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Raisin Boy Jun 29, 2019 @ 12:53pm
Non dedicated tether bug
So I understand that players will teleport to me (as the host) if they get too far, but after playing last night, they have started intermittently teleporting when stood right next to me.
It started happening out of the blue and I have tried restarting the server, restarting Ark and changing the tether distance to 3 and to values beyond the scale but it is still happening
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Patouski Jun 29, 2019 @ 1:03pm 
It's a known issue with tethering. That is why - everyone who mentions this issue or how to increase the tether range - we always suggest running a dedicated server by using ASM (Ark Server Manager) - or if someone's a little more savvy - creating a .bat file to do so.

And then, say goodbye to tether distance.
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Raisin Boy Jun 29, 2019 @ 1:05pm 
So it's just likely to keep happening regardless of settings?
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Patouski Jun 29, 2019 @ 1:07pm 
Originally posted by TheHoopiestFrood:
So it's just likely to keep happening regardless of settings?

Yes.

You might be able to play correctly once or twice with it set to 10k (both in-game and through your various .ini files in your folders) but tethering in non-dedicated instances is bound to have issues. And even if it's at it's absolute highest you can think of - once someone hits the water, they warp to you.

Look for ASM - load it, start it and live free of TETHERING!
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Raisin Boy Jun 29, 2019 @ 1:30pm 
We have been playing for about a week with it set to 5k and has been fine across pretty much the entire of the new map and they have been able to enter water fine.
It's just last night that it's started happening and only when we are within 5m of each other.
Would run dedicated but unfortunately no-one has a spare PC with required specs.
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Patouski Jun 29, 2019 @ 2:02pm 
Originally posted by TheHoopiestFrood:
We have been playing for about a week with it set to 5k and has been fine across pretty much the entire of the new map and they have been able to enter water fine.
It's just last night that it's started happening and only when we are within 5m of each other.
Would run dedicated but unfortunately no-one has a spare PC with required specs.

No need for a different PC if one of you has at least 16GB and a decent enough GPU with 3GB VRAM.

I used to run a dedicated on my old Alienware laptop with 16GB RAM and a GTX 765M GPU and I could also play while me and my gf were on the server. Performances were not great - they never were to begin with as the GPU was horsepoo, but I could play.
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Raisin Boy Jun 29, 2019 @ 2:11pm 
Oh really? How do you launch the game again if the server is running? Will steam not stop it?
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margalus Jun 29, 2019 @ 2:19pm 
Originally posted by TheHoopiestFrood:
Oh really? How do you launch the game again if the server is running? Will steam not stop it?

You use ARK Server Manager. The dedicated server program is provided free and downloaded thru the server manager, you do not run it thru Steam.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468312476


The dedicated server program is small. It will take about 15-20GB of hdd space. I run a server on an old i7 2600. The server uses 2-3% of the cpu and about 3GB of ram... It is a very lightweight program and will run perfectly fine in the background of any decent computer.
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Raisin Boy Jun 29, 2019 @ 2:21pm 
Perfect! Thanks for the help guys!
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