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  • Community Crunch 256: Introducing Voidwyrm & Update on Genesis II

    We know that what you want is news on Genesis II, so let's not mince words and get straight to it: We have decided to push our final DLC release date to May 26th, for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Stadia. 

    First and foremost, please accept our humble apologies. We're disappointed and have no doubt, everyone, eagerly awaiting Genesis II will feel that along with us. 

    As we have shared before, the Studio transitioned to working remotely near the beginning of last year, presenting some particular constraints. Being entirely virtual is quite challenging for various teams with a shift from an in-office workflow. 

    In addition to the complications of working remotely, one challenge has been figuring out how to close out the ARK saga faithfully. From a narrative, cinematic, and end-game-wise perspective, it's something close to our hearts that we want to honor as the grand finale.

    This journey we've all taken through ARK: Survival Evolved over the past six years is important to our players and us, and the extra time will make a massive difference to the quality of the Gen II when it lands in your hands. We're passionate about delivering something truly special, and we're confident this extension will allow us to give you the epic finale you deserve.

    And on that note, we'd like to introduce you to the formidable Voidwyrm, a powerful and challenging new tame that will soar above the ARK with the launch of Genesis II! 

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    Internally, we think of Genesis Part II as having two significant philosophical changes in comparison to Genesis Part I. These changes are a direct result of player feedback:

    1. The entire map is open and livable, with minimal no-build zones that avoid disrupting the over-world and an esthetically pleasing environment.
    2. Structures, items, and creatures have been designed to assist and improve gameplay and QoL for all of our players and designed to expand the meta in meaningful ways.

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    On behalf of the Wildcard team, we want to thank you for your ongoing support and passion. We're looking forward to sharing ARK: Survival Evolved’s final climactic chapter with you!


    Studio Wildcard
     


    EVO Event

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk! It will be active until Friday the 26th of February to Monday the 1st of March. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    • 2X Harvesting
    • 2X XP

     


    Community Corner

    🎥 Clips/Videos 🎥

    🎥Creator: Gamology

    Anthropologist and Survival expert, Kinga Philipps, reacts to ARK.

    🎥Creator: Raasclark

    Want to get your hands on the latest Federation Gloves?  Raasclark shows you how in a recent video.

    🎥Creator: Sven P

    Check out an epic castle build deep in the Redwoods biome with Sven P.  We've also included a screenshot of the completed build in the screenshots section.

    🎥Creator: Mr Dolphin

    Say goodbye to that TEK Skiff.

    🎥Creator: Rockapolis Gaming

    Here's a quick 3x3 base that has all the essentials you need to get started!

     

    🎨 Fan Art 🎨

    🎨 KingCrownee - Zombie Fire Wyvern & Zombie Lightning Wyvern

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    🎨 NeoVanilluxe - ARK Thorny Dragon

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    🎨 Kohaku-senpai - Wyvern

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    🎨 Vahilor - Santiago Mek Pilot

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    🎨 HeatherPeoples - Griffin

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    📸In-Game Screenshots 📸

    📸 sefiroultima#7980 

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    📸Medusa Greek

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    📸 KingWillrus#2876

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    📸Keylleen

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    Enjoy your weekend!
    Studio Wildcard

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    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
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    To everyone who continues to post hate comments, you do know that no one cares about your unoriginal opinion right?

    When it comes to wildcard, they are a fairly decent company who actually cares about their game and doesn't try to realese a half-assed dlc just for the sake of releasing it. They actually bothered to listen to feedback from their comunity (no matter how much you insult them) to try and improve game for your sake as the player, they're not going to be the ones who are going to be playing the game and yet they're going out of they're way to try and make the game a better experience for you as the player.

    Look if they were a money grabing company like any other than they would've already released the dlc and not cared what you had to say, but here they are wasting their own time and money to try and make sure that you actually enjoy the game.

    So please stop whinning, it gets really annoying having to look through the comments and mainly seeing hate comments.

    Also if you're planning to respond to this, just don't, I'm not gonna be wasting anymore of my time with this matter. Also this took a really time to write, so please for my sake dont make me write anymore.

    P.S.

    the wait isn't that long, and I'm really looking forward to part 2 

    Edit:

    Looking back on this comment i was quite rude and unprofessional, let me apologise. I was just annoyed, and all I'm trying to say is that you dont have to be so mean (like i was) they're just trying to make the game better for you. Sorry again if i was to salty.

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    I was rude.
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    1 hour ago, ladyteruki said:

    If by "structures and items" you mean "a new building tier because we haven't added one since the Scorched Earth DLC and that was back when we were still in Early Access", then you're all forgiven. THEN AND ONLY THEN.
    I think I paid for this DLC about two years ago now ? What's two more months.

    Or 8 to 10 for that matter.

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    "We know that what you want is news on Genesis II, so let's not mince words and get straight to it: We have decided to push our final DLC release date to May 26th, for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Stadia. "


    Ok, so that is kind of terrible news. Yes I did just say "kind of". While I am sure almost everyone will be, completely justifiably, enraged by this I am personally quite happy.

