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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.

Classic Server Change Suggestions 1) Change functionality of Fence Support's they shouldn't function like foundations but cost a ton less. //Why do these block building? They take 3 C4 to blow, block foundation building, and cost the same as Fence Foundations which don't block foundation building. This is making it very difficult to raid because we don't have MEK's too just destroy the spam for us. ^^^^^^*^^^^^^^^^^^^ BIGGEST SUGGESTION 2) Change weapon damage cap back to 298. // The weapon cap should not have been changed, it functions fine on all other server versions why change for classic? This change makes pvp a lot more difficult, it takes almost an entire clip to break a piece of flak making it very hard to kill people and allowing them to easily run away making the pvp really boring. 3) Fix dino picking with argentavis. //It's difficult to pick a dino with someone riding it to farm with, it should be that you can pick the dino while the player is riding it if you are in the same tribe but if you're in enemy tribe you pick the player directly off the dino. 4) Fix Anky gathering berry's when being held by a dino. //Why do Anky's do this? they don't do it on the ground and this was suppose to be fixed already. 5) Add Replicator or up Fab/Smithy slots. //This will make it better for crafting expensive BP's 6) Change saddle cap to normal official. //Didn’t need it lowered, heavies do enough damage. People don’t even soak Tek turrets on normal official

Having log in issues on the app on android, seems to be a lot of others reviewing it the same. Please can we get a fix or troubleshoot for it. Thank you.

It has been weeks - that start to pile into months - since you have been notified of the numerous game breaking issues with Prim+ in PS4. You haven't addressed any of those, seeming you dont care nor respect the HUGE player base of PS4. The forges not working to provide the most essential materials to play Prim+ is totally game breaking. Coal is non existent anymore, industrial forges and cooker not working. Are you Wildcard people planning to address tese issues or you just dont care?? The PS4 player base that paid for your bugged game is not important? Are you just going to ignore us or will you have at least the basic decency of letting us know what is going on?? Because of course your terms and conditions state very clearly that you wont refund the paying customer no matter how crappy your product is. Good move. Yes, I am enraged and I think it is justified. FIX IT!

Seriously. I understand that there's a "high volume" of tickets currently and that it takes time, but there's ALWAYS a high volume on ANY game everywhere. I mean it! Almost any game ever worth playing has a "high volume" of tickets. But more than a week? Really? Come on Wildcard. Get your act together.

Dear Wildcard, Are there any future plan's to improve server ddos protection and server quality? (Mainly on ragnarok maps.) I love Ark and spend hundreds If not thousands of hours in it since the early access launch on ps4 and its just such a nice game, but... I've noticed that the servers you guys are using cant keep up with the players their large bases and huge packs of dinos. Ive been in a mega for quite a while now and game crashes and server disconnections have become a regular thing on our server and im certain almost all of the servers have the same problem Everytime a big base loads in there are just low frames, sometimes it are just still images and rubberbanding around the base. And everytime we go out and attack a server it's spending more time in the loading screen then in the actual game itself because the servers can't handle the amount of players. I love this game, more then any other game I've ever played. But please devs, fix your servers. It would be a shame to see your community fade away slowly cause of these problems.

So I joined a small teibe server on Ragnarok number is 32 for PlayStation4 that is getting ddos and now I can't transfer back to my server that I have been playing on. What can I do about this? That would let me keep my character that I have all tekgrams from hard center boss on

