Community Crunch 437: Gear up for BattleRigs, Mods Spotlight, and more!

[StudioWildcard]

Get ready to hit the Wasteland in style with customizable BattleRigs, arriving December 16th with the final chapter of Bob's Tall Tales! These rugged machines are built to conquer the harshest environments, offering survivors a new way to traverse, transport, and dominate.

 

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Each BattleRig is a blank canvas for your survival ingenuity—add turrets for extra firepower, attachments for unique functionality, and paint jobs to make it truly yours. Whether you’re hauling supplies, engaging enemies, or simply exploring the Wasteland, these BattleRigs will be an indispensable part of your arsenal.

As part of Bob's Tall Tales: Wasteland War, these BattleRigs are more than just transportation—they’re a game-changer for survival strategy. Gear up, customize, and prepare to roll out on December 16th!

 

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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:

• MSVV Pirate Skins by Deckard

• Reaper Costume Skin by TeamMiroku

• Toraneko Mod by TeamMiroku

• Deimos Cosmetics: Roman Empire Wardrobe by SurviveDeimos

• FSG Wasteland Structures by Kiz3rMomo

• Cliffan's Decor Conquest Furniture by Cliffan

• Legions Ships by TheRealLegion

• MSVV Pirate Weapons by Deckard

• MSVV Drunken Skull by Deckard

• MSVV Viking Ships by Deckar

• Shoko Deco Plush by Shokomaki

 

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Unleash your imagination and transform your ARK experience with our latest premium mods!

 

This video features:

• Atlantis map by SnowyTrain

• Bullet Sci-Fi Structures Premium | Skin Cosmetics by Bullet_97

• H&N Chibi Champions by TheNokosa & TheRealHypernatrema

• Crystal Structures Skin by Matheusrp11

• MSVV Premium Monster Skins by Deckard

 

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ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What are ARKpocalypse?

• ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates and monthly-curated mods.

Next wipe: January 10th 2025

 

For this round, the following mods will be included: 

• Shiny! Dinos Ascended by nevcairiel

• Additions Ascended: Brachiosaurus by Garuga123

• Additional MunitionsTG by snappin

• Stacking Mod 1000-50 by Paeaet

• Klinger Additional Rustic Building by klingerMartins

• ARK Wilds: Cockatrice by wildwaghorn

• Moros Nothosaurus by MoroNad

You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

 

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For the Turkey season, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Tuesday, December 10.

• 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

 

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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

 

Creator: Haitch

Duck versus Duck has never been so heated. Which rubber duck will make it to the finish line?

 

Creator: NikkiPenelope Plays

NikkiPeneloppe ventures out to acquire new useful tames to progress in her journey through Primal Chaos!

 

Giga by unclelarry9680

 

Hungry Xiphactinus by raventap

 

Fan Art by leo063264

 

The "Lady of Light" by @WolfTek7

 

I love Managarmr, who is pinned to the sky like a criminal by @rianeko_mabi

 

Fan Art by rasvim

 

Fan Art by jurajack.

 

Photo Mode by jabolkozak

 

Photo Mode by thenymphlilith

 

ASA Basilisk by nemesisstar

 

horse by frozen_soap

 

Where there's a window there's a cat by dewy0411

 

Enjoy your weekend!
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[dragontemple1]

And nothing about Christmas 

[DinoRex0071]

I thought there would be a little post about freemium mods

 

Edited December 7, 2024 by DinoRex0071

[PhotekPlays]

12 minutes ago, dragontemple1 said:

And nothing about Christmas 

yea man, christmas tomorrow and no word...

[TheDarkQueen321]

Normally servers have pop spikes around events. This event, the servers are all dead. Yet, they still can't work out that changing events from 3x to 2x is literally killing their servers. 

[Sparky16]

I just realized y'all missed a prime opportunity to add motorbikes into extinction too!  XD

[ChrisBManos]

15 minutes ago, Sparky16 said:

I just realized y'all missed a prime opportunity to add motorbikes into extinction too!  XD

Good point there, but they probably were more focused on fixing the ATVs than doing that.

[AnnH]

BattleRigs... does this game know what it is anymore ?

[ctzlaciqpxnfg]

when will official modded servers add new mods?

[doverbeach]

🥱

[Coyal]

Down to just rendering now , 400avg ping in own area servers on 3/4 maps with population of avg 10 players if lucky, and throw in inventory crashing still on PS5 mainly ab. 

Mods are now hindering game play but it's all they seem to prioritize.

