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FYI quick progress update. Last night I re-worked the Wilds, Tames and Tame Inventories to use Flachdachs toolkit. This evening I will be working on tribes/players then will look at structures. Unless I encounter any major issues my original guestimate of a couple weeks might have been a little pesimistic and I may have something ready for the end of this week.

I will say the general UE5 engine preview looked pretty amazing, so if nothing else, it will probably look really cool. I thought about it some more, and I guess I just wanna add that I think the two most important aspects of Ark are the freedom you have when building, which to me surpasses any other similar game, and the part with taming dinosaurs and riding them. Granted, there are tons of survival builder games I haven't tried yet, but from what I've seen or read about in reviews/YT videos, it seems to me like WC really nailed.... something about their building system. Not to say that it isn't also very frustrating in some ways, there's just something about the way you can construct bases that really seems to hit home with a lot of people. And then the ability to tame and breed dinos that you can use as mounts and the amount of different dinos you can use just makes it feel like a huge open sandbox. So even if they did decide to keep Ark 2 mostly primal, even through all of its DLCs, I think there are some ways it could work. If they stick with primitive building tiers but manage to expand upon the freedom their current system already provides, that could maybe balance out the lack of higher building tiers. Imagine if you not only had triangle and square foundations, but just a lot more "basic" building blocks that let you design a lot more visually interesting constructions. The lack of higher tier weapons/tools/crafting stations could be balanced out simply by finer tuned resource costs for items. Imagine that you get a high quality blueprint for a regular bow and that they change the way a bow works so it lets you shoot a little faster, and somehow make its damage output so that it would be a viable end-game weapon. Then I guess you no longer need shotguns and laser rifles. They could switch the game up and make it so that dinos matter a little less, and player choice matters a little more, so that you could more easily take down a T-rex on foot while also making it so that riding one doesn't make you a literal god, then that could also alleviate the need for so many tiers of weapons. Then they could make it so mutations add more power than they currently do, which would give great incentive to tame and breed dinos. Additionally, they could balance the cost of crafting items so that you no longer need 40,000 metal for an ascendant saddle. That would alleviate the need for industrial forges. They could make the primitive crafting stations craft stuff like arrows a lot faster, so you wouldn't need a tek replicator for mass producing stuff. And then finally, imagine if there were more boss encounters and instanced group oriented end-game play. Imagine if Ark 2 had dungeons and raids in varying difficulties that played out something like MMORPG PvE fights. If they manage to make some really compelling end-game play, I could get down with that. I guess what I'm trying to say is, there are ways they could make primitive gameplay a lot more engaging than it is in current Ark. I still hope they do some tek stuff down the road though. To me, the mix of sci-fi/primitive/dinos is what makes Ark so compelling in the first place. It ticks a lot of boxes on my nerd wishlist. I mean come on, it even has Dragons. All it's missing are wizards.

@Cedric @StudioWildcard As title says... pls have a check to the Server... many ppl made Outage report. THY :)

Hello Guys , Just a little post (after a ticket for server Outage ) to said ,after 3 days of usual fail save in game ,(causing 15 min roll back,like 7/15 per days), the EU-PVE-Official-GenTwo924 is down since 4H. Can we have some news? a planified maintenance? else? Thanks

FYI guys it's going to be a couple of weeks now before the next release. I'm currently looking at using the same toolkit that Ark Smart Breeding uses which is a stripped back version of the one I currently use and have issues with (duplicate tames / missing cryos etc.) It's going to take me a number of days to switch everyhing over to this other toolkit, and re-add the Vivarium support I added in my own version but long term should be easier to support and have less issues.

I think at first ark 2 will have alot of players (for like 2 months ) then I think it will tank because of peoples lack of interest in it . and it will reside with Atlas in the closet lol