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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!

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    1 hour ago, Morikar said:

    You absolute wretched retards. You made everyone update their xbox client after wasting 24 hours of everyone's time and taking 36 hours to update it with the "fix" so it stops crashing. Guess what? Not only did you waste more of other peoples time three times in the last 48 hours but the games on xbox is STILL crashing. Still getting kicked off and the aberration dinos are still transparent! Your dumbass game clearly cant handle your Summer Bash event. So extend the 5th birthday event instead. After all you just made 2020 a worse year for alot of people cause you as a gaming company charging triple A prices have not done a single correct thing in the last two years. So i reckon this will be your last year of ARK. I cant wait to watch you guys shoot yourselves in the foot again and watch you crumble along with your already falling apart game! Oh and good luck hiring anyone to fix your fallen Jenga tower of a game. No person with 5 years of experience would be dumb enough to deal with the unbridled stress you would put on those poor desperate souls. 

    that's a xbox issue... buy a pc and throw that trash xbox in the dump lol 

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    why don't the gacha s render in properly half the time. 

    Edited by wmhill92

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    its so frustrating when you get quite a lot of progression done and the game just crashes and you get kicked out of the game ive had this proble since last even of their birthday event

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    1 hour ago, Lycan187u said:

    that's a xbox issue... buy a pc and throw that trash xbox in the dump lol 

    Its a ps4 issue too. If the damn PC crew figured it out then how come the console crew couldnt? 

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    2 hours ago, DamienSoulfire said:

    Okay my buds Otter is back, but the game is still crashing every 10 mins on the nose. Wth did y'all break this badly?

    That corrupted aberration file is probable still in there messin with everything

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    Just managing to stay on long enough to refresh things on official, not getting too adventurous atm... I heard monday is D-day, so hold on to your hats... This from another player in game!? Ten minutes then i'm disconnecting... Oh what joy! Lol....

    Edited by Donk67

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    What’s this 21.52GB update for on Xbox. I’m still DCing every 5 mins if not even more than before now. If this update was to fix the crashing you’ve only made it worse ?????

    when this is all fix you should up the rates again to compensate for all the lost time we’ve had.

    Edited by CompX123

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    So reading on twitter they are awaiting cert from microsoft which wont be sorted till monday the joys hope they extend the timeline as only weekends i realy get to play with work!!

     

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    1 minute ago, Goz said:

    So reading on twitter they are awaiting cert from microsoft which wont be sorted till monday the joys hope they extend the timeline as only weekends i realy get to play with work!!

    They will be extending it, but not sure the length yet.

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    15 hours ago, OGROWENOWEEDO said:

    So you can apply it to the helmet and equip it to it ?? 

    You can apply the sunglasses skin, but it will either be invisible if the Ferox is already wearing the helmet. Or if you put the skin onto the helmet first and then equip it to your Ferox the entire helmet becomes invisible.  So no looking "too cool for school" for our Ferox this summer 

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    16 hours ago, OGROWENOWEEDO said:

    not to mention characters lost

    Character files are separate from the map save file and not effected by a rollback.

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    @GPMy big amigo, do you know when they'll reduce the jerky cost that is stated in this CC?

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    So after the update my game keeps kicking me out or crashing i get like 10 min of gameplay and then im back to my xbox dashboard and have to restart.

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    On 6/25/2020 at 10:48 AM, Lilmill202 said:

    This game is a really big waste of time I spent the last two weeks playing only to be offline raided everyday. I eventually got to the point where I would take my blueprints an tames an put em in the ob. It’s the only way to keep anything you’ve worked hard to get. Well today I decided to leave em in the ob, farewell pigeot an sexy rexy. You can’t play this solo, you have to join a tribe but I did just that an got kicked after hours of watching someone else’s babies an taming stuff for them. Single player seems to just wipe itself after every update smh. I love this game but absolutely can’t stand it’s toxic player base an it’s unbalanced game. If you are literally starting today, read this comment an think to yourself is there any other way I could spend this time. The answer is yes, they say hell is repetition that would explain why I feel like I’m in hell when I play this game cause it’s literally me gathering stuff for another tribe only for them to collect it right after it says ballin LilMill has left the ark. 

    I would suggest playing on pve

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    It’s quarantine so no there’s nothing else I could do better atm. About the raiding.. find your way to one of the Alphas tribes. They will help you out. If they aren’t dcks. Work on your character more than on your tames. 

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    ACTUALIZAR PARA EL MODO PRIMITIVO QUE TENGO UN SERVER ALLI CON MUCHA GENTE PERO NO HABEIS PUESTO LAS COSAS NUEVAS DEL EVENTO DE VACACIONES PARA EL MODO PRMITIVO

    UPDATE FOR THE PRIMITIVE MODE THAT I HAVE A SERVER THERE WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE BUT YOU HAVE NOT PUT THE NEW THINGS OF THE VACATION EVENT FOR THE PRMITIVE MODE

    Edited by alvaromrlo
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    Since the new update my friends and I are unable to play scorched earth because we are kicked every 5 minutes. Unfortunately loosing some Dino's because we are unable to harvest meat in time. Also, when whistling a dino to follow they just stop and you have to run back and find them 

     

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    Keep getting kicked every 5-10 mins ever since this update. All 5 of us on different consoles have been having this issue. It’s hard to play when you keep getting kicked during exploring or battle. Anyone else having this issue after this update? 

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    Been happening for 2 days now ...... I'm afraid to fly anywhere around the maps cause of the random boots ......

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    Another unplayable addition to the game. Crash to dash literally every 5 minutes. 100 prime jerky per emote and 50 prime jerky per Chibi? Ridiculous but ok....Made 22 preserving bins, 9k spark powder, gathered and cooked 650 prime meat, put 2200 oil in bins with powder and cooked prime. All the while crashing to dash every 5 minutes. Think persistence pays off? Logged in today and none of it ever happened. Preserving bins not even there. Pfff. What a joke.

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    this is taking the mick now spent the last 2 days being randomly booted from game and now after uninstalling and reinstalling the game for the same thing to happen still. with the r&d wildcard has apparently wouldn't think there be theses problems. I have also have problem with gacha's not rendering correctly now and then 

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    Another unplayable addition to the game. Crash to dash literally every 5 minutes. 100 prime jerky per emote and 50 prime jerky per Chibi? Ridiculous but ok....Made 22 preserving bins, 9k spark powder, gathered and cooked 650 prime meat, put 2200 oil in bins with powder and cooked prime. All the while crashing to dash every 5 minutes. Think persistence pays off? Logged in today and none of it ever happened. Preserving bins not even there. Pfff. What a joke.

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    Two days in, black screen to dash, black screen to dash, black screen to dash. Just turn it off, Jack the rates up and leave us be. Keep yo dumb hat and emote and stop it already. Lol. I mean for real?

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