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  • ARK: Survival Evolved, Available Now on Windows 10 with CrossPlay!

    Survivors! The wait is finally over, ARK has officially launched on the Windows 10 platform, and from 8 AM PST will be available to purchase on the Microsoft Store! It includes the base game along with 'Primitive+', 'The Center', and 'Ragnarok', and additionally currently available are the two story-telling expansion packs 'Scorched Earth' and 'Aberration'!

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    As the game was already available for Xbox One and Xbox One X enhanced, it is now an Xbox Play Anywhere title, so this will allow Survivors who've purchased the game digitally on Xbox to download an play on both platforms at no additional cost. You can pick up the Windows 10 Version of the game here:

    ARK: Survival Evolved
    ARK: Scorched Earth
    ARK: Aberration

    Everything is tied to your Microsoft/Live account! This means that you can pick up your adventure wherever you left off, switching between your Xbox One and PC while dynamically taking your saved progress, Gamerscore, DLC, and achievements with you.

    With the release of Windows 10, comes a new exciting feature: CrossPlay (cross-platform online multiplayer)! Whether it's playing on Xbox from the comfort of your sofa with a controller in hand, or at your Windows 10 Gaming Desktop, survivors with this Play Anywhere title can take advantage of CrossPlay and live on the ARK with their tribe across both platforms. You'll be able to tame, harvest, and dominate with each other! 

    For those wanting to jump into the CrossPlay experience immediately, you can do so by browsing our Official Server network for matches titles 'CrossPlay'. We've launched 24 servers, a mixture of PvE and PvP, clustered by region available to play right now! (All Official Servers will become CrossPlay enabled in the future once BattlEye, or an equivalent Microsoft anti-cheat system, functions on the Windows 10 Store.) Also, you'll currently find a large quantity of player-hosted Dedicated & Non-Dedicated CrossPlay sessions to join!

    CrossPlay is enabled by default for anyone hosting a server via their consoles. You can disable it, by just unchecking the 'Enable CrossPlay' option when hosting a session! It'll appear in a dialogue box, after beginning to host a server.

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    For those using a Nitrado PC server, CrossPlay is disabled by default. You can enable the setting, by logging onto your administration panel, select the 'General' tab under 'Settings', checking the 'CrossPlay' checkbox, save the changes and restart your server!

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    The launch of the Windows 10 version also brings the single player & non-dedicated split-screen to PC! Over time we'll be working on incorporating the same feature onto the Steam version of the game.

    You will be able to host a 70 player dedicated server using the Windows 10 version of the game! At present, hosting a Windows 10 Player Dedicated can be graphically intensive on the computers, as you're pretty much running the game. In the near future, we are going to see if there's a way we can make it similar to hosting a graphicless dedicated PC server. You will not be able to edit the "game.ini" or "gameusersettings.ini" server files, as those are locked behind the Windows 10 platform, though, you still have the Host Settings user interface available to you, similarly to the Xbox game. Keep in mind you would need an additional account with a copy of the game in order to host a dedicated server on Windows 10 while simultaneously playing on Xbox.  

    Edit: Microsoft has informed of us of a potential way to host and player on a server without needing an additional copy, we've yet to confirm as we're looking into cross-platform player dedicated invites with them at the moment, but here's what they recommend:

    On your Windows 10 PC…
    1.    Launch and sign into the Microsoft Store using your Xbox Live Gold account
    2.    Download and install ARK
    3.    Launch the Xbox App and sign-in (or create as needed) an Xbox Live Silver account
    4.    Launch ARK
    5.    When the Xbox Account picker comes up select the Silver account
    6.    In ARK, set up your dedicated server

    On your Xbox One…
    1.    Login to your Gold account
    2.    Download and install ARK
    3.    Launch ARK using Gold account as identity
    4.    Use Server Browser to find and connect to the dedicated instance you set up on your PC

    Mods will not be available through the Windows 10 version of the game, due to the current lack of a User Generated Content storage and cloud delivery pipeline equivalent to Steam Workshop. If this changes in the future in terms of Windows & Xbox features, we'll be at the ready to support it. If you want to experience a modded ARK right now, the best way to do so would be through the Steam version of the game.

