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Patch v279 finds its way charge through the ARK with new some tender loving care for some old friends! The Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaur, and Triceratops find themselves receiving varied gameplay and visual upgrades! Here's a breakdown of the six creatures that received improvements in this TLC pass: Dino TLC - The Argentavis! - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities: - Can carry two creatures C - grabs/releases creatures with beak Right Click - grabs/releases creatures with claws - Health regen buff from consuming corpses - Saddle acts as a mobile crafting station - Reduced the weight of various resources by up to 50% (Obsidian, Metal, Metal Ingot, Polymer, and Stone) Dino TLC - The Parasaur! - Receives a sound tweak and some new abilities: - Alarm mode Can be put in turret mode and check for nearby threats Notifies you audibly and visually when threats are present - Scare small creatures C when ridden - scares away small/mid creatures Toggle for alarm mode to have it automatically do it - Scan Can trigger a scan (right click) when ridden Scans for nearby threats Notifies you visually when threats are present Dino TLC - The Raptor! - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities: - Pounce press right click to pounce on a target pins small targets to ground for short period press left click to attack repeatedly - Pack Buff Activates with C key when 2 Raptors (with a max pack size of 6) are together Increases damage resistance Increases movement speed Increases attack speed Lasts 15s Dino TLC - The Sarcosuchus! - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities: - Idles with mouth open now - Death roll Grabs its target and rolls dealing damage and disabling them - Lunge Can lunge towards a target in front of it - 180 attack Can spin in place to attack foes behind it - Walkable Allows friendly humans to walk on and stand on its back Useful in water, you can move them to surface and use as a raft - Swimming depth Maintains its current depth when swimming Can lurk just below the surface - Piranhas Flee Piranhas flee when they encounter a Sarcosuchus Includes nearby ally Sarcos for players Dino TLC - The Spinosaur! - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities: - Water buff Given when in water Bonus movement speed Bonus turning radius Bonus attack damage Bonus healing Persists for short period after leaving the water - Added Biped/Quadruped toggled with right-click Biped Stronger attacks Can turn in place Quadruped Faster movement speed - Prefers prime fish for taming Dino TLC - The Triceratops! - Receives a model update, animation update, texture update, and some new abilities: - Ram Charge up for short period Longer it's charged, the faster it goes Cripples target when hit Knocks small dinos away while charging (charge a group of dodos to see) - Rivalry buff Given buff when nearby to large carnivores Increases damage output slightly Decreases damage taken slightly Increases health by 10% Miscellaneous notes for v279! - Ragnarok update Streaming bounds fix to help with memory Fixed multiple holes, bugged beacons, and floating foliage. Better lighting around LL dungeon - Hole fixes for Aberration The Center The Island - Fixed an issue where Griffin feather colours appeared to be default in single player. - Opened up transfers for the non-aberrant version of creatures to be transferred onto Aberration. For example, both Paracer and Aberrant Paracer can exist on Aberration. Going forward! That's it for this update guys! We hope you enjoy the new changes and we can't wait to see your feedback. As mentioned previously, we're targetting a console release for this update in mid-April and will keep you posted about more accurate release dates once we get closer to submitting the patch. We'll need a bit more time to work on Primitive+, it'll have the missing engrams for the DLC as well as the latest Dino TLC content in an upcoming patch! Now that TLC #2 has been released we will be turning our focus more directly on to bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements for the core game in the weeks ahead. Going forward, we'll be consolidating the patching process on PC. We will be leaning heavily on regular Tuesday (or Wednesday if needed) deployments unless critical fixes require patches outside of that regular patch day. These will become collective weekly bug and quality-of-life patching updates. PS4 North America Sale! ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the 23rd of March at 1 PM EST until Monday at 3 PM. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate Not to mention our current Evolution Event is still running until Wednesday the 21st at 3 PM EST! Community Crunch 123! If you hadn't seen, we posted our latest Community Crunch yesterday, so check it out to see the latest from our Mod Community Manager, Zen Rowe and the most recent community contest winners and fan features! That's it for this announcement guys! We hope you enjoy the new update! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! The Community Crunch is where we share important things going on with ARK, as well as host contests and showcase creations made by the community! TLC #2 Preview - Updated Dossiers! With TLC patch #2 just around the corner (tomorrow for PC!) we're excited to share with you the new dossiers for the 6 creatures that will be receiving changes this patch. This includes the Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaur, and Triceratops. Take a look! And here is a bonus peek at the Argent and Sarco in-action! Check out those chompers but don't get too close! Mod Workshop #1 & Tutorial Contest #2! Hello everyone, Zen here! This week I've got something special for the modding community. Remember when I said I was going to start bringing tutorials to the community? Well, that starts today and it's called Wildcard Workshop! The first video is for completely new modders and those that are interested in starting. Check it out! In the next episode, we start getting into the gritty work with our first mod We've also got another modding tutorial contest! We're going to do something a bit more fun this time and look at a topic that will show an interesting way to make the game look more dynamic by having materials be affected by the time of day in-game! I expect to see some pretty interesting results from this contest. PS4 North America Sale! ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the 23rd of March at 1 PM EST until Monday at 3 PM. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate Fan Building Contest! Survivors, Firespark81 & GGFizz are currently hosting a building contest for fellow PC Survivors. They are doing both a vanilla and modded contest. If you're a budding arkitect and interested in the competition, check out the video above. They also have a list of rules and a sign-up form if you'd like to enter. Contest Rules & Info: https://sites.google.com/view/buildconrules/ Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaInq2jQ_i5Xe0AWQI6UN9KAK4O0RqgDH_j2eXupfk3rjpFQ/viewform Be sure to get in touch with them if you're interested in participating, and good luck! The contest ends in just a few more days! Community Contests! NVidia Ansel Photography Contest Super Resolution Version: http://images.nvidia.com/ansel/SuperResolution/ARK-SuperResolution1/ARK__Survival_Evolved_HighRes_2016_09_01_-_14_38_36_55.html ARK: Survival Evolved and the Scorched Earth Expansion Pack now include support for NVIDIA Ansel -- a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. Compose shots from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high-fidelity formats, and share the screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset. Learn more about these features from the NVIDIA blog. Now let’s get to the contest! There were 3 potential categories for survivors to enter their shots into and they were the following: Four Categories *NEW* Freestyle: These can be images or videos taken using NVIDIA's new Freestyle filters! If videos are submitted, they must have a maximum duration of one minute. Super Resolution: These should be taken at 8x Super Resolution. Players can optionally use Depth of Field effects accessible in Spectator mode by pressing the [Delete] key. Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D: These should be taken at 4x Super Resolution, in 360 Stereoscopic 3D mode. We will crop them to 2D for web display, while also providing the 3D version for viewing within VR display. Freeform: Any settings, whacky and creative use of Ansel filters are encouraged. Adding humorous titles/captions in Photoshop is also acceptable for this category! And now without further ado, here are your entries! Freestyle! Winner! pitsmat - Feathers Runners-up! BlueDragon - Spring pitsmat - Ashes to Remember Honourable Mentions! Wolf Amaterasu - Mythical Morning Valoule - Winter park StateofMynd42 - Heart of the Dragon StateofMynd42 - A Knight and his Horse roguewolf91 - Hakuna Matata Rahthos - Infusion Process Rahthos - Homo Deus Rahthos - Blazing Soul Rahthos - Baleful Flight pitsmat - Eyes of Innocence pitsmat - Broken Serenity pitsmat - Among Stars Ego - Grumpy Town BlueDragon - Thorny Dragon Nest BlueDragon - Rock Drake Portrait BlueDragon - Fountain pitsmat - Lost pitsmat - Hostile Super Resolution! Winner! BlueDragon - Welcome to the Thunderdome Runner up! Wolf Amaterasu - Over the River ZoaLive - AHHH! A shadow!!! Honourable Mentions! ZoaLive - Snowstorm ZoaLive - Sky Beauty ZoaLive - Focus ZoaLive - Flight to the moon ZoaLive - Cold morning shower ZoaLive - Breakfast Wolf Amaterasu - Tranquil Highlands Wolf Amaterasu - Spider Ruins Wolf Amaterasu - Aztec Guardian Wolf Amaterasu - Amethyst Remnant Valoule - Cascade StateofMynd42 - When Lightning Strikes roguewolf91 - Unwanted Attention Rahthos - Draconic Rahthos - Cherry Blossoms Ego - Who is next doubi - Winter has come doubi - Icy encounter doubi - Cold vision BlueDragon - The mansion BlueDragon - Look to the stars BlueDragon - Battlesaurs Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D! Winner! Wolf Amaterasu - Crystalline Falls Runner up! roguewolf91 - Embrace the Fantastic Honorable Mentions! Wolf Amaterasu - Prelude of the Beast Wolf Amaterasu - Forgotten Temple Wolf Amaterasu - Forest Intersection Wolf Amaterasu - Desert Ruins Valoule - Meso tree StateofMynd42 - Dragonheart VR Experience Goober1823 - Lonely Wastelands Freeform! Winner! Valoule - New mobile game Runner up! Wolf Amaterasu - The Machine Honourable Mentions! Wolf Amaterasu - Happy St.Patrick's Day Wolf Amaterasu - Flower Symphony StateofMynd42 - Dragonheart F1r3fly - Unlikely Friendships Oil Painting doubi - Final Stare DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 8 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 7 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 6 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 5 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 4 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 3 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 2 DeathStalker - NVIDIA Ansel Art 1 ARKVideo! This contest is open to all types of video be they funny, epic, scenic, stories, whatever inspires you. Just a general reminder that they should remain safe for work, think of the children! And without further ado, the ARKVideo for Community Crunch 123 is... KingProductionsTroll for their hilarious death montage called The Ark Experience! ARKitect! This is an award given to Survivors to celebrate the amazing structures you build. These bases are judged based upon a number of different factors such as their creativity, uniqueness, how