[A:SA]: How to enable crossplay (e.g. XBOX) on a steamcmd dedicated server?

[pleinx]

Hrello together!

Somebody has already find out how-to enable crossplay on a A:SA server via steamcmd?

Edited November 22, 2023 by pleinx

[impgrin]

Hi Folks, looking for an answer to this as well. my buddies play on Xbox and I'd like to be able to host a dedicated server on my new PC. If not I'm buying the MS Store version so please someone say it's actually a thing lol.

[acekorneya]

Have any you guys tried to make a server and see if it shows up on xbox and if player can join it seem like we dont need to add anything for crossplay but dont have and Xbox Series X to test that theory I have one Running Called   

POK-PVE-Community-ARK-Server-NO-WIPE    

Ask you Buddies if they Can join it and if they can we dont need to add anything to be able to join unofficial Servers     

Edited November 21, 2023 by acekorneya

[Vakarian]

4 minutes ago, acekorneya said:

Have any you guys tried to make a server and see if it shows up on xbox and if player can join it seem like we dont need to add anything for crossplay but dont have and Xbox Series X to test that theory I have one Running Called   

POK-PVE-Community-ARK-Server-NO-WIPE    

Ask you Buddies if they Can join it and if they can we dont need to add anything to be able to join unofficial Servers     

Is this a Nitrado Server?

[acekorneya]

1 minute ago, Vakarian said:

Is this a Nitrado Server?

No Running on My Own hardware and that was my other question if Crossplay was a Nitrado thing only but if people can join my own server who are on Xbox then that would tell us if its an Nitrado only feature or Not 

Edited November 21, 2023 by acekorneya

[Vakarian]

1 minute ago, acekorneya said:

No Running on My Own hardware 

Can you share when an xbox player was able to connect?

[acekorneya]

1 minute ago, Vakarian said:

Can you share when an xbox player was able to connect?

yeah I can see the Logs and i can let you know if it worked 

Edited November 21, 2023 by acekorneya

[Vakarian]

28 minutes ago, acekorneya said:

yeah I can see the Logs and i can let you know if it worked 

Our Self Hosted Dedicated Servers can be found from xbox and windows.

[acekorneya]

2 minutes ago, Vakarian said:

Our Self Hosted Dedicated Servers can be found from xbox and windows.

So it Seems Server admins dont have to Change Anything to allow Crossplay it seems like its enable automatically 

[pleinx]

For everyone who has XBOX players on his servers, can you provide your start commands?

I just rented a nitrado server to check what they will add for crossplay. Checkout those start parameters:

-IP=94.242.202.220
-ServerIP=94.242.202.220
-multihome=94.242.202.220
-ServerPlatform=PC+XSX+WINGDK

 

[pleinx]

Okay its enough to have

-multihome=xx.xx.xx.xxx

A Xbox Player could verify it and joined successfully.

[acekorneya]

21 minutes ago, pleinx said:

Okay its enough to have

-multihome=xx.xx.xx.xxx

A Xbox Player could verify it and joined successfully.

I dont think we have to add anything as long as you have your port forwarded correctly Xbox player should be able to join the server 

[darkradeon]

-ServerPlatform=ALL

Nitrado uses a different build (that also allow specific console only servers).

Edited November 22, 2023 by darkradeon

[squartochi]

So I am running a Steam dedicated server also and want to add xbox crossplay.  Thanks for the help

 -ServerPlatform=ALL is what I want????

 

[pleinx]

3 hours ago, squartochi said:

So I am running a Steam dedicated server also and want to add xbox crossplay.  Thanks for the help

 -ServerPlatform=ALL is what I want????

 

As you can read this thread: it seems you need nothing to add - its automatically enabled by default.

[GrandMarsha11]

So you can install aRK: Survival Ascended Dedicated Server from STEAM, then when you run it, you will see the text: Server: "ARK #234342 has successfully started!

You can type the 234234 (or whatever your is) to join from Xbox. I confirm the server shows up, but I am having difficulties connecting, but I have only tried 5 times. 

