Community Crunch 505: Deep Dives & Technical Strides. What’s Surfacing Next!

WOOOOO MAY 19!!!!!! and the ceph looks fantastic, great job guys!!! PLEASE KEEP DRAGONTOPIA FOR THIS YEAR THOUGHHH!!!

 

Edited May 2 by Ambrose12912

The palioocto should be named the after that new octopus that was just discovered 

Man I really feel like the abilities of the octopus fall short of the vote version. I have never once thought I needed paints in this game and if that is it’s only ability that is pretty lame. I wasn’t expecting all the crazy potions but something better than just what I assume is dyes.

Edited May 2 by UDGxKnight

Kraken

Well, this is indeed exciting news, thanks for the huge bucket load of information Wildcard, and congrazt/thanks for hireing some Unreal Engine Veterans aswell to help with core issues with the game, i do indeed hope this will get the game the performance gains and bug fixes that this game defintly needs, i am also looking forward to genesis part 1 with tides of fortune and the paleoctopus. :3

Finally some info!!! Thank you for updating us on expectations! Hiring unreal devs is huge and I’m excited to see the improvements they make. Keep it up! Love this game!

With the Sun setting servers I wish we were able to transfer the Alpha drop items  (wyvern Talons, Tusso arms, Etc)

I spent a lot of time and tames collecting them for fights and the tribe tower and now they are usless

I do kinda wish they adapted more of the features, if one lives near the volcano biome have it at least have more reddish/black colors or maybe buffs that make it resistant to the elements (reduced fire damage, ice damage and etc)

 

that idea was really exciting so it sucks it didn’t make it in

The equipment traits change is better than nothing, but 10 seems to be quite a lot, no? Unless it's 10 of any assortment of trait to upgrade a selected trait?

 

I would also really like if dino/creature traits had a similar system of combining/upgrading, but with a more reasonable number like two of the same trait into one, or multiple other traits to upgrade the selected trait. Maybe even duplicating, with the cost of some element?

 

Would be far, far preferable to spending literal hundreds of hours hunting and killing literal thousands upon thousands of tames, and taming, trying to find those extremely rare level 3 dino traits.

 

It's the only way you can actually slot cap on metal or other resources with vanilla stack sizes + weight.

 

Either that or something needs to be done about vanilla stack sizes and weights (this should have happened years ago, tbh). Feel like almost all resources should have all stacked to 500 or even 1000, rare ones like prime meat, wyvern milk, nameless venom, ambergris, etc. should have stacked to ~20 and weights should have been halved globally.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one not looking forward to farming element on Gen 1 again, and having to open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris -> open inventory -> drop ambergris...

 

You get the point😅

Should be less time menuing and more time grinding

 

Also... "harvest only" options on more/all dinos, for most/all resources they can gather, and on tools... or at least on the mining drill for gen 1... please........

 

And TLC creatures... rather slow.... I hope we aren't going to be waiting until December or even into 2027 for the Giga or Theri

Edited May 2 by RKGS

“Late Q3 2026” in Wildcard speak sounds a lot like “Q1 2027,” which would mean the engine upgrade is nearly a year late again, just like the 5.4/5.5 situation.

I get that engine upgrades take time. Most players do. The problem is not the delay itself, it is the repeated pattern of overpromising, hyping unrealistic release windows, and then communicating poorly when those timelines collapse.

Stop going into interviews calling updates “as close as a silver bullet for performance” while suggesting a March/April window, only for it to slip by months or possibly a year. That is not normal development uncertainty anymore. That is roadmap mismanagement.

Wildcard has had this issue for years. Almost every major deadline seems to slip, yet the same unrealistic promises keep being made. At some point, someone responsible for setting or approving these timelines needs to be held accountable. Whether that is production, leadership, or CEO-level sign-off, the current approach clearly is not working.

Players understand that game development is difficult. What is unacceptable is pretending every roadmap is realistic when history says otherwise. Wildcard needs to stop promising fantasy deadlines and start communicating timelines they can actually meet.

The Promised Deadline Dates are as FANTASTICAL as the paid Harry Potter Fable Creatures they keep dumping on us to look elsewhere.. 

Edited May 2 by BloodyGent

stay tuned for more details been almost a year now and zero details come on wildcard

Theyre taking down even more servers. Soon you will only be able to play in a server by giving resources to an alpha. On consoles only, there's barely any map that isnt taken. I finally found one with my tribe and now its being Sunset. Can't catch a break man. These numbers gotta be from months ago cause we are definitely active.

Edited May 2 by JMagnus

A bit sad about the Q3 delay of the UE5.7 update, was hoping it would arrive before Gen1, but if you guys need time i can understand that aswell.

I just hope my PC doesent spontaneously combust when i jump into the ocean biome on Gen1, those water physics look like they're extremely demanding😭

Well, seeing all this news together, I can't help but say... 

This kicking people from their servers is a joke, ALLOW sunsetting servers to move their tributes off server at the very least. The disrespect you show those that have still stuck around is disgusting.

Where can we appeal to keep server? I mean if they go on tear down all server we should just refund the game.

It'd be nice if other cosmetics didn't disappear too, like the Scorched Earth skins you get from opening artifact crates or skins you get from boss fights. Once you die, fast travel or server hop they can get removed from your character.

1 hour ago, Mareksus said:

Where can we appeal to keep server? I mean if they go on tear down all server we should just refund the game.

They're sunsetting mostly inactive servers to make room for Genesis 1 servers. Happens often. It's a bummer to lose your base but you can transfer your dinos to a more active server. 

I'm wandering, how are they going to implement the lunar biome, since the whole Genesis part 1 map is going to be covered in the ocean biome (from my understanding) :0

I'm really curious to see all the new content that is going to come.

Closing PVE server is totally absurd. Plus, it is a disrespect to the players and their work, their patience while the game is still lagging like Evolved.

 

Eu-PVE-ScorchedEarth-5523 is very active with always people doing Manticora or being on. It is not a "inactive server" 

 

Wiping our base and work, forcing us to move all together on small pieces of pixels on overpopulated servers. It is a shame and a middle finger to the community. 

 

+ my tribe ALSO lost her previous aberration. 

 

Shame. 

 

I ask to see how they count a server as INACTIVE. 

Edited May 3 by Neeyll

If they remove the server i play on i will just refund the game.

Sacrés news !

 

On 5/3/2026 at 10:12 PM, Mareksus said:

If they remove the server i play on i will just refund the game.

And on what ground would you think you'll get your refund? This policy is not new, the game is not broken (debatable, but that's a different story)and you trial period is well overdue.

I agree fully allow the xfer of trophies already. Costa ton on our island when it was sunset, and now will lose more because our abb server is being sunset now......allow the xfer of trophies !!!