Welcome to the second edition of the ARK Digest! For those who missed the first, check out the announcement section on the first and be sure to catch up with what you’ve missed! This weekly feature entails information regarding some of the development of ARK, your questions as well as any extra bits of information we want to share!



We promised a little something for those of you who were let down by The Stomping Land. We at Studio Wildcard are sympathetic and want to help ease the suffering and tend to the wounds. Join us at your new Dinosaur home!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446016928

All owners of TSL will automatically receive an exclusive “Stomped Land Bling Shades” cosmetic accessory for riding around in style on their Tyrannosaurus Rex!!


Something that was recently added to the game is the ability to release and claim tamed species. This is done by walking up to your tamed animal, hitting the menu button and selecting the option to release the creature. Other people in the area are now freely able to claim that creature, thus transferring ownership of the Dinosaur.

We’ve introduced this feature to allow survivor to loan and give Dinosaurs to other survivors, as well as hopefully encourage the idea of trading with one another. A particular tribe may only collect certain colored Dinosaurs, so having this feature will definitely help in that regards.

Careful though, there’s no guarantee that they’ll trade with you honorably ;). Looking forward to see some survivor run species-trading markets and perhaps some bounties looking for the elusive Red and Black Dodo!


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446030359

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446031146

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446047620


After months of climbing mountains and living above the clouds, a group of Survivors have returned with the knowledge and many stories to share regarding the flying beast, Pteranodon.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446012213

Welcome to the second edition of the ARK Digest! For those who missed the first, check out the announcement section on the first and be sure to catch up with what you’ve missed! This weekly feature entails information regarding some of the development of ARK, your questions as well as any extra bits of information we want to share!



We promised a little something for those of you who were let down by The Stomping Land. We at Studio Wildcard are sympathetic and want to help ease the suffering and tend to the wounds. Join us at your new Dinosaur home!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446016928

All owners of TSL will automatically receive an exclusive “Stomped Land Bling Shades” cosmetic accessory for riding around in style on their Tyrannosaurus Rex!!


Something that was recently added to the game is the ability to release and claim tamed species. This is done by walking up to your tamed animal, hitting the menu button and selecting the option to release the creature. Other people in the area are now freely able to claim that creature, thus transferring ownership of the Dinosaur.

We’ve introduced this feature to allow survivor to loan and give Dinosaurs to other survivors, as well as hopefully encourage the idea of trading with one another. A particular tribe may only collect certain colored Dinosaurs, so having this feature will definitely help in that regards.

Careful though, there’s no guarantee that they’ll trade with you honorably ;). Looking forward to see some survivor run species-trading markets and perhaps some bounties looking for the elusive Red and Black Dodo!


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446030359

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446031146

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446047620


After months of climbing mountains and living above the clouds, a group of Survivors have returned with the knowledge and many stories to share regarding the flying beast, Pteranodon.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446012213

Welcome to the first edition of Community Crunch! This will hopefully become a weekly segment of content to share made by the community, for the community! As well as any little changes I want to make survivors aware about, which happen within our community ;).


First things first, I’m pleased to announce that work has finally begun on the /r/playark subreddit! Sorry about the major delay, we’ve been busy at all fronts here and I’d like to give a shout-out to /u/amitkilo and /u/RT-Pickred for pretty much setting it up, much love <3 You can check it out here with its own announcement to get things going!

This will just act as another platform for discussion however we’ll still have all our announcements and develop activity here on steam, though I’ll be over there too much like how I am on Facebook and Twitter! Steam is our priority and we plan to make us of all its fantastic features, but I’ll be dabbling and speaking to as many people as I can across other various channels.


There’s been a lot of active and healthy discussion so far about the game and we’re all super chuffed! We hope you guys continue to provide your feedback, share your plans with the game and just keep on truckin’.

