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  • Community Crunch 153: Extinction Chronicles V Tomorrow!

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

    Extinction Chronicles V!

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    Tomorrow there will be a client and server side update that will bring Extinction Chronicles V 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. 
    • In Extinction Chronicles III we released three Explorer Notes, the Corrupted Pants and the Tek Raptor.
    • In Extinction Chronicles IV we released three Explorer Notes, the Corrupted Shirt and the Tek Parasaur.

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

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    In addition, special colored dinos will be populating the ARKs. You'll be able to find creatures sporting black, red, green, purple, and white up until the launch of Extinction, beginning tomorrow. Be sure to take advantage of these special colors before they're extinct!

    Last but not least: just like we did last month, you can expect to see some more extinction screenshots tomorrow here on our forums! Be sure to check back for that.

    Patch Notes!

    Here are the full fixes and notes coming in tomorrows Extinction Chronicles V update (PC, console notes to come).

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    - Extinction Chronicles V
                - Added Tek Quetz
                    * New breeding line
                    * 5% chance to spawns
                    * 20% higher base level
                - Added new color set (black, red, green, purple, white, blue)
                - Added 3 new Explorer Notes and matching unlock (Corrupted Gloves)
                - Increased maximum player level by 1
    - Climbing pick meshing fixes
    - Better handling for low fps server dino attacking
    - Fix for failure to cleanup structure placers
    - Pre-emptive API for server structure cleanup improvement
    - Increased damage range for players/dinos on surface of Aberration

    Community Livestream #9 Roundup!

    On October 11th we had our seventh 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.

    This we toured a map called Fractured, a fantastical setting of floating islands far above the sea. This map created by TheAlchemist is in early access, but features many floating islands that appear to have once been joined, but torn apart by something... very large.

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    We were also joined by special guest Zunit, a PVP player and Twitch streamer. This podcast-style discussion had us chatting about the different types of player experiences on our official network such as 6-man experience versus Conquest, as well as diving into some fond memories of times past.

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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, October the 25th at 1PM EST! We hope to see you there :)

    Mod Community Updates!

    Hello Survivors!

    The modding contest voting period is still open! If you've been on the fence about what mods to vote for, we have been doing spotlights over on our Twitch channel. If you happened to miss any, they are conveniently gathered into a collection that can be viewed at any time. It's not over though, we are only halfway through the contestants. There is still another full week of spotlights to do! So drop by and hang out while we take a dive into the mods offered up by the community.

    Don't forget to vote, mod authors spend uncountable hours creating content for others to enjoy just out of a love for the game.
    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/voting/

    I also have a new tutorial ready for you. We're going to be starting on a full project; so the first thing we need is a design document. So let's lay out the plans for our "Virtual Sentry System".

    ARK Digest Next Week!

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    We'll be doing another ARK Digest post in the next Community Crunch! 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

    Fanart of the Week!

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    Amphicyon Dossier by Nokryn!

    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 19th of October at 1 PM EST until Monday the 22nd of October 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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    For those of you who believe the quetz is not useful now that an argy can carry the farming dinos. From a PvP standpoint a quetz is an utter nightmare to deal with in raids. Reapers have sort of made it harder, but a quetz with a box on it to prevent you from being picked with 30k+ hp flying in and picking giga riders is what they are truly used for. You can do that with an argy, but the utility and safety of a quetz far outweighs an argy. When you are not picking ground riders you can also just float stationary and shotgun the opposing gigas from a platform. 

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    7 hours ago, DarkRaptor13 said:

    The base game is still full of bugs, people are still waiting for things like S+ or the mode where you are a dino to be added. It needs a lot of rework, many TLCs... but all of those things are in stand-by (and will probably stay forever in standby) because WC is too busy making DLCs instead of taking care of the original game. 

    They won’t abandon their final dlc to fix bugs, and add tlc’s they are a month before extinction it’d be a waist to abandon it.

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    What does " - Fix for failure to cleanup structure placers " mean exactly? Does that mean those flying gates doors and spikes from old non-playing tribes will finally despawn? Does it mean something else?

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    Please say you fixed the player dedicated xbox not rendering bases upon log in/crashing endlessly problem? It is completely impossible to play unless you kill yourself before you log back in or have someone kill you if your by any structures period.  We have had to wait for this fix too long now. 

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    Please say you fixed the player dedicated xbox not rendering bases upon log in/crashing endlessly problem? It is completely impossible to play unless you kill yourself before you log back in or have someone kill you if your by any structures period.  We have had to wait for this fix too long now. 

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    But will I be able to get it in primitive plus? I mainly play that mode and have unlocked everything (apart from the gloves) and spawn with the hat and boots in prim plus but everything since EC3 the skins can't be got in prim plus if unlocked. I just don't spawn with it. And the tek raptor or para dont spawn either.

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    People are having problems on xbox one with the game constantly crashing at random moments after the latest update.

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    FiX Bugs?

