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    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!

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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!

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    On ‎5‎/‎12‎/‎2020 at 8:05 PM, Magmasaur103 said:

    yeah, like a crystal boss? something along that line would be nice

    also, maybe some crystal minions like rockwell did with the aberration creatures

    Introducing the Crystal Golem:

    • Lava golem size with a single large crystal coming out of its back, and several from its joints (elbows, shoulders etc) like tonfas.
    • Thinking Neon pinks and deep purples in colour.
    • Ground slam attack that causes crystals to shoot up from the ground and can knock back dinos.
    • Chucks large boulders with crystals protruding from them, with a chance to cause bleeding debuf.

    Any other ideas?

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    fine, ill just pretend that never happened. anyway, what i meant is like the dinos, just didnt mention it because i was too busy talking about what the problem was with aberration. sorry ?

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    On 5/13/2020 at 2:29 PM, Tomm1e1 said:

    Introducing the Crystal Golem:

    • Lava golem size with a single large crystal coming out of its back, and several from its joints (elbows, shoulders etc) like tonfas.
    • Thinking Neon pinks and deep purples in colour.
    • Ground slam attack that causes crystals to shoot up from the ground and can knock back dinos.
    • Chucks large boulders with crystals protruding from them, with a chance to cause bleeding debuf.

    Any other ideas?

    noice, maybe while they edit they can add a biome JUST made for and of crystals and crystal dinos

    oh wait!! they can have that idea as a mini boss in the venter of the map, like they did for the centurion on olympus!!

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    On 5/13/2020 at 1:45 PM, GP said:

    Well Genesis Part 2 was scheduled for Winter 2020, so based on that, it is NOT expected by October because Winter starts in December. So Part 2 isn't expected before December 2020.

    Considering Part 1 was delayed, and the whole world has suffered a very bad year so far that has disrupted many businesses and lives, this could very well have an impact on the release of Part 2.

    So, to answer your question, not before Dec 2020, just like they announced when they announced the Season Pass.

    I am sure they may say something like that, but those who have been playing since early access know the truth. This company loves, just love to find every little reason to postpone a dlc. They have NEVER met a date they put out. Each time they have some "reason". We will not be seeing Genesis part 2 till Christmas 2021.  They said winter 2020 before covid so when covid is over that is only when they will begin with the DLC. They will say "we don't want it to have bugs so it will be 4 or 5 months more" I mean they literally gave us a map full of bugs and glitches last time. Literally,  swarms and running around fixing glitches. Jokes on us 

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    Yo my character keeps getting duplicated and I keep having  to go to servers that I haven't been abel too find it why 

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    I really hope this new dino comes with a second saddle without the turret? Like the quetz? Maybe fingers crossed it gets a platform saddle to build on. We need a new sky base dino!

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    Map is going to be screwed over like the rest of the sponsored mod maps. Why must you ruin a good thing?

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    Does look like the Ornithocheirus to me and my kids love Andy's dinosaurs, they can't get enough of that show... surprisingly informative too. Anyway...

    As for that guy who complained about that 10 day window yadah yadah. . . yeah you might want to relook at a calendar to see how long Winter actually lasts for, as for the information WC have given us ingards to release dates and what not expect things to change, expect things to not go as planned, we are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic and you are not the only ones suffering from it, everyone is, businesses all over the world have to put in safety protocols and measures to ensure their staffs welfare and this comes first before anything else.

    You don't like it? Tough, you are literally going to have to just wait. Patience is a virtue and one I think we all need to have at times like this.

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    The one thing I'm hoping will stay is the Rockdrake, they didn't put it in valguero and they haven't put in something like Rockwell or other stuff from aberration. anyone have the same idea, or you wondering something else. and also, don't complain fellas, we get a map and we stick with it. no complaining.

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    you think all of you have it hard, try playing mobile

    I agree with Magmasaur103 and BabygirlCupcake:Melee_Damage:

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    Yey another map with servers that mass kick everyone, every 5 to 30 min just like the current servers have been doing for the last 4 weeks. 

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    Can

    t wait.    looking forward to playing crystal.   But wish you guys would address some issues within the game before going and adding more things. 

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    I wouldn't of minded seeing rockdrakes in the Aberrant Cave on Val actually there's a nice spot in there you would of thought to of expected them, but alas it wasn't to be.

    Though speaking of Rockwell. . . that's not a bad idea for a Chibi ^.^ just saying :) 

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    7 hours ago, BabygirlCupcake said:

    I wouldn't of minded seeing rockdrakes in the Aberrant Cave on Val actually there's a nice spot in there you would of thought to of expected them, but alas it wasn't to be.

    Though speaking of Rockwell. . . that's not a bad idea for a Chibi ^.^ just saying :) 

    chibi rockwell? that ought to be interesting.

    though, the chibi dinos are all tamable dinos, so idk about that within my second thought...

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    On 5/13/2020 at 12:14 PM, Dinobros2000 said:

    Break, the brake you used is for stoping a vehicle 

    you have an error too, but I'ma not criticize. also, this was on page 5, and i just noticed that NOW, out of all times

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    Hahaha also they confirmed what creature they’re adding in the Wiki.... So WC kinda messed up the secret...

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    well, think dude, everyone makes mistakes

    my k key is stuck, so its sort of hard to type with k

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    Hahaha also they confirmed what creature they’re adding in the Wiki.... So WC kinda messed up the secret...
    The wiki is unofficial and managed by the community, not the devs.
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    Ok didn’t know that, but they still reveled it, don’t know how they knew...

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    6 hours ago, Dinobros2000 said:

    Ok didn’t know that, but they still reveled it, don’t know how they knew...

    The Wiki have done that plenty of times before. Each time a DLC's mysterious mysteries is released people that do the Wiki create a page using the name they believe it is. This could simply be them believing it is the Orni and named it that. They can easily change it if it is wrong.

    They haven't "revealed" anything.

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    8 hours ago, GP said:

    The Wiki have done that plenty of times before. Each time a DLC's mysterious mysteries is released people that do the Wiki create a page using the name they believe it is. This could simply be them believing it is the Orni and named it that. They can easily change it if it is wrong.

    They haven't "revealed" anything.

    Ok...

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    On 5/10/2020 at 5:40 PM, 12345611111 said:

    Add Ark Console mods so that console players can have more fun

    Honestly that would be awesome, but it's not up to WildCard, go complain to Microsoft. Why? Microsoft requires every bit of content put on their consoles to be certified by them, so mods made by random people would not be certified and that's why they can't do it. Every single ark update has to be certified by Microsoft even though Arks been around for 5 years. I could be wrong here, this is what I've been told.

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    Going out on a limb and guessing it's a Coloborhynchus!

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