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  • Patch 256: Equus, Leedsichthys, Ichthyornis, Iguanodon, Underwater Bases, & More!

    Patch v256 comes to you today crammed with new content, including vacuum-sealed underwater bases and aquatic creature breeding, TEK teleporter pads and wireless generators, and four new creatures. It also brings the first major menu redesign of ARK, as the Inventory UI receives a complete visual and functional overhaul for a streamlined new look. This is a huge upgrade that means easier access to everything in the player’s inventory. 

    The TEK Tier for ARK is being implemented in multiple phases, with today’s update including awesome new element powered gear like: 

    TEK Underwater Bases! This allows fully-enclosed structures to be created underwater, with ventilators to allow oxygen filled room. Air-locks allow players to enter and exit without flooding their base.

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    TEK Power Generator! This wireless generators power TEK structures and any Tribe electrical structures in adjustable range. 

    TEK Teleporter! Easily and quickly move around the expansive open-world island, but very challenging and expensive to obtain!

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    TEK Mosa Saddle! Once placed on the Mosasaur it equips the beast with lasers and more.

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    TEK Tier content is a wave of sci-fi-themed, end-game features that reward hard-working Survivors with awesomely futuristic gear and guns. Players wanting TEK Tier loot will need to gather the newly introduced Element resource, which is granted after successfully completing Boss Arenas. Each Boss has three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard) and after defeating the respective Boss are awarded with unique TEK Knowledge engrams, element and other general Boss Rewards. Collect the Element, then use the TEK Replicator to craft all TEK items!

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    Likely an ancestor to the modern horse, Equus Magnus is a much larger steed, and when tamed, can be used in much the same way - riding, herding, and used as pack animals. Equus is so large, in fact, tribes have been known to not only ride them, but attach extra large saddlebags to them, essentially making them into mobile research and crafting stations.

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    Craftable within the Equus' saddle inventory, the new Lasso item can be used to wrangle creatures and players while riding. Now you can live out your cowboy dreams in ARK!

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    If Survivors are lucky, they may come across a majestic sight. The Unicorn is the rarest creature on the Island, with it's white coat and horn protruding from its' forehead. It can be tamed just like the normal Equus. However, only one of these magical creatures exists on the map at one time, so treat it with the utmost care!

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    Leedsichthys Conviviumbrosia is the largest fish in the waters around the island. Its meat is also extremely succulent which is unusual given its size. It is often traded with the same value as Prime Meat, and colloquially called 'Prime Fish'. Of little taming value, tribes do keep schools of Leedsichthys in pens for meat, as it is so huge, chunks of meat can be cut from it without causing it death or permanent injury. 

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    While Leeds is normally passive towards humans, it is extremely aggressive towards boats on the open water. Rafts that enter its' territory will quickly find themselves in grave trouble and will be forced to fight or flee, or lose their home.

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    The alpha Leedsichthys, which is somehow even larger than the average Leeds, is massive and white in colour. If a Survivor manages to kill the beast, they will be rewarded with lots of fish meat and a special cosmetic skin hidden within it's belly.

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    Iguanodon Vicissitudinis is a large herbivorous dinosaur that bears a strong resemblance to the Parasaurolophus but without the distinct head crest. Iguanodon has two spike-like thumbs for prying fruits open to pick out the seeds and for  stabbing would-be predators. They are as capable of walking on all fours as they are on just their hind legs. Combined with its highly effective fruit harvesting and substantial carry weight, the Iguanodon's excellent mobility in bipedal stance makes it an ideal field-hand that can also pull off a quick get-away, or an agile defense, when needed.

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    Considered just a "plain old" normal seagull, Ichthyornis Piscoquus lives near beaches, surviving off of native fish. While timid by nature, if tamed, they become partners for their tamer, riding their shoulders. Survivors can send their tamed Ichthy to attack small prey such as fish, dodos, and compys. The fish it brings back are rich in meat and far better than a Survivor would be able to catch by hand, making the gull very useful.

