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After almost 2 years of constant breeding, every larger group now has incredibly mutated dinos that are nowhere close to what the game was originally balanced around. This means that dinos like Rhinos or Therizinosaurs deal much more damage and are much harder to kill than they were 1.5 years ago when the game released. Politically, the game is currently very stale, with alliances constant, no big conflicts and many people leaving the main cluster for others clusters or other games for a fresher and more exciting experience. A wipe would easily reset breeding back to its original state and bring these dinos back down to what they were originally, and bring back many players that have left over the last year. edit: im talking (mostly) about the Official PvP network, non-legacy, main cluster)

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! Update On Classic PvP! It's been over a month since we launched Classic PvP and we've read a lot of feedback since launch! Today we'd like to announce upcoming changes for Classic PvP this week. On Wednesday 4/24, Classic PvP will be merging all of the separated clusters into one large cluster. Our current Official PvP Network will remain unaffected. Tweaks to existing gameplay and the addition of removed content are still things that are under consideration. Be sure to remove anything you have uploaded prior to Wednesday. Merging clusters require deleting items you have may have in upload. Thank you for sharing your ideas and suggestions on Classic PvP! Let us know your thoughts! Upcoming Patch This Wednesdsay! We'd like to let survivors know that there is a patch coming down the pipeline this Wednesday to fix a couple of issues that popped up in the Eggcellent Adventure update. Here is a list of the changes coming to PC, Xbox, and PS4 on April 24th, 10am PST: Social Roundup! The Social Roundup is a new addition to the Community Crunch that is geared to showing you some of the social activity you might be otherwise missing. Here we will highlight some of the posts that happened on our various social platforms. Topics might range from existing bugs to questions about events or future content. Let us know in the comments below if this is something you'd like to see more of, and we'll be sure to include more posts in future Community Crunches! ON PATCH RELATED BUGS ON MANAGARMR BALANCE ON TRIKE CHARGE ABILITY ON PS4 TEK STORAGE DISPLAY ON DISCUSSING FUTURE CONTENT ON MESHING ON CLASSIC/DUO SERVERS Game Suggestions! Suggestions and feedback are very important for developing a healthy and successful game and we want to make sure we're seeing them all. Currently, there is a dedicated forum for Suggestions here on the Community Forums, but well be turning that into something much more robust! Soon you will be able to submit feedback and upvote other ideas you would like to see in the game. This will allow us to easily see what things are getting the most attention. We'll be looking to make this change to the Feedback forum tomorrow. Be on the lookout for the change and start getting your ideas in! We're excited to implement new ways to engage and hear your feedback. Evolution Event! Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 26th of April at 1 PM EST until Monday the 29th of April at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard View full article

NOTE TO SELF (Xbox One): When placing rotten meat, poop, organic polymer, or anything else that can make you sick or kill you, press the Left Bumper, NOT the Right Bumper. Yes, I have done this repeatedly on all mentioned items at least once if not multiple times. For those that do not have an Xbox One, pressing the Right Bumper will cause you to eat said item.

I breed another melee mutation on a moschops.

As the title says, we need SEPARATE buffs/nerfs/balance tweaks for PVE and PVP. 2 completely different game modes with completely different strategies, objectives and player types need different tweaks to the game. This has become especially evident in the cases of the extreme and repeated nerfs of the Managarmr, a new and versatile creature that quickly became as useful as throwing small feces at a wild Giga... All because of the outcry of a portion of PVP players, while completely ignoring, disregarding the PVE community. While PVP was focused on griefing fellow players with Manas, PVE players needed that versatility to focus on boss taming/killing. You can see the frustration on both sides. PVP is still and will be forever complaining about Manas, while PVE clings to being able to still play with that creature. This is only one example. For two game modes you need two game settings. It is only logical, as a famous saying goes. So please, for the sake of the PVE and PVP communities, revert those extreme tweaks and focus on implementing them completely different in PVE and PVP game modes. This might be the most urgent game balance. PS: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT make this a discussion over PVE/PVP supremacy. If you want to know, they both suck equally bad for different reasons!

