Community Crunch 411: An Update on Shastasauraus and More!

What color is a watermelon?

Neat

The Shasta saddle looks a bit awkward being under the creature like that, but I guess if it functions well then it will be awesome. 

"This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Tuesday, June 21st"

Typo ?????

Where the info about transfers for scorched earth opening up itll b 60 days next week

Hopefully you've had players test the shasta  and it's saddle because they will find all the bugs and exploits. Looking forward to it though for sure. As  for conquest servers.... yeah nah bro. Don't need a repeat of those and the drama they brought with ASE. You don't need to shoo away your player base, I hope they have proper moderation this time, with professionals and not cheaters. Good luck to all those that wanna try it. I'll be  watching the streams to see what happens.

Otherwise awesome work!  I'm excited for the centre, and the Paleo mod is awesome, great to see that being showcased! The new premium, the livy, well I got to help with that one in filming and it is 100% fun fun fun! I highly recommend it!

36 minutes ago, ShadowShadex said:

What color is a watermelon?

Green, why?

is it a tek saddle it look like it a tek sub attach to the dino and it look to be shoting a torpeedo. it would be intetsting if it was a tek saddle/struction you could only get if beating the center verson of the b osses

Will you PLEASE add some type of primitive+ again?? Even if it's only like an arkpocalypse style??

the follow-up on the creature is very interesting. It is very appreciated to have this kind of information. it could be good to have the same kind of follow-up on the next creature, map etc, in short with the official news

 

I really don't understand why the saddle had to be under technically wise but it definitely doesn't look as nice and I  really hope you guys will try to implement the initial idea in the future as it SHOULD be doable. Like it would've been cool to emerge off of  water.

Edited May 25 by SlayerQc

1 minute ago, SlayerQc said:

 Like it would've been cool to emerge off of  water.

That's why it's under the belly like that. This way it's always under water even if the fish is surfaced. They don't have to deal with in/out of the water which must have been the problem. 

Really good crunch I like how you guys explained the in's of the coding would love more of that in future crunches. 

2 hours ago, Brettskii said:

I CANT WAIT FOR CENTER! 

Why exactly? whats the diffrence between it and the Island?

Naa it should be "I CANT WAIT FOR AB!"

What is that scorched earth easter egg, it looks familiar but I can't quite place it.

Exhibit A as to why when voting for creatures, you should actually vote for the creature and not some secondary feature in the proposed dossier

Update zu Shastasaurus und mehr! - ARK2 & ASA News | Deutsche ARK2 Community - ARK2 | Deutsches Community Forum

 

https://ark2.de/news/update-zu-shastasaurus-und-mehr-r118/

 

Hey peeps you might remember me making funko pop art and here's my newest one...

 

Will there be a simple saddle in addition to the submarine saddle?

6 hours ago, Brettskii said:

I hope you surprise us with a in game store that accepts a form of rmt or a fun battle pass when you drop the center. We want and need it! Your community is here for you ❤️ help the bulk of the players out.

A few CC's ago you complained about being demonized about this subject.
No one did but a few pointed out you were behaving like an idiot, as you kept on doing in every thing posted by WC lately, with you dumb "wE wAnT tO pAy YoU mORe" mantra. It's getting stale and just as annoying as a 5 year old crying for not getting a candy in a shopping mall.

 

4 hours ago, darcek said:

Why exactly? whats the diffrence between it and the Island?

Naa it should be "I CANT WAIT FOR AB!"

Check the guys post from the last few weeks, he does not have his priorities straight.

7 hours ago, StudioWildcard said:

... Two key areas we had to resolve related to making sure the Saddle actually functioned like a submarine (i.e. keeping water out while the creature moves, etc.) and how players and creatures moved inside of the sub itself. The first challenge required both a shift in the overall design of the saddle and a tech solution, as we learned pretty quickly that having it on top of the creature wasn’t going to be viable, so we had to redesign it to be under the Shasta instead. This change allowed us to ensure that we could keep the water outside of the saddle at all times and also eliminated the edge cases relating to the submarine being partially submerged. Tackling player and creature movement was purely a technology-driven solution, we rewrote some of the basing code – the logic that relates to what characters are standing (based) on – of Unreal when in different physics modes like falling and jumping, essentially creating a new basing system specifically when based inside of the new saddle. 

This was definitely one of the more challenging creatures we've designed, so please excuse us for geeking out a little bit! So now you’ve heard the ins and outs of how we tamed the mighty Shastasaurus and its sub-aquatic saddle, it’s your turn next! We can't wait to see you all cruising the seas in Shasta-style on June 4. ...

Dear WC, this is by far the best part in a CC in ages! Can you do this kind of background stories more often on other issues and also during the troubleshooting stage instead of only after the fix? Make us understand what challenges you face with 50/50-, inventory- and no save bugs.

paleo ark will you make it official? the paleo giganotosaurus is fantastic, as for the rex, mm honestly I prefer the joker model

Another evidence the game is a low effort reskin

#restoreAseEvents 💔

1 hour ago, darkradeon said:

#restoreAseEvents 💔

Good luck with this. They didn't even bother adding them in after the last event when they said they would, so I highly doubt they are going to now.