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    A long time coming, Patch 256 finally brings breeding to the aquatic and amphibious creatures of the ARK. Underwater eggs cannot be picked up by players as they cannot survive out of water, so plan ahead carefully! Underwater eggs will incubate in water at all times so there is no need to monitor their temperature. These adorable little ones will certainly steal their way into your heart.

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    In addition to all of the above (it's a lot!), this patch also includes the following:

    • Lots of new in-game sounds
    • 1 New Hairstyle and 1 New Facial hairstyle (Growable ponytails with full physics and mutton chops!)
    • 30+ new Explorer Notes

    The full patch notes for version 256 can be seen here:

    Weekend Sale!

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    From today through to April 3rd, ARK is 67% off and Scorched Earth is 51% off on Steam! 

    Additionally, the ARK “Survivor’s Pack” on PS4 is currently 25% off from March 28th through to April 4th!

    If you or your friends haven't picked up a copy, now is definitely the time to do so!

    ARK: Evolution Event Weekend!

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    Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! The Evolution Event will be active until Monday the 3rd at 12PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    1.5x Harvesting Rate
    1.5x Taming Rate
    1.5x EXP Rate

    Reminder: this 1.5x bonus is on top of the 2x rates that are now standard on our official servers!

    Thank you Survivors! We hope you enjoy the update!

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    9 minutes ago, Whirlybird said:

    as someone who plays on a private server with only friends and zero PVP, the bird nerf annoys the crap out of me but not nearly as much as the raft murdering fish. as soon as i found out this was a thing, i had to log in and move all my valuables out of my rafts and into a land base. i guess exploring the seas are a no go now :/

    On the other hand, turrets now work underwater. Maybe you could set up a dock or something to protect it :)

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    Just now, Wazzamaniac said:

    On the other hand, turrets now work underwater. Maybe you could set up a dock or something to protect it :)

    yeah but i have like 4 rafts, each with a specific purpose (one for taming, one for travel, one for moving materials back and forth, one for transporting dinos, etc) and I don't have the time nor the resources to build turreted docks for each one all over the map.

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    4 minutes ago, Whirlybird said:

    yeah but i have like 4 rafts, each with a specific purpose (one for taming, one for travel, one for moving materials back and forth, one for transporting dinos, etc) and I don't have the time nor the resources to build turreted docks for each one all over the map.

    Well, now your rafts have only 1 specific purpose, to be eaten by a stupid moby-sausage-wanna-be fish with an attitude. Also, leed can break your raft even if its heavily protected from external attacks.

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    1 hour ago, chrissytheblesser said:

    I am enjoying a lot of the sound edits and I hate to be negative about so much but PLEASE give us our T Rex roar back.  All the reverb is gone.  They sound like they are roaring from under water.  Having my rex roar was one of those "Wow, how cool" moments in the game and you took that away too.  No insult to whatever the process was that made the decision to make them sound like a lizard hissing from under a puddle........but,  I am respectfully pleading for that awesome RAWR to come back. 

    And the Pteras sound like a rumbling stomach growl.  The previous sound was much better.  

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    Ok, Lets go over this Flying Nerf..

    1: its almost impossible to get wyvern eggs because you aren't fast enough to escape.

    2: Farming with a queltz now is horrible because they need to land for stamina constantly.

    3: For those of us who can get Wyverns or have one already you can use your poison/fire/lighting about 1-2 times before having to get more stamina. 

     

    The Speed, and stamina nerf alone is going to make many players not play this game.  Including me and my friends.  

