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  • Community Crunch 144: Extinction Chronicles III!

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

    Extinction Chronicles III!

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    Tomorrow there will be a client and server side update that will bring Extinction Chronicles III to survivors on PC, Xbox, and PS4! 

    Leading up to the release of Extinction there will be monthly drops of Extinction-related Explorer Notes on The Island, Scorched Earth, and Aberration. Once collected these notes will unlock new Extinction-related skins! 

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    There will also be the appearance of more powerful Tek-themed Dinosaur variants within the ARKs each month. These Tek Dinos are permanent additions (meaning they will continue to spawn even after the event is over), with a new one beginning to appear each month. In Extinction Chronicles I we released three Explorer Notes, the Corrupted Helmet and the Tek Rex. In Extinction Chronicles II we released three Explorer Notes, the Corrupted Boots and the Tek Stego.

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    And now, tomorrow we're excited to bring you three new Explorer Notes, the Corrupted Pants and a new Tek creature, the Tek Raptor!

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    In addition, special colored dinos will be populating the ARKs. You'll be able to find creatures sporting red, black, white, and grey for the next month beginning tomorrow. Be sure to take advantage of these special colors before they're extinct!

    Patch Notes!

    Here are the full fixes and notes coming in tomorrows Extinction Chronicles III update (PC).

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    Extinction Chronicles III:
                - Added Tek Raptor (5% spawn chance)
                - Added new color set (red, black, white, grey)
                - Added 3 new Explorer Notes and matching unlock (Corrupted Pants)
                - Increased maximum player level by 1
    Connectivity:
                - Added time out to clients who aren't responding
    Aberration Balance:
                - Increased Plant-Z range by 300%
                - Enabled Tek Teleporter on Aberration
    Scorched Balance:
                - Crop plots can now be grown where you'd expect (no more sunlight issues)

    You can read the console-specific notes in their respective patch notes thread below:

    Community Livestream #6 This Thursday!

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    This Thursday August 16th the community team will be doing another biweekly livestream!

    During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen bring you ARK news, celebrate modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We mix it up between playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team.

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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 :)

    ARK Digest Making A Return!

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    Just a quick reminder that 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

    Mod Community Updates!

    Good day everybody! Zen here with some reminders.

    I know the devkit update hasn't hit the epic launcher yet, however the devkit update that includes TLC 2 content is available for manual install.
    So in case that information never crossed your path, you can get it from here:

    https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/modding/ark-survival-evolved/62293-6-21-ark-dev-kit-v280-0-is-now-on-google-drive

    The tutorial bounty board is starting to look pretty popular, I've already received a few submissions for things like map optimizations and chat commands, so you can look forward to a couple tutorials on that subject at the beginning of next month. If you are interested in helping make tutorials, please check out the board each month to see what bounties are available, they do have cash awards attached to them. If you are looking for some tutorials on topics for yourself but there aren't any bounties for it, you will find a form on the same page to submit a bounty request.

    This system is designed to be driven by community needs but I do need your help to know what those needs are, whether it be adding new request topics or voting on existing requests to be made into bounties.

    PS4 (EU) Sale!

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    ARK: Survival Evolved

    ARK: Explorer's Edition

    ARK: Season Pass

    ARK: Scorched Earth

    ARK: Aberration

    ARK: Complete Your Season Pass

    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 17th of August at 1 PM EST until Monday the 20th 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

    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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    Got an update on windows 10 now everyone, so it should be it. After hitting get updates on windows store it show now update.

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    On ‎8‎/‎13‎/‎2018 at 10:51 PM, VJ1989 said:

    So are you not altering the life span of consumables on scorched earth? i dont see anything about it. at the moment the only thing tolerable to raise on scorched earth is wyverns, since meat spoils so fast.

    That was already done.  Read the patch notes going back

     

    Version: 280.130

    - Raise Scorched Earth consumable lifetime to 90% from 30% of default

    Edited by Dasham86
    Added More info

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    Anyone else not a big fan of the bionic/Tek look? Kinda hoping for like and organic skin or something ?

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    These are all really cool changes and additions, but do you guys think you could maybe spend a couple minutes addressing the small issue were people are getting inside the map and going under bases and leveling turret towers without them ever firing a shot? Also sniping tames?! What's the point in putting countless hours in to building defenses when people just cheat and it's all for nothing? If you can't seem to find a solution just delete the climbing picks and ziplines I could live with that, we enjoyed the game before without them and this is getting to be unacceptable.

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    On 8/14/2018 at 9:46 AM, Hankey said:

    You need to Read the Specific Patch Notes increase will come with update today

    They increased the element of the center boss on PC and PS4. But not on xbox. Really? ? 

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    How about less events and more content and bug fixes? Don't be that company that keeps starting a new task without finishing older ones. You cant work on 5+ things at once

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    Anyone else not having red animals spawning and still getting blue/purple? Done several destroywilddinos now but new spawns are still coming in blue/purple.
    On dedicated Xbox server, both consoles updated. On Ragnarok and Prim+

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    1 hour ago, HIFLY said:

    How about less events and more content and bug fixes? Don't be that company that keeps starting a new task without finishing older ones. You cant work on 5+ things at once

    These events are the build up to new content.

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    Why do you guys add 1 level each Extinctions Chronicles update? is it leading up to a big boost to the level cap?

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    On 8/14/2018 at 1:09 PM, Fckw1t said:

    I really shouldn't have had my Hope's up for a tek dinosaur that wasn't just something I could have added one of the tek costumes to my self..... come on guys give us something new something cool tek dodo, tek jerboa, tek thylacoleo, tek therrizino something different and cool while we wait for the next dlc. the rex was great the steggo was ok the raptor well now it's just the same stuff we've already got/seen 

    "Give us something new" The only Tek skins we had before these started coming out is Tek Rex and Tek Giga :/

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    On 8/14/2018 at 3:33 PM, BeastKing said:

    are you just going to bring in tek dinos you already had skins for? Well it does ensure you put it out in time i guess.

    All of these Tek skins except Tek Rex & Tek Giga are new to PC...

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    On Xbox (version 776.0) everything seems fine.

    On Windows 10 (version 776.1) the chronicles are missing from Scorched Earth and Aberration. 

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    I got lucky and dropped 2 tek raptors the first day, both red and gold.  High levels too. :)

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    Instead of adding teleporters to ab can't you just increase drop spawns or make a terminal in each biome so people can actually get out! Literally spent 5 days in ab because I can't find a drop!? Also the bright white (supposed to be subtle pink!) water goin down to drake den! Along with the lag in the official servers as soon as they have 20+ players online there are more things stopping me want to play than keeping me hooked 

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    Will we see another 3x breeding soon like maybe labor day weekend? It'll be real nice to see that.

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    The chronicles on xbox play anywhere are not activating on prim+ nor are they unlocking the corrupted pants skin throughout the he xbox please for the love of money can you make sure that content being added is actually going to work as intended

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    I hope the next set of Tek dinos wouldn't just be the ones from the available skins.

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    Sweet new colors and a skin for the raptor. If only they worked on the undermeshing scum in the game

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    can i know what is the next tek dinos ? cause i really like a tek quetz!!!! it looks like a iron monster in the sky lol

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    I wander if the next tek dino is a Tek Megalodon...

    If not it could be a Tek Dodo...

    :)

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    8 hours ago, NebbyPhage said:

    I wander if the next tek dino is a Tek Megalodon...

    If not it could be a Tek Dodo...

    :)

    It isn't going to be either of them. It will be one that already has a Tek skin, therefore, either Trike, Parasaur, Mosa, Quetzal or Giga.

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