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I GOT SCREWED!! So I was interduced to ark threw my son watching YouTube videos. Always finding myself saying "what the hell game is this again?" so I thought itd be a good idea to get it for my 8yr old. So after I jumped on this thing called ark, I instantaneously realized "what the hell kinda game is this". So after dying 400x and taking days to even know what the hell was going on let alone save. I started the survival. Once I was established my boy picked right up on it too. It's buggy as hell, iv errored out a million times, I know I got shafted on the switch version. But with that said it was enough to hook me...bad. My son now has it for his switch and between mine and his we have over 250hrs in and that's mainly sp or just us two. SO.. I get absolutely no DLC and by the sounds of it I won't get genisis either! I don't have the money to buy a computer or Xbox or I would, just for ark maps. Even on the switch port I managed to get hooked and would easily drop more money into it, even with all the bugs and absolutely no updates I want more.. I just don't understand why they neglect the switch port(well I do cause its the switch port) when theres obviously people ready to help the ark name in the switch world. Anyone else stuck with the switch version but still loves the hell outa it?. I'm sure there's others bitching too, but Its been bugging me and had to get it out.. poop it wasn't even easy to sign up for an account on this.. No switch to pick. I had to write my first dlc? Iv haven't got to play one but that wasn't a valid answer.. But whatever. #THINKOFTHESWITCH!

I lost all my stuff to blue screening.... Lost my gear tames over 20+ in cryos on rag server please fix it. This is the craziest thing like are you kinding me. Plus lost my 101 character completely can't even log on. #Update??

Rescinding my Boycott, Good job Wildcard! Keep it up! I must say Wildcard, I am impressed with what you've done. For the last few months I have called for a boycott on Wildcard because of the issues with the game, I wasn't going to buy the new season pass untill my expectations had been met. Well.. they have been met, not exceeded unfortunately, but good enough for me to say, "Good job on fixing the game up some more!" So I rescind my call for a boycott. They clearly are getting their poop together for the most part and I'm happy to tell them so! Keep it up Devs and GMs! Yall are doing great!

Add more dinos into ARK I personally believe that ARK is a wonderfull game of endless possibilities and a bright future if Wildcard keeps going as they have done since release. All DLC's are great ( with SE as an exception ) and the graphics are amazing, BUT... I do not like how the Genesis DLC is looking so far, from what I've seen it's more about mythical creatures and fantasy than actuall history accurate dinosaurs. I really like ARK and want it to stay the way it is with slight changes such as bug fixes and updates. I don't know if Genesis it the ending for ARK and that ARK 2 is going to contain more of the Dinosaur content as a whole but I don't want ark to change into Monster Hunter. Anyways awesome game Wildcard, keep it up.

Caging needs balancing! As the title says I believe something needs to be done with the ARK imprisonment system. But rather than saying that something needs done I am going to dive into how and why caging in ark is used, why something needs to be done about it, and what can be done about it. So to start off I play ARK off and on all the time purely for the pvp. The pvp in ARK is so fun and intriguing something that you really cannot find in any other game. You have so many different ways and tactics to gain an advantage over the other player its unreal and because of this I been playing this game since its launched and now have over 6k hours sank into the game. But at the same time because of the games mechanics there are alot of ways to ruin others experience one being caging. So what is caging? Caging in ARK is essentially knocking another player out unconscious then throwing handcuffs on them, filling their inventories up til they cannot jump or move, then putting them into a comfy room attached to a bed next to an AC so the player cannot die of hunger or dehydration fast. Why is caging so overpowered? I would say if you are placed in a room guarded by turret's, attached to a bed, and AC next to you it would take anywhere from 1-2hours for your character to starve and die including eating your poop. Now some might say well thats not too bad but if you are anyway familiar with large tribes on official you will know people take this game very very seriously, infact so seriously that people make prison's like the one im stuck inside right now with about 10-20 other players. And the people in these large tribes setup timers that go off every 1-2hours to go knockout prisoners and feed/water them its nuts. And someone like me who can only play 1-2hours a day due to college its hard to just logon and try to kill myself. So when I get caged i usually just take a month or 2 off the game but its different this time. The tribe we are going up against only cages, so if you get picked they are going to knock you out and put you in this prison its the only way they play the game. So there's no getting out of this one for me unless I start a new character but 1 times xp thats a pain in the ass plus losing all tek engrams no thank you. Hopefully you can see how this is a large problem for players like me. Another thing that makes it overpowered is there is little to no time or material's invested into caging someone at most you are using a couple of medical brews, narcotics, and 1 custom food and drink per feeding session that only takes probably 1-2min per person. Now that I have stated why its overpowered let me go over some mechanics that I think can help the ark caging situation a lot. So one thing that could help caging is by not allowing people to attach unconscious players with handcuffs to bed's or chairs. To be honest I dont know why this was a thing anyway it just isnt fair or atleast let us struggle out of handcuffs while tied down. Another thing that can be done is to add durability to handcuffs. Adding durability to handcuffs will make caging alot more of an investment considering a player will have to swap out cuffs when one pair breaks due to the prisoner struggling with them on. My third suggestion would be to increase the rate at which a prisoners food and water go down when handcuffed. And one final suggestion would be to increase the amount of health feces deals to the player when ate this will increase the amount of food drained and also help a player die in the situation where it is needed. Thank you for reading this post if you made it this far it seems like a lot but I do believe this will help the pvp community alot and I noticed with the new meshing changes that wildcard does care about their pvpers. Just please wildcard do something about the caging it's way to overpowered and needs to stop I will supply a couple photos that you can see to get a glimpse of what its like inside of an official server prison. Hopefully will see you on the other side of this prison one day, Thanks, Beater Prison life (hopefully the link works) https://imgur.com/a/i5Z8ESn

