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  • Community Crunch 143: Extinction Chronicles III Next Week, Dev Diary, & ARK Digest Returns!

    Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! :Jerbhi:

    Extinction Chronicles III Next Week!

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    On August 14th Extinction Chronicles III will be released on all platforms. As usual survivors can expect a new tek dino, new Explorer Notes, a new cosmetic, increased level cap, and special colored dinos on all ARKs!

    Developer Diaries!

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    Today we'd like to bring you a new section of the Crunch called Developer Diaries. In this section we'll speak to some of the changes the ARK has gone through. This weeks diary entry is brought to you by Lead Programmer, Chris Willoughby, as he talks about the changes that were recently made to Scorched Earth.

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    When making new content for a game like ours, you want to make something that challenges players in new ways. With Scorched Earth we decided to do this by making a map that embodied it's namesake - a scorched landscape that proved to be a challenge due to harsh weather and decreased spoil timers. Thematically, this made sense. It also provided a new experience for our players, forcing them to rely on new strategies to survive. The downside of this approach, however, is that it represents a significant hurdle that makes the map less tenable as part of the Cross Ark experience.

    After discussing it for some time and consulting with players - we felt it was time to relax these constraints a bit in order to provide a more even experience. First, we've lowered the impact of the environment on consumables, increasing their lifetime to 90% of normal rather than the 30%. In addition, we've limited the effect of Electrical Storms to Tek based weaponry and defenses. This means that your non-Tek weapons will now function, your generators will continue to run, and you can make use of that Tek Cloning Chamber. Finally, we've relaxed the constraint on crop plot placement - so that you can grow where you'd expect to. Many of these changes rolled out on PC as experimental parts of Extinction Chronicles 2. The remaining improvements will hit all three platforms simultaneously with Extinction Chronicles 3, due for release in the next few weeks.

    As always, we'll continue to monitor the effect that these changes have on the overall experience, and adjust as necessary. To that end, we're actively examining Aberration and looking at further ways to adjust and improve the player experience there in the near future as well.

    Thanks for your ongoing support Survivors!

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    ARK Digest Making A Return!

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    Survivors! It's been quite a while since we've done a question and answer session, but the ARK Digest will be making a come back! Our goal is to bring the Digest back about once a month with the first being on August 20th.

    If you have a question you want answered by the ARK dev team please submit your questions with the Subject "ARK Q&A" to our email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com

    Community Livestream Round-Up!

    On August 2nd we had our fifth Community Livestream. Thank you to all of those who attended and participated! The community team had a lot of fun and we hope you did as well. If you weren't able to catch the stream you can watch the video-on-demand on our Twitch page or by clicking on the video below.

    For this weeks stream ZenRowe and I were joined by the developer of Genesis and some of the members of RPFirst and TwitchRP. 

    Map developer Peoples Gaming gave us an expansive tour of what he has built in his cyberpunk adventure world. Ravage and Tess taught us all about RP and the history of ARK and roleplaying, and how RP is conducted on their Genesis server. We learned there is an uprising, a police cult that locks people in jail, and an orphanage of people selling potentially illegal substances! It was an exciting tour unlike any other.

    If you're interested in ARK roleplay definitely check out RPFirst and TwitchRP or start your own roleplaying server!

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    We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the Showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related!

    You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com

    Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark

    We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, August the 16th! We hope to see you there :)

    Mod Community Updates!

    It's ZenRowe here with another modding tutorial for everyone! This one is a bit different in that it's also a bit of a warning about a particular feature that, if used incorrectly, can have some consequences that are difficult to get a handle on. On the other hand, these CDOs can be really handy for making some class information and functions globally accessible. Happy modding!

    ARK: Evolution Event+!

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    Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 10th of August at 1 PM EST until Monday the 13th of August at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    2x Harvesting Rates
    2x Taming Rates
    2x EXP Rates
    2x Maturation Rates
    2x  Mating & Egg Hatching Rates
    2x Faster Mating Interval

    That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at:

    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    So now it is morning and still the server is down. Western Twain  Federation, I already gave up on the imprinting because I am fairly certain that all the $%^#^ babies are dead since I couldn't log on to the server to feed them. Please fix this server 377.

    Update: Ok after some coffee, my mind is working again. babies may still be ok . If server is down then no time passes. Just not sure how it works after we get back.

