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ARK Overhaul "Tame your Game" First I would like to make sure I apologize at least once for the times I have lost my temper on these forums... I get that this is a massive game and it is probably extremely difficult to keep it all running smoothly... but never the less we paid for a product that should work as intended and advertised. Especially when it was your decision as a company to create such a massive game and build such hype around that very concept, not to mention building, taming, breeding, etc... I'm sure we can agree on that. So my suggestion, and I can't speak for the whole community when I say this so I hope they would make their opinions heard in the comments... Is to postpone the next Genesis DLC, and the TLC, until a complete overhaul of the games internal problems is completed... Crashes, Bugs, Glitches, Optimization, everything... On every map... Servers AND Single Player... PCs, Xbox AND PlayStation... With it being ported to consoles by professionals that specializes in that specifically and can do it correctly... Like I said I can't speak for the entire community, but I'm almost positive most would agree... This game had grown beyond your grasp a looong time ago... and I don't mean that as an insult... It is a beautiful thing and I commend your concepts for growing into such a force of nature with a life of its own... But just like we do in this game for hours on end. Most of them being lost completely due to these same bugs and glitches... You need to Tame your Game... You need to get it under control and working correctly... From building, to taming, to breeding, to just exploring the map, gathering the artifacts, and fighting the end bosses all the way to ascension. All the way through each map... You need to fix ALL the MAJOR issues that keep you from simply playing the game as intended... Tested Thoroughly and Ported Professionally... There is no need to put this off any longer considering your almost at the games end life and have grown into such a vast company... unless you decide to add more to it passed the DLC and TLC which would be nice but I don't even see how you could... but I really believe all your future game's sales will hurt if you ignore this, and explode beyond your dreams if you actually listen... I'm pretty positive people would be much more inclined to jump back into the game for the last DLC and TLC, and for years on years afterwards, if you did this. I'm also pretty sure they would not mind waiting for the DLC to get something like this taken care of... It would probably save this company's reputation if you fix what needs to be fixed with ARK... I guarantee you will not regret it if you do and the community would love you for it if you gave the game a real "Tender Loving Care" Overhaul... Nothing has to be changed except it actually running correctly... Then Fixing what ever may go wrong with Genesis II and the TLC should be a lot less work and would open up a lot more time for you to focus on whatever your next endeavors are without trying to continually chip away at the bugs and issues overtime while also trying to work on future projects... It makes complete sense if you actually think long-term and I hope you guys really make the right choice. Thank you for your time. PS- Please don't just think of this in terms of money either, which most find it impossible not to do... Even though this would make you much more money in the long run... Think of this in terms of where you started and where you are now... and above all, the community that got you there... And if you do want to think of this in money... We have really gave you enough to simply get our games fixed...

Dungeon Boss Room Bug Well i was doing the dungeon today because its blitz week and the tek tapejara is available again so i entered the dungeon did the waves until i arrived to the boss room well things got pretty hard but i still did it i killed the boss and the remaining minions but it still wont say i cleared the dungeon and still kept saying i need to kill the minions even if there weren't any i even circled the room many times but still no luck all i had to do was die with all my ascendant gears. Thank you P.S i can't attach the screenshot or video of me checking all corners of the room so tell me where i can send the files

