https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8ZP7UoRV8


Hope you guys have enjoyed our new trailer that we made for Gamescom 2015! It included a little sneak preview of our upcoming Snow Biome and the Broodmother’s new home! Enjoy and stay tuned for more exciting news coming this fall!

Get ready for a new breed of open-world dinosaur survival game, coming to Xbox One Game Preview in early 2016, PlayStation 4, and Steam Windows/Mac/Linux in June 2016!

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, use your skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land. Hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements, while teaming up with or preying upon hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8ZP7UoRV8


Hope you guys have enjoyed our new trailer that we made for Gamescom 2015! It included a little sneak preview of our upcoming Snow Biome and the Broodmother’s new home! Enjoy and stay tuned for more exciting news coming this fall!

Get ready for a new breed of open-world dinosaur survival game, coming to Xbox One Game Preview in early 2016, PlayStation 4, and Steam Windows/Mac/Linux in June 2016!

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, use your skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land. Hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements, while teaming up with or preying upon hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

ARK: Survival of the Fittest Tournament #1 Results Poster

Hey everyone!

Curse Entertainment just released a new video covering our new game mode! It's pretty awesome and gives you a nice run down of how things ended. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKygm0cUcr4

We also posted our own retrospective on the game mode and the tournament earlier on, including the official release date, so have a read ;)

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/111814120376147147

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/111814120376149584

ARK: Survival of the Fittest Tournament #1 Results Poster

Hey everyone!

Curse Entertainment just released a new video covering our new game mode! It's pretty awesome and gives you a nice run down of how things ended. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKygm0cUcr4

We also posted our own retrospective on the game mode and the tournament earlier on, including the official release date, so have a read ;)

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/111814120376147147

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/111814120376149584

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http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/111814120376147147

Unfortunately our players weren’t as bloodthirsty and greedy as we had hoped, it’s probably because this was their first time in the mode and you’ve got to be a bit cautious, right? Thankfully we’ve got twitch chat - and they love their chaos and that’s why they’ll love this mode! With the use of the Evolutionary Events, the pace of the game can change instantly, leading players can be squashed, alliances disbanded, mentalities crushed and or right out killed!



As the event draw nearer to an end, the dome continued to shrink smaller and smaller each moment. It had become apparent players had begun to form alliances, this is typical in survival games, the key is to survive, however there are risks involved in forming alliances. First of all, you always risk someone being a traitor, you never know when they’ll take out their pike and start stabbing you. After dealing with that potential issue, you need to watch out for the events. One of the larger alliances that had formed near the end of the game mode, known as the 6, had an unfortunate run in with a strategically-placed Carnivore drop. This is an evolutionary event that essentially drops random carnivores from the sky, like rain and the amount of dinosaurs that are dropped correlate to the amount of people nearby, so if there’s one person, they will have to deal with a minimal amount of carnivores. However if you’re in a large group? Expect a horde. Here’s how the 6 faired:

Gamemaker versus Players

A large alliance might save you from a survivor or two, but it won’t do you much good against this event ;)

When we hit the final minutes of the tournament the remaining alliance would duke it out with the other 3 remaining groups. Fan favourites and underdogs Lirik and Echo went into battle with their veteran allied T-Rex and Carnotaur, unfortunately they had sustained a lot of damage from previous engagements and due to the lack of resources in the location-starved event were quick to fall. It was a very impressive showing from the pair and their pet Dinos, who had eliminated many a Survivor before they went down, and we don’t quite think anyone expected them to get that far, so well done!

As for Entak and Anthony, they used a different strategy! Survival isn’t only about murdering your opponents, even if it’s super enjoyable. These two players in particular made effective use of their lack of dinosaurs and traps to hide within the spawn pad waiting for the right time to strike. Unfortunately they were quickly dispatched, however Anthony Kongphan was able to knock-out #TEAM POLOPHIN’s Spinosaurus and Triceratops during the fight with the use of his well-placed Nacro-tripwire traps! This lead to an immediate offensive maneuver from Royalph, much to #TEAM POLOPHIN’s great joy and Royalph’s dismay, the Trike was able to wake up and save the day securing the final kill on the remaining member of Royalph!

Here’s how the game ended:


Congratulations to both Anthony Kongphan and TheSparrowJourney, valiant effort from the pair. They walk away with $5,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech.

Congratulations to both ESGame [a.k.a PartiallyRoyal] and PedroSaltana, Some last minute bartering over a Spino Saddle, a temporary truce secured them second place! They walk away with $10,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech.


Congratulations to both Apolloz and DarkDolphin for securing the win! Their large Dinosaur army proved to be unstoppable and with the help of their formidable “TRIKE - LVL 66” they walk away with $20,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech!






We’d like to give out a shoutout to all the survivors who participated and tuned in during the event! A lot of laughs were had through the interaction and exciting gameplay! As a thank you to all the contestants, we will be providing each of you, your very own customized ARK shirts, indicating your vitals which were depicted in the poster and some fun unique honorary awards that we made up for each contestant! We are very grateful for your help in unveiling this new mode and testing it out in the crucible of live broadcasting, as well as all the assistance and feedback you provided during the event!

