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    Post-Launch Extinction Updates!

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    Hello Survivors! We don't have much new information to share with you all in this weeks crunch, but we did still want to keep you in the loop of what we've been working on and what things look like going forward for us in the near future.

    It's been a whirlwind as we released Extinction on Xbox, PS4, Windows 10, and Max & Linux all last week. We had our highest number of peak players ever on PC last Sunday which we were thrilled to see. Extinction was the cumulative effort of many people and many hours, and to see the response from players about their experience on the map and with the creatures has been very rewarding for us.

    There have been some concerns from the community regarding bug-related issues and balance issues. We want to let everyone know that we are absorbing as much feedback from our players as possible through our many social channels, as well as videos and streams from survivors as well. 

    Here are some key issues we are currently tackling:

    • Primitive Plus not working on PS4 and Xbox.
    • The Center map missing terrain on PS4.
    • Supply drops missing on other maps.
    • Meteors doing damage where they should not.
    • Wyvern and Rock Drake eggs missing/not being visible.
    • Tek Rock Drake Saddle missing on PC.
    • Mek's and Enforcers being re-added to PS4/crash fix.
    • And many others.

    We are looking to get our console players up-to-date with the PC version in the near future, and will keep you posted as we make our way through the certification process on those. It is worth taking a look at what changes have been made to the PC version of ARK to be aware of changes coming to console in the near future. As always, we appreciate all of your feedback and your patience with us during this time as we address all platforms simultaneously.

    Next week we will have a Dev Diary with our lead programmer Chris, who will be chattting about some of the balance decisions that have been made on Extinction thus far and changes going forward. In the mean time, we hope you continue to enjoy the expansion! Keep on surviving!

    ARK on Sale!

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    Xbox:
    ARK: Survival Evolved
    ARK: Explorer's Edition
    ARK: Season Pass
    ARK: Scorched Earth
    ARK: Aberration

    Steam:
    ARK: Survival Evolved
    ARK: Season Pass
    ARK: Scorched Earth
    ARK: Aberration

    Fanart of the Week!

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    Managarmr by Shockal!

    Evolution Event!

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 23rd of November at 1 PM EST until Monday the 26th 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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    Lovin Extinction, Thanks for all the hard work! I did have to move my base though sinceafter the patches my base was mostly in a mountain, but other than that happy for the patches. Keep up the great work.

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    Thank you for keeping us updated. I don’t care if thinks take a while or if updates take longer then expected. What I hate is being left in the dark on a game I’m passionate about. I know in development it’s hard to give a deadline. It’s more important to here we’re woking on ____ and hoping to have it done next spring.  

    Dont Leave your Fanbase in the dark or alienate the people that have love this game.

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    4 hours ago, Jigsaw428 said:

    Also all the tek mosa bionic skins and quetzal bionics have been removed, from my dinos wearing them and my vaults on official xbox pve. I bought the Tek mosa bionic recently and still to no avail. That one was actually really useful so you can spot the mosa easily in the depths of the oceans. Please bring them back!, I will repaint them, I just want to get them again

    PS4 tey

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    even the tribe's owner can be removed. I lost my own tribe by a hacker. PS4

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    The main issue for pc servers crashing its shocking by the amount of sheer posts that we stated many times now since lauch with servers crashes and its not once or twice a day happens every 30 minutes to 2 hours randomly. Are we getting a clear indication that wildcard doesn't care for its pc database players by avoiding this subject completely.

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    52 minutes ago, Kizzy said:

    The main issue for pc servers crashing its shocking by the amount of sheer posts that we stated many times now since lauch with servers crashes and its not once or twice a day happens every 30 minutes to 2 hours randomly. Are we getting a clear indication that wildcard doesn't care for its pc database players by avoiding this subject completely.

    not just pc xbox official servers do it to

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    in the forest cave on xbox, my rex fell in some holes and almost got lost in the void, so i cryoed it to save it, please fix those holes

     

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    Well if its for all platforms then this has to be a Major fix over the rest of this issues right now its very unstable...

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    I want to know if the phoenix is bugged at all as I've been hunting for the last week and a half and I haven't even seen it been checking every super heat and no luck 

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    On 11/20/2018 at 11:32 AM, setu3021 said:

    oh official forgots only japanese survivors cant play on extinction.and i know they ignore how we lost the advantage on extinction.

    officials also forget Asia survivors can’t play on extinction too

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    On 11/19/2018 at 8:02 PM, Weiss said:

    On official pve, lvl 300+ wyverns and gigas being kited into people's bases, completely wiping them, is intended? If yes, please say so, so I don't waste more time on the otherwise very cool map.

