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Many of us have requested this many times. We would like to be able to turn off Bloom and Light Shafts from within the main options.

"Complete the Ark." I have only been playing Ark for 2 months, but I have an idea to help with the imbalance of Official servers "bobs" vs. mega tribes. I would like to suggest a prestige system. Obviously In Ark those who are new like me wish there could be some sort of server wipe to give us the feel of a competitive chance with the big wigs. Looking from the mega tribes point of view, if Ark wiped me, id be frustrated! Ark can't do this. To many dedicated players would quit. BUT, from a new player perspective, I will never play official dedicated servers because I do not have a chance. I joined the game too late, and other people have c4 to spare so they are server wiping just for fun. Its not going to happen. A ranked system wouldn't need to be a huge change. Heck, it wouldn't even need to delete the current servers. I am suggesting Ark transitions the currently MANY empty servers to a ranked system. Here is how it would work. 1. Official servers still exist. They are separate from ranked, and mega tribes can keep playing and that whole environment can exist the same as it is today. Current players won't lose a thing. 2. After ranked servers were dedicated as "ranked", these server will have a "Rank" assigned. All players start on "Fiber" servers. These servers only allow a player to progress as far as the stone age probably level 19. In order to move to a "Metal age" or "Wood Tier" server, you must finish the stone age, and craft an object that allows you to "prestige". This object could be a small statue, a smoke signal, etc. etc. etc that allow them to leave the server. (THERE WOULD BE NO SERVER HOPPING.) 3. When you leave the server from completing the objective, you start over. Level one. No engrams, none of your old dinos, just the potential to get further than you did last time, with a promise of rewards (i will explain later) in the future if you continue. Tiers could look like this. "Fiber (level cap 19), Wood (Level cap 39), Stone (Level cap 59), Metal (level cap 79), Fabricated (Level Cap 89), Tek (Level cap 100). Maybe 6 tiers is too many, but I would let the devs figure out their numbers to avoid overpopulation and under population etc. 4. At the end of the ranked "season" rewards would be given. These would be permanent access to SKINS for yourself and your dinos. These could not be traded or given to others. You cannot drop them, you can only destroy them. They can only be placed on YOUR tames. Depending on how far you got during the season will change which skins you get. If you only stay in fiber, maybe you can make your dodos all pink. If you end in tek tier, perhaps you get a wyvern skin that will knock the girls socks off if you know what i mean ;D SKINS ARE ALREADY IN THE GAME!! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT YOU HAVE!!! 5. These skins would be accessible from a bench you can make at level 1 for 5 wood. Each skin only costs 5 fiber to make. This enables you to bring these skins into single player, dedicated, non dedicated etc. They are account bound. You could also add skin micro transactions like fortnite. 6. Rates would need to be slightly boosted from current official servers, because you would have to start over a few multiple times. The games rates are currently set up to make you take a LONG time because that is the current endgame. If you have to start over repeatedly, and every "season" in this mode, rates would absolutely need to be somewhat boosted to give players a true chance. Thats my idea! I'm probably missing things here and there, but what do you guys think? It brings the "Fortnite", "start over fresh upon prestige" feeling. It encourages max level tribes and players to continue to higher servers so as to get greater rewards It discourages people from camping servers because they have to start over when they prestige, so there is no reason to delay your progression It gives people a chance to join, or rejoin at any time without getting severely punished. We get to look dope flying around with our skins in all future game sessions The devs only have to separate the servers, create the item bench, and the prestige items. It wouldn't be THAT much work, and it should greatly increase income Let me know what you guys think!

