Community Crunch 377: Shastasaurus Concept Art, Creature Submissions, and More!

Pretty cool looking fella

Dios, que hermoso se ve el shasta!

It's... beautiful.

Seeing as extinction is next on the list wouldn’t it be prudent to consider lifting the real world restriction? The further along into maps it goes the higher the number of non real world creatures gets  after all. Would be interesting to see what people come up with when given more wiggle room

it's lovely

 

El shastasaurus se ve majestuoso

This is absolutely amazing and huge, the artwork is great, outstanding WildCard

Looks awesome can't wait to see it with a saddle 

GIVE US XBOX SAVES TO HOST ON PC, THE GAME IS CROSSPLAY, IM NOT PAYING TO PLAY WITH THE STUFF YOU STOLE FROM US

Amazing job Wildcard, lovely design and a worthy addiction to ARK. I am very intrigued with the dossier coming soon about the Lizard Whale of the Icthyosaurus'. Good luck to the Extinction vote, may the best and most fitting creature win!

Holy crap! that thing looks freaking majestic!

Wildcard, you guys deserve a pat on the back for this

Can't wait for the saddle concept!

Nice concept art.

But all these concepts submitting/voting became very boring. Please give us some news of things that will be released soon, not in 2 years.

I hope the different companies see eye to eye so this game can be released to the world. its not just a US game and im hoping the political climate isn't impacting the development and release. I'm certainly not against buying it again. ill even buy the season passes. Just feed me the ASA!

Ok that looks sick af. Cant wait to see the submarine saddle concept!

5 minutes ago, slejo said:

Nice concept art.

But all these concepts submitting/voting became very boring. Please give us some news of things that will be released soon, not in 2 years.

2? That’s some serious optimism. Players will be lucky if they see anything new within the next decade. Assuming snail doesn’t shoot themselves in the foot and bring it all crashing down that is.

ASA nothing again nothing except concept winner.

 

Twitter/X is alive with people getting replies from helpdesk there's no console saves transferto single player as promised only hire server from Nitrado. But no official word from Devs or PR.

 

Even the die hard ark friends I have my not come back. No hype just mega Dino's being added.

 

Q&A, there's been alot of questions but dribbled answers. Clarity please make me/us a believer again.

 

Edited due to spelling lol

Edited September 2, 2023 by Coyal

I wanna give 4 tips about official saves:

1) by default there are 20 automated backups. Some official saves are really BIG. This can cause some space issues. Third party server managers, like asm, offers better control for backups (zip, time interval, serializations vs parallel etc). If you use a third party solution for such backups don't for get to disabled the automated backups with -MaxNumOfSaveBackups=0

2) if you play in a cluster you may wanna add -BackupTransferPlayerDatas too : this will re-enable char backup files on transfer that -usestore removes, allowing easier char recovery in case of a crash just after a transfer and before a non-corrupt save. Note that this flag should be used on official network too and a similar behaviour is by default on unofficial (without -usestore).

3) for single player\local host, find your steam64 id (eg:1234567890), and rename your 1234567890.akrprofile and 1234567890.arktributetribe in LocalPlayer.arkprofile and LocalPlayer.arktributetribe. saves go in \ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal for the island, \ShooterGame\Saved\MapNameSavedArksLocal for other maps (ex: for Fjordur it is FjordurSavedArksLocal). if you are an epic/egs player you can find your epic-id converted to the quivalent of steam64 id in a way explained here: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Epic/EGS_players_whitelisting

4) some saves are HUGE (biggest saves requiring over 20+GBs of ram). You have deal with that. This will also cause serious fps issues on single player due different stasis mechanics from servers. The solution isn't one shoot and may consist in wiping wild tames and if this isn't enough all tames outside pods. Note that despite the command names (you can find on https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Commands) this will kill your own dinos outside pods, incouding stryders, mek, skiffs and rafts. The same may be needed to do for foliage and resources. Finally, removing other tribes structures will help with both ram usage and file size, as well worldsave times. Wild tames and so also resources should later respawn slowly and in the correct way.

Edited September 2, 2023 by darkradeon

sinceramente, me arrepiento de subestimar lo que podía ser este Dino, es simplemente precioso, y creo que esto puede ayudar a que el mar de ark se vea un poco más "terrorífico" por así decirlo, hace mucho que pienso que era necesario un Dino de este tipo en el mar, pero es que con este se han pasado una barbaridad, a las personas que trabajaron en este diseño les tienen que dar un aumento porque es simplemente increíble.

ojala se mantenga este nivel en próximos dinos porque de momento están haciendo un trabajo increíble en todos y cada uno de ellos, desde fasolasuchus hasta shastasaurus son todos una maravilla.

10/10

23 minutes ago, Key26 said:

El shastasaurus se ve majestuoso

es una obra de arte

HOLY MOSASAUR!!!!! That thig is HUGE! I love it!!!!

38 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

Seeing as extinction is next on the list wouldn’t it be prudent to consider lifting the real world restriction? The further along into maps it goes the higher the number of non real world creatures gets  after all. Would be interesting to see what people come up with when given more wiggle room

For Pete’s sake the point of the real world creature rule is so that people can make the creature fit the map. If we allowed completely made up creatures, that would be the only things in the votes.

¡WHALE!

critter!

That Shasta looks awe inspiring. This is one of the best winners yet!

38 minutes ago, RexTheDargon said:

For Pete’s sake the point of the real world creature rule is so that people can make the creature fit the map. If we allowed completely made up creatures, that would be the only things in the votes.

Again, this is primarily a suggestion for the coming maps due to the fact that fantasy creatures become more prevalent with the newer maps. It’s not as if making it an option completely weeds out the real world creatures.