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  • Community Crunch 387: Introducing Dreadnoughtus

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    The highly anticipated Dreadnoughtus dossier has finally arrived, and we're all eager to witness the epic clashes between this colossal creature and the titans of Extinction. Additionally, we're thrilled to announce an upcoming event test drive featuring a condensed version of our traditional Turkey Trial! Lastly, don't forget to save the date for the CurseForge ARK modding Town Hall on November 20th!


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    Species: Dreadnoughtus recalcitrans
    Time: Late Cretaceous
    Diet: Herbivore
    Temperament: Territorial

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    Dreadnoughtus was a newly-described fossil genus in my day, named for the idea that it was so large it must’ve had nothing to fear in its own time. The current species does its namesake proud, and may even be able to defy the Titans ruling our post-apocalyptic world.

    A big believer in picking on creatures its own size, Dreadnoughtus will ignore anything smaller than a Spinosaur to focus on larger threats. It absorbs the fury of incoming attacks to charge up its uncanny, Element-disrupting bellow. Even then, this bruiser shows extraordinary patience, waiting until the last possible moment to come roaring back.

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    Once tamed, Dreadnoughtus will gladly shoulder your heaviest artillery and carry it -- and you -- into battle, on a platform big enough to earn that ‘dreadnought’ name. Your walking war-machine will swallow boulders (or cannonballs!) to spit back up as acid-coated ammo.

    If you’re going to war with Titans, it just makes sense to recruit a titanic creature with a grudge against them. Your Dreadnoughtus ally may go down fighting, but not before softening up the adversary for a killing blow. Best of luck, and give ‘em Hell for me!
     


     

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    As the aroma of Thanksgiving feasts fills the air, we're excited to share an update to our Event plans; Turkey Trial will be making a 2023 resurgence in abbreviated form! 

    Although we won’t be celebrating in true Turkey Trial fashion, we’re cooking up something planned to begin after Thanksgiving on Tuesday, November 28th.

    While we weren't planning to unleash the Murder-Turkeys on ARK: Survival Ascended this year, we’ve pivoted in order to do an event “test run”. Our intention is to use the CurseForge Mod Delivery System for this event, which we haven't done before on a wide scale on our Official Network. The benefits of using this system allow us to make sure that Seasonal Event Mods are always accessible, even after an event has ended so players who want to run them on their servers or in single-player can do so year-round and avoid us having to update clients, but just patch the mod itself.  

    Turkey Trial will still feature the same thrilling scavenger hunt, genetically-modified Murder-Turkeys, and the chance to craft your very own Turkey Costume or Ugly Sweater skin - in addition to some new Turkey Trial goodies!

    We'll have more details to share in the next Community Crunch, so, stay posted for Much Ado About Stuffing (sorry)!

     


     

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    Hey everyone, CurseForge is excited to welcome our modding community into their ranks.
    They would like to invite you all to their ARK Town Hall on Monday, November 20, 2023 8:00 PM UTC +2.

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    • What is Overwolf
    • Their Vision for ARK
    • Tools Overview
    • What’s Next?
    • Q&A

    There will be an open Q&A at the end so get your notebooks ready!
    Meeting invite will be shared closer to the event - Click here for the meeting invite! See you soon!

     


     

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, November 20th.

    • PVP/PVE: 1.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 1.5x Breeding
    • Small Tribes: 4x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 3.5x Breeding
    • ARKpocalypse: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience + 4.5x Breeding

     


     

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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

    Help us discover your talent by tagging your art with #ARKPhotoMode or #ARKFanart on social media!

     

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    Creator: Aaron Longstaff

    Aaron Longstaff's detailed tutorial shows how to build a house for a beginner on Ark Survival Ascended.

     

    Creator: Game_Changer

    Watch as Ragnarok's Blue Obelisk comes to life in this magnificent diorama by Game Changer!

     

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    Jamie's Glowtail trio: Peach, Tara, and Patch. by @Ares33909104

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    Tek Rex by HungryDragonArts

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    Underwater depths of the ARK by UNGERTI

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    Into the Redwoods by @Danurous

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    Enjoy your weekend!
    Studio Wildcard

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    They just don’t get it us console players are just 3rd class citizens to them.. a copy paste with no new info.. they are completely incapable of doing anything right why myself or anyone else excepts anything more from them is just crazy.. asa isn’t coming to console this year.. I don’t think it ever will they don’t care how bad we want to play the game we mean nothing to them and their actions daily reaffirm that 

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    I hope studio wild card read this and understand that if they keep pushing back the game they are giving pc gamers more and more time to get ahead of console players and when the game does come out that by this rate they have 20 days of grinding. And when console servers come out with the events that are happening their lead will only grow and the chance of console ever having the ability to play on the same level as pc players gets smaller. So as I see it with the next 2 events coming you need to boost rates so high that console survivors have a chance at catching up because with the current growth that I am seeing of some tribes, we have no chance. There are tribes that have so many people they have already concurred servers. The worst part is that the mega tribes that have dedicated breeders who have been grinding day after day to get perfect points into there lines that I feel console will never have a chance against when server transfers open. 

    studio wildcard I love your game but I hope you understand you are killing your console community.

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    I've played ARK since day 1. When the game was difficult and a raid hurt. Now the game has been dumbed down to make it possible for the weak to rebuild and increased chance of players returning to spend money on DLC and spend money on empty promises.  Nobody cares about future dinos we care about being open, honest, and transparent so we can make educated decisions regarding investing in your failing company, taking off work time, and strategizing. Love Xbox deserving players. Ps ur worse than my wife 

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    How about some new servers for steam players?  I know countless players not playing the game after downloading and paying because the existing servers are full and cheaters/dupers are leagues ahead of anyone trying to start fresh. 

