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Since I started playing Ark, I’ve always wanted to go through all the story maps in order from The island to Gen2, staying on each map until completion. But I have 2 problems and because of them I’ve spent 90% of my playtime on the island restarting every few months after getting bored because I’m sick of the island. Problem 1 (low level spawns on story maps) The story maps are notorious for low level spawns, I feel like I would spend 100’s of hours on the island as I use basically official rates. Then eventually I’d take my boss ready dinos to scorched and then I would probably get through scorched too quickly, which I don’t want. Problem 2 (non story maps) I don’t want access to things that would make things easier until I’ve reached that point in the game (not having deinos for the dragon on the island for example). But I also don’t want to miss out on all the non story maps that have been added over the years because they look really good. The solution (for me at least) is one rule: “Dino / item transfers are not allowed until you have collected and displayed all Artefacts from the map you wish to transfer to. “ Following this rule will mean once you have defeated the overseer on the island and transfer to scorched, you will have to establish yourself to the point where you can collect the artefacts on scorched. So when you’re ready to fight the boss on scorched is the exact moment you’re then allowed to go and get your island dinos. This is how you would progress through the maps 1. The island - The Centre 2. Scorched Earth - Ragnarok 3. Aberation - Valguero 4. Extinction - Crystal Isles 5. Gen1 - Lost island 6. Gen2 - Fjordur You would start on the island and have access to the centre right away but remember, NO DINO/ITEM TRANSFERS until you’ve collected and displayed all artefacts on the map you’re transferring to. Then once you’ve defeated the overseer you have access to scorched & rag but when you go to those maps you will have to go naked & alone until you’ve got the artefacts there too. Playing like this allows you to get the full experience out of every map, without having to then leave your mutated boss killers behind when you finish a map. You’ll also be able to experience every non story map, in order of release, without having access to things you wouldn’t already have access to on a story map. The only thing I’m not sure on is I don’t think there’s artefacts on Gen1/2 so I’m not sure what to do there. Not sure if this idea will be if any use to anyone I’m just posting because I’ve seen a lot of people talk about wanting to do a story playthrough but not being sure on the best way to do it.

Add the possibility to change the keyboard and mouse key mapping on console , because the actual mapping is based on Qwerty keyboard but european play with Azerty keyboard

When you die only you can see the green light of your dead body. Sometimes if you crash when get back to the game you are dead and can’t find that green light of your body. Would be awesome if a tribemate could see it too to find it faster (even a different color so they know it ain’t their dead body incase both players died).

Mods for ARK Console Editions Dear Studio Wildcard, Even if I love ARK,I have to say that its quite boring to play it on console.And because I don't have a PC,that's good enough to play ARK,I have to use a PS4 to play that cool game.I wish there was a way to mod the game on consoles,so that we can also enjoy an extended ARK with all the features of mods like CKFR,S+,Eco's mods,Pimp my home,Primal fear and so on.I'm sure I'm not alone with this wish and I'm sure all console players would love this. DComet

I recently noticed in the Ark Official Discord that PC Small Tribes gained a couple more Fjordur servers. I wanted to suggest this same change for PlayStation and Xbox. There are tons of people who missed the Fjordur launch and started late but we’re/are unable to catch up to those tribes who started on launch. The servers are very full and all the cool spots are taken leaving those who missed the launch behind. Considering that this is the last map for Ark 1, it is also the VERY LAST time for new tribes to get established on Small Tribes Servers on an even playing field, without getting destroyed by the larger and older tribes from the main cluster. Fjordur is truly an amazing map and giving those people who missed launch a chance to give Small Tribes a go one last time would be truly a great final gift from Wildcard for Ark 1.

Hello I would love to see the fov slider make its way into ark for the xbox series x. I believe it would be a welcome addition to the game for us console players as it would make the game more immersive and fun to play with more to see on the screen.

Please add a video quality setting on console, or INI because i can not play the game if i am soaking turrets running past turrets looking at a built cave breeding dinos. i take 3 minutes to load into maps and have a 50/50 chance of crashing when i load it. please add video quality setting as its the only reason people heavily prefer computer over console. i average 40 fps just playing the game aswell

I would like to know if we are ever going to get the option to enable and disable flyers on genesis part 1 on xbox/ps?

It would good to be able to have multiple saves of each section. By this I mean, for The Island, one save I can play on my own, and another I can play with friends. This would be for single player mode. At this stage I can not find a way to do this. Also please remove tethering of players joining other games.

I hoped for this for year and I am finally gonna ask: Could you please add a scale or any other way to increase stack sizes on console? Yes I know that I can do that with a Nitrado server, but I don't want to have to pay, just to craft a good saddle blueprint or a high quality swat peace. Please upvote this, this change is really needed

So me and my tribemates need to do Gen2 to finish the game, the issue with it is is that we are unable to beat all the missions ( just the race ones left to be exact) due to both server lag as well as our consoles being unable to meet the demand of the game to run smoothly throughout the missions, causing us to lose due to lost time. So I am curious if the Devs changed the requirements to enable the Gen2 boss fight? When I say that I mean can we get someone to start up the fight for us if they have all the missions unlocked or do we have to accept our fate and beat it at the lower difficulty?