Hello all fellow survivors, We are an established tribe currently seeking to increase our numbers further and expand to other servers. On the current agenda we are aiming to drop a large recruitment tribe the moment transfers open! If you’d be interested and have any questions please contact myself on discord at your earliest convenience! Discord: Ground Zero59#0140

Xbox Official Server Wipe Inbound The Xbox Official servers have been running for 2 years. Duping has plagued the servers and despite wildcards effort to remove duped items, It cannot be done. Obviously, The only solution to this Gamebreaking issue is to wipe the servers. Petitions were made, Thousands signed in favour. Before Duping, a Wipe was not necessary but now, All bases have duped items so there is no legit bases left. This means “ you will not be loosing your work.” 8 thousand players have left the game in the last week. This says a lot. At Arks prime time, There is 7 Official servers with more than 20 Population. This used to be more than 90 servers. Every legit player wants a wipe. People who don’t at this point are the duper’s ‘ and their opinions don’t matter. Debate your thoughts below.

Official Xbox PvP Help!!! Good day Survivors, Me and 2 or 3 of my friends are looking for a Official PvP server to play where we are allowed to build and not get raided after 1 day... It's a big headache not be able to build up before getting raided... Please any suggestions or a Alpha tribe that would help us or allow us ? Would really be appreciated... (Xbox)

Should taming large wilds be harder? It seems like every tom sausage and henry has at least 20 Wyverns, Quetzals (say that ten times fast), and Giganotosaurus. Should there be more restrictions on official like no trading allowed of the larger animals? An increase in difficulty to get these?

After almost 2 years of constant breeding, every larger group now has incredibly mutated dinos that are nowhere close to what the game was originally balanced around. This means that dinos like Rhinos or Therizinosaurs deal much more damage and are much harder to kill than they were 1.5 years ago when the game released. Politically, the game is currently very stale, with alliances constant, no big conflicts and many people leaving the main cluster for others clusters or other games for a fresher and more exciting experience. A wipe would easily reset breeding back to its original state and bring these dinos back down to what they were originally, and bring back many players that have left over the last year. edit: im talking (mostly) about the Official PvP network, non-legacy, main cluster)

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).

searching for pvp official tribe Hello! My name is Sueni and i have played ark for a long time (still am) and i am currently searching for a pvp official tribe because i am planning on leaving the current tribe i am in. I still have all my stuff (cryopodded dino's, gear, etc.). so if any tribe is willing to take me in just message me on discord or here so we can talk it out. discord: TheOneAndOnlyBork#5503 Sueni.

Dino Tek The Wild Dinosaur Spawn tek should be disabled on official servers except on extinction. this makes useless paying skins, and makes it less exceptional to cross a dino with a tek skins

Join "Ark Trader Life" discord. Trade tames, supplies, and make allies. https://discord.gg/YnWcMxc YOU'VE BEEN INVITED TO JOIN A SERVER Ark Trader Life

Official PvE Valguero Servers Hello. I am looking at going to Valguero. Does anyone know of a good map that isn't all pillars? I'm looking for Official PvE. If there are people out there taking on additional tribe members that would be awesome. If not just a server id would be great. Thanks

Big question Okay, so I have run the boss twice now with my tribe members on Valguero. We always got the element from the Broodmother and Megapithecus. The Manticore first of all doesn't ever land. Second of all, if we kill it in the air, we can not get the element. The body instantly dissapears. We get deinos on it when its close to ground and low, and then kill it, and no element. How are we supposed to get that element otherwise? Its needed, but its just going to waste!

How do I counter someone who is reporting me to be a jerk? Our bases are next to each other. They keep asking me to remove more of my pillars and give them more room. But I put the pillars there for a reason. When I don't comply they yell at me that they will report me for blocking their base building. But I got there first so the land should be mine. However, the Admin seems to side with whoever does the reporting not who is right or wrong. Official pve

Ddos (Please do something) Hello, our server (NA-PVP-PS4Official-Valguero-SmallTribes89) Is getting ddos since 3 days, just, do something please, we can’t even play it 30 mins until it getting ddos, do something Wildcard, pls

How to defeat Broodmother in Redwoods? Official Hi, so i'm looking for information from you guys, who have killed the broodmother in redwoods. What setup should be used ? What's the best tactics? Tell your stories

How to get Manticore Element if we shoot it down in air ? How to get Manticore Element if we shoot it down in air ? So we have done the boss fight couple times now (official pve), and since the manticore is bugged atm, he almost never lands, so we always end up shooting it. But when you end up shooting it, it dies, and his body drops for a while and dissapears. So we dont get his element... How do you do it ? how to get it ?....

