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  • TLC Pass 2: Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaur, & Triceratops!

    Patch v279 finds its way charge through the ARK with new some tender loving care for some old friends! The Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaur, and Triceratops find themselves receiving varied gameplay and visual upgrades! 

    Here's a breakdown of the six creatures that received improvements in this TLC pass:

    Dino TLC - The Argentavis!

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    - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities:
    - Can carry two creatures
            C - grabs/releases creatures with beak
            Right Click - grabs/releases creatures with claws
    - Health regen buff from consuming corpses
    - Saddle acts as a mobile crafting station
    - Reduced the weight of various resources by up to 50% (Obsidian, Metal, Metal Ingot, Polymer, and Stone)

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    Dino TLC - The Parasaur!

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    - Receives a sound tweak and some new abilities:
    - Alarm mode
            Can be put in turret mode and check for nearby threats
            Notifies you audibly and visually when threats are present
    - Scare small creatures
            C when ridden - scares away small/mid creatures
            Toggle for alarm mode to have it automatically do it
    - Scan
            Can trigger a scan (right click) when ridden
            Scans for nearby threats
            Notifies you visually when threats are present

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    Dino TLC - The Raptor!

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    - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities:
    - Pounce
            press right click to pounce on a target
            pins small targets to ground for short period
            press left click to attack repeatedly
    - Pack Buff
           Activates with C key when 2 Raptors (with a max pack size of 6) are together
            Increases damage resistance
            Increases movement speed
            Increases attack speed
            Lasts 15s

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    Dino TLC - The Sarcosuchus!

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    - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities:
    - Idles with mouth open now
    - Death roll
            Grabs its target and rolls dealing damage and disabling them
    - Lunge
            Can lunge towards a target in front of it
    - 180 attack
            Can spin in place to attack foes behind it
    - Walkable
            Allows friendly humans to walk on and stand on its back
            Useful in water, you can move them to surface and use as a raft
    - Swimming depth
            Maintains its current depth when swimming
            Can lurk just below the surface
    - Piranhas Flee
            Piranhas flee when they encounter a Sarcosuchus
            Includes nearby ally Sarcos for players

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    Dino TLC - The Spinosaur!

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    - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities:
    - Water buff
            Given when in water
            Bonus movement speed
            Bonus turning radius
            Bonus attack damage
            Bonus healing
            Persists for short period after leaving the water
    - Added Biped/Quadruped toggled with right-click
        Biped
            Stronger attacks
            Can turn in place
     Quadruped
            Faster movement speed
    - Prefers prime fish for taming

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    Dino TLC - The Triceratops!

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    - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities:
    - Ram
            Charge up for short period
            Longer it's charged, the faster it goes
            Cripples target when hit
            Knocks small dinos away while charging (charge a group of dodos to see)
    - Rivalry buff
            Given buff when nearby to large carnivores
            Increases damage output slightly
            Decreases damage taken slightly
            Increases health by 10%

    Miscellaneous notes for v279!

    - Ragnarok update
        Streaming bounds fix to help with memory
        Fixed multiple holes, bugged beacons, and floating foliage.
        Better lighting around LL dungeon
    - Hole fixes for
        Aberration
        The Center
        The Island
    - Fixed an issue where Griffin feather colours appeared to be default in single player.
    - Opened up transfers for the non-aberrant version of creatures to be transferred onto Aberration. For example, both Paracer and Aberrant Paracer can exist on Aberration.

    Going forward!

    That's it for this update guys! We hope you enjoy the new changes and we can't wait to see your feedback. As mentioned previously, we're targetting a console release for this update in mid-April and will keep you posted about more accurate release dates once we get closer to submitting the patch. We'll need a bit more time to work on Primitive+, it'll have the missing engrams for the DLC as well as the latest Dino TLC content in an upcoming patch!

    Now that TLC #2 has been released we will be turning our focus more directly on to bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements for the core game in the weeks ahead. Going forward, we'll be consolidating the patching process on PC. We will be leaning heavily on regular Tuesday (or Wednesday if needed) deployments unless critical fixes require patches outside of that regular patch day. These will become collective weekly bug and quality-of-life patching updates. 

    PS4 North America Sale!

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    ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend!