I’m going to start organising the forum and creating some new categories to help keep things a bit cleaner :). We’ll be sticking to a General Discussion section, this will just be talking about ARK, asking about features, suggestions if you’d like. The other sections you’ll have available to you are Tribes, Community Content and Off Topic.

We’re a big advocate of what you guys create and what you want to share, it definitely deserves its own section to prevent it from getting buried and easy access! As for tribes – a huge part of the game and something you’ve already begun setting up, hopefully the section will help new users find a tribe to play with, as well assist pre-established ones in furthering themselves. Last but not least, off-topic will just be a place for you guys to do basic interactions with one another, such as introducing yourself. We aren’t going to be dictators with super-strict rules, all we ask is you respect one another, keep the extremely Not Safe For Work or Not Safe For Life materials out of here and the spam to a minimum.

Once we hit Early Access, I’ll be doing a bit of a revision and changing some things up – but that doesn’t matter right now :)


Since the announcement there have been a ton of fan sites and blogs popping up all over the board. People are re-writing FAQs in their native language! There’s people doing research into the words that have been said, a collection of answers – so many neat things and we love it! KEEP IT COMING :). I’ll be sharing some of the ones I’ve come across, and if you’ve seen any more you’d like to share – drop me a message and I’ll be sure to do so!

Simple of http://www.arkbulletin.com/ has this to say: “Ark Bulletin exists as a resource for people to stay up to date on the development of ARK: Survival Evolved. We believe 'simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' and our site reflects that. We post content that is relevant, to the point and detailed”

MrMackeyMKayyy of http://arkaholic.com/ has this to say: “As the first, and the largest, English-language ARK: Survival Evolved news blog and forum, we collect, analyse, summarise and disseminate information about the game, while giving users a place to discuss it, and anything else they want, on our forums.”


Tamaster92 is also currently forging an active RP Community! He says you can check out their upcoming site here: www.arkrp.com and they’ve got an active thread going here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/617335934127046215/ - He hopes to launch a few days after early access begins.

Steel, Cayos and Carrot of http://www.syngaming.net/ has this to share "SYNGaming plans on being a pillar of the ARK community. We are dedicated to bring you a uniquely modded dedicated server that is based off the players suggestions!"

Musa of https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARKSurvivalEvolved/ has this to say "ARK: Survival Evolved Facebook Group exists to bring all gamers and survivors together for any Console, here you can find your Tribe, share your experience with YouTube videos, we're also going to make Top 5 Mods and Experiences Weekly"
And that’s not all! We’ve also got some active communities from other regions!

Here’s a list of them, feel free to get in touch with me and I can add more to the list <3

Spanish: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ARKESP
Russian: http://ark-play.ru/ & https://vk.com/arksurvivalevolved & http://ark.bigpandabar.com/
French: https://ark.gamewave.fr/
German: www.playark.de & http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arkgermany &http://www.ascendance.de
Polish: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARK-Survival-Evolved-Polska/692593337553824?hc_location=ufi & https://www.facebook.com/ARKSURVIVALEVOLVED
Brazilian: https://www.facebook.com/groups/827581650624378/

That’s all for today folk! I’ll see how regularly I can make this post, but it all depends on what there is to share. Thank you so much for all your contribution so far – I have loved watching all your Youtube reaction videos to the trailer, reviews, thoughts – it’s been great! Seriously!

If you want to show me something – feel free to tweet it at me, @SurviveTheArk or shoot me a message here, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/survivetheark or on Reddit!

-Your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager,
Jat

Welcome to the first edition of Community Crunch! This will hopefully become a weekly segment of content to share made by the community, for the community! As well as any little changes I want to make survivors aware about, which happen within our community ;).


First things first, I’m pleased to announce that work has finally begun on the /r/playark subreddit! Sorry about the major delay, we’ve been busy at all fronts here and I’d like to give a shout-out to /u/amitkilo and /u/RT-Pickred for pretty much setting it up, much love <3 You can check it out here with its own announcement to get things going!

