Single/co-op play

[Kady Meriad]

So, I am returning after years and I see the warnings of abandonment. . .

I attempted to play single player, and it seemed fine, until I crashed. When I returned, the quest tracker, inventory rewards, and my skill status were no longer synced. It appeared to break the quest tracker. Is there a resolution to this short of backing up your data constantly?

I attempted to launch a dedicated server to be able to play with another friend. When I launched it, the game closed and I could not relaunch without ending task on Steam - as if I was expected to run server from a different PC. I was able to join my server after relaunching and seeking myself on LAN. Is this how that is accomplished? Will my friend be able to join me this way?

Thank you to those providing answers.

[-=GUARDIAN=-]

Originally posted by Kady Meriad:

So, I am returning after years and I see the warnings of abandonment. . .

I attempted to play single player, and it seemed fine, until I crashed. When I returned, the quest tracker, inventory rewards, and my skill status were no longer synced. It appeared to break the quest tracker. Is there a resolution to this short of backing up your data constantly?

I attempted to launch a dedicated server to be able to play with another friend. When I launched it, the game closed and I could not relaunch without ending task on Steam - as if I was expected to run server from a different PC. I was able to join my server after relaunching and seeking myself on LAN. Is this how that is accomplished? Will my friend be able to join me this way?

Thank you to those providing answers.

Welcome back,

As u noted, the game has not since any new fixes to very old bugs in both single and multiplayer versions for the past year +.
In Single player u are able to copy and back up manually your character profile, this should help in case u get a hard crash and the files are no longer sync, but its a pain to back them up since u never know when it might crash. Ideally have the game run on lower setting or with a higher end Video card do fix this issue since most of the crashes are related to game asset load capacity. Further in single player make sure you have adjusted the decay setting for buildings otherwise you will find what u built vanished when u log back in a few days later .

As for Multiplayer in a LAN you do need 1 extra account/game for hosting the server, while you and your friend can join that server to my knowledge. Maybe another person can confirm this. since i haven't done this part in a long time.

Have fun and take care.




As for playing with a friend

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by -=GUARDIAN=-:

Originally posted by Kady Meriad:

So, I am returning after years and I see the warnings of abandonment. . .

I attempted to play single player, and it seemed fine, until I crashed. When I returned, the quest tracker, inventory rewards, and my skill status were no longer synced. It appeared to break the quest tracker. Is there a resolution to this short of backing up your data constantly?

I attempted to launch a dedicated server to be able to play with another friend. When I launched it, the game closed and I could not relaunch without ending task on Steam - as if I was expected to run server from a different PC. I was able to join my server after relaunching and seeking myself on LAN. Is this how that is accomplished? Will my friend be able to join me this way?

Thank you to those providing answers.

Welcome back,

As u noted, the game has not since any new fixes to very old bugs in both single and multiplayer versions for the past year +.
In Single player u are able to copy and back up manually your character profile, this should help in case u get a hard crash and the files are no longer sync, but its a pain to back them up since u never know when it might crash. Ideally have the game run on lower setting or with a higher end Video card do fix this issue since most of the crashes are related to game asset load capacity. Further in single player make sure you have adjusted the decay setting for buildings otherwise you will find what u built vanished when u log back in a few days later .

As for Multiplayer in a LAN you do need 1 extra account/game for hosting the server, while you and your friend can join that server to my knowledge. Maybe another person can confirm this. since i haven't done this part in a long time.

Have fun and take care.




As for playing with a friend

Thank you for your response. Were you finished? I did not see anything after you said, "As for playing with a friend."

And decay rate is an issue for single player, even when a server is not running after you quit game? That seems strange.

In the case of crashing, I considered it was a resource issue, but this is a new PC and it runs many times smoother than my old one. I had hoped it was not because of that.

In the case of running a dedicated server, I was running server from the same PC and account, and I was able to log on after ending Steam in Task Manager. I will now attempt to run server from my old PC, play from the new one, but same Steam account in both cases.

[Scourn]

Originally posted by Kady Meriad:

Originally posted by -=GUARDIAN=-:

Welcome back,

As u noted, the game has not since any new fixes to very old bugs in both single and multiplayer versions for the past year +.
In Single player u are able to copy and back up manually your character profile, this should help in case u get a hard crash and the files are no longer sync, but its a pain to back them up since u never know when it might crash. Ideally have the game run on lower setting or with a higher end Video card do fix this issue since most of the crashes are related to game asset load capacity. Further in single player make sure you have adjusted the decay setting for buildings otherwise you will find what u built vanished when u log back in a few days later .

