

LAN worked fine last night for about 4 hours of total joined gameplay. I'm going to dig more later tonight and see if we can get actual internet connected sessions working so Discord friends can join us as originally intended.

The host pc's firewall did not have the same Ark "ASM Rules" as mine did, and his was disabled entirely. If you're trying to connect to anyone not on the same network, you'll probably need to apply them. (You need to grant full network access to the game anyway)Ī couple more things to note: - We did not port forward within the router itself whatsoever. The host PC (on the same network) did not have any additional rules for Ark Evolved in Firewall settings other than allowing "ShooterGame.exe" access to private/public. it didn't quite work, but I left all the Inbound Firewall rules I had created per the ASM guides enabled. Notes: Initially we were trying to set a dedicated server up on my system using ASM. The game will either kick you back to the main menu immediately, do nothing at all, or stall for a moment before loading a new map and your friend's hosted Ark. Now, back in Ark and still as the person wanting to join the hosted server: open HOST_IP:port

Host starts a non-dedicated session with no password.Everyone launch the version of ark without battleye.Host opens Windows Defender > Allow an app through firewall > check both public and private boxes for ShooterGame.exe.When setting up non-dedicated LAN, nothing worked for me until I tried a combo of solutions from this thread and this ark forum.

If you have solutions to issues for cross play please give a /u/stronze with that solution and ill add it to the post.ĭelete the mod map and unsub in steam workshop or you will see the untextured world.
