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Dungeon week 3: The Marshy Hollows feedback Jul2-Jul8 This week’s dungeon has some notability right off the bat. Reminder my feedback is from a brutal server. Challenge room creatures have doubled in level this week in most rooms from 450 to 900. There is now a huge issue on bringing eerie creatures back to revive. Server max level limits are 600. These challenge room creatures are all over level 600. This is now excluding content from us. EDIT2: They revive at level 1. It isn’t a total exclusion, but it does seem a bit unfair for people who aren’t admins/SPs with god console. It also eliminates stat variety in taming them. This dungeon is about 3-4 times more difficult than last week’s dungeon. I have no problem with increased difficulty... EXCEPT that rewards do not reflect this change. Still only 10 element for soloing a brutal dungeon. Still only apprentice blueprints 5-10 times weaker than the equipment I need to beat the dungeon. I am glad to get higher than primitive quality saddles of those not typically rewarded from caves or free gifts (e.g. kapro, platforms, procoptodon). Hell, I prefer to only have saddle bps (or new potions) over the other useless apprentice equipment that can’t compare to cave rewards. I get a cutlass from a chest... I’m using an ascendant sword with 671 damage, what’s the point of that cutlass now? The juggernaut iguanadon room has a fall through the map bug. This is completely unfair still. We need a mechanic to fix this so free entries and amber entries aren’t going to waste. Maybe a teleport back to the starting room of the dungeon? I’m not even going to risk trying the lava room because the timing is still off, and I hate falling through the map 90% of the times I try. Any issues/bugs/improvements I missed please post so we can help get the game where it needs to be for everyone. No whining/begging. More to come as I explore further. EDIT: The differently sized creatures have issues meshing into and onto us to where half of our attacks do not hit them because we are inside their hit boxes. There are already issues with guns hitting the targets properly but this also affects melee weapons and this meshing may be what’s pushing us through the floor of the dungeon. Dungeon creatures need to follow the same attack distance as surface ones, but if you increase their size then you need to increase this distance proportionally to avoid this issue. EDIT3: 20+ runs and no journeyman chestpiece yet.

Stuck On a broken oceanic server!!! My Xbox gamer tag is SlezzyPenguin and I was raiding with some friends and while transferring We by accident went to a oceanic server. This server is completely un runnable and we cannot even move as the server is at 255 ping. We both have high level characters and we need some assistance... We are on server 636 and have been trying to get out for over 4 hours... We have also met a few other people also stuck and unable to get out of this server. We need help!

Just as you read there, the Windows 10 Edition of Ark has some serious issues and needs to looked into asap.(As well as some things thatcan improve the Windows 10 Edition greatly) - Minimizing the window or applying any sort of settings during gameplay will cause ARK to bug out and not load in any land or objects past the maximum view range -Unable to disable hud even when reassigning hotkeys. -Microphone will always be in an "on" state even when turned off or binded to a push to toggle/talk keybind -Add an option to disable mouse smoothing. -fix the FOV bugs: -Arms clipping through the edged of the "camera" -allow total customizations of every key and hidden keys -Allow scrolling to select hotbar if wanted

On PS4 I have massive problems loading PGMs. (despite the fact that I can't create PGMs anymore since newest updates). But the ones that still exist on my console do not load pretty well. They take up to 10-15 minutes to load. This is not exaggerated.

