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  • Community Crunch 392: Development Update, Cross-Platform Mod Spotlight, and More!

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    Hey survivors! We're here with a quick update on some of the top priorities keeping us busy in the trenches throughout early 2024.  As always, a smooth and enjoyable ARK experience is our main goal, and we're laser-focused on tackling three key areas:

    1. Server Performance: We hear you loud and clear on server performance. We're relentlessly optimizing the server infrastructure to ensure silky-smooth gameplay. Expect continued improvements throughout January, and know that we're constantly monitoring and tweaking to make the Official Network stable.

    2. Exploits and Hacks: No one enjoys being disrupted by unfair play. We're actively battling exploits and hacks with a vengeance, deploying new detection and prevention measures at a frequent and regular cadence. We'll keep you posted on our progress, and remember, report any violations to the Code of Conduct to our enforcement team here. Your reports are invaluable in keeping ARK a fair and enjoyable experience for all.

    3. Network Movement: Improving network movement for both characters and dinos is a top priority. Expect continued improvement throughout the month of January and going forward. 

     

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    Full server transfers on official servers across all platforms will be enabled on the 24th January. Once enabled, players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction.

    We will also launch some fresh non-transfer Official PvP servers at this time and we’ll share more info on those prior. 

     

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    We're thrilled to announce that a SOTF dev kit update will be released by mid next week. Craft custom arenas, create devious new battle-royale style game modes, and sculpt the ultimate battlegrounds where your fellow ARK survivors will fight to see who will be the ultimate survivor!  Gather your coding cohorts, fire up your imaginations and show the community what you can do!

     

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    By the end of this month, we're unleashing a colossal-sized dev kit update that'll put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands. Imagine it: crafting not just ARK mods, but entire custom Unreal Engine games to be made available inside ASA.

    Want to build a Mario-esque rampage through Crystal Isles? Go for it! Dream of a PvP arena where Tek Rexes joust against Spinos? Buckle up. This dev kit update will come with a completely playable Mario-inspired platformer example to help show you the ropes, but your imagination is the true architect. Design custom main menus, host and browse your own multiplayer game sessions from within the mod, and even create a mod that progresses (seamless travel) from one level to the next  – the sandbox is officially yours to play in. Get ready to unleash your inner game dev, push the limits of ARK's potential, and build experiences that will leave the community speechless. We can't wait to see what you cook up!

     

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    Mark your calendars for the end of February! The Center and Gigantoraptor make a grand debut!  The Center is a sprawling, diverse map that will redefine your ARK experience. Lush jungles teem with hidden secrets, treacherous ice peaks pierce the sky, and crystalline caverns beckon with untold treasures.

    Towering above the horizon comes the Gigantoraptor, a feathered behemoth unlike anything ever seen.  Whether you choose to tame this gentle giant or respect its territorial might, the Gigantoraptor's arrival will forever alter the delicate balance of power on The Center.
     

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    The searing sands of Scorched Earth will arrive on April 1st, bringing along a taste of sun-baked survival unlike any you've known. Brace yourselves for an unforgiving desert where every oasis is a hard-won prize and every sandstorm a test of your grit. Don your rugged frontier leather chaps, customize your base with western-themed structures, and tame the ultimate desert steed: the Fasolasuchus.

    But hold on, pardners’ 🤠, that's not all! April 1st also sees the debut of the Frontier Adventure Pack, a DLC treasure trove of desert-themed goodies that'll make you the envy of any wasteland wanderer.  And did we mention trains!? Build train tracks that crisscross the scorching landscape, choo-choo your way past sandworms, and create your own Wild West-style dino raids.

     

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    Strap yourselves in, because Winter Wonderland was just the first snowflake in a blizzard of freshly-designed ARK events coming your way in 2024!  Whether it's Love Evolved or Eggcellent Adventures, we’re planning plenty of new event content!

     

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    ARK Survival Ascended will be going live on PlayStation in Japan later in January!  We’ll follow up with the details in a future Community Crunch.


    That’s about it for the time being. Keep your feedback, bug reports, player reports and suggestions coming; they’re invaluable to us!

     


     

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    Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-bowser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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    During Extra Life 2023, we hosted a draw along with Clayton and Svala, where chat votes determined the prompts. Clayton's final drawing had to be a unique creature, blending an axolotl head, unicorn horn, ringed-lemur tail, armadillo body, bat wings, T-rex limbs, bioluminescence, and a habitat on Aberration. This collaboration showcased the incredible power of collective creativity in our community. Enjoy Clayton's final product!

