i have re-installed it twich with the same thing happening. The only one that respawn worked on was the original Arma 2, but i mainly play OA now days and even with the original Arma 2 it says a file failed the integrity check as well and i have re-installed it as well. The only thing i can think of is the patch might have caused this, and it's funny how so many great games get ruined this way. I was planning to get Arma 3, but after this I'm not sure. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[Sturm]

You must script respawns yourself.

Go to your documents (not the steam>steamapps etc folder) and find your mission within Arma 2>missions, or >MPMissions. There should be a folder with the name of your mission, which inside should contain a .sqm file. In that folder, create a description.ext with Notepad, and make sure it's not description.ext.txt - and within that file you must write this:

respawn= "BASE";
respawnDelay= 5;

and nothing else.

Then you must go into the mission editor with your mission, and place down a marker where you wish to respawn, and name it one of the following:

respawn_west
respawn_east
respawn_guerilla
respawn_civilian

The west is for BLUFOR units, the EAST is for OPFOR units, guerilla is for independents, and civilian for civilians.

Make sure you save, and then 'preview' it to test it. It should now work.

Happy gaming!

[opusfmspol]

your info for editor missions is good for people trying to build their own mission for the first time; but map 16 Mountain Warfare is a packaged .pbo mission that comes with the game, not an editor mission he's building. I play it too. Create a new game on Internet or LAN, select Takistan map, and you'll find it there: "CTI 16 Mountain Warfare." The packaged .pbo has the warfare module and the description.exe set up inside already. When the .pbo is played, the description.exe inside the .pbo configs the respawn, and the warfare module inside the .pbo assigns the respawn markers.

I have the exact same problem, no respawn happening in LAN MP warfare module games since the patch. I'm wondering if it's really a patch glitch, which would seem more likely, or could it be related to BattlEye being detected as a trojan, which would seem less likely. The BE has getting removed or quarantined by virus scan software since the patch. So if BE fails to initialize would that affect the LAN respawns? I dunno, but if not then it's probably a patch glitch.

[valkyrie4488]

Sorry for the late reply. Yea, i was referring to the pre-packaged mission 16 mountain warfare, i don't really use the editor. lol I tried allot of thing's, and i eventually got it working by reverting back to 1.62 as suggested which cleared everything up for the most part. The icon no longer works, and it has to be launched from Steam directly with the without BE option. I tried this with the 1.63 patched version as well but it still didn't work so i pretty much know it was the patch now. It took me awhile to figure out sense i haven't reverted any games before, but i went under the Arma 2 OA properties, and under the beta section i selected the 1.62 version from the drop down menu which by default was set to opt out. Cleared thing's right up, and i just enjoyed another game finally. lol Thank you guy's, i really appreciate the help.

[opusfmspol]

Yeah, it seems rollback to 1.62 is the general consensus and works. It's a workaround though. The problem isn't addressed.

Looking at how the camera acts, I think maybe an unbroken loop occurs in the camera mode after a player is killed in the 1.63 version.

I have an editor warfare module game doing the same thing. I'm gonna tinker with the scripts in it, to try removing camera mode on death, and see if that has any effect.

[opusfmspol]

CONFIRMED

A camera loop glitch in 1.63 is apparently breaking the CTI respawns.

I imported the warfare module's "Client_Killed" script into my custom editor warfare mission, commented out the camera commands - all but preload respawn location line - then executed Halo jump at game start and failed to pull the chute. died on impact and the respawn timer counted down. No overhead death camera. Respawned - no problem.

However... this doesn't help with the packaged .pbo missions. And extra scripting is required to get the respawn in editor missions to work.

Hope they address this glitch.

[opusfmspol]

Posted a fix for editor missions in 1.63. Still won't help with the .pbo's. They would have to be unpacked, fixed and repacked. Rollback to v1.62 as ChrisCleenk suggests remains the simplest solution.

details of the problem:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?180972-How-to-Fix-Respawn-Failure-in-Warfare2-Editor-Missions

[Rexhunter99]

This is all well and good but one cannot revert to 1.62 now due to the Gamespy shutdown and when clicking Multiplayer from the options, the game sticks at Receiving and never leaves, cannot be closed down or ALT+F4'd and has to be ended via task manager.

Still waiting for BI to fix this as not everyone can run A3 on their hardware.

[opusfmspol]

I doubt BI will deal with the issue anytime soon, as A3 has most of their resources now.

Using v1.63, if you know just a little bit of scripting, the link can now help fix editor Warfare missions -and- the Warfare missions in game (that was found after the last post). I tried to make the editor instructions as basic as possible for first-timers. Unfortunately yes, it does require you to do some scripting in your mission file to get the Warfare respawn back.

[Nukabear]

On your steam right click Arma 2: OA select-properties-BETAS and on the pop down menu select 1.62 and close should update almost immediately.

The issue you are or were having is a bug with 1.63

[Danny]

Had the same Problem...

[opusfmspol]

The Corepatch addon by Goliath86 fixes the respawn problem, and many others.
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?184371-WIP-CorePatch-config-patch-for-ArmA-2-OA

It's also available on Armaholic and Play With Six.
Activate it like any other mod.

[ABYSS 🎶]

Originally posted by opusfmspol:

The Corepatch addon by Goliath86 fixes the respawn problem, and many others.
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?184371-WIP-CorePatch-config-patch-for-ArmA-2-OA

It's also available on Armaholic and Play With Six.
Activate it like any other mod.

Hey How do you activate the mod? Ive installed it and when I try to play a lan game it gives me a blackscreen, I can still shoot.

Help I really miss Warfare CTI

[OnlyFeds]

Same problem... fail

[opusfmspol]

Originally posted by Heinz Deus:

Hey How do you activate the mod?

The download is a zip file, you extract the addon folder from the zip.

You have choices where to put the extracted folder; there are different methods to use for organizing and activating mods and addons, and people have their preferences. The methods are explained in the BI Forums and Armaholic websites, and videos can be found about it on YouTube as well. Search for "Arma2 install mods".

My own method as example, I place all @ModOrAddon folders inside directory "My Documents\Arma 2\". It's because I prefer to use the modfolder method for simple organization, and activating them from the OA "Expansions" menu. From the Arma2 folder they show up in my "Expansions" menu.

Originally posted by Honcho:

Same problem... fail

I found this encouraging to read :

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?184371-WIP-CorePatch-config-patch-for-ArmA-2-OA&p=2899922&viewfull=1#post2899922