     

    1 explosive per dino. (Bye C4 bombing)

    Speed and stam nerf (Bye Ptera Scouting, Wyvern Everything, Queltz Farming)

     

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    i hate this patch so much because i have been hyped for underwater bases for the entire time they were first announced, and i didnt even know they were being released until today and i was so so happy about it

    and then you ruin flyers, make it unbearable to move across the map, impossible to tame wyverns, and make wyverns not even worth the 4 days you need to go get milk for them(with tames that are 90% likely to die everytime you go to get milk, only ensuring to frustrate you) in the same patch

    i wanted an underwater base, i really did, but if this change doesnt get reverted, its not even worth taming pteras or wyverns, and considering my entire set up is on scorched earth atm, i dont even care to play because all the travel i do is via flyers(and good luck doing metal runs on any of the land animals, youre better off loading yourself with metal and parachuting off the mountains back to your base)
    you simultaneously added the thing ive been so hyped for for the entire 2k hours i have, and made me not want to play the game in the same patch(and the reason didnt even have to do with how you get underwater bases)

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    10 hours ago, DinoDash said:

    Flier nerf? 

    my bet is that is an April fools day troll

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    1 hour ago, Tygar15 said:

    Ok, Lets go over this Flying Nerf..

    1: its almost impossible to get wyvern eggs because you aren't fast enough to escape.

    2: Farming with a queltz now is horrible because they need to land for stamina constantly.

    3: For those of us who can get Wyverns or have one already you can use your poison/fire/lighting about 1-2 times before having to get more stamina. 

     

    The Speed, and stamina nerf alone is going to make many players not play this game.  Including me and my friends.  

     

    1 explosive per dino. (Bye C4 bombing)

    Speed and stam nerf (Bye Ptera Scouting, Wyvern Everything, Queltz Farming)

     

    My bet is that it is an April fools troll by the devs ... Has anyone confirmed that the flyers have been nerfed?

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    Yes, they have been nerfed... hard.

    Basically no flyers can level up movement speed, nor is imprinting giving any bonus to it. Also basically all their stamina pools went to hell, (e.g. my 1k stamina, lightning wyvern went down to 350 | 1400 stamina quetz went to 400-somethingish).

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    Biggest poop in my eyes. PTERA, QUetz nerv man hly poop Tamed lvl 20 Ptera 135 speed 100 STAMM????? Breed PTERA 135 speed 400 STAMM SRY GUYS Iam OUT!

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    6 minutes ago, ooStuStu said:

    My bet is that it is an April fools troll by the devs ... Has anyone confirmed that the flyers have been nerfed?

    Seriously?  Of course its confirmed........the "game is ruined" comments are not about a hypothetical change.  I just spent over 1 hour flying 1/2 way accross the Center map and back.  Stopping at EVERY GD island to get stam and flying at half speed.  I run a private server with friends and the promises that there is a way to bypass this nerf are hollow so far.  My friends are all fed up and want to quit - its just too frustrating.  I have no problem with them adjusting the OP nature of the flyers - but they didn't do it right.  Each type of flyer and its utility and base stats should have been examined.  There should have been separate rules for PVP servers vs PVE since they face entirely different issues.  The MAP that the flyers on is RELEVANT - the Center is more flyer-dependent in some ways due to size, layout, physical land obstacles, etc.  The nerf needs to be UNDONE WildCard!  Perhaps - redone correctly after some analysis.

    What I don't understand is why there isn't more alpha testing and feedback accumulation before making such a drastic change to existing functionality.  New features are great, but when you are going to change or remove features, its best to at least test them before putting them out there.  Yes, I know this is a "pre-release", but some customer feedback would have been a good idea here.  I predict a mass Exodus - and that's just sad - really loved this game, but not going to sink more money into a server with no enjoyment........

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    4 minutes ago, wickedcpa said:

    Seriously?  Of course its confirmed........the "game is ruined" comments are not about a hypothetical change.  I just spent over 1 hour flying 1/2 way accross the Center map and back.  Stopping at EVERY GD island to get stam and flying at half speed.  I run a private server with friends and the promises that there is a way to bypass this nerf are hollow so far.  My friends are all fed up and want to quit - its just too frustrating.  I have no problem with them adjusting the OP nature of the flyers - but they didn't do it right.  Each type of flyer and its utility and base stats should have been examined.  There should have been separate rules for PVP servers vs PVE since they face entirely different issues.  The MAP that the flyers on is RELEVANT - the Center is more flyer-dependent in some ways due to size, layout, physical land obstacles, etc.  The nerf needs to be UNDONE WildCard!  Perhaps - redone correctly after some analysis.

