sjskdjkfa Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 everyone left the game, including me... and the server failed to respond, and scroll down - the current players list is empty... So then I alt tab back into ark and I'm still sitting in the chair!? Got up and did some things, seems like I'm still playing, but I think nah, im probably super ghosted and will get booted in a min... So then a few min later I see some ones name loggin in at the top of the screen (as per one of the options you can see when people join your server) and I check and I can still do things... So I alt tab back to battle metrics, and it says I joined and it now shows me in the active players list, all with out ever getting booted and having to rejoin. Not sure what to ask, just curious if anyone knows wth just happened in more details lol. Like networking crap - how does battle metrics recive a signal visa vis someone loggin in and out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 AFAIK, the game's "QueryPort" is used to obtain information about players. BattleMetrics must use this to get the server information - The server doesn't contact BM but merely responds to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjskdjkfa Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 10 minutes ago, Larkfields said: AFAIK, the game's "QueryPort" is used to obtain information about players. BattleMetrics must use this to get the server information - The server doesn't contact BM but merely responds to it. Interesting, so I probably didn't really get booted. The bm server queries the ark server and some how in its dilapidated ghosting state the ark server sends the wrong information... or maybe it was like okay here is the active players list: but then just failed to send any information wich bm interpreted as evryone logging out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 If BM was unable to query the server for a short time, it might have missed the fact that you left and rejoined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RancidRevenant Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 After update v313.33 - 09/18/2020 The servers in general seem to be running way worse, Resulting a greater amount of input lag, General lag hiccups. And unusually high ping for servers when half of the usual population of a given server logs in. And battlemetrics is often times having trouble getting a query from said servers. which is resulting in battlemetrics listing them as offline or invaild. https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760361/downtimehttps://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760388/downtimehttps://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760353/downtime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luewen Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 1:15 AM, Larkfields said: If BM was unable to query the server for a short time, it might have missed the fact that you left and rejoined. This is true and also battlemetrics queries server every 5 minutes unless you are premium subber. So if you got kicked and back in that 5 minute window it wont ever show in battlemetrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luewen Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 1:23 AM, RancidRevenant said: After update v313.33 - 09/18/2020 The servers in general seem to be running way worse, Resulting a greater amount of input lag, General lag hiccups. And unusually high ping for servers when half of the usual population of a given server logs in. And battlemetrics is often times having trouble getting a query from said servers. which is resulting in battlemetrics listing them as offline or invaild. https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760361/downtimehttps://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760388/downtimehttps://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/4760353/downtime Have noticed same thing. And most of those around 30 min downtimes listed are not actual crashes but bm unable to query servers. There are times when you cant connect to servers without getting connection failure multiple times in a row. Seems they are either limiting query amounts per second/minute or server has trouble accepting requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator invincibleqc Posted October 7, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 5:44 PM, Larkfields said: AFAIK, the game's "QueryPort" is used to obtain information about players. BattleMetrics must use this to get the server information - The server doesn't contact BM but merely responds to it. Pretty much; it have access to the same info any client would when browsing Steam's server browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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