[Migman120]

On 11/21/2023 at 2:04 PM, acekorneya said:

Have any you guys tried to make a server and see if it shows up on xbox and if player can join it seem like we dont need to add anything for crossplay but dont have and Xbox Series X to test that theory I have one Running Called   

POK-PVE-Community-ARK-Server-NO-WIPE    

Ask you Buddies if they Can join it and if they can we dont need to add anything to be able to join unofficial Servers     

Dawg i beg you please tell the batch file i cant figure out how to let my xbox see it i dont even know if its set up right 

 

[acekorneya]

1 hour ago, Migman120 said:

Dawg i beg you please tell the batch file i cant figure out how to let my xbox see it i dont even know if its set up right 

 

I did not do anything special; the GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini files are all default. I can provide them to you, but there is nothing special that I did. From what I know, you do not have to do anything to enable Crossplay; it is enabled by default. However, I am also hosting on my own hardware under Linux. I do not use server providers, as I believe they are all poor value for money. However, if you like, you are welcome to join our server: POK-PVE-Community-ARK-Server-NO-WIPE. We are a friendly community and are happy to help new players get started. 

Edited November 29, 2023 by acekorneya

[Migman120]

I appreciate it my main issue is that i can get the server hosted, and join on my own account, but it wont show up on the server list no matter what i do, did you have this issue as well?

 

[Migman120]

1 hour ago, acekorneya said:

I did not do anything special; the GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini files are all default. I can provide them to you, but there is nothing special that I did. From what I know, you do not have to do anything to enable Crossplay; it is enabled by default. However, I am also hosting on my own hardware under Linux. I do not use server providers, as I believe they are all poor value for money. However, if you like, you are welcome to join our server: POK-PVE-Community-ARK-Server-NO-WIPE. We are a friendly community and are happy to help new players get started. 

Did you have to do all the port forwarding stuff for it to be shown on the xbox server list because i think thats what my problem is

 

[acekorneya]

4 minutes ago, Migman120 said:

Did you have to do all the port forwarding stuff for it to be shown on the xbox server list because i think thats what my problem is

 

well yeah you have to forward you ports for player to be able to join outside your network 

[Migman120]

19 hours ago, acekorneya said:

well yeah you have to forward you ports for player to be able to join outside yo

Edit* i figured it out after 3 days of looking, i had to use wf.msc or something like that to make an inbound rule and set the ports

Edited November 30, 2023 by Migman120
Heyy i figured it out

[Ragonous]

So can anyone share what port forwarding address they are using? I tried following this link https://portforward.com/ark-survival-ascended/ but it didnt seem to solve my issue. Steam users out side my network can connect and I can connect from a Xbox on my local network, but Xboxes outside my network cannot connect. So I believe its a port forwarding issue. Can any of you that have gotten it to work share what all you changed to port forwarding?

[avrignaud]

[EDIT - IGNORE THIS POST. It turns out -crossplay is enabled by default on ASA, so my issues were something different. I would normally just delete this post but don't see the option.]

So I went through some crazy explorations trying to fix this - the answer is simple but insane:

Add -crossplay to the very end of your server launch string. 

I started by using this guide: https://hub.tcno.co/games/asa/dedicated_server/

In it is the (broken) launch command, as I'll list below (used in the launch batch file):

start server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=<SERVER_NAME>?ServerPassword=<password>?ServerAdminPassword=<ADMIN_PASS>?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32 -NoBattlEye

THE STRING ABOVE WILL NOT WORK. My server would not appear in the Unofficial tab of the server list on my Xbox. Simple adding -crossplay at the end of the string fixed it, ie:

start server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=<SERVER_NAME>?ServerPassword=<password>?ServerAdminPassword=<ADMIN_PASS>?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32 -NoBattlEye -crossplay

You must add it at the very end (and yes, I know that seems insane). I originally had it in front of the -NoBattlEye and it failed. Moving it to the end immediately caused my server to be available within the Xbox client (though I had to search for the name and refresh a few times).

Hope that helps!

Edited December 7, 2023 by avrignaud

[Pinkdarts]

maybe too late but i had the issue of hosting on pc and xbox not being able to join. i had battleeye disabled. erased it from the command lane and it worked.

also i port forwarded xbox ports to my pc but idk if that had anything to do with it