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As the title suggests, this is going to be a list of things I/we would like to see as options/functionality for hosting custom servers for console. If we can keep everything in one place, we might actually get someone's attention; so, if you have suggestions I will add them to the body of this post. I'm going to break this down categorically, so this is probably going to be a long post: Administrative Functionality Admin Listing (Nitrado is working on this, but it requires some work from WC): the ability to assign people as admins, like on PDS, rather than giving them a password Enable player list functionality outside of spectator, with one-click teleportation to active players (Ctrl+n on PC while in spectator) Admin role management: tiered role system, similar to tribe roles, where the use of specific commands can be allowed or disallowed Server statistics tracking: players/dinos killed, dinos tamed/bred, resources harvested, and so on it would be nice to table and filter this, so perhaps adding this to a separate log file would be easier server logs are purged on shutdown, so this would need to persist in order to be of any value Map overlay displaying locations of player made structures within a specific radius displayed as color-coded pins TeleportPlayerToMe/TeleportPlayerToCoords Pretty self-explanatory, but it would be nice to, at a minimum, have the ability to teleport players to admins; you know, for when they get stuck in solid objects we can't get them out of manually The second option is sort of a selfish one for me, as I'd like to have the ability to teleport griefers on my server over lava. Yes, yes I am sadistic. Admin-only structures: Many of us who run custom servers build community structures, and those structures need to be accessible by our admin teams. In order to do this, since many if not most of us do not have all of our admins in the same tribe, we are required to force join the tribes owning these structures. This creates issues which have led to randomly spawning in to being forced into a tribe we never touched, owning a tribe we never touched, the inability to rejoin our own tribes, and so on. A simple solution is to be able to designate specific structures as being 'owned' by the server admins. Cluster Functionality Toggle option for permitting the transfer of Element and Tribute items (there is no real point in having these transfers disabled on PvE clusters or custom servers) I will add more as I think of it, or as you fine folks make suggestions. 'Why don't you just make a mod?'I play the game on an Xbox, some of this actually requires WC, and there is no guarantee that console players would be able to use the mod we would spend months building. If WC wants to give us the thumbs up, we'll start learning and building immediately.

We should start a petition for Ark to bring back Upgrades for Movement Speed in Flyers in all versions of Ark. I know a lot of other users agree, so why don't we bring it to the game developers attention.

There is no whistle command for landing flyers nor is there a breeding option like PC got. What is going on? Very frustrating. Also, anyone who's thinking about leaving a mean reply just because, please don't. Thanks!

Next map should be Crystal Isles! Please bring that map to us after Structures Plus! Please...

So, I'm just curious, does it do any good to report meshers on console? I see the enforcement for PC being handed down but there are a bunch on console and it seems none of them are ever touched

I have tried spawning the reaper king or queen on the the island and ragnarok but neither have worked. My game either crashes or freezes. I was wondering if there was a way around it or if it is even possible to spawn them on Xbox without playing on Aberration. I have tried both console commands for the king and queen and the impregnating command. Neither have worked on my xbox one server

Hey, So I recently purchased Ark on the PS4 (spring sale, 2018) and have a few questions I hope a dev could answer or provide some feedback for the future. For details, I play Ark on the PS4 Pro, couch co-op with my girlfriend. As it currently stands, there is a limited distance for tethering on non-dedicated servers and single player (co-op splitscreen). of 250m which is very low for an exploratory game. I have looked into renting a Nitrado dedicated server to play with friends and girlfriend (couch co-op/splitscreen) but it seems that this option is not available. I understand that having an adjustable slider to increase the tether distance may put some strain on the system hardware, but why is the PS4 Pro console under the same software umbrella as a PS4. The hardware upgrade within the Pro should be more reliable for hosting the system demands from the game, at least to a degree on increasing the radius if not eliminating it entirely. Secondly, why are players who rent a Nitrado rentable dedicated server not allowed to couch co-op. For my situation, all I want is a maximum of 4 players on my private server. If I’m dishing out the money, and it’s a player-rented server, why are these restrictions in place? My problem is as it stands, there has not been a solution for players that have the same issues that I am experiencing. With the recent sale of the game, the player base will significantly increase, thus the demand for solutions to these problems will drastically increase as well. Please Wildcard, address at least one of these issues in a hotfix. You’re really hurting the player base and introducing these solutions before putting out new content will create a larger player base and increase revenue. tldr; need to increase or eliminate radius of tethering in co-op, PS4 Pro should not have same limitations as PS4, private rented Nitrado servers should allow co-op splitscreen

A question for you: For this Cross-platform gameplay, can you participate in it if you have already bought the game on PC, or do you nee to Windows 10 version, meaning that you must buy the game all over again..?

