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Future TLC ideas? Anybody got any good ideas for TLC updates? Such as which dinos need TLC and what would you change/add to the TLC’d dinos?

Can’t stay on any servers I’m sure some of you are experiencing the same as I am. I cannot get onto any of my 4 servers, (Val, Ext, Ab, or the Center.) My friends also can’t get on today, I was however able to get on Ext. for appx. 30 mins before getting kicked off again. Took a thousand tries to log in, sometimes it automatically boots me back to the main screen, and other attempts I’m loading in and base is half gone and critters have no saddles, then booted again. My friends were able to get on Ab with me lass night but so far no luck today. Apparently we 3 have had this issue since they did a small update. Idk what the hell is going on, but some damn way to spend my days off work for thanksgiving Anyone else experiencing this too? So annoying and I’m sure some of y’all have lost some stuff due to this mess WildCard, please fix this issue.

I've been away for a while. What did I miss? Hey there everybody. I'm a pretty big fan of ark and have a bit over 300 hours logged in the game, but since I've gone to college I didn't have room for my PS4 in my room. That's led to me being absent from the game for almost exactly a year now. I've been trying to keep up with the Community Crunches and it looks like the community;s thriving which is good to see. So I'm aware of the grand-scale stuff. Valguero looks super cool and I'm THRILLED that they FINALLY added another actual dinosaur in the form of Deinonychus. I'm also aware of the Genesis season pass and am happy that they're doing it. Are there any smaller-scale updates that I missed? Content additions? Bug fixes? Is it finally a safe bet to transfer a character and dinos between maps?

Minimum requirement updates? Ok so I got a massive kick in the teeth when I tried to boot up ark on my tower. The game would not launch due to the minimum requirements jumped. I've been all over the net to find the new minimum/recommended hardware but I have not found a consistent list. I've ran several compatibility tests and I should at least meet the minimum and yet the game still won't even launch to the start screen. Can someone please update the minimum/recommended hardware list on here so I can update my machine before August? I'm heading out of the states and I need to make sure this thing is capable of at least playing solo.

TL;DR: You won't be able to do anything worthwhile for the game without updating ARK's version of the Unreal engine. Before long, you'll have to do so much work for the most minimal amounts of changes you won't know what to do. Your playerbase wonders why you haven't fixed some of the biggest problems with the game and the answer is fairly simple. The core of what you're working with is out of date. As the title would suggest, in order for ARK to continue to be relevant you need to upgrade the version of Unreal Engine you guys are using. The last I checked you were using a heavily modified version of Unreal 3.5. Right now, we're on 4.2.2 and ATLAS jumped on that bandwagon with all of your assets. If you're not under the same parent company they're effectively going to outcompete ARK without much effort. All of the latest Nvidia suites run off the later versions of Unreal. What this means is that you're going to have a very hard time (if it's even possible) doing further optimizations. In its current state ARK is an amazing game, but it's also a mess. With a Ryzen processor that's liquid-cooled and an Nvidia RTX 2080, 32g of DDR4 memory, I still fail to be able to run the game on all epic settings because I use a 4k monitor. All other games run without a hitch and they're stunningly beautiful as well. When was your game put into beta? Think about this. A game that was released into BETA in 2015 cannot run on epic settings using an $800.00 USD RTX 2080. I love your game, WildCard. I really do. I have 2000 hours played, or close to it now. I do not like, however, that Atlas seems to have very cheaply ripped off of ARK, slapped in Waveworks 2.0 and some newer shaders and branded it as a "new game." They have all of your same animation rigs and even took your interface. One would think you'd be a little upset over this. Just a little? I have a few steps to round off this suggestion. Update your engine and use Waveworks 2.0. Optimize and improve your shaders. Give us a bigger map along with an ocean of sorts to compete with Atlas. Let your community help you. Profit. I've tagged Ced and Jen on Twitter with no response. Heck, maybe they're checking with their superiors to see if they can even respond or if you guys are already chiseling away at redoing ARK. Updating to Unreal 4.2.2 is no small matter. I get it. However, I also want to help. With a dedicated team you could get this done in slightly under a year in order to achieve what you wish at a great level of quality. Updating the engine will also make it easier for you guys to make expansions and the like. I mean, it's essentially what Atlas did, isn't it? It's rumored that Atlas was supposed to be an ARK expansion that they took off with. How true that is, I'll never know. What I do know is that they're gaining steam and I want our game, our ARK to come out ahead and live on for at least a few more years. Heck, I'll even enroll us into the sponsored mod program. It's not even me that has the manpower for this. I've pitched it to people I know and they're willing to fire off a Kickstarter and get this show on the road. It might take $200k to completely redo the game and I'm sure your fanbase wouldn't mind pitching in a little. If you wanted to you could just market the update as DLC so we can continue to enjoy what we have on our unofficial servers with higher quality assets. All Atlas has are some new skins, along with updated rafts (pirate ships) and wave mechanics. ARK deserves more.

I got ark for the Nintendo switch when it first came out, and a few weeks ago the homestead update came out along with the kibble re-work, and I was wondering why the Nintendo switch did not get the update. Please let me know if you know if the Nintendo switch will get any updates at all, and when. Thank you in advance!