I've finally had it with ark. This game's trailer is amazing and shows ark's true potential although. Over the years of me having the game, here are the issues (I play on xbox) I will also try to address them on the way. 1. New players, New players are not the issue themselves. The issue is how ark deals with new players. When I was a new player I was given the official servers to play. Then I was just threw in the game. NOTHING told me what to do. Luckily arks community cover'd for it since I was able to watch videos to eventually get up to a experienced level. Wildcard need to make a effort on them people that spend loads of money on a game needs to see this. 2. Servers/optimisation, Optimisation is Horrific and I feel like wildcard let everybody down here. Lets say you just grinded for 7-8 hours. You have a stone base. Metal tools and you go out to tame a animal... Lets say a raptor. You just gained a lot of narcotics. And the server can do a lot of things to sabotage you. It might completely kick you out of the game. (This happened on xbox) or the game lags so bad that only your device isn't playing. Meaning in the game your getting attacked but you can do nothing about it. Or maybe it will just lag consistently without a way of knowing. (To deal with this, If you believe you are lagging, Check your stamina when you run. If it is moving, you are not lagging) Then the official servers. Oh my god these are dreadful. I have played on servers where there is a average of 2 minutes without a lag spike. This is horrific. ESPECIALLY when you take in account how long ark it self takes to play without the server issues. My point is, Ark should be about surviving the creatures and building up. worrying about them things instead of worrying about lagging out while flying high and never getting that bird that took you HOURS to tame. 3. AI AI is probably one of the best things a game can offer. It truly makes the game unique. For example, the dodic. if set on wondering can collect rock for you. Just amazing. It makes the game feel more engaging. The therizinosaurus has a complete upgrade option to choose how he auto collect stuff for you! Now I'm going to split this into to halfs. Wild dinosaurs and tamed dinosaurs. Wild dinos - This is THE most important part of the game. The dinosaurs themselves. Just a normal question, Why does a rex kill EVERYTHING it can see. Without ever stopping. How stupid is that? this annoys me because of this. I went looking for a 150 female rex. I found one, although my issue was I had just tamed a low level pt since I was giving them away. I land the pt close to me but not the rex and then the rex I went to tame came at 5 of these things, That killed the rex in seconds. Why?? This is just stupid. Also... Lets say you are getting wyvern eggs, Your dinosaur's stamina is running low. Well WYVERNS HAVE UNLIMITED STAM. So you can only hope on wildcards buggy coding to save you or just use trees. Tamed dinos - As I said at the start I am a xbox player. I loved the new centipede strat. where you don't need C4. I think it is great. but ark got in the way again, I went to raid a base where the turrets were player only meaning my centipede could just walk up there destroy gen and I would be in. But THE GAME Declined. instead I couldn't whistle my centipede to attack. He would respond to everything but RB and down on the dpad. He wouldn't do it. no matter what. I then went back and decided to test it on a wiped base before. That worked. Wildcard are just disrespectful. It almost feels like I was robbed. and got a 60 pound game for TRIPLE the price. 4. Responce. For example lets say I get this popular and a lot of people agree that ark needs a MAJOR re-work. Not with how things work but the mechanics. They will not do anything. They don't at all. This is really just a give us your money and we will give you a 20% game. Lets see if you notice. Like I do notice! If there is one thing I want you to take from this, It is this. Ark could be this amazing game that you don't feel like you are getting robbed. but right now It feels like a rust drop out. So that is basically it. without me talking for a good 2-3 hours. But seriously, Wildcard. Please. The ark community is salty af but thats what we like about the game. We like how you can raid and build and on official. The only rule is don't cheat. So alpha will make the rules. This game is nothing without your community that loves your game so much. Please fix the game. We need you too. You know there is more you can do. So please... If you read all of this thank you. I hope I mention'd everything.

It is the end of the year and it was a rough one for WildCard. Extinction was a disappointment but people still bought it since we still believe that ark could become that game that never stops growing. However, things never were completely fixed. All the bugs from the beginning are still here and massive NERF happened a few days ago to perhaps the dino that made Extinction Worth it. Strictly speaking business they have a formula that has worked for them over the past 3 years. They have a formula and that formula is to over sell what they don't have to offer. Took me a long time to realize but I all makes sense now. Worst, we all fell for it! It was a genius marketing formula. And dam it if I say it it is exactly what our president used...AND IT WORKS. Lie, lie, and lie, and slowly but surely it becomes the truth. Surely now Ark is now run by negative publicity but it is working. However, there is a use limit to this type of advertising. It is funny to realize that we all have been bamboozle by Wildcard. It is even harder to explain how we can explain thousands of hours of playing in a game that everyday constantly frustrates us. But we have to realize that this is sadly not the best game, It is not revolutionary, it is not unique, and even less completed. We all have to remember the Trendy Vs Wildcard court battle about the WildCard shady business in which they [WildCard] had to settle for about 30 Million dollars for stealing company employees and allegedly company secrets. Or as Trump would say, "great business". But still, it is always fun to remember the past to see where we are going to the future. If not, we are bound to make the same mistakes. So now WildCard trying to be sneaky they decided to NOT called themselves Wildcard on the development of that new game...Sea of Thieves, sorry, I mean Atlas in order to mask that whole bad publicity they have gotten from Ark Survival Evolved (Now they are "GrapeShot Games"). But as their past shows in their [WildCard] court battle they are not as smart as they think. They openly say that GrapeShot games is halve of their staff including lead designers of ark. Funny enough in the lawsuit according to most major gaming magazines WildCard Argued that Jeremy Stiglitz or whatever his name is was never a lead designer of Ark. But look at what he says on his Tweeter! Not to mentioned that part of the big deal with his wife was that when she created wildcard with him she used her maiden name to avoid the connection of her husband [Jeremy Stiglitz] to wildcard. If this doesn't tell you how Atlas will be...nothing will. But please don't say you were not warned. It is time to let the Ark sink into the depth of the Sea and stop complaining or working for free for Wildcard as we write free ideas for them to later exploit us for money. I don't know if people realized but all the great ideas/fix ideas that you can see on Atlas came from the forums of Wildcard asking us the gamer to indirectly work for them for free. Giving them fun stories, giving them good ideas for character development, giving them good ideas for everything Atlas is now trying to charge just to start incomplete as Ark once started. Enjoy ark while you sill like it. But save your tweets for better uses. There is no reason why we should keep tweeting these guys. Things will not change. I also wished they had a delete account from this website/forum. They don't because they now people would use it and let go of ark... I vote for a delete account setting permanently! what do you guys think about this? I think as far as we go this is where the Ark hits that giant mountain and all the animals leave the ark. There is no point in complaining anymore about what can they do or not do to ark or any other game they release.