There should be a way to separate the balances made to dinosaurs and game mechanics between PvE and PvP. Multiple balances have made PvE nothing but hard. Managarmr being a recent example, in PvE they're useless now thanks to the many balances made to make PvP better. Flier nerf was a huge change in PvE making fliers and transportation harder by forcing us to land since PvP was taking to the skies too often and the game tried to "ground" the fight

Continue Prim+ as normal, but Add some of the great things from Prim+ to Regular Ark. Like the building materials, equipment, and maybe even let us have the option to build the primitive industrial stuff. The mod has so many great things to make ark more than just survival, (not that that’s not enough) I think we’re long overdue for new items. Including new foods, recipes, drinks, materials, and all sorts of crazy things that regular ark should have.

Dont worry, I am not the type to post spoilers. My lips will be sealed.

Got on last night and went straight to grinding. I was 87.8 now and wanted 89 for that cooker. Spent a lot of time between the toilet and grinder. Went to SE isle to look for some easter thyla while I was waiting, nabbed a 135 male regular one and tamed it. Made the cooker as soon as I got 89 and set it up in our cooking area under the forge. Cryod a few tames and killed off my extra argy breeders, organized the tames a bit then logged. Today when I get home im going to go get some sap and start making kibble. Going to start a proper egg farm soon - not sure where yet. To progress through my thyla line ill need the highest kibble, this half arsed taming of thyla isnt going great even with slightly boosted taming

PS4 - Ragnarok - Crazy Boosted German Server Got home last night, and the first thing I did was fly over to see if that Cyan Tek Quetz was available for claiming. After some internal debate, I took it. It was low level, but the colors were just too good. Get back to base, and a Titano had spawned in the valley below my base.... freaking great ? I hate those things. So I took out my high HP Ptera, and we did our best to kite it away from the base area. Then I decided to fly around a bit and check the Griffin spawns again ... a bunch of vanilla high levels, but I'm looking for event high levels. So I commited more mass Griffincide. Then as I flew over a neighbors base, I see that his rexs dropped a fertilized egg. I look around his base, but everything is locked, so I cannot put it in a fridge for him/her. So I took it home with me. I then decided to go do the ice cave drops and then hit the Redwoods looking for event Thylas. On my second day on this server, I built a secondary pretty hidden base in the Redwoods, and kept a Ptera there for emergencies. I had fast traveled there a couple times since, to stock the food bin, but hadn't spent much time there. So after getting ASC stone hatchet and MC Cloth hat from the Ice Cave (lucky me!) I hit up the Redwoods and find a few Thylas, but no colors. I then stop by the base and I noticed that not too far away, someone has built a small base pretty close to mine. I check out the new base, and see that it is the same person who has recently built a tiny base near by main base in Upper Hidana. Now both of his bases are out in the open, not hidden . So I'm thinking just a coincidence? With the forges stocked with metal and wood, and the mortars cranking out CM paste, narcotics, and gunpowder; I head off to see what the desert drops are. But before I even leave the Redwoods, I come across a Quetz flying just above ground in the middle of the Redwoods. IT was only a level 74, but since I had already uploaded the Cyan quetz, and previously transferred the 334 Tek Quetz I tamed last week, I didn't actually have a Quetz on this map. Plus I can use this Q to tame another one. So I fly up, and lock it in with some premade dino gates. I then KO'd it. But now I need some Prime meat, as I don't have kibble with. I begin searching the area for a Stego, Paracer, anything to give me Prime. Quickly my search brings me into the snow area, and there I see another Quetz flying just above the snow ! And this one is a level 270! (like a level 135) It is all black, except for a a hint of dark green on the head. I swoop down with my Ptera, do the gate trick again, and KO this bad boy too. Then I start hearing howling of wolves, and see them attacking a Mammoth. I go over and clear them all out. Thank fully this Ptera is the battle one, and I am able to clear them out fairly easily. Still looking for prime, I finally see an argy, and I kill that, then back to the Quetz. I put up dino gates around him to protect him, and then leave to look after the first Q. The low level one tames up soon after getting the prime meat, so I lead it back to the 270 area. After killing about a dozen more wolves and surviving a jump-scared the crap out pf me wolverine (purlovia) attack, I gather some more prime meat, and tame up the high level quetz. At this point I realize I am not too far from where I had tamed a high level Yuty a few days earlier, when it attacked the Quetz I was trying to tame. So I lead the two Quetz towards the Yuty area, but not before getting ambushed by a neon green and blue Ice Wyvern. Thankfully it was very low level, and we take it out quickly. Arriving at the Yuty, I put the saddle I had left in the Ptera days earlier, and I ride the Yuty all the way back to the base with a Ptera and 2 Quetz following. I did a fair amount of dodging bad dinos, and we got home with only a few skirmishes along the way. I made up platform saddles for both Quetz, and on the low level then made a useable but pretty crappy ramp and platform on top. This will allow me to carry dinos tamed far away on it, since the flyers cannot carry any dinos. oh yeah, while I was doing the platoform work I was incubating that neighbors Rex egg. Eventually my Tek Parasaur signaled the hatching and I went in to feed the new green and white level 442 Rex baby. ( My top level, prefect tame rexs stood up at 434, so this baby obviously had multipe mutations in its bloodlines.) I continued to feed it while crafting up preserving salts and cooking meat. Eventually I loaded the Rex up with the salts, raw and cooked meat, and threw in a new prim saddle that I had colored to compliment the green and white. I lead the juvenile rex onto the new Quetz carry platform, and fly it over to my neighbor's base. I then unload it on top of one of his buildings, and unclaim it. I'm sure when he/she logs back in, they will be confused. (I did create a note and leave that in the rex too, explaining what I did. Just as I was finishing this, I had a near disaster. I fell off his building roof, and was locked in, as all the gates were sealed. So I called the Quetz, but when it tried to circle around to me, it went outside the base, and then got stuck on the other side of the gate. Arrrrgghhh! Eventually, after trying over and over, I found a spot where the Q could fly over the gates and I was rescued! Back to base we went, and after taming up a nearby high level beautiful blue and yellow Argy, I took off again on my Ptera to resume my search for colored Thylas. Fast forward..... not one event thylas and now it was after 1am, and I need to get up at 5:45am ..... so bed time for this old man.?️