     

    Giga wild 140 lv for tame 800 shotnarko ????? 1000 narko not enough to tame

    Wyewern 100lv  for milk 150 schot??  after 70

     

    Nice ubdate schit

     

     

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    On another note why is there always a different timeframe as to when pc and console versions are updated? This crap always happens, you either update the computer first or update the console first and we have to wait a day or 2 before they match up, why can't you just update it all at once instead of making people wait? Pretty much every single update for the last couple months you've done this, a bunch of people post about it and it's just another thing to add to the long list of issues such as regular game fixes for some of the major problems having to do with boss battles etc etc. I honestly haven't played for the last 3 months because of it and go figure when I come back everything is updated but my player data doesn't match my host data and I can't play. Your tech team is a joke @StudioWildCard

    to add, a day later I no longer have the option to post on conversations in the forums because I called you guys out. What's the matter garbage tech team? You butt hurt and liberal because I called you out on not doing your jobs? It's really simple, ARK started on PC, it's only natural you should be handeling your PC fan base before console Nd a full day and a half later theres still no updates. Doesn't matter, you guys don't care about your fans, you don't care about the people who wasted money on this garbage disposal of a game, it wouldn't be that bad if you actually FIXED your game and cared about your community. Just being pretend magicians, wave your hand over here to make people watch while you reach in their pockets and take their wallets before you light it on fire right in front of them and they laugh and clap (the stupid ones) because they don't realize what you just did. Can't wait for fallout 76!!!

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    I'm sure this will get overlooked, but is prim plus not getting the tek dinos or the events? We have had chronicles 2 colors for some time now and you've stated that these events are for all arks. 

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    Yay they actually added another cool tek creature after the slightly underwhelming tek raptor and the downright disappointing tek pararsaur. I was hoping theyd add this or the mosa instead of the trike and for once wildcard has failed to disappoint me.

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    So after the update I got a 118mb scorched update and a 654mb abb update does anyone know what they are for?

     

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    15 hours ago, KotaMha said:

     

    They won’t abandon their final dlc to fix bugs, and add tlc’s they are a month before extinction it’d be a waist to abandon it.

    I know I just hope they'll stop doing DLCs after this one.

    At first I thought DLCs would be awesome but now I just feel like I wasted money on a season pass that disappointed me from SE to Extinction. 

     

    By the time I bought the season pass, WC was listening to fans, adding many creatures that the players ask for (the good old time with all dinos trailers one after one...). And at this time the thread were full of great ideas like an aquatic DLC full of prehistoric and modern marine creatures or an Ice Age DLC with more prehistoric mammals. There were lots of great ideas with awesome prehistoric creatures. But WC didn't listen. One "Fantasy" DLC with SE is okey, more diversity. One "Scifi" DLC with Aberration is okey, more diversity too. But I'll never understand why they choosed to make ANOTHER scifi DLC like Extinction.

    3 DLCs and the only "dino" is the morellatops which is fully invented. Just check the threads about creatures. So much wasted potential.

    Third and probably last DLC and we got no new prehistoric creatures. Buying the season pass was a big WASTE. 

    WC has BETRAYED all dinos fans with their DLCs. 

     

     

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    An Ice age map, and Water world map would be awesome. I also still hold hope we.might see primal plus and play as dinos.

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    I'm  just going out on a limb here but what if the tek creatures are a part of the story leading up to Extinction. Here is why I think that

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    Everything the System does is in service to its ultimate objective. The tests that aren’t tests. The hard resets it performs when it believes its subjects have grown stagnant or unruly. The new, increasingly fantastic creatures that it introduces to its ecosystems. Yes, even 

    It didn't make sense then but if what it's talking about are the tek creatures then it starts to make more sense. The system has been running for a long time. before it could handle small little changes but as the system grows old it start to malfunction even more trying to keep up with all the creatures sends unfinished models out into the ARK's. We see this with all the Tek variants, Instead of droping element they drop meat and what ever else they would usually drop. This was not the devs being lazy this was on purpose to make it seem like it was lazy. The ARK's are telling us that they are about to break the system would never just send out a creature at 50% it would wait and finish it. there is more proof but I think all of you can find it. I hope you enjoyed reading.

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    because I do not update the ark I'm from PC but the game I bought in windosws 10
    
     

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    the Tek quetz is cool  though I think they could have started with tek parasaur first and the tek rex last instead of starting off with the best tek dino

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    SO BANG YOU JUST CANT TRANSFER OUT OF SMALL TRIBES SERVERS YOU DEVS NEVER FAIL TO MAKE ME STOP PLAYING YOUR TERRIBLE raptorING GAME, im out getting easy kits from different servers take it how you want but that’s how i get loot when i’m board then bang that update comes out and i’m stuck on the most toxic server in small tribes THANKS GUYS YOU DID IT AGAIN MADE YOUR GAME EVEN MORE poop

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    FiX Bugs?     Ps4  7 Gb update!!

    FIX    - Respawn wild dino in buildings!!!! (The Center and SE)

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    1. Make it so players can turn their Dino into something similar to the players arm chip. That way they can store unused Dino’s and free up server space.        2. What event is planned for Halloween??     3. Give us the damn option to turn off the sun glare/bloom on PS4.

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    Just wanted to say that I like these mixed colors more than just shades of the same color. The dinos look way more interesting. 

     

    @Bangs0789 There's probably no halloween event this year, they are busy with extinction. I think it was posted in a crunch or on Twitter.

    @probalytheworstsupportteam did you file a server outage report?

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    On ‎10‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 8:08 AM, neocirus said:

    Perm. you get more when you die

    I unlock them all on single player but they didn't carry over in online

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