Australian bushfire crisis Hi fellow survivors and Wildcard, I'm using this as a way to reach out to wildcard. Please, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. As most people have probably heard, Australia is going through a fiery hell on earth. States, such as South Australia, nsw, Victoria, Tasmania and Kangaoo Island, are currently on fire. So far, we have lost two fire-fighters, over 800 million animals (wildlife and pets), approximately 800 homes and buildings, 250 vehicles, about 75 people have lost their lives and it's been estimated that a few local species may go extinct. A lot of people are donating to the families who have lost everything and the animal rescues taking in injured koalas and other wildlife. My family was lucky, but many others were not. So, I'm reaching out to wildcard, for support. Would wildcard organise a charity event, similar as they do, where a certain amount of money is reached, and the breeding /raising /harvesting multiplier is increased? And the proceeds could go to an Australian charity currently helping with the fires. Such as RSPCA BUSHFIRE APPEAL. As an avid survivalist of this game, I know myself and many other Australian survivors, would be greatly appreciative. Anyway, I was nervous about posting this, but it was something that crossed my mind while going through my tames today, after reading that Delta Goodrem, Elton John, Chris Hemsworth have donated 1 million each. And Pink has donated 500k. So, Wildcard, please contact me about this idea. And fellow survivors, if you think this is a good idea, please let them know. Australia needs you