Pretty slow night last night, just working on my one upper perimeter wall. It's not a very large wall or anything but I am stacking foundations because I hate uneven walls, so it's just mass amounts of materials. I actually have a crazy amount of stone from clearing the area with my doed so I won't be running out any time soon, but wood and thatch run low annoyingly fast. Also brought my generator and fridge over from my old base location. Boy was my bird not happy with me hauling that much weight in eggs but we made it. I think I want to try taming snow owls this weekend. Haven't tamed a single Extinction exclusive creature yet.

I can't wait till developers see that the most requested feature to add will be optimalization XD

You said you are working on meshing? Not nearly as much as you should be. You might have put a handful of hours into fixing it, maybe even days. It takes MONTHS to build up in official only to have someone mesh you in an hour. So however much work you have put into fixing it is incomparable to the collective loss of those effected by meshing. I submitted a ticket 2 and a half weeks ago and it still has no reply. But hey, at least you are a company that is consistantly bad at everything!

PA-THE-TIC i knew pve kids would come and highlight the stupid suggestions. "make 5x permanent", "make breeding events daily", "i want new dinos"...i may roll my eyes out of their socket.

Ragnarok Havent made much progress last couple of nights, probably not much point in reporting this but I guess its good to give a progress update. It might even be in legible English. Continued my new waterfall outpost. Got the cliff platforms down on the cliffs looking out over the valley, taking heavy inspiration from a youtube video and tweaking the design slightly. Got the foundations down onto the two main cliffplatforms. One of these shall be a gatehouse/stable build and the other shall be the main build and crafting area. There isnt land access to this base so I had to put down a ramp on the side of the cliffs and built a bridge over part of the waterfall to connect the two main platforms. Also built stairs on the side of the cliff from the main platform to allow access to the upper cave entrance. Originally I was going to build to allow large dino to access (such as gigas) the top entrance point but I decided against it prefering to favour an aesthetic build. I shall use other base locations for that and use this one as mainly a flyer and smaller dino outpost. Started building on the main platform, it is currently a work in progress and a trial and error type build, again taking inspiration from youtube. Wasted alot of structures but the building is beginning to take shape. Annoying in terms of completing the build, I wont be on tommorow as I have plans (the things I do for fun...) or the night after as I will hopefully be at the cinema watching Endgame, buzzing for that @Aushegun dude, that isnt half a novel ? I'll try reading it when I am not zonked out my skull. Zzzz

