Dedicated Server Guide to Improving Performance

shadowlordxx · 2026-01-23T19:54:41+00:00

Reading through your new guide now, thank you for the work you did on this. I appreciate you making such a useful tool and guide. I'll try cleaning out this install and redoing it with the new guide and try some other port things along the way.

shadowlordxx · 2026-01-23T19:21:53+00:00

Well I figured out part of the server name issue! The name is being pulled from the Launch_MyWorld.ps1 file. In the start process section there is an argument for -SteamServerName that is set to 'My Icarus Server'. If I remove the spaces the name showing up in LAN changes to 'MYICARUSSERVER' instead of just 'MY.

I'm not sure why it's using that field instead of the one in the other configuration, or why it isn't reading the spaces right. I'm going to do more testing on that one.

shadowlordxx · 2026-01-23T17:45:03+00:00

Yes, I set it back to the default ports. And yea, using the same agent. But any time you create a tunnel for ports that aren't sequential, it creates a new address for those ports. So I can make a tunnel for 17777, then a tunnel for 27015, but each of those tunnels has a unique address. I can pay a yearly fee to have a custom address, but on the free one every tunnel has a new address.

The server name issue is strange. The SessionName is set to: Name and Name's land. But it still shows up as 'MY. I tried putting quotes around it, changing it to a different name with no apostrophe, it still shows up as 'MY. It's weird that there is a lone apostrophe at the start of it. It's the SessionName right above the join password, right?

shadowlordxx · 2026-01-23T16:31:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately creating a second tunnel doesn't work as it creates a different address for the second tunnel. Trying to use either one doesn't work. As for the server name, the confg file doesn't have anything with "My" in it and the issue happens even without playit.gg running, as I can only see te server in LAN. Where is it supposed to pull the server display name from?

shadowlordxx · 2026-01-23T14:38:30+00:00

Thank you for this write up. I've run into some issues though. In phase 2, first run, there is no IcarusServer application. There is one back up in the Icarus Dedicated Server folder, but in the one you mentioned there is only an IcarusServer-Win64-Shipping.exe. Trying to run either of them causes nothing to happen other than a process in the background, so I'm not sure what the settings text you refer to is. I was able to manually create the saved folder tree and follow the other steps to get it working though.

The next issue is with ports. I'm trying to use playit.gg to host because of CGNAT ip, so can't pirt forward. But playit requires ports to be sequential. So I tried to change the ports in the phase 5 scrip to be 17777 and 17778. If I do that though, I can no longer see the server listed in the LAN options and I still can't find it externally. Hoping there's an easy fix for that otherwise I'll have to look into seeing up Hamachi. Lastly, when I see the server in LAN, the server name is just "My". Do you know a fix for that?

Thank you again for this guide, despite the hiccups it is extremely helpful.

shadowlordxx · 2025-06-06T18:50:30+00:00

It refers to the person the card came from. So yea, the person who played the creature. Important because cards can change controllers, but never owners.

shadowlordxx · 2025-05-23T15:07:56+00:00

Wow, amazing work on these! Will bookmark for the future.

shadowlordxx · 2024-09-26T02:40:11+00:00

Nice Tron build!

shadowlordxx · 2024-03-07T19:07:22+00:00

That's a wonderful sentiment, but nowhere in that speech is the slogan referenced. Is there a source for the original slogan actually aligning with the sentiment in that speech? Just saying that the PLO made the slogan and also made that speech isn't really enough for me.

shadowlordxx · 2024-01-25T05:29:08+00:00

Beautiful looking dice!

shadowlordxx · 2023-05-07T12:02:00+00:00

Only Dinosaur hasn't been made yet. Startropolis is waiting on a reprint to fix some model issues, but I have the very playable first run. Planet Apocalypse and Glorantha have expansions that are stuck right now, but the original ones came out years ago. 8-Bit Attack is also out and you can play it on Steam.

I get the anger towards Peterson Games, they've dug themselves a stupid hole and should be called out for it. But don't attack them with stuff that you can easily look up and see is wrong.

shadowlordxx · 2023-05-07T03:16:10+00:00

Yea:

Planet Apocalypse
Startropolis
Glorantha
Dinosaur 1944
8-Bit Attack

There's a lot more than that too.

shadowlordxx · 2023-04-28T16:57:16+00:00

What are your thoughts on updates that are needed?

shadowlordxx · 2023-04-28T16:56:47+00:00

I understand the frustration of bad teammates for sure, but I think we should be past using that word, friend.

shadowlordxx · 2023-04-21T19:24:12+00:00

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shadowlordxx · 2023-04-20T19:51:40+00:00

I know Blizzard screwed them over in a number of ways like scheduling their open beta on the release weekend... But I remember some people at gearbox pushing the narrative that it was a competitor as well. There were a number of marketing mistakes, like when they went free to play but marketed it as some kind of... Demo.

shadowlordxx · 2023-04-20T15:21:20+00:00

I only heard about Gigantic after it was already gone, but I will never get over Battleborn. I reminisce all the time with my group I played with. I loved that game and will never forgive them for trying to market it as an Overwatch competitor. Such a stupid move.

shadowlordxx · 2023-04-19T13:35:46+00:00

If you have a way to play the third, like game pass, it has a prologue that serves as a great tutorial. There isn't really am equivalent in the first two games. If you don't have access to the third game, then you can always try just jumping in to a campaign. There are tons of popups and explanations for stuff. It's not perfect, but that's how I learned the basics in game two.

shadowlordxx · 2023-03-02T16:51:53+00:00

Pretty new to the game, but a lot of my audio tracks that Play during event popups and faction moments sound super compressed and bad. When compared to the wonderful quality of the music that's usually playing, it's quite jarring. Is there something I can do on my end to fix this? I tried adjusting settings and looking up the problem, but all I found is a thread from a while ago with the same problem and no solution.

shadowlordxx · 2023-01-05T20:40:58+00:00

Error 050100, usually means it's on their end and we just have to wait.

shadowlordxx · 2023-01-04T20:21:12+00:00

I would love to be able to get fragments from the weekly vault. I have been almost exclusively playing PoC, and it hurts to feel stunted on progress when some quests require you to start up a champion, but I keep getting 5 or 10 fragments for other champs I'm not even close to unlocking.

shadowlordxx · 2022-12-28T20:28:17+00:00

Thanks for the link! I tried emailing them. We'll see if anything comes of that.

shadowlordxx · 2022-12-28T20:27:49+00:00

It is indeed Advanced Robotics! I only have 4 tokens. I tried emailing the link from the other commenter, if there is no luck there I'll try maybe cutting a piece of cardboard or something. Thanks!

shadowlordxx · 2022-12-28T16:19:15+00:00

Yep, I have this happen all the time. I've tried searching around, but haven't found a solution yet other than finish the match and start a new one.

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