     


     

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Tuesday, January 16th.

    • 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: MrMEOLA

    MrMEOLA goes on an adventure to find a new base location... and nothing goes according to plan!

     

    Creator: Etholdir

    Watch these mountain ruins come back to life in the deft hands of Etholdir!

     

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    "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" by @KurushiG

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    On 1/15/2024 at 7:37 AM, Hurebhsdyrgsg said:

    You actually believe ur or anyone's vote makes a difference to which creatures are paired with what maps? They will release whichever creatures they want with whatever map they choose. They asked people to vote to gain favour with gullible people who think their having a say in the games development. 

    It is not the point what I "actualy" believe, it is about what WC tries to make us believe. They were pretty clear about what we were voting for.

    To be fair, I did not give a rats behind about the votes and in my personal opinion it was only to built hype. Seems we are pretty much on the same page here. Some of the idea's were way over the top (or beyond WC's ability as was confirmmed with this CC) and I did expect dissapointments.
    My way of avoiding dissapoinment was just wait buying untill ASA has enough maps rolled out to confirm it was an improvement of ASE. So yeah... I'm stuck at ASE for the next few years.

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    49 minutes ago, MMaas said:

    It is not the point what I "actualy" believe, it is about what WC tries to make us believe. They were pretty clear about what we were voting for.

    To be fair, I did not give a rats behind about the votes and in my personal opinion it was only to built hype. Seems we are pretty much on the same page here. Some of the idea's were way over the top (or beyond WC's ability as was confirmmed with this CC) and I did expect dissapointments.
    My way of avoiding dissapoinment was just wait buying untill ASA has enough maps rolled out to confirm it was an improvement of ASE. So yeah... I'm stuck at ASE for the next few years.

    Well put it this way if ASE official servers was still going i would never of bought ASA and thats as sure of death and tax's also..what a heap of broken rubbish ASA is..just look at WW mod still there..WC just don't giva ratz about ASA they made there money..shocking how they treat us.

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    They have yet to say anything about the Shasta. We assume that since the gigantoraptor is coming with Center, that Shasta is not. Due to the usual radio silence of WC, we are left to our own conclusions, which we always assume the worst (which is justified). We don't know for sure. Maybe we get no whale. Maybe we get the whale, but no submarine type saddle. Maybe we get everything. We don't know.

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    13 hours ago, hbomb1972 said:

    They have yet to say anything about the Shasta. We assume that since the gigantoraptor is coming with Center, that Shasta is not. Due to the usual radio silence of WC, we are left to our own conclusions, which we always assume the worst (which is justified). We don't know for sure. Maybe we get no whale. Maybe we get the whale, but no submarine type saddle. Maybe we get everything. We don't know.

    Yeah..i think its not knowing why WC done a backflip on the creature to go to center..i feel sorry for people who voted for the whale and got a giant chicken instead..shame on you WC..i hope the hole your digging for your self gets so deep you can't get out and you have to sell this great dino game to hopefully someone who can look after it and us and make it the best dino game ever.

     

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    People need the giant chicken since there’s no Maewings.  The whale will end up in Crystal Isles, where he can bask in the sun.

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    So i have a question... how come you dont have a Saint Patrick's Day event. You could put in all the green colors you have in the game in the event and make us collect shamrocks and pots of gold and battle a leprechaun dino like we do the Turkey dodo... that would be awesome.

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    Why isn't the console save issue on the priority list? It's not listed in the latest patch fixes? Wildcard hasn't even acknowledged this issue yet!

    We're all stuck with workarounds until this gets resolved. And who knows when those workarounds will stop working.

    We paid for a functional game. Not a half-ass game. Fix it.

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    1 hour ago, billyb2933 said:

    Why isn't the console save issue on the priority list? It's not listed in the latest patch fixes? Wildcard hasn't even acknowledged this issue yet!

    We're all stuck with workarounds until this gets resolved. And who knows when those workarounds will stop working.

    We paid for a functional game. Not a half-ass game. Fix it.

    They still haven't completely fixed A.S.E. How do you expect them to ever "fix" A.S.A. ?