Dear devs, community managers and ark community A lot people writing but no results from wildcard: 1. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494589-corruptet-dinos/ 2. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495501-ark-and-wildcard/ 3. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/487395-broken-game-osd%C2%B4s-element-node%C2%B4s-despawn-pve-farming-bug-with-mantis/ 4. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495360-whys-the-scar-so-broken/ 5. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/419283-wildcard-fix-your-game/ 6. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/412473-osd-bugged/ 7. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/491523-winter-wonderland-in-abb-need-adjustementfixing/ 8. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/408690-only-6-wyvern-nests-appear/ Server problem: 1. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494058-aberration-269-running-but-no-one-can-join/ 2. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/490602-eu-pve-official-the-center200-server-issues/ 3. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/492825-eu-pve-official-the-island-78/ 4. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495417-ragnarok-434-offline-again/ 5. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493968-na_ragnarok71-with-a-padlock-and-showing-as-a-pvp-being-a-pve/ 6. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495027-ragnarok-434-server-error-alltime/ 7. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494949-ragnarok-434-down/ 8. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494613-eu-pve-official-ragnarok434-character-data-lost/ 9. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494697-im-kicked-every-5-m-every-rag-map/ 10. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493458-ragnarok-434-down-for-20-hours/ 11. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494655-why-does-official-theisland-pve-48-crash-every-single-night/ 12. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/494229-extinction-server-456-is-disconnecting-everyone-every-30-minutes/ 13. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495471-aberration-273-pve-stuck-at-255-ping-for-days-now/ 14. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/495288-valguero-lag-on-official-cross-plat-server-is-horrible/ 15. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493743-na-pve-official-extinction459-gosh/ 16. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493653-extinction459-still-down/ 17. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/478755-eu-pve-official-ragnarok-196-lag-every-minute/ 18. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493794-na-pve-official-ragnarok71-down/ 19. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/493419-ragnarok-434-offline-for-18h-counting/ Game suggestion (wildcard ignoring): https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/427803-separate-pve-and-pvp-balances/ -> 206 votes https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/428469-add-show-range-for-troughs-tek-and-normal/ -> 187 votes https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/428226-make-griffins-wyverns-breedable-andor-saddleable/ -> 153 votes This all links is just some for the example, i didn't pasted all links. This all is not normal. I remember time when i was playing instead support wildcard dev was helping me and refunded items/dinos. Then i remember time when there didn't had every 15 min save lag transmitter/drop/obelisk (transfer timer), i remember time when offical server running smoothy without any crashing only was high ping because a lot people was on server thats all. Now 2019-2020 every server crashing, high lagging, save lag system and etc they can't even fix bugs what is more than month not fixed they can't even answer to community in forum to threads . . . If you go testing Atlas game It's running on newest unreal engine what is plus that they can do more performance, new features and more realistic textures, servers never laggy and it's running another system like example you sailing with boat from A1 to A2 and its loading in-game you fast to another server so every region have own server that why servers not laggy also there dosen't have transmitter like transfer items like on ark. I know that when Atlas was launching first time releasing there was a lot lags then i was not playing after some months i was joining after some patch fixes. You can also check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafTDcNpe2Q what i am talking about new engine, new features etc. But ark is on old version engine and if they somehow move to new version engine they should make all textures, mods and etc again reworking them. They can fix ark if they want but they just working on dlc thats all and dosen't care about community. Wildcard you should lisen ark community players they know more about game because they play everyday and most people is old players which have 10000+ hours or more and those people know more what happens on ark. Also you can hire players beta testers to test beta patches and make beta patches on another server so then they will feedback patches and it's will be easier to fix if you will better community with players. I know wildcard you can fix game/offical servers/performance/save lag system/server lags/bugs/glitches if you want but your all is busy making new dlc out. Sometimes when some topic gets hot icon and it's critical issue wildcard is answering to that topic but wildcard you should allocate more time to this forum and community and answers to players so they know more information what happen example with they servers. PS: A lot text but worth to read and discussion about this thread and what you think about all this situation.

Array Count Error Hopefully someone here can answer this question because I have tried every simple solution I've seen while researching the issue. I just installed ark on my new PC today and started encountering issues fairly early, servers not loading as I thought the top server being a 20/120 at 2pm was odd. Should I just give up on the game? (Hopefully a dev can fix what's wrong lol)

Downloading Xbox Account, Ark Data & Bugs I had to redownload my Xbox live account to get past Arks loading screen awhile back because of a bug in the game that I hope has since then been fixed. My question, or suggestion or however you would take this stems from when I redownloaded my Xbox Live account on my Xbox One and opened ARK, my character was there too use, but my base, all my Dinos I had tamed and bred, including boss rexes that took to say the least AWHILE to breed were all gone. What I would like to ask... is if one of your customers, like me for example, spent money on an Xbox One X to upgrade from just an Xbox One, would we lose ALL of those days, weeks, months, even years in some cases of progress of building and taming when we download our Xbox Live Account on our new system and start playing? If so I was really hoping and praying this is something you can change. When we download our accounts on to a new system we shouldn't just get our character we should get our GAME that we have saved on our accounts. Bases, Tames, etc. All right where we left them. That is where the real time in this game goes, and if you lose it that easily it is really hard to want to keep playing. My suggestion is you guys should really work on backing up the data surrounding a character/account including builds, tames, and all the map data in general. If there is some reason this can't be done then I would really like to hear it because that definitely should of been something to consider when you designed the scope of this game and the time it takes to play it. For PC and Consoles we should be able to back-up our map data or an entire save file to retrieve later if some bug wipes our games out. This has happened to me 3 times on single player. I have recently started again on single player and it seems to be working right for the most part for the first time ever, but I was still really considering quitting playing because progress in this game is VERY time consuming and we shouldn't have to lose all that just because you guys update the game and then bugs run wild. Please figure out away to just get our whole save file backed-up, or it at least gives us our whole save file, map data, tames, builds and all when we download our Xbox/PlayStation Accounts on a new system. It is only fair, because I dont know if I could continue to ever play this game again if I lose all my progress, builds and tames for a 4th time... Please look into this... Thank you for your time.

