Community Crunch 349: ARK 2 Carnotaurus Concept, EVO Extension, and More!

[StudioWildcard]

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we're dropping a sneak peek at our favorite ARK2 tiny-armed, horned stomper in the form of the Carnotaurus! Granted, it's technically the only creature with all of those characteristics combined but the point is - we love our fresh iteration of the Carno and hope you do too! We carno tell you how excited we are to drop ARK2 morsels (sorry!)

Introducing Carnotaurus: The Horned Terror

 

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We're submitting an update for Xbox to resolve performance issues, especially on old-gen hardware (PC too!).  Unfortunately, this delays the PlayStation launch until next week as we'll need to incorporate these fixes.

We'll keep you updated on the progress!

 

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Our Love Evolved EVO event is still live until February 20th! Unlike traditional ARK holiday events, only rates and wild dino colors will be active for holiday EVO Events.  

Survivors on Nintendo Switch can experience a traditional Love Evolved experience until Feb 20th!

• 2/10/23 - 2/20/23

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates. 

• Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
• Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

• Dark Lavender
• Dark Magenta
• Magenta
• Dino Dark Purple
• Dino Light Red
• Deep Pink
• Dark Red
• Lemon Lime
• Red
• Actual Black

 

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 We are deeply saddened by the passing of Tony “Thick44” Schnur.
His positive impact on the ARK community cannot be overstated. His kindness and passion
 for games left a lasting impact on those who knew him and fostered a beautifully supportive community. There was something very charming about the dynamic between Tony and his four Neebs Gaming comrades that led to their content being cherished by ARK players and gamers in general. We would like to extend our deepest condolences
 to his family, his friends and his community during this time of mourning.
Although you have ascended, your legacy will never be forgotten.
Long live the Wyvern King!

 We'll cook up a steak in your honor, Soldier. Thank you ❤️

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We would like to share with you Neebs Gaming’s very first ARK: Survival Evolved video,
where Thick sits down with Neebs and Appsro to see if he can get them interested in playing the game.
This video was the start of legendary tales told through more than 300 episodes. 

 

 

We have a plan to add something to our Valguero shrine for Those Who Have Ascended for both Tony along with other community members who have passed. Whilst the shrine is dedicated to all, we'd like to more personally honor people individually. We have had the intention of adding a wall where names can be added for some time but we'd like this to be implemented in a dynamic way on the technical side so this will take a little time.

 

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Over on Twitter, @TeamSOTF is hosting their Winter Cup 2023.
The main event will be held on the final Saturday of the month, February 25, 2023 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
It will be hosted on Twitch and YouTube by Icebox, Omnikevfka and Raasclark.
For more information, you can join their Discord!

 

Creator: Bemo Guinness

Follow Bemo Guiness as he goes to tame a second Carcharodontosaurus to start breeding and working towards getting an army.

Creator: Kaaaay

Watch German Twitch broadcaster Kaaaay expertly fight his way to the top in ARK: Survival of the Fittest.
(Audio in German, but a skilled gameplay is universally understood!)

 

 

 

A little maewing by @Hanna_Otter

ARK parasaur by deathfeigning

Ark Survival Evolved Illustration by Julia Viita

Valguero in the morning by @SLAPunque

Rhyniognatha by @bonten_ARK

Microraptor by @k3zk_627

 

 

Little Wolf by @pepepesho_setu

 

Perhaps one of the best Monarky adventures yet... by @OfficialMonarky

 

Dawn by Izi

 

Catch you next week!
Studio Wildcard

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[Cancan001]

Thick44 rest easy legend! We need a statue with thick44 and cooter to remember them, and now they fly together and forever in our hearts 

[alanichimaru]

first condolences to Tony “Thick44” Schnur. and his family. 

 

second what is with all the banning of these random words like lol and raw? just seems weird that it's getting harder and harder to search for things in the game now.

[LilMeej]

Update kicked me from the game and i lost my 322 flak chest piece bp 😡

[absurdlyobfuscated]

TSOTF on Xbox is great! Lots of fun.

I just wish I could finish a game without it crashing. Looking forward to more fixes in the coming days. Especially for the radial menu delay bug, it makes the game borderline unplayable.

[T4t3r]

LONG LIVE THE WYVERN KING

[Rumackay]

Thanks for putting a tribute for Tony. He certain has had such a positive impact on so many of even we casual ark players and will be sadly missed. Second Cancan's call for a tribute somewhere in the game for he AND Cooter. Make it happen WC

*Edit* - Should be a a statue in or near one of the wyvern trenches. A truly fitting tribute to the one and only human man warrior and wyvern king

Edited February 18, 2023 by Rumackay

[Jfynn86]

RIP sweet Thick44. You’ll always be our Wyvern King and human man warrior. Hope you’re flying high with cooter.
A tribute to him is amazing, thank you guys so much. 

[Alexz025]

I mean, they're never going to get the tlc out of the Carnotaurus.

