ARK: Survival Evolved News

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Originally posted by Jesse

The upcoming Genesis expansion adds a lot of innovative and fun new features to ARK and is our most complex expansion pack to date, with a completely new mission system that dramatically changes the way you can play ARK. As a team we have decided that an extra month of polish and balancing is needed to deliver an awesome experience to everyone on launch day, so our anticipated simultaneous release for all platforms will be late January 2020. Meanwhile, we will continue to create fun new events and updates for ARK, including today as we launch Fear Evolved 3, and with the extra time we plan to add mouse-and-keyboard support on consoles this year as well as working on some surprises for the entire community at our biggest-ever Winter Wonderland event in December!

We are excited to bring you the third annual Fear Evolved, bigger and better than before!  The blood-moon, DodoWyvern, DodoRex, have made a return to ARK from October 22nd to November 5th!  Find tombstones to and gather what you need to craft spooky skins or hunt down the elusive DoDoWyvern - the choice is up to you.  For those who have experienced Fear Evolved before, we've added some new tricks and treats to ensure Fear Evolved maintains its legacy as a community favorite.

Event Rates

2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
2X Player XP
2X Harvesting

Wild Creature Event Colors

Dino Light Orange
Dino Light Red
Dino Dark Orange
Dino Dark Red
DragonBase0
DragonBase1
Dino Dark Purple
Dino Light Brown
Dino Dark Brown
Dino Light Green
Dino Light Grey
Dino Darker Grey
Dino Light Blue
Dino Dark Yellow
DragonFire
NearBlack

NEW Event Items

Jack O'Lantern Mask
Hockey Mask
Headless Neck stump
Halloween-inspired Dino Colorization Candy 
Panic Emote
Spooky Dance Emote
Zombie Emote

Prior Event Creatures

DodoRex
Zomdodo
Dodo Wyvern
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Bone Fire Wyvern
Zombie Fire Wyvern
Zombie Lightning Wyvern
Zombie Poison Wyvern
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus

Prior Event Items

Pumpkin
Stolen Headstone
Scarecrow

Prior Event Skins

DodoWyvern Mask Skin
Clown Mask Skin
Vampire Eyes Skin
Werewolf Mask Skin
Giganotosaurus Bone Costume
Jerboa Bone Costume
Quetzalcoatlus Bone Costume
Wyvern Bone Costume
DodoRex Mask Skin
Carno Bone Costume
Rex Bone Costume
Raptor Bone Costume
Bronto Bone Costume
Trike Bone Costume
Stego Bone Costume
Witch Hat Skin
Dino Witch Hat Skin

We hope the community enjoys Fear Evolved 3 and we look forward to bringing you more exciting events like Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland!

Until next time!

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We are only weeks away from the ExtraLife charity stream on November 2nd 9AM PST!  As usual, this community event will be 24 hours filled with sneak peeks of future content, competitions, laughter, and embarrassment.  Most of all, all of the proceeds go towards a great cause!

What the community tends to love are the boosted rates that come with this event.  There will be official server rates bonuses as we reach our donation goals (0.5x increase for every $5,000 raised up to a max of 8x).  In addition to boosted rates, we will have giveaways and prizes for the community!  Even if you aren't available to donate money, we'd appreciate you coming by to hang out.

What is ExtraLife? Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised over $50 million USD for sick and injured kids

Last Years Stats

• 11th Ranked Team Globally
  
• Over 1,800 donations as a team
  
• 70 Team Members
  
• Largest Donation was $2500
  
• 89% Individual Donation increase from 2017
  
• 23% Overall Team Donation increase from 2017
  

October 22nd to November 5th marks the return of Fear Evolved and we have some frightening treats in store!  Stay tuned for a spooky trailer and more event details when the event begins tomorrow!  If you missed the last post on Fear Evolved:



PS4 Primitive+
The engineering team is still hard at work on a Primitive+ patch to resolve the latest issues from deployment.  We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to bringing you good news soon.



There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!

Until next time!

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Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

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From October 22nd to November 5th, the spookiest and most requested event will be active! We've been asking for your feedback on things you'd like to see in events and we have something exciting in store for everyone.  For those who've seen the ghoulish graves and overgrown pumpkin patches; fear not, there will be a number of new items to collect! Stay tuned for chilling trailer reveal and more details on the event!

NEW Event Items

Jack O'Lantern Mask
Hockey Mask
Headless Neck stump
Halloween-inspired Dino Colorization Candy 
Spooky Emotes
Panic Emote
Spooky Dance Emote
Zombie Emote

Prior Event Creatures

DodoRex
Zomdodo
Dodo Wyvern
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Bone Fire Wyvern
Zombie Fire Wyvern
Zombie Lightning Wyvern
Zombie Poison Wyvern
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus

Prior Event Items

Pumpkin
Stolen Headstone
Scarecrow

Prior Event Skins

DodoWyvern Mask Skin
Clown Mask Skin
Vampire Eyes Skin
Werewolf Mask Skin
Giganotosaurus Bone Costume
Jerboa Bone Costume
Quetzalcoatlus Bone Costume
Wyvern Bone Costume
DodoRex Mask Skin
Carno Bone Costume
Rex Bone Costume
Raptor Bone Costume
Bronto Bone Costume
Trike Bone Costume
Stego Bone Costume
Witch Hat Skin
Dino Witch Hat Skin

PS4 Primitive+
There was an issue with the latest deployment that has prevented PS4 Primitive+ players from accessing their survivors.  There is a patch being tested and we hope to share an ETA once we have more information.



Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 18th  of Oct at 1 PM EST until Monday the 21st of Oct at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

2x Harvesting Rates
2x Taming Rates
2x EXP Rates

Until next time!

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Hacks/Exploits

Abuse of game mechanics, such as meshing and duping, are being reported at a higher frequency. As always, we will continue to implement changes to address any methods we have been able to reproduce. Please continue to report any known methods via the ticket system.

Enforcement

With the increase of reports, the enforcement team has been tasked with a larger number of tickets. This backlog of requests prevented our enforcement team from acting quickly to incidents that were being reported. We've made a considerable dent in the backlog and hope to improve our response time to incidents that are reported.

Events

If there's something you'd really like to see in events (regular and holiday), check out the thread and weigh in!



The Enforcement Team are back again with another important notice regarding the Code of Conduct:

We're making the final preparations for a client and server-side update that will bring Genesis Chronicles to survivors on PC, Xbox, and PS4! Leading up to the release of Genesis we will begin to include Genesis-related Explorer Notes on The Island, Scorched Earth, and Aberration.

Survivors with the cosmetic HLN-A will find some explorer notes provide a glimpse of what to expect in the forthcoming Genesis expansion -- and how it all fits into the larger ARK story.

If you want to unlock a new set of skins for your armor, be sure to collect them all!





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Check out the rest of the community crunch here.