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  • Community Crunch 156: Extinction Release Info, Free Week, & Extra Life 2018!

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    Extinction Server Information!

    As we all know by now ARK: Extinction will be launching tomorrow on November 6th on Steam (Nov 13th for consoles). We are expecting the download to be approximately 10-20gb in size for PC. The information below pertains to PC ARK servers that will be brought online tomorrow at approximately the same time as the expansion pack becomes available. 

    On launch you'll be able to transfer your existing character from your current server into Extinction. You will not be able to transfer items or tames. You can however transfer characters, items, and tames out of Extinction onto other maps. If you were around for the release of Scorched Earth or Aberration this is the exact same process those servers underwent. 

    There are no disabled engrams in Extinction like there was at Aberration's launch, meaning things such as Tek Teleporters are allowed. Creatures like flyers are also enabled on Extinction.

    We will be introducing North American and European Extinction servers first. We will be releasing an initial start batch of servers, and bringing more servers online as needed so please be patient for us during this period. The servers will be the standard 70-player cap. Extinction will be included in all CrossARK clusters (except 'TheHundred'), as well as Conquest and Small Tribes servers. Extinction will not be supported in Primitive Plus on launch, but it is something we will consider looking into at a later date. Extinction will also not have NoTek/NTek-NoTaming, Primitive, or TheHundred servers for those currently playing on those subsets of gamemodes. The legacy network will get a few servers, however they will be in small supply. 

    ARK: Survival Evolved will be free to play for a week, starting November 6th through November 11th! On-board your friends and family who have not experienced to give them a taste of The Island, Ragnarok, or The Center yet for no cost during those few days. And consider buying it if you enjoyed your time on the ARK to keep on surviving!

    Extra Life 2018!

    25-hours later, our Extra Life charity stream has come to a close and thus another chapter of our Extra Life journey does as well.

    There were so many great and funny moments throughout the stream. Members of the ARK dev team battled it out in several games that resulted in the loser receiving a penalty. There were wigs, there were hats, there were costumes and hair adornments. There were a special unicorn that managed to steal the show on multiple occasions as well.

    There were also special previews and discussions regarding our upcoming expansion pack, ARK: Extinction. We showed off taxidermy, Ice Titan taming, Cryopods, Orbital Supply Drop gameplay, and a few creatures that you'll be able to get your hands on soon.

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    This is our fourth year participating in this event and it also happens to be the 10th anniversary for Extra Life as a whole. We were thrilled to learn that on this 10th anniversary we were able to surpass our total donations raised in the past four years to over $100,000! As an individual member (not including team member contributions) we've reached $112,246.44 and counting! As a team we have raised $188,782.75 over the last 4 years (and counting as today is still on-going!).

    This year was our highest ever personal amount raised. Previously our record was $23,805 and we are sitting at $45,122.27 at the time of writing this post. This was also our highest ever team goal. Previously we had raised $62,004.01 and right now we're sitting at $76,536. Our original goal when we began the stream was hoping to reach $30,000 and we more than doubled that amount, with $11,000 raised before the stream had even begun at 9AM. With all of those numbers, we're currently sitting at rank 7 globally as an individual and rank 6 globally as a team for donations to Extra Life this year!

    We would like to give special recognition to our top streamers and top individual donators who were a big help in assisting us to our goals this year. We could not have done this without you!

    Top Streamers (in order of amount raised):

    Top Donators:

    • Pavan
    • Fred316
    • vl_darkangel_lv
    • Helldiver,
    • Anthomnia
    • SurvivalServers.com
    • Eric K.
    • Jerryn
    • tribe of bozo
    • JustPixie
    • Pac-Man443 family
    • KageRamen
    • Pip, Acidic
    • songtao ke
    • Eric P.
    • Jesse P.

    If you want to contribute to the campaign it's not too late, you can do so right here!

    Congratulations and thank you again to all of the survivors who joined us at any point during our stream. We'll see you again next year!

