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  • Community Crunch 161: Winter Wonderland 2018!

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

    Winter Wonderland 2018!

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    Winter Wonderland is almost here! This winter-themed holiday event begins tomorrow at 10am PST for PC, Xbox, and PS4 and will last through until January 7th. All of our maps are supported in both single player and multiplayer. The event will automatically activate on any map, even on your modded map servers.

    Raptor Claus will be sailing across the night sky in his sleigh, air-dropping presents filled with high-end loot as well as Mistletoe, and Coal for those naughty Survivors. 

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    Raptor Claus won't be alone this year. He is joined by Gacha Claus who will be roaming all maps in a dashing Santa Hat and sporting holiday-themed colours to help out the very busy Raptor Claus. He will be accepting your coal and in exchange will gift you holiday themed items, or you can trade in your mistletoe for weapons and armor!

    Gacha Claus will also have a random chance to gift you with a new special dino holiday candy when given mistletoe. This candy appears to have a strangely festive effect on any creature that eats it however. Better give it a try and see what happens. Bon appetit!

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    Survivors can stay warm this season in their festively decorated homes with the holiday lights, decorative Christmas tree, wreaths, stockings, snowmen, and wrapped presents they receive from trading with Gacha Claus. Be sure to spread the holiday cheer wherever you go while it lasts!

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    Be sure to send us all your holiday-themed pictures, videos, and artwork here on survivetheark.com or on Twitter as we'd love to see them!

    In addition to the holiday event, we've included a bevy of fixes that we're launching simultaneously across all three platforms. We're starting to reach into the backlog and fix issues that you've been asking for starting with improvements to commanding flyers and better AI for the Manticore.

    Patch Notes:

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    Winter Wonderland!

    • Raptor Claus
      • Flies over any map between 0am and 2am in-game (with event enabled)
      • Drops Holiday Gifts     
    • Gacha Claus
      • Spawns where you'd find Parasaurs on all maps
      • Has holiday colors and wears a Santa Hat
      • Cannot be tamed
      • Doesn't like being near other wild dinos
      • Accepts Coal
        • Gives Holiday Items in return
        • Drops Dino Candy
          • Feed this to a tamed dino for a strange effect    
      • Accepts Mistletoe
        • Gives Items in return       
    • Colorization
      • 20% of wild dinos will spawn with Holiday colors
    • Uses the ActiveEvent system
      • ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland
      • Cleans up after ActiveEvent is reset
      • Auto applies to all non-TC sessions from 12/18-1/7 (UTC)
      • Run with ActiveEvent=None to disable

    Extinction

    • Fix for King Titan environmental effects starting again after boss despawned
    • Fix for other bosses interrupting King Titan environmental effects
    • Cave entrance cooldown display bug fix 
    • Increased radius of city meteor shield
    • Improvements to dome shaders
    • Reduced meteor impact damage to 750
    • Improvements to height fog in desert biome

    Titans  

    • Increased Mek sword damage to tamed titans approximately 9x
    • Increased Mek pistol damage to tamed titans approximately 3x
    • Increased turret damage multipliers to tamed Titans
    • Changes to Titan downloading
      • Titan is disabled for 15m after download
      • Titan takes increased damage during this time       
    • Increased Titan download cooldown to 6+ hours
    • Fix typo in vertical Can't Damage message

    Orbital Supply Drop

    • Buffed Legendary Drops in difficulty and quality of loot
    • Can now be claimed by a tribe in PVE
      • Only that tribe can disable shield, eject items, gather loot
    • Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    • Improvements to shield behavior on low FPS servers 
    • Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

     Element Vein

    • Can now be claimed by a tribe in PvE
      • Only that tribe can harvest element
    • Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    • Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

    Desert Titan

    • Increased damage when it strikes itself with lightning
    • Improvements to Desert Titan follow to address flying away
    • Fix for flocks not defending properly
    • Improvements to tail attack accuracy
    • Made tail attack damage consistent
    • Disabled cryoing the flock
    • Fixed encumbered movement when walking on a Desert Titan

    Dropped Items   

    • Improvements to dropped item interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    • Prevented dropped items from falling through structures on load
    • Prevented dropped items from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them

    Eggs

    • Improvements to egg interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    • Prevented eggs from falling through structures on load
    • Prevented eggs from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them
    • Fix for invisible Rock Drake and Wyvern eggs

    Velonasaur  

    • Increased accuracy of AOE attack
    • Reduced AOE damage to compensate for increased accuracy
    • Wild Velonasaurs will no longer shoot for too long
    • Fix for Wild Velonasaurs not doing damage in PvE
    • Improvements to desyncs between spines and damage
    • Reduced hovering when walking
    • AOE attack will no longer loot victims