    Anyone who followed the A.S.A. news from their announcement of it last year till its "release" knew that wc was advertising 1/10 of a completed game stuffed, basted, and cooked in a mountain of both old and new bugs because all A.S.A. is; is A.S.E. wrapped in a shiny rainbow colored foil so that anyone looking at it on the shelves won't notice that it's just the same old moldy turkey that no-one bought for Thanksgiving the previous year. 

    wc has a long history of not acknowledging problems, and also not fixing them; while hoping that people will either forget about them or someone else will fix it for them.

    Anyone who has boughten A.S.A. up till this point has unfortunately gotten exactly what wc advertised. 

    I do feel very sad for those who have boughten into this mess; especially for those new ones who didn't know wc's A.S.E. first. But, it's not like there weren't many of us sounding the alarms and giving warnings throughout this entire process all over the internet. We have not bought A.S.A. yet; and that's because we don't want the moldy turkey with rainbow colored foil that wc advertised. 

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    will the pvp servers being added contain small tribe servers on the 24th

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    11 hours ago, FlorianWind9 said:

    They still haven't completely fixed A.S.E. How do you expect them to ever "fix" A.S.A. ?

    Anyone who followed the A.S.A. news from their announcement of it last year till its "release" knew that wc was advertising 1/10 of a completed game stuffed, basted, and cooked in a mountain of both old and new bugs because all A.S.A. is; is A.S.E. wrapped in a shiny rainbow colored foil so that anyone looking at it on the shelves won't notice that it's just the same old moldy turkey that no-one bought for Thanksgiving the previous year. 

    wc has a long history of not acknowledging problems, and also not fixing them; while hoping that people will either forget about them or someone else will fix it for them.

    Anyone who has boughten A.S.A. up till this point has unfortunately gotten exactly what wc advertised. 

    I do feel very sad for those who have boughten into this mess; especially for those new ones who didn't know wc's A.S.E. first. But, it's not like there weren't many of us sounding the alarms and giving warnings throughout this entire process all over the internet. We have not bought A.S.A. yet; and that's because we don't want the moldy turkey with rainbow colored foil that wc advertised. 

    Exactly, well said.

    Also I still refuse to play it, even though someone literally gifted it to me for free trying to persuade me!

    I'm sticking to running an ASE cluster that mimics Official.

    If I do go to ASA, it won't be for a long long time and all maps are out and perhaps bugs/kinks are sorted out (unless I decide to pop in and get all notes and that's it, before more map releases. Haven't decided).

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    ASE is still full of bugs that sadly now will probably never get fixed since they no longer support the game.  Why would anyone buy ASA if it’s an unplayable mess.  There’s going to be a lot of people like myself that will wait and see if the game improves before they buy a ps5 to play it.

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    3 hours ago, Noricha said:

    ASE is still full of bugs that sadly now will probably never get fixed since they no longer support the game.  Why would anyone buy ASA if it’s an unplayable mess.  There’s going to be a lot of people like myself that will wait and see if the game improves before they buy a ps5 to play it.

    Let's be fair: It is not a complete unplayable mess.

    Some unplayabele parts are still missing.

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    Well i'll be..WC fixed the render distance in ASA..gratz WC..this a small step in the right direction keep it up WC 👍

     

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    i think they should add a ragdoll setting 

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    Shouldn't have to be said but consoles have mods now yet you still can't increase max dino level permanently in the game settings. Some mods are more balanced at higher levels. This Needs to be fixed.

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    On 1/13/2024 at 2:28 AM, ElementZeroS7L said:

    So, like, what about server transfers and clustering for unofficial?

    Where are you transferring to tho at this point? All the maps are the same, lol. 

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    On 1/13/2024 at 2:47 AM, Sausagedog85 said:

    I loved the bit where they addressed and apologised for rolling back the entire community by almost an entire day, costing many of us uncountable losses.

    Oh wait.

    The rollbacks are due to dupers, I think. There's one guy on our server that asked (within 24h after multiple rollbacks, I might add) if anyone wanted to buy tek items/structures from him. Tf? The game wasn't even a week old, iirc. Totally not legit. 😂

    I wish the admins would communicate with trustworthy players on servers.

    The one I'm on atm has a bunch of tribes all clusterf*cking and trolling solo players. They grief them and then all gang up on the solo player, and in chat who is the server gonna believe? One single player or multiple ppl from different tribes? It's so childish. 

    I had some idiot threaten to have me wiped because I said I would build a huge cage to tame (rexes) with if they wanna try and steal knockouts. Never seen a grown man cry and moan so much in my life, lmao. Like, just leave people alone or rent a server of your own, lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

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