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    Modding Community Updates!

    If you didn't catch it during the Extra Life stream we played some of "The Hunt", it was a ton of fun and it will be interesting to see how this mod continues development.

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    The winners of the contest were also announced last week, with "Valguero" taking first place and securing a grand prize of $15,000! There was a ton of feedback that came out of this contest and we will be taking all of it and reviewing the system before the next one to see where we need to make adjustments.

    We also had two new mods enter the sponsorship program, "Malfunktion" and "ARK Additions".

    Lastly, I'm sure the modding community is on the edge of their seats to hear about any new mod functionality in Extinction that they will get to play with. There some goodies that I think everyone will like and I will try to cover them with new tutorials once a devkit update is ready with all of the new content.

    Fanart of the Week!

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    Amazing artwork from Jamiegogo!

    Evolution Event Update For This Weekend!

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    There will not be any Evolution Event on PC this weekend due to the massive rates awarded by Extra Life, the launch of Extinction, and the free week that begins tomorrow. We'll be back with more Evo very soon though!

    Console survivors will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 9th of November at 1 PM EST until Monday the 12th of November 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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    Awesome another 2x event this weekend i will not be able to take part in because of ddosing, i mean I've submitted so many tickets and nothing r.i.p extra life-_-

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    Will there be any "fresh start" servers available at launch? Mainly looking for servers that prohibit transfers on release. I very much enjoyed the fresh start Rag servers that went up earlier this year on official; the PvP on a level playing field feels so much better. For players that don't have max-level, ascended characters to transfer in, what options do we have? I considered small tribe, but with transfers it seems so toxic. Was invited to a pre-Extinction boosting party (level 1 to 100 via Grinders) on small tribe official (basically so I could have a character to transfer), but then where is the fun (Plus I feel like that's kind of scummy and in violation of something somewhere)? 

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    “ARK: Survival Evolved will be free to play for a week, starting November 6th through November 11th! On-board your friends and family who have not experienced to give them a taste of The Island, Ragnarok, or The Center yet for no cost during those few days. And consider buying it if you enjoyed your time on the ARK to keep on surviving!”

     

    Good luck with that on console lol

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    2 hours ago, invincibleqc said:

    This is mentioned:

     

    This is also mentioned:

    C'mon guys, read the main post entirely before posting questions that are already answered in the main article. ?

     

     

    Ok so just to specify because it’s important it says except hundred servers but then it says as well as small tribe servers so pls I’m confused will there be small tribe servers yes or no and if no do u know when? Please answer 

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    It's going to be really lame if you bring extinction to consoles and don't have any sort of new servers. Can you please release conquest soon or at least mention whether you will or not or at least consider bringing some sort of new server to consoles with extinction? All the servers seem full or controlled by large groups that will go wipe anyone they find there. There are large groups of people I know about waiting for conquest with extinction on ps4 to return to the game.

    Thanks for your consideration and reply

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    44 minutes ago, Balcoin said:

    Ok so just to specify because it’s important it says except hundred servers but then it says as well as small tribe servers so pls I’m confused will there be small tribe servers yes or no and if no do u know when? Please answer 

    "TheHundred" refers to the "TheHundredCrossArk" clusters (a legacy failed experiment that is not popular as far as I know). Since the exception is between parentheses, it only affects what is between them meaning that Small Tribes and Conquest will have servers available. As for when, well, that is mentioned in the main article.

     

    2 hours ago, jamesbaker1993 said:

    Was invited to a pre-Extinction boosting party (level 1 to 100 via Grinders) on small tribe official (basically so I could have a character to transfer), but then where is the fun (Plus I feel like that's kind of scummy and in violation of something somewhere)?

    I believe that this would indeed be in violation of the "no teaming rules" of the Code of Conduct.

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    So this is like the final nail in the coffin for prim+? It was a cool idea if they had cared about it. 