This will just act as another platform for discussion however we’ll still have all our announcements and develop activity here on steam, though I’ll be over there too much like how I am on Facebook and Twitter! Steam is our priority and we plan to make us of all its fantastic features, but I’ll be dabbling and speaking to as many people as I can across other various channels.


There’s been a lot of active and healthy discussion so far about the game and we’re all super chuffed! We hope you guys continue to provide your feedback, share your plans with the game and just keep on truckin’.

I’m going to start organising the forum and creating some new categories to help keep things a bit cleaner :). We’ll be sticking to a General Discussion section, this will just be talking about ARK, asking about features, suggestions if you’d like. The other sections you’ll have available to you are Tribes, Community Content and Off Topic.

We’re a big advocate of what you guys create and what you want to share, it definitely deserves its own section to prevent it from getting buried and easy access! As for tribes – a huge part of the game and something you’ve already begun setting up, hopefully the section will help new users find a tribe to play with, as well assist pre-established ones in furthering themselves. Last but not least, off-topic will just be a place for you guys to do basic interactions with one another, such as introducing yourself. We aren’t going to be dictators with super-strict rules, all we ask is you respect one another, keep the extremely Not Safe For Work or Not Safe For Life materials out of here and the spam to a minimum.

Once we hit Early Access, I’ll be doing a bit of a revision and changing some things up – but that doesn’t matter right now :)


Since the announcement there have been a ton of fan sites and blogs popping up all over the board. People are re-writing FAQs in their native language! There’s people doing research into the words that have been said, a collection of answers – so many neat things and we love it! KEEP IT COMING :). I’ll be sharing some of the ones I’ve come across, and if you’ve seen any more you’d like to share – drop me a message and I’ll be sure to do so!

Simple of http://www.arkbulletin.com/ has this to say: “Ark Bulletin exists as a resource for people to stay up to date on the development of ARK: Survival Evolved. We believe 'simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' and our site reflects that. We post content that is relevant, to the point and detailed”

MrMackeyMKayyy of http://arkaholic.com/ has this to say: “As the first, and the largest, English-language ARK: Survival Evolved news blog and forum, we collect, analyse, summarise and disseminate information about the game, while giving users a place to discuss it, and anything else they want, on our forums.”


Tamaster92 is also currently forging an active RP Community! He says you can check out their upcoming site here: www.arkrp.com and they’ve got an active thread going here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/617335934127046215/ - He hopes to launch a few days after early access begins.

Steel, Cayos and Carrot of http://www.syngaming.net/ has this to share "SYNGaming plans on being a pillar of the ARK community. We are dedicated to bring you a uniquely modded dedicated server that is based off the players suggestions!"

Musa of https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARKSurvivalEvolved/ has this to say "ARK: Survival Evolved Facebook Group exists to bring all gamers and survivors together for any Console, here you can find your Tribe, share your experience with YouTube videos, we're also going to make Top 5 Mods and Experiences Weekly"
And that’s not all! We’ve also got some active communities from other regions!

Here’s a list of them, feel free to get in touch with me and I can add more to the list <3

Spanish: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ARKESP
Russian: http://ark-play.ru/ & https://vk.com/arksurvivalevolved & http://ark.bigpandabar.com/
French: https://ark.gamewave.fr/
German: www.playark.de & http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arkgermany &http://www.ascendance.de
Polish: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARK-Survival-Evolved-Polska/692593337553824?hc_location=ufi & https://www.facebook.com/ARKSURVIVALEVOLVED
Brazilian: https://www.facebook.com/groups/827581650624378/

That’s all for today folk! I’ll see how regularly I can make this post, but it all depends on what there is to share. Thank you so much for all your contribution so far – I have loved watching all your Youtube reaction videos to the trailer, reviews, thoughts – it’s been great! Seriously!

If you want to show me something – feel free to tweet it at me, @SurviveTheArk or shoot me a message here, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/survivetheark or on Reddit!

