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  • Community Crunch 447: Community Creature Winner, LiveOps Update and more

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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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    Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser 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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    Creator: Etholdir

    Etholdir guides you a tour of his beautiful gardens on Astraeos!

     

    Creator: JoeLaFritt_

    *international corner* JoeLaFritt has a helpful guide to help you start right on the mod ARK Descended!
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    TyranntX
    On 3/2/2025 at 7:41 PM, DodexX said:

    Aw sweet! Another theropod carnivore being added to the game that has the most egregious and boring taming method ever conceived by the human psyche! I'm gonna enjoy this so muchSmiling Buck Tooth Emoji HD Original | Smiling Buck Tooth Emoji

    Mind laying on some more layers of sarcasm? I don't think you're selling just how unwanted this thing really is.

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    TheTyrantKing

    Might have to revise my creature after reading these reply's 

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    TyranntX

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    On 3/1/2025 at 11:48 PM, WolfStar84 said:

    Hopefully next time creature submission makers will say "suggested abilities" instead of what it can do. There's no way the megaraptor will have all those abilities, and if the abilities are why you voted for it, then you learned nothing from previous creature votes. Hell, not even names are definite, look at the Yi Ling, it was the Yi Qi during creature votes.

    Congrats to the maker for it winning, but i can't wait to see all the pvp players who voted for it going off over it not having most of those abilities on release. Good luck devs in the discord dealing with that

    And that's if the ones who didn't vote for the creature don't bully them off the platform.

    Edited by TyranntX
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    TEKRules

    yes! The megaraptor won! totally the best creature submissions this time. Hopefully they don't remove all it's abilities. 

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    TyranntX
    9 hours ago, TEKRules said:

    yes! The megaraptor won! totally the best creature submissions this time. Hopefully they don't remove all it's abilities. 

    Hopefully they DO remove all of them, branding the biggest "I told you so" ever into your head. 😊

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    xx2300degrees
    On 2/28/2025 at 9:22 PM, GloBruce said:

    We're all so pleased with your hosting providers.  No issues here at all.  Even when the servers are up, they're trash.  You've got serious issues with your long game.  You're looking in too many directions - maps that are 35% complete, new creatures from a fan vote, power ranger crap for kids.  What your community wants is a functional game with servers that perform. Prioritize getting your house in order. Look there, and nowhere else, until the issues are resolved.

    11/28/25 Astraeos Server still constantly crashing after whatever update they did. Was playing fine before, completely unplayable now. Waste of “evo” event as well. Do not buy astraeos or any other DLC, call your bank if its too late.

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    ChrisBManos
    23 hours ago, TEKRules said:

    yes! The megaraptor won! totally the best creature submissions this time. Hopefully they don't remove all it's abilities. 

     

    13 hours ago, TyranntX said:

    Hopefully they DO remove all of them,

    Well, maybe not all of them or turn it into something different like Fasolasuchus with some abilities intact such as trapping players or creatures and it's tail swipe.

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