ArmA 2 OA server suddenly not showing up anymore in Server List

[King_Haggis 0]

Hi ArmA players!

I have trouble with my ArmA 2 server which has otherwise always performed flawlessly. All of a sudden, since a week or so, our server doesn't show up in the Server list anymore. The game crashed as it does once a month or so and I restarted the PC and rehosted the game. But now we can only connect to the server by manually entering the ip adress. Does anybody know how to fix this? We haven't changed any settings! I use Tophe's TDAST tool.

This is what I asked Steam Support but I haven't received an answer yet:

 

 

Thanks for trying to help me out! By the way, if we ever get the server up and running again, please join us. I've been told many times we host the best Warfare server when it was still visible :-P

 

-Haggis

 

 

 

 

****** BELOW IS WHAT I ASKED STEAM ********

 

 

 

I have 2 Steam Accounts, the problem is with the "GEPOSYSTEMS" account. I use this account as server and have bought ArmA 2 plus ArmA 2 Arrowhead about a year ago for this PC.

I have since hosted about 8000 hours of ArmA 2 Arrowhead. The servername is "GEPO's Warfare Server" without the quotes. We use Windows Server 2008.

Since last week, the game doesn't show up in the serverlist but we haven't changed anything. The strange thing is, we can connect by going to "remote" and enter the ip adress and port manually (it's 145.87.239.199 and 2302). But other players can't find our server this way and I have received lots of complaints.


I have since tried the following things:

Manually updated Battleye
Reinstalled Steam
Reinstalled ArmA 2 + Arrowhead
Resetting the router
Check if the ports are still forwarded which they are (never changed anything)

As a last result, I even grabbed another PC (Windows 10) and tried to host from there but the server still doesn't show up and can only be accessed by entering the ip adress manually.

I got a CD key message when I reinstalled ArmA 2. Maybe we have been blacklisted for some reason? When I check the game now in Steam, it doesn't say anything about a bad CD Key though, and I can play the game fine on the server. It just doesn't show up in the list when we host a game.

Please help me out here because I'm getting quite desperate now.

Thank you!

[King_Haggis 0]

Nobody knows? Steam has just replied: hello, we see you have been playing the game since february 2, so do you still require assistance? They apparently don't even read the problem description. It's about the server not being visible in the list. I'm pretty sure it's a Steam / BattleEye thing. Sigh.... :(

[King_Haggis 0]

UPDATE:

 

Steam says it's not their fault and they say my CD key is fine. I have also sent my question to Battleye. I hope they have an answer. In the mean time, I hope you guys can help me out but nobody has said anything so far. This is starting to look desperate.

[King_Haggis 0]

I keep getting an "invalid session key" when I reinstall ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA. I have a second Steam account I use at home without problems but when I use it here at work, I also get the invalid session key for ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA. Also on a different machine as the server which has its own Steam account.

This problem is so weird! Steam says my key hasn't been blacklisted. I can play the game without problems on my home account and also on the server. I just don't see the server in the server list but can join it when I enter the IP adress. This is driving me nuts! Why the invalid session key notification when I install ArmA 2 OA?

[unhappytroll 6]

well, technically, Arma2 probably hasn't supported anymore, so we on our own here.