-Your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager,
Jat

Recently an expedition took place where Survivors dove into a shallow lake to learn more about the species

Coelacanth!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442276007


A recent expedition has taken place where a group of Survivors head deep into one of the caves in search for the mighty Titanoboa. Their aim was to tame the beast and bring back it to above ground. We have not yet heard from them, however a carcass of a beast was found with what looks to be the remains of a survivor. It appears we still do not have the knowledge or the ability to tame the cave-dwelling reptile. Still to this day there have only been a few sightings of the beast where a Survivor has made it out alive.

Thanks for tuning in to this weeks ARK Digest!

Your friendly neighborhood Community Manager,

Jat

Recently an expedition took place where Survivors dove into a shallow lake to learn more about the species

Coelacanth!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442276007


A recent expedition has taken place where a group of Survivors head deep into one of the caves in search for the mighty Titanoboa. Their aim was to tame the beast and bring back it to above ground. We have not yet heard from them, however a carcass of a beast was found with what looks to be the remains of a survivor. It appears we still do not have the knowledge or the ability to tame the cave-dwelling reptile. Still to this day there have only been a few sightings of the beast where a Survivor has made it out alive.

Thanks for tuning in to this weeks ARK Digest!

Your friendly neighborhood Community Manager,

Jat

Answer:

Yes! When you knock a survivor unconscious their body will act as if it’s a rag-doll. This will give other survivors the opportunity to pick them up, move them, spin them and even throw them. This feature also works with Dinosaurs and other tameable creatures, so you will be able to drag around both unconscious and dead bodies. Make sure you’ve got enough carry weight though, if you’re already maxed out – you’ll struggle to pick up the body!


Answer:

Well apart from your survivor’s and tamed creature’s abilities we’ve got a pretty intricate farming system ;)

Initially, you’ll need to do some gathering before you’re able to set up a farm. Whilst playing the game, you’re likely to pick up seeds from foliage. Save these seeds as they’ll come handy later on.

The first step to creating a farm would be to make a water irrigation system. This is done by using a pipe, crafted from stone, and transferring water to a connected spout. Once you've successfully created the hydration system, you’ll need to then work on crafting a crop plot. They come in various shapes and sizes, however the elementary one is big enough to grow one crop.

Once you've gathered the materials to place your crop box, ensure that it is placed near your spout so that it’ll actually water your plants! Then place one seed you've collected inside the crop plot.

Apart from that you’ll also need to make a compost pot which will help to create the fertilizer necessary to grow your crops, this is created with the use of thatch from trees and poop, in a compost bin! Dinosaur poop tends to be higher quality but human poop can also be used to compost into fertilizer. Later on we intend for certain specific dinos to have extra high quality fertilizer-ready poop. We love poop and all that it provides.

Add the fertilizer to crop plot with the seed and you’ll begin to see some growth. It takes a few day/night cycles for the crop to fully grow. You’ll be able to see it visually progress throughout this period.

As for what you’ll be able to grow, all of the berry seeds you pick up whilst playing the game can yield large crops. For instance, one of the common berries are known as a Narcoberry. If you get a Narcoberry seed, you plant it and it grows – it’ll turn into a Nacroberry Bush and you’ll get a handful of Nacroberries from it.

However those aren't all you can grow! You’ll also be able to grow different crops which won’t yield the typical berries, but instead special fruit/veggies which you’ll be able to use as a source for food and hydration! But wait, there’s even more – these fruits and veg have even more uses! You’ll be able to use them in special recipes in a cooking pot to make soups as well as medicines and buffing tonics!


Answer:

Taming! One of the many pivotal features of ARK. Taming is an incredibly rewarding part of the game and we recommend everyone who wants to compete at the highest level to look into it, as the advantages creatures can provide are amazing!

