This is a reliable fix for anyone who is tired of restarting steam and their PC repeatedly until they can get it.
- On the DayZ title screen after a failed login, change your characters name to something different, hit apply.
- Change it back and hit apply.
- Then click “play” again.
This works every time for me.
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If you’re using DZSA Launcher and the previous solution doesn’t fix it then:
- Close the game
- In the DZSA launcher settings, change your “Ingame name” away and back again as previously mentioned.
- Click the arrow of the server you want to play and choose “start DayZ without joining server”
- Repeat steps 1-3.
Knowing this fixes it, perhaps the dev team can reverse engineer what’s happening here and change something so this post isn’t needed to get around it.