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  • Community Crunch 504: From Shoulder to Savior

     

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    Making a splash this summer with Bob’s True Tales: Tides of Fortune, the Tidepup is set to shake up the dynamics of Genesis 1 in a big way. Whether it stays perched on your shoulder or grows into something much larger, this curious companion brings a new kind of support to survival.

     

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    We’ve tamed creatures that fight, and creatures that flee. Not many refuse to stay down.

    The Tidepup feels familiar at first, a small companion that doesn’t ask for much. This curious creature lingers close, always watching and quick to respond. It has a habit of showing up when you need it most, surfacing when the tide turns against you to tip the balance back in your favor.

    But there’s something unusual in the way it grows. Time spent at your side shapes it, and it seems to learn the most in the moments where you’re under pressure. Not every Tidepup ends up the same, and not every path forward can be undone because the choices you make and the moments you rely on it leave their mark.

    And when it finally falters, that’s not quite the end. Where others fall, the Tidepup retreats, slipping into a dormant state only to return reformed… as if the line between defeat and survival was always a little blurred.

    Raise it well, and you shape what it becomes. Push it too far, and you might set it back. Either way, this is one companion that's always evolving.
     


     

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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 are 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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    As a quick heads up, we’ll be re-enabling structure decay timers on Monday (ET).

    Decay was temporarily disabled to help protect player progress during recent cloud data issues. With stability restored, timers will return to normal.

     

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    We’ve been taking a targeted pass on cave entrances across Lost Colony, focused on improving their viability for PvP.
    A common piece of player feedback has been that many of these locations didn’t feel worth investing in. With this update, we’re reducing the size of several choke points to create more reliable, defensible positions and open up better base-building opportunities for PvP.

    As part of these changes, several cave entrances will be adjusted. We’ll list out the affected locations and coordinates below so you can check your spots ahead of time.

    Please note: any structures built directly within these choke points on PvP servers will be destroyed when the update goes live. If you have anything placed in these areas, we strongly recommend moving it in advance. These changes will impact Official PvP or any Unofficial server with cave building enabled

    Players on Official PvE servers will still see the updated entrances, but existing builds will not be impacted.

    These changes are currently planned to go live with a major version update on April 27th.
     

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, April 27.

    • PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
    • Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
    • ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

     


     

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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

     

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    pARKplatz ist ein 14-tägiges Streamer-PvEvP-RP-Event, mit PvE- und PvP-Bereichen, eigenen NPCs, einer Peacezone für neue Spieler und einer kleinen Storyline bis zum Overseer.

    Das Event läuft von Sonntag, 26. April um 13:00 Uhr (CEST) bis Samstag, 9. Mai um 22:00 Uhr (CEST).

    Für mehr Informationen und um zu sehen, wer live ist, besucht: https://arkplatz.de/

     

    pARKplatz is a German-speaking 14-day streamer PvEvP-RP event featuring PvE and PvP areas, custom NPCs, a Peace Zone for newer players, and a light storyline leading up to the Overseer.

    The event runs from Sunday, April 26 at 4:00 AM PT to Saturday, May 9 at 1:00 PM PT.

    For more information and to see who’s live, check out: https://arkplatz.de/

     

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    Creator: Savkyn

    Take a look at this medieval tavern by Savkyn! It is the perfect place to keep your Chalicotherium and Deinotherium very happy!

     

    Creator: ClickTockClock

    ClickTockClock goes over everything you need to know about the new Evo Brontosaurus from Paleo ARK.

     

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    I'm looking forward to Burrowback's Tame!  by yuukuro07

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    Ceratosaurus Ark  by AtlasDiscovery

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    Print using the traditional manual linocut technique  by kocie.lapki

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    Fan Art  by west799

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    I love these things so much  by t0bi3333

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    Ark Series #1  by SammySock0014

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    3D printed Dimorphodon  by bigbammie

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    Photo Mode  by frozen_soap

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    Enjoy your weekend!
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    So it's the mudpuppy from the thing we don't discuss and repurposed as a different creature? That's actually really cleaver wildcard. I'll give you that credit indeed.

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    Evo Bronto is great

    but you know what isn't great?

    The fact that you're pushing out content, instead of FIXING YOUR DAMN GAME

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    Not every Tidepup ends up the same, and not every path forward can be undone because the choices you make and the moments you rely on it leave their mark.

    I really, really like that (and wish it were true for most species).

