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Solution to 11/27 update problems On 11/27 after a second update the community has been receiving several issues. There are several threads/posts related to these issues. In summary these issues are: 1) When connecting to a server Ark and within a few seconds Ark kicks the character 2) When connecting to a server Ark renders the character and partially renders a base and the environment. Also, with in this case Dinos typically do not have saddles and the character cannot interact with environment (example cannot open doors). 3) When connecting to a server the character has a high ping (common example is a ping of 255) then Ark kicks character Once the above problems occur, they occur consistently. Thanks to my friend “Star” on my home server theisland953 she put me onto the path to a solution to the above issues. This solution has been tested on 2 different accounts with some or all of the above issues. Solution: 1) Connect to a server you have never used before and create a new character. I picked a low population extinction because it makes the 2nd step easier. 2) Go to an ob or terminal and transfer the new charter to a server you are having the above problems with (in my case theisland953). Read step 3 before doing this step! 3) This is a critical step and must be done correctly or you will lose your main character (it is not difficult, but you must be careful). When asked if you would like to overwrite your existing character say NO (xbox red button). Ark will display a white screen and take a few seconds/min then your main charter should be displayed. At this point your issues should be fixed. I only had one server with this issue, so I have not tested this on multiple servers. I created this as a separate thread so that we (the community) can link it to all of the other threads/posts rather than reposting the same information over and over. It looks like I only lost a few juvi rex and tek quetzal but it is really poor on WC part when the community can figure out a solution to their problem. Maybe they will replace the dinos but am not counting on it. With that said I hope this helps. If this does help, please post a reply here so we know how well it works (of if at all). If this does not help please post a reply and give a few details about what you seeing. Also please link any other related posts and/or sticky this thread.

I have a small issue. So I recently started playing Ark, and I don't know everything yet. Today I made a saddle for my pteranodon (which was quite a victory) and to my discovery, everytime I mounted her, I couldn't move. All I could do was land and take off, but I was stuck in one spot and unable to go anywhere. Why is this happening? Is this a glitch? I just wanna fly my pteranodon!

If you are unable to log in after the patches i found a workaround to get you in So i was going nuts cause i couldnt log in ,then i remembered i pay for mobile hotspot on my phone , so even tho im lan cable connected to my router i decided to try my wifi hotspot n success after hours of trying to log in i got in in seconds i went to a spot away from my main base n i set up a shack changed back to lan n was able to log in normally so it obvi a render/host connection issue caused by the update as ive nvr had this problem ,in short use your phones wifi hotspot ,it works !!!!!

Broken OSD´s & Element Node´s ( Despawn / PvE Farming Bug with Mantis ) Element Vein´s & OSD´s Removed instant after the render distance.... ( To Fast !!! ) & Element Vein Farming Bug. ( PvE Farming Bug with Mantis ) Player Farmed my claimed Element Node Nr.1 Element Vein Farming Bug. ( PvE Farming Bug with Mantis ) -> Random Player Farmed my claimed Element Node Nr.2 Element Vein Farming Bug. / TEST BY MY TRIBE MATE ( PvE Farming Bug with Mantis ) Nr.3 Element Vein removed by Dino search / Killing ( Render Distanz or what ever... ) Nr.4 Element Vein removed by ( Render Distanz or what ever... ) Nr.5 OSD removed by ( Render Distanz or what ever... ) Your Experiences? ^^ with despawn / Farming Bug...?

Tek Bridges Snap Broken So ive been patiently waiting for a patch to fix this bug, but it seems its unknown somehow? Tek Bridges will not snap, to anything. or each other, and because they dont snap, when placed they have the crap 12 hour decay so they dont last long. I've wanted to build another suspension bridge over a large gap, but since they wont snap, cant even place 1 and have it last till the next day. Can there please be a fix for this? as long as they can snap like any ceiling/pillar/foundation could they will be fine. Thanks

