question about ARK servers...

[Elastico345]

is there p2p server in ARK? i'm planning to play with my friend soon. soo I can't rent out a server since we don't have any budget for that. also we don't want to play on any public server since we only going for 2 of us only

[crosstiger]

I never did this myself, but isn't there a dedicated ark server available on steam? At least I see a Ark Survival Evolved dedicated server in my steam tool list.

[Elastico345]

10 hours ago, crosstiger said:

I never did this myself, but isn't there a dedicated ark server available on steam? At least I see a Ark Survival Evolved dedicated server in my steam tool list.

Don't you need to port forward that in order to work? The isp won't let me do that anymore.

[crosstiger]

That's highly possible. But that's nearly always the case if you host a server on your own pc. If your friend can't host the server you might try setting up a virtual lan. Tools like hamachi, tunngle or evolvehq might come in handy.

 

I haven't used one of these tools in years and I don't know how reliable they are nowadays.

[Elastico345]

6 hours ago, crosstiger said:

That's highly possible. But that's nearly always the case if you host a server on your own pc. If your friend can't host the server you might try setting up a virtual lan. Tools like hamachi, tunngle or evolvehq might come in handy.

 

I haven't used one of these tools in years and I don't know how reliable they are nowadays.

oh yea forgot about that. but dunno if hamachi is still reliable since i haven't use it for over a year or two now. thanks

[AngryBeaver]

On 4/28/2018 at 11:56 PM, Elastico345 said:

Don't you need to port forward that in order to work? The isp won't let me do that anymore.

Where do you live where your ISP won't let you port forward anymore?

 

Actually in most recent countries they HAVE to allow you the ability to control your own firewall and forward ports. Most major ISP that tried to enforce port blocking on either their equipment or on their network all got smacked with very large fines.