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    Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the 23rd of March at 1 PM EST until Monday at 3 PM. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    2x Harvesting Rate
    2x Taming Rate
    2x EXP Rate

    Not to mention our current Evolution Event is still running until Wednesday the 21st at 3 PM EST!

    Community Crunch 123!

    If you hadn't seen, we posted our latest Community Crunch yesterday, so check it out to see the latest from our Mod Community Manager, Zen Rowe and the most recent community contest winners and fan features!

    That's it for this announcement guys! We hope you enjoy the new update! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on:

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    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    2 minutes ago, Frostitute said:

    A headsup that it will be 12GB would have been good. RIP baby dinos that will now starve to death.

    The time window from announcement to server shutdown was also too short like less than 5 mins, maybe 3. For ppl doing an egg run would panic lol.

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    it is a beautiful and great update, I am delighted! Since the time I waited for a cry for the raptor that was terrible especially in terms of immersion!
     

    Thanks so much !! 

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    Don't see any tab in the inventory of Argentavis to craft stuff. Tried putting mats and a bp in it's inventory like the Castoroides, no option on the bp to craft it. Have I misunderstood smth., or is it a bug?:/

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    44 minutes ago, Crank said:

    Don't see any tab in the inventory of Argentavis to craft stuff. Tried putting mats and a bp in it's inventory like the Castoroides, no option on the bp to craft it. Have I misunderstood smth., or is it a bug?:/

    Does it have the saddle on?

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    4 minutes ago, GP said:

    Does it have the saddle on?

    Yes. Tried removing it and putting it back on too. Have you tried it? :(

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    Yes I'm not seeing any crafting option either like we see with the beavers.

     

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    How does the Argi Saddle work? I dont see any engrams in there

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    Alright, so raptors now have that barking sound from Jurassic Park 3, which is both ridiculous and illegal, isn't it?

     

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    unless it's just something borked in Primitive Plus, but the argent saddles have no engrams listed.  The right click takes up stamina, yet gives no animation. And I have only been able to pick up a tamed dodo once in about 100 attempts with it.  The C pickup seems to do nothing as it gives no animation, takes up no stamina and doesn't pick anything up.  I have tried pressing C and holding down C while both flying and on the ground.

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    Ark please, we don't need more dlcs or tlc. All I want is a darn fix to undermapping. I can't play the game without fearing for my tames and base being ruined without a preventable solution. The only way we have to defend ourselves is to defend the positions they use to do it but almost anywhere can be used on the Ragnarok map. I just watched a video of a guy showing the entirety of youtube how to under map on island and center. FIX THIS PLEASE!

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    Reading this now, I can't wait for it to hit Xbox. I need this update in my life. LOL!

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    Hello, so I was wondering if we can get something like a server setting were you as a server owner can enable classic flyers, because in my opinion taking flyer speed increase ruined my love of argent and quetzal, so something like classic flyers would be amazing, thank you!

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    I found two issues :

    - The argentavis saddle doesn't show an option for crafting station

    - Raptors don't have pack buff (i've like 30 of them, any buff like wolves)

    The rest looks to work, really good job, i love how you manage the behavior of the argentavis (even i don't like this dino :p). Good job WC!

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    49 minutes ago, slowpokefarm said:

    Alright, so raptors now have that barking sound from Jurassic Park 3, which is both ridiculous and illegal, isn't it?

     

    I have been wondering the same for months. They've had that plausibly copyrighted bark since level-up animations. Also what about the Nameless Queen/King and Ridley Scott's Alien? Not sure how the laws work for that. Hopefully they don't get sued again.

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    The Argy is probably one of the best re-balances to date. I used to use them all the time early-game to fly to mountain tops and carry back resources, so I love how instead of making it more difficult to do that, they actually incentivized it. Overall, these are great changes to make Argys not completely obsolete to gryphons & wyverns IMO.

    I've heard some argue that ruins the game because it takes away exploration, but I disagree. There's nothing stopping anyone from doing the same with non-fliers, since now many of the land dinos are getting reworked as well.