As for our wonderful ARK playerbase, you all will get your hands on Survival of the Fittest on August 13! Why the wait?

It's because we are preparing SotF as a new form of mod called a "Total Conversion", which allows mod-makers to directly overwrite potentially EVERY SINGLE file of the game, without having to subclass. This is an incredibly powerful mod feature, allowing mod authors to create what are effectively entirely new games if they so desire -- even including replacing the main menu, the loading screens, etc. You can also use Mods on top of Total Conversions, so for example someone could make a Mod specifically for “ARK: Survival of the Fittest”. Or repackage Survival of the Fittest as a different Total Conversion, since we'll be providing the full content source for SotF too! Total Conversions are cooked intelligently with only the "modified" files included, so that tend to be be really tiny!

So we look forward to the big August 13 release, and stay tuned because on that date, in addition to releasing SotF, its source content, and Dev Kit support for Total Conversions, we're also going to be announcing a really exciting new Modding initiative with some partners... it's gonna be a blast :)

All the best,

Gamemaker Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team

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Unfortunately our players weren’t as bloodthirsty and greedy as we had hoped, it’s probably because this was their first time in the mode and you’ve got to be a bit cautious, right? Thankfully we’ve got twitch chat - and they love their chaos and that’s why they’ll love this mode! With the use of the Evolutionary Events, the pace of the game can change instantly, leading players can be squashed, alliances disbanded, mentalities crushed and or right out killed!



As the event draw nearer to an end, the dome continued to shrink smaller and smaller each moment. It had become apparent players had begun to form alliances, this is typical in survival games, the key is to survive, however there are risks involved in forming alliances. First of all, you always risk someone being a traitor, you never know when they’ll take out their pike and start stabbing you. After dealing with that potential issue, you need to watch out for the events. One of the larger alliances that had formed near the end of the game mode, known as the 6, had an unfortunate run in with a strategically-placed Carnivore drop. This is an evolutionary event that essentially drops random carnivores from the sky, like rain and the amount of dinosaurs that are dropped correlate to the amount of people nearby, so if there’s one person, they will have to deal with a minimal amount of carnivores. However if you’re in a large group? Expect a horde. Here’s how the 6 faired:

Gamemaker versus Players

A large alliance might save you from a survivor or two, but it won’t do you much good against this event ;)

When we hit the final minutes of the tournament the remaining alliance would duke it out with the other 3 remaining groups. Fan favourites and underdogs Lirik and Echo went into battle with their veteran allied T-Rex and Carnotaur, unfortunately they had sustained a lot of damage from previous engagements and due to the lack of resources in the location-starved event were quick to fall. It was a very impressive showing from the pair and their pet Dinos, who had eliminated many a Survivor before they went down, and we don’t quite think anyone expected them to get that far, so well done!

As for Entak and Anthony, they used a different strategy! Survival isn’t only about murdering your opponents, even if it’s super enjoyable. These two players in particular made effective use of their lack of dinosaurs and traps to hide within the spawn pad waiting for the right time to strike. Unfortunately they were quickly dispatched, however Anthony Kongphan was able to knock-out #TEAM POLOPHIN’s Spinosaurus and Triceratops during the fight with the use of his well-placed Nacro-tripwire traps! This lead to an immediate offensive maneuver from Royalph, much to #TEAM POLOPHIN’s great joy and Royalph’s dismay, the Trike was able to wake up and save the day securing the final kill on the remaining member of Royalph!

Here’s how the game ended:


Congratulations to both Anthony Kongphan and TheSparrowJourney, valiant effort from the pair. They walk away with $5,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech.

Congratulations to both ESGame [a.k.a PartiallyRoyal] and PedroSaltana, Some last minute bartering over a Spino Saddle, a temporary truce secured them second place! They walk away with $10,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech.


Congratulations to both Apolloz and DarkDolphin for securing the win! Their large Dinosaur army proved to be unstoppable and with the help of their formidable “TRIKE - LVL 66” they walk away with $20,000, plus cool gear from Gunnar and Logitech!






We’d like to give out a shoutout to all the survivors who participated and tuned in during the event! A lot of laughs were had through the interaction and exciting gameplay! As a thank you to all the contestants, we will be providing each of you, your very own customized ARK shirts, indicating your vitals which were depicted in the poster and some fun unique honorary awards that we made up for each contestant! We are very grateful for your help in unveiling this new mode and testing it out in the crucible of live broadcasting, as well as all the assistance and feedback you provided during the event!

As for our wonderful ARK playerbase, you all will get your hands on Survival of the Fittest on August 13! Why the wait?

It's because we are preparing SotF as a new form of mod called a "Total Conversion", which allows mod-makers to directly overwrite potentially EVERY SINGLE file of the game, without having to subclass. This is an incredibly powerful mod feature, allowing mod authors to create what are effectively entirely new games if they so desire -- even including replacing the main menu, the loading screens, etc. You can also use Mods on top of Total Conversions, so for example someone could make a Mod specifically for “ARK: Survival of the Fittest”. Or repackage Survival of the Fittest as a different Total Conversion, since we'll be providing the full content source for SotF too! Total Conversions are cooked intelligently with only the "modified" files included, so that tend to be be really tiny!