    The Non-Dedicated tether range has been increased by 50% for the Windows 10 version of the game. However, as we enter the new year we'll be removing the limit altogether in single player split-screen, and a slider will be made available for Windows non-dedicated sessions (which in-turn will be enjoyed by any Xbox Clients playing on a Win 10 Non-Dedicated session). In addition to the upcoming tether changes, we'll be working on bringing Truesky entirely to the Windows 10 version of the game. 

    Welcome to the big ARK Tribe, Windows 10 Survivors! We're very excited to get ARK out on this new platform at last with cross-platform online multiplayer, and cannot wait for you to join us on this wild & crazy dinosaur sci-fi journey!

    All the best,

    The ARK: Survival Evolved Team

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    DaniCardelli

    NOW. I need your opinion/help, guys. 

    Sorry, I missed the update about how to log in (part of it you can see in my reply above on this page) and if any of you are still having issues joining your dedicated servers, I can try to explain what worked and what didn't in my case (open all ports on the server didn't affect it, besides our first thoughts).

    I'm having a weird situation now. I was playing with my girlfriend and was all sort of ok. Some small lags, some disconnection on her side (bad internet connection most probably).

    Suddenly I notice that there were other players on my server. Which is ok. And I'm just saying this because I think this could be related. Let's get to that.

    So we decided to gather the artifacts and fight a boss in Ragnarok, because she never did it. So I get a couple of them. Missing only the 3 that you actually need to fight for them (Lava, Ice Queen and the Squid trench). I did it alone to make sure the locations first. All the artifacts were respawning right the way. Yesterday we tried to get them together, so she could see the locations and see the map. 

    Turns out that most of the artifacts were not there. We got 4 of them, none of them respawn (I waited like 5 minutes in the first and second, 1 minutes on the others). 

    I think that this could be related with the other players, not because they were also gathering them, but as the artifacts are not respawning, I think maybe my computer is struggling with the connections (up to 10 at the same time so far).

    Does anyone had this issue an can tell me if this is something that I can fix and if it's related with the connections?

    I really want to fight the boss, but I don't want to use commands to get the artifacts.

     

    P.S. I have the same issue on Xbox, single player gold account, where after fighting some caves, the artifacts weren't there and turns out they are the same you cannot spawn with commands.

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    DaniCardelli
    11 minutes ago, asant1ag0 said:

    Hi there,

    my NAT settings are enabled and config set to Open, and problem persists.

    Maybe TCP and UDP ports have to release on my router?

    I create the port forwarding for UDP and TCP 7777 and firewall accept conections.

    Sorry, this thread has 10 pages now. Can you describe your scenario once again?

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    asant1ag0
    3 minutes ago, DaniCardelli said:

    Sorry, this thread has 10 pages now. Can you describe your scenario once again?

    OK

    1 - I need to create a dedicated server on my pc

    2 - i will connect with my xbox one, and works because im on the same network, my friends try to connect from xbox one on my ARK - PC and see the message "JOIN FAILED"

    3 NAT config Open, port forwarding for the port 7777 to my PC with static IP

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    DaniCardelli
    26 minutes ago, asant1ag0 said:

    OK

    1 - I need to create a dedicated server on my pc

    2 - i will connect with my xbox one, and works because im on the same network, my friends try to connect from xbox one on my ARK - PC and see the message "JOIN FAILED"

    3 NAT config Open, port forwarding for the port 7777 to my PC with static IP

    4

    When you connect to your own server, are you
    1. Joining silver account game?
    2. Inviting yourself to game using the silver account? 
    3. Finding your server in the Players Dedicated server list?

    Anyway, I can tell you that you can connect not because you are on the same network whatever way you are using to connect (but I saw some differences in performance from each one).
    Also, if you read my previous note above, your server won't display on the list for a while.
    In my scenario, I tried setting the PC as TMZ (risk, I know) and it wasn't working as well. 
    What I noticed is that TMZ or not, this is not what is affecting the connection. If you just started a new server you can try the following (and try to not laugh to the MS restart part of it)

    For all:
    - Make sure Ark is closed on Xbox and try to restart your friends' consoles as your PC. Let's start it fresh.