In Desperate Need of Help! Ridiculous Bugs Stop Me From PLAYING THE GAME I PAID! Now, I've had this game since 2017 - but I've never played official. I always messed about on Single Player, and today, I found out why I should never have touched official ARK servers. After recently making a few friends on ARK, I've found the game more enjoyable, and I joined an official server (TheIsland47), and met somebody who was helping me grind the initial levels. After grinding through caves, we transferred over to Ragnarok (Ragnarok880) to steal some Wyvern eggs and get some milk for growing. Once I had collected about 5 eggs, and he 3, we made our way back, (I was also carrying a Cryopodded Ice Wyvern for my friend, which belonged to him and was on my hot-bar). I spawned in my bed, to find myself LOCKED in my room. To preface, I made myself a small cubby for my bed, fenced off by a door, which then opening it revealed the rest of my WOODEN house (the fact that it's wood is important here). I had my things on me, but no food or water and have been locked inside since; for probably around 3 hours now. I have all the eggs I collected on me, along with my friend's Wyvern, and multiple tames unprotected outside my WOODEN house. I couldn't use my fast-travel to locate to somewhere else, but even if I did - I would lose everything I gained that day because I would not be able to enter my OWN house. My name is Angelita, and the tribe I'm a part of, (which consists of only me because I've been on the server for two days) is called Little Angels. The writing on MY locked door is that of when you approach another server-mate's home who is offline - the familiar yellow text explaining how long you have until your structure had decayed from being offline, and whom it belongs to (in this case it was: Little Angels - MY TRIBE), along with the blue text beneath it that reads: "OFFLINE RAID DAMAGE PROTECTED". (Or something of the like - you'd think I'd know it by now). Speaking to multiple people in my server, I got a mixed response. One or two told me it wasn't unusual for things like that to happen, and it would work again after 20 hours of waiting (but why should such a loyal and dedicated fan-base/player-base have to even consider that as a normality in their games?). Some told me they've been having similar issues with being disconnected 15 times in only a few hours, or kicked out mid-flight, leaving their hard-earned tames in the sky and their bodies on the ground for somebody to drag into the water and steal their valuables, some said they didn't even believe the building belonged to me because it sounded so ridiculous, and some said that in order for this to be fixed you'd have to SUBMIT A TICKET and wait SEVEN DAYS for a response. S E V E N D A Y S!!!! A WEEK! Now, the important thing about having a wooden structure is that it decays after SEVEN DAYS of offline activity. I was low-level when I made this base, and was going to update it once I had done the cave-runs with my friend. If I have to wait seven days for a response, then everything I worked for, for two days consistently, will be destroyed! Because the game thinks I'm offline, but I'm right there STARING AT IT! I was also informed that some of the ARK team are extremely rude, and notable un-bothered if you are affected in game by something that could easily be fixed, if they actually cared about their PAYING player-base (namely joebl0w). I can only imagine what somebody who had been playing for three years would feel in my position. I dread to think. If this issue isn't solved before the seven days are up, I will be most disappointed and angry; and not just me, but everybody else that are having issues in their games and on their servers (which are notably 9999 ping as the norm) - as I'm sure this one forum post probably stands for more than just my own experiences. What do we learn from this? Play single-player...or better yet, don't buy a game that doesn't allow you to use it's primary feature - ONLINE GAMEPLAY.

Tek Bridges :: odd/missing snappoints & decay hoi guys since the last patch, newly build tek bridges have off angle snappoints & decay like they have nothing snapped to them! i already lost 2 that decayed because of that! it doesnt matter if u try & snap something to a newly build bridge or try to snap a bridge to existing foundations, it will show the normal "in line" snappoint in green, but when placed it will "materialize" at an odd angle, with no connection to eachother whatsoever, wich leads to the bridges decay like they would be build with nothing attached atall! this truly is a shame, because now im 1 bridge short of easy access to the meat hunting grounds!, hope it will be fixed soon!!! peace mho

November 27th Amazing glitch Hello everyone, I'd like to talk about an issue that has been affecting so many people. I've seen on twitter, facebook groups and even on psn chat. Since november 27th, an update that occured during the night started a terrible glitch which prevents people from playing. When you log in you automatically gets disconnected over and over, doesn't matter how many times you try. Sometimes your game screen even loads and you can see who's online and half of your structures loaded, then a couple seconds later you get disconnected. The only way to play again is by getting killed by one of your tribe mates, otherwise you'll keep on the ground forced to know that everything that you worked so hard will be taken and that's all WC's fault and they won't do a thing. Did anyone find a way to fix it? Any opinions?