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    They need to be boycotted.  So many other awesome games with  amazing graphics that have more respect for their paying customers. 

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    Such a let down, it’s hard to stay excited about this so call launch. About to move on to a different game if they don’t get their $hit together.

    I knew I should of gotten a new PC instead of a new Xbox console.

    I bet a lot of people are getting PC now to avoid the console “approval” bs

    I only got the Xbox because of the so call Ark2 exclusive that was announced before ASA was going to to a big thing.

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    The lack of information and losing time off makes me want to smash my head in the wall and take a cheese grater to my whoha

    10/10

    the game that never was

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    1 hour ago, andre4376 said:

    okay but why don't they say that ark ue5 won't run on the console only on pc

    Series s I'm willing to bet is the hold up for xbox every developer has complained its hard to develop for. Microsoft gave balders gate 3 slack and didn't demand it be same as series x version. So I really don't understand Microsofts problem with asa

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    metade dos jogadores do Steam não tem um computador mais forte que as séries haha

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    Rumor has it that the GPU on the Series S cannot run the game reliably enough to certify the build, and they are having to actually optimize things.  MS and Sony have actual standards, as opposed to Steam which will happily let you sell janky code all day long.

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    I know no one at wildcard will likely read this as they clearly can’t take criticism, but, on the off chance that they do:

    you lot need to get your poop together. You clearly haven’t considered the impact of a head start like this on the community. You haven’t considered peoples opinions on your name and brand. You haven’t considered how it feels to be lied to time and time again or watch as your friends play the game you love while you’re forced to take backseat because the devs are so incompetent they failed Xbox certification TWICE.

    And the thing is right. It’s not even about the waiting. We’re good at that, you bloody made sure of it. All you guys need to do is communicate. Tell us what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what you’re doing to fix it. All this silence and obscurity is what’s pushing people away, and makes no one trust you as a developer.

    I’ll repeat myself;

    Get. Your. poop. Together.

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    I think people keep forgetting it's releasing as an early access.

    Yes I would love to do turkey trials, but like they stated it will be 1st time using the new system. And based on last few weeks probably be crash ridden, sorry PC guinea pigs. But at least when it comes to console those bugs "should" be ironed out.

    Those talking days off with WC track record of delays, even when they have stated it could drop as soon as cert done giving no timeframe. But taking time off paid ,unpaid is your choice,not WC/Snail.

    And WC like others have said your "on track" has lost its meaning but the tracks your on seam to be the wrong ones for the station, bad pun I know.

    Who are these partners for Sony hold up, you released PC on Xbox partnership so Microsoft? Or was Sony neglected by your partners Grove St? These statements you release tend to leave more unanswered questions.

    My money was nearly going to The Day Before ,but they are giving you guys a run for you money at most delayed release.

     

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    4 minutes ago, TheTrueSpider said:

    I know no one at wildcard will likely read this as they clearly can’t take criticism, but, on the off chance that they do:

    you lot need to get your poop together. You clearly haven’t considered the impact of a head start like this on the community. You haven’t considered peoples opinions on your name and brand. You haven’t considered how it feels to be lied to time and time again or watch as your friends play the game you love while you’re forced to take backseat because the devs are so incompetent they failed Xbox certification TWICE.

    And the thing is right. It’s not even about the waiting. We’re good at that, you bloody made sure of it. All you guys need to do is communicate. Tell us what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what you’re doing to fix it. All this silence and obscurity is what’s pushing people away, and makes no one trust you as a developer.

    I’ll repeat myself;

    Get. Your. poop. Together.

    They won’t they care nothin about our opinions we’re just an after thought to them if you can’t drop 3k on pc they don’t want your business 

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    Sad but I'm starting to be sure of the other company's mafia in being an alpha on servers where they charge a lot to join their tribe. This difference is favorable to them. Imagine in the past where this happened, there were bans if people on the console were together, they would be much more afraid

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    1 hour ago, Rcpb97 said:

    taking off work time

    Honestly I hope people learn to stop doing this for video game releases of all things. 

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    2 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

    Honestly I hope people learn to stop doing this for video game releases of all things. 

    I would have for the Steam release.  If they had bothered to give us ANY NOTICE AT ALL.

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    Are you guys gonna post this weeks delay for console on your website or do I have to find it on X or though a youtube video?

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    3 hours ago, Ikusu said:

    Thank you for making ASA a story driven sci fi game and best game ever by far 

     

    thank you WC you are by far the best company ever 

     

    can’t wait for the new story maps 

    Are you on the correct forum ? Are you talking about ARK:ASA ?

    And are you talking about WC as in Wildcard or another company that actually matches your description ?

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    12 minutes ago, Pidder said:

    Are you guys gonna post this weeks delay for console on your website or do I have to find it on X or though a youtube video?

    It really is like playing delay Russian roulette at this point isn’t it?

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    The boycott people were talking about before is what you guys deserve. Hope this game falls to poop and WC and snail games go to hell with it and all of this amateur useless team gets fired.

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    I see that this is basically a copy from the last couple but with the event. Also still not much love for console. Congrats Wildcard you keep disappointing us 😶

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    So earlier in the week, you release a statement for console that says “more info the end of the week”. You then drop the crunch with literally the exact same notice, saying “end of the week” … on Friday night (as end of the week as you can get). Just wow …

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