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    The vast oceans of The Center will shudder in awe when Shastasaurus makes its majestic arrival in ARK: Survival Ascenced. Although we're only showing a look at an untamed Shastasaurus, we're preparing to unveil this oceanic titan with its saddle concept soon!

     

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    We are landing on the corrupted world of Extinction for our next Community Creature Contest. What will be the fan-voted real-world creature that will launch with the map for ARK: Survival Ascended

    Please note that this creature will be released for Extinction, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, we’ll add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended.

    Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process, and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

    • The entry period will end at 1 PM Pacific on September 11th.
    • The voting will begin immediately after and end on September 18th at 1PM Pacific.
    • The winner will be announced in the Crunch of September 22nd.

    Make sure to check our Twitter on September 11th for the RankedVote link!

    *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified.

     


     

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    To recap previous announcements, we have taken save games from the Official Network and have provided the files to you so that you can host your own server and continue the progress you’ve made on the Official Network.

    We have already taken one snapshot and intent to take another during the week of the Official Network Shutdown in September.

    Browse August save games here

    • Nitrado servers using the Official Save games are now available here.
      • You’ll be able to:
        • Access to all official save games for all platforms – PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
        • Easily import the save game with one click using the web interface.
        • Have access to a comprehensive guide and FAQs telling you everything you need to know about hosting servers.
      • For more information, please visit this page.

    Remember we’ll be taking another save snapshot during the week of the Official Network Shutdown in September in preparation for ASA’s October release, with more details to come at a later date!

     


     

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    In 2019, the launch of the Snail Games Initiative, Classic PvP, created an exciting and competitive playing experience for PC players. Throughout the course of the seasons, the meta was watched closely and changes were made to shake things up and create an experience tailored for PvP gameplay. Continue on the quest for the ultimate PvP experience with the introduction of Classic PvP Season 7!

    Classic PvP Season 7 is live! 

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    Check out Crunch 376 for all the details.

     


     

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Tuesday, September 5th.
    All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    *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
    Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
    ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
    Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon

     


     

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    Now through September 10th, players can pick up ARK: Survival Evolved for 50% off!


    ARK: Survival Evolved is now updated to the latest version of Unreal Engine 4 with improved visuals, increased performance and tons of new content! Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
    Get it on the Nintendo eShop now!

     


     

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    Creator: BitMoreDave

    When Myth Busters meet ARK: BitMoreDave is here to confirm or bust some ARK myths!

     

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    Join TheGamingClassroom as he discovers the joys of Megalania on The Center!

     

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    Excellent work by Primeval Pickles by WickedNinjaGames

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    Am i the only one that noticed it says Ark: Survival Ascenced in the beginning of the post?

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    8 hours ago, Riot87 said:

    Also I think wildcard should just give the jumping spider the Carchar treatment and just add it because it has been in the top 10 for almost every single vote. It is just taking up space for other cool creatures just to lose.

    Maybe but I’m assuming the Carchar was a one time thing. It would be cool if they did that.

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    so there is still no footage of the new ARK? this company is an absolute joke. the game is about to wipe and not even a screenshot has been shown? pathetic.

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    9 hours ago, Riot87 said:

    Also I think wildcard should just give the jumping spider the Carchar treatment and just add it because it has been in the top 10 for almost every single vote. It is just taking up space for other cool creatures just to lose.

    If they give the Spider the carchar treatment that means everything in the creature votes that lost an been in it gets the carchar treatment

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    The console saves should have been provided in the exact way the PC saves were provided, or at least show some ethical way that can help you and the Xbox community because how is it fair to let the community pay when you won’t pay for Nitrado servers and if you forcing it by handing everything to Nitrado the minimum you can do is do the exact way you have been dealing with them yourself.

    For example you could of handed everything to the community and everyone in a server can contribute to paying Nitrado for a server they are using together instead of forcing each individual to own their own server so that same server now only is paid for. comparison to what your are doing now making people pay for exact server multiple times forcing them to basically abandon the whole game all together there are so many ways that this could of been handled what a shame Wildcard Greedy exploiting the Xbox community.

    Ethical way to solve this:

    1. Reduce the number of servers give players a chance to move then handover the servers they all contribute to paying Nitrado Instead of each individual paying same server multiple times.

    2. Downloading each individual data of each player and providing it in a secure way through you sign up and login to your official website.

    3. Make ASA Available free for people who already suffered from your abuse and exploitation.

    4. Making ASA available in the Xbox Game Pass almost count as free plus the cloud gaming allows all platforms access to the best experience of the game for all old and new gens.

    And this team handling Xbox deserves slaps(I recommend adding a Slap button for each of the team members with counter see who wins with most slaps) from the community they not giving the Xbox community their best look at the official club abandoned on Xbox you can do better than that with ASA.

    WildCard you really know how to destroy your own best of luck for ASA hopefully we see a better and improved version of you there.

     

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    25 minutes ago, Ryebry said:

    If they give the Spider the carchar treatment that means everything in the creature votes that lost an been in it gets the carchar treatment

    I mean that wouldn't be all that bad we'd get a whole bunch of new cool creatures 

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    This game is dead, move on. Find something else to play, it's not that hard.

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    2 hours ago, Alha said:

    The console saves should have been provided in the exact way the PC saves were provided, or at least show some ethical way that can help you and the Xbox community because how is it fair to let the community pay when you won’t pay for Nitrado servers and if you forcing it by handing everything to Nitrado the minimum you can do is do the exact way you have been dealing with them yourself.

