Community Crunch 421: 'Steampunk Ascent' Cosmo Dossier!

[StudioWildcard]

This week, we’re excited to give you a closer look at our sweet and fluffy friend, the Cosmo, with the release of the dossier. We are looking forward to seeing you zip through the world of Aberration, proving that the smallest hero can make a big difference. After all, with great power comes great responsibility.
Plus, don’t miss the latest major update to Club ARK, now featuring new mini-games and rewards!

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Common name: Cosmo
Species: Cosmophasis Luxtextor
Time: Neogene
Diet: Carnivore
Temperament: Skittish

I've found just the friend to get you through these low places, but you're going to need to keep an open mind. Though I guess anyone that's made it this far shouldn't be afraid of an itsy bitsy jumping spider. Not to mention that there's more to this shy little charmer than meets the eyes (all eight of 'em)...

With all the horrors crawling around down here, it's easy to see why any spider might be a bit jumpy. And why it might have needed a clever new trick of its own to keep the shadows at bay.

Cosmophasis seems to know when predators can be chased away by its glowing webbing. That same danger-sense tells the spider to turn out the light when something comes seeking it.

 

It's never easy to win someone over who's had to hide their light away in dark times. But once you do, you'll have a ride or die angel on your shoulder. Gain this spider's trust, and Cosmophasis will help you out of sticky situations and put its life in your hands for the toughest fights ahead. And I mean that literally.

Your fuzzy new friend can gobble up the webbing of larger spiders to recycle as ammunition. Then you can use it as a handheld web-shooter to slow down incoming enemies, snatch up items from the ground, and swing around like a spider-themed superhero!

 

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This update is packed with four brand-new mini-games that are sure to delight and challenge. Additionally, we've introduced a wardrobe, consumables, a new repair item, and a dino store — with a chance to get a rare color for your dino! Check out Club ARK now to dodge, race, and parkour your way through our latest missions and enjoy many fantastic new features and much more!

To provide more options and accessibility to Survivors, our partners at Nitrado are offering Club ARK specific server hosting options at a reduced rate! More info can be found here!

 

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Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

This video features:

• Arkitect’s Paradise by BenzomineraMods

• Archelon (TLC) by Garuga123

• Insaluna by ArmanGamer777

• Medieval Structures & Viking Villages by Deckard

• MSVV Towers by Deckard

• Thor’s Hammer - Mjolnir Monument by Deckard

 

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On April 8th, we deployed a new type of server across the network (for the various game types) that we refer to as "Expire" (which is what you can search for in the session filter). 

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on August 3rd. We're preemptively using our allocation for Aberration to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience The Center Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto The Center temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on August 3rd, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.

 

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To celebrate athletes around the world showcasing their incredible efforts, the Official Network will receive bonus rates every weekend and Summer Games-inspired colors during the whole event from July 26th to August 12th!
Bonus rates will be active until Monday, August 5th, but the colors will stay!

• PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
• Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
• ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

 

• Light Yellow
• Dino Deep Blue
• ActualBlack
• Vermillion
• Jade
• Dino Albino
• Red
• Blue
• DragonBase1
• LightWarmGray
• Peach

You can enable this event in your own game with the commandline: -OlympicColors

 

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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

 

Creator: Sanyxs

Join Sanyxs as he discovers all the latest in Club ARK!

 

Creator: KiahOnFire

The Monarrrrks are back with a new challenge. Who will sink & who will swim away victorious? 

 

 

Thank you all for participating in this contest! It was amazing to see the incredible effort put into your screenshots and fan art. As a reminder, the winners will receive codes for the Bob's Tall Tales DLC, featuring voice work by the iconic Karl Urban. Runner-up prizes include our Fantastic Tame: Pyromane.

Winners, please have DM's open so we can reach out. Winners will be contacted from an Official account via their platform of entry i.e.: Discord or Twitter.

Missed this contest? Keep an eye on our Discord or Twitter for future ones!