Its been five days since I was able to play on the offical servers. The last time i was on i turned my xbox off, though i didnt quit the game, so i was still on the server. So when i got on the next day, i realised i was still on, so i exited the server (NA100) and quit the game. After that, i was unable to join any official server. It would say that im joining the server ther after a while "connection timeout". I have nearly tried evrything that might resolve the issue but to no avail. I think i found a bug

This game deleted my level 85 character before the launch of the game, so i could never get back into it. Please start up new servers regularly while regulary taking down old ones. Is it too much to ask to have new a new server or two start up once a month? And then let your player base know when they will launch? Id like to get back into the game and buy the new DLC but i dont wanna start the DLC being at level 1 again. I wouldnt mind starting fresh day 1 of new servers again, itll add to your player base, people dont wanna come back after they get wiped and have to build under alpha tribes that dont let you build up, or ones that do let you build up and then wipe you because they think its funny to waste hundreds of hours of peoples lives. Please Wildcard release new servers, even for the old maps the center and ragnarok are my personal favorites, but the only active servers currently are on day 5000+ which is no fun for a newbie to want to come into or get back into.

I play Ark on xbox, and haven’t had too many issues. But with the release of extinction, the map doesn’t seem to load properly for me, I summoned the Ice Titan and it looked like a wax piece of modern art. It didn’t load propery and once I killed it, it was dead in the ground then jumped back into the air brathing and just standing there. I know that this was just released but maybe it’s just my console. If it isn’t I’d luke to see these issues resolved.

to the ark community and Wildcard: I have been playing ark since the second week of early access release on Xbox, with months of playtime into the game, and I have loved playing ark. I loved running around the island trying to survive long enough to build a stone house, and I have loved it all the way up to the grand strategy and MMO game that it has become. but, although the game has been great, some of those at Wildcard haven't treated us the best. I am not even just talking about console players, but I do believe that we have been treated worse. We understand having to push a deadline back because you ran into unexpected issues or that there was some issue with getting things through certain approval processes, but Wildcard has CONTINUOUSLY pushed release dates back and back and back. With DLC's, generally, after they have pushed it back a few times already, they will release it to PC and tell consoles "well, sorry. you are going to have to wait. We haven't finished it yet". So then console players have to sit there twiddling their thumbs, watching as PC players enjoy the content that the console players have paid the same price for, but have to wait for. This doesn't only happen with DLC's for console though. for every update (to my knowledge) PC gets it ahead of time, and it might be slightly sometimes but we have had to wait for an update for 2 weeks after PC got it. Not only do we get our console updates to come later than the PC updates but our versions have always been the buggiest and glitchiest. This kind of treatment of PC first then consoles is a pretty straightforward message stating that Wildcard values their PC customers more than their console customers. They have the choice to wait to release both until they are both fully completed, but they choose not to. They ELECT to release a BETTER version of updates/DLC to PC while MAKING CONSOLE PLAYERS WAIT for something they have paid the same price for. Never has console got any kind of actual compensation, let alone in game reimbursement. The closest thing that We have gotten to something of the sort is an evolution event, which is normally just making up past ones that we missed due to the delayed release, and this is only compensation for people who play on public servers. it isn't actually a compensation for all console players which makes it feel like it is just something that is supposed to hush or pacify console players. this kind of treatment feels like a frustrated mother just trying to shove a pacifier in her kid's mouth instead of trying to solve the issue or actually care for the child. If things were handled differently like different pricing, simultaneous release, some actual form of repayment, then I wouldn't be writing this. When I say we in the post I am not referring to my tribe or my server or people who just speak the same language of me, and I am not saying "we" as an assumption of how other people feel. With all this time between PC releases and console release, WE have had a lot of time to sit and wait, and to talk. So we all talk, and we talk about what I just wrote about. I have had these conversations with people about these problems since before the first DLC. I have been on french "the center" servers where my tribe spoke mostly English but some of us could talk French and some of them could talk English. I have been on scorched earth servers with Mega tribes, Islands with solos, Ragnaroks with something I would refer to a coalition of Mega tribes. A small number of people I talked to said something along the lines of "well they are just trying to make sure they get it right" and this is them trying to be understanding, but when I or others asked them if they thought that Console is treated worse they would answer with a disheartened "yes". We want to be understanding of wildcard and we hate to see this inequality, but it is there and we are distraught by it. Sincerely, DDog

