Steam off-line with private server

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AtomikMulch

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Hello everyone,

Has anyone here been able to join your own private server when you are using steam offline?

I've been testing my own server and everytime I try to join it with my account offline, it hangs. It defeats the purpose of being able to go offline with steam.

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That would defeat the purpose of steam providing games that you can download on any computer. Suppose I install a game (single player lets assume) on my computer, then log in from a friends computer and install the same game. If I did not have to be connected to steam then he would in fact have a free, pirated version of the game. So steam is enforcing licensing.
It does suck occasionally as one time Steam authentication servers were down for an entire weekend and that meant that nobody could play ANY steam games.

So I am assuming that the purpose of this question was that you could have your own little private LAN party with a single copy of arma2. how about a cheap solution?
http://www.microcenter.com/product/395416/ARMA_2__Operation_Arrowhead_PC
its out of stock at my local store, I saw it there last month and should have bought a few copies.

pay attention to the BIS website and Steam. They are often on sale. I bought an extra copy of Arma2 Combined Operations for $4.99 US dollars about 3 months ago.
 
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Actually the reason I ask is that sometimes our internet connection is flaky and would like access to ARMA2 regardless. So when it is down, I still would like to tweak the server and try it out and YES, play on the server. :)
 
http://www.arma2.com/beta-patches

its a small download, easily installed.
should disable required version in your server.cfg and,probably have to install it on the server too so you have the same,version although there is little difference between patches.
and to start the server woth the beta patch you will need to use the expansion/beta/eexpansion exe file and have
..... you know what, its not as simple as it seemed ,:( but its still not a big deal to do
 
its actually pretty straight forward download this patch and install it
(dont worry it wont change your current install, it install into the beta folder)
http://www.arma2.com/downloads/update/beta/ARMA2_OA_Build_112555.zip

next copy this in to text file and save it as "Epoch offline.bat"
Code: 
@echo off
start  .\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe -mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\expansion;@DayZ_Epoch; -world=empty -skipintro -nosplash

this starts the beta patch version that dosnt need steam to run :)

the following speed up the startup process
-world=empty -loads blank world
-skipintro - skips intro video
-nosplash - Disables splash screen

EDIT: open your server.cfg and change required version to 112555
 
ShootingBlanks said:
http://www.arma2.com/beta-patches

its a small download, easily installed.
should disable required version in your server.cfg and,probably have to install it on the server too so you have the same,version although there is little difference between patches.
and to start the server woth the beta patch you will need to use the expansion/beta/eexpansion exe file and have
..... you know what, its not as simple as it seemed ,:( but its still not a big deal to do
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lol i just read your post after i finished typing :) sounds like in shooting you down ... again :p
 
yeah lol, it got to the point where it was just too much typing on my cellphone and i gave up .. that how i gauge complexity, if i can type it on my phone its a simple install ... if i have to use code blocks and links, its too difficult
 
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