Hey guys, i bought the game a week ago for the switch and played it for many hours every day now. I played Ark on the PC for quite a long time some years ago, so i got some experiences with the game already. Besides the awful graphics, that i can ignore to some point due to the gameplay i have some major issues with the game, that make playing it annoying to the point where i got so frustrated, that im actually thinking to stop playing it until those issues arent fixed: - server crashes every 1-2 hours: i get disconnected from the server or the game shuts down completely due to a fatal error. this leads to the death of my character and/or the mounts i am riding. f.e. i lost a spino today, because the game kicked me out in the middle of a fight with an alpha carno, yesterday i lost a high level therizino that took half a day to tame because of this. also many flying mounts are missing without me knowing why, because of the next point: - the tribe protocoll doesnt work: it resets with every server crash. my tribe gets raided every 2nd night and we dont know who it is. when the game crashed where i was in the fight with my spino, the protocoll was blank when i reconnected. i dont know if hes still alive running around somewhere or if hes dead. you get raided, dinosaurs get killed while you are offline and you dont even know when or by whom. this makes it extra frustrating. - the ground textures disappear and dont reload into the game. i have to restart the game once this happens. - the texture of the trees that are clunky as hell. you cant even see whats behind it, because they look like green pixelled rocks. try to ride through the woods on the back of a rex or spino, you will start hitting trees in anger - no private servers: actually im playing official and i want to have offline protection, faster tames and resource mining, because of the first two points above, that make the game literally unenjoyable and playable. if i have to survive not only the game mechanics, but the game performance itself, i atleast want to build up fast enough again. Also i was reading through the posts in this forum and i have the feeling, that the palyers dont get supported. I hope some of the devs take these critics seriously and start fixing those issues. Otherwise i have to say, that this is a poor port and not worth the almost 60 euros i spend on this. Have a good day and pray to the server gods not to dc you in the middle of the action!

Here’s a page for anyone on Xbox to report problems for (hopefully) someone to see and fix. This is not a page to bag on the devs, but a page to say what’s wrong and get something done about it.

I'm in a nitrado server (no admin command abilities and I am trying to unlock all of the tek engrams HOWEVER, I have completed all 3 teirs of the boss battles and have received half of the tek engrams available. What is the next step to unlock more? Am I stuck? Are server admins able to give me these engrams? Please help

So, after quitting ark official servers I have had a few days of clarity. I have been thinking about the things I like the most and the things i hated the most. Also, i have been thinking about the actual gameplay on official and where does it fail. Things I hated the most on official pve: 1. People allowed to have multiple accounts. This is unavoidable and i believe is one of the biggest issues on pve. People who own multiple accounts to minimize the grind and also to have multiple bases on the same maps. The problem is that this is not done by one person per map. A lot of players do this. 2. Breeding times and breeding process are terrible! Also, it doesn't add to the game experience in a positive way. As ark is not based no in character progress perse but experiencing dangers and learning how to deal with them in order to survive. Let me explain, you can survive anything pretty comfortable once you reach stone structures from rexes to gigas. That is about level 80 in which you can achieve in one day of playing if you get help from someone. Which most people are willing to help. Once you get to that level the player makes his first breeding area and starts breeding. Once you get to the breeding phase to get a decent rex to fight an alpha other than the "gorilla" it would take at least about 2 months of breeding to get stats of at least 500 base melee and 14k hp. IF you get lucky finding a great pair from the start. What does that mean, that you have to knock out at least 20 rexes which each takes 3 hours to tame on kibble but also the fact that you have to waste hours looking for high level rexes (above 130) to start breeding. So the total playing time just to get this running might be a week or two before you actually start breeding. 3. Cap Severs! Well, all servers on official are currently at its limit which means that you cant breed... so...that means pve official is now just a building game. So what should of taken 2 weeks of looking for rexes and start breeding them now it will take a month if you are a new player. Also, this means you cant tame so you would not even to be able to start collecting resources other that without your hands. which means that it would take 10 times longer. 