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    I love the companion-evolving personalized creatures so much!!!! please keep it up, stuff like Ossidon (please do the stats that change appearance on more creatures like ALL of the dragons in dragontopia) and veilwyn are fantastic for that and I'm glad to see more!!!

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    What happened to SotF?

    Who ate it:/

    And why I've got the feeling that "this summer" will become "late autumn"?

    At least we get PVP pet, hurray....

     

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    😭 Finally us growers get some representation. But on a serious note thank god we're finally get mudkip.

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    7 minutes ago, kaprosuchus93 said:

    So it's the mudpuppy from the thing we don't discuss and repurposed as a different creature? That's actually really cleaver wildcard. I'll give you that credit indeed.

    I was going to say the same exact thing.

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    Final crunch of the month that was said to have UE 5.7 coming at the end of it (not that anybody in their right mind thought this to be true), but instead of another delay to who knows when... we don't get any info at all and are just left in the dark entirely? WC somehow goes beyond their awful community communicating skills. What is wrong with this company? Lul

    Guess UE 5.7 really will be in 2027 instead of sometime this year. /s

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    Tidepup looks cool, and when is Genesis gonna release?

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    Since 5.7 is delayed gen 1 must be getting a big push back 

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    I’m excited for this but is it really that hard to give updates on the things that were promised in the roadmap? Sotf, unreal 5.7, world creator; gets really old with the lack of communication for those that support your game

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    I knew the 5.7 update was to good to be true. No information whatsoever is wild, not even info on wether or not its getting pushed back.

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    So the Special creature for the pirate theme is going to be... An Axolotl?

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    what worries me people will just flip ships by bodyblocking it thus making it useless, ships need countermeasures against "tame blob" meta

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    Hate the new cave entrances; don't care about PVP players at all. Why change it to ruin it for everyone else who doesn't play PVP, which is most of the players on Ark... LC is already a crap map to play on with broken outposts that have never been fixed with a terrible boss fight and a terrible castle you have to control dinos through because of the narrow rooms... Now they want to destroy the fact you can't fit flyers in the cave entrances... They spend more time bringing out new content than actually fixing what's wrong with this game, which is a really bad way to deal business... EVERY dino needs TLC, and yet they're charging people for the first five TLCs. Without people paying, it would have never been a thing. How low can a dev company go

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    Cool little guy! I must admit I wish there were more amphibians in the game 🐸

    Also paleo mods are so must have in this game! The quality of these masterpieces puts every other creature to shame (except maybe for gigantoraptor, since Its an UE5 asset)

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    3 hours ago, Nemein said:

    Why change it to ruin it for everyone else who doesn't play PVP, which is most of the players on Ark

    😒 Population for the entire network is 57% PVE and 43% PVP

    PVE might be a majority but PVP isn't small.

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    Another community 'crunch' another round to prove they're incompetent. Another Harry Potter Fable creature nobody asked for to keep us quiet and cater to the console kids that don't even know what FPS, Framedrops or lag spikes mean.. 

    UE5.7? Deadline is due.. again.. It's literally the main weakness of the game. If they would just focus on fixing performance issues instead of pushing this nonsense in every community crunch..

    The lead dev literally went on interviews boasting about 'as close as can be to a silver bullet for performance' with UE5.7.. again in classical Wildcard style... Crickets.. 


    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result..

    At this point one can wonder who's the insane ones are?

    - Wildcard for breaking deadlines and not communicating that properly over and over and over again and expecting more people to buy their unfinished slop? 
    - Or us, gamers that love the IP and the potential of the game hoping that Slime Games and Wildcard will do it right at some point and change their toxic ways of missing deadlines, silencing community members etc. 

    Who are the insane ones? 

     

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    6 hours ago, BloodyGent said:

    Another Harry Potter Fable creature nobody asked for to keep us quiet and cater to the console kids that don't even know what FPS, Framedrops or lag spikes mean.. 

    Get off your high horse. Major complaint since ASE is the lack of console optimisation for performance as well as controls. The fact that console players not expecting 120fps does not mean they have no clue.

    6 hours ago, BloodyGent said:

    At this point one can wonder who's the insane ones are?

    - Wildcard for breaking deadlines and not communicating that properly over and over and over again and expecting more people to buy their unfinished slop? 
    - Or us, gamers that love the IP and the potential of the game hoping that Slime Games and Wildcard will do it right at some point and change their toxic ways of missing deadlines, silencing community members etc. 

    Who are the insane ones? 

    Given the fact that many people bought ASA at start? Roughly everyone joining this forum after the announcement of ASA.

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