    For example you could of handed everything to the community and everyone in a server can contribute to paying Nitrado for a server they are using together instead of forcing each individual to own their own server so that same server now only is paid for. comparison to what your are doing now making people pay for exact server multiple times forcing them to basically abandon the whole game all together there are so many ways that this could of been handled what a shame Wildcard Greedy exploiting the Xbox community.

    Ethical way to solve this:

    1. Reduce the number of servers give players a chance to move then handover the servers they all contribute to paying Nitrado Instead of each individual paying same server multiple times.

    2. Downloading each individual data of each player and providing it in a secure way through you sign up and login to your official website.

    3. Make ASA Available free for people who already suffered from your abuse and exploitation.

    4. Making ASA available in the Xbox Game Pass almost count as free plus the cloud gaming allows all platforms access to the best experience of the game for all old and new gens.

    And this team handling Xbox deserves slaps(I recommend adding a Slap button for each of the team members with counter see who wins with most slaps) from the community they not giving the Xbox community their best look at the official club abandoned on Xbox you can do better than that with ASA.

    WildCard you really know how to destroy your own best of luck for ASA hopefully we see a better and improved version of you there.

     

    So just give help to the Xbox crowd? PlayStation and switch just sit out in the cold?

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    17 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

    So just give help to the Xbox crowd? PlayStation and switch just sit out in the cold?

    Exactly every console platform is being exploited add your own post I was talking about my console community.

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    So they screwed console players entirely! And they purposely withheld the information about single player saves until the end, knowing it would further piss off console players. Still not understanding why console players can't save their official server content as an non-dedicated server. But i can accept that if true but seems to me this is a move to push people to their business partner (who they are in massive debt to) Nitrado. Think of the console players who have been keeping their maps and severs going assuming they'd be able to save the content. They could have been informed months ago and saved time and effort. This is why so many are walking away from Ark entirely and refusing to support Ark 1.5 aka ASA.  You let the biggest fans of your game hang onto their console bases only to tell them they have no way of saving their content unless they continuously pay your business partner!

    If anyone still thinks this company is going to deliver a game worth playing by October I have some magic beans to sell you as well.  If you want further proof of how wrong they are towards gamers keep in mind that this game that goes offline in just a short time and won't allow it's console community to keep it's saves outside of forking over more money....is still for sale at full price in the xbox store, with no warning about the servers going offline!!

     

     

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    17 hours ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

    Eh, best to keep it to one vote lest the one creature winner per creator thing become an issue. 

    Maybe, there are ways to do both & work with that rule.  Like If they made it to where the one per creator rule was only for each set. So if  someone won the real world creature vote, they could win in the mythical creature vote but, they could only win once.  That would leave the rule intact, allow for more varity of dinos & hopefully reduce any problems. I honestly don't really think they'd do so but I can hope.

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    7 hours ago, Alha said:

    Exactly every console platform is being exploited add your own post I was talking about my console community.

    See the problem with demanding concessions for your group alone is that if it pulls through and you get what you want while the other guys are left to the wolves, if things go wrong on your end down the road there’s no one to help you.

    1 hour ago, TheTwistedKeeper said:

    Maybe, there are ways to do both & work with that rule.  Like If they made it to where the one per creator rule was only for each set. So if  someone won the real world creature vote, they could win in the mythical creature vote but, they could only win once.  That would leave the rule intact, allow for more varity of dinos & hopefully reduce any problems. I honestly don't really think they'd do so but I can hope.

    I suppose, I’m just concerned that a whole hoopla might occur if someone wins one and submits something that pulls ahead in the other vote as well. People might cry bias.

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    Again ..zero mention of Snail's corruption and  WHAT you are going to do to win back the loyalty of your 7 year player base. I laugh and laugh and laugh as I hear Snail say...."You have no power here, Wildcard the Gray"...

     

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    I dont pray for anything ARK related any more. In fact,  my wife and I let 7 years go down the drain because they will NEVER be a real contender in player conformation. If Blizzard ran their company like this they would have been out of business in less than a year 

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    I love the Shastasaurus new look!!! I can’t wait to see their new saddles!!!!!!!

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    From the very beginning I wrote that it is rather impossible to run SP saves on consoles.  And I wasn't the only one who wrote about it.  WC/SG have found a lucrative business, they dare to discriminate against us and charge us for a month of games on Nitrado where pc owners download their save and can play it on their own pc.  This may already be a matter for the antimonopoly office and consumer protection.  But you can only report it in the country where the toilet is located, i.e. the USA.

    I'll just wait until September 30th until ASE closes, throw it out of the console and forget about the GAME that could have potential and continue to develop.  But the $$ lighted up for them and they wanted to earn a lot and quickly.  A lot of friends have already left ASE and they don't want to hear anything about WC or ARK.  Just like me.  They will remove the servers, and me and my wife will be removed as players, so I understand that they do not want console players.  So I also see no reason to buy 2x their next ASA or ARK2 products.  Not after what they did by pushing the players text about SP on the console.  They themselves knew that it was impossible, but they wrote such a fairy tale.  This is already the basis for me to write and wash my eyes.  With ASA it will be rather similar because it would still be WC/SG it would be different if someone else would buy ARK.

    Every day I am closer to saying goodbye to the ARK Community, it's sad that this day had to come after so many years of playing ASE.

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    2 hours ago, Zite said:

    I dont pray for anything ARK related any more. In fact,  my wife and I let 7 years go down the drain because they will NEVER be a real contender in player conformation. If Blizzard ran their company like this they would have been out of business in less than a year 

    Blizzard did run their business like this, curropt, the only reason they are still alive, is that they got bought out by Microsoft. And ever since they got bought out by Microsoft, they become money stealers and current, the next week, am I right about that, it gets annoying to see a good game wasted because of a stupid company, wether that be ark or overwatch lol

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