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    1 hour ago, elweasel2010 said:

    So now it is morning and still the server is down. Western Twain  Federation, I already gave up on the imprinting because I am fairly certain that all the $%^#^ babies are dead since I couldn't log on to the server to feed them. Please fix this server 377.

    from 377 as well, server has been poop last 3 weeks and now this. W. T. F. wildcard, they need to fix their poop instead of worrying about making more expansions. I HAD a baby rex that just hatched from jeff(cobalt) and a baby argy from a bird that died recently due to a glitch and they are more than likely now both dead unless they roll back to a backup. 

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    wow lag is so bad on oc SE392 inprinting is now 2 hours longer then they should be and counting

     

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    2 hours ago, MansonFraek said:

    from 377 as well, server has been poop last 3 weeks and now this. W. T. F. wildcard, they need to fix their poop instead of worrying about making more expansions. I HAD a baby rex that just hatched from jeff(cobalt) and a baby argy from a bird that died recently due to a glitch and they are more than likely now both dead unless they roll back to a backup. 

    Hopefully they are ok. If the server is truly down then no time passes on the server. (just remembered) But I am not sure if when you come back that the server will change the timers. 

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    On 8/8/2018 at 4:49 PM, Nucleon said:

    What tek dino it will be ?  

    Mosasaure, Raptor, Trike, Parasaur, Quetzal or Gigano ?

     

    For the image I almost bet argentavis ?

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    So now they've thought a whole 5 minutes about scorched earth, time for it to go into the bag again. How about it actually had its story finished. Where's ascension for Scorched Earth, The Center and Ragnarok?

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    8 hours ago, McAbraxus said:

    So now they've thought a whole 5 minutes about scorched earth, time for it to go into the bag again. How about it actually had its story finished. Where's ascension for Scorched Earth, The Center and Ragnarok?

    I don't think The Center and Ragnarok will ever get ascension, they never were and are not part of the story.

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    On 8/7/2018 at 8:22 PM, jurassicjoey said:

    can we get some Extinction  tek schorch earth verson durning the events

    What?

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    So excited for the new Tek dino! I hope it's a flyer this time.

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    Hello just wondering a server on PS4 is down and hasn't been up all weekend, not sure if you can do anything about it, the server is Aisa 499.

    Thanks

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    On 8/7/2018 at 6:15 PM, chancho33015 said:

    so am i the only one who just keeps asking my self, "all these game mods and why are they not implemented in any way in official?". It is a bit bizarre how all these game mod developers do a great job in some game mechanics and even tools and literally none of the cool ones are implemented in official game-play...bit of a shame! Lots of potential for official being wasted. Where is steampunk?where is S+? i mean, where is the cool stuff? o.O 

    PLEASE WE NEED S+

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    Hello, trying to reach out with someone via Twitter but I get no answer =(

    The testing period for small tribes ended a week ago. Does anyone knows whats going to happen now? are new smalltribes servers going to open? Because its pretty difficult to start in a server because me and my friend are constantly getting wiped by already established tribes.

    Thx! (Sorry for bad english)

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    And noone in the community crunch ever asked about what WC will do for the tame cap situation ? 

     

    1 hour ago, noaheslukita said:

    Because its pretty difficult to start in a server because me and my friend are constantly getting wiped by already established tribes.

    It's pretty difficult to start in a PVP server because me and my friend are constantly getting wiped by already established tribes.

    It's pretty difficult to start in a PVE server because me and my friend are constantly getting a message "play on different server, this one is tame-capped"  by already established tribes, and constantly getting a message "there are too many tamed creatures on the ARK" by a knocked out dino.

     

    both happens because there are people playing long before us, one became too powerful, and one became dino factories. For pvp players there should be an option to 'start fresh' that will destroy all dinoes and structures but will then grant the tribe a pvp-protection for a week or a month and the tribe can opt to remove protection at any time if they feel ready before the protection period ends, while for pve there should be a dino storage.

     

     

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    I want to see more Extinction footage (as does everyone) but there should be some new items / crafting materials to keep things fresh I think. Would also be quite cool to have some horror elements mixed in.. sneak attacks from wild dino's... more dangerous dino's in otherwise 'safer' areas at night or something... during a full moon carnivores are quicker and have glowing eyes... mix it up a bit! I love the game but I think more immersiveness or even some scripted, one-off events related to the next DLC to build the anticipation - definitely get people talking and sharing experiences on YouTube (free advertisement!)

