Community Crunch 77: New Year's Edition
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- By Jatheish
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Hey Survivors! Welcome to the last edition of the Community Crunch for the year of 2016! 
First and foremost a huge empathetic THANK YOU to all ARK Survivors! It’s been a crazy journey so far, and the year of 2016 has been filled with many milestones and memories for us here at Studio Wildcard.
2016 saw ARK grow much further and beyond what we had ever anticipated! Needless to say, without your feedback, support, and creations over the past year, this would not have been possible. The passion displayed by the community throughout is second to none and we are proud to have you along for the ride; whether you’re a new survivor from PS4, celebrating your one year ARKiversary with Xbox One, have been here since Day One on Steam - you mean the world to us and we truly appreciate all you do.
ARK will continue to march onwards towards its 1.0 Release. There is still a fair bit of content we are working on getting out to you. It’s going to be a very exciting few months with the release of the TEK Tier, Ascension, UI Rework, of course, the addition of many new items, features, and creatures to behold, not forgetting the Ovis! 
As each day passes, ARK gets one step closer to fulfilling its destiny as the ultimate Dinosaur Survival Experience of our dreams and with your continued support throughout 2017, we’ll get there!
In celebration for the end of the year; from the 31st of December at 12 PM EST until the 1st of January at 12 PM EST Survivors can have a chance to win a special exclusive New Year’s Skin! Raptor Clause will be making extra stops for PC players, so make sure to pick up its extra presents to receive the exclusive skin. Console players can obtain the skin on our official servers by Fishing a fish of at least than 2.017 size. Get it? Single-player and dedicated server owners can spawn the exclusive skins to give to themselves and their players by using the command below.
Quotecheat GiveItem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_TopHat.PrimalItemSkin_TopHat'" 1 1 0
Thank you all for an incredible 2016. We hope you have fantastic New Year and are ready as we head into 2017; it's going to be an even bigger and better year, which we look forward to experiencing with you!
ARK: Evolution Event: New Year Weekend!
To celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another, Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk! The event will run until Monday the 1st at 12 PM EST all Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change:
1.5x Harvesting Rate
1.5x Taming Rate
1.5x EXP Rate
ARK Winter Sale!
The Steam's Winter sale is now live which means ARK: Survival Evolved can be tamed on PC/Mac/Linux for a 60% discount and the Scorched Earth Expansion Pack is also available at 33% off! Or introduce someone new to the game, this holiday season by gifting them the Survivor's Pack Bundle!
Xbox Survivors wanting to join in on the holiday fun can pick up ARK Survival Evolved plus the expansion Scorched Earth from Microsoft's Xbox Preview Program. From the 29th of December, the game and its expansion pack will be on a special sale for Xbox Live Members, check out the details below!
And of course, we recently launched worldwide on PlayStation 4. So everyone can grab the game and dive right in!
Community Contests!
Player Procedurally Generated Maps!
The Procedurally Generated Map system allows players to make their own ARK maps by determining a myriad of landscape options from the heights of mountains, depths of valleys, and the number of lakes, rivers or oceans, to the kinds of each biome they want, and more! Let's check out the entries for this weeks contest! This week's contest winner is...
It's a tie!
FataL1ty for their Winter Majesty!
See more: http://imgur.com/a/QCYaF
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and also congratulations to...
Wolf Angelus for their Holiday Island!
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Awesome winter themed map guys!
If you'd like to learn more about PGMs, please check out our quick start guide:
...and this great explanation video from Thick Freedom!
NVidia Ansel Photography Contest
Super Resolution Version: http://images.nvidia.com/ansel/SuperResolution/ARK-SuperResolution1/ARK__Survival_Evolved_HighRes_2016_09_01_-_14_38_36_55.html
ARK: Survival Evolved and the Scorched Earth Expansion Pack now include support for NVIDIA Ansel -- a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. Compose shots from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high-fidelity formats, and share the screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset.
Learn more about these features from the NVIDIA blog.
Now let’s get to the contest!
