ARK: Survival Evolved News

Community Crunch 254: Last Week In ARK, Community Corner, and More!

Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

Love Evolved is live from February 11th - February 18th, and packs new skins, chibis, 3x rates and more! Check out this post for more information.

Playstation Update:
We have set the event rates live on our Official Playstation network, and, we're eager to get the Love Evolved Event content into our Playstation Community's hands. The build is good and currently going through the publishing process. We hope to be able to set that live for you today. Apologies for the delay in deploying the update. We'll keep you posted!

Last Week In ARK

This week we take a look at the average level of a player when a wild dino kills them. We've seen a lot of interest in these stats and we'll continue digging up interesting stats for you to see!

Video Evidence for Support Tickets

Solving some types of enforcement tickets comes down to having good evidence. For reports regarding certain cheats and exploits, a video goes a long way towards our enforcement team's investigative process. We've updated the Navigation Bar, under Support, in the website to include a helpful guide in recording videos depending on the platform you're playing on.

We hope you find this helpful when creating your support tickets!

Steam Lunar Sale

🏮 Happy Lunar New Year! We're kicking off the Lunar New year with an ARK sale. Get it now while it's up to 80% off! 🏮
ARK | Steam Lunar Sale

EVO Event

There is an ongoing EVO Event from February 11th - February 18th as part of the Love Evolved event

3X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
3X XP
3X Harvesting
3X Taming

Community Corner

[h2]Clips/Videos[/h2]

🎥 Creator: Rubius Z
#ARKADIA, an ARK event by a group of content creators, launched this week with much excitement. Join Rubius Z as he starts his ARK adventure! Check this out to find out more about the content creators that are involved and be sure to give the event Twitter account a follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaVvqcj-VY

🎥 Creator: sam_stimo
Check out this Viking town build, complete with a port, docks, houses, a blacksmith, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WivKxA6S6w

🎥 Creator: nohistoryheregaming
Never know when a friendly raptor is looking to welcome you to the neighborhood 🤗.
https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlyManlyBaconMikeHogu-_9zfXbRK47vik1WO?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

🎥 Creator: Sheplaysit
You really can't rush a good ale 🍻.
https://clips.twitch.tv/SuccessfulMoistHorseradishFreakinStinkin?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

🎥 Creator: UpFromTheDepths
In this documentary-style video series, UpFromTheDepths explores ARK in an entirely new way. This episode, Snowbound, focuses on the harsh winter season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thB1EWkeO8

🎥 Creator: NoHistoryHereGaming
You never know when that friendly raptor wants to welcome you to the neighborhood 🤗.
https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlyManlyBaconMikeHogu-_9zfXbRK47vik1WO?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

🎥 Creator: IamMacMan
Join I Am MacMan as they take us on a tour of their Owl Trade Base in this build showcase video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsz0Vah5j04

[h3]Fan Art [/h3]

🎨 EmilyStepp - ARK Armored Reaper Concept

🎨 NeoVanilluxe - ARK Dodorex

🎨 Natahi-4 - Spinosaurus Aquareliga

🎨 RRRaven#0666 (Discord)

[h3]In-Game Screenshots[/h3]

📷 GirlKingThatOddThing#2542

📷 KingWillrus#2876

📷 Sandi#9998

📷 auztyle#7907

See you next week!
Studio Wildcard

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Ark: Survival Evolved is 80% off in a Steam sale, but you'll have to be quick

If that Ark 2 trailer featuring - yep - Vin Diesel revealed at The Game Awards late last year caught your attention, but you're a newcomer to the survival games series, you might be interested to know its predecessor is currently seeing an eye-watering discount. Ark: Survival Evolved is currently 80% off on Steam, but you'll have to be quick about it.

Head to the 2017 action-adventure game's store page on Valve's platform and you'll see it's currently 20% of its regular price - £9 down from £44.99 (or $10 if you're based in the US). That's for the base game version, but the Explorer's Edition bundle, which includes the Ark: Survival Evolved Season Pass, is also knocked down 79% at the moment, priced at £16.86 rather than the usual £79.98.

The season pass includes three DLC packs - the Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction expansions - which add things like new biomes with their own styles and ecosystems, as well as new creatures, and items, challenges.

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Ark: Survival Evolved gets a Valentine's event this week with new chibis, skins, increased rates

"Love is in the air!" Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has announced on the action-adventure game's site. And, indeed, Valentine's celebrations come to the title in a few days' time, with a week-long Love Evolved 2 event that brings a bunch of new content to the game.

As detailed on the survival game's latest 'Community Crunch' blog post, Love Evolved 2 kicks off on February 11 and runs until February 18. The new activity coming with the festival hinges on catching some "amorous fish" (yes, you read that right) - a special Valentine's variety of Coelacanth will be popping up, and if you reel them in, you'll "be showered in candies, chocolates, and even chibi pets!", as the devs announce. Additionally, mating can also randomly drop chocolates and candies. Sweet.

Rates get increased throughout the week-long event, with triple for breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation), as well as taming, player XP, and harvesting. Additionally, there's a batch of new cosmetic content coming with Love Evolved 2, too.