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    ...it would also be good to have 'dino cloud storage' where you can download dino's in to your own 'collection' off the server and still interact with them in some sort of 'personal Ark zoo' - this would be espcially good for people who collect 'trophy tames' that ultimately have no real purpose in say, a PVE server - may even free up some tame cap so more people can breed boss dino's!

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    On 8/12/2018 at 7:51 AM, grugsplat said:

    please fix all the OC servers

     

     

    Amen to that!

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    On 8/13/2018 at 3:44 PM, JaiMasters said:

    ...it would also be good to have 'dino cloud storage' where you can download dino's in to your own 'collection' off the server and still interact with them in some sort of 'personal Ark zoo' - this would be espcially good for people who collect 'trophy tames' that ultimately have no real purpose in say, a PVE server - may even free up some tame cap so more people can breed boss dino's!

    They have the ability to download a copy of your dino into the VR game of ArkPark (but requires VR to use, which I dont have) and I heard that they plan to have Ice Cube things in Extinction (Freeze dried dinos) but have a spoil timer.

    I personally wish there was some kind of dino storage like Pixark has, due to the need for so many kibble dinos, and backup dinos, and breeding pairs for dinos, as well as sentimental dinos, or dinos needing to be put away for later use, or when tribemates go on long (or even short) vacations from ark due to life or other reasons... Storage I would want to have zero fuel upkeep (and a structure decay timer that isnt stupid short... I would want at least 2 weeks to decay). My tribemate had to go away for several days, and in that time her gigas died from starvation, they were fully fed when she left. The idea of frozen cubes of dinos is great! But if they put an item spoil timer on it, that kinds ruins that option for me.

    Being able to store dinos sounds like it might solve tame cap issues, until more people come on and tame more, then it would be tame capped again :/ I recently got back into Official, and while we have a collection of dinos, we do not have enough for our needs (kibble making dinos, harvesting dinos, boss dinos, and breeders), and our server hitting tame cap is not unusual for our server.

    More servers would be nice, more than enough servers to cover all of their active players, if you consider many tribes play on multiple maps. I play on different maps due to the different availability of resources on the different maps. But time and cost and employee hours might make it impractical for Wildcard to have more, but I dont know the facts of that, I'm just speculating.

    I'm also a huge sentimentalist. I LOVE my dinos so much and cry when I lose them, I form memories with each and every dino, and any new ones will not be able to replace the same sentiments and memories I have with ones I lost. Most of my dinos are lost from starvation, glitches, and trying to tame something. If only I could preserve them, back them up, store them for later use, or download them for playing in Singleplayer. Like what if I could get some kind of blueprint made of my dino, that if my tame dies, I can remake the same one with it's blueprint! Easily stored in storage chests, only taking up as much resources as a custom recipe would.

    Some dinos/servers dont have the abilty to move the dino to singleplayer. With many modded dinos, it's impossible. Copied to singleplayer would be fantastic, no matter where you got them from, official, unofficial or modded, but the system is far from perfect imo.

     

    After I left legacy a while back (and it was NOT easy to do, I was probably depressed for days, maybe more than a week, crying myself to sleep at least twice) and tried some unofficial and modded servers. Problem with the unofficial, the server closes, or they change something, and I cant put it on pause! Tried singleplayer, but I got lonely, and it crashed often. I like knowing someone is on the same world. Singleplayer just doesnt give me the same feeling as servers... but taking care of dinos on servers just ends up feeling like work that I dont enjoy. I would be wanting to play some Warcraft, but dont... because I know my server dinos need to be fed, and they might starve (dead in days, irreplaceable virtual pets gone forever) while I am out trying to be a hero for Azeroth.

     

    Summary: Storing tames for later use, would give me a lot of emotional relief.

     

    This post was brought to you by the impulsive thought process of Green Roc.

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    On 8/12/2018 at 8:21 AM, GP said:

    I don't think The Center and Ragnarok will ever get ascension, they never were and are not part of the story.

    But they should be, they are official maps and by this time most newcomers really won't know the difference between Scorched Earth and The Center or Ragnarok. They could just have a whole new set of explorers going The Center to Ragnarok to Earth, ala Helena

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