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    Turkey Trial 4

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    From Tuesday, November 24th through Tuesday, December 8th grab your tribe and flock over for Turkey Trial 4.  Go on the hunt for the unforgiving “Super-Turkeys” and harvest wishbones to gain new chibis, cosmetic items, event-themed skins, and all new emotes! 

    Event Details

    This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=TurkeyTrial

    Dates November 24th to December 8th

    Rates

    • 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
    • 2X XP
    • 2X Harvesting
    • 2X Taming

    Event Creatures

    • Super Turkeys (Untamable creature)
    • DodoRex (Craftable Temporary Tame)

    Event Skins

    • 2 Thanksgiving-themed Sweater Skins *NEW*
    • 2 Thanksgiving-themed Swimsuit Skins *NEW*
    • 2 Hawaiian-themed Shirt Skins *NEW*
    • Bonnet Hat
    • Chieftan Hat
    • Pilgrim Hat
    • Turkey Hat
    • Dodo Pie Swim Bottom & Top
    • Meat Swim Bottom & Top
    • Turkey Swim Bottom & Top
    • Pitchfork
    • Turkey Leg

    Event Chibis (acquired via killing Super Turkey's for Wishbones)

    • Tuso *NEW*
    • Broodmother *NEW*
    • Bonnet Otter *NEW*
    • Mantis *NEW*
    • Dunkleosteus *NEW*

    Event Items

    • Wishbones (acquired from killing Super Turkey's)
    • Thanksgiving Dino Candy

    Wild Creature Colors

    • MediumAutumn *NEW*
    • LightAutumn *NEW*
    • BurntSienna *NEW*
    • DarkMagenta *NEW*
    • DarkViolet *NEW*
    • Vermillion *NEW*
    • MidnightBlue *NEW*
    • BlackSands *NEW*
    • DarkBlue *NEW*
    • Orange *NEW*
    • Brown
    • Dark Red
    • Dino Dark Red
    • Dino Albino
    • NearBlack
    • Red
    • Light Brown
    • Black
    • Dino Darker Grey

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    Live-Ops Update
     

    A message from our Product Manager:

    While gamers can sometimes squabble over the little things, like which console is better, the ARK community is nonetheless tightly-knit. It's no surprise then, that when the community loses one of their own, fellow players are eager to reach out and honour the player that has passed away

    Over the years, we have received some very touching messages from players who have lost fellow tribe members, family members and friends and chose to share their ways of paying tribute to them in-game with us. 

    Many of us at Wildcard were touched by a player’s story shared on Reddit about his lovely wife Heather, who passed away suddenly. He and his sister made a tribute to her on Valguero (her favourite map) and shared this screenshot with the community

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    We put our heads together to come up with a way we could add a lasting memorial to the game for, not only Heather, but for all of the Survivors who have Ascended. 

    Jackson Lawrence, one of our talented Level Designers, kindly offered to spend his own time creating a lasting memorial and I think his work is just beautiful! I’m humbled to be able to share our new addition to the Valguero map with the community. 

    Thank you for not only allowing us to entertain you but also for inviting what we created into your lives. As a bunch of people wanting to make something exciting and immersive, we’re honoured when players take that beyond anything we can possibly do to forge their own connections with the game. Our world may not be real but your sentiment and attachment to it is.

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    We hope our small gesture brings some comfort to players who have lost loved ones.

    - Dollie and the Studio Wildcard Team. 

    DDoS Mitigation

    Improving the health and stability of our network infrastructure is a huge priority for the team. One of the biggest hurdles we've faced stem from DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. These are malicious attacks on our network which lead to server issues such as downtime, poor performance, or not being able to connect. While these attacks are a global issue and impossible to prevent entirely, the team has spent a considerable amount of engineering time on mitigating these attacks with our hosting partners to reduce the impact they have on your playing experience.

    As of the past few weeks, we have deployed some serious enhancements to the system and have such seen a dramatic decrease in server issues related to DDoS attacks on PC, Xbox, and PS4. Although things have improved, we will continue to monitor the overall health of the Official Network and work on advancing the technology to mitigate these attacks.

