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  • Community Crunch 321: EVO Event, Community Corner, and More!

     

    Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade regarding abortion as a constitutional right in the United States. Studio Wildcard believes that bodily autonomy and reproductive rights are fundamental human rights, and this ruling heralds the erosion of American liberties. 

    This impacts the lives of our employees, and we are committed to supporting their right to make their own choice and we are providing them with the healthcare and resources they need to support that personal decision. 


    In spite of the Supreme Court ruling, U.S. voters can still protect reproductive freedom at the State level, and now it is up to all of us what happens next through our voices at the polls. If you are one of the vast majority of people who support a woman's right to choose, it's time to get out and vote. 

    We have also donated to Abortion Funds (https://abortionfunds.org/). If you would like to support them, you can do so here: https://abortionfunds.org/donate

    Listed below are several other organizations that you may consider.

    Urge: https://urge.org/
    In Our Own Voice: https://blackrj.org
    Plan Chttps://www.plancpills.org
    The Brigid Alliance: https://brigidalliance.org

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    Greetings Survivors, and welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

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    We'd like to take a brief moment and thank the ARK community, old and new survivors, for helping us reach a monumental milestone.  This past weekend we reached a record-breaking 248K CCU (concurrent players) on Steam!  You continue to blow us away with your never-ending passion and support.  We are extremely humbled, gracious, and energized as we embark on creating the ultimate primal survival experience.

    In addition to an EVO event and a look at some amazing community content, here are a few reminders to keep on your radar:

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    On Sunday at 10am Pacific, Conquest will introduce new maps to its currently active season.

    Map Rollout Plan

    • 6/26/22 - The Island, Scorched Earth, The Center
    • 7/10/22 - Ragnarok, Aberration, Valguerro
    • 7/24/22 - Lost Island, Crystal Isles

    Find out more information about conquest here, and be sure to stop by the Conquest Discord to get into direct contact with the Enforcement team for Conquest.

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    In April this year we moved the Official ARK wiki to its new home and partner, ark.wiki.gg!

    Moving the ARK wiki has provided a more stable and streamlined experience for the ARK community to build its future wiki roots on. Since the move to wiki.gg the wiki team has been working hard to improve the way information can be displayed and accessed, and one of these projects is the improved interactive resource, exploration, and spawn maps!

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    • Update Your Links: Remember to help those who forget the new Official ARK Wiki home.
    • Become an Editor: Help improve the wiki! Wiki’s are most successful when many community members contribute content and validate information.
    • Wikis are Worldwide: ARK players come from all around the world! We encourage non-English speakers to help make the ARK Wiki an even more valuable resource by contributing to the specific language wikis!
    • Share Your Feedback:  As always, we want to hear your thoughts on the Wiki transition. Anything you want to see the wiki add in the future?

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    There is an ongoing EVO Event until Monday, June 27th.  You can find the rates below:

    *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, 2x Hexagon Bonus
    • Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, and Taming, 4x Breeding (Imprint, Maturation, Hatch/Gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus
    • ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (Imprint, Maturation, Hatch/Gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus
    • Classic: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (Imprint, Maturation, Hatch/Gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus

     


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    A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog”#6542

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    2017. Bought the game for the first time. Heard good things about it. It looked like a pretty cool game. I spawn in, and I see what looks like a piece of driftwood. I walk over, and realize its a creature. I approach it thinking “maybe it’s friendly?” Nope. It was a sarco. It chases me and kills me. That was my first death in ark.

     

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    Okay, what you are about to read is disturbing and may cause an extreme fear of Therizinosaurus.

    I'm playing a fjordur, day 100 or so. I'm level 68 and tired of seeing everyone walk around with their rex and cool creatures. Like any other person I decide to step up my game so I can be a respected tribe. Night comes around I have the bright idea to collect narcoberries on my level 100 or so para named Cherry. It's almost pitch black. Out of nowhere I hear the battle music kick in. Pulling out my torch I see a f****** Therizinosaurus.

    Now I had 2 options- run to base or fight

    I run because there is no way my Para is gonna f*** with a Therizinosaurus and survive.

    I get within eyesight of my base when Cherry dies. It was devastating but I run without looking back, maybe Cherry's corspe can distract the Therizinosaurus just long enough for me to make it to my base. My base is made of wood. It is built on the side of a cliff with the edge of the house sticking off slightly. The opposite side, not facing off the cliff is guarded by 5 wooden gates.

    Anyway I run and barely shut the gate door before the Therizinosaurus reaches me.

    It starts to break the gate. Panicking I run up to the top of my base where I keep Bloodfire, my pterodactyl. Before I can get on, the Therizinosaurus hits me, sending me off the cliff to my death. I wait abit and respawn at my base. The Therizinosaurus is gone. I walk down the cliff and get my stuff then make my way back up and find Cherry's remains. I take the narcoberiies and saddle. Once returning to my base I examine the damage. One gate destroyed. Not to bad. Some time has passed now, I am in my base crafting tranqs and gates when I hear the sound.  the Therizinosaurus attacking my base again, this time my living complex. Frantically try to dash upstairs to my ride,  blood fire, goes crazy and fly away. My base is pretty much destroyed and I am brutally slashed to death. My bed is on cool down and I can do nothing.

     

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    Creator: Ark Solo

    Watch this adorable little Bulbdog embark on a perilous adventure, journeying across Aberration to find their way home.


