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    Summer Bash Extension

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    We realize some players were unable to take part in the beginning of Summer Bash and have extended our Summer Bash event an extra week.  You have until July 21st to kick back and relax in the summer sun. Thank you for your patience as we worked through launch issues. 

     

    Patch Notes Roundup

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    It's been a few months since we've done the last patch notes round-up and much has been added.  From the launch of Crystal Isles on PC to the introduction of ARK to the Epic Games Store, there's been much going on.  With hundreds of additions, changes, or fixes, we figured it'd be good to kick off an ARK summer with a recap of the past few months.

    Significant Milestones 

     - Launched Crystal Isles as a free expansion on PC
 - Launched ARK on the Epic Games Store
 - EGS Clients can now use the favourite server feature
 - Whisper (ALT+B) and Yell voice (Shift+B) chat have been added
 - New command line arg: -PublicIPForEpic=<IPAddress> 
If this command line arg is used, this is the public IP that EGS clients will attempt to connect to.
If this command line is missing and -Multihome is specified, then EGS clients will attempt to connect to the Multihome IP
Note that if you're using Multihome and specify a non-public IP address, then players will not be able to connect to your server using EGS. Make sure to set a public IP address (e.g WAN or external)

    Crystal Wyverns 

     - Crystal Wyverns can now be cryopoded
 - Crystal Wyverns can now be transferred between maps

    Bees 

     - Queen Bee will no longer spawn bees when encumbered
 - Queen Bee will take 3% of health as damage when a bee of hers is killed
 - Queen Bee will stop spawning bees when at 10% HP

    MEK's 

     - Reduced MEK pistol damage to players by 85%
 - Reduced MEK Pistol range by 25%
 - Prevented MEKS from being able to be stacked inside each other

    TEK 

     - TEK Shield now has a limited number of crafts (like other TEK blueprints)
 - Fixed an issue with TEK durability that prevented stat capping
 - Made some UI improvements to the TEK Grenade Launcher and the Giant Turtle's Breath Attack

    Creatures (General) 

     - Scout can no longer pushed tamed dinos
 - Increased Ovis corpse harvesting scaling by 4x
 - Reduced the Giant Turtle's bubble-blowing attack on when above ground
 - Valguero Ice wyvern class switched to Ragnarok Ice Wyvern
 - Adjusted (reduced) the Thyla cost for cloning
 - Argents can no longer pick up smaller wild aggressive creatures in PvE

    Cryopod's 

     - Introduced an increase incoming damage multiplier from the cryopod-release debuff

    Genesis 

     - Additional protection added to glitches on Genesis
 - Titans cannot be transferred into Genesis
 - Managarmr cannot be ridden on regular Genesis servers (can be ridden on flyer-allowed servers)
 - Lava Lizard can now be spayed or neutered
 - Ferox breeding/mutation movement speed has been corrected to be consistent between small and large Ferox.
 - X-Dinos will now receive the Active Event Colour Override

    General 

     - Improved listing for Unofficial Servers on EGS clients
 - Re-implemented Multihome server functionality
 - Loot crates will now automatically open when purchased if you are flying or swimming
 - Created a cheat command to grant unlimited weight for admins (Cheat deeppockets or cheat infiniteweight)
 - Fertilized Eggs now have a warning when a player attempts to consume them
 - Mindwipe Tonic now warns players before being consumed
 - Corrupted Dinos can no longer be teleported
 - Set ORP activation timer to 10 seconds on Official PVE servers
 - Reduced scaling factor of sheep harvesting health to reduce stalls
 - Added additional protection to character downloads in invalid cases
 - Added additional logging on Official Servers to identify connection and listing issues.
 - Primal Crystal is now transferable
 - Genesis Geysers no longer restore the food stat
 - Jump Pad enemy foundation prevention removed
 - Limited the public teleport setting specifically for Official PvP
 - Disabled bRawSockets as they no longer function with the new game networking code
 - Added additional server-side transfer logging
 - Fixed some cases where the login lock could be bypassed