True. Many people that look at the community crunch don't follow dev tracker. I feel like it may help tone down some of the hate from ones who don't know what is going on behind the scenes. I'm just happy they are continuing to support Ark rather than taking their money and running.

yeah, they somehow thought 500 member tribes were a thing. go figure. ark officials are dead and small-tribes are thriving. most content uploaders are from 6-man where things matter...whatever. i understand they though they'd get stability from large crowds but those just steamrolled everything on their path. you were very limited on what you could do in your company because people didn't know each other. they just wanted numbers. regular discord purges and spybots tracking you and your enemies. build/tame restrictions (trust issues, "company priorities") meant 75% were farmers, by the ruling of the fist. now with the new wipe they again need to discover that balance is the problem. balance is also wc's problem. "pleasing everyone" doesn't apply to all the suggestions here. like, what's the point for a visible decay timer on pvp? all people do is offline raid because of it. who would be the losing side?...and again, wc. i'm spent, honestly. is there even a point any more? why are wc wasting their time on this game? dragging the fanbase on for ark3?

i think the mana should get buffed because if it gets nurfed again then no one would even use it it was good before the last update but now its basically a mount that is fast at least keep the speed and give it some range back maybe boost the stam and plz make the giga less of a pain to raise i love the giga but 14 days is insane we should get 4x on special events and 2x raising

