Community Crunch 470: First Look at Elderclaw!

Holy Cow, this Ancient Tree Bear looks so cool !

As a long time (+20 years) Druid Player in WoW, I'm loving it  

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Oh I was thinking of insta-buying it but it seems I don't even have to buy it since I already own Lost Colony lol 

Thanks WC for the "Free" creature

Edited August 8, 2025 by LuckyPed

The bear looks so cool. I hope it's not just a reskinned direbear. That would break my heart. 😧 i hope they put some awesome time and love into it. the design looks AMAZING!!!!

Awesome work with that Elderbear guys! I love it, cant wait to have one!

Next time can you share any info about optimization, please?
PC players can either have gameplay with high fps and very frequent stutters or gameplay with low fps and not so frequent stuttering.
Im on my GTX 4070, drivers up to date, game is on NVME drive, also tried plenty of YT tutorials how to increase fps and plenty of console commands.
No matter is it latest Ragnarok or the Island - everywhere is the same.

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EDIT: GOING BACK TO 577 DRIVER HELPED

If any of the devs survived this long post - I wish you a nice weekend 

Edited August 9, 2025 by Michau

I Love Mushroom Bear. I want Mushroom Bear

This looks amazing. I am really excited to see how we are going to be able to tame the new tames. 

 

This is gonna come out of left field but these past few months I feel like y'all been killing it. There have been hicups and you've been openly telling us what the problems are as they are arise and their priority on your fix list. I really appreciate that. Thank you!

That prismatic thyla is beautiful. Great job, THEN4STYR4BBIT! 

Elderclaw looks very interesting! Looking forward to it.

At least we got the first release date. Hope it doesn’t get delayed too far.

I'm so glad LC pass owners get another bonus.

thanks WC for hearing my cries, for companions proofing when transferring, when there activated

Seedlings hahaha I love it. I am groot. 🌿

Guys, could you fix dino spawns on center? Stuff is spawning inside bases (even on second floors), not respecting foundations. And also mixed spawns, like we got a rex on tropical north, and some vegan dinos on snow that werent supposed to be there... something is mixed up 😵‍💫

Thank you as always, can't wait to see the bear wandering on redwoods

I must admit that I have chosen to add the elderclaw to the Lost Colony pass, it remains a paying creature but at least it is not a new independent micro transaction.

Edited August 9, 2025 by Arkentia

Game gonna be looking like a spinoff of World of Warcraft soon. Not that I'm complaining but rather highlighting. More variety is good.

The bear groot is cool

I wonder if it'll produce anything passively for you, like its back growing some fiber, wood, rare flowers or mushrooms- or if it can gather honey without bees stinging it like the direbear.

Mushroom bear will save us all

The bear looks awesome but please dont rush valguero I really want it to be a good remaster! If you need longer then just say! It's one of my favourite maps please don't rush it the jungles and the redwoods are the best in all of ark on valguero  

 

I love the design of Groot the bear but please don't make a reskined dire bear.

The rainbow thyla drawing would make a sick black light poster.

New Bear? Neat...

dear studio wildcard, please, get in hands your previous game and revert the totally destructive update your publisher just did  on EGS breaking over 3500 unifficial croasplay servers and making the game totally unplayable even on solo! It should be also a matter of pride about where the ark franchise started!

Edited August 9, 2025 by darkradeon

This is a really stupid request but every time I see we are getting a creature announcement I end up disappointed because we are one letter away from having a whole alphabet of creatures in ark all we need is z this guy looks cool and I’m gonna use it and enjoy it but I would really like a z creature please

Everyone keeps talking about how cool the new creature’s gonna be, but HOLY MOLY THE NEW VALGUERO LOGO IS EPIC! I’m so glad they gave it something more unique. As a graphic designer, I always look forward to seeing what they do with the ASA logos. I’ve played about 30 minutes of Val on the Xbox with my brother, and it seemed pretty cool. I wish it was on the Switch version. For some reason the Switch one is my favorite. Btw, for Switch 2 users, try the command “t.SetMaxFPS 60” on single-player. It should run really well. There’s also a command for resolution, but I forgot what it was.

Notice how they changed the graphic and the date of release of the new bear from Sept 20 to Sept 30?