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+# you will need to forward ports to the server (GAME_PORT ; GAME_PORT +1 ; QUERY_PORT)
+# ark uses huge amount of files and needs system limits to be increased : update the /etc/security/limits.conf file by adding the following values (replacing steamcmd by the user owning the server files) :
+# steamcmd hard nofile 100000
+# steamcmd soft nofile 100000