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Community Crunch 253: Love Evolved 2, Last Week In Ark, and More!

Love Evolved 2

Love is in the air! From Thursday, February 11th through Thursday, February 18th ARK will be under Cupid's spell for Love Evolved 2. For the duration of the event, Valentines Coelacanth will be fishing for some love. Reel in these amorous fish and be showered in candies, chocolates and even chibi pets!

Event Details
This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=vday

Dates

2/11 - 2/18

Activities

Valentines Coelacanth can be caught for chibis, chocolates, candies
Mating can randomly drop chocolates and candies!

Rates

Increased breeding rates to 3x (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
Increased taming rates to 3x
Increased player XP rates to 3x
Increased harvesting rates to 3x

Skins

Valentines inspired shield skin *NEW*
Valentines inspired sunglasses skin *NEW*
"Cupid Couture Bottom" (Pants Skin)
"Cupid Couture Top" (Shirt Skin)
"Halo Headband" (Hat Skin)
"Teddy Bear Grenades" (Grenade Skin)
"Bow & Eros" (Bow skin)
"Love Shackles" (Handcuffs Skin)

Items

Box o' Chocolates
Valentines Dino Candy

Emotes

Flirty Emote

Chibi's

Crystal Wyvern *NEW*
Mesopithecus *NEW*
Otter *NEW*
Enforcer *NEW*
Velonasaur *NEW*

Wild Event Creature Colors

Lavender *NEW*
Cream *NEW*
MediumLavender *NEW*
Peach *NEW*
DeepPink *NEW*
LightPink *NEW*
Dark Red *NEW*
Red
Magenta
Light Red
White

Last Week In ARK

In this week's update, we take a look at bans and average deaths per server (PvE and PvP) over the past seven days.

There were a total of 732 bans this week between the enforcement team and BattleEye. The Enforcement team bans are done manually after investigation for various infractions of our Code of Conduct and BattlEye's bans are implemented for detection of third party software/cheats.

We are curious as to why our Xbox players have so many PvE deaths. Haha!

EVO Event

There will be no EVO event this week. The next upcoming EVO event will be on February 11th.

Community Corner

[h2]Clips/Videos[/h2]
Creator: Simfinity_nin
Tranquil rafting on the ARK. Kick back, relax, and sip on a nice brew in the sunshine
https://clips.twitch.tv/ImportantMushyRavenBigBrother?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Creator: IceBox
IceBox doing what IceBox does best in an awesome player-run Carry Your Bob SOTF Mod Tournament!
https://clips.twitch.tv/PeacefulAlertMushroomNotLikeThis?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Creator: Zilara
It's fine! This is fine! New vault drop meta
https://clips.twitch.tv/GenerousPoorCiderSSSsss?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Creator: Circaskys
We're not sure what is going down but ARK RP'ers don't do things by halves!
https://clips.twitch.tv/SullenGrotesqueLegCharlieBitMe?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

Creator: bobbysama1
Awkies heh
https://clips.twitch.tv/FineAgitatedAubergineKAPOW?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed

[h2]Fan Art[/h2]
Feather Light - kawarayane

Gen 2 Teaser - Locke.ARK#6239 (Discord)

Standing Ground - RedGear17#6109 (Discord)

The Dodo's Are In Love - NeoVanilluxe#0900

I'd Love To See This in the Crunch - @RoboticHat717

[h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2]

mangostars#7256

CHipZz - Ark Builds#9595

@ChristySoffe - My Little Beach House

Introducing Classic PvP Season 4!

Classic PvP Season 4

Season 4 kicks off on Friday 2/5/21 at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST.

Classic PvP is a competitive player experience for PC players that focuses on the PvP experience from the days of old. Season 3 saw the introduction of breedable Wyverns and Stegos which brought an impactful change to the meta, so this season. Each season will introduce new changes and will continue to evolve along with the base game.

This week we'll be kicking off Season 4 of Classic PvP (bringing an end to the current season). If you're unfamiliar with what Classic PvP is, there's a quick breakdown below.

[h2]Classic PvP Breakdown[/h2]

Experience gain, taming, gathering, breeding, hatching, and raising rates have been doubled compared to our standard Official Servers (2x)
Tribes are set to 25 players max
Tribe alliances are disabled, though informal alliances are allowed
Servers have a maximum player count of 100
These maps will be available: The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and The Center
Tek dinos (Tek Parasaur, Tek Quetzal, Tek Rex, Tek Raptor, Tek Stego), Paracer, Tapejara, and the Titanosaur are not available for taming on Classic PvP
All Aberration and Extinction content is unavailable on Classic PvP
Scaling of weapon damage has been reduced
No TEK Engrams
No cave building
Cryopods enabled

[h2]Season 4 Changes[/h2]

Tamed Stegosaurus Resistance reduced by 35%
Tamed Quetzal Resistance reduced by 20%
Tamed Wyvern Resistance reduced by 20%
Tamed Wyvern Damage reduced by 20%
Reaper Queen added to the Valguero Aberration Zone