    In the PC
    1. Delete any game saved in the Silver Account, all maps
    2. Log in to Xbox app using the Silver Account and try to play Ark from there. Use the play option that appears there.
    3. Wait for the game to load (it could fail the first time but it always fail the first time I tried to run Ark straight from the Windows Menu)

    In your friends Xbox
    1. Again, confirm the Xbox is closed (use the quit option that you can access from the dashboard)
    2. Open the game let it load until you get the start button (for testing sake, let it play all those loud logos till the end) then go to the main menu
    3. Press the Xbox button in the control and move to the left once (friends list. If your friends don't have your silver account as "friend", then add it as a friend).
    4. Enter the list of friends and select your silver account. There should be an option "Join game". As the game is already opened and loaded, this will make it easier to join.

    In my case, my router does not have NAT settings but most of the new routers have already "gaming settings" in place allowing the proper ports for Xbox and PS.
    And I'm not using TMZ anymore. This is how I join my server and also how my girlfriends do it. And, again, I have about 15 other players, that were not on my friends' list, that found my server. So after a while, if you don't shut it down, your server should also display in that list.

    Hope this could give you some directions and help you solving your issue.

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    Snuit2000
    On 31-1-2018 at 7:18 PM, Juggernaut said:

    they aren't going to open it up until some kind of battle-eye equivalent is in place. 

    yea ive read that also, just wondering if they got any news on this matter. Would love to see this before the summer. Otherwise im gonna need some1 to keep my base up during the holiday.

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    RichardSouza

    Guys I need help!! I was running the server with no issue off my PC obviously on windows 10 for Xbox players but now when they try to join it says “client build does not match host build” how do I fix this? I’ve heard update server but I don’t know how to do that.

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    CyberAngel67
    33 minutes ago, RichardSouza said:

    Guys I need help!! I was running the server with no issue off my PC obviously on windows 10 for Xbox players but now when they try to join it says “client build does not match host build” how do I fix this? I’ve heard update server but I don’t know how to do that.

    Go to the store and update it

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    asant1ag0
    On 01/02/2018 at 8:04 PM, DaniCardelli said:

    When you connect to your own server, are you
    1. Joining silver account game?
    2. Inviting yourself to game using the silver account? 
    3. Finding your server in the Players Dedicated server list?

    Anyway, I can tell you that you can connect not because you are on the same network whatever way you are using to connect (but I saw some differences in performance from each one).
    Also, if you read my previous note above, your server won't display on the list for a while.
    In my scenario, I tried setting the PC as TMZ (risk, I know) and it wasn't working as well. 
    What I noticed is that TMZ or not, this is not what is affecting the connection. If you just started a new server you can try the following (and try to not laugh to the MS restart part of it)

    For all:
    - Make sure Ark is closed on Xbox and try to restart your friends' consoles as your PC. Let's start it fresh.

    In the PC
    1. Delete any game saved in the Silver Account, all maps
    2. Log in to Xbox app using the Silver Account and try to play Ark from there. Use the play option that appears there.
    3. Wait for the game to load (it could fail the first time but it always fail the first time I tried to run Ark straight from the Windows Menu)

    In your friends Xbox
    1. Again, confirm the Xbox is closed (use the quit option that you can access from the dashboard)
    2. Open the game let it load until you get the start button (for testing sake, let it play all those loud logos till the end) then go to the main menu
    3. Press the Xbox button in the control and move to the left once (friends list. If your friends don't have your silver account as "friend", then add it as a friend).
    4. Enter the list of friends and select your silver account. There should be an option "Join game". As the game is already opened and loaded, this will make it easier to join.

    In my case, my router does not have NAT settings but most of the new routers have already "gaming settings" in place allowing the proper ports for Xbox and PS.
    And I'm not using TMZ anymore. This is how I join my server and also how my girlfriends do it. And, again, I have about 15 other players, that were not on my friends' list, that found my server. So after a while, if you don't shut it down, your server should also display in that list.

    Hope this could give you some directions and help you solving your issue.

    Hi there 

    I set up and tested as you instructed me

however the following happened:

1- First scenario: I deleted all saved games, rebooted PC and Xbox, created the server on Xbox and connected through the PC and it works without problems

2- Second scenario: I deleted all saved games again, Restart PC and Xbox. I created the server on the PC and connected by the Xbox, the same message "JOIN FAILED".

Does anyone have other ideas for building the server on the PC and being able to successfully connect from the Xbox?