The way you tame is fairly simple, the first step to taming will be knocking a creature out. This can be done in a variety of ways. The first choice you have available to you, are your fists. If you’re strong enough, you will be able to punch a Dino until it gets knocked out.

Careful though, as you’ll take some damage by fist-fighting and you may actually kill the Dino in the process – and unfortunately, you won’t be able to bring him back to life. There have been no witnesses of a miracle, thus far.

The next choice you have available to you are ranged weapons. When used correctly, they are effective at knocking out creatures. The entry-level and highly-efficient weapon would be the Slingshot. It’s cheap to craft, and there’s plenty of ammo available to use. Just keep hitting that creature, preferably in the head, and eventually you can knock it out!

The last weapon we’re going to talk about currently, is the bow. This is more costly than the other ones, but proving you have the resources you will find that it is a lot more effective! A bow equipped with some carefully-crafted Tranquillizer arrows can put most creatures to sleep, as long as you land your shots quickly and especially if you pull off headshots!

How fast a creature gets knocked out is based on how quickly you can apply torpidity. Torpor is how we measure the rate of consciousness, zero is fully conscious, and once it reaches a certain threshold, which is unique to each creature, you become unconscious. Once a creature has been knocked out, it begins the taming process. What you’ll need to do is gain its trust back and let it know that you’re its friend. You do this by feeding it and taking care of it until it wakes up again, remember to keep an eye on its consciousness as if it wakes up before it can fully trust you, there will be hell to pay. You can keep it knocked out by applying more blunt trauma, feeding it narcotics, Narcoberries or using a Tranquilizing weapon.

This process can take a variable amount of time depending on what you decide to tame. Researchers have found that certain food has proven to be more effective at taming creatures, and a good diet can lead to a healthy and stronger creature. Each creature is unique in the rate at which they eat food, and depending on the creature you’ll find that they may have a taste for different things. Ensure that you always have something to feed it when it’s hungry during this process, otherwise it may become resentful and you’ll slowly lose progress.

Once a creature has been successfully tamed, it will become your ally and your tribe’s ally. It trusts you, so you should trust it. A scorpion would never hurt its friend, so do not fear it. As to what tamed creatures are capable of, Survivors have noted that they are incredibly easy to train. They will follow, stay, eat, carry materials, and attack on command. They can be told to guard and protect, therefore they only act aggressively when aggression is shown towards them or their friends. Also they can be trained to be hostile to those who are not part of the tribe.

So far we've discovered that many creatures have their own unique talents, the Brontosaurus is incredibly effective at clearing forests and gathering foliage. The Ankylosaurus is an absolute monster when it comes to mining , and the Scorpion’s tranquillizing attacks are a hunter’s best friend! As we continue our research into the creatures, we’ll be sure to learn more about what they can provide for us.

That’s all for this week’s Q&A on the ARK Digest! If you've got anything you want to ask for next week, be sure to check the thread which will be posted later on!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/249166664591406331

Answer:

Yes! When you knock a survivor unconscious their body will act as if it’s a rag-doll. This will give other survivors the opportunity to pick them up, move them, spin them and even throw them. This feature also works with Dinosaurs and other tameable creatures, so you will be able to drag around both unconscious and dead bodies. Make sure you’ve got enough carry weight though, if you’re already maxed out – you’ll struggle to pick up the body!


Answer:

Well apart from your survivor’s and tamed creature’s abilities we’ve got a pretty intricate farming system ;)

Initially, you’ll need to do some gathering before you’re able to set up a farm. Whilst playing the game, you’re likely to pick up seeds from foliage. Save these seeds as they’ll come handy later on.

The first step to creating a farm would be to make a water irrigation system. This is done by using a pipe, crafted from stone, and transferring water to a connected spout. Once you've successfully created the hydration system, you’ll need to then work on crafting a crop plot. They come in various shapes and sizes, however the elementary one is big enough to grow one crop.