[MJAInc]

Bereit für BattleRigs, Mods Spotlight und mehr! - ARK2 & ASA News | Deutsche ARK2 Community - ARK2 | Deutsches Community Forum

 

https://ark2.de/news/bereit-f%C3%BCr-battlerigs-mods-spotlight-und-mehr-r149/

 

 

[aikkam]

5 hours ago, TheDarkQueen321 said:

Di solito i server hanno picchi di pop intorno agli eventi. Questo evento, i server sono tutti morti. Eppure, non riescono ancora a capire che cambiare gli eventi da 3x a 2x sta letteralmente uccidendo i loro server. 

servers are dead for many other reasons, events can't support a game, servers are dead because ARK is dying 

[shafer2555]

Hopefully  when the map comes out we don't have mesh spots the game won't lagout and the vehicles actually work also when servers restart we don't get tames that fall thru ceilings  over water . 

Edited December 7, 2024 by shafer2555

[Ermerus]

Rocket league? But most of all I would like to start saying something for future contests. #MoreCreatureSubmissionWinners

[Illegale]

"its game changer"..yeah translate by "Pay to win"..You need to do this only for PVE/Solo, not in PVP. So much people go back on Evolved because of this.. sadness situation

[Illegale]

5 hours ago, Coyal said:

Jusqu'au rendu maintenant, ping 400avg dans les serveurs propres sur les cartes 3/4 avec une population de joueurs avg 10 si chanceux, et jeter dans l'inventaire s'écraser toujours sur PS5 principalement ab. 

Les mods entravent maintenant le jeu, mais c'est tout ce qu'ils semblent prioriser.

i see so much people go back on evolved. Ascended is beautiful and im so happy to see evolved like this but.. you know. Im affraid about ark 2.. maybe dont buy this game, not impatient now by the way. 

[Lise]

I'm looking forward to trying out the BattleRigs maybe one time, seeing what different components they have. Whether they'll require materials that most maps don't have natively, such as fungal wood, if they can be damaged by metal tools or turn off automatically like the zeppelin's 3 minute auto-descend that keeps it from being a cheap Quetzal. If Bob's Tall Tales items also spawned in loot drops then more people might try or buy the dlc, I've only seen people using the cosmetics for the most part and the odd train track and steam forges or the upgraded preserving bin. I hadn't even known that the town bell gives tames a repeatable 30 second 15% damage boost until making one myself since nobody wanted to craft one (doesn't make tames defend aggressively like the tooltip says but the damage boost might be nice to rally tames from a Paracer or raft or something).

Might be nice if these buggies can act as a respawn point and the spawning player doesn't get left behind while it drives; the last few carts I've used on tames like Iguanodon to act as moving respawn points have been sometimes considered clipping into hills when they moved, which instantly counts as meshing and destroys rider and tame; so an expensive gasoline powered car with rare resource costs and extra hype will probably be a little more relaxed on whether driving it over a rock counts as meshing, to prevent it becoming as commonly seen and well liked as the Tek ATV.

[Mihcail]

Wildcard do you listen to your ark players, the game is dying.

in regard to creature DLC’s you are doing the wrong move realesing a paid dino is not the best move, is breaking the game and yet you don’t to care.

also put some server only with vanilla game.

[TyranntX]

14 hours ago, AnnH said:

BattleRigs... does this game know what it is anymore ?

Do you? This game stopped being about "Just Another Dinosaur Survival Game" LONG before ARK ascended was ever a thing.

[ChrisBManos]

17 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

Do you? This game stopped being about "Just Another Dinosaur Survival Game" LONG before ARK ascended was ever a thing.

Yeah, agreed. 

We had wyverns, robots, kaiju, and even chimeric platypus flying squirrels and lionfish lions since ASE.

When will people realize that?

[aikkam]

10 hours ago, Illegale said:

vedo così tante persone tornare su evolved. Ascended è bellissimo e sono così felice di vedere evolved in questo modo ma... sai. Ho paura di Ark 2... forse non comprare questo gioco, non sono impaziente ora, comunque. 

ARK 2? Does it really exist?  

[Snowh]

ooo you can paint the car pink! love it already

[aikkam]

1 hour ago, ChrisBManos said:

Sì, sono d'accordo. 

Dai tempi dell'ASE abbiamo avuto viverne, robot, kaiju e perfino ornitorinchi, scoiattoli volanti chimerici e pesci scorpione.

Quando la gente se ne renderà conto?

the fact is that it is still being advertised and called a WC dinosaur game, and the fact that there were already alien or bizarre elements does not mean that people like that these contents become so numerous and constantly increasing to become so out of context. I do not understand how much to talk about the tek elements but those have always been there since the beginning, even talking about the wyverns does not make much sense already appear in the second map released in addition to the fact that they are as realistic as the "dinosaurs" of ark that could not be more different from the real creatures both in aesthetics and behavior. 

[aikkam]

mixing structures, skins based on the far west, stimpunk and now this just creates a jumble that is just disgusting to look at and that does not integrate well with what was the ark environment and it is normal that people complain about it