so after watching 5 videos and read about 6 or 7 how to's and at least to my knowledge i did everything correct. when i run the server the server cmd looks normal and like it's working but even after an hour of the server being up it still doesn't show in anything.
the thing is i know how to port forward i do all the time with minecraft made about 10 different servers on minecraft and yet it doesnt work for ark. is there something i can be missing? i made inbound and outbound rules for the port's and port forwarded. i just don't know what to do and i really want to play with my friends in a private server.
i've made 2 posts on steam community forums for ark, tweeted the devs like 4 times and still no replies. i just need something. something that i may be missing or something i did wrong even though again to my knowledge i did everything correct.
(forgot to add this for some reason when i first started to try and make the server it would show up in lan but it was un joinable. i would try and join and i would lose connection. so im really confused everything points towards port forwarding it seems but i did it correctly)
Update - i messed around with it, got it onto my LAN list tried to join and got "connection timed out"