PS4 - Ragnarok - Crazy Boosted German Server Well the weekend came and went, and I was never raided, nor did I ever see that the server changed to PvP status even though the Server message says as much. Honestly, I'm not going to complain, as I much prefer PvE. Real life is tough enough, let alone having to deal with online diloholes . So I'm fine in my safer PvE fantasy world. So the event colored dinos are starting to spawn on the server.... obvious that there was no dino wipe, so I have just been killing the dinos I want to spawn until I get what I want. Basically that has meant Wyverns and Griffins. I built a killing air defense outpost up above the wyvern cave. Just a metal box with turrets on top and a dino gate to fly my Ptera inside. I got a ASC Ptera Saddle BP last week in a drop, so I use that on my Pteras with the best HP, then we go and tease the wyverns, once they agro, we fly to the outpost, and into the gate, shut the door and we hide like little online trolls. The turrets do all the work, and I collect the talons and sulfur. Last night I finally saw some event colored dragons, but they were all Poison dinos. I prefer the Fire Wyverns myself. so I'll keep trying. Regarding the Griffins, I hadn't had much luck... I saw and tamed a couple level 40 event colored one, but I want top quality, so I have been killing all the Griffs I see hoping for a good RNG outcome. Well after hours of no luck (including a finding bases built on top of 3 spawn points) I finally got rewarded. I purple and Blue level 280, which I escorted to my trap and tamed it up. As I was flying it back to my base, I see another Griffin in the distance.... a perfect level 300 in yellow and Blue! Rinse and repeat, I have two top level colored Griffins. I'm still getting used to the fact that flyers cannot carry tames on this server. Last week I tamed a level 334 Tek Quetz that was all black wings, with Red and Blue Highlights. I was having a heck of a time, as it kept trying to fly above Viking bay, and I was sure it would drop into the water. The other problem, is that Viking Bay is filled with 3 HUMUNGOUS bases, filled with dinos and gear. The Lag is so bad there, that I missed so many shots on the Quetz, with the stuttering start and stop due to the lag. Finally, I got the Quetz heading towards the oil mountains and then a Yuty fear roared my dino, so I was lost for a moment. I get my bearings, but I can't see the Quetz anymore. then right near the entrance to the ice cave, I see the Q, it is stuck between 2 trees. I quickly land and place dino gates on it, locking it in. All the while, I can hear the the Yuty getting closer. So I go off to fight that, and lead it away. Being careful to dive in an out to avoid the roar, I finally kill it and his minions off. I then return to the Quetz, start tranqing it out, and then I hear a Carno immediately followed by dire wolves howling. I see a Alpha carno chasing a moose right towards me. my Griffin and I head it off, and we kill the a few wolves and are engaged with the carno, when ... "Server shutting down in 30 seconds ....." Holy crap, not good. I try whistling my Griffin to neutral (it had been on passive) and I try to lead it away from the Quetz. 5 anxious minutes later, I am back on the server, and in the middle of a battle with the carno, I have an ASC sword with me, and I am flailing away at him, but my armor is breaking and I am near death, then my griffin appears next to me and I jump on, and we take off. I heal up and we finally finish off the Alpha. It was a level 280. Now, with the area cleared, I begin to knock out the Quetz, but it is bloody from the earlier battle, so I had to take it slow to avoid killing it. Finally it gets knocked out, and as it stands up, I put a platform saddle on it. Within seconds, a whole pack of baddies come falling down the side of the mountain, and we get the heck out of dodge! I take the Q back to base, and healed it up over the weekend, then last night I uploaded it to my single player game. I also tamed a handful of high to max level Argies/Pteras, and a Blue with pink feet Sloth. Also, while flying to do the desert drops, I came across a high level bright yellow Thyla. So I just had to build a taming pen, and tame it up to. Of course running it all the way all cross the map back to base took some time, but worth it. I also came across some dinos in strange places, that were available for claiming. I found a Poison Wyvern flying in the shadows of a waterfall. No base with anywhere close to it. So I claimed it. Then later I came across a Snow Owl that was hovering way above the water not near a base either. So after much failed attempts (I kept falling into the water) I finally claimed that one too. I don't feel too bad about claiming those, as they were just out in the open far away from any base. One of the last things I did last night was explore a little more of the map, and I visited a big base with a tek force field. In a pen next to the force field area, was a lower lever all CYAN tek Quetz and the opposite sex of the one I had tamed previously. The claiming time says available in less than 24 hours. I am so tempted. Up until now, I haven't messed with anyone's bases .... but it this is sitting out in an open pen, I'm starting to wonder if I should go for it. I mean if they really wanted it, why would they leave it in an open pen, instead of putting it inside the tek forcefield bubble? What do you all think? Would I be a total jerkball for claiming it if it is available tonight? Anywho ... as I flew home drooling over the Cyan Tek Q, I flew over a new base under construction... I flew down to inspect it, when I noticed that there were actually two people in the base. I didn't have a headset on, so I just did the wave emote, and took off. As I flew away, I realized that they did not appear to have any dinos. So when I got back to my base, I grabbed a high level non event colored Griffin, Argy, and Ptera, and flew the back to the new base. But when I got there, no one was around. But there was one part of the base what was locked so perhaps they were logged off in there. Regardless, I left all three dinos there and unclaimed them. Hopefully they want/need the dinos. I keep checking over the next few days to see if they claim them. so oooookay (said in my "Office Space" voice) I just typed up another novel for you all... sorry about that.

Building a taming raft is often a good alternative. They are also portable.

The last thing this game needs is another feature creep. The initial Early Access feature creep ruined the technical quality of the game to the point ARK will never be fixed without rewritting entire game's code. If you plan to add new features, for sake of the game don't add such redundant things like a toilet or a camera or another useless creature. Granted, it's good to see WC has bagun regular communication after so long. We will see how long it will last.

Gamma settings for slidders for day/night/sun rise/sun down in options would be real nice.

My Easter event was spoiled due to a mountain biking accident with a tree - it literally came out of nowhere Damaged my Medial Collateral ligament in my knee so have been resting up all week since Sunday... no nice tames for me I should get on this week at somepoint and will continue with hatching and breeding looking for those muts

I do have a some suggestions. 1. Make all doors close automatically 2. Add switches 3. Player and smaller creatures (make the saber relevant) have slide, roll, dodge mechanic. (The mana is the only one who has anything like this. And IMO it is the funnest creature to use) 4. Procedural dungeons 5. NPC humans 6. Allow pve flyer speed leveling option for private servers. 7. Integrate mods: upgrade station, advanced rafts, ACM. 8. PVE volunteer admins for official servers... PVE is best with active admins no doubt about it.

When will small tribes get a event farming increase even a 25% buff would be nice