Invalid attempt already authenticating

[muratbingöl89]

What's that? I've played this game over 2 thousand hours and i saw this message as i refreshing my servers. And now I cant find my character.. Is this joke! Any solutions?

[Husky-Multigaming]

is not fixing

[muratbingöl89]

My matter was solved after patch.Send ticket for this stiuation...

[Husky-Multigaming]

what is the fix????

[Husky-Multigaming]

this problem have all my players on my server and we have aktually patch

[BippyMiester]

I also encountered this issue as well. Exiting ark completely and revalidating my game seemed to have fixed the issue. At least for me.

[Kara]

This error is when you crash or d/c RIGHT at the moment you connected to the server but before your character "loaded". You just have to wait it out, it does seem to have become a much more frequent problem within the last few weeks.

It can take anywhere from 2min-6min for the server to timeout your "attempted" connection and then you can connect. You don't need restart ARK, just wait, get a cup a coffee or watch half dozen tiktoks and then re-try.

If it takes longer than 6 minutes this could be a problem with the server being overloaded. Generally I'm referring to the physical hardware being overtaxed which is frequent issue with some cloud hosting providers who over provision their equipment.

[Kiwi]

Originally posted by muratbingöl89:

What's that? I've played this game over 2 thousand hours and i saw this message as i refreshing my servers. And now I cant find my character.. Is this joke! Any solutions?

Basically, update broke the broken game

[zabawaiprzygody]

Same here since 13th. Any fix ideas?

[muratbingöl89]

Send ticket for that matter. Mine was solved.

[zabawaiprzygody]

Originally posted by muratbingöl89:

Send ticket for that matter. Mine was solved.

Ok, will try. Did you contact [e-mail]? or steam support?

[muratbingöl89]

wildcard

[zabawaiprzygody]

Originally posted by muratbingöl89:

wildcard

Just one more thing, the support is asking for the server number, where do I get it from ? I can't find such info in ark server manager. Thank you for your help

[muratbingöl89]

Leave it blank if u can. Just write ur character where it was. Then they'll solve ur problem.

[Vespy]

I play on LAN only with a dedicated server (with ark server manager).

I had this problem after a gfx card crash (I was booting up another game while mods were loading). There was also a server side z-version (x.y.z) update available which I hadn't done, which I did NOT reboot my server for (it takes 250 - 350 seconds...)

I solved this problem by fully exiting steam and starting it up again, and making sure steam was online.

IMHO, this error stems from an anti piracy measure built into the game. Ark is so paranoid about piracy that it spoils the game for those who've spent 100+ EUR on it, and that is...

mildly infuriating.

[Vespy]

The fact that Ark is protecting their game is one thing, but these insanely cryptic error message that refer to Steam authentication have been around for years, and have not helped anyone.