Center/Ragnarok/Valguero Unique Bosses TLC Since seeing the unique boss for the crystal Isles I thought about the other free mod maps and how you could make them each feel brand new all at once... I feel adding a new unique boss and arena to each of these maps would bring everyone in force back to play through these maps, get the artifacts, and fight the new bosses. Win-Win for you and the community for a lot less work than a whole new map or DLC I would think... I have some ideas to put forward for each of these maps if you will hear them out... The Center Since it already has its own unique arena which is so well made I would stick with that theme. Since there is only One unique Boss on Crystal Isles I will stick with that model for each map. It would be easy to just slap the Megapithecus (Kong) on his own and say have at it... but I think being king of a whole map he should be more along the lines of an Ultrapithecus... Having a much more detailed model and attacks... Maybe more speed and targeting, a more vertical stance like the Bigfoot, and maybe he can climb a cliff and make boulders fall down as an evasion when taking to many hits. That would be much more epic and fitting for first free map in my opinion... Ragnarok Since we already used a variation of one of the island maps bosses for one map... It would make since plus make them all neat and uniform to use the other two also... Obviously a reskin Dragon Boss from the Island would be amazing enough... but give it a little smoother flying motions and better path finding for that particular arena and you already have a fight which is twice as good... but adding at least one unique attack would make it ten times better... 2 and it's a whole new fight... Keep the Rock Elementals as minions, but make these unique... Have the Dragon fly straight up into the sky with an animation that makes it obvious this attack is coming... Have the Dragon release a fire ball that engulfs the center of the arena giving you a ring on the outside of the arena which is safe from damage... Have all the Rock Elementals hit with this attack become the Magma Elemental version for the first few minutes after the attack... Epic. Add in a couple of fire wyvern minions at the beginning, middle and last bit of the Dragon's health bar and that would be an amazing way to end one of the best maps Ark has to offer... Valguero Last but certainly not least is the Broodmother... but how about a Brood-Empress? This would be the only one that needs some actual work done to their boss arena... Valguero has a very open boss arena and that would have to be altered a bit to give some areas for her to climb, like an open crevice or cave mouth with webbed up tunnels or something... A long with a spider web make over to the whole arena. I see a more flexible and agile version than a Broodmother that can run up walls and hang from ceilings... Maybe have Broodmothers that are smaller and weaker than the gamma version (Brood-Princesses) that come out of the webbed tunnels along with a bunch of araneos as the Empress hangs from the cave mouth or added in over hangs as it hits mid-health bar and low-health bar... I see her larger but thinner than the Broodmother with longer legs, and when hanging from the ceiling/overhangs she can use webbing to pluck riders off their dinos and drop them into her brood to feed... You could have a LOT of fun creating an upgraded spider boss fight... Even making these ideas simpler would be amazing and add a huge resurgence for the prior mod-maps. Something to think about for the future down the line... You could even add one explorer note to each map that explains these are the perfect end-results of the bosses from the Island that "Rockwell" or the Ark system or whatever created in it's programming of making harder threats for the survivors to face... The other two being phased out due to the one becoming so effective, etc... And each map a different boss happened to be the one to "Evolve" through the programming... Just a thought. Maybe make unique survivors from each map that left the note. An Easter egg nod to the devs in the names of the survivors on the notes for their maps would probably be a nice gesture... Would be pretty amazing just saying...

Dodobitus boss Anyone have any clue on how to find the missing dodo minions? I’ve beaten the boss but there’s seems to be no minions in site. Is it a bug? If so, WC please fix it. I know it’s just a mobile game, but it’s all I can afford momentarily.

Strategy for Megapithecus Hi, I have recently gotten all of my rexes (and a yuty) raised and leveled. I am confident that they are strong enough stat wise, but I want to know what the best strategy is. There will only be 2 of us.

Solo'ing Bosses with Rexes I'm a solo PVE player and I'm at the point where I want to start doing the boss fights to get Tek stuff. I have a breeding pair of boss rexes, both have 30K HP and 1125.4% Damage and I'm in the process of raising babies in preparation. I've never done a boss fight before and I'm not sure how "tough" the bosses are. I've heard that the Broodmother is probably the best to start with and the easiest to solo so I'll try her first. Are my rex's stats good enough and if so how many do you think I'll need to bring to solo the boss?

Artifacts not spawning on any map(Xbox) I've been playing single player (on Xbox)for a while and I've decided to go look for the artifacts,but when I got to the place where the artifact of the clever(Ragnarok) it was not there.I went into Ghost mode and looked around:nothing.Then I went over to another one ,maybe it would just take a while for it to spawn.But there was nothing,no artifact anywhere on Ragnarok.so I went over to the island,then to aberration:the same thing.Non of the artifacts would spawn in.Also,I tried using commands to spawn them in as I wanted to do the boss battles,but when I typed in "GFI artifact_01 1 0 0" the command would just get erased not allowing me to cheat then in. Is there anything that I can do ,while keeping my progress as well? Help.

Single player boss stats Hi, I am preparing to do the single player bosses with 1 Yutyrannus and 19 rexes. What stats would you recommend having for the bosses and tek cave on alpha difficulty. Right now I am thinking of getting up to 10k health and 1k damage. Will this be enough? Thanks in advance.

Moeder boss on genesis broken While i kinda feel im the reason for this issue. I cant get the moeder boss to work anymore. I activate the portal and it doesnt teleport me. I see the tags to kill the baby eels but as soon as i get close to them by ghosting through the mesh. They disappear and i cant kill the moeder. It just fails and i get nothing. I dont know what to do. Can someone fix this please?