 

Fan Art by al1zzy

 

Fan Art by shockal

 

Fan Art by majesty6999

 

Fan Art by rasvim

 

Fan Art by rekami14

 

 

Photo Mode by cosmicman5455

 

Photo Mode by sweethoney3274

 

Photo Mode by donnsensei

 

Photo Mode by stinkerrr_

 

Photo Mode by ohnooo0oo0

 

 

Fan Art by dog._

 

Fan Art by kodamoonbear

 

Fan Art by rosababy

 

Photo Mode by @slummyzeru_

 

Photo Mode by @barton890

 

Enjoy your weekend!
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[ladyteruki]

Oh, so it is THE Cosmo afterall.

[ShadowShadex]

This creature is a joke.

[MalarOpossum867]

First to read AND comment!

Anyways, any news on the release of Ragnarok? I'm not going on ARK Ascended until AT LEAST that map drops!

Edited August 3 by MalarOpossum867

[EllaMacKay]

For the creature “Cosmo”  is there any recognition to the original artist and concept designer for the creature, which was a community member, where your design was inspired off of?  If not, can you please correct this. 

Edited August 3 by EllaMacKay

[Ryebry]

SPIDER-MAN

[VINNYLOL]

Literally Spider-Man😭

Can't wait for Snail Games to go out of business and have WildCard be bought by an actual good company bc they would honestly have a much better and happier fanbase and they would have more people to get updates out quicker (no hate to WildCard just Snail Games💀🙏)

[Myrmecoleon]

Hell yeah spider-man simulator shoulder pet.

[Jynxins]

Gotta say, I love the Cosmo and I hate spiders. I think a good way to get around the controversy though is to have the Maiva added as a free creature to Abb and give recognition to the person who originally suggested it.  The Maiva could live in the second layer of Abb in webs in the corners and be like an "adult" version of Cosmo. Maybe not even technically related, but in the same family.

[DERoestorf]

28 minutes ago, EllaMacKay said:

For the creature “Cosmo”  is there any recognition to the original artist and concept designer for the creature, which was a community member, where your design was inspired off of?  If not, can you please correct this. 

You really think they will thanks the original artist, this is WC and Snail, greedy bunch, will never thank original artist

[LuckyPed]

Love it, I was worried it was only a light shoulder pet

Wanted it to work as a Grappling hook kind of thing and kinda let you become spider man

So it delivered   I hope it have some colorful visuals too.

 

[RaephClark]

Yeah I’m torn between its abilities and the fact that it’s a Maevia rip-off 😩 like don’t get me wrong, they sound like fantastic abilities, but I’m still upset that they decided to “rebrand” the Jumper as their own. 

[AtomikalDusky]

2 minutes ago, RaephClark said:

Yeah I’m torn between its abilities and the fact that it’s a Maevia rip-off 😩 like don’t get me wrong, they sound like fantastic abilities, but I’m still upset that they decided to “rebrand” the Jumper as their own. 

While I do understand that it's pretty scummy that they used the popularity of the Maevia to make a Jumping Spider that is locked behind a payed DLC, in all fairness, it's not like they credited the people who suggested and made concept art for Dinopithecus, Desmodus, Rhyniognatha, Carchardontosaurus, Gigantoraptor, Fasolasuchus, Shastasaurus, Yi-Qi (which I'm still salty about), and Dreadnoughtus.

[ChrisBManos]

24 minutes ago, Jynxins said:

Gotta say, I love the Cosmo and I hate spiders. I think a good way to get around the controversy though is to have the Maiva added as a free creature to Abb and give recognition to the person who originally suggested it.  The Maiva could live in the second layer of Abb in webs in the corners and be like an "adult" version of Cosmo. Maybe not even technically related, but in the same family.

Um, Yeah, let's not encourage them to do that

That could probably add more drama

[Brettskii]

does this mean abb is coming out sooner than later? I love these dino crunches! its always a harbinger of some phat content on its way! Abb and Rag are going to be so much fun i really cant wait. im ready for abb this time and im ready for the fresh look. it was awesome before i cant even set a bar for waht to expect cause it already blew my mind the first time.


Sooooooo.....in game store that supports real money trade and a battle pass? You made Ark Club a thing and a real part of the game. It has to include a store! Let me buy from gachaclaus! or a variant of rockwell! Ill even take our girl hlna back but maybe some vr curves uwu.