Ark deleting my hardware drive? So thats not the first time ive had it... im playing ark since it has been out and at some point i stopped playing, one year ago i came back to it but everytime when launching the game and installing a few mods, it just deleted my (D:) drive... its just not there anymore... but i fixed it some how(dont remember how) but today im starting to play ark again but i have the same problem, ark deletes the disc somehow and after a while and a few pc restarts its back with all the files in it, but everytime i start ark again its gone? DILO is this problem? why is it not fixed yet? and how i fix it? (note: this is not a usb drive, this is only happening to me after i dont play the game for a while, my drivers and windows are updated, this is only happening with ark and my drive is not back for a few hours already).

Cant update the game I cant update the game yes ive tried to verify my files, 3 times... and my game is set to high priority update so idk whats the problem please help

Please help me! I'm in trouble! Valid server game 1071 ps4 official, since yesterday I do not enter the game, but when the map is loaded in the old forest, mixed with my base and the game in moments, and made an attempt to enter the server several times and several but It is always the same, all other servers are normally logged in. I'm afraid of losing my stuff and my character! please help me

Gost connection error since the update Ive been unable to connect to any of my usual (official) servers since the update my ps4 is wired to my router n no other game i have even so much as lags , but ark says host connection lost on every server i try unless i use my mobile hotspot through my cellphone then i get right in the server so its obviously a host issue my router is top of the line my internet is the best u can get but my cells crap hotspot can get my in the server n my router cant !? Please fix it !!!!!!! All my other online games are running at top speed so the problem is obviously in your host servers !!!!

Cryopod malfunction Cryopod malfunction I have a level 214 Ice Wyvern hatched from the charity event in a Cryopod, the sprite on the Cryopod looks like a raptor, but the wyvern refuses to come out of the Cryopod. When I attempt to deploy it gives me red text that simply says “CANNOT DEPLOY:” and does not release the Wyvern. Have been wanting to use this for some time now, I guess my last ticket got ignored. Will someone from Wild look into this and help me free my Wyvern? server name: NA-PVE-PS4Official-Valguero1064 - (v541.5) P.S. the Wyvern is fully grown but not fully imprinted. Was hatched as level 180.

Valguero everytime I try to get on any Valguero server it crashes so I havent even been able to check it out for myself. says fatal error

Need lot of help bug everywhere Hi Evryone 1st il french Guy so sorry for mistake. Alright, it was near to 2 month when i plays ark survival evolved primitive plus mod, in the island map all the forest be shining tree but the leaves keep their normal texture, i have delete and install again my game same problème, all other map have the same bug, only valguero the last map work correctly, have you same bug? And today a lunch the game same problem than upside but all dinos disapeared, only last map work, so do i am forced to play last map or it bug just for me? I didn't lie you i dont expect to much from patch i think wildcard dont take care about bug. Thank for anyone answer by

Server maintenance bug During the recent server maintenance my tribe layed in beds and they cant log in to server i was able to get in then i layed in bed now i cant log in either i have multiple babies out that have now been out for 9 hrs all my animals will starve, seems to be an issue with people in beds right now

So after a lengthy break from ARK here I am back again, only to have to complain about another pretty annoying bug... I was on Single player to test some new mods on a friend's server that he had just rented as he put me in charge of finding some mods to help improve the experience of his small but loyal group of friends. When I go on single player, I typically put myself in God Mode and Infinite Stats for testing purposes when I am trying out various different mods so I don't randomly die. This bug can easily be replicated in about five minutes, check the console when you enable god mode, it notifies you in the console (by hitting TAB twice to open the extended console) saying "God Mode Enabled." however it disables it automatically for some reason when mounting a creature, not giving you a prompt saying "God Mode Disabled", it simply disables it for no reason. So I found out about this glitch whenever I had dismounted a wyvern (I was testing ini configs with Classic Flyers) but then had fallen off a cliff due to my carelessness, I thought I was in god mode and infinite stats because I had enabled it earlier, and thought I'd be perfectly fine, but I ended up dying. I did a test, and noticed that upon mounting a creature, it disables god mode on the player character. I also tested and had noticed that the player is not in god mode whenever he or she is mounted, meaning that they may be killed while on their dino. As I am a server admin on two separate servers and am regularly testing in single player as well, I use God mode to prevent players from getting their hands on various admin tools I use (eg. the blink rifle for debug purpose) and I also use this for surveying for exploited bases and would not want to end up dying by turrets because I had mounted a creature earlier or was using one to traverse the map faster. This bug is very minor, but will affect many server admins, and I request it should be fixed soon. If this is intended as a feature, I personally see it adding nothing positive to the game whatsoever and I really do hope it gets changed/fixed. I have done testing, and infinitestats stays enabled after you get on your creature. Godmode however, gets disabled. Thank you for acknowledging this. If you would like to reproduce this to see for yourself, 1. Enable Godmode by opening the console and typing "Cheat God" in the console. 2. Mount a creature. 3. Dismount and do something to get yourself killed, or have a friend kill you while you are mounted in Step 2. I submitted a bug report about this 3 days ago and have yet to get a response. PS, I would like to note, this affects EVERY MAP.

