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  • Community Crunch 378: Extinction Creature Submissions, EVO Event, and More!

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    While we continue to work on ARK: Survival Ascended, we're enjoying watching how the community creature votes play out along with helping to create those creatures for our players to tame in ASA. There are a few days left to submit and vote for your favorite entries so jump on in if you'd like to contribute and see your favorite come to life in-game! 

     

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    Our next Community Creature Vote winner will land on the corrupted earth, Extinction. Prepare your submissions for what we expect will bring out the endless creativity of our amazing community and you may find your creature making its debut with the release of the Extinction map on 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 4PM 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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    ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

    What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?

    • ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates.
    • Beginner servers are wiped periodically to help provide a fresh beginner experience for new players.

    Next (and final) wipe:

    • ARKpocalypse:  September 30th 2023
    • Beginner: September 30th 2023

    You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

     


     

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    Customer Support for the official ARK: Survival Evolved networks will end on September 29, 2023, at 1:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM EST, in accordance with the scheduled sunsetting of Official Servers. We appreciate your support and engagement  throughout the ARK: Survival Evolved journey. Stay tuned because we can't wait to see you surviving and thriving again in ARK: Survival Ascended!

     

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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 intend to take another 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!

    Browse August save games here

     


     

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until the sunsetting of the servers.


    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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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

     

     

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    Creator: Phlinger Phoo

    My ARK Story series explores the world of ARK through the eyes of a survivor. Take a step back and relax as Phlinger and his pet monkey Phoo discover this new world they just stepped into.

     

     

    Creator: MrMEOLA

    MrMeola recaps his four latest unpublished episodes on his highly modded server where he tamed and bred the ultimate Kairuku.

     

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    Enjoy your weekend!
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    Is anyone else unable to upvote creatures? I cant upvote creatures or like/dislike comments on forum pages either. It's been this way for the past two creature votes and its irritating 

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    I already know what the next new dino will look like....*random goat noises* whatever is closest to a reskin of a dino already in game! salami swami has spoken.

    funny stuffs aside start planning the dinos we really need to look and act like one in game so we meet the people in the chair half way. So many really cool dinos got the trash can cause the requirements to bring them into the game would be too much. keep in mind staff needs to be paid to take these awesome dinos and make them digitally real!

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    44 minutes ago, Cyberra said:

    LET US UPLOAD OUR TAMES INTO LOCAL MEMORY TO SP! Even if we can't get the whole map saves at least let us keep the animals we have and move them to single player. Bases can be rebuilt but breed lines that years have been spent perfecting are irreplaceable

    Ark Smart Breeder has a right click option "Admin command to spawn exact dino" it works fine so far. 

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    8 minutes ago, Frathoc said:

    Ark Smart Breeder has a right click option "Admin command to spawn exact dino" it works fine so far. 

    Is that for pc or console. I play xbox

     

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    At least Switch has 50% off, right? So some good news for once! Everyone rejoice!

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    Well since it doesn't allow me to vote on any creatures, especially on my favorite map. I guess this is just another slap in the face from this game, really don't know why I even still play the game. If it wasn't for PC servers, I guess I wouldn't. Really! I just don't like not having a voice in this when I have been playing since it first came out in early access for like $9.99. IT'S BULL HOCKEY LOL!

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    1 hour ago, Voxin said:

    Is anyone else unable to upvote creatures? I cant upvote creatures or like/dislike comments on forum pages either. It's been this way for the past two creature votes and its irritating 

    You need to click that little arrow pointing up at the top of the page, above the vote number. Also, make sure you have at least 6 posts/comments to vote in the creature votes.

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    Can wildcard make their own original creatures instead of having us make it for them?

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    Why dont you guys shut down the customer support right now? yall aint doing poop anyway.

    Been playing ark since beta, but damn. 

    Yall been taking our money,  had to pay double for dlc's,  yall raised money during live streams.

    What happened to all that money?

    There been glitches ever since ark came out in beta, yall never fixed them.

     

    Community willing to help to improve the game, do you guys even listen? The funny thing is you guys take pc mods and bring them out on console after those maps been on pc for a while.

     

    Most of the maps you guys didnt even make yourself. But were community made.

    So now you guys are broke and we as a community have to pay the price for this.

     

    LESS THAN A MONTH BUT NO OFFICIAL RELEASE. next to the creature votes yall cant even share proper information.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    When people on switch asked for new maps, yall ignored, never ever even brought out news. but now that you guys broke, your looking for money every way.

     

    Yall aint gonna make the expectations we have as a community. just be honest and tell us the truth that Asa is nothing more then a remade version with the only difference unreal engine 5.