    Character Loss caused by Rollbacks & Auto Restoration

    Preventing character loss remains of utmost importance to us. We've recently implemented the technology (and have had it running live on our Official Network) to auto-restore characters in the event that a server has experienced a rollback. Specifically, if a player has recently transferred to a server and for some reason, that server has gone down without saving the world (crashed/restarted), upon it's next start up that character (presuming it hadn't left the server), will be automatically restored.  We'll continue to monitor for character loss reports and identify opportunities to advance the auto-restoration technology.

    Disconnection Issues for Xbox and Win10 clients.

    We have identified and fixed the issue causing players to regularly disconnect from Player Dedicated & Non-Dedicated servers on Xbox/Win10 every 30 minutes. The fix will be rolled out the upcoming Turkey Trial update on the 24th of November.

    Beginner Server Wipe

    Just a friendly reminder that we're close to the next reset date on Beginner servers, which will take place on December 1st.  For those not familiar, Beginner Official Servers are an experience for new ARK players to test the waters without the threat of thoroughly developed tribes. 

    Unlike our regular servers, these have undergone some changes and will wipe every 8 weeks. First of all, there have been some limitations on how much a player or dino can progress. Player levels hit their cap at 44 and the highest encounter possible for wild creatures is level 30. Tamed creatures can receive up to an additional maximum of 30 levels. Due to the progression limits, some engrams are not achievable through leveling up but are found via supply crates. Some other changes include the disabling of alliances and tribe sizes have been limited to 5 members maximum.

    Below are the subsequent planned wipes based on the 8-week wipe schedule:

    • January 26
    • March 23
    • May 18
    • July 13
    • September 7
    • Nov 2
    • Dec 28

     


    Black Friday Sales

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    Don't miss your chance to grab ARK for up to 80% off in the XBOX Black Friday Sale

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    Get started on your Black Friday shopping with ARK while it is up to 80% off in the Playstation Black Friday Sale!

     


    EVO Event

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 20th of Nov at 4 PM EST until  Tuesday the 8th of December at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    • 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching
    • 2x Harvesting
    • 2x Taming
    • 2x XP

     


    Fan Art

    Poglin from ImEnFuego

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    Brontos Grazing from RoxaneLapa

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    Parasaurolophus from Drekaava

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    Crystal Isles: A quiet sunset from Melina799

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    Reaper Queen from Bob van Dorst (Discord)

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    From MrMEOLA

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    Catch you next week!
    Studio Wildcard

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    On 11/25/2020 at 8:58 AM, chowhound78 said:

    I play on ps4 and I pay for 2 servers and ever since the update you broke everything cause there is no sessions found on unofficial or even official sessions get your heads out of your rears and fix the game cause every time you update it you break it even more 

     

    Yup I've been trying to get on to my private server all day which is fully working and sitting next to me but all I see are three sessions in the list for Ragnarok.

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    I play Hardcore and just lost my 309 ember wyvern, bc me and my tribemate both got disconnected for the 8th time in the 2 hours of us being online together today and lost our tribe on the center hardcore 3.  We are very disappointed and discouraged to play now.  If there is anyway you guys could force yourselves into the tribe over there and grab our wyvern or spawn us one, it would dry up some tears and wasted time.  Please my tribe depends on it.  

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    1 hour ago, Donniestewart said:

    I play Hardcore and just lost my 309 ember wyvern, bc me and my tribemate both got disconnected for the 8th time in the 2 hours of us being online together today and lost our tribe on the center hardcore 3.  We are very disappointed and discouraged to play now.  If there is anyway you guys could force yourselves into the tribe over there and grab our wyvern or spawn us one, it would dry up some tears and wasted time.  Please my tribe depends on it.  

    go to ark support to make a ticket because I don't think they'll answer you here buddy

     

    http://www.studiowildcard.com/contact

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    1 minute ago, thunderblood69 said:

    So with the evolution event and the Thanksgiving event in official does that mean 4× perks?

    No it is 2x. The EVO went up to the Thanksgiving event, then the event rates took over.

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    Hi, the colors of the turkey trial 4 event are not present, the colors that appear are from turkey trial 3 from last year.

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    Anyone from WC addressed the disconnect issue yet? What about all the stuff we have lost due to disconnects?