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    Zeddicus919
    On 2/1/2018 at 5:04 PM, DaniCardelli said:

    In the PC
    1. Delete any game saved in the Silver Account, all maps
    2. Log in to Xbox app using the Silver Account and try to play Ark from there. Use the play option that appears there.
    3. Wait for the game to load (it could fail the first time but it always fail the first time I tried to run Ark straight from the Windows Menu)

    In your friends Xbox
    1. Again, confirm the Xbox is closed (use the quit option that you can access from the dashboard)
    2. Open the game let it load until you get the start button (for testing sake, let it play all those loud logos till the end) then go to the main menu
    3. Press the Xbox button in the control and move to the left once (friends list. If your friends don't have your silver account as "friend", then add it as a friend).
    4. Enter the list of friends and select your silver account. There should be an option "Join game". As the game is already opened and loaded, this will make it easier to join.

    I have been running in to the same issue as  asant1ag0.

    i have my server hosted on my Gaming PC through the Windows 10 Store version of Ark with a Silver account and me and my friends Play our gold accounts on the Xbox One
    Once set up, i did not see my server in the Player Dedicated list which im not to worried about, but i was able to Join in my LAN by friending the silver account and just going to Join Game. My friends could not connect from outside my network though regardless of joining the friended silver account or being invited from the server/Xbox app.

    At first i only had the following forwarded and i could join but my friends got Join Failed message

    TCP: 3074
    UDP: 88,500,3074,3544,4500
    I also set up rules to allow them through my windows firewall and tested their availability with a port checker

    i have set up with the following ports forwarded and my windows firewall disabled on my PC (I know that's not secure but did it for troubleshooting purposes)

    TCP: 3074, 25147, 27015-27030, 27036-27037
    UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544,4380, 4500, 7777, 25147, 27000-27031, 27036

    All the above ports are forwarded for both the "XBOX and "PC" versions of the game as per https://portforward.com/ark-survival-evolved/

    I have not tried to add the raw socket of 7778 UDP but some of my research suggested this, but i think its more for the steam version

    i ran the netstat -an from windows powershell I see 7-8 private ports used in anywhere between 51000 the 57000 range, either one or the other - never mixed between the two.

    My netstat command also showed that ShooterGame.exe was looking at UDP port 7777 which i though was a steam only port for the game but now im thinking it may be just the games port

    Currently i am set up with no port forwards, the upnp service running on my PC that is hosting Ark and my NAT type is Open

    Nothing i am doing is working. I do have a password set. gonna try to take it off and have my friends join but at this point im not sitting on the edge of my seat...

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    DelanoRaider
    Spoiler

    I have installed it on my Windows 10 PC to play on PC too instead on XBOX only but if i start up the game it shows the picture of the obelisk and girl on the raptor with the gun and stuff and after that it auto closes the game any help?

     

     

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    DelanoRaider
    Spoiler

    I have installed it on my Windows 10 PC to play on PC too instead on XBOX only but if i start up the game it shows the picture of the obelisk and girl on the raptor with the gun and stuff and after that it auto closes the game any help?

     

    nvm! i dint update it maybe its the reason for it!

     

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    Mugnaschi

    Guys, if anyone is struggling with Cross play, let me know. I have Ark on my kids XBOX 1, I downloaded the Windows 10 version on my PC (saved me a stack as I was just about to buy it on Steam). I now host a NON-Dedicated server on my PC which means I play on my PC, I send an invite to my 2 sons and they can join on their XBOX (split screen if its both of them) and it all works great!

    There are a few things to know:

    1. You NEED XBOX Live GOLD to join the Windows 10 server/player from an XBOX.  Even if the XBOX is in the same room as the PC, there is some Cloud jiggery pokery going on so its not an internal/local LAN connection.

    2. I found that because my PC (probably) has only 8Gigs of RAM, when I host NON-Dedicated Server when we fly/ride to another part of the map (Island) there are no trees, rocks etc just blank mountain with dinos roaming. When this happens I have to get my son to leave the game. I then have to exit the server and start single player (might not be required), the terrain then generates then I start Host Non-Dedicated again and re-invite him and it looks fine. He sees the terrain fine on his XBOX, its just the PC that doesn't, but if he tries cutting a tree down that isn't visible on my PC he finds the tree is just an image, he gets no resource. I'm guessing this is a server (PC) memory resource issue.