    You see, some short while ago I was having a chat, a debate if you will, with someone in a Discord about the Gen2 release and I told them quite clearly it would not be in March. No way. As you can imagine, we got a little "into it" and the result was a bet.
    I held fast to my assertion that in NO way would Gen2 be released in March and would be no sooner than May, if not June and quite possibly even later. They were equally adamant that as it had already been terribly delayed beyond what would be considered 'acceptable' there was no way any studio would let it be delayed further. Therefore we agreed that whoever was correct would receive from the other person the following:
    100 large tek walls;
    100 tek foundations;
    200 tek ceilings;
    4 tek dino gates & frames;
    4 tek behe gates & frames;
    2 tek generators;
    2 transmitters;
    2 tp's;
    2 cloners.

    Honestly, I CAN NOT FKN WAIT for them to log in when they get in from work cos my new base is going to look awesome!!

    So a big THANK YOU WC - your continued ineptitude does actually bring great joy to (admittedly very, very few) people at certain times \o/

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    Like COME on WildCard, i bought ps plus to have time to play on GEN 2. BUT OF COURSE, YOU PUSH THE RELEASING DATE! i don't like this, at least i hope that gen 2 and ark 2 are worth buying. And please, at least tell us from now, what are you delaying, cuz maybe people are making plans on when to buy and stuff like that. 

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    Pathetic. 5 months late. This studio is one of the most trashy, disorganized, lying, joke of game developers. Maybe finish the first game before you pull resources to start a new one.  The mpst reliable thing about Wild Card is unreliability. People need to take theri anger and frustration and focus it. DO NOT BUY ARK 2.  There aere so many more iptions with more to come. You wouldn't keep eating at a restaurant who constantly messes up your orders and even when you get the food is terrible correct? Focus. 

     

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    2 days befor march is hitting you tell us its another 3 month pushback?!?!?!?!

    timeline:

    release january 2021

    release march 2021

    release may 2021

    good job guys

    now you have the ultimate excuse you always have been looking for :D , covid

    you must feel like in heaven now

    why not push it back to 2022

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    Jeśli mamy dostać bardziej dopracowane dlc to moge czekać aż do grudnia.

    Rozumiem problemy z pracą zdalną ale moglibyście dac datę np. 23 grudnia 2021

    I później po prostu ją przyspieszyć jak skończycie. (Nie piszcie mi że sie nie znam bo gram w tą gre od 2016)

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    I hope you guys are going fine! This situation it's hard for everyone :)

    At this point I hope my GPU arrives before Genesis II so i can play it at its best hahahah

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    I think what they mean to say instead of the bullpoop excuse of virtual deployment of their dev team is that they have yet again stretched their resources even more thin by having to deploy to a completely new system such as stadia.

     

    Because lets face it a software based company having to transition to a virtual workspace is like a ice cream man in a truck having to transition to a set driving route to a parking lot. So that excuse is just bullpoop.

     

    Having to make changes to your code to get it working on a completely different system is a whole other ballgame. Not to mention pulling even more resources to start on the 2nd game. 

     

    Oh and the voidwyrm, great the tek wyvern FINALLY makes an appearance as part of a selling point to a new DLC. Not very impressed.

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    This is ridiculous, if you expect people to buy ark 2 don't you think you should start showing us we can count on you. Never on time for anything. I may not buy ark 2 until it's like $10. I've spent so much money buying all the dlc's for ark and bout ark in pre-release and I have boasted about how good the game has been but as far as trusting the team creating it, I'm losing that. 

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    11 hours ago, Pumba4Panda said:

    Haven't been on time for a single DLC or update why change it for the last one! I'm sure this one will be just as broken as every other initial release dlc and have exceptional excuses to cover it up. Thanks for another let down ❤️ 

     

    Just curious when can we start expecting excuses and delays for ark 2?

    Wow could you be any more of a garbage person? Covid 19 running rampant and forcing people to change how they work and all you care about is what you want. Karma doesnt play just saying

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    Gee, they delayed it for months to secretly work on Ark 2, and STILL can't hit their release date without delaying it even more.  What a massive surprise.  NOT.

     

    I'd say I was extremely disappointed, but what would be the point?  Literally no one cares what I think to begin with.

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    26.05.2021? wow very fast as on WildCard which always translates FINAL dlc release dates.
    I think genesis 2  will be released in 2023 or "winter 2024" or + add yet 2-3years xDDDD
    it is joke.

    Ark II on 95% i don't buy lost only time. I want end genesis 2, kill alpha boss, tame all creature from this dlc and end with ark "1".

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    2 hours ago, PhotekPlays said:

    2 dni przed nadejściem marca powiedz nam, że to kolejny 3-miesięczny zwrot?!?!?!?!

    oś czasu:

    wydanie w styczniu 2021 r

    wydanie marzec 2021 r

    wydanie maj 2021

    dobra robota Panowie

    teraz masz ostateczną wymówkę, której zawsze szukałeś :RE, covid

    musisz czuć się teraz jak w niebie

    dlaczego nie cofnąć go do 2022 roku

    2022 hmm better in "winter 2025" or better... release genesis 2 later than ARK II XDD

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    1 hour ago, MayaPatch said:

    I hope you guys are going fine! This situation it's hard for everyone :)

    At this point I hope my GPU arrives before Genesis II so i can play it at its best hahahah

    Let's be frank here - you probably have the time to do a degree in micro-electronic design, hand-source the finest materials, design and then manufacture your own gfx card by the time Gen2 gets seen
     

    1 hour ago, Lumpy1982 said:

    This is ridiculous, if you expect people to buy ark 2 don't you think you should start showing us we can count on you. Never on time for anything. I may not buy ark 2 until it's like $10. I've spent so much money buying all the dlc's for ark and bout ark in pre-release and I have boasted about how good the game has been but as far as trusting the team creating it, I'm losing that. 