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    The Devs are continuing to work on it. They are 100% aware of the issue, they are not ignoring it no matter what you think.

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    Status update:

    Resolved:

    - Intermittent disconnects that started last night on @PC (Steam/Epic) and @PS4. We recommend relaunching your clients again if you're experiencing it, no patch or updating should be necessary. If you're still experiencing frequent disconnects on these two platforms specifically on officials, please file an outage report for our team to investigate (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19p2_r2z9wyazMXiJIlFINw0M32WCoUkv039yemwR3lE/viewform)

    - If you are experiencing a perma-disconnect on your Unofficial Servers in the Genesis Lunar biome on @XBOX/Win10, please make sure your Unofficial server is running the latest update (v804.9). Note that you may need to wipe wild creatures, which you can do so with the following command: cheat destroywilddinos

    Ongoing:

    - Still looking into an issue where players would disconnect specifically on @XBOX/Win10 approximately every 45 minutes, as well as the session list getting stuck.

    - And aye, we are looking into the new Turkey Trial event colours not showing up on all colour regions for wild creatures

     

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    Was trying to breed thylas just now the the frigging fully matured and imprinted stats kept changing. What the hell. I've got like twins which absolutely have the same stats are now different from each other. And no they haven't been levelled up.

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    Hey wildcard I would love for you to make the ark additions mod all part of ark and have all of the creatures in for normal ark

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    On 11/28/2020 at 9:50 AM, GP said:

    The Devs are continuing to work on it. They are 100% aware of the issue, they are not ignoring it no matter what you think.

     

    It seems as though there is a large issue with communication, if so many people are under the impression that they are being ignored. Maybe there needs to be a slightly more user-friendly way of making it clear when such issues are being addressed. 

    I was surprised that the forum entry for "known issues" didn't mention any of the more prominent problems... the clearest indication of trouble I saw anywhere was the banner indicating high ticket traffic. surely there could be a better effort in the future to keep the community informed.

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    *kills a turkey and gets a wish bone*

    *thinks that it grants any wish* 

    *has to look up what it does*

    *cries all night*

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    My friends this may be all great for your small PvE side of this game but you should be telling us more about the PvP side of your game where there is a greater player base. Can we please get some information on what or even if you are trying to sort out the issue with aimbotting and esping and desyncing in your servers. Cause i dont know if you devs and people play the official servers but the state of it right now is terrible. You cant go an hour on any official server without coming across someone cheating. Take exfibos most latest video on arkpoc this tribe which was cheating has been playing arkpoc for months on end and nothing has happened to them and in addition there is no preventative from them cheating as your anticheat isnt really the best. Can you please inform us at least whether or not your taking action to help prevent the cheating.

    Thank you Wildcard

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    3 minutes ago, Bulgarians4life said:

    My friends this may be all great for your small PvE side of this game but you should be telling us more about the PvP side of your game where there is a greater player base

     

    By large most of the people playing this game play PvE.

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    1 minute ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    By large most of the people playing this game play PvE.

    And how do you know this? Cause if you go through the server list you will find that most of the servers are PvP and the PvP servers have more people playing them than PvE 

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    Just now, Bulgarians4life said:

    And how do you know this?

    Devs stated it during a stream event and in Twitter.

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    Just now, Joebl0w13 said:

    Devs stated it during a stream event and in Twitter.

    can you get a link of the stream clip or twitter

    Cause they are most likely wrong.

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    Just now, Bulgarians4life said:

    can you get a link of the stream clip or twitter

    Cause they are most likely wrong.

     

    If you think the devs are wrong, why would you want to see the clip?

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    1 minute ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    Devs stated it during a stream event and in Twitter.

    Also going through the server lists right now you can see by far there are more players playing PvP than there is PvE 

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    1 minute ago, Bulgarians4life said:

    Also going through the server lists right now you can see by far there are more players playing PvP than there is PvE 

     

    You don't have access to the complete numbers. They do.

     

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    Just now, StinkyFingerton said:

    Wow...did a culling of some sort happen? Alot of posts disappeared from this thread.

    It's common for posts that belong in other threads being split out into those threads. You can always look at your profile to see where the posts are.

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