Community Crunch 176: Character Restoration, Mod Updates, and Creator Feature

I almost fell through the blue ob platform last night while dismounting from a rex. Also, during the Alpha Monkey fight, the boss got pushed into the ground and I just barely managed to kill it. This is a recent issue. Anyone else experience something like this since the most recent patch?

It would be cool to get some form of statement regarding crystal isle. As a console player we get Ark lite compared to pc. A simple were working on it or nah its all hype would suffice 

I really support you and defend you in the forums Wildcard, but you still haven't announced any new content since the Homestead update. When you are a console player who doesn't have access to mods, the devs are your only hope. Unfortunately, recent community crunches are recycled from previous ones. So please implement new content for the game. At least for consoles since we don't have access to mods. 

PS: Apologies if this sounds harsh.

Will they ever add the crystal isle map?

This was the least informative community crunch yet... community crunches are to inform the community. Right? So how come Cedric told us more on twitter in the last 24 hours than the author(s) to this weeks crunch? (Author listed as “Studio Wildcard”)

How does a player to player interaction repair the damage done to peoples bases and dinos when a meeting won't take place for weeks?  There is an article on survive the ark saying when a character is deleted you should not even make a new character on the same server because it will over write the old character and not be retrievable.  The information being put out is still lacking on basic instruction on how the community should act in the mean time.  It lacks true compassion for the people who have thousands of hours of work into this game.   A normal person works roughly 2000 hours in a year some of us have that into this game some of us have more then that.   Have you taken any actions to stop the bleeding.  Turn off dino and base decay timers on the servers as so many others have suggested.  What about food consumption.  Sure you're going to restore our levels, tek engrams, and maybe re-imprint a hand full of dinos.  But what of the people who no longer have any dinos or bases.   Are you doing any thing to address these problems in the weeks its going to take to get a meeting.  For those of us about to loose a year of our lives do you offer any thing for our hard work that you squandered.   Perhaps this is part of a grander plan, a plan to force more servers to close after all extinction is the final step in your journey where it begins and ends.  No more plans to earn cash so time to kill the game.  Kill the player base.  Kill the servers cut the over head cost. All along fronting like you are trying to "improve" the game with patches.  Yet what effort is being made to preserve the player base.  Official servers lag so bad they are almost unplayable. This patch and roll back should be referred to as the great extinction. Note there was no apology in the updated statement only asking us to be understanding of their situation.  No mention of our situation.  So much more left to say but what is the point its already been proven it will fall on blind eyes and deaf ears. 

will legacy characters be restored? I have not lost my personal character I just speak for the legacy community  

 

maybe I am wrong here but Legacy is a no longer supported server ? Isn't that the official line from back when they shutting down all the low pop legacy servers? You can't get GM assistance right?   These are Questions not an answer.

Edited April 9, 2019 by gushwa80

So rather than fixing the meshing issue and making the game better in multiple ways you's just watch someone do some painting on Youtube?

9 minutes ago, Lycan187u said:

will legacy characters be restored? I have not lost my personal character I just speak for the legacy community  

 

Legacy is dead bud.

@StudioWildcard Rather than turning the conquest servers (That people love), in classic PvP (That we basically have already had which was CrossArk Servers in legacy) why did you's not remove some of the PvE servers or take down the whole Legacy side of the game as it is dead as raptor. All together there are 410 legacy pvp and PvE servers on the whole game, PvE Is full of little kids that spam poop all over the map making it basically a 1 tribe server and they do nothing but ride a stupid ass raptorin dinosaur all day defending their base from a stupid as level 5 dodo. What is the point of PvE and why do we need official PvE servers if there is Unofficial PvE servers that are basically the same. And legacy is completely useless with like 1 tribe across all their servers with a max of like 5 players a day in total.

44 minutes ago, WildManFyfe said:

So rather than fixing the meshing issue and making the game better in multiple ways you's just watch someone do some painting on Youtube?

Everyone at Wildcard is a programmer now?

1 hour ago, Spectratech said:

It would be cool to get some form of statement regarding crystal isle. As a console player we get Ark lite compared to pc. A simple were working on it or nah its all hype would suffice 

They don’t need to say anything. Don’t give into rumours, that’s your statement.

@StudioWildcard I would like to know why I saw WildcardJeager on xbox connect but he just unlocked the titan dessert that was off map, so that 20 minutes after someone downloaded it for us raid. but do not restore our character lost since 1 week.

lost character and easy raid 6month farm! Enjoy

focus in fix mesh stop share news that anyone doesnt want to read.

Edited April 9, 2019 by Bebu

Bit pointless that tbh

Hey Wildcard, i have an Off-topic idea, i hope you would consider: Conan Exiles have just been this months PS+ offer, so i checked it out and i found a genius little detail i hope you would consider implementing in ark. 

When you go to the online part of the game, you Can Choose what kind of community you want to be a part of. It is only for dedicated servers, but if you could implement in on all official servers i would really want to be part of “Ark Online” again.  