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    I hope there is a setting on all platform that make the Titans perm tames On single player, private session with mates or just unoiffcalvserver 

    fingers crossed 

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    2 hours ago, Jtmorris said:

    Ooh console snubbed again. No acknowledgement at all. 

    No acknowledgement for what exactly?

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    Well done for the ExtraLife charity event, $76,000 is an amazing amount to raise and smashed last years! Well done to all of the streamers who used their time to stream to their viewers to help raise the funds and also to those that donated for the cause.

    Here's my little highlight from the ExtraLife stream where Jat trolled Zane and it ended in tears! ?

     

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    Over 300 comments raging over how unfair this release was to console users, and still ignores it. We give too much over to people like you, EA is starting look like more justly than you

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      There will not be any Evolution Event on PC this weekend due to the massive rates awarded by Extra Life

    So for the punishment that we had then too well now we get 1x for weeks ... people. After all, you can not play normally in the ark with multiplier = 1. 

     

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    I really love the amount of console players raging about WC "being unfair" to them for delaying the release. If they truly ignore console players, they won't even bother releasing Extinction at all, not to say just delaying it. 

    13 minutes ago, JakejakeT600 said:

    Over 300 comments raging over how unfair this release was to console users, and still ignores it. We give too much over to people like you, EA is starting look like more justly than you

    And you are telling me that they releases "pay to win" loot chest? Care to explain? Because the way you said it sounds like they only make loot chest paid, the way to win.
     

    53 minutes ago, teknology said:

    I hope there is a setting on all platform that make the Titans perm tames On single player, private session with mates or just unoiffcalvserver 

    fingers crossed 

    They are already permanent tames on single player (just one per)

    3 hours ago, Jtmorris said:

    Ooh console snubbed again. No acknowledgement at all. 

    Exactly what is "No acknowledgement" to you, Mr. Rager?

    3 hours ago, TemperanceXIV said:

    “ARK: Survival Evolved will be free to play for a week, starting November 6th through November 11th! On-board your friends and family who have not experienced to give them a taste of The Island, Ragnarok, or The Center yet for no cost during those few days. And consider buying it if you enjoyed your time on the ARK to keep on surviving!”

     

    Good luck with that on console lol

    They said nothing about the paid DLC being free for a week, I don't get your point on this. Care to elaborate? 

    5 hours ago, jamesbaker1993 said:

    Will there be any "fresh start" servers available at launch? Mainly looking for servers that prohibit transfers on release. I very much enjoyed the fresh start Rag servers that went up earlier this year on official; the PvP on a level playing field feels so much better. For players that don't have max-level, ascended characters to transfer in, what options do we have? I considered small tribe, but with transfers it seems so toxic. Was invited to a pre-Extinction boosting party (level 1 to 100 via Grinders) on small tribe official (basically so I could have a character to transfer), but then where is the fun (Plus I feel like that's kind of scummy and in violation of something somewhere)? 

    All DLC server will be considered as almost "fresh start" for a few months. If you meant no character transfer as well, you will be totally disappointed.

    4 hours ago, Indoraptorgod2 said:

    The megramar will it be rideable and don't make it tamalbe can we get eggs

    We don't know, and we will only find out AFTER its released.

     

    3 hours ago, robbydeath said:

    It's going to be really lame if you bring extinction to consoles and don't have any sort of new servers. Can you please release conquest soon or at least mention whether you will or not or at least consider bringing some sort of new server to consoles with extinction? All the servers seem full or controlled by large groups that will go wipe anyone they find there. There are large groups of people I know about waiting for conquest with extinction on ps4 to return to the game.

    Thanks for your consideration and reply

    You do realize that they can't do that if consoles aren't going to get DLC until after at least a week, right? There isn't any point for them setting up servers for something no one on console can get right now.

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    Hello, according to Wiki, it will be release at 7pm GMT+1. Is it correct? Also, as asked by some people, will the downloading of the map open a bit before this release?