4. S+ promised but never delivered! I remember their twitch stream for the release of aberration when S+ was being promised by Jen and the other guy next to her. They said a year + ago that they were working on the balancing and that they were close to releasing it...but that was a total lie. S+ might not work for PVP but it will definitely improve PVE. Since pve is base on building and breeding. That would make 1 of the 2 things that pve is for much better. Also, people would be able to move entire bases without needing to demo everything which makes up for room as players would be able to move their bases from one server to another easier without losing everything! Common SENSE! People create multiple bases because they cant move things once they are set...and if S+ was allowed this problem would be solve. This would help create a flow of players within servers. 5. IF pve is the Players Vs Elements then perhaps it is time that they unable "GAMMA" on official pve. Takes away a huge part of the game! All this lightsources we were give become unnecessary and just a waste of space. With the gamma option Nightvision is useless, torches, lamps posts, tek light, and anything that emits light that is supposed to help you see at night. I know players have become used to having everything easy on pve...and I dare to say we have become too passive. But if we are playing pve arent we expected to play to survive nature? That includes the dangers of night, rain, fog, and sandstorms. 6. Dino restrictions in PVE are a problem. In pve since you cant grab wild dinos there are about 100 traps all around the map to tame dinos. Tramps that block resources, waterpaths, and sometimes even dino spawns. Forcing players to tame on the wild is a lot more problematic to the actual gameplay than it adds to the total experience. 7. I dont know if anyone understands the story of ark but I believe most people don't care too much about that on PVE official. Not only is poorly done and delivered. However, it is incomplete. Scorched Earth is supposed to have another Tek cave but it was never done. At least according to the lore. But, Ark never finished it...and they actually sold an incomplete DLC as if it was done.... i dont know what this mean to many but to me it means that they are not looking for quality of content but amount per content released! And that is never a good sign. Also, it adds to my point that the story of ark is broken. Now for PVP official: 1. Meshing...under meshing! Well, there are about 3 ways to do that. In some maps you can find spots. Others you can use ladders, and now you can use a climbing pick. For pvp that is perhaps the biggest problem as that means that no one is safe at any point! someone can literally build a base under you and just anable turrets and there goes the dynamite lol 2. Parts in which players are allowed to build in the game but the developers decide that is not without telling anyone. So you build in a spot you thought it was ok...cause the game allows you...but some how an admin comes and either bans you or demolishes your entire base without a warning. It has happen to many people. Well, those are the mayor issues in ark at the moment in official. Right now ark is suffering a lot on both PVe and PvP official. Both for different reason. Are these problems hard to fix? The meshing no. Put a killzone. I think everyone rather lose one dino than their entire base. It is again common sense. What is better? on person crying for a single dino...or 20 people annoyed and quitting because 500 dinos were kill thanks to under meshing? I cant put it any simpler than that! The breeding system...cutting times by 50% would make ark PVE playable again. I now people hate raising dinos for weeks. IT IS A WASTE OF TIME! Also, if you guys work on the kibble tree...there would be no need to have 500 dinos per tribe. IT is ridiculous! Also, i dare to say, add something quick to put dinos on inventory on pve. Same function as the beehive has. That would make people have smaller bases. It is foolish to make people build big unnecessary bases to keep 500 dinos inside! Also, to play ark no tribe needs more than 250 dinos... If climbing picks are a problem...take them out! Honestly no one needs climbing picks. if the idea is to add an experience on aberration...about going to get your first drake egg and climbing like a fool down to get one then climb up...no one ever did it like that. lol or well, there might be some fool that was dummy enough to do it like that lol Everyone goes down with spinos or karkinos...in a party for the first time. or whatever dino they like for that. Also, make element transferable! it is weird that is not. Same for tributes. I mean, once artifacts are allowed to be transfer why are tributes not? is just like you guys like forcing people to question that flawed logic. We are not dummies! lol Listen to us! lol PLEASE!