 

[BigDodo27]

As inaccurate as the carno is, it looks epic!

[Hellx87]

Love the Carno's body (one of my favorite dinos), but not the horns, they are freakin ridiculous in this size imo. From the concepts so far, it looks like you are exaggerating certain key features of dinos, please don't do that, stick with more realistic proportions, there is still plenty of room for stylizing/creativity when it comes to other details that are less known to science.

[Stevenreese1998]

Gotta love when wildArk. Is pandering to the community about a player they never cared about until they needed a better reputation. Ark 2 looks like a flop of a game ( it looks like primitive servers and we know those never worked in the Og game). How the heck do you crash on a space ship and survive but none of the technology does. Ark 1 is too old and needs a wipe to be playable for new players. I'll buried all hopes of playing any Ark title again. The UE5 update isn't going to save ark. RIP THICK44.

[Voidtoker]

12 minutes ago, Stevenreese1998 said:

Gotta love when wildArk. Is pandering to the community about a player they never cared about until they needed a better reputation. Ark 2 looks like a flop of a game ( it looks like primitive servers and we know those never worked in the Og game). How the heck do you crash on a space ship and survive but none of the technology does. Ark 1 is too old and needs a wipe to be playable for new players. I'll buried all hopes of playing any Ark title again. The UE5 update isn't going to save ark. RIP THICK44.

Primitive would have been a bit if they would have supported it. Primitive solves a lot of the issues that have now essentially ruined the game. I won’t play it because it doesn’t have first person but I think primitive servers could produce a much less toxic community.

[Voidtoker]

DIGGING the huge horns! 

[Maria064]

The Carno look amazing! But i don't like that the raptor have feathers.
RIP Tony  Schnur 

The dinosaur and mammal art is amazing as always!  

[PaleoJoe]

14 hours ago, alanichimaru said:

first condolences to Tony “Thick44” Schnur. and his family. 

 

second what is with all the banning of these random words like lol and raw? just seems weird that it's getting harder and harder to search for things in the game now.

Cannot even type ‘boss’. It is very frustrating when you type a long message and it is denied, then you have to decipher what common word is preventing it from being sent.

[GreenFox10]

Fan Art look AMAZING

rest in peace Tony the Wyvern King

[CosmicSkeleton]

15 hours ago, LilMeej said:

Update kicked me from the game and i lost my 322 flak chest piece bp 😡

That's neat. A man is dead by the way, just figured I'd tell you in case you were too eager to complain in a thread that will do nothing to resolve your issue to read it.

[Nenofera]

😍 please event until the 23rd, special event for brazil carnival 😀

[SrJhon]

hello, can you try to add a mechanic of interaction with dinosaurs in the game? like: Pett them, or they hota lick you with happiness or you can play with them or something like this?

[GreatLakesGiga]

On 2/18/2023 at 4:58 AM, Maria064 said:

The Carno look amazing! But i don't like that the raptor have feathers.
RIP Tony  Schnur 

The dinosaur and mammal art is amazing as always!  

The raptor is very accurate. What's not to like

[Maria064]

15 hours ago, GreatLakesGiga said:

The raptor is very accurate. What's not to like

There have been so many fake fossils with feathers. I find it very hard to believe they had actually had feather. 
Here a copy paste of the problem with fake fossils 

 scientists consider so-called “feathered dinosaurs” strong evidence of dinosaurs evolving into birds. 
Clearly defined anatomy-based species categories exist for ‘bird’ and ‘dinosaur,’ but evolution requires some 
bird-dinosaur transition, and this is where the fossils found in China fit in.

 Only birds, not mammals or reptiles, have modern flight feathers. Furthermore, with a possible few controversial 
exceptions, all extinct animals with feathers were birds. Even the proteins in bird feathers, called keratins, are unique.
One important result was that no evidence for the theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds was found in the 
Liaoning Province fossils. This is a problem because in the Liaoning Province birds are found nearby the dinosaurs
 they supposedly evolved from, yet no transitional fossils which are part dinosaur and part bird have been found to
 link dinosaurs to birds. One claim was made of such a find which we will discuss. 

If the evolution of dinosaurs into birds occurred, we would expect that many transitional
 forms, or at least some, would be discovered among the thousands of fossils found in the Liaoning Province.
Thus, when a transitional form was announced in 1999, it caused worldwide excitement. The transition, called 
Archaeoraptor, made headlines. The November 1999 National Geographic cover excitedly reported 
“It’s a Missing Link between terrestrial dinosaurs and birds that could fly.” The full color article added it 
“is a true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs to birds.”

Later, an imaging technique called Cross Section Computerized Tomography revealed it to be a sloppy forgery, built from three separate layers. 
Two (the top and bottom) were constructed from natural material, and one (the middle layer) was human added. 
The bottom layer was a piece of shale that was used as the backing on which was placed grout to hold the dozens 
of separate pieces of rock and bone used to construct the now-proven forgery. 