     Managarmr

    • Fixed anim bug related to Ice Breath
    • Fixes for several orientation desyncs
    • Fixes for desyncs when moving on low fps server
    • Minor buff to landing damage
    • Improvements to ice breath targeting
    • Added message when you are unable to dive
    • Slowed down baby Managarmrs

     Enforcer

    • Fixed instances where Enforcer could teleport to a non-existant wall
    • Fixed instances where it could jump back to its last jump position 

    Scout

    • Improved Scout tagging accuracy
    • Improvements to player inspection mechanic
    • Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged

    Item Balloon    

    • Fixed instances of it not going to the correct destination
    • Fix for cases where balloons didn't explode after landing
    • Improvements to weight calculation

    Gacha

    • Fix for unclamped loot quality 
    • Fix for incorrect UI when taming is interrupted

    Ice Titan

    • Fix for broken dino animations related to Ice Breath
    • Increased collision radius for shoulder Corruption

    Flyers  

    • Improved flyer following when in water
    • Added Whistle Land Flyer command
      • Commands a flyer to land nearby

    Crash

    • Fix low frequency crash

    Manticore

    • Improvements to landing logic

    Performance

    • Improvements to server performance

    Map Markers

    • Add support for decimal values

    Snow Owl

    • Slowed down baby food consumption rate

    Daedon

    • Disable healing when frozen

    Xbox

    • Improvements to dino quality
    • Improvements to environment quality

    Modding Community Updates!

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    A reminder for mod authors that the sponsored mod program will be opening up applications again on January 1st. If you would like to apply for sponsorship you will have five weeks after the application period starts, so make sure that your submissions are ready!

    In the meantime, I have received a couple questions about the sponsorship applications that I would also like to address. While this is is not all encompassing of the process of selection, in regards to the application process itself I hope that this helps you ready your submissions with more confidence.

    One thing that has been a common request is for feedback on why a given project isn't selected. While I would like to be able to give feedback on projects, it is extremely time consuming to prepare these, especially with the volume of applications I receive. I want everyone to understand though that not having your project selected does not necessarily mean that there is something wrong with it, there are simply limited slots available with each application period. So don't let it discourage you from applying in the future.

    The other question I have received rather frequently is for what kind of information you should include in your applications and design documents. How you choose to organize your design documents is up to you, but here is a very general explanation of what I am looking for. First is that you have a plan for the duration of sponsorship; the more detailed this plan, the better. After looking at the design documents and learning about what you do with your project, I then look at the mods as they currently are available on the workshop and try to determine whether or not the content available shows a good probability of being able to deliver on that plan. I might also look at other projects in your workshop to help determine that information.

    I look forward to seeing what everyone puts forward in January. Happy modding!

    Fanart of the Week!

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    The Pegomastax who stole Christmas by Erthera!

    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 21st of December at 1 PM EST until Wednesday the 26th of December 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:

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    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

    Edited by Jen


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    On 12/18/2018 at 1:56 AM, SubtendedCrib8 said:

    So hypothetically if I were to set the launch parameters to ActiveEvent=FearEvolved, would that then enable the fear evolved event? Or is the ActiveEvent= a new system and/or only compatible with Winter Wonderland?

    It should work with the Easter event. Can't remember what it was called again though.

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    Was ist mit den tek sattel (tapejara , rex unw.)

    Mann konnte nicht schießen habt ihr das mitlerweile auch behoben?

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    There's no raptor claus on ps4 there is gacha claus I'm host non dedicated server why is there no raptor claus like there is on pc and why is there no dodorex like on the trailer 

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    25 minutes ago, catnook said:

    There's no raptor claus on ps4 there is gacha claus I'm host non dedicated server why is there no raptor claus like there is on pc and why is there no dodorex like on the trailer 

    I don't know on raptor claws, but for the dodorex is probably because people with use them for raids 

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    Playing on Extinction on PS4 and can't seem to get Raptor Claus to spawn in I'm like on my 10th night already. Gatcha Claus and colored Dino's are spawning in.

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    I was pretty excited for this event but I quickly lost hype because of one little detail, there isnt enough permanent rewards. The only permanent items I’m getting are top hats and birthday suit tops skins on Xbox, why is there no rare candy that permanently colors your dinos or some sort of furniture it lets you keep after?

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    7 minutes ago, TemperanceXIV said:

    I was pretty excited for this event but I quickly lost hype because of one little detail, there isnt enough permanent rewards. The only permanent items I’m getting are top hats and birthday suit tops skins on Xbox, why is there no rare candy that permanently colors your dinos or some sort of furniture it lets you keep after?

    You get to keep any holiday colored dinos that you tame.

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    So let me get this straight-

    No snow, no change to the home screen, and you only have two in game hours to go out and find Raptor Claus YOURSELF so he can give you coal to give to the Xmas Gachas for Christmas items..

