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  • Community Crunch 278: Introducing Dinopithecus, Beginner Server Wipe, and More!

    Final voting for the second creature to be added to Lost Island has concluded.  A few weeks ago, we created a forum where you could submit your ideas for creatures that will be added to Lost Island. From there, we narrowed it down to the top 10 up-voted submissions.  Over 15,000 votes were submitted for the next Lost Island creature and only 1% difference separating the Dinopithecus and the Carcharodontosaurus! Talk about a close finish 😅

    With one unannounced creature coming to Lost Island, what do you think it could be?

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    I believe Dinopithecus has been changed by ARK life. This species is definitely larger than any I remember from the fossil record. And these oversized baboons show a more pack-oriented behavior than I would've expected in their kind. Whole troops will organize around an alpha, and fall apart if that alpha is slain.

    Though they seem to prefer a diet of fruit supplemented with the occasional bit of meat, Dinopitheci are opportunistic and will eat just about anything. They’re also excellent climbers -- I’ve seen them scramble up sheer cliff faces and leap between trees to scavenge food for their troop.

    Dinopitheci will bare sharp teeth and toss well-aimed handfuls of their own excrement when provoked. Their feces is what really sets this species apart -- they’ve managed to weaponize a parasite in it that disables TEK! I feel like that parasite deserves its own dossier.

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    If you can manage to tame enough Dinopitheci , you’ll soon find yourself with a small troop at your disposal. Your mini-troop will organize around the strongest of your tames, their new alpha that can then direct them at a target with a shrieked battle-cry.

    No need to saddle your tamed Dinopithecus to ride it -- it will make one for you using its own tail. Just hold on tight, and it will take you straight up walls and across ziplines.

    In battle, your Dinopithecus will fling fecal projectiles, grenades, or a combination that I like to call EBM, for Explosive Bowel Movement.

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    Amargasaurus is also making its grand appearance on Lost Island!

    For more information on Amargasaurus, be sure to check out the dossier in an earlier Community Crunch!

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    Beginner servers will be wiped clean on all platforms on Aug 6th 1PM Pacific.

    Beginner servers are wiped periodically to help provide a fresh beginner experience for new players. Join by searching "Beginner" in the server browser!


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

     


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    Just now, HolyPoly1026 said:

    Look up just one ark PvE vanilla playthrough. What do they have? Guns, Gigas in lategame, tek in endgame, because they beat the bosses. Tek solves almost every problem you have if you even had one. Just throw on some tek armor. Fall damage? Gone. Flyers? Optional. Scuba Tank? May as well throw it in the grinder. Hover Skiff is the fastest thing in the game, which is actually useful to you considering your Tropeo argument. 

     That’s because it’s a PLAYTHOUGH. The are (often payed by their fans) meant to show off the game in its entirety.   Put if you aren’t showing off, then what’s the point? Who’s going to care? No one, so why do it?

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    2 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

     The point of PvE, is to play freely without some beta male with a god complex putting you in a roofless prison just for existing. Since you don’t NEED to fight, most of the more combat oriented tools/tames either have less use or none at all.

    Again, what is even your goal in PvE. Everyone else's goal is apparently a waste of time to you. 

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    1 hour ago, Compyking said:

    Compy fact: Troodon is the smartest dino ever found.

    Troodon isn’t a valid species anymore, as it’s only known fossils are from tooth fragments. Troodon is one of the few “mythical” animals that at least resembles a dinosaur in ARK.

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    1 minute ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    Again, what is even your goal in PvE. Everyone else's goal is apparently a waste of time to you. 

    I’ve already answered that.

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    1 minute ago, TyranntX said:

    I’ve already answered that.

    I'm gonna guess is the whole smelt metal and get paste and polymer, until you get bored. 

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    1 minute ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    I'm gonna guess is the whole smelt metal and get paste and polymer, until you get bored. 

    BZZt, wrong answer. Just like how you are wrong about Charchardontosaurus.

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    Just now, TyranntX said:

    BZZt, wrong answer. Just like how you are wrong about Charchardontosaurus.

    Then what is it? You clearly didn't explain well enough, unlike with the carcharo where you repeated the same thing over and over. 

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    1 minute ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    Then what is it? You clearly didn't explain well enough, unlike with the carcharo where you repeated the same thing over and over. 

     Why don’t you re-read my comment about PvE again… instead of making baseless claims that have been disproven… Like Charcharadontosaurus.