    Bugs 

     - Fixed multiple level design issues related to holes, volumes, floating foliage, and more.
 - Fixed Dino Leash breaking on restart
 - Fixed a crash related to crafting items with the gamepad
 - Fixed a bug which would cause dinos to get stuck when using the Arctic NE teleport
 - Fixed players being unable to use the bunny-hop dance
 - Fixed a bug where using the rocket launcher could propel you backwards
 - Fixed a bug where some Crystal Wyverns could not be tamed properly
 - Fixed Tropical Wyvern from regaining health passively
 - Fixed Legacy Servers not showing up when transferring.
 - Fixed the 'Kicked by BattlEye' disconnection error
 - Fixed certain server map names not showing on the session filter
 - Fixed eggs and babies being teleported to 0,0 when in stasis
 - Fixed voice connection remnants after transferring to a different server
 - Fixed Linux servers not starting up
 - Fixed a client side crash when accessing inventories
 - Fixed Crystal Isles Map showing in all filters
 - Fixed a mating range bug
 - Fixed multiple server stalls
 - Fixed some missing icon related to holiday emotes
 - Fixed a bug which could have caused characters to fail to download
 - Retroactive fix for Valguero Ice Wyverns which were stuck as "Raptors" in cryopods. (Note: you'll still see the raptor icon until you deploy the cryopod)
 - Fixed a bug with Cruise Missiles which caused them to detonate on the player firing
 - Fixed a bug which prevented MEKs from attacking structures
 - Fixed an exploit with the Rock Drake
 - Fixed a bug that could cause items to transfer back to your own inventory when transferring from personal to remote with the T key.
 - Fixed a bug with the grenade launcher where it sometimes wouldn't use all its ammo
 - Fixed some bugs where XP was not being awarded properly when collecting Glitches
 - Fixed a crash that resulted when trying to craft an item from the hotbar
 - Fixed a bug where releasing from a cryopod using EnableCryopodNerf would cause them to take 10x damage for the time set.
 - Resolved some connection and start up issues with EGS clients
 - Fixed multiple start up crashes affecting some EGS clients
 - Fixed language overrides on EGS
 - Fixed EGS clients not being able to connect to password protected servers

    Exploits 

     - Fixed some exploits related to ranged weapons and guns.
 - Fixed an exploit which allowed players to transfer items into non-downloadable servers
 - Fixed multiple undermesh exploits
 - Added some additional exploit protection to the transfer system
 - Added additional protection to GCM, Explorer Notes, and Glitches to address potential exploits
 - Improved anti mesh detection logic
 - Improved climbing pick logic to fix some meshing exploits
 - Fixed multiple exploits that allowed you to stack creatures on top of each other
 - Fixed several exploits with Magmasaur
 - Fixed a bug with certain creatures attacking through structure walls
 - Fixed an exploit that allowed mission creatures to be used in unintended ways
 - Fixed an exploit which allowed certain creatures to attack structures through walls
 - Adjusted several creatures for the prevention of mesh biting
 - Fixed an exploit with turrets and ziplines
 - Fixed an exploit with meshing and the cruise missile

     

    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

     

    Playstation Network Free Multiplayer Weekend

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    Sony is celebrating PlayStation Plus’ big 10th anniversary this week. If you aren't a subscriber but want to check out the ARK Official Network, you’ll be able to from 12:01AM 4th July in your local timezone through 11:59PM 5th July.

    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

    Event Gachas by @nova_fox13

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    Valguero Rainbow by @welshwilco

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    Building With TEK by @sugarmodark
     

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    Exogenesis by @jeffrichey

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    Family by @Schillaa2

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    Shadow of Death by @grammar_gamer

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    Addicts Drawing by @wyvernadas

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    See you next week!

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    Picklestatus

    Fix your terminals!!! I am tired of jeopardizing my cryopod tames putting them in the Data upload!!!  I put cryo in from inventory. Says refreshes and then guess what no tame!!  Tired of this crap

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    vandanvd

    it's a critical bug Wild Card.

    I was kicked out of my own tribe, bring me back my tribe, it's a critical bug Wild Card.

    I'm level 103, I'm not a newbie.