As for Multiplayer in a LAN you do need 1 extra account/game for hosting the server, while you and your friend can join that server to my knowledge. Maybe another person can confirm this. since i haven't done this part in a long time.

Have fun and take care.




As for playing with a friend

Thank you for your response. Were you finished? I did not see anything after you said, "As for playing with a friend."

And decay rate is an issue for single player, even when a server is not running after you quit game? That seems strange.

In the case of crashing, I considered it was a resource issue, but this is a new PC and it runs many times smoother than my old one. I had hoped it was not because of that.

In the case of running a dedicated server, I was running server from the same PC and account, and I was able to log on after ending Steam in Task Manager. I will now attempt to run server from my old PC, play from the new one, but same Steam account in both cases.

once you launch your server from steam I think you can just shut down steam and then restart it and the play option shows up. Its been awhile since I last played this so I think thats how we did it for hosting a dedicated server.

Also were you running the dedicated server tool that you can download from steam directly?

Also I prefer using this its better IMO https://servermanagers.freeforums.net/thread/2/downloads

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by Scourn:

Originally posted by Kady Meriad:

Thank you for your response. Were you finished? I did not see anything after you said, "As for playing with a friend."

And decay rate is an issue for single player, even when a server is not running after you quit game? That seems strange.

In the case of crashing, I considered it was a resource issue, but this is a new PC and it runs many times smoother than my old one. I had hoped it was not because of that.

In the case of running a dedicated server, I was running server from the same PC and account, and I was able to log on after ending Steam in Task Manager. I will now attempt to run server from my old PC, play from the new one, but same Steam account in both cases.

once you launch your server from steam I think you can just shut down steam and then restart it and the play option shows up. Its been awhile since I last played this so I think thats how we did it for hosting a dedicated server.

Also were you running the dedicated server tool that you can download from steam directly?

Also I prefer using this its better IMO https://servermanagers.freeforums.net/thread/2/downloads

Oh! No, I was not. I started it on my PC, and then the game closed, and the server launched in DOS. I could not relaunch the game to play it until I Ended Task on Steam. That does not crash a game, only Steams management of it, such as the in-game overlay.

[Scourn]

yeah that link i provided is for a server manager that will allow you to change settings and easily launch the server and play at the same time. Its basically the same as arks server manager and made by the same guy

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by Scourn:

yeah that link i provided is for a server manager that will allow you to change settings and easily launch the server and play at the same time. Its basically the same as arks server manager and made by the same guy

I appreciate you taking the time to answer all my questions, Scourn. Out of curiosity, where do I find the one you mentioned Steam provides? DnL launches it's own server, so I am not sure why I would worry about an additional tool.

[Kady Meriad]

I just attempted to use the tool. It installed, but when I went to run it, I received an error popup. When I went to the forums it asked for me to post to, the last post was in June about an issue, and it does not show an answer.

[Scourn]

not sure honestly i never got any errors before when running it. Third party tools are more supported honestly than this game ever was, the devs have not updated this game in years and it was always buggy even when they were updating it. The third party tool is basically a copy of arks server manager since this game uses the old ark 1.0 code so its always worked when i hosted a server. You can google DnL server manager and try and downloading the one listed on steam and see if that one works also.

[Kidults]

DLSM the development has been stopped. It is a great tool to use for setting up a server's ini files. Then what I do is after I have the server settings how I like, I stop using the DLSM and run the game without it.

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by Kidult:

DLSM the development has been stopped. It is a great tool to use for setting up a server's ini files. Then what I do is after I have the server settings how I like, I stop using the DLSM and run the game without it.

Is that the tool that was shared above?

[Kidults]

Yes
It is the Dark and Light server manager..
The ark server manager is still being worked on.

When i used my Virus prot would block it.. I never had virus trouble with the DLSM.. it still works. Not as a way to run a server thou. We had some issues with the servers while using, why I dont use to run servers

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by Kidult:

Yes
It is the Dark and Light server manager..
The ark server manager is still being worked on.

When i used my Virus prot would block it.. I never had virus trouble with the DLSM.. it still works. Not as a way to run a server thou. We had some issues with the servers while using, why I dont use to run servers

When I attempted to use it, I got a few errors. I am not certain how to troubleshoot it.

[Kidults]

I am in the dark and light official discord, we can chat there if you like.
https://discord.gg/darknlight

[Kady Meriad]

Originally posted by Kidult:

I am in the dark and light official discord, we can chat there if you like.
https://discord.gg/darknlight

Thank you!