Archaeoraptor is evidently only the tip of a large forgery pile. The “flood of ‘improved,’ reconfigured and composite” 
fossils now in existence is enormous. Many have ended up in the world’s museums, and have caused major problems in 
Darwinists’ efforts to defend various evolution theories. What some describe as a “flood of sham fossils pouring out
 of China” has, with good reason, caused no small number of persons to be skeptical of all new fossil finds from China.
One report listed 107 journal retractions of research papers by Chinese authors whose research was questionable. 
 In 2003, evolutionary fossil bird expert Alan Feduccia, referring to the famous Archaeoraptor ‘feathered dinosaur’ 
fossil widely touted by the National Geographic that turned out to be a fake,

stated that Archaeoraptor is just the tip of the iceberg. There are scores of fake fossils out there, and they have cast a dark 
shadow over the whole field. When you go to these fossil shows, it’s difficult to tell which ones are faked and which ones are not

High-quality fossil forgeries can fool paleontologists just as easily as forgeries in the art community … Luis Chiappe, an early bird expert at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, says that he will “always be skeptical of any specimen that is so neatly arranged, so well preserved in a single slab with little bone missing” 
 

[soulmizute]

Ark Survival Evolved Illustration by Julia Viita  looks absolutely lovely, especially the rock drake illustration. The carno concept for ark 2 looks brilliant aswell. 

[CosmicSkeleton]

5 hours ago, Maria064 said:

There have been so many fake fossils with feathers. I find it very hard to believe they had actually had feather. 
Here a copy paste of the problem with fake fossils 

 scientists consider so-called “feathered dinosaurs” strong evidence of dinosaurs evolving into birds. 
Clearly defined anatomy-based species categories exist for ‘bird’ and ‘dinosaur,’ but evolution requires some 
bird-dinosaur transition, and this is where the fossils found in China fit in.

 Only birds, not mammals or reptiles, have modern flight feathers. Furthermore, with a possible few controversial 
exceptions, all extinct animals with feathers were birds. Even the proteins in bird feathers, called keratins, are unique.
One important result was that no evidence for the theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds was found in the 
Liaoning Province fossils. This is a problem because in the Liaoning Province birds are found nearby the dinosaurs
 they supposedly evolved from, yet no transitional fossils which are part dinosaur and part bird have been found to
 link dinosaurs to birds. One claim was made of such a find which we will discuss. 

If the evolution of dinosaurs into birds occurred, we would expect that many transitional
 forms, or at least some, would be discovered among the thousands of fossils found in the Liaoning Province.
Thus, when a transitional form was announced in 1999, it caused worldwide excitement. The transition, called 
Archaeoraptor, made headlines. The November 1999 National Geographic cover excitedly reported 
“It’s a Missing Link between terrestrial dinosaurs and birds that could fly.” The full color article added it 
“is a true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs to birds.”

Later, an imaging technique called Cross Section Computerized Tomography revealed it to be a sloppy forgery, built from three separate layers. 
Two (the top and bottom) were constructed from natural material, and one (the middle layer) was human added. 
The bottom layer was a piece of shale that was used as the backing on which was placed grout to hold the dozens 
of separate pieces of rock and bone used to construct the now-proven forgery. 

Archaeoraptor is evidently only the tip of a large forgery pile. The “flood of ‘improved,’ reconfigured and composite” 
fossils now in existence is enormous. Many have ended up in the world’s museums, and have caused major problems in 
Darwinists’ efforts to defend various evolution theories. What some describe as a “flood of sham fossils pouring out
 of China” has, with good reason, caused no small number of persons to be skeptical of all new fossil finds from China.
One report listed 107 journal retractions of research papers by Chinese authors whose research was questionable. 
 In 2003, evolutionary fossil bird expert Alan Feduccia, referring to the famous Archaeoraptor ‘feathered dinosaur’ 
fossil widely touted by the National Geographic that turned out to be a fake,

stated that Archaeoraptor is just the tip of the iceberg. There are scores of fake fossils out there, and they have cast a dark 
shadow over the whole field. When you go to these fossil shows, it’s difficult to tell which ones are faked and which ones are not

High-quality fossil forgeries can fool paleontologists just as easily as forgeries in the art community … Luis Chiappe, an early bird expert at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, says that he will “always be skeptical of any specimen that is so neatly arranged, so well preserved in a single slab with little bone missing” 
 

Pretty sure most fossils that come out of china at this point are either real and end up in some rich dudes private collection or fake and reconstructed out of multiple different fossils or materials. That aside weren't maniraptorians one of the few groups that we knew had species that were feathered?

[Rlizee]

Still crashing on console in game.  Just freeze.  Xbox series x. NA, I have great internet.  Can’t seem to get through a game.  Is this only on Solo servers?  I haven’t tried duo or 4 yet.