updates to server and client

[MattxxttaM]

Updated my server because my client was a higher version and I couldnt play on it.

Now my server is a higher version and my client wont.

common guys.... what gives on this? its a bit frustrating to sit down on a friday evening to play ark and not be able to because the incrimental small updates wont match up. I'm not really caring about the tiny bug fixes between 301.1 and 301.2 right now...

[zerassar]

Restarting steam should trigger the client to update. Also not all updates are for both server and client. So differing version numbers are not unheard of.

[WRecKLeSS]

I cant play my normal servers as they are 301.2 and I am stuck on 301.1

[MattxxttaM]

Yeah, the reboot to steam did update steam. But it doesn't fix the problem.

[zerassar]

You're not on linux/mac are you? They're always behind on this kinda stuff.

[MattxxttaM]

nah. windows steam for my client, and I rent dedicated server for my friends and I to play on.

[MattxxttaM]

ill just wait and see if it fixes itself with a day of time. It feels pretty silly to have to plan my gameplay around the software updates.

[Liralen]

So about 5 PM EST, I had to log off my client, because when I play alone, I much prefer my speakers to headphones and I haven't been able to figure out how to change from speakers (RCA) to headphones (USB) in Ark, without restarting Ark. (my OS is Win 7, and I've been told that Win 10 can change audio devices for apps that lack it, like Ark. If there's a way to do it in Win 7, I would much appreciate the info).

I needed to change from speakers to headphones to talk to a friend on Teamspeak who had joined my Ark server, to discuss the issue of his character needing to use a bed to teleport before he could interact with most objects in game, which occurred with a patch a few days ago. (And for which, I think we have a solution, but it requires coordination between the two of us.)

So I logged off Ark so it would recognize my USB headphones.

But then my client updated to Ark version 301.1 and I could no longer join my server that my friend was playing on. And so had to ask him to log off so I could update the servers, and he had to update his client

Fortunately, after I updated the servers, and he updated his client, we had hours of fun with no one needing to log off before 301.2 hit.

I don't think the Ark devs really understand what Steam puts us through in order to make such frequent updates, to both clients and servers.

And quite frankly, for the past few weeks, each of Ark's updates introduces more bugs than it had before, to a degree that will affect their new DLC's sales.

[MattxxttaM]

interesting