Update Broke Entire Game!!! The Island Now Raining Bosses, Scorched Earth Nuked! Since the 1/10/2020 Update Here are the issues I'm having so far. On The Island whenever I use an obelisk to fight a Guardian I now get teleported...…..NOT to the Guardians Arena but...… IN THE SKY WITH MY DINO'S!!!!!! Literally Teleports My Dino's, Me, and the Boss to the very center of The Island, Coordinates 50 Lat. 50 Lon. where we all freefall from the SKY until we hit the ground. In most cases it's instant death for my character and my T-Rex survives with the boss landing on our heads. Sometimes the boss even Vanishes into thin air after landing. Not sure what's going on here but The Island is now raining down Players, Dino's, and Guardians when you activate an obelisk. Oh, and that's not all! I moved over to Scorched Earth only to find that I was instantly killed along with ALL MY TAMED DINOS, and ALL MY STRUCTURES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!!!!! All that was left were inventory bags where my structures USED to be. Is anyone having these problems? If so is there any way to fix them? Any help is appreciated BC my game is unplayable ATM.

We're currently working to get as much stats into rex's and well on our way, I've seen others with higher stats but we're not doing bad. With 10340 HP and 374% base melee, what is the recommended stats for 9 of us to take down the hard bosses? We were thinking 20k HP then pump as much Melee as possible. Has anyone succeeded :)?

So i've pretty much tried every way i've seen from Cheat summon Dragon_Character_BP_C to Summon Dragon_Character_BP_C and admincheat summon Dragon_character_bp_c but nothing works... i just want to spawn in a dragon. i honestly don't care if its tamed or not but i just want a dragon so if anyone knows a working way to spawn the dragon boss on ragnarok with console commands then PLEASe let me know thanks ^ 3 ^

Anybody play default server settings? Has anybody here actually finished the game with normal default server settings? Asking for a friend. I’ve been playing on default non-dedicated server settings (0.2 difficulty) with some friends on one world and one character for years now and im only just starting to try to fight the bosses which may not even scale with difficulty, surely people have done it though? Like the Alpha bosses and all the caves and that? Every time i try to find video its always boosted server settings.

Alpha Rockwell Singleplayer PVE. Hey guys a little back ground info. Playing max difficulty, not using single player settings. I got 87 armor rock drake blueprints and thinking about taking on rockwell with the drakes. I would like to know what is the recommended health and melee for alpha rockwell. Any additional info or suggestions are welcome as I have never done an aberration boss before. Thanks.

Help! Boss noob here Hey, I’ve been playing ark on the same non-dedicated server of mine for like two years and have still never fought any of the bosses. I’ve been trying to figure out what level my dinos should be before i try to fight the alpha Megapithecus but have had trouble finding vids of other people fighting that boss on non-dedicated with default server rules because, no one does that. My highest level rex is 89 which is shameful compared to the level 300s i see on youtube on boosted servers but I’d appreciate if anyone has any idea what levels my stuff should be before fighting the boss? Thanks moits.

Boss If I used my lvl250 spino with 50k hp and 400% melee DMG what other Dino's would you recommend to kill the brood mother. I also have a lvl 200 wyvern

Wild Bosses roaming around genesis? Who else thinks we'll get bosses roaming around genesis? In the trailer it showed a megapithecus roaming around the map and the way I know it's wild is that it was fighting a giga which can't be brought into a arena plus in extinction it showed every creature being released from the arks including Rockwell escaping, plus in extinction they showed that they managed to implement titans into the base map. Granted they were spawned and stayed in a certain radius but still their raid bosses so how hard could it be to implement the smaller weaker bosses as wild creatures that roam the map. I think they will have limits though such as only spawning at their gamma difficulty and not being able to spawn in minions like the boss arena versions so their not too overpowered, but I think their stats will stay the same as the arena variants so it's more of a challenge, plus in the trailer the megapithecus didn't have any minions and didn't try spawning any. I think if I'm right we'll definitely get the Broodmother too (valguero is pretty close to a wild Broodmother) and at a push the Dragon and Manticore (The Dragon is basically broken outside of the arena so it'll need alot of work to function and the Dragon is actually very strong and the Manticore is probably not likely due to also not functioning very well outside of the arena although it is far better than the Dragon since it can actually move and be controlled when ridden but it definitely needs attacks for when its flying because it doesn't have any when tamed as of now, also they would probably want it to stay exclusive to Scorched Earth and not make the whole situation that happened with Ragnarok taking almost every creature from Scorched Earth worse.), maybe they'll even be limited time tames similar to the Titanosaur, Ice Titan, Desert Titan and Forest Titan but have a permanent option in single player.