So as the title suggests, I think there needs to be an official way for console players to get mods. There's a game I used to play called Skyrim SE. In that game you could get mods on every platform that game was. Some mods would only work on certain platforms due to certain restrictions, but at least there were options for everybody. Originally mods were PC only, but then the developers of that game added official mod support for all platforms. They then slowly but surely starting porting mods that were originally PC only to other platforms. There was also the ability of modders to develop mods for other platforms from the start. Also if dev kit was available on all platforms that'd be epic. Imagine playing something like primal fear or having the latest mod map on console. Certain mods that are on the more chill side might make it to official while more extreme mods might be unnofficial. I don't how much of what I said is possible but still I'd definitely love to see modding options available on all ark's platforms.

Console Ark has always been a struggle, just because of the (lack of) power that consoles have. Here are some REALLY SIMPLE changes that could be made to make a console player's life much easier. 1. GRAPHICAL SETTING OPTIONS. For real guys, why can't console players turn off the godawful light shafts, shadows, and bloom quality from the game menu? Every time I log onto Ark, I have to first go onto my single player, type in these commands and then log into whatever server I'm playing on, and then do it again when my game inevitably crashes while I'm playing. I don't know if anyone from the Dev team has played Ark with high gamma, and then flown up into the sky. Your screen literally turns white, you literally can't see anything. Not exaggerating. Allow us PLEASE to tune these settings. As well as that, if it's at all possible, give the option to change resolution settings. Console players don't need textures to look amazing, we’re playing on an xbox and a $100 TV from Walmart. We just want to get above 5fps inside our bases. Please Wildcard. 2. MOUSE AND KEYBOARD. I know this one is a longshot, but Xbox just gave the capability, and Ark is such an advanced game. It could be made a lot more fun, competitive, and just convenient by allowing mouse and keyboard. Xbox Small Tribes servers are already loaded with people playing on mouse and keyboard because they are Cross-platform. Anyone who's played console will understand the struggle of making gunpowder. *Press and hold* "One stack of sparkpowder" *Press and hold* "Two stacks of sparkpowder". It's excruciating. 3. TRANSFER ITEM OPTIONS. On the subject of making gunpowder, the whole “press and hold” to transfer one stack this is horrid. Making bullets requires you doing this hundreds and hundreds of times, whereas PC players can hold down T and wave their mouse around to transfer stacks super quickly. If we can’t have mouse and keyboard, something that would be great would be a “transfer x amount” feature. Or even a “transfer x stacks”. Small things, like when you added LB to take all, go a LONG way to making the game more convenient and streamlined for controller players. 4. DINO MOVEMENT. Jeeeeez guys this is brutal. I loved the “disable ally looking” option that you added, I’m asking you to take it a step further and give an option to turn off passive dino movement. I don’t want 100 wyvern tails dancing all over the place, I don’t want massive Bronto tails pushing me around. I don’t want my dinos to have an aneurysm every time they eat food. I know that it’ll look weird just having all your dinos sit there like statues, but its so worth it if it would help the framerate, even a little bit. If it’s simply an option, that puts the power in the players’ hands to decide if it’s worth it. 5. ACCOUNT LOYAL IMPRINTS. This isn’t a console-specific suggestion like the others, but still this needs to happen. You guys obviously feel pretty bad when your players lose characters. But rather than you having to deal with thousands of tickets, why not just give us what we wanted in the first place? I’m going to tell you right now, if you made dino-imprints loyal to an account rather than a character, people won’t care about lost characters anymore. Very minimal people care about losing tek engrams. Everyone on Ark knows someone that can get them another run through the Boss Fights. The biggest hit when you lose a character comes from the fact that you now have Dinos without imprints. On PvP servers, imprints are everything. Back when you guys set imprint timers to 8 hours from 3-4 hours, you cited that you were making the game a little healthier. If that’s still something you care about, you should give people the ability to hold onto Imprints. I’ve had tribemates lose a character and lose upwards of 500 imprinted tames because of it. That’s hours of work, wasted. Unlesssss, you guys come through for us on this. I know that the community agrees on this. 6.FIX ARGIES PLS N TY. Yeah I almost forgot, also not a console-specific thing but holy hell. Fix the Argent's picking issues.

Hello. I'm on a (Nitrado) cluster server for Xbox. The servers will be shut down due to lack of players. One map will run out of time before the other. I'm wondering if it's possible to cryo some really liked tames and transfer/upload to my single player file?... Even if it means starting over on my sp file. I'd be fine with that.

I think i can speak for a decent amount of the player base in saying that lag on the original Xbox is terrible. some people dont have or want to spend 500-1000 on a new console. With the lag, Personally, I don't think I could even count the amount of times I've crashed, disconnected from the server, or completely freeze-lagged for a good few seconds, only to find that ive been killed from something I can't do anything about. sometimes console servers, doing even very simple tasks can make things take wayyy more time than they should. If like on pc, you could change the different values for your graphics settings on Console would make a lot of sense. adding customizable graphics to console would not only save the players time, but it would also be a much more enjoyable experience. many people would gladly sacrifice for the much needed fps boost. The next thing that console could greatly use would be to have the ability to change what different buttons do, this could make pvp much more competitive, and more fun. manual change Keybinds on pve could also make things more efficient, and faster. Have a feeling both these changes would no doubt make the game better, and much more fun to play