(I have posted something like this before) Ok so I just got to ragnarok and have been doing good things like traveling and you probably know where this going but haven't been traveling far because of tether. Ragnarok is by far one of the biggest maps on ark and it shows with what creatures you can use to get around, but here's the thing you'll usually make it 100 feet before getting dragged. Tether is annoying especially in open world games because it makes you laugh when you hear open world. Also because instead of being an independent adventure your constantly hugging the host. The distance for tether is very short and could be extended a few hundred yards. So here's some recommendations 1. Add a slider like back in one of the early versions of ark. 2. Do what minecraft does and give each player independent rendering distances. These are just 2 suggestions for this problem but are very simple additions. Now I'll give examples of annoying tether issues. 1. When the host is one the flyer and you are teleported to them you get sent to the bottom to danger like lava, water, and big dinosaurs which will turn you into cementing paste. 2. When host dies every other player gets teleported to the host which is annoying when spelunking. 3. When the host is on a fast dinosaur and they get caught in danger start to run away mean while you're on a cliff making your way down and get dragged off. 4. The host is moving while your trailing behind and the tame behind is being attacked you cant help them because the invisible wall is dragging you. 5. Getting wyvern eggs and your watching host get an egg and you get dragged down either falling lava or dying from fall damage. I could go on so please wild card take this i to consideration for console players when your deciding how far back you want to push back the extinction dlc for console players.

Hi i just wanted to suggest the idea that you make it so console players can lower their graphics settings like they can on PC in an attempt to increase fps. On console one of the biggest problems with the game is the amount of lag we have to deal with. Players deal with framerate lag, and they also deal with server lag which is an anomaly that likely can't be solved. But if we were able to lower our graphics settings we may be able to solve the fps lag portion of it. Things like detailed grass and surroundings don't seem that important to me if it meant i could play much smoother and enjoy playing with less lag. Even things like giant dino tails constantly swinging in big bases i feel causes a lot of lag. They removed the swinging animation from the plant species X for that reason so i dont see why we couldnt do the same with dino tails. A base baving having hundreds of gigas, bronto tails etc. swinging constantly i feel creates an unnecessary amount of lag. Consoles can't run at the same speeds Pcs do so having the ability to lower graphics settings may help with those of us who don't have a ps4 pro or even the ones that do. Thanks for reading

PC has the steam workshop, console should have someway of getting mods. It would be a great if console players could get to play Extinction with a few handy mods (eg: S+)

If all the Ark devs added were the horizontal triangle pieces to console, it would change building for Console players greatly. Of course id love more S Plus features but those would be awesome.

Hello., Knowing fliers can stop when release of left stick and not have the forward momentum. This happened to me with out keyboard but after relog i can't recreate the effect. If you know how? please write. It would be so nice to be able to stop in the right location and not drift with fliers. The mechanics is in Xbox ARK but as far as I know player need a keyboard. Or? Seems I got the effect by mistake otherwise. Regards, Ariana

Wildcard, take a deep, long look at yourself and see what you have all done. Removing the TetherDistance slider on Xbox and/or console (I'm not sure if it's not on PS4), has made thousands of people leave the game for good. I nearly did, I only came back because of I am starting to get a little bored of the other games I had. Now all my friends (and my sister) no longer play ARK. Half of them don't even remember what ARK is. This deeply upsets me as there seemed to be no problems with the tether distance. You just removed an option that people will miss. I know that you are getting tired of constantly being reminded of this. So can you please change it back. Thanks, Toby.