    I'm at Legacy-OC-PVE-OfficialServer 173 (island map)

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    KozmicMafro

    4x taming rates not working on Xbox servers?Dododex says a 150 anky should take 24 minutes and it’s only at 25% plz fix this soon what’s the point in 4x taming if nothing I tame is 4x??

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    Terence

    hello someone has an idea why the event (unofficial server) turned off automatically tonight although the event was extended by a week until July 21st

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    Sparticutz

    Haven't even been able to use my character for this event or raise anything from the DLCs we all bought. People have been contacting you from server 549 for WEEKS on MONTHS now and no one is responding to any of them. Do you even care about the customers or just the DLCs they all bought and now can't transfer to? Its an OFFICIAL server and none of you are helping them. Outage reports entered (over 50+), tweets, tickets, what do you have to do to get your "team" or whatever you few people are who can care less about the community - to actually answer anyone? 

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    alonah55

    The event ended for Single Player last night.  Is there a way to extend it out to the actual 21 July end date?  Thanks in advance!

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    Elgar

    Someone at Wildcard didn't get the memo it seems. Community Crunch announced that Summer Bash was extended an extra week, but it was automatically turned off on July 15th.

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    Terence

    come on wildcard you can do it better.... activate the summer bash event again for all as your announced ...

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    GP
    On 7/15/2020 at 10:47 AM, Terence said:

    hello someone has an idea why the event (unofficial server) turned off automatically tonight although the event was extended by a week until July 21st

     

    3 hours ago, Elgar said:

    Someone at Wildcard didn't get the memo it seems. Community Crunch announced that Summer Bash was extended an extra week, but it was automatically turned off on July 15th.

     

    2 hours ago, Terence said:

    come on wildcard you can do it better.... activate the summer bash event again for all as your announced ...

     

    The Devs have no control over unofficial servers.

    I play on unofficial and the event is still running.

    The Devs extending the timer basically means 2 things:

    1) They remove the activeevent= from official servers (that will happen 21st July)

    2) They patch the event out, that will also happen 21st July.

    For unofficial servers you start and end the activeevent= yourself.

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    Alikona
    1 hour ago, GP said:

     

     

     

    The Devs have no control over unofficial servers.

    I play on unofficial and the event is still running.

    The Devs extending the timer basically means 2 things:

    1) They remove the activeevent= from official servers (that will happen 21st July)

    2) They patch the event out, that will also happen 21st July.

    For unofficial servers you start and end the activeevent= yourself.

    Except we didn’t and it was removed on normal server restart for us. We have the setting enabled that follows wildcard events and do not need to manually enable/disable them each time. 

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    GP
    2 minutes ago, Alikona said:

    Except we didn’t and it was removed on normal server restart for us. We have the setting enabled that follows wildcard events and do not need to manually enable/disable them each time. 

    Not sure what platform you are on, but if your unofficial server uses -activeevent=Summer which unofficials would need to do, then it should still be running. There's been no patch released to end the event, so this is why to me it feels more like something the server admins end.

    If you are on console, then i'm not familiar myself with how events work, but i'm sure they'd still need a patch to end the event.

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    Alikona
    39 minutes ago, GP said:

    Not sure what platform you are on, but if your unofficial server uses -activeevent=Summer which unofficials would need to do, then it should still be running. There's been no patch released to end the event, so this is why to me it feels more like something the server admins end.

    If you are on console, then i'm not familiar myself with how events work, but i'm sure they'd still need a patch to end the event.

    PC running Ark Server Manager. It maybe be an issue with ASM but considering the summer themed menu is no longer showing up when you log into ark, I have a feeling it’s something on wildcards end. 

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    GP
    1 minute ago, Alikona said:

    PC running Ark Server Manager. It maybe be an issue with ASM but considering the summer themed menu is no longer showing up when you log into ark, I have a feeling it’s something on wildcards end. 

    Ah yes, I hadn't noticed the Summer theme had gone too. I'll mention it and see if that means it may have gone ingame too.

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    froggie12494

    Any update on the extension for summer bash? Super disappointed, I hope they extend the extension if we have to wait over the weekend for this to be fixed ?

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    MadaraUchiha246

    We are all crying to have this event extended once more! Please give us another week at least, thanks!

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