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Food for thought at wildcard My English is not so good but I try... Is it possible the lamp one day&night setting gets it on and out who ever gets dark or bright... Gachas asks why don't you collect eggs on even though it's written like this you can integrate it Keyboard and mouse I have talked with Microsoft over several hours.. Because of the team keyboard and mouse for console it is possible only it is still missing the setting of wildcard in terms of it will come ....

This is my last cry for help im not sure what to do Game crashed last week started it back up then couldnt get pass the initial loading screen. I get to the instinct screen where game locks up then either black screens or lags all the way until I get to the server that I play on then it eventually black screens. Note: I have hard reset my xbox multiple times, uninstalled 2x, reset internet, cleared cashe, and currently trying to move from external to internal but it's being very buggy

Fear Evolved 3 Okay so I have an xbox one so clearly fear evolved 3 has been put for a couple of days now.. I know that there are suppose to be candy corn themed loot drops and different kinds of emotes and skins for both players and dinos but is there any reason why it won't show up when I play single player?.. I've seen maybe 2-3 skeletal dinos but I cannot figure out how to or where to find dino bones to change skins or to find the headless ghost skin, ect.. I've watched videos on how to do certain things since this is my first halloween event with ark and I just want to make sure I am in the loop.. The only thing I've seen is the different colors of tree, zombie wyverns, 1 skeletal red, trike, and giga but that's it.. I'm not sure where to find the zombie dodos or anything.. Somebody help please!!

ARK will have voice acting for several countries in the cutscenes I am Brazilian and was surprised when HLN-A started speaking in my language, I was wondering if the developers will bring the voice over to Extinction and in the future to Genesis and future DLC's. I hope you guys from WildCard keep up the great work and improve the ark

Wildcard theft I have an account on mobile and been playing solo game for year, I joined the crossbow server and found that map hack was used as a cheat, I then brought a transfer ticket and changed to another server and all crafting stations and other items I brought didnt come And all my stats went back to 1, so wildcard have ripped me of serious amount of money. I paid money for all this and lost it all, I'd seriously think about in game purchases from this company if they can not link it to one account I for one will be seeking legal action on this matter.

Character Restoration ! Hello,You need to modify the policy, we playing a lot at this game,so when we lost an character level max with all engrams because the server get ddos when we raid a server because your server is bad and don't have ddos protection and you make tickets for your imprint,level,engram and you get only 101 level with 5 tek engrams it’s just a joke !

Tribe ownership lost I have a quick question? I am on the new map but fell to sleep and my brothers kid got on my person and erase my person and it kicked me out of my tribe a was wondering if there’s a way for me to get this fixed or do I need to start over

Metal disappearing! Hi everyone not sure if it's just me but when I go to place any metal structure/ building stuff ect. it is saying that there isn't any snap point and it's just not appearing green or red. Is this a public thing or is it just my ark! By the way I'm on xbox. I'm also not sure if this is the case on other platforms!

