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  • Community Crunch 154: Creature Teaser Tomorrow & ARK Digest 55!

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

    Extinction Creature Teaser Tomorrow!

    Be sure to tune in to the Xbox channel on Mixer at 11am PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to see a teaser of one of the creatures coming in Extinction during their ARK stream!

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    Last week we introduced you to our adorable giant sloth friend, the Gacha. 

    ARK Digest 55!

    Thank you for all of your questions for this digest, Survivors! Here is our question and answer session with Lead Programmer Chris Willoughby. This week we've covered some of the very popular questions we've received regarding Extinction.

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    Survivor Asher asks, "Will extinction have an ocean, or at least a large body of water for some bigger aquatic creatures?" and survivor Alex asks, "All Extinction related pictures you've published were mostly on land. Is Extinction is going to be a map like Scorched Earth with no sea or is it a map with water creatures?"

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    Extinction does not have a large body of water. As you can imagine, the surface of the Earth has undergone some dramatic changes, one of which is that most of the water has dried up. That said, we did build the Extinction creatures with water in mind, and there should be a few surprises waiting for you when you take them to other maps!

    Survivor Caleb asks, "Is the dev team currently working on a long-term solution to improve the quality of life/tame cap issues on PVE? If so, could the team provide us with some details?"

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    We think that Cryopods coming in Extinction should help with this problem directly. When a creature has been captured into a Cryopod, it does not count against the tame cap of the server. In addition, Cryopods can be kept forever in a Cryofridge with power, arming players with a powerful tool to work around the limitations of the cap.

    Survivor Nattix asks, "As you mentioned in the previous digest, titans are going to be temporary tames. Will titans have more uses for PVE players who aren't looking to go to war or are they going to be solely for PVP like titanosaurs?"

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    Our hope is that Titans bring a new type of PVE encounter to the game with in-world boss fights and interesting new mechanics that are interesting in themselves. Once tamed, Titans are very powerful. They can clear space and take down lots of dinos quickly making them good for area cleanup or meat runs. In addition, we’ve worked to make each of them fun to ride. I enjoy exploring the various maps on them for that reason.

    Survivor Thomas asks, "In a previous teaser we saw some Defense Units roaming the land, this time without their supreme leader summoning them. Could this be the time we finally are able to get our chance to befriend the buggers instead of ripping them apart limb-from-limb (or at least, put them back together again :P)?"

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    The Defense Units found within Extinction are part of the automated force that served and defended the city before it fell into disarray. These days they like to roll around and punch Dodos. They aren’t craftable like the other Robots found within the city (such as the Scout or Enforcer), but we felt like they brought a missing piece to the ecosystem there, namely punching Dodos.

    Survivor Thomas asks, "Since we already have seen a glimpse of some Wyvern-action on the land below, can we then confirm that Extinction will have some more creatures from previous expansions living on earths crust and if so, will they be living under similar conditions as they were on their respective arks accordingly?"

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    There are a number of creatures that make their return in Extinction, and they exist in biomes/environments that you’d expect to find them in. In addition, a number of existing creatures have been corrupted by Element and they roam the wasteland. These creatures will not behave as they would traditionally, instead destroying anything that gets in the way of their hunt for additional Element to consume.

    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 Update!

    There won't be a community livestream this coming Thursday, but it's because we're super busy poreparing for our TwitchCon event coming up this week, and our yearly Extra Life stream AND the launch of Extinction falls shortly after! These next few weeks sure will be busy. Jen will be present at our special TwitchCon event this year along with ARK producer John. To those of you that RSVP'd to attend we look forward to seeing you there and we hope you enjoy getting to be the first to play Extinction!

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    In case you've missed our last couple of mentions of it, Extra Life this year is on November 3rd and we'll be streaming for 24-hours straight to raise money for sick kids hospitals. We'll be dropping some Extinction teasers along the way and boosting our official server rates as our Extra Life team gets closer to our goal. Be sure to tune into our Twitch channel on the 3rd and we'll have more details about this next week.

    Mod Community Updates!

    Over the last two weeks, we managed to spotlight almost every mod in the contest. If you missed any and would like to see what all of the mods have to offer, the streams have been sliced and put into convenient episodes, all of which can be found in this Twitch collection.