     

    You already lost alot of people from the community,  dont let ark die.

     

    We love ark.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Does anyone realize they haven't showed anything for us Asa. Nothing at all no gameplay l,no real in depth content except for pictures. They need to keep some of the Official open for people who cannot afford like me. already there's problems with this nitrado situation which I'm sorry, nitrado is a nightmare. Can someone also tell me what is going to happen if you can't pay this $24a month. in this time and age where people are struggling, where we have inflation, and the quality of living has gone up. That might not be affecting everyone but it sure affecting me. They need to do better.

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    2 hours ago, SeeRgiinfinity29 said:

    Cant wait for the ASA delay announcement

    Sorry, the delay is cancelled until further notice.

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    54 minutes ago, ZappyNL said:

    We live in 2023 but the copyright on your website is from 2022 GG.

    Do it to em Zappy. Not like it’ll hurt em any more than they already hurt themselves with their business decisions

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    4 hours ago, StudioWildcard said:

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

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    Customer Support for the official ARK: Survival Evolved networks will end on September 29, 2023, at 1:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM EST, in accordance with the scheduled sunsetting of Official Servers. We appreciate your support and engagement  throughout the ARK: Survival Evolved journey. Stay tuned because we can't wait to see you surviving and thriving again in ARK: Survival Ascended!

     

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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 intend to take another 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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    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Discord: discord.com/invite/playark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark
    Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark
    Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg

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    At first: Twitter? Try treating your forum a bit more serious instead of refering to vapour media that has a new name already for a while.

    Second: AFTERCARE! Do not shut down your support until after you know the loose ends are tied up properly.

    Third: "Intend to take another..." INTEND??? I might have missunderstood a few things but this sounds like you are planning on missing it.

    Make that snapshot and share it, consoles as well as PC, without the need of renting a Nitrado server. We might not be able to run it on console now but we might want to continue on a PC.

    Oh, and make sure not to include your users IP adresses visible to everyone with a text editor this time.

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    41 minutes ago, ladymarina said:

    Does anyone realize they haven't showed anything for us Asa.

    From day one of the ASA announcement they’ve essentially just been dangling shiny keys in front of everyone to act as a distraction. At first it was concept art of upgraded assets but when people rightly ignored it and demanded to see in game progress and saves for AsE they clammed up and hoped people would forget. When people doubled down and got angry at being charged to keep their saves on single player they released another vote, then another, and yet more to come for each map. They’re really hoping people just forget or play along if they offer enough shinies. I’d be insulted if I wasn’t too busy laughing at how this will likely go down. In a way it makes me regret going for my masters in forensic science, had a been a business major this would have been an amazing choice for a report for how not to run a company.

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    3 hours ago, Cyberra said:

    Is that for pc or console. I play xbox

    It's PC, sorry.

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    Crazy how ASA is still confirmed to be next month and we still know nothing. Really hoping WC is just saving everything for a next level reveal to generate massive hype and that they aren't refraining from posting anything at the fear of things being too broken or unfinished. That would suck.

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    At this point I wouldn't be surprised if this site just became a 404 error.  I don't know about you guys, but I'm not buying ASA for at LEAST 6 months.  I went through the Early Access disasters once already.  I can play single player for a year while they sort out their bankruptcy proceedings.

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    Don't count on miracles.  Since EA will be like a sieve, before ASA releases the official version, they will shut it down so that people can go ahead and purchase ARK2.  Of course, it will be the same again as in this case.  As long as they don't go bankrupt by then.

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    Literally nothing, No Shasta saddle, no ASA comparisons, no news at all, bit dissapointing.

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    5 hours ago, Gecko1611 said:

    "I can't wait for the crunch! Shastasaurus is going to be so cool!"

    Oh, it's just copy & paste junk. Okay, thanks. We totally needed reminding about the vote. I had no idea it was going on.

    There you go Gecko; now that's a proper response to one of wildcard's community newsletters! 👍

    I mean, they even said directly in the community crunch when they released the Shasta's concept art that they would showcase the concept art for its saddle in the next week's crunch. To be honest; I've been so spaced-out when it comes to reading these crunches lately, due to them having little to no actual information, that I'd completely forgotten about that already just one week later. Then I saw your comment here and was all; "Wait. Yeah, that's right. They said they were going to show off its saddle this crunch. And they didn't even mention that they had done so, or why they haven't shown it off when they said they would just a week ago? What the ****?"

    Also, to be honest, I actually didn't know that the creature submission vote was going on yet for Extinction either till this crunch. I thought it was going to begin starting this one. Guess they didn't make it clear enough for me in the last letter, or I was half asleep while reading it. 😑

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