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  • Community Crunch 224: Anniversary Event, Crystal Isles Launch, New Dino & More!

    Greetings Survivors!

    June 2020 will mark the 5th Anniversary of ARK: Survival Evolved, and what an amazing five years it’s been! We have some special treats planned to commemorate the occasion with our fantastic community!

    We’ll be celebrating this momentous milestone with multi-week long revelries which will include a special birthday in-game event, the arrival of a new dinosaur, and the initial rollout of the one-of-a-kind experience of the expansive Official “ISO: Crystal Isles” map!

    Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ???????

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    Here’s a little teaser of our new real-world dinosaur primed to make its dizzying mark upon the skies on June the 4th across all platforms! Can you guess what it is??!

    Crystal Isles

    Crystal Isles is a stunning, other-worldly map filled with a vibrant display of teeming life scattered amidst its varied landscapes, awe-inspiring floating islands, and breathtaking biomes. 

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    Ever since Crystal Isles launched as a mod in 2016, its fantasy appeal has secured its place as one of the most popular maps within the ARK community and we’re thrilled to bring it to players as a fully supported free DLC.

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    Crystal Isles will initially launch for PC on June the 4th, with an Xbox and PS4 launch coming later this summer as the team continues to hunker down and iterate on the console version.

    We hear you on the Crystal Wyverns and they’ll certainly be making their tameable appearance on the Isles! ;)

    Anniversary Event!

    And finally, we’ll be donning our party hats and celebrating with a time-honored in-game event commencing on all platforms on June 4, featuring Party Dodos, interactive cakes, new chibis & surprises, and dazzling unicorns frolicking on rainbows. Yes, really! 

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    It’s been an incredible journey over the last 5 years filled with so many unforgettable memories and we can’t wait to celebrate with you once more! 

    Eggcellent Adventure Winners!

    There were so many amazing entries we found it hard to choose just one winner from each category so we’ve decided to award more prizes. 

    Grand Prize: 100$, plus a copy of the Genesis Season Pass and a special ARK Goodie bag!

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    Congratulations, what an epic creation!

    Winners: 100$ prize each!

    DodoPandora

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    AlannahJay101

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    Mitharen

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    Runners up: 50$ prize each!

    Amitaya1982

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    MagmaMage
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    Thank you for all your creative entries!


    Steam Sale: Explorers Edition (75% Off)

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    Want to introduce your friends to the world of ARK?  Right now, the ARK: Survival Evolved Explorer's Edition Bundle is available for 75% off on Steam! The Explorer's Edition gives you access to the base game as well as the Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction Expansion Packs.

    Go grab your copy now!


    EVO Event

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    As mentioned in an earlier post, we've enabled 2x XP, taming, breeding, and harvest. We'll continue to run these rates for the time being as a gesture towards our community as we all deal with the isolation and stress during these tough times.

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    We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past five years and we couldn’t have done it without your love and support.
    Thank you! Stay safe and take care!

    Studio Wildcard 


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    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark


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    1 hour ago, AlannahJay101 said:

    Woohoo I won something! Thanks guys and congratulations to everyone else! 

    P.s how do we claim our prize? O.o

    Congrats! I’m pretty sure they will send an email asking about your PayPal Credentials, but I’m not sure because I‘ve never Done it before. Guess we’ll have to find out.

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    2 minutes ago, AstrihKonnash said:

    Congrats! :Jerblove:

    thank you!! 

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    1 hour ago, AlannahJay101 said:

    Woohoo I won something! Thanks guys and congratulations to everyone else! 

    P.s how do we claim our prize? O.o

    Congrats! :Jerblove:

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    1 hour ago, Allanballan said:

    Congrats!

    Thank you jurassic park man

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    It is the Tropeognathus with a tek saddle, but will it have a normal saddle?

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    Happy anniversary ARK! I'm excited for the new creature and for official release of CI! Congrats to those egg winners, you guys have some talent

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    Good to know we are getting yet another raptoring flyer, like we dont have enough of them already, flyers have always been meta and now with a new flyer that could have a tek saddle from what the pic shows

     

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    Will the new dino be an exclusive to crystal isles like the deinonychus or will it be in all maps

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    Happy anniversary, Ark. Five years of dying, respawning, dying again, taming, building, dying, exploring, dying, crashing, hating you for all the bugs that have become features... and so many of us are still here to celebrate nonetheless XD You found an untapped market of masochists to sell games to, and that was creative genius ;) Just teasing, Ark, you know I love/hate you.

    I was sure the new dino would be a flyer because of Crystal Isles' floating islands, well I'm happy with my guess. I agree with the comment above that this looks a lot like a Tropeognathus (the modder Hokiroya had made a nice one at some point and this beak looks very familiar), and I like the idea of a turret on a creature. Always surprised there aren't more in the game ! Dino Riders showed the way :P 
    ...And I hope you guys notice how excited people get for new "real" dinos ! Sure, all the people who have played CI as a mod wonder what's going to happen to the crystal wyverns, crystal griffins, embertross, and all the mean creatures from Eldritch Island, but there is a real excitement about getting an actual dino, in a game many of us starting playing because of the dinosaur angle. When we talk about it, that's oftentimes the first thing that comes up, along with the nostalgia of the EA phase when discovering regularly new creatures was keeping things fresh and exciting. I'd pay real life money (and possibly with my first born child) for a season pass that introduces new creatures regularly.

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    "Later this summer for consoles." Freaking wonderful. The people with the least content have to wait the longest, instead of you just releasing them all simultaneously. Thanks Wildcard, really feeling like you give a crap about us

     

    At least the new dinosaur looks cool. 

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    What a shocker consoles take a backseat to pc ?. why is it so hard for you to get out to all platform's so it's fair huh ? 

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    10 hours ago, RomansXI said:

    looking forward to seeing the Ornithocheirus in the sky! Hoping for some cool abilities with it 

    It mentioned something about dizzying creature so I think so!

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    Please be Ornithocheirus. It is like they red my mind. I was thinking of this creature earlier this month because I saw it in Walking with Dinosaurs when I was a kid. Love this flyer and cannot wait. They you so much Wildcard!

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    I love the new dino thing and all, but I'm still having troubles trying to spawn in the VR dinos and bots from genesis (I'm on Ps4) and I was wondering if wildcard could help me out here. OR anyone at that, i wanna see if I can spawn in bots from genesis, then forcetame them and see if they can roam around acting like tribe members. solo tribe without mods. again as I say: a little help fellas :l

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    I don't like the birthday suit skin, wish there was an option to turn the blur off and just deal with the barby doll-like figure of the characters. The blur causes a weird bloom effect and its so freaking annoying on console.

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    8 hours ago, xxnazgulxx said:

    Oh oh... New map on consoles later this summer... Sounds bad to me ?

    What do you mean? Do you not like fun lol. Also the floating islands have rockdrake eggs so we might end up getting them too

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    16 minutes ago, 13Alpha1 said:

    What do you mean? Do you not like fun lol. Also the floating islands have rockdrake eggs so we might end up getting them too

    The drakes need removing tbh, it's too easy to get eggs on a ptera then just hover above all the drakes laughing at them

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    Also, did you guys decide to not do TLC 3? You guys mentioned it would happen this summer, but no word of it here

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