ARK Digest Q&A!

[OnePotatoChip]

So now that you're aware of flying being OP, what's your stance on players claiming that navigating by land is an issue (ie. animals getting stuck on terrain, throwing themselves over cliffs and clipping into each other)? Is it your plan to make having an animal caravan less aggravating? Through improved AI? Map adjustments? Resource allocation? 

[Adam]

Can you guys add a hand-held lantern as an upgrade to the torch, much like how we have the metal pick and metal hatchet upgrades? It could last like 3x as long and have to be repaired with oil.

[NEXTgenGAMER221]

Will there ever be some kind of Official Tribe Color system? Where your tribe settings can be changed to change the colors of your armor color or tribe chat color. For example, if i was in a tribe which its "Tribe theme colors" were cyan and white, the tribes armor color will be cyan and white by default however, the owner/admins can decide what regions of the armor and tools are painted that color. There would be an option where you are shown a set of armor (Cloth, hide, flak etc) or tools (stone pick, metal pick etc) and for each set, you choose what region is cyan or white. this could also apply to flags or certain structures. 

[deepwishes]

Will items that get clamped every damn patch have their costs reduced to scale with the clamp they get put down to? And will you just change the looting algorithm so that we don't get GOOD items and have them nerfed all the time?

[Phantom1007]

 Any news on the possibility of rentable servers for console versions of Ark?

 

[Phantom1007]

Will anything be added in tek tier for farming? 

[Stonefather]

On 2/22/2017 at 0:34 PM, Jat said:

Hey Survivors,

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

Now that aquatic and amphibian breeding is planned to be released with the next patch... Are there any plans on adding arthropod breeding... As I would love to make cute baby mantises and scorpions!

[kaoseater]

What tek stuff will we expect to see when tek items are finished being in updates? 

[Andi]

How about new recepies that use artifacts like these, but maybe the buff lasts for the day?

Here's a few ideas I have for them

 

Pickled Argentavis Talon - 12 hours of reduced fall damage

• Good for taming birds or building

Megalodon Tooth Paste - 12 hours of higher chances of finding better blueprints while fishing

• Good for fishing

Spicy Tyrannosaurus Wings - 12 hours of higher run speed

• Good for escaping preditors

Sauropod Stew - 12 hours reduced metal or berry carry weight

• Good for resource gathering

Tusoteuthis Chowder - 12 hours of higher torpor

• Good for looking for black pearls or taming scorpions

 

 

[TheDinoKing48]

Can we have a bigger variety of meats in the game, besides just regular and prime. I think there should be a different kind of meat specific to each creature with special stat effects. For example, "GALIMIMUS MEAT" could temp. provide a stamina boost while "MAMMOTH MEAT" could provide temp. cold resistance. This would make going out hunting more worthwhile and immersive; where hunting a mighty Rex for its meat would be more valuable than just hunting simple Dodos if special stat boosters are your goal.

For balancing purposes the effect would only occur if the meat was cooked. If not it will act like regular old uncooked meat. 

[Mortivore]

Don't know if this got answered yet but please can you set it up so that when items are put into storage they complete previous stacks before starting new ones. I know it's a minor thing but it really freaks me out lol

[xKingPhoenix]

 

1. Is the tech armor complete or will you guy build on it? Like maybe we can customize it to our liking or play style preference for instance maybe we can get a tech upgrade station were we can edit some attributes and parts of tech items. 

2. Will we get more cosmetic items i would love to see a full wyvern armor skin? 

3. Is there any information you can tell us about the phoenix that was found in the dev kit a few months back? 

4. Any hints to what the fourth boss will be? 

5. I notice on some cases you guys tend respond with "it can be done with a mod" or "leave it to a mod" i was wonder have you guys been working on some way to bring mods to console? Its kind of saddening to see all these awesome mods on pc and knowing that you cant play with them because your stuck on console.

6. How will ascension work?  Will we lose all of your tames and structures?

7. Will the fourth boss be the last boss you guys will add to the game besides dlc? 

8. Despite all of my questions i still love the game keep up the great work guys.

[drago313131]

Are you gonna make a map so big were titanosaurs are so common that are permanently tamable?

 

[Dororex]

Is their any ETA on the Megalania and tameable Titanoboas? also I think there is a bug where Thylacoleo and Electrophorus won't spawn on the Center, and I was wondering if this will be fixed.

[HobbsArk]

Are we goin to get to see a tek tier saddle for most/all tames eventually? Maybe even some tek saddles that improve the utilities of weaker or work dinos?

[SapphiraTigress]

Seeing as there is an Alliance chat channel for PC, will we be seeing that for Xbox as well? I'm still waiting patiently for our take half button for the inventory

[Pandora]

On console, any chance we could get an option to bind whistles/emotes to our hotbar? 

[Hercules94]

Are you planning on adding more base customisation options? 

Especially in the forms of plants, trees.

Also do you plan on making any visual changes to the map, i feel it could use more colour all the trees/plants are green there's no browns, purples, yellows ect

lastly are you planning on adding more maps? I would love to see a marsh/swamp heavy map with giant trees and some of the visuals you get in the swamp cave would be epic.(maybe add new type of boggy type terrain thats reduces movement speed)

[dinossword]

So when will Titanoboa be tamable?

[Braddock110]

On Wed Feb 22 2017 at 1:34 PM, Jat said:

Hey Survivors,

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

So the next update for console says official tame limit is 500. What about server cap? Since the breeding events multiple servers are on it and only so much room tribes can get rid of. This should be top priority question to he answered.

[Darkbibou]

Will sponsored mod (except maps) be added to the main game once completed ? (and activated on official servers if they don't break the gameplay)

[HastyBasher]

Jesse said we'll see the new UI update closer to release, any previews? Also any news on Primal Survival?

[Beerdrum]

There are big problems with all flying creatures.

First if you enable following, they start to fly circles around your head. In case of a Argentavis or pteranodon it's annoying but we can handle it. But Wyvern realy drive me crazy as they leave the base and land outside as soon as the start.

Second problem is the aggression style. Can we please have an option for all creatures, so we can toggle them to return after fight? I can't count creatures I lost to level 10 predators while they are passiv and creatures missing after fight.

[daladin]

Hello, i have question from servers administrators about RCON, when will you add support for non-Latin characters (cyrillic and others) ? Currently when someone on server use cyrillic symbols (in nickname, dinos names or message) in received data by RCON we see only "???"

Thank in advance for answer

[Marksman00048]

Are the characters that were lost during the AWS transfer able to be recovered?

 

I finally got a response from my ticket and all they did was ask me something i already stated in my original question.

 

Your support staff can be beyond disappointing in their approach.