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To say its release has been a success is an understatement, with developer Pocketpair announcing Palworld sold a million copies on Steam in less than eight hours. With such massive sales come server overloads. Here’s how to check Palworld server status.

Is Palworld Down? How to Check Server Status

There’s an official server status tracker for Palworld in the game itself, and it’s the first place to look if you’re having trouble connecting to or hosting servers. Click the “Server Failure Information” button next to the server selection menu in the dedicated server selection screen to reach it.

There are a lot of server errors floating around Palworld right now for server hosts, players trying to create multiplayer worlds for their friends to join, and those trying to hop…

Pocketpair’s survival monster-catcher game, Palworld, is here, and more multiplayer details are coming to light. But it’s not all good news. With the confirmation that Xbox and PC Game Pass players won’t have dedicated servers at launch, many are confused and frustrated by the news. 

Palworld Early Access Multiplayer Details Disappoint Players 

Palworld is on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox and PC Game Pass, and Steam at launch. Impressive. But players are less impressed by how the team is handling servers and crossplay. 

As confirmed by a Pocketpair Community Manager on Discord, Xbox and PC Game Pass players won’t have official or dedicated servers for up to 32 players — a feature that was promoted on the game’s Steam page. Instead, Xbox and Xbox PC will only have…

The tether distance setting in Ark Survival Ascended allows you to move farther away from the host in a session. We’ll show you how to increase tether distance in Ark Survival Ascended.

Adjusting tether distance allows you to customize how close your team has to be to one another while just playing the game. Furthermore, it also determines how much of the game world your PC has to load directly influencing performance.

Ark Survival Ascended: How to Increase Tether Distance

As we mentioned, tether distance is a customizable setting in ASA co-op that determines how far a player can move away from the host. This setting applies solely to non-dedicated servers where a host creates a game for him and his friends. Hosting works differently for dedicated servers so tether distance isn’t…

If you need an Ark Survival Ascended server hosting guide to get more information about creating servers, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s talk about how to create a dedicated server in Ark Survival Ascended.

Ark Survival Ascended: How to Create a Dedicated Server

There are numerous ways to approach the game besides single-player. You can join official servers for online play and also create non-dedicated and dedicated servers yourself. They allow your community to play the game even though the host isn’t online. So, how do you create one?

Studio Wildcard is partnered with Nitrado for the creation of dedicated servers. This is a game server hosting service that allows you to buy and maintain dedicated servers for Ark Survival Ascended. Therefore, if this is something…

Dedicated servers are one of the must-have features for online co-op games. Does the new Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria have dedicated servers, or do you have to rely on peer-to-peer connections?

Can You Play on Dedicated Servers in LotR Return to Moria? Answered

As you delve into the vast dungeons of Moria and engage in action-packed survival crafting gameplay, you might’ve decided to invite some friends. Players who engage in co-op have discovered that they simply cannot continue playing when the host leaves the game. In fact, I also experienced this when my friend, who was the host for our session, decided to leave. The rest of us had to log off since we couldn’t continue playing in that specific world without him. Our characters are saved on our own dedicated accounts, but…