HomeGamesUpdatesPricingMethodology
Steam News1 February 20265mo ago

Clarification: Hosting Servers is FREE

We wanted to put a reminder that hosting your own Swordia game(s) or server(s) is 100% free. Simple visit https://afflictionid.com/servers or click "Host your Own Server" on the launcher.

Full notes

Full Swordia update

Read the full published notes in a cleaner layout. The original post stays linked below.

What changed

0 fixes2 additions2 changes0 removals
  • Server
  • Fixes
  • Gameplay
changedWe wanted to put a reminder that hosting your own Swordia game(s) or server(s) is 100% free. Simple visit https://afflictionid.com/servers or click "Host your Own Server" on the launcher.
addedWe also updated all the lingo to further reflect this so no future misunderstandings happen. We look forward to the communities creations! Also as another note we pushed an engine update yesterday with the following changes: We released a critical security fix for the Server SDK. This is to fix a vulnerability that crashes servers when used. Due to the nature of this, if you are a pre-existing server you will need to UPDATE in order to boot your server up! Copy all contents of the following folders from your previous installation to the new installation and overwrite so you lose no data:
addedusercontent folder... You will need the NEW userContent/client_strings.json file though from your new installation to fix issues.
changedAll servers running the old version will be de-authenticated in 30 mins. Thank you

Swordia changes

changedWe wanted to put a reminder that hosting your own Swordia game(s) or server(s) is 100% free. Simple visit https://afflictionid.com/servers or click "Host your Own Server" on the launcher.
addedWe also updated all the lingo to further reflect this so no future misunderstandings happen. We look forward to the communities creations! Also as another note we pushed an engine update yesterday with the following changes: We released a critical security fix for the Server SDK. This is to fix a vulnerability that crashes servers when used. Due to the nature of this, if you are a pre-existing server you will need to UPDATE in order to boot your server up! Copy all contents of the following folders from your previous installation to the new installation and overwrite so you lose no data:
addedusercontent folder... You will need the NEW userContent/client_strings.json file though from your new installation to fix issues.
changedAll servers running the old version will be de-authenticated in 30 mins. Thank you

We wanted to put a reminder that hosting your own Swordia game(s) or server(s) is 100% free. Simple visit https://afflictionid.com/servers or click "Host your Own Server" on the launcher.

We also updated all the lingo to further reflect this so no future misunderstandings happen. We look forward to the communities creations! Also as another note we pushed an engine update yesterday with the following changes: We released a critical security fix for the Server SDK. This is to fix a vulnerability that crashes servers when used. Due to the nature of this, if you are a pre-existing server you will need to UPDATE in order to boot your server up! Copy all contents of the following folders from your previous installation to the new installation and overwrite so you lose no data:

  • resources

  • usercontent folder... You will need the NEW userContent/client_strings.json file though from your new installation to fix issues.

  1. All servers running the old version will be de-authenticated in 30 mins. Thank you

  2. Use # ⁠swordia if you have questions in our Discord.

Source

Steam News / 1 February 2026

Open original post

Changelog.gg summarizes and formats this update. How we read updates.