So when I try joining a unofficial PC session on ark survival evolved it will say joining...

My friends haven’t been able to join me on ARK Survival Evolved (Non-Dedicated Session), Astroneer, Kingdom Two Crowns and there may be others I don’t remember.

The weird thing is that sometimes they can join me on those games and other times they can’t and it says “Failed to Connect”.

So I have done some more troubleshooting. She can join other servers. I on my pc can also join official servers. I do have all the ports open and forwarded that Xbox normally requires. My pc still says join failed when I try to join her. Same on Xbox side. My pc does say could not retrieve address when I try to join unofficial dedicated arks.

Hi murdermayhem9!

Since this happened after an update, it's possible that the issue is related to it. Let's first try to verify and repair your game files.

Open the Xbox app for Windows.
In My Library, select the game title.
Select the More options (…) button and choose Manage.
Select Files and then Verify and repair.

Please also check your network status by following the steps from the link below if it's related to your network.
https://support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/...

Don't forget to check for your Windows updates and get all updates available from your Microsoft Store.

Check for Windows updates - https://support.microsoft.com/windows/update-wi...

Get updates from Microsoft Store - https://support.microsoft.com/account-billing/g...

If the issue is isolated to that game only, I recommend to directly contact the game support here https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us as possible it's a server-side issue from their end.

Hi there Paper Man,

Thanks so much for the reply as well for trying the troubleshooting steps.

The next step, will require using a weblink to help acquire the Ark Survival Evolved for PC from the game pass.

• https://www.microsoft.com/p/ark-survival-evolved/9nblggh52xc6

Try this and let us know the results.

Hello,

I was researching the problem that may be messing up your game. This seems to be on ark side since on ark forums they are having the same problem ARK
Thread. You can try to contact the ARK employees through https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us and see. Were very sorry your experiencing this.

Cheers,

-Raptor