PC Steam loss of connectivity now kills Ark's process ?

[Oldskill 5]

PC Steam loss connectivity now kills Ark's process ?

Hi

I noticed that, recently, when connectivity to Steam is lost, Ark's process gets instantly killed. It used to "only" block transfers, in the past, but game process would not be killed.

My teammate also noticed it (as he used to leave his Ark process running, while putting his PC to sleep).

This cannot be reproduced by just putting Friends list offline.

Is this new behavior ? Have I missed it in patchnotes ?

Can anybody confirm ?

If this is confirmed, it is rather terrible news for anybody doing bosses. As it is common for Steam to just give up connectivity to large geographical regions, for a few seconds (maintenances, outages, ...).

 

 

Edited October 14 by Oldskill

[tbfrnritunbv6 31]

Oh, is that what it is? I played ARK today for the first time in three weeks and crashed to my desktop 3 times in a two hour play session. That never happened to me before, so I was wondering what the hell happened..

[DarkSoul996 20]

Happened to me twice today. Hasn't done it before.

[IanHighlander 234]

Happening regularly to my wife and I's PC's too, it's only started happening recently. Makes doing anything outside of base a really dodgy affair as you have no idea at any point if the game's just going to suddenly close. Four times for mine, three times for my Wifes just last night alone. Prior to the last patch this "almost" never happened.

A quick look on steam status sites shows the times tally up with low connectivity availablity to steam.

@Cedric are WC aware of this at all, this is a worrying change if its intentional (which I'm sure it can't be).

Edited October 15 by IanHighlander

[Abyzu 0]

This is happening to me also - once yesterday and just now this morning.  Game just closes with no warning.

 

[Wikus 52]

Ditto. Happened to me also last night.

[MerriganAble 5]

Yep, me too.

[asmatolchik 5]

I have the same trouble

 

[TargetOne 22]

Also.

[KichRj 4]

having this problem alot today, every time my internet just dips ark is closing

[Demerus 1,023]

@Cedric

Lots of players experiencing ARK crash to desktop out of nowhere and Steam "NO CONNECTION". Any feedback from the team about what could be causing this?

It has never happened before since last update.

Edited October 16 by Demerus

[lilpanda 723]

We're aware of this issue and will be releasing a fix for it in an upcoming patch.

[caleb68 319]

yep if steam itself loses connectivity it closes ark faster then you can with alt+f4, its widespread not just 'some' people, happening all over the world with steam. 

its not just ark that's effected by it though, yesterday when steam dropped everyone on my friends list got kicked from the game they were playing.