Once you've gathered the materials to place your crop box, ensure that it is placed near your spout so that it’ll actually water your plants! Then place one seed you've collected inside the crop plot.

Apart from that you’ll also need to make a compost pot which will help to create the fertilizer necessary to grow your crops, this is created with the use of thatch from trees and poop, in a compost bin! Dinosaur poop tends to be higher quality but human poop can also be used to compost into fertilizer. Later on we intend for certain specific dinos to have extra high quality fertilizer-ready poop. We love poop and all that it provides.

Add the fertilizer to crop plot with the seed and you’ll begin to see some growth. It takes a few day/night cycles for the crop to fully grow. You’ll be able to see it visually progress throughout this period.

As for what you’ll be able to grow, all of the berry seeds you pick up whilst playing the game can yield large crops. For instance, one of the common berries are known as a Narcoberry. If you get a Narcoberry seed, you plant it and it grows – it’ll turn into a Nacroberry Bush and you’ll get a handful of Nacroberries from it.

However those aren't all you can grow! You’ll also be able to grow different crops which won’t yield the typical berries, but instead special fruit/veggies which you’ll be able to use as a source for food and hydration! But wait, there’s even more – these fruits and veg have even more uses! You’ll be able to use them in special recipes in a cooking pot to make soups as well as medicines and buffing tonics!


Answer:

Taming! One of the many pivotal features of ARK. Taming is an incredibly rewarding part of the game and we recommend everyone who wants to compete at the highest level to look into it, as the advantages creatures can provide are amazing!

The way you tame is fairly simple, the first step to taming will be knocking a creature out. This can be done in a variety of ways. The first choice you have available to you, are your fists. If you’re strong enough, you will be able to punch a Dino until it gets knocked out.

Careful though, as you’ll take some damage by fist-fighting and you may actually kill the Dino in the process – and unfortunately, you won’t be able to bring him back to life. There have been no witnesses of a miracle, thus far.

The next choice you have available to you are ranged weapons. When used correctly, they are effective at knocking out creatures. The entry-level and highly-efficient weapon would be the Slingshot. It’s cheap to craft, and there’s plenty of ammo available to use. Just keep hitting that creature, preferably in the head, and eventually you can knock it out!

The last weapon we’re going to talk about currently, is the bow. This is more costly than the other ones, but proving you have the resources you will find that it is a lot more effective! A bow equipped with some carefully-crafted Tranquillizer arrows can put most creatures to sleep, as long as you land your shots quickly and especially if you pull off headshots!

How fast a creature gets knocked out is based on how quickly you can apply torpidity. Torpor is how we measure the rate of consciousness, zero is fully conscious, and once it reaches a certain threshold, which is unique to each creature, you become unconscious. Once a creature has been knocked out, it begins the taming process. What you’ll need to do is gain its trust back and let it know that you’re its friend. You do this by feeding it and taking care of it until it wakes up again, remember to keep an eye on its consciousness as if it wakes up before it can fully trust you, there will be hell to pay. You can keep it knocked out by applying more blunt trauma, feeding it narcotics, Narcoberries or using a Tranquilizing weapon.

This process can take a variable amount of time depending on what you decide to tame. Researchers have found that certain food has proven to be more effective at taming creatures, and a good diet can lead to a healthy and stronger creature. Each creature is unique in the rate at which they eat food, and depending on the creature you’ll find that they may have a taste for different things. Ensure that you always have something to feed it when it’s hungry during this process, otherwise it may become resentful and you’ll slowly lose progress.

Once a creature has been successfully tamed, it will become your ally and your tribe’s ally. It trusts you, so you should trust it. A scorpion would never hurt its friend, so do not fear it. As to what tamed creatures are capable of, Survivors have noted that they are incredibly easy to train. They will follow, stay, eat, carry materials, and attack on command. They can be told to guard and protect, therefore they only act aggressively when aggression is shown towards them or their friends. Also they can be trained to be hostile to those who are not part of the tribe.