    I paid just under £9 for Ark, roughly the same for the 'everything else' bundle and I will be damned if I spend more than that for Ark 2 - if I even bother; cos in all honesty, an Ark with no machines or tek etc is basically Prim+ with added extra Vin Diesel and while I enjoy his films (mostly) that just doesn't sway me. If I wanted to play Prim+ I would have done so already. Sod paying top-whack for an entire (no doubt buggy as all hell for the 1st 6 months anyway) game of the crap!

    And finally as it is becoming almost obligatory now:

    *ahem*

    You nearly had Ark 2? You! Nearly had Ark 2? <sniggers> YOU NEVER EVEN HAD YOUR GEN2!! <holds arms out, swaggers around>

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    I have been with you guys since the ARK Xbox release. This is AWESOME.

    I ALWAYS appreciate time taking. James Cameron understands. I want and love ARK.

    I enjoy playing what we have out now. 

    I do hope ARK 2 will be created slowly and carefully with love. Ones of the saddest thing about ARK is how so much has been taken away by the whiny fans.

    "This is to hard make it easier and do it faster and then I'll complain about low quality"

    It's a dinosaur SURVIVAL game.

    I hate our cultures mentality lately. It's gross.

    I'm hoping Vin diesel will laugh in Ridck- wont let me spell it😑 fashion at the cry babies and bring back the fears and hardships of ARK. I want to be scared of raptors pinning me, gigas raging, etc etc.

    But I also want it to be a fun building and breeding sandbox with beautiful environments.

    And get rid of your internet/server hosts. I'm pretty sure there the problem. That and your good but outdated engine.

    You guys keep doing you! We love you for it!

    I'm excited about the animated series! I don't even know where it's going to be watchable.

    Also are you guys going to have merchandise like toys sets, stuffed animal, books, etc? 

    You should. I desire. 🥰

    Also we need a horse Tek sale that gives them pegasus wings. More costumes and skins for making saddles look different. Not just costume skins but ones that give the sales different looks.

    A direwolf ovis costume. A corrupted skin. Fix the Tek skins.add more bones and alternative dinosaur costumes. Like the brachiosaurus costume. Make more stuff paintable. Like cryo fridges and replicators cloners etc.

    Add round building structures.

    Make basilisk and snakes breed able. And fish maybe? Like pirhana, salmon, and celicanth.

    Matter in ARK 2 make bases a rabbit hole so anyone can build it anywhere and peele can only come in by invitation. Like you can still build on the map but it's more like for fun seige and stuff not actually your base. This could make it so pve and pvp can be done in the same game. I would love to be able to play in pvp zones and pve other places. Just an idea.

    Thank you for making bugs and bats breed able.

    Can we continue to get TLCs for the still creatures? It can only make it easier to know how to make ARK 2 more epic. Perhaps araneo should climb walls. Who cares if it's Acurate?

    Ravagers need to be a smithy. Just my desire. I use them instead of argy.

    And parent dinos should be able to feed it nurses thier babies. Maybe if allowed to be parents fed them imprints aren't allowed?

    Just ideas.

    Ty wc for the fun game🥰

     

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    I can wait for it  i preffer a late DLC than a broken DLC :3

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    9 hours ago, thedrongoofark said:

    sadly I doubt WildCard pays much attention to forums like these, even if they did like your idea

    do they even take good ideas similar to this? forums or not?

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    6 minutes ago, LUIX said:

    I can wait for it  i preffer a late DLC than a broken DLC :3

    I can agree, but is the command for the new tek gloves skin out yet? since I'm not aloud to buy the passes or maps, I rely on commands for a fun time, along with the free maps.

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    36 minutes ago, Magmasaur103 said:

    is the command for the new tek gloves skin out yet?

    Run this on The Island:

    setplayerpos 255157 247694 -14359|giveexplorernote 868|giveexplorernote 869|giveexplorernote 870|giveexplorernote 871|giveexplorernote 872

     

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    9 hours ago, Gedanox said:

    But, so what? you had to buy gen 2 with gen 1! they don't need to attract that much more public!

    So what you are saying is, why bother hyping up the final map as they no longer need new players to the old game. That's fair I guess, although I would imagine that they would want to keep the current player base happy and satiated until they try and sell us Ark 2.  Point being, it's the same old, same old with Studio Wildcard, the information in the crunches is crap most times, there's never any real meat to the process of developing, the progress, it's fluff, simply fluff that does nothing to keep anyone truly interested and enthusiastic.  That's my point. 

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