    Anyway, my kids played Ark for years and I thought it looked rubbish, but now I'm hooked (graphics look better on PC, maybe its cos my screen is smaller)! Wife's not a happy bunny now we are all glued to it!

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    CyberAngel67
    3 minutes ago, Mugnaschi said:

    Guys, if anyone is struggling with Cross play, let me know. I have Ark on my kids XBOX 1, I downloaded the Windows 10 version on my PC (saved me a stack as I was just about to buy it on Steam). I now host a NON-Dedicated server on my PC which means I play on my PC, I send an invite to my 2 sons and they can join on their XBOX (split screen if its both of them) and it all works great!

    There are a few things to know:

    1. You NEED XBOX Live GOLD to join the Windows 10 server/player from an XBOX.  Even if the XBOX is in the same room as the PC, there is some Cloud jiggery pokery going on so its not an internal/local LAN connection.

    2. I found that because my PC (probably) has only 8Gigs of RAM, when I host NON-Dedicated Server when we fly/ride to another part of the map (Island) there are no trees, rocks etc just blank mountain with dinos roaming. When this happens I have to get my son to leave the game. I then have to exit the server and start single player (might not be required), the terrain then generates then I start Host Non-Dedicated again and re-invite him and it looks fine. He sees the terrain fine on his XBOX, its just the PC that doesn't, but if he tries cutting a tree down that isn't visible on my PC he finds the tree is just an image, he gets no resource. I'm guessing this is a server (PC) memory resource issue.

    Anyway, my kids played Ark for years and I thought it looked rubbish, but now I'm hooked (graphics look better on PC, maybe its cos my screen is smaller)! Wife's not a happy bunny now we are all glued to it!

    Two things.

    1) I would have gone with Dedicated over Non-Dedicated, the tether annoys the crap out of me.

    2) Yes, you need an account that actually owns the game and Gold to play multiplayer.

    And yes the game is awesome on the PC and Xbox One X visually, but 8GB should be more than enough to run the game as a server.

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    Mugnaschi

    Some guys mention that when they start they just get the splash screen (not the login screen). I see that issue quite often. If you restart your PC it will fix that issue. Not sure what causes it. Also sometimes if you shut Ark down on the PC it wont start again until you re-start the PC.

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    xspyboyx
    On 12/23/2017 at 8:35 AM, Aednat said:

    I have a server up and running if anyone wants to just have fun and mess around. Crossplay.

    What ports are you fwd to get this up?

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    Donky690 
    Hi, I'm good at crossplay. and I would like to know how I have to do things to play with my brother who plays in PC and I play through xbox one.
He downloaded the game from steam that influlled into something ?? someone throws a cable.
thanks and best regards

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    GP
    4 minutes ago, Donky690 said: 
    
Hi, I'm good at crossplay. and I would like to know how I have to do things to play with my brother who plays in PC and I play through xbox one.
He downloaded the game from steam that influlled into something ?? someone throws a cable.
thanks and best regards

    Crossplay is only between Xbox and Windows 10.

    Steam cannot crossplay with Xbox unfortunately.

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    Tigressx

    Its not letting me get the other maps. Does that mean I only get the original Island map free with Win10 and need to buy the rest of them again? 

    Also, is there a chance that crossplay will occur with Steam and PS4 players?

    I already got ark on PS4, XBONE, and Steam. I don't want to purchase the season pass AGAIN. 

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    OberonF4

    I am hosting on PC and playing on console, but when selecting "Join ARK" and searching for my server, nothing comes up. The only way I can play is if I invite myself from the PC hosting the server, and even then, for some reason, I have to go to the home screen and completely close the game out on my Xbox. I even sent a ticket in to ARK support, but haven't gotten a response yet. Anyone have any ideas? I see that other people in this thread have had the same problem, and that it looks like someone who is a Dev (Jatheish?) said that they are working with Microsoft on this. Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed or if we are still waiting on it? Thanks!

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    OberonF4

    I see that in more of the comments now that this issue is still popping up. Ill try to comb through them and see if I find an answer. I would still appreciate any help though. Thanks!

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    Mugnaschi

    Hmm, for some reason since the TLC update, not sure if its related, my son can't join my non-dedicated server, he used to fine.... not sure what's changed but he sees the invite come through but when he accepts it he gets a failure to join error message..., its so flaky and inconsistent this game...grrr

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