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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!

    :Jerblove:


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    HYPE!

    It's been an amazing three years and I've loved every moment of it!

    Looking forward to seeing what is coming up in the next few months!

    :Jerblove:

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    Man I thought year 3 would be a 3x event.  Afterall you guys said, 'next year is 3x'. :)

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    Happy Birthday, ARK! You are best!  :Jerblove:

    We are waiting for news with impatience ^_^

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    Happy Birthday Ark! This game has been one of the best time sinks I've been into. Hmm, I should go food shopping or something some day.

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    Thank you for an amazing game. Can't wait to see what's happening next!

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    Happy Birthday Ark :) Looking forward to what the future brings ! Congrats to the team :)

    :Jerblove:

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    I cant be more excited for new content, I love what you are doing for the game. Happy birthday!!!!!! 

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    Happy Birthday Ark and to all of you at WC.. 

    Can't believe i spent over 6k hours on official servers during the last 3 years and my thirst to play still hasn't diminished. 

    Sure the game isn't perfect and i so wish i had the power to make 6 changes that would improve Ark 10x's over but it's still by far the best game I've every played :) 

     

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    feels like a 10 year old game where devs have scattered onto their next projects and servers are being run rampant by the sick masochists, making up their own rules. trust me when i say this but neither of the official game modes provide the "community content" advertised here. there's nothing about wiping 2 years worth of progress on launch day, the way they did it. or SOTF and the tournaments where, as far as i recall, 2 asian teams collaborated and ticked out their 1st and 2nd standings. i'm sorry to be the negative guy again but that's where things are 3 years in. the birthday event is just a reminder of how time has flown on "what could have been's"

    :/

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    Happy Birthday Ark

    I have a theory that they my release Ark: Primal Survival ?

     

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    Does this image at the beginning confirm Brachiosaurus, Styracosaurus and Stygimoloch are going to join the game? This would be great!

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    happy birthday any more information about the event that the countdown is for?

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    Happy Birthday ARK ! :Jerblove: Can't wait for the next and final DLC and the end of the countdown to see what is the "archeological event" !!

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    2 minutes ago, Duplodragon said:

    Does this image at the beginning confirm Brachiosaurus, Styracosaurus and Stygimoloch are going to join the game? This would be great!

    Maybe in Extinction

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    1 hour ago, Duplodragon said:

    Does this image at the beginning confirm Brachiosaurus, Styracosaurus and Stygimoloch are going to join the game? This would be great!

    God i wish, i don't remember if i ever was more hyped for ARK.  I love extinct animals so i hope they make more of them like Gorgonopsid or Pliosaurus

     

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    So the evolution event started yesterday? Not happening for my game at the moment. At least new content is good news.

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    The countdown ends at the final day of E3, also im literally praying for them to announce extinction at E3.

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    Congratulations and Happy Birthday!  Some great stuff surfaced this year, some of it actually slipped past me so thank you tremendously for featuring it here.  What a delight.  My your content continue to increase and your non tameable bugs be eradicated as you continue to grow. 

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    Glad I could be part of everyone's adventure! Happy Birthday you guys, I've been waiting for a while for some news ?  ?:Jerblove:

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    5 hours ago, eESTlane said:

    feels like a 10 year old game where devs have scattered onto their next projects and servers are being run rampant by the sick masochists, making up their own rules. trust me when i say this but neither of the official game modes provide the "community content" advertised here. there's nothing about wiping 2 years worth of progress on launch day, the way they did it. or SOTF and the tournaments where, as far as i recall, 2 asian teams collaborated and ticked out their 1st and 2nd standings. i'm sorry to be the negative guy again but that's where things are 3 years in. the birthday event is just a reminder of how time has flown on "what could have been's"

    :/

    well, poop we were all thinking it but you didn't have to say it like that. I mean they are working on a l o t of poop at the same time, just let them work it out. I have a feeling you are just a bit too up-tight! ?

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