    Creator: Raasclark

    Raasclark guides players through everything there is to know about Fjordur: Map Base Locations, Creatures, Resources, Artifact Boss Requirements, Locations & Rewards. It's all here in one place!


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    Magmasaur by Jitser#9861

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    Ark Yuty go brr by 𝔗𝔬𝔎𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔖𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔬𝔟𝔦#0476

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    Deinonychus by @ebiflyyyy4

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    Our Sarcosuchus by @Fururuuun

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    Fan art of ARK Survival Evolved by @tanituki

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    Fenrir by KrioStaz

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    Megalosaurus Cuddle Pile by Foxitrox

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    Fjord Djrip (Render) by RedGear17#1277

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    CHipZz - Ark Builds#9595

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    See you next week!
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    First of all, the supreme courts ruling on the overturn of Roe vs Wade DID NOT mean they were taking abortion away as a constitutional right. They were giving the power back to the individual states to decide. Abortion is no longer going to be an issue on the federal level. Each individual state has it’s own state constitution. It is now for the individual states to decide whether abortion is a state constitutional right. 

    Second, you want to discuss taking away how a constitutional right, what about the constitutional right in the security of a free state the right of the people to bear arms shall never be infringed upon. But you are very right. As soon as our government starts to take away or even infringe upon one right, no matter the right or the reason, then yes, all of our rights will be in peril. So we should be speaking in defense of each and every one of our rights, even in and especially in the faces of tragedy. 

    Thirdly, Studio Wildcard, you are a video game developer, not a political body. Please leave the political issues to the political forums. This is not the place for political issues. When you start to bring current political issues to a game focused community, you alienate your community who is going to be just as divided on it. 

     

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    Roe vs Wade - Wildcard has the right to say what they wish.

    I also have a right, it's called a boycott. I'm never playing anything made by Wildcard again, and will encourage my friends and family to do the same.

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    On 6/28/2022 at 12:13 PM, Luizza said:

    "But as soon as they're born they can be separated from their parents and stuck in a prison camp if they dare to cross an arbitary man made border."


    Between 20% and 40% of the minors illegally crossing the border are being trafficked. They separate them from the adults with them to find out if the adult is a guardian or a trafficker.

    Child sex trafficking may not be an issue the left cares about given how they sexually groom children in just about every venue they can think of. What would the left care about child trafficking when they want to murder children in the womb before they're born anyway.

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    Hey Wild Card, why don't we stay on topic of games, period, you are not the worlds morality police nor educated in reproductive and constitutional rights, you're just game developer's, not particularly good ones either, still new and still don't know how to provide proper support for your broken software's. Maybe more focus on how you make your games work properly and play better and less on what others are doing? Heh? Vote and fix your broken software's.

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    1 hour ago, HotblackDesiato said:

    summer bash event dates anybody (from wc preferably)

     

    They've not given dates, but it won't be before Monday at least.

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    Now I'm curious how many people are no longer going to get ark 2 thanks to this post...

     

    Between the constant failures for WC to meet deadlines for paid content, the Ark 2 delay, and now 'this', I definitely won't be on the Ark 2 train. 

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    7 hours ago, GamerXD001 said:

    Now I'm curious how many people are no longer going to get ark 2 thanks to this post...

     

    Between the constant failures for WC to meet deadlines for paid content, the Ark 2 delay, and now 'this', I definitely won't be on the Ark 2 train. 

    I think most people more or less agree that ark2 will be dead in the water from the jump. Pity really, I can't imagine hiring Diesel was cheap. 

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    per favore sono disperato ho bisogno di aiuto e non riesco a ottenere un biglietto dal telefono e non ho un computer.

    aiuto per favore

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    Lol. You all will play Ark 2, no matter what.

    Do you know how I know that?

    Because like I commented before, some people are too busy with their own life. They forget stuff quickly, even more if they are not being directly impacted by it (which is sad, it makes some fights really lonely and almost a lost cause, things takes centuries to change because of that... but it is what it is).

    So this capitalistic thing doesn't work. Take 2 or 3 years, you will end up playing it. Be it on a sale or when you get bored of another game or something. Maybe to try to get the nostalgia back. Doesn't really matter, but you should know that. You won't boycott a game because of an opinion for longer.

    Now, think if they agreed with your opinions and point of views, if you would be throwing a tantrum on a forum too. Yes, you could still use that argument like "they are a company, they shouldn't mess with politics or personal opinions", but would you really care? like, really really? I bet not. So remember that the next time you get offended, that we still live at free countries, where people can state their own opinions, including yours - the more I don't like or agree with them, some are dumb and selfish and don't really put themselves in the shoes of another people, nor consider all the situations. They just repeat what they heard or learned somewhere and take that as the universal truth. Which is 42, btw.

    But anyway, think of that. Just my two cents. You agreeing with it or not.

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    10 hours ago, Iko said:

    per favore sono disperato ho bisogno di aiuto e non riesco a ottenere un biglietto dal telefono e non ho un computer.

    aiuto per favore

    what is wrong? do you need help in-game?

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    19 hours ago, Alysson said:

    Lol. You all will play Ark 2, no matter what.

    I will play Ark 2. Weather I pirate it or not is a question for the future.

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    19 hours ago, Alysson said:

    You all will play Ark 2, no matter what

    Eh, I wouldn't bet on it. After the fustercluck that was cyberpunk I adopted a strict "no games with Hollywood celebrities in them" policy. 

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