There were 3 potential categories for survivors to enter their shots into and they were the following:
Three Categories
Super Resolution: These should be taken at 8x Super Resolution. Players can optionally use Depth of Field effects accessible in Spectator mode by pressing the [Delete] key.
Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D: These should be taken at 4x Super Resolution, in 360 Stereoscopic 3D mode. We will crop them to 2D for web display, while also providing the 3D version for viewing within VR display.
Freeform: Any settings, whacky and creative use of Ansel filters are encouraged. Adding humorous titles/captions in Photoshop is also acceptable for this category!
And now without further ado, here are your entries!
You’ll want to click on the image title to be able to download the maximum size image, we’ve resized them for display purposes
Super Resolution!
Winners!
Wolf Angelus - The 9 Reindeer & Raptor Claus
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Center
Naked Zombo - The Sea Cave Guardian
FataL1ty - Santa Claus is coming to town!
Runner Up!
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village
Honourable Mentions!
KISHKO - A Moment Before Death
GravesAJ - Getting Inside Your Enemy's Head
KISHKO - Santa Leaving Presents
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Center Nighttime
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Nighttime
Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D!
Winners!
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Intersection
FataL1ty - Cozy Christmas Cabin
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Center
Honourable Mentions!
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Intersection Nighttime
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Village Center Nighttime
Freeform!
Winners!
Wolf Angelus - Holiday Greetings!
ARKVideo!
This contest is open to all types of video be they funny, epic, scenic, stories, whatever inspires you. Just a general reminder that they should remain safe for work, think of the children!
And without further ado, the ARKVideo for Community Crunch 76 is...
Congratulations to
Rewind Forward for their Pentatonix Hallelujah Paraody!
and we'd also like to give a shoutout to our runner ups for some very special entries!
Naked Zombo - ESRB Rates ARK Park M!
LameWolfProductions - Raider Claus!
GreenManCartoon - Dam Nuissance!
ARKitect!
This is an award given to Survivors to celebrate the amazing structures you build. These bases are judged based upon a number of different factors such as their creativity, uniqueness, how fun of a base it is, the difficulty of building it, the functionality it provides and much more!
The ARKitect for Community Crunch 76 is…
Wolf Angelus for their incredible festive and fantastic Holiday Village!
We had a lot of great entries to round up the year, so let's also give a huge congratulations to our runner ups
Valoule's Fireplace!
Full album here :http://imgur.com/a/S4Mf5
yespleaze's Neuschewanstein Castle
Check out their steam profile for more images: http://steamcommunity.com/id/yespleaze/screenshots/?appid=346110
TheCouchPotatoYT - The ARK-MAS Tree!
If you'd like to check out the submissions from the rest of the entrants, you can do so here:
Fan Feature!
UniteTheClans - ARK Tudor House
KISHK0's Best Locations on The Center
KISHK0's 2x2 Base Design for Scorched Earth
Stoneydradon86 - The Ruins of FrostBourne Keep & The Lava Jungles
Kortniechan - Epic Boat Showcase
EXFIB0 - Late Game Base Build
LameWolfProductions - Sal The Gigantopithecus
GeonWAR's - Tips to Throw out a Titan!
LameWolfProductions - A TEK Tier Christmas
Arahli - The Overlook Brewery!
2Ton Gamer - Modded Map 'KnowWhere' Fly Through
The Timid Warrior by Freyaloi
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=821435981
Proud Mommy by Violet
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=824155770
Jerboa Painting by runswithpencils!
Pixel Dino #2 - Allosaurus by Жириновский В.В
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=819857396
Darken-Si's Baby Dino Collection! 
You can check out all their awesome artwork on their profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198200524745/images/?appid=346110
Starclan's Raptor Claus!
DodoDex Half A Million Downloads!
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=828731918
Desert Rode vs DodoWyvern
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=823697403
The Island Map Info by Exhumed
Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=824757890
That's it for this post guys! We'll have a Digest posted on Sunday, so check back on this thread
Thank you and we hope you have a Happy New Year!
As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/survivetheark
Facebook: www.facebook.com/survivetheark
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/playark
Imzy: https://www.imzy.com/ark
Much love,
Studio Wildcard
Edited by Jat
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