I run a Prim + server and there are many issues. I will put them in a list to make it easy. Items Fresh Poultry - eating raw has do side effect Using Prim+ Consumables to tame is unbalanced Many items cannot be colored Event Skins do not show in the cooking pot (look in features for better detail) Market Stall and Trade Boxes are either unclear how to use or broken Mailbox is broken Vanilla Items - Some items cannot be placed or used even with the AdminCheat GiveEngrams or adding them to the server on Prim+. Prim+ Items - Items cannot be placed or used even with the AdminCheat GiveEngrams or adding them to the server on vanilla. Preserving Salt - Cannot be placed into any type of storage besides Vessels on Prim + ATV - When Spawned they are extremely buggy Beeswax - Impossible to obtain without spawning it in. Preserved Meats - Trying to make salted, cured, or preserved meats are unbalanced and not clear which container does which (Preserving Campfire, Preserving Bin, Smokehouse) Beds - No bed in the game has the "lay down" feature Arrows - Feathered and Obsidian Arrows do little extra damage since the nerf. Basic and Narc arrows are fine, but Feathered and Obsidian have no special properties or noticeable damage buffs Beehives - Beehives have extremely low inventory space. Steel Safe - Should hold more than the Small Safe by a minimal of 50 (having the booted hp by itself isn't worth the hassle and time to farm) FIXED Lumber Build - Lumber and Lumber Glass have 3-5 different variations but no way to control which you get without trial and error and after an update it randomizes the builds we wasted time, effort, and resources to make look nice. Please just make it to where we can choose the variation when making them. Beehives - They are spawning over another and when destroyed they are not producing a queen bee nor dropping a bag. Greenhouse - Health has been dropped to 100hp FIXED Wood Fences - I was going to do these separate but same issues, do not snap properly, dinos of Equus size can walk over them, and gate does nothing (should open or close) Stone Fences - I was going to do these separate but same issues, small dinos can walk over the small wall and dinos of Equss size can walk over big wall Raft and Dingy - Camera angle can make it hard to drive and are easily beached or stuck on platoons or other builds in water Build Temp Protection - Lumber and GlassLumber seem to do nothing against weather. Transponder Nodes - Works only with the Transponder used to place them and stop working if dino is unclaimed or too small (Check below for feature ideas) Beaching - Rafts and some dinos like the dolphin can get stuck on beaches Tames Ability to toggle off flier nerf has not been added (must have been forgot about) If added, the Karkinos to any map they become a plague and over spawn causing the server to crash (I know it does this on Ragnarok but others say it does this on Island and Scorched) Compys and other small tames cannot be colored Unicorns cannot be colored Summon Dino - Many Event Dinos (DodoRex, Turkey, etc.) Some Bosses, and many Dino Variants and some Dinos wont spawn via ID Queenbee - When the beehive is destroyed the queen bee will stay in place and send drones out making it impossible to tame. (To put simple hives are on cliffsides and if the bee doesn't fly down then you can't do anything about it.) Collecting Meat - Gigas and Alphas(when tamed) have issues collecting meat/inventory. Alphas do not collect anything Alpha Babies - I have found that Alphas are breedable, but eggs won't spawn only pregnancy works Dinos that climb walls seem to vanish if left on walls (I recommend making a feature to keep track of dinos to know what tames are alive and where they are like the transponder) Features In game chat is staticy and doesn't fade when walking away (all sound should fade or grow as you get closer or farther from something Ice Dungeon is buggy (falling through map in spots, walking through parts of the ground) Life Labyrinth buggy (buttons are buggy and hard to press) Not understanding how to make fortitude effect temperature. (Want to make it that 50 fortitude can let you wear ascendant iron armor every wear without burning or freezing to death or at least make it to wearing primitive fur armor works fine in Murder Snow) Dropping your inventory drops items that are in folders too Event Skins - When the ARKaeology Event started cooking pots stopped showing skins for any event skin when placing bones, easter eggs, etc. into the cooking pot. Simple Bed Engram - It seems to duplicate when crafting other engrams or learning new ones (not sure which but very annoying) Suggestions Add Steam Punk style to Prim+ or ark as a whole (items, skins, etc.) Add more dino skins or dinos (would love a Archelon or Lemur) Add the ability to make plants from other servers to spawn naturally (I want to add the aberration mushrooms and plant z to caves, swamp, and redwoods) Add the ability to make eggs from other servers to spawn naturally (I want to add RockDrake eggs to redwoods) News on new sponsored mods coming to official on consoles ark (like DragonPunk and Structures+) Add signatures to forum post with limited characters so people can advertise without being concidered spam Add ability to add bullets to list in forms without breaking up the numeral list Tame Tracking Full Feature - I suggest adding a feature to the game and an item for Prim+ to assist in keeping track of tames. Bellow are bullets for the idea of this feature Tame Tracking Feature (Tame List) - Add a page, like the dino grouping, to track tames that have been marked by either Transponder Nodes or Dino Specimen. The Tame List will only list the species, name, gender, lvl, and and location(location will be the map area it is. Ex. Ovis, Orvil, Male, 92, Hidden Springs) If the tame is killed or the item removed, the tame info will be removed from the list after 10 minutes. Tame Tracking Item (Dino Specimen) - The Dino Specimen is an item that can be placed on a dino to allow its information to be placed in the tame list. To make one you will need Iron Ingots, Obsidian, Specimen Implant, blood pack. There will be three different Dino Specimen (Pet, Mount, Titan) for each size of dino (non-rideable, rideable, and behemoth) and the material amount is different for each as well as the are learned at different levels. If I missed anything comment below so devs can get onto it. Also I will change this list as thing as things get fixed or more issues are found/created