    If you DON'T find Raptor Claus, you get nothing.

    Event over. 

    Is that what you're raptoring telling me? If this is not the case, please enlighten me! I recall last year, you at least get a server message for everyone to see to inform you that Raptor Claus was dropping presents everywhere. This was supposed to be the first proper Christmas event I'd get to celebrate on Ark since last year was sooooo half assed. I was thinking the Christmas decorations would be craftable or maybe found in drops, or perhaps coal would be craftable. NOPE. This burned me up so much I made an account just a few minutes ago to finally write in. Jesus Christ guys, really. This is pathetic.

    I seriously hope the team gets so much negative feedback they actually do something. Such a wasted year, honestly. Not even a 3x event for the Holidays..

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    26 minutes ago, WOLFPACK292 said:

    Playing on Extinction on PS4 and can't seem to get Raptor Claus to spawn in I'm like on my 10th night already. Gatcha Claus and colored Dino's are spawning in.

    How did you activate event?

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    In case anyone here has had issues of recently reset/lost characters and/or being removed from their tribe, it's an Ark issue, not a host issue. This includes server save issues which your host has nothing to do with. It's all wildcard. 

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    can someone from wildcard please tell the PlayStation why there is no presents or raptor clause we had to wait longer than others and we don’t even get the full event YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN YLUESELF WILDCARD

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    Can’t seem to find gacha clause on Xbox.  Looked through city and sunken forest with no luck.  Anyone have location of where you see them more often than not?

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    so............

    Ragnarock map ps4, prim plus non dedicated server

    no wyvern egg spawns on ps4 on prim plus still, no wyverns spawning back at the scar, no nests spawning equals no eggs! No winter event for people on prim plus at all? Is that correct on what I read? As no event coloured dinos or anything has loaded after the patch..... So what exactly did you guys fix? My server is still broken and it's going on over a month now.... Soon I will be asking for compensation on the money that has been lost sitting on a idle server because of kicks and lag issues! What sense does it make to pay for a service when it doesn't even work 100 percent! Why even bother putting out the event if not anyone can access it? Like players that only play prim plus, would have been nice of you guys to say that it doesn't support prim plus! But I read that absolutely no where from you guys, just server owners posting the samething.... I think it's time for compensation, I lost 90 percent of my players to this last release of extinction, and like I said the game is still very broken! 

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    4 hours ago, Eli said:

    You get to keep any holiday colored dinos that you tame.

    Same can be said for mutations which I can get at any time with some patience and those aren’t limited to the same few colors 

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    On 12/18/2018 at 12:53 PM, asmodiandevils said:

    Even if it does prevent looting by allies, you can simply redistribute loot at your leisure.

     

    Omgosh CyanicEmber. Do you think that would ever happen fairly? Even in the most Hardcore raiding guilds of MMO's they have drama and problems. the random run and grab might be better. Who knows. But I am definitely curious on whether it is a Choice to claim in order to begin the event in PVE

     

    you don't have to claim the drops you can still leave them open

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    So you've updated where we finally get Raptor Claus on PS4, but congratulations!

    You messed up something else. No matter how much coal you give Gachas, they give you nothing. Is this a mistake on my part, or...? I just want Christmas decorations, goddamn! Decor is something that should not be this difficult to obtain. Should we find high level Gachas? Does level matter in Gachas to determine what gifts you'll receive? How much coal for what items? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? How much mistletoe? You really need to tell us what to do in order to celebrate properly. This is all so very vague!

    Please explain! 

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    Adding onto my thoughts.

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    Anyone know where gacha clause is on extinction Xbox.  Can’t find it.

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    Will this event be on non dedicated? If not, how do I activate it for non dedicated?

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    On 12/18/2018 at 1:15 AM, DoRNGLucky said:

    Jen, any word on when the sunlen forest issues will be addressed. It is the only biome that has almost no dinos around. From what other players have found is they are falling through ths map textures. Server rewinds seem to repopulate the area but they dont respawn after they are tamed or killed.  Hope to hear back from you!

    I live in the sunken forest on Official, and I have fallen through the ground after a server crash (back when ping was 255), so falling through can happen.

    I too would like to see more wilds in the Forest on Extinction.

    I'm finding it hard to keep my Meat-eaters alive with few sources of meat down here. I hesitate to take my fliers out because of how much meat they consume when restoring their stamina. Hesitate to raise meat-eating babies due to the lack of meat. I even go after the dragonflies for the few morsels of meat they provide. I loot beaver dams just so beavers will come to me so I can get meat from them. I use my Theriz to harvest meat, so he wont consume what he gets into his inventory, because I need it for my meat eaters.

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