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  • Biome Update, The Center Contest and Xbox Patch 736!

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    Hey Survivors!

    Earlier this month in a Community Crunch we announced that later on we would be making some very large biome changes to The Island. Part of this change would be introducing a new zone, known as the Redwood Forest and also slightly expanding the size of the Snow Biome.

    This is a map you can use to help identify the areas where The Island will receive some changes and it’s makeover.

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    The blue area represents the new size of the Snow Biome. The orange area represents the location of the new Redwood Biome and the green-area represents part of the Swamp that is also being turned into Redwood.

    Something we will always try to avoid is making drastic map changes as we know it can be unsettling for players to have to be concerned about relocating their base, however in some cases we have to go ahead and make those changes for the development of the game. We apologize if this does cause any inconvenience and we really hope you enjoy the upcoming biome changes!

    Whilst we prepare for launching the new biomes we said we’d be updating the in-game environment with 3D Markers to help indicate areas that will be undergoing change. These markers will be brought into the game on Wednesday and here’s what you can expect them to look like! 

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    That’ll give you an idea of whether you need to make any plans to move or not :)

    CONTEST: The Center Boss Fight!

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    For Official server The Center players, we're giving away $1000 cash in a special contest!

    $500 to the first Xbox tribe and another $500 to the first PC tribe to beat both bosses on an Official PVP server!

    Screenshot proof of the pause menu in the boss arena including server name, as well as the items received from defeating the bosses must be provided! You can upload your images to our forums, and write a comment down below with the screenshots. Good luck!

    Xbox Patch 736!

    Don’t worry guys! It’s been submitted and it’s currently going through QA/Certification! As soon as we know the status of it, we will let you know and roll the patch out. We are very grateful your patience and as soon as we can your games will be updated with the latest fixes from the patch! To check out the full-notes, you can head to our patch-notes thread:

    ‘Evolve’ by Nerd Out!

    The awesome dudes over at Nerd Out made this fantastic song and video about ARK! We’re absolutely in love with it - check it out!

    That’s all for today guys! We’ve got a big patch to prepare for now! 

    All the best,

    Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team.

    Edited by Jat

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    Cr33pnD3a7h

    The new map has pretty much killed the pve server of The Island that I play on. Nearly all of the veteran players are gone. There are an average of 5-10 players on throughout the day.  I'm just wondering if there is a plan to develope more interest in the Island? My concern is that Ark will will shut down the server because there are so few people on it.

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    Plannb23
    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    You give yourself too much credit

    I'm not giving myself any credit.  Just saying your ignorance led to this discussion not my post.

    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    kid

    Laughable  You're now stooping to assumptions.  I have full grown children.  Nice try.

    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    Still, if you are inbetween breeding cycles, you should have prepared any events that might happen.

    Wrong.  You can't prepare for a patch that doesn't have a time associated with it.   When I left for work there was no patch.  There was no timer.  I worked 12 hours that day.  While I was at work they pushed the patch.  Nice try.  Simply put you're just trolling now.  If you're going to actually do it you should try harder.  It's tiresome constantly showing your lack of understanding.  

    Oh wait ... I'm some little kid and I don't work right???

    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    Any downtime, the server stops and the world stops. You prepare for the fact that any breeding attempt might fail.

    Again you're not grasping the issue.  I'm not talking about the down time that the timer isn't running.  I'm talking about the amount of time it takes to download the patch after the server is back up.  If there was a 1 hour buffer in there, the server was down for 15 minutes and it takes 2 hours to download the patch, you're minus 75 minutes.  Your baby will not survive 75 minutes with no food.

    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    Especially when big patches are rolled out.

    736 was an impromptu patch.  We didn't breed around big patches.  That's stupid and again you're just steering off topic.  We knew that the big patch was going to be an issue and held off.  736 on the other hand had no actual ETA and was thrown out there.

    On 5/27/2016 at 11:29 AM, NukeZX said:

    After all, this is just a alpha.

    Just because it's an alpha doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a modicum of communication from the company to its customers.  This isn't just some random rant from some little kid who's mad about a glitch.  This is a planned patch that should be communicated.  Not a 15 minute message broadcast or a tweet on twitter that says the patch is through QA and here it comes.  Let people know that you're planning on taking servers down.  They knew it was coming.  Should have been communicated better.

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    GP
    4 minutes ago, claysmiff1702 said:

    Hey guys, lets all get super butt-hurt on the internet over a videogame

    Better still, lets not bump dead threads solely to antagonise others!

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    Plannb23

    Well since this is up here, why aren't there markers on the Xbox?  The patch notes say that it's coming on Tuesday and we don't have a single marker showing the new locations.

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    13 minutes ago, Plannb23 said:

    Well since this is up here, why aren't there markers on the Xbox?  The patch notes say that it's coming on Tuesday and we don't have a single marker showing the new locations.

    The Patch Notes say the Markers are coming on Tuesday, not the Biome.

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    Plannb23
    Just now, GamerPerfection said:

    The Patch Notes say the Markers are coming on Tuesday, not the Biome.

    ahh hell ... reading is fundamental.  My bad.

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