    Thanks a lot.

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    NO ITEMS AND DINOS TRANSFER ON LAUNCH .. JUST CHARACTER

    i think its a good WC decision... imagine loads of pillars and ladders that players are taking with them in extinction servers. Next day after this would be all pillar covered. Now we will have to start from mortar, forge and smithy ?
    and naked with dirty pants... because if we cant get items, we will not bring anything in inventory.

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    32 minutes ago, Alocoste said:

    Hello, according to Wiki, it will be release at 7pm GMT+1. Is it correct? Also, as asked by some people, will the downloading of the map open a bit before this release?

    Thanks a lot.

    Yes 7pm GMT+1 is correct. There will be no pre-download.

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    1 hour ago, Vaculity said:

    They said nothing about the paid DLC being free for a week, I don't get your point on this. Care to elaborate? 

    I would love to elaborate. Why would any console player try to get friends or family into a game that is neglected on said system? We are already dissatisfied with the current situation so why would we recruit more paychecks for those pockets when more interesting games are releasing at the same time?

    You keep saying we’re raging about being in an unfair situation but did you not even stop to realize pc players are already complaining about not getting a good enough multiplier or that they can’t preload the game to play even sooner? 

    As I’ve already stated, if pc was delayed and not consoles the pc players wouldn’t be “crying” or “raging” they would be acting as though it was the end of the world. You already are simply because we have voices.

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    2 hours ago, Vaculity said:

    You do realize that they can't do that if consoles aren't going to get DLC until after at least a week, right? There isn't any point for them setting up servers for something no one on console can get right now.

    Yes, I'm aware, as everyone else is, that extinction itself or new extinction servers can't come out without extinction being released - Thank you for gracing us with your wisdom.

    If you have anything to say that actually pertains to what I'm asking about, please let us know.

    I'm asking for information regarding new servers or conquest servers for consoles with or before the release of extinction. Obviously I have to state for people like Vaculity if the conquest servers came out before extinction then obviously extinction would not be included until it did come out. With that being said, I hope they consider releasing conquest with extinction on consoles or before. People are waiting to return to the game if new servers, specifically conquest, are released.

    Take care

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    Im so f'ing pissed. Why do I have to wait one week longer than people that paid the same or less for this game!!!? You can call me rager, idc. If you'd have to wait 6 more days you'd be angry too. I'm not "against" the pc players with this comment. It is just simple: unfair and WC LIED again! You will never get this game ready. Because of that you force people to host their own servers with that, to get more $. The first time I read about DLC's in the PS Store it said the last one will come in spring 2018... And you told us the 6th of November..... and you keep on lying! Saying: no halloween event, focusing on extinction. and ALLLL that sh*. Btw Ark is my all time favorite game!

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    3 hours ago, Vaculity said:

    I really love the amount of console players raging about WC "being unfair" to them for delaying the release. If they truly ignore console players, they won't even bother releasing Extinction at all, not to say just delaying it. 

    And you are telling me that they releases "pay to win" loot chest? Care to explain? Because the way you said it sounds like they only make loot chest paid, the way to win.
     

    They are already permanent tames on single player (just one per)

    Exactly what is "No acknowledgement" to you, Mr. Rager?

    They said nothing about the paid DLC being free for a week, I don't get your point on this. Care to elaborate? 

    All DLC server will be considered as almost "fresh start" for a few months. If you meant no character transfer as well, you will be totally disappointed.

    We don't know, and we will only find out AFTER its released.

     

    You do realize that they can't do that if consoles aren't going to get DLC until after at least a week, right? There isn't any point for them setting up servers for something no one on console can get right now.

    @robbydeath slow down defender of wildcard! forums are exactly the place for positive and constructive feedback an questions, i aint got time to counter every brushing off you have done but ill say this, most people are owed this dlc because we bought season pass so it's totally ok to expect content especially after its been delayed once (spring 2018 was original date) 

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