    Public voting for the Mod Contest has concluded but technical evaluations are still being finalized so rankings may still continue to change until the winners are announced on November 1st. The current Rankings can be found here:

    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/contest-home/

    The start date for the next contest has not yet been determined, the management system will be taken offline during the winter months for some updates and adjustments based on feedback from the current contest. Once a date is determined everyone will be made aware of it.

    Fanart of the Week!

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    Frost Titan by WYF!

    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 26th of October at 1 PM EST until Monday the 29th 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
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    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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    Well that answer almost all of my questions from last week but are they like titanosaur where they stave to death or is it a timer that was introduces by liopleurodon the worst creature to use and tbh a complete waste of time taming it as it can give you a worst item from the drop like a ascendant spear than  giving you  like ascendant riot gear,

     wildcard my lord if reading this, please I beg you to make the Titans same as the titanosaur as the raid creature (creature will stave to death no matter what they are feed with, if tick the raid creatures will be able to feed it self and continue living than normal)

    so we can have a perm tamed Titan  on unofficial server or in our single player or private session with friends 

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    Finger crossed we hope we get perm tamed Titans

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    8 minutes ago, teknology said:

    Well that answer almost all of my questions from last week but are they like titanosaur where they stave to death or is it a timer that was introduces by liopleurodon the worst creature to use and tbh a complete waste of time taming it as it can give you a worst item from the drop like a ascendant spear than  giving you  like ascendant riot gear,

     wildcard my lord if reading this, please I beg you to make the Titans same as the titanosaur as the raid creature (creature will stave to death no matter what they are feed with, if tick the raid creatures will be able to feed it self and continue living than normal)

    so we can have a perm tamed Titan  on unofficial server or in our single player or private session with friends 

    They've said in single player that you can make them permanent tames, but that you can only have 1 at a time, you'll need to sacrifice one to get another one.

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    While some of the changes seem a little bit trivial, just be happy that it hasn't been delayed yet and there's only ~3 weeks left.

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    4 hours ago, GP said:

    Tames can't become corrupted I don't think, just like tames on Aberration can't become Aberrant, so don't think you've got anything to worry about with transferring dinos to Extinction.

    Not all of the other DLC creatures will be in Extinction, in fact i've not seen any Aberration creatures revealed yet.

    Who knows. I won't be surprised if they pulled out a Reaper/Nameless in one of the teaser or left it as hidden.

    4 hours ago, GP said:

    No because Scorched Earth is just desert, and Extinction is clearly not just desert. Just because there won't be a large amount of water doesn't mean it will be completely dry and barren. Aberration doesn't have a large body of water, more so than Scorched, but it is still a small amount compared to Island.

    Its still a "raptored" issue though in a way. Desert or not desert, it doesn't change the fact they had "raptored" SE design.

    4 hours ago, GP said:

    Well it's a step in the right direction, but I wouldn't say it is over, after all, people on official servers will still need to choose to use them. If they choose not to then there will still be tame limitations. All depends on who plays on the server and what they are like.

    The main issue is that given the fact you need its engram... PLUS the fact that Cryopod/Cryofridge not only require power, but it may only be craftable with Earth-only material makes it less likely for people to use it elsewhere... especially some griefing tribe in PvE who only wants to cap the server for their own selfish benefit and nothing more.

    In a sense, it won't fully solve the issue, and in some server's extreme case, not at all.

    4 hours ago, GP said:

    We don't know yet the details on how the cryopods will be crafted, however, they are not an engram/tekgram that is unlocked by beating any bosses, so to me that sounds like it won't necessarily be as long to get.

    It most likely won't be boss-only tekgram since the only "bosses" we need to deal with are titans in Earth, but seeing the design concept so far, I bet it (Cryofridge) would require something that will serious annoy everyone off by being hard/rare to get.

    47 minutes ago, GP said:

    They've said in single player that you can make them permanent tames, but that you can only have 1 at a time, you'll need to sacrifice one to get another one.

    Anything can change without warning. You won't know if they would keep their word on this.

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    Looking forward to seeing what the cyro pods are gonna be. Hope they are not TeK and not too high level to optain and run off normal electricity. 

     

    Think around level 75/80 will be good spot

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    42 minutes ago, DauntingBeef08 said:

    Looking forward to seeing what the cyro pods are gonna be. Hope they are not TeK and not too high level to optain and run off normal electricity. 

