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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:

    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
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    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
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    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

    :Jerblove:

    Edited by Jatheish


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    2 minutes ago, GP said:

    It's on Aberration.

    Thanks GP. At the guy that brought it up, so for anyone on SE or island this has no value and basically has no bearing on this argentavis discussion lol

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    10 minutes ago, DRUNKNSPIDER said:

    Anyone know when the update to hit xbox one

    Read the changelog for xbox on the main page, next week, no exact date yet

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    1 hour ago, oOAquaOo said:

    Is there a more specific date for the console TLC update?

    Not at this time, it is still next week sometime.

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    I hope the patch goes live around 8am CST in the USA, then I would have all day at work for the patch to update on my PS4. So I won't sit around all night waiting for it.

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    4 hours ago, Aushegun said:

    I hope the patch goes live around 8am CST in the USA, then I would have all day at work for the patch to update on my PS4. So I won't sit around all night waiting for it.

    I hope it hits around midnight so i have a lot of time to let it download lol

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    Jat or some other moderator: where is the changelog? More change has occured than specified in this article and I'd like to see it all.

    For example I would like to know why I can no longer climb all the way up most small redwood trees with climbing hooks on the aberration map, making all my taps redundant.

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    15 minutes ago, Dibdab said:

    Jat or some other moderator: where is the changelog? More change has occured than specified in this article and I'd like to see it all.

    For example I would like to know why I can no longer climb all the way up most small redwood trees with climbing hooks on the aberration map, making all my taps redundant.

    The main page has all 3 logs at the top

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    31 minutes ago, Onimusha759 said:

    The main page has all 3 logs at the top

    Link? do you mean the one that has Xbox, PC and PS4 logs cause those don't have these 'minor' changes they keep leaving out either

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    3 hours ago, Dibdab said:

    Link? do you mean the one that has Xbox, PC and PS4 logs cause those don't have these 'minor' changes they keep leaving out either

    Those are the only notes available on the forums.  Either  its a stealth patch, or a bug from the patch.

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    I can confirm more was effected then they said would be.  My guy runs a lil faster, dilos no longer spit, and the parasaur does have new looks tho the devs repeatedly said it would have nothing done to its appearance.

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    59 minutes ago, Nursek said:

    Anyone know when tlc2 will be on prim plus?

    There is no date for it yet, they are currently working on it, that is all we know so far.

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    How do this new patch work on the console xbox one as all the things talk about pc control's nothing on xbox one controllers 

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    2 hours ago, Clint1966 said:

    How do this new patch work on the console xbox one as all the things talk about pc control's nothing on xbox one controllers 

    Left click means right trigger, right click means left trigger, C means click right stick.

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