    What I don't understand is why there isn't more alpha testing and feedback accumulation before making such a drastic change to existing functionality.  New features are great, but when you are going to change or remove features, its best to at least test them before putting them out there.  Yes, I know this is a "pre-release", but some customer feedback would have been a good idea here.  I predict a mass Exodus - and that's just sad - really loved this game, but not going to sink more money into a server with no enjoyment........

     

    Surely the player base will not stand for this ..and it will be reversed

     

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    Good job youGood job you just made the flyer almost useless. We all love new content but i don't want take 10min to made 1/4 of the map and stop for take back stamina. It just makes the game slow and boring. I know why you do that, for pvp.
    But I think you have not thought about the gameplay comfort. 
     
    I really hope you will find another way to nerf flyer.

     

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    Hellow everybody! Could anyone explain to me, why all achievements on animals became by default, and  i cant return them how i want, my dragon had 235 speed and after update it is 100 speed, and i can return only 40 point to speed, What happend and why it was done?  thanks in advance


     

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    Patch 256 ill sum it up

    The biggest foockk up of WC history in ark

    - still no optimization

    - more dinos that come with bugs

    -1 duping method closed 4 new duping methods opened

    - flying dinos (if you gonna nerf them do it but atleast refund the foockingpoints ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥)

    -steam reviews (gonna be a thumbsdown by end of day)

    - they want to make it more "survival" i thought that what extinction was about..

    - new whale glitching under map on land killing dinos under map in bases while also draining turret bullets or xplant if set to wild.

    -equus alpha tribes can put it in a pen and stop others spawning it or taming because only 1 spawn at a time

    - eels still overpowered single handedly wiping mosas out... (but flyers need nerf kk)

    - steam reviews was positive @ 81% the other day now 66% 

    - There is a reason ARK is on sale its because WC devs just messed the game up soo bad all the original players are leaving.

    - WC devs still ignore pve players

    - underwater breeding bugged already and doesnt work.

    - impossible to steal / get new wyvern fertilized eggs due to wild wyverns being too fast impossible to out fly them with ptera tapjera argie quets dragon and the you will die before you reach the wyvern trap.

    - anyone who is angered by current patch please like all the posts that dont reccomend the game maybe steam/wcdevs will do something about it if they see the big decline in ratings and sales.


    Conclusion - WC devs are clueless downies they have all the information infront of them of how to make ARK the best game ever

    but instead they hire bob an expert ideas guy with experience in korean grinds and runescape that goes against everything ARK is about. 



    #ARKisdead

    Edited by OffskiGodski
    added more cons

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    12 hours ago, UranoMetria said:

    And people thought you would cut things out

    They did a massive nerf to fliers.

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    First of the new creatures I found and tamed today. It was wandering around on Herbivore Island. Are there more than one in SP? Otherwise this would be one hell of a lucky catch... :)

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    This is it guys. I have over 5000h in game, so I'm not a begginer and that guy that dont knows ARK... ok

    I have jsut to say, today, I'm out too... GGs WC

    Waiting for a good reverse maj ...

    Continue with your dumb nerfs and you will lose all of your players....

    How to destroy a good game? You have the best asnwer, this you know how to do...

    #SADnessinside

    #RIPARK

    Edited by Ky0

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    I love the new content really but that flyer nerf was really to hard, change it back to 50% or something like that, but nerfing the stamina AND the speed is just insane....

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    So... i like the new content.. but that flier nerf better be an april´s fool... (and even then ist maybe the worst one ever)

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    I hope flyers nerf is a joke.

    You are gonna lose a lot of players.

    Just go on steam and read comments and new reviews of game.

    GG Wildcards! ;) Enjoy your failure.

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