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    Summer Bash Is Live

    Break out your shades and catch some rays in the 2020 Summer Bash event. If you ever needed an excuse to celebrate summer and soak in some sun, we've got you covered.  From June 25th to July 14th the second Summer Bash event will be underway.  Spend your time relaxing by the beach in the new Hawaiian shirts or have a fight your tribe using the new water-gun skin. However you choose to spend your summer in ARK, Summer Bash is bound to cook up a lot of entertainment. 

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    Server Settings

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    Event Start

    • PC: 10AM PDT
    • XBOX & PS4: 1PM PDT

    Rate Boosts

    • 3X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
    • 4X Player XP
    • 4X Harvesting
    • 4X Taming

    New Emotes

    • Guitar Riff
    • Drum Solo
    • Head Banger

    New Skins

    • 4 new Hawaiian-style shirt Skins
    • 3 new Swimsuit Skins
    • BBQ-themed Grilling Spatula (Club Skin)
    • Frisbee Skin (Boomerang)
    • 1 Sunglasses Skin w/ customizable lenses
    • Super Soaker style Squirt Gun Skin (Flamethrower)

    New Chibi Pets

    • Manta
    • Ammonite
    • Cnidaria
    • Plesiosaur
    • Astrocetus

    Event-Colored Wild Creatures

    • Dino Dark Blue
    • Red
    • White
    • Dino Sky Blue
    • Dark Red
    • Blue
    • Light Grey
    • Cream
    • Cammo
    • Orange
    • MediumTeal
    • DarkBlue
    • LemonLime
    • Peach
    • Coral

    The event kicks off at 10AM PDT for PC and 1PM PDT for XBOX and PS4.

    UPDATE: We'll be rolling out an patch to greatly reduce the cost of prime jerky for Summer Bash items later this evening. In the meantime, start stocking up that jerky for your chibis and emotes!

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    Breeding Performance Improvements

    With the start of the 5th Anniversary event, we implemented some changes to the way our servers calculate growing baby dinos. By distributing these calculations we can recover some of the performance costs related to breeding calculations, which is quite cost-intensive.


    In more technical terms, we have done this by measuring the stress on a server with each tick and batching the actors to process their breeding calculations over the course of several ticks rather than all of them on every tick. For a server that is already in a stable state not much might be noticed, but for a server under intense stress players may notice that breeding calculations, and the initial start of mating may be a little delayed.


    The good news is that players should notice less performance issues during boosted breeding rates. Servers will always be put under extra strain during event rates, especially so in regards to breeding rates but we've sought to minimize that with these changes and we've noticed some positive improvements.


    If you are on a busy server and experiencing some delays, this is why and we're currently iterating on this so these response delays don't feel like as much of a disruption.

     


    Our Community Crunch Is Moving

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    We're moving the Community Crunch back to Friday's!  In addition to moving the Crunch back to Friday's we'll start to feature community content in the Community Crunch rather than its own separate day.  If you are creating or sharing ARK content, be sure to tag it with #playARK for a chance to be featured!


    ARK Summer Sale

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    Kick back enjoy a great start to your summer with the ARK Summer Sale.  For a limited time, ARK will be up to 80% off!

    ARK on Steam

    ARK on Epic Games Store

     


    EVO Event

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    While Summer Bash is active from June 25th to July 14th, there will be no special EVO event rates.

    Summer Bash Rates

    • 3X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
    • 4X Player XP
    • 4X Harvesting
    • 4X Taming

     


    Community Fan Art

    Crystal Griffin by @bluedragonark

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    Fire Reef by @ProjectTiamat

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    ActualBlack Megatherium by @TiiaAurora

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    Argentavis on Genesis by @PicturesofArk
     

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    Epic Viking Longhouse by @ThePilgrimz

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    Wyvern Drawing by @RunsWithPencil

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    See you next week!

    Studio Wildcard 


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    21 hours ago, Hesna008 said:

    I wish people would stop complaining about this, it says right in the article that they will be lowering the amount of mats it takes to make jerky.  Learn to read for complaining!! 

    2020 Customer Bash

    Enough with the event! Wild Card, choose between your hardcore players or the beach Bob's. This is a beach Bob event. Drop the event. Do you think we hold our Alpha bases with Chibis? Defend with short shorts? It's time and effort. GRINDING. Drop the event. Drop the event! Or drop your biggest fans. Save the skins for the Bob's on primitive plus! 

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    When i look in this comments, its sad, but customer service for console not exist. Even some comments say: Buy a pc. Right answer! Console Rassismus, xbox or allover console player, doesnt matter! Thats what i understand right now. We will never get a refund for all lost things, again! WC kill more of Our Dinos with updates and DCD then we do. Ill Quit Playin Ark and ill hope to be never a costumer from something else, that got anything to do with them. Its like they Spit in my Face for 8 times in a row and say evrytime.... Nothing!

    Nice to know.

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    2 hours ago, IgorThatchRich said:

    There a sly chance they planned this to lower the player base. More players doesn't necessarily mean more money. For WC more players is more cost and more render problems. A lower player base makes their job easier. Severs will run smoother. It's crooked and cheap. Instead of upgrading game, they downgrade the players. I hope I'm wrong. The reason I say sly is the titles... Community Crunch...? It's just that! They crunched the Ark community. And Summer Bash? Who is getting bashed here? 