After so long of this game being out on both pc and consoles and pc having things like a insta click to move a stack and a key to press to stop a flyer mid air it is questioning why it hasn’t been implemented into consoles... no excuses you made up how to get 9 slots for hotbar through lb and dpad it shouldn’t be hard to find a way to add simple things that improve gameplay, seen this post on here yet it was closed and nothing ever replied I don’t even think this gets to a dev but it’s the best option at it since we are ignored while you add more content that needs reworked etc etc

Yo guys. I have a bit of a problem, me and my friends play on an unofficial pc server. Before the new update i had a normal serverlist but now if I don't want to play official servers the server list only shows protected server/ servers with a password. How can I play/see servers with no password. Because now I can't find and play on the server and I have to wait for a friend. Who can send me an invite and than i have to accept invite the invite to join.

Hello, After looking at what people tweeted yesterday I must say the forum is cleaned from negative response. So how do I play the event in single player if I am not on steam/pc? Granted the event is live on console Official servers but for casual players like me now as usual it is not possible to activeevent=arkaeology in single player. Or have WC implemented a fix for SP?In that case I do not know about it. My reaction yesterday was a big laught and a worried thought that Jeremy left WC. However when will events be for all players? Regards, Ariana

Does anybody know if S+ will be added to console? I would love to see it added to console. Right now I feel like building is very limited on the base game and S+ would bring out more creative builds from console players.

Bring select and long standing mods to consoles. The structures and Platforms plus mod that has been on the sponsored mod program since almost it's inception it would allow players to have a base or bases worth showing off to others that don't rely on pure size even if it was disabled on official PvP servers it would enhance the PvE experience all that much more . New decorative items and mirrors that actually work along with new maps and a special map for Alpha Ascension as we have The Center for Gamma Ascension and Ragnarok for Beta Ascension the alpha map could incorporate the Aberration map engrams and tames. Scorched Earth Ascension Area as that wasn't added into the game due to suspense building or time limitations but since the Aberration DLC has an Ascension at the end of the main boss fight you can add one for either the Manticore fight or a new cave for it your own Survivor Notes hint at an ascension for scorched earth so as a player i would like to see this implemented. The Immersive taming mod would also be great for consoles as like a new game mode similar to Primitive Plus would be appreciated. Please remember PC players already can quite easily have all of these and more Hackers say they already have mods but those of us who have standard consoles or don't wish to break EULA have to wait on either a console mod program (which WildCard have already said they are not doing) or the mods to be added by WildCard we all would like to say these seem to be the most important ones for me and my friends. Thank You for reading.

I have been unable to play the Aberration Map as of the release of the TLC 2 Update for consoles. Every time I attempt to load Aberration (in singleplayer and non-dedicated) the game crashes and kicks me to the dashboard. Oddly, if I load up Ark immediately after this crash, the game crashes before the menu screen and my entire Xbox shuts off automatically and then turns back on. EDIT: After testing, I found that I CAN join official Aberration servers, however I still would like to let it be known that I still cannot host my own solo or non dedicated servers.

This question goes out to the Dev team and it would be really nice for some feedback from WC. In comparison, the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X have very similar specs and performance stats with acknowledging the Xbox One X has slightly more RAM specs. Currently. The Xbox One X is the only console to allow No Tether options via split-screen. Meanwhile, PC players have a slider option. With this in mind, Xbox vs Xbox One X players must have different versions of the game allotted to allow the tether distance factor between the two consoles. Why does the PS4 and PS4 Pro players have the same advantage? If at the very least a slider if No Tether is not an option. It’s very frustrating that PS4 Pro players get lumped in with PS4 players even thought the two systems have very different hardware capabilities. Can a WC employee please acknowledge this question and if there is a plan to accommodate this issue? It is the real problem for the game for many gamers like myself that only play this game couch co-op. Addressing this would provide a huge quality of life for this game.