So far we've discovered that many creatures have their own unique talents, the Brontosaurus is incredibly effective at clearing forests and gathering foliage. The Ankylosaurus is an absolute monster when it comes to mining , and the Scorpion’s tranquillizing attacks are a hunter’s best friend! As we continue our research into the creatures, we’ll be sure to learn more about what they can provide for us.

That’s all for this week’s Q&A on the ARK Digest! If you've got anything you want to ask for next week, be sure to check the thread which will be posted later on!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/249166664591406331

Hello survivors!

Welcome to the first edition of the ARK Digest! This will be a weekly announcement series that will be posted every Wednesday across all social hubs. It will include descriptions of some of the new features added to the game during development, why we may have added them, providing answers to questions you've asked, as well as any other piece of information we would like to share.

Now let’s get down to business... :)



Yesterday a FOV slider was introduced to ARK as a setting option. This is used to indicate how much you can see in a first person setting. To put it simply, the higher the FOV the more of your surroundings you’ll be able to see. Our slider will scale from 80 to 110.

There was a lot of enthusiasm shown in various places regarding an FOV slider, this was primarily demonstrated on the Stream discussion boards and live in twitch chat! During Jesse’s one on one interview with twitch-streamer Lirik! You can check that out below. Worth a watch if you've yet to see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0UbLtLdoCU

The passion displayed really showed that this was an important feature to have and we want to make sure we follow through with what we can to our Community’s wants and needs. Thanks again for being so passionate, it really does make an impact on the game. <3 lirikH


Survivors by the dozen mounted with Dinosaurs and took to the Steam forums to rally against the developers and their decision not to have Official PvE servers. Fearing for their lives, the Developers have yielded and decided that there will be Official PvE Servers come Early Access!

In all seriousness though, that topic was great! Soooo many of you showed up and voiced your opinions and concerns, you didn’t put down having PvP servers, you didn’t put down our initial stance, you explained why you want PvE servers and how happy it would make you – which is something that we wouldn’t to deny, so you guys will have it! There shall be PvE servers, as well as PvPvE servers for launch! Everyone will get to play where they want and how they want!

Whoop whoop.

し(*･∀･)／♡＼(･∀･*)ノ

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Hello survivors!

Welcome to the first edition of the ARK Digest! This will be a weekly announcement series that will be posted every Wednesday across all social hubs. It will include descriptions of some of the new features added to the game during development, why we may have added them, providing answers to questions you've asked, as well as any other piece of information we would like to share.

Now let’s get down to business... :)



Yesterday a FOV slider was introduced to ARK as a setting option. This is used to indicate how much you can see in a first person setting. To put it simply, the higher the FOV the more of your surroundings you’ll be able to see. Our slider will scale from 80 to 110.

There was a lot of enthusiasm shown in various places regarding an FOV slider, this was primarily demonstrated on the Stream discussion boards and live in twitch chat! During Jesse’s one on one interview with twitch-streamer Lirik! You can check that out below. Worth a watch if you've yet to see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0UbLtLdoCU

The passion displayed really showed that this was an important feature to have and we want to make sure we follow through with what we can to our Community’s wants and needs. Thanks again for being so passionate, it really does make an impact on the game. <3 lirikH


Survivors by the dozen mounted with Dinosaurs and took to the Steam forums to rally against the developers and their decision not to have Official PvE servers. Fearing for their lives, the Developers have yielded and decided that there will be Official PvE Servers come Early Access!

In all seriousness though, that topic was great! Soooo many of you showed up and voiced your opinions and concerns, you didn’t put down having PvP servers, you didn’t put down our initial stance, you explained why you want PvE servers and how happy it would make you – which is something that we wouldn’t to deny, so you guys will have it! There shall be PvE servers, as well as PvPvE servers for launch! Everyone will get to play where they want and how they want!

Whoop whoop.

し(*･∀･)／♡＼(･∀･*)ノ

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