     

    It's not really possible to find a good base spot high up due to pillars and without flyer. It's not really possible to tame a flyer if you can hardly build a small base that will get wiped the same day anyway.

     

    ^^^^ THIS! I'm playing on official PVE and we've had  kited lvl 300+ wyverns into our base multiple times per day and while we've been successful at taking them down, these same cannot be said for other tribes. We've done our best to wyvern-proof the second floor glass atrium where we are located but the very top along one side has a nice hole due to wildcards stupid "too high above ground" limitation for building.

     

    I know multiple tribes who have filed tickets with proof of who is doing this, but none of them have received a reply let alone a matter solved. I would think ticket times would be better now with those recently added enforcement scout GM's.

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    Y'all should figure out how you broke the anky on xbox ? My anky was collecting berries with RT and obsidian with LT while still collecting those resources with their normal buttons 

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    12 hours ago, Roman7 said:

    in the forest cave on xbox, my rex fell in some holes and almost got lost in the void, so i cryoed it to save it, please fix those holes

     

    Clever, I had a Giga get stuck in the swamp on Island. After a few days being stuck I was able to build a ramp in front and wiggle him free. Using  a Pokeball is smart.

     

    keball

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    I'm playing on console and Everytime me and my friends log on we get blue screened any reason why???

     

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    Hi,

    thanks for updates.

    But please give us the abilities to protect ourself from the Corrupted inside biomes.

    Not speaking from corrupted only, but from people bringing them on bases while offline.

    Some kind of protection like ORP that stop the corrupted.

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    On 11/19/2018 at 11:51 PM, GingaSwag said:

    When are you going to fix the Wyvern and rock drake eggs not spawning/not being being visible it is really annoying. My tribe was trying to get some and we spent hours looking and found nothing. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP!!!!

    I heard if you use a whip on the empty nest it may be there or not. Or if u just press Y(on Xbox) in the nest you may pick one up. I've been having trouble too but so of my tribemates has been somewhat successful like that. 

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    I feel it would be cool considering it's a holiday to have the evolution event start today or tomorrow to give more people time with taming creatures on the new map but maybe that's just me.

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    5 hours ago, Cerridwen56 said:

    Y'all should figure out how you broke the anky on xbox ? My anky was collecting berries with RT and obsidian with LT while still collecting those resources with their normal buttons 

    This was fixed in patch v780.10. Make sure you are up to date on client and server.

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    XBox Unofficial Nitrado Servers:

    Tek Drake saddle was working, is broken now. All equipped ones disappeared and those in vaults are gone. Cannot be admin spawned in.

     

    Using scout locks you into that "mode", unable to un-equip scout, have to re-log.

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    Even after yesterday's patch, primitive + structures and engrams are completely missing from the Prim+ DLC.  So Prim+ basically doesn't exist.  Will you be discontinuing the DLC or fixing it? Please keep us in the loop as there are people who are paying your partner Nitrado for prim+ severs. The optics are so bad right now for your support of player run servers which you are pushing through Nitrado.  

     

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    I run a private dedicated pve server, with about 7 people, and the issues that have persisted beyond the patch are just SO frustrating. I literally can't see my dinos unless I get close and wait for them to pop into render, and that's just ridiculous, I haven't seen it discussed NEARLY enough. I have different hopes playing a game I can barely see. When we do a drop encounter on extinction the graphics seem unable to handle how intense the battles get, latency and dinosaurs spawning on our heads, terrain moving around, getting dropped out of the game/ having the game itself crash. Welost dinosaurs in the city die to meteor strikes, server rollbacks. To be honest, ark has always been jenky, mostly it was an amusing quirk but the actuality is that they keep releasing unfinished/broken content, and scramble to fix it for months (in some cases a year) after it's already released late (typically) while giving no clear timelines for fixes while we essentially pay them to be beta testers. If you can't pull off what you're trying to sell, keep it to yourself until it's finished, wildcard. What absolute garbage coming from a company who created such an amazing game, and it's worth the wait, if you actually get what you're told you're paying for. Get your act together, you look like fools.

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    Hi.  

    I think you should buff the snow owl again after the nerf because it’s extremely rare to get pellets now ?

    By the way I really enjoy play extinction. Good job with the dlc :)

    Edited by RHaumand

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