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Community Crunch 447: Community Creature Winner, LiveOps Update and more


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Survival takes a sharp turn this week as the community-voted winner sinks its claws into the spotlight! With its lightning speed and razor-sharp instincts, this prehistoric predator is set to shake up the ARK in ways we can’t wait to dive into! Meanwhile, on the LiveOps front, we’ve been kept on our toes. We’ll break it all down, along with the steps we’re taking to keep things running as smoothly as possible.

 


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With over 32k votes, Megaraptor will be the new creature added to Valguero for ARK: Survival Ascended. We are looking forward to sharing its concept and dossier in the weeks to come!

If you are interested in seeing exactly how the voting went, check it out here.

* Note that 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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Our hosting providers are facing a severe, ongoing DDoS attack, which has caused recent outages, including those over the past 48 hours. We're actively working with our partners to mitigate the issue, but as with these types of attacks, we don’t yet have an estimated resolution.

While our partners work on it, we've taken steps to protect player progress:

  • Increased the upload timer to 72 hours (and we’ll extend it further if needed).
  • Temporarily disabled decay timers to prevent loss of player progress.
  • Taken certain regions offline to protect player data when necessary.
  • Extending the time on Expire Servers to give everyone a chance to retrieve their characters and items. Once things are more stable, we’ll announce a date—don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of notice.

We're closely monitoring mitigation efforts with our partners, but please keep in mind that the situation may continue to evolve.

We’ll be holding on running an EVO event this week in light of the instability–we’ll look to do something nice for players in that regard when this is all resolved. 

Thanks for your patience and support while we work through this!

 


 

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Congrats to the Megaraptor !
Although this is a confirmation that I clearly don't like what the majority of ARK players seem to like XD

Could you warn us in advance for the next creature vote (Genesis 1, I'm assuming ?), the same way we had a heads up several weeks before Valguero's submission round ? That was a practice that deserves to be standardized.

Good luck to everyone facing the DDOS attacks ; I never understand what the people causing this are expecting from it.

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Actually I don't know for sure what map that's gonna be
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UE5.5? So silent. 5.4 was initially promised for September 2024 then January then March... What will it be this time? Summer? I guess a year delay is nothing shameful for WC for something that actually matters to the game? I look forward to the next delay announcement.

We need better performance and optimizations! We do not need more pay to win creatures or other fluff no one really asked for before the game is actually properly playable. First fix your base game foundations please. 

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1 minute ago, Myrmecoleon said:

Cheetah got second again, disappointing. Really hope we can get it as an add-on like Carcha, Cosmo, Bison, etc. eventually.

I knooooow ! I'm so disappointed, it was our last chance...

3 minutes ago, Speikobrarote said:

The Tany would have been such a good choice.. fixing a horrible fishing game and more but no.. just another carnivore it is.

The Tany was so cool ! And the submission made it look fun and gorgeous at the same time. Plus, if you want jumpscares, we already have the Purlovia and we all know how much that creature is liked... I just don't get people.

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We're all so pleased with your hosting providers.  No issues here at all.  Even when the servers are up, they're trash.  You've got serious issues with your long game.  You're looking in too many directions - maps that are 35% complete, new creatures from a fan vote, power ranger crap for kids.  What your community wants is a functional game with servers that perform. Prioritize getting your house in order. Look there, and nowhere else, until the issues are resolved.

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9 minutes ago, MattCashWereFox said:

honnestly i'm starting to think the votes are rigged , there is no way that people are so stupid .

I don't believe in the "rigged !" conspiracy theories (if WildCard was rigging the votes, they would never have elected the Shasta for The Center imho), but I do think it's worth talking about why the Community Voted creatures, although they're supposed to be popular, so rarely are when they win, and are often barely used past the point of novelty when they're first released. I see the Gigantoraptor being used in the long term ; the others, really not as much. This has less to do with the way these creatures are made (some conform pretty nicely to the original pitch, even if their appearance is modified), and more with the voting system.

Starting with the fact that only a few hundred people seem to decide who gets into the Top10... maybe the votes should happen WITHIN the game, to encourage participation from a wider part of the playerbase ? Or at least let the submissions appear in gallery view for easy browsing. Something.

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3 minutes ago, OverRannus said:

Agreed, if it doesn’t now. It’ll just clog up places later.

It won't clog anything, Shockal said it was the Acinonyx' last ever submission.

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