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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

    Edited by Jen


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    41 minutes ago, Oddyseu said:
    
    where does the ark  free
    

    you will release today or ??, is europe is 21:15 and.... 

    big problem, or anything like that ?

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    Another Smooth release from Wildcard. I'm not sure why I'm surprised by now, seems to happen every time.

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    @Jen Please, please reconsider not giving notaming an extinction server. This was a challenge that I was really looking forward to only to have it taken away from me and everybody else that plays notame. If it's because it's tek oriented, give notame players the option to use tek and remove the notek part from notek-notaming. This is how it was in the experimental build and is how it should be now to keep end game notame players like us something to progress on after reaching endgame. I was really looking forward to extinction and after seeing the trailer for the map I'm only looking forward to it more. Please reconsider this decision, even if it means only giving us one single map on the cluster since notame only has 1 for each region in the cluster.

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    21 minutes ago, Kitsei said:

    So the release for the PC happen or is it delayed?

    It will happen today. They just ran into some snags.

    13 minutes ago, Blazen73 said:

    @Jen Please, please reconsider not giving notaming an extinction server. This was a challenge that I was really looking forward to only to have it taken away from me and everybody else that plays notame. If it's because it's tek oriented, give notame players the option to use tek and remove the notek part from notek-notaming. This is how it was in the experimental build and is how it should be now to keep end game notame players like us something to progress on after reaching endgame. I was really looking forward to extinction and after seeing the trailer for the map I'm only looking forward to it more. Please reconsider this decision, even if it means only giving us one single map on the cluster since notame only has 1 for each region in the cluster.

    They didn't state they are gonna add no-tek server? Or am I missing something.

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    35 minutes ago, Woulfe said:

    Another Smooth release from Wildcard. I'm not sure why I'm surprised by now, seems to happen every time.

    I don't see you making the game. This happens due to bugs in code or system. at least they fix things before putting it out unlike other games.

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    1 minute ago, Vaculity said:

    They didn't state they are gonna add no-tek server? Or am I missing something.

    Never said they did, just said they took away the excitement of finally getting to check out the new DLC on our home cluster.

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    1 minute ago, Blazen73 said:

    Never said they did, just said they took away the excitement of finally getting to check out the new DLC on our home cluster.

    It would be absurd if they did. They probably won't, but if they did, they have a lot to answer for.

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    hey wildcard, how about any kind of bloody update?

    its been 3 hours already since it shouldve been released and you once again leave us all completely in the dark!

    whoever is responsible for PR needs to either be told what his job is or how to write. this dead silence is a hideous imposition for your community!

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    Just now, Vaculity said:

    It would be absurd if they did. They probably won't, but if they did, they have a lot to answer for.

    Sorry, now I'm a bit confused. Absurd if they did what? 

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    3 hours ago, AndrewLB said:

     

    No. I'd actually welcome you console crybabies getting the release first. Then you all get to deal with all the game breaking bugs like we have done for the past 3 years. You console players really have no idea how good you actually have it.

    We still have game breaking bugs I crash every four out of five times I try to load into the game, and a week of wildcard trying to fix anything would only break it more so I guarantee they aren’t holding it because of a game breaking bug. 

    Even should it have a bug we don’t care, we would rather experience the game at the same time as everyone else so don’t act like you’re doing us a favor.

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    Wow so much hypocrisy all the PC player preaching patience tlet them fix the bugs. Then most PC player complaining and whining after only a few hours of delay. As most of you said patience is a key virtue and don't you have something better to do like family. Ooo and my favorite life isn't fair. Enjoy Extinction cause I will in a week.

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    25 minutes ago, EnderKnight said:

    I don't see you making the game. This happens due to bugs in code or system. at least they fix things before putting it out unlike other games.

    Until you said "...at least they fix things before putting it out..." How many seconds have you played this game?

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    7 minutes ago, Myosapien said:

    Until you said "...at least they fix things before putting it out..." How many seconds have you played this game?

    368 hours and they do

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    4 minutes ago, EnderKnight said:

    368 hours and they do

    Sure. That explains all the remaining brokenness. Guess they fixed Ab before it was released. 

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    15 minutes ago, Myosapien said:

    Sure. That explains all the remaining brokenness. Guess they fixed Ab before it was released. 

    also the brokenness is in every game so don't just pin it on ark. There are plenty of games out there that have broken features

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    When did I pin it solely on Ark? Shouldn't say fix when all they do is put a Band-Aid patch over their issues. Were your feet as salty as my popcorn?

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    52 minutes ago, AmericasTopBaca said:

    Wow so much hypocrisy all the PC player preaching patience tlet them fix the bugs. Then most PC player complaining and whining after only a few hours of delay. As most of you said patience is a key virtue and don't you have something better to do like family. Ooo and my favorite life isn't fair. Enjoy Extinction cause I will in a week.

    Its freaking hilarious right? 

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    Where's Extinction? You said it would be out today? More fake news from Wildcard Studios?

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    56 minutes ago, AmericasTopBaca said:

    Wow so much hypocrisy all the PC player preaching patience tlet them fix the bugs. Then most PC player complaining and whining after only a few hours of delay. As most of you said patience is a key virtue and don't you have something better to do like family. Ooo and my favorite life isn't fair. Enjoy Extinction cause I will in a week.

    The problem is they released a trailer this morning claiming "Available now". If they had not released the trailer and delayed, then backlash would be uncalled for. But when you drop a trailer to the whole community that claims "hey go play this now!" then delay it for 3 hours, thats poor planning. I understand snags, and expected delays, but the trailer release and its claim is unacceptable.

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    And again big tribes with 10 or more people will place pillars everywhere so smaller tribes have no Chance. It happened on ragnarok and abberation. Why dont allow transfair of at least Foundations walls and stuff. U should start hearing ur community before they start ignoring u guys. We said it before ragnarok and before abberation. Both times we were right. Aaaaaand another thing. No matter what Number of servers u think u will launch double it xD

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