Anyway if someone knows how to "lock", change this to "solved" or whatever let me know (or do it if you're a mod idk) and I'll eventually remember to check back and do it if it happens

Well, Hi. I'm very, very stupid. Everything was down to not having the correct mod folder set up. I swear that's one of the first things I tried but oh well, now it works apparently so yeah, laugh at me if you will; I'll be recovering lost time

In T182399#2634295, @dedmen wrote:

Steam should be downloading the mods. Look for errors inside your steam client

I have had this exact same thing happen to me today. I started a game yesterday, I've been going slow with it, stockpiling and such. I also found the bug where backpacks duplicate and make your character warp and maybe that has something to do with it but the first time I got the error on the corrupted save saying not enough memory with 32Gb of RAM is a bit hard to believe to say the least. And my current save is 180Mb, I managed to return to a different one but again now it's corrupted. This is my favorite "game mode" in Arma and it's a shame I can't really play it because the save will be unusable.