Jen Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! Future of ARK! Quote Given the ATLAS announcement, I wanted to stop by and share some additional insight into where we’re at and where we’re headed with ARK over the next few months! The ARK team is as big as it’s ever been. It’s made up of key members behind ARK (Early Access, Scorched Earth, and Aberration), hires from the mod community (Prim+, The Center, and Ragnarok), and seasoned veterans with experience working on a variety of other games and MMOs. TLC2, ARKaeology, Extinction Chronicles, Small Tribes, Enforcement, and of course, Extinction were built with this team. One of the more exciting things to us is that we’ve found ways to bring new wrinkles and ideas to ARK while continuing to refine and expand on the things that made it a hit - from the dynamic components of the ARKaeology event to the brand new mechanics created for Orbital Supply Drops and tameable Titans from Extinction. Currently, the ARK team is hard at work resolving issues introduced with Extinction - item bugs, creature balance (including Titans and Meks), OSD balance, console graphical quality and stability, and issues related to the DevKit. In addition, we’ve carved out key members of the team to tackle long-standing desires, starting with the integration of Structures Plus and the rework of the Kibble tree. A few other members of the team are tackling Winter Wonderland and the awaited return of Raptor Claus due next week. As we wrap up this wave of work, more and more members of the ARK team will be moving on to tackling quality of life issues and bugs. We love ARK as much as you do and are very excited for all of the possibilities that lay before us. Heading into the new year we will begin to plan out what's next and determine what the best steps are for the game from a content perspective. Rest assured, whether it's more TLC, new DLC, new mechanics, or new modes we will be continuing to support ARK through 2019. Beyond that, we’re starting early discussions internally about what the next generation of ARK could look like, but it’s too early to talk about that here. We’d like to thank everyone for their long-standing support and we look forward to the adventure ahead! Keep on surviving, Chris Willoughby Lead Programmer Console Patch Tomorrow! Console survivors, we have exciting news! Tomorrow at 10am PST there will be a Xbox and PS4 patch. Here is the long list of changed and patch notes coming to your console very soon: Quote Managarmr Improved Managarmr's ice breath accuracy Buffed Managarmr stamina regen slightly Managarmr babies can now be trained to behave better Managarmr babies will no longer lose patience 100% of the time when following Velonasaur Velonasaur will no longer hit the area underneath large dinosaurs Velonasaur head whip should no longer harvest bodies Fix issue with spines not always appearing on non authoritative clients Velonasaur head whip no longer shoots through walls Fix Velonasaur spines shooting through shields Velonasaur now grounds flyers a little faster Corrupt Dinos Corrupted Wyverns will despawn if they get too far from a completed Element Vein or Orbital Supply Drop Fade out corrupt dinos when teleporting Corrupt Dinos will de-prioritize flier targets, or targets based on fliers Corrupt Dinos deal more damage to Tek Shields Titans Titans despawn timer checks only regard players within the arena Potential fix for increasing timer after long cooldown scenarios Remove cooldown in singleplayer Increase starvation time for Titans (~30m to ~ just over an hour) Consuming Kibble will not increase food for Titans Desert Titan Prevent flocks from being able to hit through buildings/terrain Prevent encumbered players from moving on Desert Titan Flocks will now dismount riders (during the boss fight) Forest Titan Fix for Forest Titan hitting things thru ground terrain Forest Titan arena wyverns take damage from forest titans Clean up trees after Forest Titan is despawned Crashes Fix for crash caused by garbage collected replicated properties Fix server crash when running DumpDinoStats cheat as a spectator Fixed server crash related to Forest Titan and damage numbers Fixed crash related to killing an Argent in Primitive Plus Mek Fix for Mek occasionally consuming 1x element when not refueling Improved accuracy of sword in all scenarios Prevent the Reequip button from allowing spyglass use while riding the Mek Structures+ Integration Can pick structures up within 30s of placing Exclusions: Charge Lantern C4 Elevator Platforms Elevator Tracks Electric Generator Grill Industrial Forge Industrial Grinder Chem Bench Fabricator Tek Generator Tek Replicator Tek Transmitter Enforcers Reduce damage taken from corrupted dinos by 60% Connection Reduced disconnects Localization Updated loc strings from CrowdIn Fixed bug that breaks Cryopod, Managarmer, etc. outside of English Rock Drake: Resurrect Tek Rockdrake saddle CryoPod Report cryo freezing to tribe log Snow Owl Owl is now much better at actually hitting things with their melee attacks Gasbags Gasbags is now much better at actually hitting things with their melee attacks Allow the rider to fish from Gasbags Element Vein Fixed replication issue with secondary element vein colors Orbital Supply Drops Crate shields take damage from Projectiles/other damage sources again Delivery Crate Engrams no longer count towards delivery crate weight Maps Non-crater forest Redwoods will no longer take damage and fall Gacha Fix for Gacha sadness not resetting in SP Fix for dummy items getting left in Gacha inventory Robots Set Gnashed attack to not affect robots (allo bleed attack) Extinction Disable flyers in Forest Titan artifact cave We also have a PC patch planned for later this week. Stay tuned to our Twitter account for more updates on that as the week goes on. Fanart of the Week! Managarmr by enderdragon540! Evolution Event! Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 14th of December at 1 PM EST until Monday the 17th of December at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard View full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyanicEmber Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that you guys will always have my support. ❤️ I look forward to the future of ARK and I'm excited to jump into Atlas as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendaryc4 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Please don't forget to add the ARK Digest items you guys promised in the past such as( Console Flyer Brake, shoulder tame cages, new instruments, titanosaur trophy, etc). @Jatheish @Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectratech Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Hoping to see posts and triangle building pieces. But most of all, we need an egg collector. Hoping its coming and not considered "game breaking". Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustinTech Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Will the Windows 10 crossplay patch be released at the same time, or will be be days or weeks like previous patches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruiz0123 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 hello not sure if they are already tidying more are not spawned from the verma of alpha death in the ice cave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo596 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Will this update fix the issue where servers are not showing up on the official servers list? Xbox Small tribes 29 as well as many other servers have disappeared from the list and can only be joined if someone who is in the server invites you. This has been an ongoing problem for days and no one has addressed it! Please let us know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast1124 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 YAY! the ice breath aim is gonna be improved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperionOmega Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) Great news on the further content I was a bit worried as ATLAS does not look like my cup of tea. On the exception to the pick up rule can we get a server option to get rid of those or just not have those as exceptions as I often find myself putting some of those very Items in bad places and would love to be able to pick them up and readjust as oppose to rebuilding a whole new tek generator or industrial forge. Edited December 11, 2018 by HyperionOmega Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiEsmitty Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I guess the Switch version is going to be treated like a red headed step child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamron Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Decent attempt at damage control by Chris... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexndb Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) ¿Cuándo se pueden transferir objetos, dinos ... etc una extición? Servidores oficiales Edited December 11, 2018 by Alexndb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubchub2020 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 33 minutes ago, HyperionOmega said: Great news on the further content I was a bit worried as ATLAS does not look like my cup of tea. On the exception to the pick up rule can we get a server option to get rid of those or just not have those as exceptions as I often find myself putting some of those very Items in bad places and would love to be able to pick them up and readjust as oppose to rebuilding a whole new tek generator or industrial forge. I agree with everything you said. In addition a server option to disable pick up timer please. This could really help with pve clutter, as I think people would be much more willing to pickup structures they don't need as opposed to destroying them. Things like taming traps tend to be scattered everywhere, for me this hinders the immersion in pve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeUchibaki Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Please add furniture/decorations! More base items to make the place actually look like a home, I love building village's but there's next to no items for decoration...prim+ brought some to the plate but I don't have no luck with keeping a prim+ server because it's usually broken..Please add more items! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCh0sen0ne03 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Please fix ark windows 10 edition not saving on all the dlc maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valicetra Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Please fix the save issue for those of us that haven't been able to play since the Extinction launch. We wouldn't still be here holding out hope if we didn't love the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justice4all Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 How about you fix mesh issues on extension or maybe show up and dev wipe cheating tribes. Check your tickets morons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillerKeemgar Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 "more TLC" mmm gib pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brb121 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 ark needs a new PVP system. something like a "limited time for pvp" .. or a "protection system that you can activate for some hours" .. or anything that makes the "offline raid" a bit harder. for example : increase turrets dmg when all the tribe members are offline. specially the small tribes. its like "stay awake to win". its really difficult to play on PVP servers. (all you need to raid any base is = quetz+golem.) + you have to think about the new players too. they cant build a thatch base without getting raided. -- and you have to delete or fix the prim plus servers .. takes ages to join any prim server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighFlyer15 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Thank you, Chris. I was already getting tired of reading comments on how you were abandoning ARK when it couldn't be more different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokystorms12095 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 So I know that you guys are saying you want to focus on the December update but if you guys are to do a TLC 3 what creatures do you have in mind Also if you guys ever get a chance any way the dodo and phiomia can get a new look and uses like no one uses them and I think they should be more useful as well as the dolphin scorpion spider and frog But what aninals do you have in mind for the next TLC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NobleBornDRGN Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Maybe for console you should have a setting so that it is like reg S+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark721 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Hay are people supposed to be able to bring the Desert Titan into abberation because it is technically a flyer and abberation doesnt really have any defenses towards a Flying titan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koda55 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 About Japanese version of PS4. The beacon of Island is not displayed. When will it be fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanII Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 So we can count on servers being open 1 more year then you're crapping out part 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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