New Flyer So I really enjoy flying in this game especially on snow owls and griffins, its basically my favorite thing to do. So i came up with a concept that I think could be easily added but still pretty awesome imo. Though this would be more fantasy, I think it'd be a great edition to already great flyers. ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED (“Dino” Concept): Aquila Chrysaetos (Giant Eagle) Size: Slightly bigger than an Argentavis (longer wings, broader body, taller height) – real life Argentavis were bigger. Appearance: Looks like a Haast’s Eagle or a Golden Eagle with similar color schemes. Variants such as bald eagles could also exist. Head design and wing length (size) could even match the models of a griffin. With the eagle being a dominant force in the air, it has many abilities. Such as: Swoop – Similar to the Griffin or Snow Owls dive bomb in the way that it flies; however, it doesn’t create a slam effect. In fact, if the eagle were to hit the ground while performing the swoop attack from a high altitude it would take damage. Its melee does however do enhanced damage while in the swoop. You can also use the grab feature during a swoop, creating perfect fly by snatches for saving a friend/tame, grabbing a dino to tame, or even grabbing an enemy player in PvP. Eagle Vision – When you are on an eagle it has the ability to act as a spyglass with its eagle vision. This ability will also outline creatures in certain colors. Red outline (enemy), yellow (wild), blue (ally), and green (tribe). The eagle can carry the same creatures that and Argentavis can; however, can’t carry a creature in its beak and doesn’t have the smithy as a saddle. Making the Argentavis still a unique and useful tame to have. Furthermore, to make the eagle even more of a unique and more end game type of tame so it doesn’t replace the Argentavis. The only way to get an Eagle is like how you’d get a Wyvern. You must find a nest and steal an egg off a high mountain peak. During the baby and juvenile portions of the breeding the eagle will only accept prime meats or mutton. Another similar concept is instead of an eagle could be modeled of a falcon with the same abilities. Again just a personal idea that I thought would be cool. Let me know what you all think.

Valguero Map deleting Map data after crash/shut down Attempt 2 Attempt #2 to get WC to acknowledge Valguero is broken and deletes server data for the map save. Player progression stays but the player has to respawn. Waited a week for something to happen. No acknowledgement so far.

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 ?....

24 hour DDOS attack So I was looking for some advice please. Our ragnarock server has been down for over 24 hour due to DDOS attack. Someone got kicked from a tribe and has decided to take revenge by Dossing the server until it auto decays.. Everyone has submitted multiple tickets to wild card, we have reported it in a number of ways.. but not a single person on server has had a reply. Nor has the attack stopped. My question is what do wildcard do in these situations? Can they actually do something?? Or are we resigned to being stuck on this server.. suffering losses at the mercy of the attacker?

Remove transfer of Desert Titan to Island on Arkpocalypse This is day 3 of the arkpocalypse server and already my tribe with over 50 turrets was wiped by a desert titan brought from a DLC map when Island is Non-DLC this is unfair and broken and it is way to easy to tame to be allowed for transfer so early and is creating a cancerous game play, It cant be stopped on island so for arkpocalypse please make changes so the Desert Titan either... 1. Can't be transferred. 2. Takes Double damage. 3. Can't be uploaded/downloaded till day 5-10 of wipe. 4. Can't be tamed on Arkpocalypse period!!!! 5. Make it so it is wayyyyy harder to tame as it is way to damn OVERPOWERED!!!!!!!!! *the cost to stop a Desert Titan far out ways the cost to tame it this needs to be fixed/balanced* *KEEP IN MIND THIS IS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF SOMEONE THAT BOUGHT ALL YOUR DLC*

word to the wise meshers if you are being meshed constantly just let them wipe you and stop playing this backward game. if you seek revenge and find the meshers mesh base and attack their huge tek base that is completely in the mesh, then you will be banned , not them. because this game rewards mesher and cheaters. ive put 4 years into this game and the one time I got tired of being a victim and took matters in my own had to deal with these ppl I got slapped with the ban hammer with no explanation. I have noting built in the mesh and never been in the mesh other than the time I decided to find these ppl and attack them. moral of this story good guys finish late so screw it just cheat and exploit the game as much as you could. just mesh everyone base cause that who this game rewards "the cheaters finish first".

Server Reset? So I think we all know that the Xbox servers are “ruined” with meshing and other forms of cheating. My suggestion to this is do what was previously done on legacy, make a new set of servers to rid the bad energy and extreme toxic players. If you make a new set of servers it would bring all of the old ark players and people from the dedicated servers to come back to official. The servers will have a new chance to start all over again and bring new players to play ark since it will be equal. Not only will it improve the game in that sense but it will stop meshing for a small period of time because they will not have all of these new and difficult to get items. Once this happens you will be able to work on the parts of the game you don’t wanna include. People are sick and tired of these tribes with everything making it impossible for new people to come into the game once everyone has everything and you cannot start, it will revive the game and possibly putting a halt to cheating and possibly stop the toxic players that are up to no good. -Thank you for reading this thread.