Jump to content

  • Community Crunch 227: Summer Bash and Summer Sale

    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. 

    2.jpg

    Server Settings

    • -activeevent=Summer

    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!

    3.jpg


    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

    4.jpg

    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

    Summer_Sale (1).jpg

     

    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

    c4d1c70db94b99199a88d21dbf29f34d_2.jpg

    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

    EbLAP3xXQAUWbc_.jpg

     

    Fire Reef by @ProjectTiamat

    EbOhsIiX0AYzn4I_2.jpg

     

    ActualBlack Megatherium by @TiiaAurora

    EbO2YbjXsAEHiuw_2.jpg

     

    Argentavis on Genesis by @PicturesofArk
     

    EaxyMtYXQAAL2Rt.jpg

     

    Epic Viking Longhouse by @ThePilgrimz

    EU8NA4bXgAI4Lzl_2.jpg

     

    Wyvern Drawing by @RunsWithPencil

    EZfdlzoWoAIqKd1.jpg

     

    See you next week!

    Studio Wildcard 


    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark





    User Feedback

    Recommended Comments



    It’s kind of like the guy on stage that fails in front of thousands of spectators. At first it’s funny, then you get embarrassed for the person, then it’s just plain cringey. At least don’t go for “ the big finish. Lol. Stop embarrassing yourself. 

    • Like 1

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Why such a low server population on such a big weekend event?

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Came out with a fix for the crashing issues?  Made me wait to download this patch and it still didn’t help.  Good job WC

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    On 6/26/2020 at 9:23 AM, IgorThatchRich said:

    Now I have to hide my jerky from kid tribemates that dont grind

    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!! 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Just have one question how do we get to play if we are still disconnecting every 5 minutes even after the update? This is starting to make us want to quit the game. So much time put in and now we can't even play. It seems like you fix one thing and 200 other things break. 

     

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    1 hour ago, Heeps said:

    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?

    Tell me about it!!! They don’t think about this stuff until it happens... wait!!! Its been like this forever.  They won’t fix this for months lol.

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Hey can you fix your crashing bug when I save like it's getting really flipping annoying. FIX YOUR GAME it just crashes too much to be even playable

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Wildcard devs I really hope you all see this cause I have been playing this game since day 1....how are y’all gonna release these maps, Dinos, and events but can’t fix disconnect issues or lag.....you companies host game on a larger scale than ark and the run as smooth as butter yet when I get into a slightly boosted 4x server, I crash because someone’s leveling up....

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Hey @ wildcarddevs even after those 2 updates your game is still crashing / dash boarding people. Get a hold on this pls.

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    I've been playing since day 1 lost 3 lvl 100 and up characters on official so started playing on prim plus until i get my recent one back in aug. I was lime yay i guess ill give this summer bash a try and BOOM i crash every 5 mins ty wildcard 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Horrible game, waste of money, games always freezing in single player 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    6 hours ago, Tracker said:

    Hey @ wildcarddevs even after those 2 updates your game is still crashing / dash boarding people. Get a hold on this pls.

    Yeah bro it’s always freezing and crashing on me too and even the texture of the stone foundations are weird 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    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!

    where's the update? :D

    • Like 1

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Can you roll out a patch so the server doesnt kick you out after 10-20 mins then resets everything you did in that time too.......... 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    6 minutes ago, Bloodthirster84 said:

    Can you roll out a patch so the server doesnt kick you out after 10-20 mins then resets everything you did in that time too.......... 

    It's already with Microsoft. Earliest it is expected is Monday.

    • Like 1

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

     How about you guys try testing things BEFORE you let someone else try it out, and you make sure that it is reliable, I’m not saying I’m just saying.  WC after 5 years I would have thought that you would have learned by now that testing things in real world application might be to everyone’s benefit? Maybe?  You mean to tell me that you can’t have an Xbox, ps4 and a pc up in the office that you can test these events, additions and content out on?  To make sure that things are one the up and up BEFORE it goes to the massive player base.  To me that just makes more sense, it’s been about 3-3.5 years since you started the evolution events and about the same time that you started the holiday events.  You know what holidays are coming up and it seems that the last year of events have been riddled with some issue that impacts the game game play of a lot of people substantially.  All that can be fixed by just testing stuff.  Players have had a bad taste in their mouths for a long time because of this, the reason for the attitudes.  You roll out a patch and it either doesn’t fix the problem or it makes it worse or turns around and breaks 20 other things in the game that were working fine.  Something has gotta give guys.  Love the game, the events and the enjoyment I get out of the game along with everyone else, but this is just crazy.  

    • Like 2

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Thank you Wildcard for giving us another unplayable event. Do you need beta testers for consoles? If so, many on this forum would sign up. If you have some already, fire them and get new ones because they don't give you feedback about things that don't work. ( i.e. are they all just yes men or in awe about how pretty the game looks?)

    [ it is very visually stunning btw]

    Also, fyi: Tropeo babies don't show maturation bars.

    Please stop adding new content until what's already there works better, even if that means that we have to wait awhile for the next new thing. And rollbacks of more than 15 to 30 minutes are counter productive  because you forget what you have done.

    Edited by hbomb1972
    Added to comment

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Too bad i play on xbox and still crash every five minutes... im pissed af i have 8 babies and cant stay on long enough to feed them! So if this isnt fixed in a few days then im quiting and selling the game!

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    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! 

    • Facepalm 2

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    9 minutes ago, IgorThatchRich said:

    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! 

    No offense Bob's. But my one kit is worth more than your whole bases. My worst Baryonx is better than a whole fleet of Bob tames.

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    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? 

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Just now, 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 job WC. Your scandalous titles name what your intentions are.

    Share this comment


    Link to comment
    Share on other sites




    Create an account or sign in to comment

    You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

    Create an account

    Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

    Register a new account

    Sign in

    Already have an account? Sign in here.

    Sign In Now

×
×
  • Create New...