ARK Digest Q&A!

[ElectroTechNerd]

Some questions I would like to ask are as follows:

1. Could or are you guys going to do a more PvE based update that would include things like more Furniture and Decorations to make PvE a little more interesting in the building department, But could still be used in PvP?

2. Could or are you guys going to ever up the resolution of paints on Players, Dino's, Signs, Ect. I feel that on players and some Dino's they look to Pixelated?

3. This is a more Technical Question could you guys a HDR support for ARK as HDR monitors are coming out?

4. Are a Higher Tier Feeding Troughs still planned?

5. Could you add an option to disable Tribe Dino Transfers or lock it to Admin only for Tribe Privileges?

6. Also is there any planned Alliance Privileged based things so that you could disabling Alliance Building or Alliance members can eat out of your Feeding Troughs? Also Adding the option to Allow Alliance Members to open doors and chests without the need to Pin Code Things if they have the privileges?

Thank you for making the best survival game in my opinion ever!

[Gannicus530]

Will we ever get asc allo saddle blueprints, I've asked on twitter about 5 times or more?

[PhantomPhatts]

Let's see if this post gets read. Primitive+ the lonely part of ark on Xbox the part that keeps getting forgotten. Maybe just maybe wildcard won't ignore me this time and actually give us prim+ players information on the lost update (deleted from patch notes) how sneaky sneaky you are wildcard. 

[Dinoslayer84]

What's is the team's favorite animal?

[pollti]

Will we ever see more different weather types in ARK the island? Maybe storms or high waves on the ocean?

And can you make more queries if you want to leave the tribe, because if you have an one man tribe and you press "leave tribe" accidentally, your whole playing time was pointless and you have built a base which isnt yours...

 

[Inky]

Please add the ability to edit stack size and weight per items

also if you are looking for the next console mod, Please for all things ark make it S+

[DrakeHunter]

Alot of these question focus on an additional technology tier that happens BEFORE Tek but is more focused on Modern or Advanced Technology that is crafted by the player.

1. Any chance of seeing more Modern weapons added into Ark with more attachments? Some idea's below for potentially "new" Modern / Advanced Weapons.

* Compound Crossbow - Comes pre-equipped with an in-built Scope

* Repeating Crossbow - I just imagine a magazine fed crossbow that is semi-automatic or pump action

* Under-Water Spear Gun - Crossbow is nice an all but having a Spear Gun that can shoot multiple times under-water and potentially use upgraded ammo like Tranq Darts would be awesome!

* Magnum Revolver / Magnum Handgun

* Automatic Shotgun - I picture this being the weakest shotgun but loaded via a 12 round drum magazine.

* Sub-Machine Gun - Something else we can use to fire all those Advanced Pistol Bullets.

* Portable Minigun - Something like a downscaled Minigun Turret, it slows you down while equipped and requires a metric ton of ammunition to feed

* Grenade Launcher - Something as a cheaper alternative to the Rocket Launcher with the option for multiple grenade types

* Upgraded Rocket Launcher - Something like a Rocket Pod that holds 4 rockets instead of just 1 but has an appalling slow reload time.

* High Capacity Magazine - Compatible with Magazine based weapons such as the Fab Pistol and Fab Sniper increasing ammunition capacity by x2

* Drum Magazine - Applied to certain weapons such as the Assault Rifle or Auto Shotgun increasing it's ammunition capacity. For Assault Rifles it upgrades it to 100 rounds, for Automatic Shotguns it doubles the ammunition held to 24. 

* Under-Slung Grenade Launcher - Attaches to the Assault Rifle, fires High Explosive impact Grenades and activated by the Melee attack (default ctrl)

* Bayonet - Attaches a Bayonet to certain weapons like the Longneck, Assault Rifle, Pump Action Shotgun and Fab Sniper giving it a bleeding based melee attack.

2. Any plans on adding alternate ammunition, such as Exploding Metal Arrows for the Compound Bow, Shotgun Slugs, Baton/Beanbag Rounds (like a non-lethal shotgun round), AP Bullets or Incendiary rounds for Machine Guns and Sniper Rifles?

3. Any plans on adding in Modern style clothes? I remember WAY back a concept piece showed what looked like a survivor in a bright red jacket which looked very modern almost like a Snow Jacket. Any chance we'll be able to make more modern clothing as technology advances possible using something like Wool or Human Hair?

4. Is there a possibility we may see a another armor tier that is below the potential end-game Tek Tier, kind of like a Modern or an Advanced Tier? I find Riot Armor is too specialised for a general purpose role as it kind of fits in alongside more specialised armors like Fur, Ghillie and Scuba all being used to engage in a certain environment. Something like a modern combat armor which provides better defense than Flak, lower than Riot but offering better environmental defences all around? A possible Heavy Armor would also be something I look forward to, almost like one of those heavy duty bomb suits.

4. Any chance of adding in Vehicles into the full release, ones we can craft but are insanely expensive (almost double the crafting cost of the Industrial Grinder or using specialised Element/Black Pearls in it's construction). I remember the buggy from way back when which can be added in via mods but could we expect to see potentially more vehicles like Motorcycles, Trucks, Boats, Planes, Helicopters and potentially even Armored Attack Vehicles?

