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    Survival takes a sharp turn this week as the community-voted winner sinks its claws into the spotlight! With its lightning speed and razor-sharp instincts, this prehistoric predator is set to shake up the ARK in ways we can’t wait to dive into! Meanwhile, on the LiveOps front, we’ve been kept on our toes. We’ll break it all down, along with the steps we’re taking to keep things running as smoothly as possible.

     


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    With over 32k votes, Megaraptor will be the new creature added to Valguero for ARK: Survival Ascended. We are looking forward to sharing its concept and dossier in the weeks to come!

    If you are interested in seeing exactly how the voting went, check it out here.

    * Note that we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change.

     

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    Our hosting providers are facing a severe, ongoing DDoS attack, which has caused recent outages, including those over the past 48 hours. We're actively working with our partners to mitigate the issue, but as with these types of attacks, we don’t yet have an estimated resolution.

    While our partners work on it, we've taken steps to protect player progress:

    • Increased the upload timer to 72 hours (and we’ll extend it further if needed).
    • Temporarily disabled decay timers to prevent loss of player progress.
    • Taken certain regions offline to protect player data when necessary.
    • Extending the time on Expire Servers to give everyone a chance to retrieve their characters and items. Once things are more stable, we’ll announce a date—don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of notice.

    We're closely monitoring mitigation efforts with our partners, but please keep in mind that the situation may continue to evolve.

    We’ll be holding on running an EVO event this week in light of the instability–we’ll look to do something nice for players in that regard when this is all resolved. 

    Thanks for your patience and support while we work through this!

     


     

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    Raptor wasn't my first choice, but I'm still happy it won. 

    I hope the cheetah comes back again next vote or something. Actually, I'd be happy to see anything but the trikes or bug come to the game

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    8 minutes ago, ladyteruki said:

     

    It won't clog anything, Shockal said it was the Acinonyx' last ever submission.

    I know Shockal said that, but he isn’t the only one to submit the cheetah, especially this round. So it can always come back. Thats what I am saying. Though most likely people will stay to his word and not resubmit it.

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    Just now, OverRannus said:

    I know Shockal said that, but he isn’t the only one to submit the cheetah, especially this round. So it can always come back. Thats what I am saying. Though most likely people will stay to his word and not resubmit it.

    Ah, I hadn't thought of that tbh. Can people use his ideas and just submit them as is ? Is that even allowed to reuse someone else's art ?

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    1 minute ago, ladyteruki said:

    Ah, I hadn't thought of that tbh. Can people use his ideas and just submit them as is ? Is that even allowed to reuse someone else's art ?

    Art, I don’t believe so. But the concepts can be reused from what I saw. I saw the dire otter return though it didn’t do well. And there are several versions of the cheetah being used. With Raephclark has got to the top ten with his design of the cheetah before. So it can happen.

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    Sometimes is good to change partners if things don't work properly.... Just saying.

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    52 minutes ago, Sfger said:

    I want to keep an open mind, but from the dossier at least the rest of the creatures sounded like they would make some aspect of the game easier/more fun, where as this one seemed like it would make it harder/less fun. 

    I guess most people wanted the game to be harder? 

    No no people who voted have mush for brains nothing more it's easy to find stupid people harder to find self thinking people.

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    1 hour ago, TheEternalSpyro2 said:

    Always the same thing, a big carnivore with big teeth 🙄

    And it will undoubtably be nothing like the original submission and be just another annoying gimmick tame. Resulting in people who voted for it to not be happy and complain. its a perpetual loop... one that will only be cured by... say it with me now everyone "Banning Carnivores From The votes."

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    To those that voted for a cheetah: Team Acinonyx (as posted by RaephClark and team) is getting a mod so a CHEETAH WILL COME!

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    52 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

    Welp, I'm a bit disappointed that Megaraptor won, but I'm all alright with it in the end. It could be a better Megalosaurus...

     

    Not an actual raptor, by the way; it's a theropod dinosaur, looked it up.

    They want a new raptor they need to get the Utah Raptor out and close all the rest of the raptor designs out and do new dinosaurs all together after that

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    43 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    Are you really surprised? most of them are children who shouldn't be playing ARK to begin with.

     

    31 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    You are talking about a community who voted for a BUG, that ISN'T EVEN EXTICNT, to be in the final 10... "Stupid" is WAY too nice a word. Hell, BRAIN DEAD is way too nice to put it.

    Alright buddy I think you need to settle down there.

    Look, I can acknowledge that you're angry at the fact that the theropod has won, but there is no need to say stuff like that. 

    It's not cool

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    7 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

     

    Alright buddy I think you need to settle down there.

    Look, I can acknowledge that you're angry at the fact that the theropod has won, but there is no need to say stuff like that. 