OSD's dropping Boss Portal Summons Basically, this: https://imgur.com/a/6nNLOC2 Any Tips? Tried Beacon App to produce a osd table to see if this would fix by providing it a custom loot table, didnt help Mod using to summon this on island ==> https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1904253531

Lost everything when transferring When i transferred from my server after being wiped i let my time go down and transferred from a drop then when i downloaded my character on the server i lost all the materials, cryos, building structures to get back on my feet with my tribe

Valguero Emerald Forest Bug I just made it to the emerald forest on the Valguero map, and there are 0 creatures down here. I checked the biome on the Ark wiki and it says it should have creatures down here, but there are none. I already tried restarting, and wiping dinos.

My wyvern of fire has disappeared He denounced ark because he was flying with my dragon, suddenly I die, I appear in one of my rafts, I go to the mark of my death and the dragon was no longer there. Supposedly if I die and the dragon does not, the dragon must be there.Well, what solution do you give me for what just happened? Coordinates: Lat 10 Low 35 Official Server: 248 Classic PVP

Cryopod malfunction I have a level 214 Ice Wyvern hatched from the charity event in a Cryopod, the sprite on the Cryopod looks like a raptor, but the wyvern refuses to come out of the Cryopod. When I attempt to deploy it gives me red text that simply says “CANNOT DEPLOY:” and does not release the Wyvern. Have been wanting to use this for some time now, I guess my last ticket got ignored. Will someone from Wild look into this and help me free my Wyvern? server name: NA-PVE-PS4Official-Valguero1064 - (v541.5)

Transferring these animals from Valguero can break them (list) With more and more people checking out Valguero now that the transfers are open, please be aware that these creatures are broken and cause problems being transferred. Ice Wyverns Golems (both Chalk Golems and Ice Golems) Polar Bears Deinonychus (sometimes, transferring eggs seemed fine) Wyvern eggs vanish in upload Eggs on the body sometimes vanish, sometimes get through, thank you @Mavrick88 Don't bring these animals on other servers cause the cryopod data will be corrupted after and you can also not unpod them on valguero anymore. I heard people managed transferring Golems successfully to Ragnarok. But the majority of people have lost their tames trying to bring them to other maps.

Has anyone encountered a bug with the Crossbow having a missing/bugged mesh/texture? What I mean is it look like a loose collection of polygons in a somewhat crossbow shaped manner. The Arms are there but only half the string a really funked up arrow and the entire receiver is just a mess of polygons. It's just the crossbow that has this problem. Everything else works fine. I don't know if It's GPU driver issue or something I'm Running on an RX570 but it seems so bizarre that it's just this one item. Everything else from the simple spear to the Tek rifle is just fine.If anyone has managed to fix this please let me know I've Tried everything from validating game files to resolution reset every possible combination of graphics settings nothing seems to help. It's hard to play the game when a weapon you are going to need either for fighting or just utility for practically the entire game makes you sick to your stomach to look at xD The only thing I haven't tried in a full reinstall but I'm loathed to do that Ark is a massive game and I'd rather not wait 6-8 hours for it to download with my connection D:

Losing my character Dear wildcard, My character was lost during the ragnarok pve 408 crash on 22/11/2019. The time was around 21:00 GMT. My character name is MooPaMa2. Its level is 104 and has tek engram of Alpha maticore and Alpha ragnarok boss fight. I am the member of griffindawn tribe. Please help me. Currently, I try to log in back to 408, but the server wants me to create a new character. I also carried a Giga cryopod and rode a wyvern while crashing.