ARK: Survival Evolved News

The entire team has been having a blast and enjoying all the Genesis 2 content you've been sharing. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! As the team continues to iterate on some bugs from the latest launch, we wanted to take this time and talk about something we've seen across the minds of the survivor community:



Though Genesis 2 marks the end of the journey and the end of paid content for ARK 1, in terms of new content and new experiences: there is much more in the works! ARK's thriving community is full of talent and we'll be tapping into that talent for another community map to bring into the official fold later in the year. In addition to new maps, we're continuing to support the live-game with quality-of-life additions, TLC patches, updates, and fixes to pesky bugs. New experiences will continue to roll in with community events and in-game holiday events. Summer Bash anyone 😉?

Even though Genesis 2 concludes an epic journey we all embarked on, we are looking forward to the next one! 

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If you haven't gotten a Genesis 2 Nogin or Dodo plushie, keep an eye out on Twitter and the #Ark2GenPlush hashtag for a chance to receive a limited-edition plushie. The winners for our tweet giveaway are:

• @theclclcclcl
  
• @OscarHS_
  
• @alexmavsfan
  
• @RRapture19
  
• @SeegzyGaming
  
• @JosueDV9
  
• @drachenlily
  
• @AllenOLantern
  
• @CtrlChris
  
• @rexzilla411
  

We'll be contacting you on Twitter with a code for your requested plushie!



An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms from now through June 14th, with the following EVO perks:

• 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, imprint, and maturation)
  
• 2X Taming
  
• 2X Harvesting
  
• 2X XP
  

Creator: captain fatdog
Last week we showed you how to tame a Maewing, but it might help to learn how to trap one. The trap master, captain fatdog, is back at it!
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Creator: CHipZz - Ark Builds
After you've trapped and tamed Maewing, what's next? Building a perfect hatchery!
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Creator: Evolution Curios
What a ride it's been! Take a look at a journey through ARK!
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@PatheticLlamas - A Journey’s End

@TekARK3 - Locke and HLN-A

@JLNHD_z - NexxuzHD and Astrodelphis

@TekstelArt - Sketch of ARK Character

@ceridonias - Shadowmane

@Enoch_Parsons - Rockwell Fanart



@GGFizz4 (Additional credit for CC cover image)


@EgoSilentium


@Nekatus


@sefiroultima


Catch you next week!
Studio Wildcard

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The Studio Wildcard team is thrilled to finally complete the ARK saga with the release of ARK: Genesis Part 2. We've been watching, sharing, and enjoying the content you've been posting across social media platforms. We're already working through several tweaks and bug fixes based on player reports and feedback. We’ll keep you updated with the progress through our normal social channels.

Thanks to Ark’s passionate community and a love for new content that fits its mold, what were once straightforward plans have become so much more. Through in-game events, free DLC maps, and continued game updates, we’re also polishing, addressing player feedback and fixing issues to make it a better game for everyone.

So, what’s next? Not TEK, that's for sure 😏. As we look forward to a primarily primitive-themed ARK 2, we'll continue to provide meaningful updates and experiences to our ARK 1 survivors.

We’re forever grateful for our community which helps us grow, shape, and push the Ark franchise to new heights!

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If you're on Twitter, make sure you're keeping an eye on #ARKGen2Plush hashtag. Some of our amazing community content creators will be handing out codes to redeem a free plushie!


ARK is on Sale!!

If you haven't had a chance to experience everything the ARK franchise has to offer, check out the ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition. ARK: The Ultimate Survivor Edition includes ARK: Survival Evolved, along with these expansion packs: Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis Parts 1 & 2.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21105/ARK_Ultimate_Survivor_Edition/



There will be no EVO event this weekend.

Creator: nooblets.com
Looking for a quick guide for taming the loveable Maewing? We have you covered!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTdS_MZ2p0

Creator: Sven P & Séfiro
If you'd rather scout for potential base locations on Youtube, Sven P & Séfiro check out some of the prime real estate locations in Genesis 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZU52amQjec

Creator: FistofTheWalrus
Uh, we don't think that's a regular puppy 😯
https://clips.twitch.tv/SneakyAnnoyingWrenPoooound-NTsJuTf-mAUbocaa?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Creator: Venalis
And we certainly don't think that's an average dog 😂
https://clips.twitch.tv/AliveNimblePandaPMSTwin-Wn5gi_mp-AYQh-yo?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Darken_Si - DodoRex

TzuLin- slip (Managarmr)

shockalocker - Maewing

Fires-storm - Helena Walker Study

CasiriaDraws - Coming Out (Pride Month)

Doragon Kraaken#3395 - Rockwell wyvern?

