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Units data acquisition failed
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Description

Game had been running fine for the past week stopped playing due to work came back and game ran poorly and eventually crashed to desktop after opening the launcher i got a error saying "arma 3 Unit data acquisition failed" in red text and will not go away please give some advice

I've looked everywhere and can only find dead posts from years back

If your gonna just say "ohhh verify game files"

1.ive tried several times to no avail
2.ive reinstalled the game twice once using steam and and 2nd being a full wipe

So please if you actually know whats wrong please help and man out

Details

Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
N/A
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
General

Event Timeline

I can load the game and play it, but my unit's insignia is not showing up in multiplayer. On the launcher is says "Units data acquisition failed". Has been going on for a month now. I'm not the only one experiencing this. Everyone on multiplayer is too.

Tenshi added a subscriber: Tenshi.Feb 8 2022, 10:59 AM

Hello, the server that hosts Arma Units is having issues so everyone has this problem.
The important functionality of Units can be achieved via the ancient: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/squad.xml
It's much less user-friendly, but its always available.
Otherwise there are other Unofficial XML creating and hosting sites for Arma.