[Entin]

So it's a bola-autoloot-bloodstalker-glowpet that automatically turns itself on and off depending on which aberration monster is targeting you? 

 

Kinda think it didn't need the grapple ability

[MJAInc]

'Steampunk Ascent' Cosmo Dossier! - ARK2 & ASA News | Deutsche ARK2 Community - ARK2 | Deutsches Community Forum

 

https://ark2.de/news/steampunk-ascent-cosmo-dossier-r130/

 

 

[Austria]

Please remove the Xbox chat censor.

[KoZ5000]

Please do another art contest for the next added creature 🙏 I forgot to do a deinosuchus one I had a bunch of other stuff to do and I so could have won

[GP]

5 hours ago, MalarOpossum867 said:

First to read AND comment!

Anyways, any news on the release of Ragnarok? I'm not going on ARK Ascended until AT LEAST that map drops!

Considering Aberration is coming on Sep 4th i'd say Ragnarok will be around December, assuming they keep the order of the maps the same.

[GP]

38 minutes ago, KoZ5000 said:

Please do another art contest for the next added creature 🙏 I forgot to do a deinosuchus one I had a bunch of other stuff to do and I so could have won

Hopefully they will, but we still have two more maps after Aberration before the next map that will have one, so i'm hoping may by the end of the year they'll start again, but who knows.

[Sovira]

7 hours ago, RaephClark said:

Yeah I’m torn between its abilities and the fact that it’s a Maevia rip-off 😩 like don’t get me wrong, they sound like fantastic abilities, but I’m still upset that they decided to “rebrand” the Jumper as their own. 

I wonder whose submission is next. There were some very highly popular ones like the Gorgonops and Bastion Beetle, Dire Otter, I'm sure they could find a way to change those into versions of their own and turn a profit out of them from riding on the backs of their popularity, as well as many others that made it to the finals in the other rounds. 

I could already imagine a whole entire purchasable pack of them, unrecognizable in abilities 😆🤦

Edited August 3 by Sovira
Needed to add Dire Otter to that list

[Thesurvivalist2019]

10 hours ago, VINNYLOL said:

Literally Spider-Man😭

Can't wait for Snail Games to go out of business and have WildCard be bought by an actual good company bc they would honestly have a much better and happier fanbase and they would have more people to get updates out quicker (no hate to WildCard just Snail Games💀🙏)

snail doesn't own them they are a contracted publisher

[Thesurvivalist2019]

9 hours ago, AtomikalDusky said:

While I do understand that it's pretty scummy that they used the popularity of the Maevia to make a Jumping Spider that is locked behind a payed DLC, in all fairness, it's not like they credited the people who suggested and made concept art for Dinopithecus, Desmodus, Rhyniognatha, Carchardontosaurus, Gigantoraptor, Fasolasuchus, Shastasaurus, Yi-Qi (which I'm still salty about), and Dreadnoughtus.

Agreed. They don't give credit because they don't own the creature. and as i have stated wildcard asked for suggestion and someone suggested the maevia. then they took it. its like a candy company saying: "we want to make a new candy flavor. what do the people think?" people: "How about strawberry and blackberry with a hint of cinnmon?" Candy guys: "That sounds great."

 

Now here an alternate angle. The powers:

Grapple - a mechanic in the game

Torpor - a mechanic in game

Bolas - a mechanic in game

Jumping and climbing - a mechanic in game

 

All of these abilities exist in the game thats owned by wild card if you wanna break it down like that. its just those abilities combined into one thing. now unless she created a new ability, status affect, or something revolutionary with in the game then i could see it being an issue. now if im wrong for these thought. forgive me

[Joebl0w13]

3 hours ago, Thesurvivalist2019 said:

snail doesn't own them they are a contracted publisher

Wilcard Studios is very much owned by Snail. 

"Studio Wildcard later identified SDE Inc. as its parent company. SDE Inc. has been described as an affiliate of Snail Games USA, the American branch of the Chinese video game company Snail Games."