5. Someone mentioned a Tek Spyglass and I for one would want that however I'd like to ask if it's possible to add in a normal set of Binoculars (with higher zoom) and a more advanced set made in the fabricator that potentially has an adjustable zoom and/or night vision?

[ZombieDog3]

1. Will it be possible to host/rent a server on PC, and play on it through an Xbox? I remember seeing something about this, but I don't recall the answer. 

2. Could we get a server option to disable certain dino spawns? Like for example, if we did not want raptors, gigas, and brontos to spawn, we could turn them off individually? Or even have the option to make dlc creatures spawn in worlds other than Scorched Earth?

3. Is there any plans for primitive dino armor, other than saddles? Similar to the "Pimp My Rex" mod?

4. Finally, could we get back-mounted turrets for our dinos? Possibly controlled by another player? Similar to this-

[Shocksamurai]

hey guys thanks for all your hard work. with most of the dossiers (appearing to be) released i was kind of hoping for a "Reintroducing" announcement for old dino's to show what they might get in their rework or re-pass.   

[HawkZoned]

6 hours ago, Jat said:

Hey Survivors,

Got a question for the next ARK Digest? Let us know! 

1. Can we get a Scorched Earth Mega-Update with new dinos, new wyvern types, new artifact caves and maybe even a new boss (Manticore gets lonely, you know?) and the ability to breed mantises and wyverns? 

[Jtmorris]

I know split screen on console was an afterthought, but my wife and I love it so much. Thank you for putting in the effort. 

Will there be another pass on split screen? There are a lot of bugs with it (like entering caves or boss fights; using spyglass changes view for 2nd player; can't both transfer items at the same time etc.) 

Also, for boss fights, can Dinos we bring in be spread out a bit? Maybe between a handful of points? It was pretty much impossible to untangle my rexes. 

Loving tek tier! 

[twitchy1992]

would it be possible to add in a underwater weapon that is rifle sized or smaller that is not a torpedo of some kind?

[ArtexTheBEAST]

Will you guys fix the quetzal model. It's left leg looks really weird when you use the bone skin and it looks lke a broken leg without the skin.

[twitchy1992]

Could we get a weapon that is in the same level range as the long neck for use as an intermediate rifle like a lever action carbine or something along those lines?

[Z0mbie]

Will the Artifact Archaeologist, Veteran Paleontologist, and Dodorex achievements for the PC be fixed any time soon?

[Sleiva]

Tamed dinos sometimes disappearing will be soon fixed for PC version?

[ArkBiologist]

Will the underwater base be placeable on dry land?

Could we see a fabricated jumpsuit, that is an all around armor, that encompasses interchangeable parts, like a hood that gives slight agro range  reduction like The ghillie armor, or a thick weave cold resistant chest vest. It could simply be a multi purpose set of gear that can be interchanged and customized visualy and functionaly, to fit the situation like a mid teir tactical wardrobe where they all fit together estheticly but each gives a moderate benefit a well as looking sleek and almost TEK like, but not quite. It could 'bridge the gap between TEK armor, and mid teir armor.''

Hmm?

Sincerely ArkBiologist

Ps, could it look like this?

[TedyBearOfDeath]

6 hours ago, levitra21 said:

does anyone know if there are blueprints for an argentavis saddle or just the basic one you can craft

Not the place to ask but yes there is bps for the saddle. In the past year have seen 1 argy saddle bp, it was master craft though.

[TedyBearOfDeath]

I host an 18+ player dedicated server on Xbox and was wondering if you would ever consider an option to turn off chat censorship? Or at least change the way it works, maybe make it so it deletes the censored word and not everything in your message? Pretty please?!?!?!

 

Theres also a few very frustrating censors such as biome, feces(the game uses it but we cant?), bolas, and fab(short for fabricator) the list goes on but I wont

[psychosaurus409]

Now about that tamible Titanoboa...

[gigaraptor]

I have 2 questions about the upcoming amphibious and aquatic creature breeding.

Will marine reptiles, whales and sharks give birth as they did and/or do in real life ? (for the shark part, see this, particularly the viviparity section :http://www.sharks-world.com/shark_reproduction/)

Will other than shark fish have alevins ? (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alevín)

[CHAOS06660]

are we ever going to get stone building blueprints? this would make the mobile smithy idea behind beavers and thorny a lot more useful besides weight reduction. plus the fact we have wood and metal blueprints just solidifies my point in needing stone blueprints.

[Koboh]

Why is it impossble to craft the ascendat compound bow?? That really shouldn't be a thing.. And why does the fabricator has less slots than a Smithy whats the point of that? Don't come with an excuse that its because of Tek tier generator or whatever cause how are you supposed to make the bow when Tek Tier didn't excistt yet. 

Greeting Koboh / Ruben

[Enderboy]

Will the Titanosaur be (legit, this means that you won't have to forcefeed them to keep them alive) permanently tameable on at least PvE, once server performance gets better? There are quite a few good (and pretty balanced as well) ideas on how people would love to see the Titanosaur on the forums.

[Ego]

Hello!

1.Can you make a configuration ?AllowFlyerCarryPvE applies only to wild creatures? That, the tamed creatures can't be catched the flyers, as is working for example with Megalosaurus or Tuso. Or, alternatively, to make two separate settings.

2. Can you add a parameter to the destruction of abandoned dyno? By analogy with AutoDestroyOldStructuresMultiplier.