fun of a base it is, the difficulty of building it, the functionality it provides and much more! The ARKitect for Community Crunch 123 is… Ragnarok Castle Rebuild by Aaron Longstaff! We'd also like to give runner up to the following two builds: U.S.S. Lagtanic by TLC 138! ...and Stone Age Settlement Base by The Pilgrimz Project! If you'd like to check out the submissions from the rest of the entrants, you can do so here: Fan Feature! Ark Survival Inspired Paintings, Featherlight, Wyvern, Jerboa and more! DUNGEON OF UNIMAGINABLE HORRORS by Lame Wolf Productions! WHO'S CHANGING OUR DINOS?! - ARK Skits Ark Survival Evolved - Big fish Ark Aberration: Modded Decorative Waterfall Base by ZoaLive Ark - Angry birds by Valoule ARK McDonald's by Wolf Angelus "Parasaur Mother" by FollyVentures http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1333373480 She just wants to Play by Violet http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1332548980 Dodo-Rex by |L.F|❃FLUFFY❃✯Fr✯ http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1334986550 Tamed Raptor by |L.F|❃FLUFFY❃✯Fr✯ http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1333753527 m'lady by mateaperic51 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1330295979 Rugops by Mr. Jurassic http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1331916693 JPOG-style Allo by milokamilo http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1333805376 Ark: Lost Continet: Wip Achillobator texturing by Kaprodonychus http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1334745691 Thylacosmilus WIP by Laelamcpitty http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1332183193 Introducing Palaeoloxodon! by Nokryn http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1334012971 That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard

We’re very excited to announce that the world of ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to mobile! Thanks to the efforts of veteran mobile developer War Drum Studios (the team behind the mobile versions of Bully, Grand Theft Auto, and Auralux), gamers will be able to join the massively multiplayer survival experience that is ARK right from their mobile devices! All gameplay footage for this trailer was recorded live using an iPhone 8. Designed and developed by War Drum Studios, ARK: Survival Evolved mobile is free-to-play and puts the dino-taming adventure in the palm of your hand, letting you join forces with tens of thousands of other mobile survivors. This on-the-go version of ARK features the online survival experience contained in the PC and console versions of ARK, including a gigantic island to explore, 80+ dinosaurs and primeval creatures to tame and train, multiplayer tribe mechanics, and of course, crafting and building! Mobile features include: Taming: Use cunning strategy and tactics to befriend, ride and breed the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. Discover: Unearth rare blueprints and Explorer Notes written by previous human denizens of the ARK from across the millennia, detailing the mysterious Island’s creatures and backstory. Craft and build: Using any means necessary - survive, craft weapons, clothes, and items, and build shelters, villages, or even large cities. Plant, harvest, build, level-up, and customize everything visually and functionally, including procedurally-generated RPG statistics for creatures, characters, resources, clothing, gear, and weapons, both primitive and modern. Play alone or team up to survive: Team up with, or prey on, up to 50 other players in a large-scale multiplayer online first-person environment, or choose single player mode to test your mettle against the world solo. Join a tribe: The 'Tribe' system encourages cooperation, by supporting dynamic parties to share resources, experience points, and re-spawn points. While maintaining the true ARK experience players have come to know and love, this mobilized version of the game has been completely adapted for handheld touch devices allowing for the ultimate survival experience on a mobile device. This includes faster paced gameplay, a unique user interface and a specialised control setup developed specifically for the mobile game. The mobile version also offers optional upgrades survivors can acquire using special in-game resources that will allow players to progress faster, obtain certain buffs for periods of time, build special crafting structures, and even bring your beloved tames back from the dead! You can pre-register now to stay in-the-know with the mobile version of ARK: Survival Evolved. Keep informed about the beta, release date, special offers and more! There may even be some day 1 in-game bonuses thrown in to the mix for those Survivors that Pre-Register! Just head over to http://playark.com/mobile/ In extra special news, War Drum will also be launching a limited closed beta on iOS, with a full worldwide launch anticipated later this Spring on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Interested ARK survivors can visit the link below to sign up for news on the game’s development and for a chance to participate in the ARK closed beta! For additional information on the closed beta you can read the Frequently Asked Questions page here: The ARK mobile community will exist here on survivetheark.com with its own dedicated News and Forum section that will be moderated by War Drum. Chat with the mobile developers, other mobile survivors, report issues, and offer feedback in the forum section below: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/20904-ark-mobile/ For the latest updates on ARK mobile, you can follow @PlayARKmobile at the links below: https://twitter.com/PlayARKmobile https://www.facebook.com/PlayARKmobile https://www.instagram.com/PlayARKMobile https://www.youtube.com/PlayARKmobile And make sure to sign up for the beta today!