Why should that be implementet: 

Because it is a little bit frustating to not be a hardcore player, i love the game and i have completed it, but i still dont have the same blood Lust as some of the other players do. Im not saying that it is wrong to be blood thirsty, but if i wanted to kill people Every second i could just play a Rockstar Game instead. 

I have never had the oppotunity to move around in some of the many Pve servers, i have wanted to join. The only kind of Pve servers i have joined, where filled with buildings i wouldnt even Build in creative, so where would the place for my Home be ? 

I used to play on the “offlineraidprotection” servers and i really loved the community because the chat was active and you wouldnt just beat every person running around in Their underpants. A mega Tribe changed the playing rules at some point, and started scamming good hearted players, So my interest quickly fainted. My friends then told me about the “smalltribeservers” and i tried joining.

I have never seen so much chaos, when we joined i couldnt even leave viking Bay without getting beat to death the first 5 times and that is Allright, but it is NOT for me. 

My love for Ark came because of the oppotunities, there were when the game still was new. 

I loved the thought about teaming up with others, to try and survive and maybe building a cool community. I still want pvp, but since im neither paranoid or want to watch the World burn, i just only want to fight people “i dont agree with”.

i Think it would be kinda hard to implement an “declare war” option, where you need to wait, lets say 12 Hours to whipe another tribe, or something.  Thats why i Think it would be cool to choose between communities online, because then there would be something for every one. 

I know this community is know  for their “Git Gut” mentality, but it is kinda hard to “git gut” when people are so paranoid that they fear your Thatch hut so much they need to raid it ?

i miss the old days of ark, where you would look at other People’s tribe and tame names and just laugh because you Saw other People’s creativity. I Also miss the days, where you could see special bases, all the alphas Allmost use the same formula for setting up a base, because some youtuber told Them, that this is the Best construction.

i know a lot of hardcores dont agree, but it Will never be easy to make every one happy so lets just have a lot to choose between. 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, gushwa80 said:

How does a player to player interaction repair the damage done to peoples bases and dinos when a meeting won't take place for weeks?  There is an article on survive the ark saying when a character is deleted you should not even make a new character on the same server because it will over write the old character and not be retrievable.  The information being put out is still lacking on basic instruction on how the community should act in the mean time.  It lacks true compassion for the people who have thousands of hours of work into this game.   A normal person works roughly 2000 hours in a year some of us have that into this game some of us have more then that.   Have you taken any actions to stop the bleeding.  Turn off dino and base decay timers on the servers as so many others have suggested.  What about food consumption.  Sure you're going to restore our levels, tek engrams, and maybe re-imprint a hand full of dinos.  But what of the people who no longer have any dinos or bases.   Are you doing any thing to address these problems in the weeks its going to take to get a meeting.  For those of us about to loose a year of our lives do you offer any thing for our hard work that you squandered.   Perhaps this is part of a grander plan, a plan to force more servers to close after all extinction is the final step in your journey where it begins and ends.  No more plans to earn cash so time to kill the game.  Kill the player base.  Kill the servers cut the over head cost. All along fronting like you are trying to "improve" the game with patches.  Yet what effort is being made to preserve the player base.  Official servers lag so bad they are almost unplayable. This patch and roll back should be referred to as the great extinction. Note there was no apology in the updated statement only asking us to be understanding of their situation.  No mention of our situation.  So much more left to say but what is the point its already been proven it will fall on blind eyes and deaf ears. 

yes, exactly. no actual hint what we should do... just write a ticket and wait... somewhere they wrote in case of lost char one should not create a new one as then the original char will be lost.

my friend an me are playing ark for many years now in the same tribe (no other members) and on ragnarok since it's release, we both have thousands of hours spend ingame (me 5500).

we both have a job now so we cant play every day so when i noticed on friday morning that i cannot logg in we were already 4 days offline and i wrote a ticket immediately, and my friend in the evening for his char... so our dino's timer will run out today in about 12 hours from now. my friend and me have no answer from wildcard so far. we managed to contact our ingame neigbours on steamchat and they could feed our dinos caus there are PINs on doors and troughs. but the timer will wear off. they really should stop that timer... this is a less than frustrating scenario and many players will leave that game after loosing all.

Edited April 9, 2019 by Udju

 

hi

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by NasLeo

As an Xbox player, we have very dry content and I would like a statement for the classic pvp servers coming to Xbox and it would be a nice and fresh thing so come on wildcard because I don’t think this weeks community crunch answered anyone’s questions 

3x for easter plz

Cool.

But my ticket is unread/unanswered since March 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 hour ago, Masterofswag360 said:

3x for easter plz

and stop the timers now, please

6 hours ago, SaltyMonkey said:

Everyone at Wildcard is a programmer now?

They don’t need to be, the job of the poster is to communicate. That includes information from the programmers.

When will they start Eggcellent event