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    31 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

     Giga is the worst, and will never be the best. It’s just an oversized vanity pet people tame for being insecure for things no one cares about (or if they are a completionist which is the only justifiable reason to get one). A team of rexes will do you fine, and is far easier to obtain.

    TEK is useless because you go through so many needlessly complicated steps just to get a fraction of them down. When just having a quarry of creatures auto-gathering in a walled off area is far easier to build and manage. No need to fight bosses, just need to smelt metal and get paste/polymer. Sure TEK “makes things easy” but it’s an end game object that really only has a use in PvP, where technology determines the winner… but in PvE, what’s there to fight? Bosses? They are optional and pain to set up, pass. Wild dinosaurs? Unless you need food or some other thing your Tames should be enough. Other players? It’s PvE, if you want to fight others you are in the wrong place. TEK is useless to PvE.

    Right here? You just explained what your goal aren't. 

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    Just now, HolyPoly1026 said:

    Right here? You just explained what your goal aren't. 

    Nope, Try again.

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    4 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

     Why don’t you re-read my comment about PvE again… instead of making baseless claims that have been disproven… Like Charcharadontosaurus.

    You are the only person I've ever heard say tek is bad in PvE, guns are useless in PvE, gigas are bad in PvE, and that carcharo isn't getting added. Most people seem to be on my side. 

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    2 minutes ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    You are the only person I've ever heard say tek is bad in PvE, guns are useless in PvE, gigas are bad in PvE, and that carcharo isn't getting added. Most people seem to be on my side. 

    By “most people” do you mean just you? Because a number of people here would very much disagree.

     

    also I never said guns were useless, Just TEK and Giga. You sure like to make things up.

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    22 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

     The point of PvE, is to play freely without some beta male with a god complex putting you in a roofless prison just for existing. Since you don’t NEED to fight, most of the more combat oriented tools/tames either have less use or none at all.

    You didn't explain your goal. You just said "play freely". Do you just keep playing until you're bored, avoiding the endgame stuff because it's too difficult? 

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    10 hours ago, TyranntX said:

    Replicator: You have an oversized craft bench with more slots… woppty do.

     

    Tek Saddles: You have the same affect from building a saddle from a blueprint and if you have a high craft skill. You just don’t have guns… which you don’t need.

    Mek: Usless in PvE, just like the giga is Useless overall.

    Exo Mek: why do you need to move a base? Did you anger someone? Oh wait! They can’t hurt you because PVE!!!

     

    Tek Rifle: needs element to fire, which you need as a power source for other Tek stuff. So useless in PVE.

    I like to make things up? Then what's this? 

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    1 minute ago, TyranntX said:

    By “most people” do you mean just you? Because a number of people here would very much disagree.

     

    also I never said guns were useless, Just TEK and Giga. You sure like to make things up.

    No, I mean literally every ark PvE player I've ever heard. Discord servers, YouTube comments, literally everywhere. 

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    1 minute ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    You didn't explain your goal. You just said "play freely". Do you just keep playing until you're bored, avoiding the endgame stuff because it's too difficult? 

    Read it again… aloud, slowly, and repeatedly. Maybe then it will sink in.

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    Just now, HolyPoly1026 said:

    No, I mean literally every ark PvE player I've ever heard. Discord servers, YouTube comments, literally everywhere. 

    All social media who play the game IN IT’S ENTIRETY because they are often payed to do so.

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    2 minutes ago, HolyPoly1026 said:

    I like to make things up? Then what's this? 

    Facts 

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    1 minute ago, TyranntX said:

    Read it again… aloud, slowly, and repeatedly. Maybe then it will sink in.

    Again, no end goal was described. What do you do at the end of a playthrough? It's not that hard to just answer. 

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    1 minute ago, TyranntX said:

    All social media who play the game IN IT’S ENTIRETY because they are often payed to do so.

    I'm not talking about youtubers. And if you're not, then I don't know what kind of conspiracy crap you listen to. 

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    Just now, HolyPoly1026 said:

    Again, no end goal was described. What do you do at the end of a playthrough? It's not that hard to just answer. 

    Who said there was one? Do you stop playing after you beat the game? I don’t. So READ IT AGAIN.

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    If you guys want to continue to chit chat, you can do it via private message.

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    7 minutes ago, Vaskur said:

    lots of salt here

    Kinda expected with the controversy of the vote and the creatures in it. 

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