Okay. So me and my gf have a server that I rented from nitrado. It's called, (EU) Fallen Kingdom (PVE) and we play it together on xbox, but lately it has been a struggle to play because when we load into the game for the first time it will randomly kick us out for no reason, then we spend about an hour trying to join back, but it keeps giving us an UNKNOWN ERROR. It's starting to get really annoying and I've tried stopping/restarting the server, resetting my xbox, restarting the wifi, but it's a swing or miss. I've been researching it and it seems to be a common issue that wildcard caused with an update and that they are aware of but it has not been fixed. Any Suggestions?

So I've been googling and watching videos - and am learning that even though wildcard added the tek replicator engram as a loot box you can get from an OSD - I'm seeing it's useless and can't be used? I see you can't drag it from your inventory to the supply crate like it wants, and can't build it in your inve. Only other ways are defeating a Titan or a boss from other maps right? Is wildcard planning to fix this "feature"??

Been a few weeks now of this new DLC and let me tell you it is a great map...but that is about it. I want to put this into perspective.... here are all the patches and perhaps some side notes for each. In other words my thought. Current ARK Official Server Network Servers Version: v286.104 Patches, when they occur, are conducted Tuesdays at 10 am PST unless otherwise stated. Current Version: 286.104 - Disabled element veins due to base destruction issues, will be re-enabled at a later time Main feature off due to failure to test before launch. 286.103 Aberration - Enabled transfer of all Extinction Expansion Pack dinos to Aberration (except Snow Owl) This makes no sense... why not the owl? one good reason! there is none. very similar to the decision of why aren't thylas allowed in bosses. Gacha - Fix for Gacha's sad effects not playing properly clearly the game wasn't tested enough. this is a basic feature of only 5 or 4 new dinos on this map. - Fixed bug where taming didn't decay over time - Fixed bug where taming didn't reset when a different player/tribe started taming - Fixed bug where taming was always at 100% effectiveness is there even one good reason they didn't dotame a dino on testing? Seriously! - Set Gacha to have a lower chance of dropping an item when wild This is extinction...you would expect better drops than on other maps...but you would be wrong. Also, yellow drops are not any better than blue. is completely random. - Adjusted Gacha loot to skew towards lower quality rolls being more common Understandable... - Increased Gacha affinity gained per level to match other dinos of similar size - Reduced the max quality of generated items to a more appropriate amount - Adjusted how much food Snow Owl pellets give - Fixed issue with disappearing saddle Gasbags - Made Gasbags like their favorite taming food again I am guessing they didn't tamed all dinos with kibble on testing stages...this is inexcusable. Cryopod - Fix for XP exploit I can understand this. - Disabled ability to cryo rafts and motorrafts They literally said on their live stream this was already fixed....apparently not lol - Disabled ability to cryo Cryosick dinos - Cryo sick dinos take 10x damage If the dino is already unconscious why should they add 10x more damage? this is DUMB Orbital Supply Drop Element Vains currently off... MAIN FEATURE of 4 new FEATURES OFF...explain that to me... FIXED - Enabled Element Veins - Fixed issue with certain OSD mode networks - Fixed issue where crate could respawn in the same location after crate landed Velonasaur - Fixed issue with spines floating after a dino mesh is harvested too quickly. - Fixed stamina issues with Velonasaur getting in a state where it was stuck charging stamina without doing an ability. Velonosaur wastes stamina a lot...and still to this day (11/16/2018) some of them are stuck loosing stamina. (not completely fixed). - Fix for Velonasaur being able to ground boss flyers Dino Leash - Added smaller radius for breeding Mek MEks ARE off at the moment. Another main feature off...