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  • Happy Birthday ARK: Year Three!

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    ARK: Survival Evolved is celebrating it's 3rd birthday today! It's been three whole years since we first entered into Early Access on Steam. The game has grown tremendously, from walking naked on a beach to defeating the Ultimate Lifeform! We have loved each and every moment of development, meeting you at events, hosting streams, and watching your content. Thank you so much for all the support you've shown us over the last 3 years. We are truly grateful and in celebration have something special in store for our community!

    The Countdown Begins!

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    The countdown to our special event begins! Survivors can look forward to some epic discoveries with new content and challenges, and we'll have even more exciting news coming in the middle of the month, so stay tuned! ;)

    ARK: Evolution Event!

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    Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the Friday the 1st of June at 3 PM EST until Monday the 4th of June at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    2x Harvesting Rates
    2x Taming Rates
    2x Maturation Rates
    2x  Mating and Egg Hatching Rates
    2x EXP Rates

    Year Three of ARK!

    So many amazing things have happened in the world of ARK over the past year. With the help of our vibrant community, we have been able to achieve quite a lot! Today we're taking a look back on all we have accomplished, and taking the time to feature a handful of some of the amazing creations from the community.

    ARK's third year started out with a bang with the release of the map Ragnarok in June.

    Along with the map came the Griffin, a very popular and speedy flying mount that spawns only on Ragnarok.

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    After two years we left early access and officially released ARK in September.

    After ARK's Official release, we continued to pump out content and introduced our dear friends the Otter and Phoenix!

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    With the official release came the first of the live action ARK trailers.

    At PAX West we released the first details and trailer for our latest expansion pack, ARK: Aberration.

    We attended TwitchCon a month later in October and the event was the publics first taste of ARK: Aberration.

    At the beginning of November ARK: Survival Evolved became available on the Xbox One X and with it came our second live action trailer.

    In November we participated once again in the Extra Life campaign raising money for sick kids charities. Together we raised $60,000 over the course of our 24 hour live stream on Twitch.

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    ARK: Aberration released in the middle of December, bringing an entirely new world to explore and strange creatures to battle and befriend.

    The beginning of 2018 saw the first of the TLC pass conducted on five creatures: the Rex, Procoptodon, Gigantopithecus, Direwolf, and Direbear.

    In March we announced ARK: Survival Evolved on Mobile, being developed by our partner War Drum Studios.

    And shortly after ARK for the Nintendo Switch was announced too!

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    Not long after ARK Park was released, a virtual world experience of ARK developed by Snail Games.

    And PixARK came next, combining a voxel base universe with the world of ARK, also developed by Snail Games.

    And most recently to the world of ARK, TLC 2 was unveiled, bringing a new look and new abilities to the Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarco, Spino, and Trike.

    We have barely reached the halfway point into 2018 and we're very excited for what the next few months have in store.

    Our Community Faves!

    Over the past year, there have been some amazing creations done by our community. We would be here all day showcasing all of them, so here is a small collection of just a few of our favourites.

    Artwork

    Featherlight by runswithpencil 

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    Ark Dodo by ClayOnOrDieTrying

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    Sleeping Allosaurus by Albina Diamond

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    Rock Drake Painting by HellaHezz

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    Reaper by WYF

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    Watercolor Yuty by Milkshake

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    "Abberation Basilisk Warrior" by FollyVentures

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    Ragnarok Offical by MisVoltz

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    Videos

    ARK: Aberration Song | Not Afraid of the Dark | (ARK: Survival Evolved) by NerdOut

    PALEO ARK Episode 2: The limits of Tyrants by UpFromTheDepths

    THIS IS ABERRATION | ARK: Survival Evolved | Epic Cinematic by MAVE

    ARK: Survival Evolved | Aberration | The Cinematic Experience by Jukari

    ARK In A Nutshell by Neebs Gaming

    ANSEL

    Blue Dragon - Something new

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    Wolf Amaterasu - Ferocious Rex

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    Ego - Frost&Fire

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    Kana - I leave it in your hands

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    StateofMynd42 - Train Your Dragon

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    Builds

    GGFizz's Ragnarok Viking Town

    Submarine Underwater Base, PvE (ARK) by Sitharias!

    Classic Donkey Kong Arcade (Stages 1-3) by Wolf Angelus

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    ARK SURVIVAL MUTATION ZOO TOUR WITH TINY HUMAN! TONS OF MUTATED DINOS! by TagBackTV

    CASTLE BLACK BUILD, Game of Thrones by The Pilgrimz Project

    Thousand Sunny by Valoule

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    Mod Showcase!