    Good point. This is a business after all. Other industries do things to maximize profits, so it makes sense WC would do the same. At the same time, long term, doesn't it also make sense to keep a large of player base as possible. Because I am sure Ark #2 will be out at some point.

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    Oh ya this event is the absolute best if you dont mind dc every 15 to 20 minutes 5 to 10 times in a row on top of that they felt the need to make everything so expensive and exceptionaly difficult to get the only good thing that has come of this event is the colors so long as you manage to stay on long enough to mange to tame any of them

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    WC I have a quick question: when will official servers be going back to 1x, we’ve been on events for months if I wanted to play on small tribes with constant 3x then I would of. Yeah people may think it’s great but when you’ve played on official for let’s say a year on 1x and then have months of 2x 3x and even 4x  then it allows everyone to build up faster then all that time you put in on 1x so basically just a waste of time!. Please stop with the events especially when your server can’t even handle the amount of babies / building people are doing on these events!

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    I was wondering do i have to download the  the 21.52 gb update to be able to  get the update we are waiting for? 

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    gg also some of the servers are tanking hard atm last weekend offi 331 was down 48 hours just to be restarted then drop dead 5 hours later down since then. Well rip baby dinos rip wyvern baby rip a nice weekend i actualy planed on playing this /sarcasm wunderfull bugfree totaly never crashing game.

    Could you dear developers please fix your game. its a atroshous state

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    Looking like it's fixed, I haven't crashed out as yet; been on for over thirty minutes and  no issues as yet!? even got the babies out of the cryo too.................?

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    Wait it takes 50min to hatch thery eggs

    So thats x2 and not x3 :( whats happening ?

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    Just letting you know even after today's update of 25gb our server is still kickng us back to back. it was just me and one other player on the server and we both got kicked four times in 30 minutes. server is Island 314 official PVE. What was the point of a 25 GB update?

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    On 6/24/2020 at 7:30 PM, StudioWildcard said:

    UPDATE: We'll be rolling out an patch to greatly reduce the cost of prime jerky for Summer Bash items later this evening. In the meantime, start stocking up that jerky for your chibis and emotes!

    @Cedric@DollieWhen will this be on PC? Been 5 days now without seeing any change :( We've stocked up a lot of jerky but need to know if we can spend it or should keep on waiting.

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    53 minutes ago, Oli4 said:

    @Cedric@DollieWhen will this be on PC? Been 5 days now without seeing any change :( We've stocked up a lot of jerky but need to know if we can spend it or should keep on waiting.

    Just keep holding on to it.

     

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    2 minutes ago, GP said:

    Just keep holding on to it.

     

     

    Thanks, kinda sucks we have to get updates via Twitter instead of the official forums

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    UPDATE: We'll be rolling out an patch to greatly reduce the cost of prime jerky for Summer Bash items later this evening. In the meantime, start stocking up that jerky for your chibis and emotes!

     

    The best way to reduce the cost or make it better would be to have it poll inventory and give you a "random" one you are missing. Then leave it 50 prime meat jerky. Worth it.

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    On 6/28/2020 at 3:05 PM, xMaDx said:

    customer service for console not exist.

    Customer service is poor for everyone. That's why unofficial communities are popular.

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    well would be nice if the could like fix the brocken servers as they are on it 331 of is still down only 24h+ now but i am glad beef jerky issues are serious and get adressed rather befor they restart those servers.

    priorites get them right please.

     

    EDIT: befor someone says i reported the server to be offline long time agao like 1 hour after he went down

    Edited by boris4022

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    Has anyone on ps4 having problems finding tropeos? After the rollback it seems they went from rare to nonexistent. I found 1 before the rollback but is now deleted because of the rollback. Didn't know they were going to do one at the time.

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    In addition to other issues, my kibble isn't working as effectively; regular kibble for anky or Deedee(Doedicurus) is only providing 0.7 tame for every kibble consumed. Is this new as well, or just an old thing I've missed because I haven't played in a couple months?

    Both dinos were lvl 50-ish, if that accounts for much.

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    so they lowered the mats it takes to make prime jerky, cool, but did they forget it takes like 30 minutes just to make one? 

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    Was it intentional to remove tropeo spawns? Since summer bash launch on extinction we have found 0

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    1 hour ago, KalenMoonfang said:

    In addition to other issues, my kibble isn't working as effectively; regular kibble for anky or Deedee(Doedicurus) is only providing 0.7 tame for every kibble consumed. Is this new as well, or just an old thing I've missed because I haven't played in a couple months?

    Both dinos were lvl 50-ish, if that accounts for much.

    Is this on prim+

    It's been like that on prim+ for months now

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    2 hours ago, Oreosrock14 said:

    so they lowered the mats it takes to make prime jerky, cool, but did they forget it takes like 30 minutes just to make one? 

    Make them while you sleep. Make multiple at the same time.

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    How come I can’t get xp for my reaper king  whilst it’s on my stomach is it a glitch for PS4 ? 

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    50 minutes ago, Aylana314159 said:

    Make them while you sleep. Make multiple at the same time.

    I'm always making them, but it takes a total of a day to make enough to even get one chibi, its not really worth it is it?

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