Open Valguero & future DLC's to dino transfers; restrict tribes. From here on out open up dino transfers in official multiplayer with all new DLC's from the very beginning. But restrict only the type of dinos that can be transferred. Do not let extreme dinos like rex, owl, gigga and wyverns in at the beginning. Let the newbies bring over their little pets to help them establish. Also stop all tribal alliances and all tribe partnering until the dlc has established. Yes I know some people will work together anyway using discord. Yippee so let them. It would still slow down a complete take over of the landscape by the mega tribals a lot better than the current implement. The way things are now only the mega tribes can get ahead. This is backwards thinking that the small guy/tribe will have an advantage if he is out there sweating away trying to tame everything with ridiculous tame timers. Only mega tribes get anywhere under such circumstances. RESTRICTING DINO TRANSFER IS WORSE THAN PLAYING A FREAKING BACKWARDS BEGINNER SERVER which also suffers the same flawed logic. A perverted logic the mega tribes propagate because it works in their favor. Tribes could be a good way to make friends but not as it is currently implemented. Now we just make enemies out of everyone because this game reeks of pvp.

Still Recruiting Hey everyone! Just a quick recruitment post. We are still on Official Dedicated PVP CrossArk 9 Ragnarok. We are looking for experienced players looking to join a tribe. Preferably someone that's familiar with running caves on Ragnarok for tributes (Desert Labyrinth, Ice Queen Cave, etc), and/or someone familiar with raising rexes for boss fights. We are friendly with tribes on the server meaning that if you join, don't be griefing people on our server. We are on the server to get to endgame level engrams, so please respect that. On the other hand, we are ready and willing to recruit you if you fit these parameters and are relatively active online. We can set you up with a boss level rex egg to raise (perfect for the Summer Event, if you join soon) as well as good eggs for argies, pteras, etc. so that you can get set up with everything you need to get into the server and the game. We will provide you with a room with a vault, fridge, and cryofridge. We just need numbers and experienced players so that we can run the boss fights and enjoy the game with all tek engrams and gear! If this interests you, please PM me on PSN @ itsthatoneguy420 - we are only looking for serious members, we have had far too many flaky members join and lose interest right away. This is ARK, we are all aware that it IS a grind. Thank you

Give Plantx Seperate Turret limit On legacy and new servers I enjoyed planting plantx, I had 14 personal dung beetles just for my plantx upkeep I found this to be a lot of fun. Unfortunately on OFFICIAL PVP this wonderful plant is practically useless. We are experiencing for the first time in arks history a meta where having and maintaining a surface base is not competitive (while tribes now are actually richer than any duping tribe on legacy), and as a result you can count the number of built dessert plateaus (it was the most popular building location for most of new servers) on your hands. One of the biggest reasons why this is happening is because 100 turrets is not enough dps (against current bloodlines and titans) before the enemy destroys your tower. Plantx had served a extremely important purpose in legacy. Auto turrets were known as pea shooters because of how little damage they did, however any legacy pvp player would remember the time when everyone had 2k dura ghillie and at least 200 movement speed, yet people didnt c4 run ever legacy turret tower that existed, this is because of plantx. This plant has the capability of drastically slowing the enemy to let your turrets get more shots off before they touch your tower. While being balanced by having a counter ( flame arrows) and themselves having low dps. So why dont tribes just replace one of their turrets with a plantx? No sane tribe would sacrifice a 500 damage a shot tek turret for a plant that can be easily flame arrowed, has less range than a turret, low dps and easily dodge able shots. Even if they replace one turret with a plantx, the plant cant hit more than 1 enemy at a time. To make them any viable you would need at least 10 plants shooting. They would also help counter tek tappies as you would be able to better hit them with reaper goo, shotguns, ptera picks ect. Giving this plant its own turret limit would immediately make it more viable in bases and actually have a use. Remember when you knew if a fob was REAL when it had crop plots with plantx in them. The limit doesnt need to be big. Even if its like 15 it would help a lot and would create a counter to c4 platform saddles. Even though they are still removed (which was a terrible choice), they are necessary to raid center ice cave, they make raiding other caves possible, makes quickly clearing spam under enemy turret coverage possible, and gives us another method to raid (much needed diversity). But thats a post for another day. I would argue for making plantx not have a turret limit at all, because plantx is more effective than gate spam at slowing down the enemy, meks can destroy gate spam faster than a lawnmower can mow an actual lawn. What would have taken raiders 40 minutes to destroy with c4, a mek can do it in 5. Current state of Plantx: Useless Proposed change would make Plantx useful: Yes Plantx have effective counters: Yes Plantx effective: Yes Would HELP solve a existing meta problem: Yes