(kinna fixed) - Fix for Mega Mek regaining health - Set Mek pistol to be unable to damage metal or tek - Increased damaged to Mek when in siege mode - Disabled shield retracting when Mek is still flying upward - Fixed issue with Mek shields preventing the buffs/debuffs from applying - Prevented shield from deploying within range of enemy turrets - Mek siege cannon and missile pod projectiles move slower and can now be properly targetable by turrets - Adjusted Mek charge-up for siege to be quicker - Adjusted Mek drag weight to match their size - Auto-colorize Mek backpacks with the Mek's colors Snow Owl Snow owls can freeze on pve Other players to ruin tames or troll... - Fix bug that caused players to go into a weird state after being affected by its ice bomb - Snow Owl encapsulate healing amount is now based on the Owl's base health instead of the healed dino's base health - Set Owls to not 'poop' so frequently so they are a more rare resource Managarmr Managarmr glitch float, glitch on behemoth gates, and glitch on rocks... - Now requires half second pass before allowing another forward dash after jumping. - Adjusted ice breath to not be usable directly behind you on the ground. - Fixed Managarmr laying carno eggs - Fixed issue with damage calculation - Fixed issue with FOV calculating incorrectly when user has a non-default FOV setting. Enforcer - Hid blank buff that appeared when blinking with an Enforcer - Enabled Scouts and Enforcers to be crafted in the city terminals Scout AM i the only one who thinks this scout shouldn't waste element dust? also, the range is lame even for an ASc... - Scouts no longer drop eggs - Enabled Scouts and Enforcers to be crafted in the city terminals Titans Titans are glitch. boss music stuck for ever as titan tamed Roams around in the map. Forest titan corrupted zones to shoot are glitchy...very hard to hit. I mean, it looks like you are hitting it but no...you do more damage to tame. Also, areas where titans spawn shouldnt be buildable...or there should be a clear warning to not build there.... - Desert Titan node health fix - Titan beta/gamma health fix - Improved Desert Titan basing - Transmitter UI no longer shows Titan is downloadable during two hour download limit Translation - Chinese strings added Difficulty This is a LIEEEEEEEEE (Seen better spawns since updated yesterday) most dinos spawns are level 5, 10, 15...it is rare to see a 150...or Tek 180. - Set max Override Difficulty to 5 Extinction Map - Disabled meteor event for now due to meteors causing damage in unintended areas Another main feature off....this is terrible! (seems like the animation was left) no ingame effect anymore. - Fixed ice cave water spawner overspawning, added cave water spawner with hostile dinos - Updated spawn volumes to fix Beaverpocalypse - Updated Wasteland cavern water spawner volumes - Fixed sound radius for street lights, no longer can be heard by everyone in the area - Fixed various map holes - Converted all of the water ppvol DoF to use Gaussian settings matching those on the Island - Map streaming fixes - Water plane fixes - Fixed some floating resources - Fixed teleporting between domes breaking their effects - Dome streaming fixes - Updated drag weight values for dinos that did not have it set so they're not all pick-u This is a bit of a shame...the map design is very well done...but everything else...just leaves you in awe of how bad is working. Out of about 5 main new features...3 are OFF... I can understand how server population is falling every day on official servers... is annoying, makes the game not enjoyable, and worst of all...just proves that Wildcard keeps being wildCard. I hope for the sake of this great game...because one thing is true that this game is so great that even with the terrible job they do the game is still successful just because the core idea is amazing... it is starting to catch up with WildCard that bad DLC delivery is starting to hurt them. population was 70/70 on most official extinction...now is down to about 40/70. Revised 11/17/2018

Currently only the aberration primitive plus servers are up is there any information as to when the rest of the cluster will come back on ??

Okay. To start off, I'm hype for extinction. And I'm getting the ps4 all nice cooled up so I can melt the plastic case off. Lol. But I have a question. Is the Phoenix going to make a repealing in extinction, I feel like that easy question to ask. I feel like the Phoenix doesn't get any love, left all alone on scorched earth. And can't transfer him to different maps. As far I know there going to be somewhat a desert biome. It be nice to have on ragnarok. But if not I get it. But truly feel like some of the dinos don't get the cut. But I'm ready for extinction, hope we get some awesome skins like we got for aberration. And speaking of aberration, what is up with the frame rate, or loading map distance. Flying around on the rockdrake crash my game on ps4 several times. It's like I'm moving to fast that the game not loading the map fast enough. The other maps don't have that problem since you took away movement speed on fliers. And if anyone else having that problem.?