     

    Think around level 75/80 will be good spot

    I’ll be taking all of my 130+ toons over just to unlock these. Need them badly. I don’t care if they run off of tek. Easy enough to fill a tek gen for two months off of one run. 

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    2 minutes ago, flamron said:

    I’ll be taking all of my 130+ toons over just to unlock these. Need them badly. I don’t care if they run off of tek. Easy enough to fill a tek gen for two months off of one run. 

    I have only ever tagged onto a monkey boss battle. Being a solo tribe has its down side 

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    13 hours ago, Castleboy02 said:

    So basically the corrupted dinos are just tek-addicts... 

    Cool

    You tame them by organizing NA meetings

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    Will there be access to gems so we don't have to go to aberration or command in a wingsuit/climbing picks? 

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    I think that it will probably be a mix of all the maps Schorhed Earth ( the dangerous waist lands that the Chronicles tell us to stay away from ) Abberation ( the area where it show us the pic of the forest titan ) and the  Island ( the high environment where it shoes the large lake and the air titan ) But I also think it will have its own important area ( the town )

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    Is the extra life event going to affect small tribes and conquest servers?

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    Really hope the cryo-freeze dino feature is a cheap and easy feature to craft and use. This could actually do a lot to alleviate some of the lag that makes playing on official PvE servers a real drag at times. It’ll be a massive letdown if it requires extremely rare resources like black pearls and/or element. I’m already a bit disappointed because they’re implying you will have to have a special cryo-fridge to store them. Really hope they rethink this and make it very accessible to players, since the lag and stuttering just keeps getting worse and worse.

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    1 hour ago, Attic said:

    Really hope the cryo-freeze dino feature is a cheap and easy feature to craft and use. This could actually do a lot to alleviate some of the lag that makes playing on official PvE servers a real drag at times. It’ll be a massive letdown if it requires extremely rare resources like black pearls and/or element. I’m already a bit disappointed because they’re implying you will have to have a special cryo-fridge to store them. Really hope they rethink this and make it very accessible to players, since the lag and stuttering just keeps getting worse and worse.

    Wildcard confirmed it’s a standard engram. So hopefully it’ll be an easy unlock and build. 

    I think it’ll help to start with on the server cap issue, but people play PVE to breed and tame. They’ll run numbers back up again and again. 

    Its a start to at least addressing the issue, but it’s a bandaid at best. 

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    What they should do, if this mechanic is really supposed to directly address server cap, is give every player a cryofridge and several pods to start with. Then make them easily craftable. Cryostorage could be a viable solution to the problem IF: the components are easy to make/maintain AND people use them. If the first part is true then the second will be more likely to happen. 

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    Well it should at least  (if its something not too hard to build) help with the server cap, but the kibble tree its a major issue to, at least they are doing something and thinking about that.

    Development games is hard, they need time, just that. 

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    Cryostorage is all good intended, but how's that going to work exactly, Wildcard?

    Server capped - I put dino into storage and it frees up a slot on server. Someone else tames a dino, now server capped again. What exactly happens when I try to pull that dino out of my storage? Are you going to let me pull out my cryo'd dino and go over server tame limit or is it going to be stuck in storage?

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    5 minutes ago, HellBoyRok95 said:

    So.... did you push back the reveal for another day?

    No, the reveal will be happening here in approximately 20 minutes from now.

    https://mixer.com/xbox

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    17 hours ago, stargatedalek said:

    Will every animal receive a corrupted variant, or will some of the other DLC creatures be left out? Assuming they don't get corrupted variants, what would happen to them if they were transferred to this map and then became corrupted?

    Will non-tameable animals also receive corrupted variants?

    That's not how corruption works

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    1 minute ago, Ark721 said:

    Since im in school make sure you ask good questions for me

    There won't be questions. It's not Wildcard streaming the reveal, it's Xbox. If people do ask questions there's likely no answer as they won't know much more than us.

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    10 hours ago, GP said:

    We don't know yet the details on how the cryopods will be crafted, however, they are not an engram/tekgram that is unlocked by beating any bosses, so to me that sounds like it won't necessarily be as long to get.

    I agree. For all we know it could be unlock-able at level 50 or something. Oh shoot I have to use a mind wipe to get around server cap. Most peeps that play this game are so unhappy ALL THE TIME.

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