Allow (small) flyers on boss fights I've been playing on a private server (Ragnarok) with a friend and recently got into breeding. Dimorphodons are my favorite dinos and I was looking forward to breeding some super dimorphs and using them on the boss fights. I then found out that Ragnarok only has 1 boss (Dragon+Manticore) and that this fight apparently does not allow you to bring flyers in and I feel very sad. Is it possible to change this? I can understand not allowing quetzals with machine gun towers, etc. But not allowing dimorphs, agents, etc. seems a bit unnecessary?

Ark Aberration Artifact of the Lost Idea I think aberration should have a second boss that's fought by using the obelisks and you would need the artifact of the lost to get to it. The second boss should be the queen of all the reapers and nameless the Reaper Matriarch that design wise is somewhat similar to a large Reaper Queen however its tail would be somewhat like a combination between a scorpion tail and pincers (imagine seltas queen tail from monster hunter but more spiky and intimidating) its color is jet black with crimson red eyes and it should have red element streaks across it's body and in its frills similarly to the alpha nameless and its spikes should be larger with spikes jutting out of its back on both sides of the body. Attack wise it should have the acid ball attack that the reaper king has spraying acid balls everywhere in a shotgun attack. it should also have a wide acid spray attack with its tail that will leave puddles of acid that damage things walking into them, and it can do a impale attack similarly to the manticore tail attack. Its arena could be a cave with purple Crystal's all over the ceiling and afew spires scattered around the area with hints of tek around the arena. It should also have a new cave in the halls of the reaper queen to get the artifact of the lost. And in order to fight Rockwell you would have to have its trophy heads depending on what difficulty. Gamma requirements: Artifact of the Lost, Basilisk scales and rock drake feathers. Beta requirements: Artifact of the Lost, Basilisk scales, rock drake feathers, Alpha Basilisk Fang and Alpha Karkinos Claw. Alpha requirements: Artifact of the Lost, Basilisk scales, rock drake feathers, Alpha Basilisk Fang, Alpha Karkinos Claw and Alpha Reaper King barb. Plus this could be a nice further nod to different types of xenomorphs from the alien franchise, the Beta Reaper Matriarch would resemble the K-Series Aliens from Alien vs Predator Extinction because of the golden coloration and the Alpha Reaper Matriarch would resemble the Red Xenomorphs from the Alien Genocide comic, plus the Reaper Matriarch would basically be arks version of the Xenomorph Queen Mother which also appear in the Alien Genocide comic. This could go well with the Scorched Earth remake suggestion I made although this has less of a chance at getting added than the Scorched Earth Remake it would be pretty cool to see in the game plus it honestly feels like aberration is missing something considering the fact the artifact of the lost even exists but is used for nothing.

Tameable isand bosses as lategame tames I was thinking about it and it would be cool to see an old enemy become a friend as you explore genesis, downscale their HP and stuff and stronger than a rex for megapithecus but weaker than a giga and other stuff for the bossez

Lost all my dinos because of a bugged Manticore So this weekend we were taking on the gamma boss fight on official Valguero 1133 and everything was going fine. We got the Dragon first and then the Megapithecus, but we noticed that the Manticore wasn't doing much while we were taking them down. We still had 14 minutes when we noticed the Manticore was flying still not doing anything. We tried shooting it and even sending a Dimorphodon at it, but it wouldn't move at all. We decided to wait and when the time ran out, we lost all the dinos and all the loot. I don't know if wildcard can do anything about our losses but this bug needs to be fixed ASAP, we all put a lot of days into the game and losing so much because of an AI bug is really disappointing.

looking for group of people to beat the game with. I have been playing ark since 2015/ mostly pvp servers. I am becoming more interested in the story and want to beat all the caves/bosses. don't want to solo. looking for some people to play with and beat the game starting with the Island. (I haven't bought any of the expansions yet)

Best dino for solo boss Ragnarok I want to know what dino is the best for solo ragnarok alpha boss other maps dinos can be included as well, is velona still op?