    It's not cool

    The fact I'm not alone says otherwise. We don't need more theropods, period. there is no but's, or's, if's, and's, or otherwise, we DO-NOT need more theropods.

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    And the mayguana is like puked up rotten meat that moves who comes up with this dog.... poop...why not just release the may wing instead of making a pile of crap burned buy kiliwaya's lava and dropped in to Krakatoa for a color scheme only other cow pies would love 

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    3 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    The fact I'm not alone says otherwise. We don't need more theropods, period. there is not But, or, ifs, ands, or otherwise, we DO-NOT need more theropods.

    I can see that, but we can't just say stuff like that

    Not the theropod stuff, but the stuff that said brain dead or mush for brains.

    That's not cool.

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    11 minutes ago, DragonMasterX said:

    They want a new raptor they need to get the Utah Raptor out and close all the rest of the raptor designs out and do new dinosaurs all together after that

    Um...

    What???

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    Let's be honest guys, nearly all the creatures to pick from for this community vote was pretty lame. I wasn't excited for any of them but kind of had hope for the tank trike at least being a decent Herbivore. I don't mind the Megaraptor I just hope it doesn't get butchered like the Yi-Ling did, most annoying wild creature to run into and completely useless as a tame because of its limited weight stat constantly bogging you down.

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    3 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    Not cool, but still factually accurate and there fore 100% correct

    How is calling someone brain-dead "factually accurate"?

    It was the people's choice.

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    12 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

    How is calling someone brain-dead "factually accurate"?

    It was the people's choice.

    It Just barely won over the cheetah, for obvious reasons. So don't PRETEND ARK influencers didn't sway the vote into the Megaraptor's favor. Also, just look at all the posts on the first page of this crunch of people NOT happy about the winner of the vote. many of them of likes in the double digits... and still rising.

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    We could have had a cool lizard, or pet, or cheetah. Heck, the cheetah had the plurality to begin with, and you still do this silly ranking nonsense that leaves most of us mad

    There were two theropods on that list, and we don't even get the useful one

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    6 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    It Just barely won over the cheetah, for obvious reasons. also, just look at all the posts on the first page of this crunch of people NOT happy about the winner of the vote. many of them of likes in the double digits... and still rising.

    Yes, I see that, I greatly understand the theropod drama

    My one problem is that people are saying things that sound very rude, I know they are angry in all.

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    8 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

    Yes, I see that, I greatly understand the theropod drama

    My one problem is that people are saying things that sound very rude, I know they are angry in all.

    It may be "rude" but it is still a fact. This has happened WAY more times than you realize. The creature that should have LOST won the vote, it's not going to be anything like the suggested submission, it ends up sucking in game, people get p!ssy, next vote starts, lather, rinse, repeat. People who don't want theropods are sick of it, they don't want to see a vote go to waste when it could have gone to something that's either fun, useful, or both. Megaraptor is neither, so it will undoubtably fall victim to the same slop as before. As I've said before, its an unending cycle with these carnivore votes... and the only way that cycle is ever going to be broken is if carnivores are just banned from the votes altogether.

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    I hope they make it unique, and dont strip its abilities away from its dossier form. Like being a stealth killer, or being able to go on 4 legs like the iguanodon/indoraptor from JW. Being able to pin stuff down or climb walls like rockdrake would be cool too. I really hope its not another allo, carno or other generic carni. 

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    13 minutes ago, screemybobeanie97 said:

    I hope they make it unique, and dont strip its abilities away from its dossier form.

    They will, they always do with these carnivorous tames

    13 minutes ago, screemybobeanie97 said:

    Like being a stealth killer

    You mean like all the other jump scare tames?

    13 minutes ago, screemybobeanie97 said:

    , or being able to go on 4 legs like the iguanodon/indoraptor from JW.

    You mean like the spinosaurus?

    13 minutes ago, screemybobeanie97 said:

    being able to pin stuff down or climb walls like rockdrake would be cool too. 

    you mean like the DEINONYCHUS it's going to share a map with?

    13 minutes ago, screemybobeanie97 said:

    I really hope its not another allo, carno or other generic carni. 

    It will, it will just be more annoying to tame.

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    Would it be possible to consider changing  the next "creature vote" to  be all about abilities? Imagine letting the community  summit  list of abilities and no artworks.  What does it do. How big is it? How do you tame it. What does it eat. Buff? Saddle Perks?  Yes this could lead to comminity voted "chimera"  but I think it would not only be a particulary fun vote but could also point out toward what players are looking for in creatures/what is lacking in game without the constriction of looks. Once this is all sorted then let us vote on what it looks like / have the studio summit  a series of possible wip and we get to vote withing those propositions. Have a glorious day. 

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