@NaturalCauzes

dacx

@NeoVanilluxe

𝑻𝒉𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒐𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓#1650

Keep sharing your Genesis 2 moments with us! Catch you next week!
Studio Wildcard

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Hover-surfboards, flying platypus-like creatures, and Vin Diesel falling out of a wet pod - I already didn't fully understand Ark: Survival Evolved, but I can't deny its new expansion has piqued my interest. Out now, Ark: Genesis Part 2 invites players to jump into the game's final chapter, and play through the storyline that'll lead into its sequel. Oh, and David Tennant is in it too.

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ARK: Genesis Part 2 completes the eons-spanning story of ARK: Survival Evolved! Everything that your tribe has built, tamed, and fought for has led to this final challenge. With your faithful artificial companion HLN-A by your side, you’ve emerged from the Genesis simulation to find yourself aboard a gigantic starship being overtaken by a familiar threat from the distant past.

In Genesis Part 2, you’ll explore a vast new world teeming with strange biomes and exotic creatures, while engaging in story-oriented missions that test your mettle, ingenuity, and survival skills. Wielding an array of powerful new tames, items, weapons, and structures, you’ll journey from idyllic fields through twilit phantasmagoric realms, all the way into a hellish heart of darkness. Thousands of years and trillions of miles away from where your story began, you’ll challenge series-villain Rockwell in a final confrontation to determine the fate of humanity. The future is in your hands, Survivor -- one last time!

NEW STORY-ORIENTED MISSIONS
A holographic guide, HLN-A, offers a wide array of engaging new story-oriented missions at varying difficulty levels, as you build strength to confront Rockwell in a final battle for the ages. Completing missions earns you new map-wide bonuses and Hexagons, which you can spend for extra resources, additional Engram Points, TEK items, travel between environments, and more. Discover Explorer Notes and environmental cues along the way to learn even more about the history of the ARK saga.

EXPANSIVE WORLDS TO CONQUER
In ARK: Genesis 2, you’ll emerge from the simulation into a gargantuan starship filled with unique biomes, including beautiful elysian fields, an exotic twilight realm of highly evolved lifeforms, the depths of outer-space, and even the innards of the ever-expanding Rockwell himself. Whether it’s sentient alien plants, Rockwell’s digestive fluids, or asteroids warping in from intergalactic space travel, each biome presents unique hazards, but also opportunities to acquire new resources and creatures -- including the powerful new ‘Mutagen’ that enables you to further evolve your existing tames!

STRANGE NEW CREATURES
Throughout the vast expanses of Genesis Part 2’s world, you’ll find the brain-controlling Noglins, elegant high-tech Stryders, the cuddly mobile-nursery Maewing, and even the laser-shooting, bomb-blasting, barrel-rolling Astrodelphis starfighter -- among other fantastical new creatures and evolved R-Variants of old favorites!

You’ll need all the help you can tame, as both Genesis expansions present you with challenging new bosses and minibosses that will take all of your skills to conquer.

POWERFUL NEW GEAR
As you brave the many dangers of this new world, you’ll gain access to powerful new tools to aid you. You’ll learn how to place remote cameras, pull off tricks with a floating skateboard-like Hoversail, take care of your eggs with the high-tech Incubator, shoot arrows made of pure energy with the Tek Bow, even engage in a Real Time Strategy command mode within the new Exo-Mek --- and far, far more!

COMPLETE YOUR JOURNEY
ARK: Genesis Part 2 concludes the epic saga of ARK: Survival Evolved -- the ultimate battle between the freedom to evolve, versus the oppression of controlling life’s creation. Which side wins out is up to you, Survivor. Your skills, your tames, your weapons and your builds -- everything that you’ve accomplished is put to the test here, as the future of humanity hangs in the balance!