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  • Community Crunch 302: Introducing Desmodus, EVO Event, and More!

    Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

    This week we are excited to share the concept and dossier for Desmodus, the winner of the second Community Creature Vote! We introduced RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) in the most recent round of community voting and saw Desmodus win (39,781 votes) vs. Carcharodontosaurus (24,419 votes) in the 9th and final round!

    In other ARK news, we're starting the weekend off with an EVO event and Love Evolved starts next week.  Check out the Love Evolved event details here!


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    Common Name: Desmodus
    Species: Desmodus draculae
    Time: Pleistocene
    Diet: Sanguivore
    Temperament: Aggressive

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    Even with all the other monstrosities around here, this fugitive from a Creature Double Feature deserves top billing. I mean, Dracula's right there in its species name! And Desmodus has a shriek that'll scare just about anything out of its way. It's also shrewd enough to limit itself to victims that it can carry off into the night.

    Although I'm not superstitious enough to advise stocking up on garlic and stakes before you decide to track down Desmodus for yourself, I'd still advise you to hunt these horrors out in the light and away from their caves – they seem uniquely adept at flying and hiding in those dark, narrow spaces.

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    Taming one of these beasties lets you add its eerie abilities to your arsenal. Use their unsettling scream to scatter your enemies. Command Desmodus to snatch up small prey for you. Let its uncanny power to vanish into darkness become your personal stealth mode.

    Desmodus has blood thinner in its saliva, which drains prey of more blood than this vampire could ever digest. If you can stomach the excess blood and drained meat your vampire pet leaves behind, you might be open-minded enough to appreciate another of its unholy gifts: a 'sanguine elixir' that helps enthrall the most stubborn beasts.

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    Desmodus will land on ARK with the upcoming free DLC map, Fjordur!


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    There is an ARK: EVO Event active on all platforms from now through February 7th, with the following EVO perks:

    *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates. 

    • Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
    • Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
    • ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
    • Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

     


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    Creator: spoonkid

    There's nothing more special than seeing someone's first ARK experience.  Watch spoonkid take on The Island!

    Creator: Xavii

    Xavii just started a new PvP series on Genesis and ends up in a solo raid on Day 1!

     

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    alpha fire wyvern - arcticthefoxwing

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    Megalosaurus @NeoVanilluxe

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    My Dunkleosteus David Gerald.#4819

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    Have a great weekend!
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    On 2/10/2022 at 8:47 AM, Vaskur said:

    Wyverns could finally get a saddle and Drakes could have a slightly higher attack speed... but that´s just my opinion and nothing that would justify adding a new Dragon-creature... so we wouldn´t need that.
    Also there are planty of mods adding broken Dragons...

    That's kinda what I was getting at. Adding a full on presumably traditional western hexepedal dragon would be pointless considering wyverns fill the niche the other guy was talking about to a T. Breath attack (multiple variations at that), cool factor, flight, it's all there. Add to that the fact that we have multiple members of the draconis line and there's really no point in trying to add in what amounts to a wyverns with more limbs.

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    On 2/4/2022 at 8:11 PM, DemonDJ Jr said:

    Finally, I can have my Dracula I've wanted since day 1 😁

    *draculae

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    It would be really cool, Cedric that desmodus can have the same colors as Noivern from Pokemon as Noivern Is Based Off Of Desmodus Draculae

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    11 hours ago, DoggoAsHotdog said:

    It would be really cool, Cedric that desmodus can have the same colors as Noivern from Pokemon as Noivern Is Based Off Of Desmodus Draculae

    Breed for it chief. Unless you're running a solo or unofficial server your odds of getting whatever color you desire is up to the whims of rng.

    On 2/11/2022 at 8:26 AM, Vaskur said:

    Ocean was messed up the moment the Jellyfish was added. Ocean has sadly not enough content for too many Creatures And there is no point in using other Creatures than Tu

    Sad but true. The cool downs they're supposed to have between shocks don't even matter because they ALWAYS travel in packs that will chain spam to cover eachothers cooldowns. If it ain't a squid, basilo, or a drake with good oxygen then you're pretty much screwed the second they or eels catch you. Worse still the easiest of those options to get can't dive deep without taking damage so they're functionally useless for deep sea dives where you'd more readily encounter those vile creatures while searching for loot. You'd thing we'd have some sort of insulation suit or brew to counter it. 

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    On 2/7/2022 at 4:27 PM, CosmicSkeleton said:

    So the vote was rigged because you personally failed to understand it amongst a sea of people. Where you one of those kids in school who assumed the other kid was cheating because he knew how to set up a two way trap in connect four?

    Look, I just want to Admit it. I'm a Jerk because of My Poor Spelling and Favoritism for the Giant Bison. I'm just letting this Pointless Argument to just Rot in the Sun.

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    4 hours ago, kaprosuchus93 said:

    I'm just letting this Pointless Argument to just Rot in the Sun.

    So why revive this pointless argument 12 days later? If you want to let it rot then stay away from it. 🤷‍♂️

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    El desmodus es de mis criaturas preferidas, una gran adición y para el PVP en la noche es God

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