    Hello everyone, Zen here. While I have not been the Mod Community Manager for this full past year, I have been a part of the modding community for it. I have watched it grow and change. The last year has seen a considerable shift in modding. The community has been evolving in their understanding of the Dev Kit, more people are learning how to take advantage of the features of UE4, and knowledge is shared more freely than ever. The Sponsored Mod Program as well has seen some significant roster changes.

    We have had some longtime favorites in the program, such as Survival Plus.

    Some have significantly expanded, such as Eco's decor and RP mods, or the ISO: Crystal Isles map.

    We have also seen some excellent talent step from the shadows as we did with immersive taming.

    I have also watched the mod authors work together to create linkages between mods. The Auction House is starting to get methods to allow other mods to change the visual theme of the mod. Dragonpunk has been pulling together mods of its creation but also building with other mods in mind and incorporating them into their hosted servers.

    It's been an excellent year for modding, and I will continue to encourage the healthy and cooperative tone that the modding community has been adopting.

    Thank You!

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    On behalf of everyone here at Studio Wildcard, thank you for joining us on this journey and for being an awesome member of our Tribe!

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    @Wildcard and all the other people who making this game great. Thank you for this awsome game you made for us! How you stay in contact with the community is great.

    And yes, Evolution Event is always a pleasure. 3 years of ark will be a 3x event, huh? ?

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    Happy Level-UP day #ARK. the game I played so much for the last 2.5y. Thank you!

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    It has definitely been the best game i have ever played, and to think it has been 3 years.

    Hoping to see the game develop more with a fan base that love it and developers who care about it.

    The countdown (i'm hoping) could possibly be a content drop, for extinction (twitch event or something) or possibly adding these dinos into added into the game (i'd love to see them in the game) and it'll go hand in hand with Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.

    Hears to another year Wildcard.

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    Ahhh Good times! I remember putting all that decor on Fizz's Viking Town... took me a week and lots of late nights!!

    Happy Birthday Ark... Still my absolute favorite game.. have been playing off and on over the three years, and still have much to do in game.. it never gets stale!

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    SExcuse me wildcard, but will the Elusive Doctored be on the PS4 this year at all? Because I've tried countless times to get it, but to no avail. And yes I know it's only on events.

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    I love ark! And congratz on the 3 years. Yet i find it very sad that there are soooo many bugs,low hit marks or other things ruining the game

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    Just posting for member status. Need those tripwire notifications ya’ll

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    In the count down banner do I see a silhouette of a shovel on the left?

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    1350 h... give some love to prim+ :) gratulations btw

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    Happy birthday ark, honoured to be part of the community favourites, thank you :) looking forward to what's coming up next! 

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    When you're done patting yourselves on the back you can hurry up and get the ini setting to remove the garbage flyer nerf that should have already been gone for OVER a year ago now. Actual competent, professional Devs would have had it just 1 month in.

    Then again competent Devs know how to properly balance for single player mode in the first place.

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    I just want to wish ark and studio wildcard happy birthday, I have been here since the first 6 months of beta release. I have spent thousands of hours playing ark I am in love with it. I took a break from ark for a while but I' M BACK.

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    life finds a way is from jurrasic world

    en the left hand side you can see a dracorex, jurrasic world

    on the right hand side you can see a trice,but if you look closely you can see stego spikes on its back wich means it is a stegoceratops stegoceratops =hybrid hybrids are from jurrasic world

    is there a link between ark and jurrasic world?

     

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    7000Hs dont like ark XD 

    well here we are one more years of ark.
    one year less life.
    a year + without knowing what event it is going to have.
    which map will have the events as in the pascoa that we did not have again dodos egg.
    small details without going deeper.

    Happy Birthday

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    10 hours ago, niels said:

    la vida encuentra una manera es del mundo jurrasic

    En el lado izquierdo puede ver un dracorex, mundo jurrasic

    en el lado derecho puedes ver un poco, pero si miras de cerca puedes ver picos de stego en su parte posterior, lo que significa que es un stegoceratops stegoceratops = los híbridos híbridos son del mundo jurásico

    ¿Hay un vínculo entre el arca y el mundo jurídico?

     

    yes

     

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    I love this game so much! It’s so much fun sometimes, happy birthday ark! But I also have a question and I’m not sure where to post it so here we go. I started playing ark primitive plus on Xbox one yesterday and I noticed a few bugs. Along with the TLC updates not working for p+. My question is are you guys going to bring primitive plus up to date with all other content in the game? 

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