Re: How to have cheats and change time in 042c

Posted by kodabar on Oct 17, 2012; 3:05pm
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/How-to-have-cheats-and-change-time-in-042c-tp351p398.html

What's happening is that the game is running Operation Arrowhead and not picking up on the content from ArmA 2. There are two easy ways to fix that. The first is to just copy the Addons folder across, but that just eats another 8.5GB of your hard disk. Instead, I would suggest creating a symbolic link. Don't worry if you don't know what it is. It's very easy to do and just needs one command.

Open a elevated command line. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories and right click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run as administrator"

Type this command EXACTLY as it is here (or copy and paste it - to paste in the command prompt, click the little icon in the top left and choose Edit > Paste)

mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Addons" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2\Addons"

That command creates a symbolic link on your hard disk. It has created an Addons folder inside Operation Arrowhead, but the folder is actually the one inside the ArmA 2 folder. It's a handy command to know - if your Steam folder is taking up too much space on your C drive, you can copy games to another drive and then create a symbolic link and Steam won't know the difference.

Now you've done that, copy the pbo file from Kronzky's SupportCall to the addons folder in either ArmA 2 or Operation Arrowhead - they're the same folder now.

Then if I were you, I'd create a new shortcut.

Go into your Operation Arrowhead program folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead

And look for the icon marked Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch and copy that to somewhere convenient (like the desktop).

Right click the new copy and select Properties

Change the Target line to read
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -skipIntro -mod=@DayZ

And set the Start in line to read
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead

Adding modfolders is now just a case of adding a semi-colon and the name to the target line in that  shortcut eg:
-mod=@DayZ;@DayZFallujah;@KRON_SupportCall