Official Valguero Blue Gems Ok so I've search everywhere in the abberation region, and apparently there is not blue gems insight ... other than getting them in the radiation area.. but need a hazmat suit.. how we supposed to make a hazmat suit if the blue gems are in the radiation area? Anyone find a blue gem node that is a safe spot from radiation? Please Link a picture and gps of the location.

Yesterday, over 15 hours ago, server OC-PVP-PS4Official-Ragnarok469 crashed. It is still available to see on the PS4 server list, however nobody has been able to rejoin it. I have submitted a server outage ticket with Ark, but I'm unsure how long it will take to fix. Does anyone have any info on this server?

Hello, Unable to play, just looking briefly on PC, a large number of questions pop. When released for console is meshing going to be a report issue or ingame auto-solution? We are now 4 ppl that want to take the challange once more in PvP. However it might be a Extinction rerun. Last release we realised in time and started PvE with several weeks of Gatcha pick-whip-pick. The Valguero map is so beautiful for all PvE play. However some areas are busy to the extreme and I can only see a late July console release. Judging only on PC performance that is. From a PvP view point the Valguero map is hard and unique. Having a Mosa going from area to area is super fun but require the crystal cave (one of three entrances) surly a everyday fight. Cryopods can be used but what if all entrances are blocked. As said it is a hard map and far from Ragnarok multi-cave areas. Holding a PvP base until WC opens the server transfer is clearly doable but after that it's just a matter of time until a 50k hp trike drains me. For PvE the list of dream areas to build is long. For PvP I found four ideal areas but none that also have mesh protection, simply no water. Looking at PC buggs, the worst might be a black world with floating dinos and sharks (megmegs). What do you think about the map? Do you have a plan for how to start? Like find the farm at 52,54 and tame a horse then tame, tame and tame. Counting down until release only to find one in the player group that can join and all play that character just to keep it from being kicked off the server. Like with Ragnarok release for console. A bit long winded but be prepaired for the mayhem that awaits. I am Regards, Ariana

We are being constantly Ddossed on our own server non-stop for many weeks. The same gamertag logs in every morning and afternoon. He says, "server nap", then he proceeds to put our server on 255 for hours and hours everyday. This has been happening for many many weeks. I can't give out my server number or this persons gamertag unless a developer answers this post and the user is banned from Ark Official. This has got to stop, because many of my tribemates have quit the game due to this. Many of our dinos have starved and we have practically watched our baby dinos die in front of us. My tribemates have sent many tickets on this matter but to no avail. Please help us.

25 Player Tribes Dear wildcard From a working class gamer that has limited time to play ark but also loves the pvp on official I would like to say that having an official game mode that lies in between official server and 6 man would be the perfect game mode to release on console. I’ve grinded the ladder of 6 man and after you become an alpha force it’s extremely time consuming to maintain and defend your base on 6 man tribes. Not only do you have to worry about getting offlined by teaming tribes but keeping tribemates active also has a large portion to do with how successful a tribe is. Myself and the rest of the console community would agree that adding a larger tribe limit to 6 man/ adding a new fresh game mode with increased rates and a tribe cap would be extremely beneficial for your player base and would likely bring tons a players back to the console world. Thanks for your consideration. Hope to hear some good news soon on upcoming content.