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Community Crunch 446: Community Creature Vote, Astraeos Update, and more!


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Survivors, we’re thrilled to see so many of you enjoying Astraeos! While we continue working on fixes to smooth out your adventures, we’ve got a little more love to share—Love Ascended will now run through Monday, giving you extra time to revel in the romance. And speaking of passion, we’ve got some words from Astraeos’ creator, Nekatus, about the journey so far…

 

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I want to thank everyone for the support and love for Astraeos. I am very proud to bring another official map to the game and I am very excited to bring more content to Astraeos. Our journey has only just started! We are aware of the technical issues and we are very actively working on resolving them to bring you as bug-free a map as possible.

Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and for your reports! I also wanted to give you an idea about what to expect from the next major content update. Here are the details:

 

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The conclusion of the Valguero Community Creature Vote is just around the corner, and the competition has been fierce! The submitted creatures have been nothing short of incredible. You still have the weekend to cast your vote and decide which creature will make its mark on Valguero in ARK: Survival Ascended!

  • The second round of voting ends on Friday, February 28th at 1 pm Pacific.
  • The winner* will be announced in the Crunch on the same day.

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  • Rank the creatures in order of most preferred to least preferred
  • The vote is limited to 1 submission per person (duplicate entries will be discarded)

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Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name. Cast your vote here.

Overview of all the finalists here.

* Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change.

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Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is now extended until Monday, February 24, 2025. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine’s Day brings an array of enchanting new treats and delights!

To view all the event details, click 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!

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Periodically we perform maintenance on our Official Server Network. During this time the servers will not be running therefore time will not progress.

Here are the dates for the upcoming maintenance:

  • February 25th at 8:00AM PT / 11:00AM ET
  • February 26th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET
  • February 27th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET

To see if your server will be affected follow this page.

 

 

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Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for "Expire" in the session filter.

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th. We're preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content 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 a new map temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th, 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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Please note that some locations will be made non-buildable with the patch coming mid-next week. Inside the caves as well as the areas around the cave entrance will be affected. If you built in this area, make sure you move location before then.

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This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 24.

  • 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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Build your very own Greek estate on a secluded island of Astraeos with this tutorial and tour!

 

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BEYPlaysGames takes a dive into what are the best and most useful creatures to tame for beating Astraeos. 

 

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I'm genuinely surprised these are the top 10. Out of all the awesome suggestions, THESE are the chosen lot? Lots of PvP focused tames made it on the list. While unappealing to me on PvE, I know more options are needed for that sort of gameplay. Honestly? I feel like some of these should just outright replace useless critters (like compy and pachyrhinosaurus) and/or be the model for critters in desperate need of an upgrade (do something about the poor quetz just look at it!).

Either way, keeping my unconscious tames safe is very appealing so Aerotitan is my top pick. Tanystropheus is up there along with the Megaraptor just for abilities alone, but there is no guarantee they would get the abilities listed or at least not all of them and goodness knows which ability would be cut. The cat I would love, but if Wildcard doesn't make it immune to fall damage then what's the point on a map full of cliffs where fast equals yeet. Maybe that's why the creator suggested a parachute saddle attachment? I feel like it would fit better on a different map. The rest are meh for me. There are simply too many abilities listed which I feel are redundant. A lil critter that can shield me from toxic gas? Cool, but I have a gas mask. A bird with frost breath? Then what is the point of frost wyverns? I feel like these abilities would be removed or altered because of that redundancy. This is something I feel people should consider while choosing

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17 minutes ago, Embanii said:

I'm genuinely surprised these are the top 10. Out of all the awesome suggestions, THESE are the chosen lot? Lots of PvP focused tames made it on the list. While unappealing to me on PvE, I know more options are needed for that sort of gameplay. Honestly? I feel like some of these should just outright replace useless critters (like compy and pachyrhinosaurus) and/or be the model for critters in desperate need of an upgrade (do something about the poor quetz just look at it!).

Either way, keeping my unconscious tames safe is very appealing so Aerotitan is my top pick. Tanystropheus is up there along with the Megaraptor just for abilities alone, but there is no guarantee they would get the abilities listed or at least not all of them and goodness knows which ability would be cut. The cat I would love, but if Wildcard doesn't make it immune to fall damage then what's the point on a map full of cliffs where fast equals yeet. Maybe that's why the creator suggested a parachute saddle attachment? I feel like it would fit better on a different map. The rest are meh for me. There are simply too many abilities listed which I feel are redundant. A lil critter that can shield me from toxic gas? Cool, but I have a gas mask. A bird with frost breath? Then what is the point of frost wyverns? I feel like these abilities would be removed or altered because of that redundancy. This is something I feel people should consider while choosing

(almost)100% agree with that. 5 of the 10 tames are more pvp focused than pve. About the "poor quetz": I don't mind if the frost breath being removed, this creature has enough other skills. I love the coelo's color ability, but it is very hard to make, so there's a pretty high chance it won't make it into the game

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2 hours ago, Embanii said:

I'm genuinely surprised these are the top 10. Out of all the awesome suggestions, THESE are the chosen lot? Lots of PvP focused tames made it on the list. While unappealing to me on PvE, I know more options are needed for that sort of gameplay. Honestly? I feel like some of these should just outright replace useless critters (like compy and pachyrhinosaurus) and/or be the model for critters in desperate need of an upgrade (do something about the poor quetz just look at it!).

Either way, keeping my unconscious tames safe is very appealing so Aerotitan is my top pick. Tanystropheus is up there along with the Megaraptor just for abilities alone, but there is no guarantee they would get the abilities listed or at least not all of them and goodness knows which ability would be cut. The cat I would love, but if Wildcard doesn't make it immune to fall damage then what's the point on a map full of cliffs where fast equals yeet. Maybe that's why the creator suggested a parachute saddle attachment? I feel like it would fit better on a different map. The rest are meh for me. There are simply too many abilities listed which I feel are redundant. A lil critter that can shield me from toxic gas? Cool, but I have a gas mask. A bird with frost breath? Then what is the point of frost wyverns? I feel like these abilities would be removed or altered because of that redundancy. This is something I feel people should consider while choosing

it's an interesting opinion... but why did you see the pachyrino? it seems like god told him "do you want a frying pan in the face?!" and he said yes

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#vote stick b.... oops sorry... i was about to ruin the game (obviously I'm joking) #VOTE WHAT YOUR HEART and your conscience SAYS

obviously we are in a "democracy", I hope you are correct and I hope you are also satisfied, I have seen practically all the proposals and I must say that the commitment and creativity has not been lacking. Long live the sbmission vote.

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For me, Valguero = the great deinonychus !

Why vote for a creature which has same abilities ? Climbing, speed, etc.

And for magical unrealistic abilities, there is a lot of mods but I don't want it in the official game.

Love Megaraptor but, on other map. Same for Acinonyx.

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11 minutes ago, Pedromadaire said:

For me, Valguero = the great deinonychus !

Why vote for a creature which has same abilities ? Climbing, speed, etc.

And for magical unrealistic abilities, there is a lot of mods but I don't want it in the official game.

Love Megaraptor but, on other map. Same for Acinonyx.

Which map would be best for you?

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