Server status unclear

[MKOGnasher]

So I've spent roughly 20 hours on a new server from Wed to Thur this week post full launch of the game, having a good time. I wasn't in game yesterday and when I come back today I receive the 'Error: Connection timed out' message upon trying to 'Continue' my game.

I first tried all the general fixes, verifying game files, restarting the pc, running any additional updates on drivers etc. once I realized none of that helped I started checking the server status and similar information.

When I go into Load Game in V Rising it shows me the servers I recently played on but my server currently has an 'unknown status'. I obviously didn't know what the hell that meant so I looked for some server status lists online and found some more expansive information on battlemetrics.com.

On that page it states that the server has been failing to respond to queries for the past 20 hrs, hasn't seen player activity in the same time period and is currently offline.

I was under the impression that the server wasn't a privately owned one so it going offline anytime soon seemed unlikely to me, but now I'm not so sure.

I don't know if it is possible but I'm hoping someone can clarify if there is a way for me to find out if the server is going to be coming back online, or if I'm going to have to start playing on a new server (which would of course annoy the ♥♥♥♥ out of me having to go through the first two acts again having just played through that content).

Appreciate any help.

The server I was playing on was a server located in Germany called [EU][SOLO] Wallachia - Normal PvP x1.5 Loot

[Mansen]

Sounds like you played on a community run server - Only whoever hosts/hosted the server could tell you why it's down.

[MKOGnasher]

That's what I was afraid of. I guess I'll see if I can chase down the host online somewhere, maybe they have a website for their community servers. Thanks

[Das_T]

Better Play on a Official Server.

I play actually on [EU-C] Official # 1322 Weekend Raid / 3 Month Reset. Realy Chill and Nice Server.

[MKOGnasher]

I was hoping I could avoid losing the 20 hrs of progress on the previous server, but I guess joining an official one will be my best bet going forward to not lose any more progress in the future.

[isi]

Originally posted by MKOGnasher:

I was hoping I could avoid losing the 20 hrs of progress on the previous server, but I guess joining an official one will be my best bet going forward to not lose any more progress in the future.

have you done any manual changes to the "ServerGameSettings" file ? if you did that , it might be some bad entry on that file. a way to maybe fix it, may be to get a new working file and replace it.

[MKOGnasher]

Originally posted by isi:

Originally posted by MKOGnasher:

I was hoping I could avoid losing the 20 hrs of progress on the previous server, but I guess joining an official one will be my best bet going forward to not lose any more progress in the future.

have you done any manual changes to the "ServerGameSettings" file ? if you did that , it might be some bad entry on that file. a way to maybe fix it, may be to get a new working file and replace it.

The server isn't mine unfortunately and I haven't edited any save files, so the issue must be on the server hosts side. All I can do is hope that the server comes back online and jump on an official one in the mean time. Trying to find an official solo pvp server now.

[MKOGnasher]

Having a look through the server lists it seems like there are no official Solo PVP servers, can anyone confirm this?

[MKOGnasher]

All the official PVP servers seem to have a clan size of at least 2...

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by MKOGnasher:

I was hoping I could avoid losing the 20 hrs of progress on the previous server, but I guess joining an official one will be my best bet going forward to not lose any more progress in the future.

Official servers reset on a regular schedule. So you will lose progress on those.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1604030/view/4213757028424672617

As far as i know; the only way to make sure you won't lose progress is playing on a private world or running your own server.

[MKOGnasher]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Originally posted by MKOGnasher:

I was hoping I could avoid losing the 20 hrs of progress on the previous server, but I guess joining an official one will be my best bet going forward to not lose any more progress in the future.

Official servers reset on a regular schedule. So you will lose progress on those.

Yeah I'm a ware, thanks. Luckily the 3 month reset doesn't bother me to much, it's more the weekly/bi-weekly resets on some community servers which would annoy me, or losing progress due to a server no longer being hosted as seems to be issue with my last one.

[Justice Delicious]

hey so if you never got back on your server i have today put my own one up i intend to run for the long haul. duo pvp with no raiding on brutal mode if your interested. iv got a discord setup as well. i started my own for a similar reason, server would go down often and whoever hosted either never played or was busy with no discord to communicate on. if your interested search EU Lemon or connect to 57.128.140.95:29100 good luck either way.

[MKOGnasher]

Originally posted by ThighHigh:

hey so if you never got back on your server i have today put my own one up i intend to run for the long haul. duo pvp with no raiding on brutal mode if your interested. iv got a discord setup as well. i started my own for a similar reason, server would go down often and whoever hosted either never played or was busy with no discord to communicate on. if your interested search EU Lemon or connect to 57.128.140.95:29100 good luck either way.

Hey, yeah the status on my old server has now been changed to dead on battlemetrics, so no luck there, but will give yours a shot, thanks.