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    1 hour ago, Alocoste said:

    I found two issues :

    - The argentavis saddle doesn't show an option for crafting station

    - Raptors don't have pack buff (i've like 30 of them, any buff like wolves)

    The rest looks to work, really good job, i love how you manage the behavior of the argentavis (even i don't like this dino :p). Good job WC!

    apparently ur supposed to activate the pack buff, its not a passive boost

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    Just now, rororoxor said:

    apparently ur supposed to activate the pack buff, its not a passive boost

    I did, nothing happened :/

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    hello, i cant carry Castoroides with Argentavis right now. Is it possible? Other dinos i can carry normaly. I hope, it is just bug...

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    Holding down right click to pin stuff with raptor throws me off after it pins the animal down... lol. I thought you would stay on since you have to hold left click to do damage... Also, had 3 tamed raptors with each other on aberration, pressed C, nothing happened.

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    3 minutes ago, Slvr said:

    Holding down right click to pin stuff with raptor throws me off after it pins the animal down... lol. I thought you would stay on since you have to hold left click to do damage... Also, had 3 tamed raptors with each other on aberration, pressed C, nothing happened.

    Yeah, i've also this issue : the raptor also threw me off when he pins to a dodo. Kind annoying.

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    You originally had bug fixes and QoL changes planned to be released with this patch!

    You removed them when badart4badark showed up. Stating after this TLC you were going to focus on Bugs and QoL changes.

    Ya okay, like we arent smart enough to know you are just playing us. Removing the bug fixes and QoL and pretending like the next patch was JUST FOR US.

    I have no doubt all the fixes you HAD planned to release with this patch are going to be in the next patch while you pretend thee entire time you have our best interest in mind and badart4badark worked.

    "Hey guys remove the bug fixes and QoL from this next TLC patch and just put them out later and claim we were "listening", they'll never know weve already had these fixes sitting around ready for deployment. It'll totally fool them. In the mean time Bob since you have nothing to do for 3-4 weeks since you arent fixing bugs you can work on the next DLC and make sure its very mod compatible so our modders can fix our game and make it better, then we'll just hire them when it gets popular and have them work on something COMPLETELY different than the original work 

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    Just now, TeRyn said:

    You originally had bug fixes and QoL changes planned to be released with this patch!

    You removed them when badart4badark showed up. Stating after this TLC you were going to focus on Bugs and QoL changes.

    Ya okay, like we arent smart enough to know you are just playing us. Removing the bug fixes and QoL and pretending like the next patch was JUST FOR US.

    I have no doubt all the fixes you HAD planned to release with this patch are going to be in the next patch while you pretend thee entire time you have our best interest in mind and badart4badark worked.

    "Hey guys remove the bug fixes and QoL from this next TLC patch and just put them out later and claim we were "listening", they'll never know weve already had these fixes sitting around ready for deployment. It'll totally fool them. In the mean time Bob since you have nothing to do for 3-4 weeks since you arent fixing bugs you can work on the next DLC and make sure its very mod compatible so our modders can fix our game and make it better, then we'll just hire them when it gets popular and have them work on something COMPLETELY different than the original work 

    There are bug fixes in the TLC #2.

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    4 minutes ago, GP said:

    There are bug fixes in the TLC #2.

    Yes 6 fixes out of 600(give or take). Good dent, great start.

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    Just now, TeRyn said:

    Yes 6 fixes out of 600(give or take). Good dent, great start.

    Plucking a number of 600 out of thin air is pointless. They said there would be fixes in the TLC #2 and there were fixes. You can say the same thing here or Reddit, but it doesn't change the fact you are complaining about no fixes when there were fixes and throwing around a random number of 600 like a lunatic.

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    The TLC turned out great! I have my ups and downs about the Spino. It's quad walk isn't as preferable to me, but the sprint actually looks better for it's new, quite impressive movement speed. The biped stance a bit too upright. It runs like a Pegomastax. If it leaned over a bit more, it's strides could be longer more like the Giga. The new Spino is certainly very reptilian in animation which I'm even with at the moment. I'm sure I'll get used to it. The design of the model is fantastic and the water buff is a lot of fun to use.

    The Argentavis is probably the biggest visual improvement. I really have no complaints about it. Just a full on improvement there. Trikes look great and move so much better than before. The Sarco is another up and down. There's things from the old version i like, especially since the colors seemed to change a bit. My once green and black sarco is now a dusty brown somehow. Raptors did the same thing but otherwise look much better, especially the features. ^^

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