So we look forward to the big August 13 release, and stay tuned because on that date, in addition to releasing SotF, its source content, and Dev Kit support for Total Conversions, we're also going to be announcing a really exciting new Modding initiative with some partners... it's gonna be a blast :)

All the best,

Gamemaker Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team

ARK: Survival of the Fittest Tournament #1 Results Poster


Hello Survivors!

Before we start this off, I’d like to give you guys an advance warning that this post will be full of spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers about the recent, Survival of the Fittest game mode and tournament. We will be delaying the ARK Digest questions until Wednesday, where our entire digest will solely be dedicated to answering your questions.

For those of you who haven’t seen the VOD, you can check it out here:

Survival of the Fittest VOD!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we sure did over here at Studio Wildcard! For those unaware we debuted our upcoming game mode, Survival of the Fittest during a live 4.5 hour Tournament on Saturday the 1st of August!



The event was a great success, everything blew up, twitch streamers, twitter, the forums, facebook, reddit, and even players! The idea behind the event is very simple, you’re placed in a random team and are beamed onto the ARK where you’ll need to compete for your lives for the next 5 hours. There were a wide variety of balance changes made to this game mode, including some very specific interaction from our friends over at Twitch chat! They helped direct the Game Master in unleashing “Evolutionary Events” to affect both the pace and the style of the game, some of these including freak weather changes, day-to-night cycle swaps, mega crates and the ever-loved Dino drops!

First of all, we’d like to give another shout-out to the winners of the event and the contestants for their great play! They weren’t provided much details about the event, until the very night before and it was a very daunting experience, thousands watching you compete in a game mode where you don’t know what to quite expect. Huge props to them for stepping up and putting on a great show! Now to present the winners!


From the get go, the event was incredibly exciting. Within 35 seconds of play, Sl1pg8r took an arrow to the face and instantly died! This is a brand new record set in this mode, in over hundreds and hundreds of hours of play-testing, no one had actually died this early. We’d like to congratulate Sl1pg8r on pushing the game to its absolute limits! He set a brand new record and currently hold the Sl1pg8r title, quickest person to die in a SotF Tournament Environment!



Survivors were dropping like flies right from the beginning, the main culprit of the murders seem to have derived from SniperNamedG (The name definitely fits!) who would often come across gatherers not paying attention to their surroundings, resulting in both a free kill and free XP! Plus you’ll always get to grab the loot that’s left over. Let this be some advice to future participants, always pay attention to your surroundings!

Something to note is that prior to the event, the participants were given a document guidelining the changes made to the game-mode, including some hints about how we’d advise them to play. This mode is very different from standard ARK. There are a lot of changes and the core-gameplay is primarily focused about PvP and quick-taming to get those massive Dinosaur battles. Plus on top of that we had introduced Evolutionary events, this is something that would be controlled by Twitch Chat and the Game Master used to help dictate the flow of the game by creating some really odd events, such as raining carnivores, an enormous fog, the ability to track other players, supply crate from the gods and of course the many many annoying weather and day cycle changes.



The contestants were definitely surprising, we had a lot of expectations from some of them due to the amount of experience they had playing the game and others we weren’t quite sure how they would do. We were pleasantly surprised when Lirik and Echo, both relatively inexperienced players were quick to tame a T-Rex, whereas some of the veterans were left drowning in a pool of piranhas (hehehe).



As we progressed through the event, players quickly began to form and execute their gameplans, we saw a wide range of tactics, Alan from Serious Gaming quickly shot up the ranks in the levels making use of the base-building skills he’s picked up from Server 323 as he crafted foundation after foundation, unfortunately a stone wall cannot protect you from the impending doom-dome. Some groups took to the covers of the jungles to slay and tame dinosaurs, whereas the tribe of Kimbo Slice went deep into the cave to begin their training, this was definitely a risky strategy but highly rewarding, they’d be safe from a fair number of the evolutionary events however these caves are twice as tough and less-rewarding than standard ones!



Shroomz lost his partner relatively early on, and when we say early, we mean his partner currently holds the Sl1pg8r title. However this didn’t put a stop to him! He was an early adopter of our changes made to PvP and Dinosaur taming, quickly picking up a Carnosaur as an ally as he roamed the map slaying beast after beast and taking on players head on, even 2 versus 1 in some situations! Really impressive stuff, unfortunately his friend passed whilst he was kiting a T-Rex from the top of a cliff, you really can’t take your eyes off anything in this game mode - literally, 10 seconds and you could lose all your chance for victory ;).



When the clock struck TWO, the Game Master released the Mega Supply crate and boy oh boy is this an exciting part of the game! That crate is stacked to the top full of goodies and if you can get a hold of some of those, you’ll gain such a massive advantage. Of course it’s a bit tricky as the descent is a lot slower, and its location on the map is extremely obvious, so it’s likely to attract other players, as you guys saw in the livestreams. Plus it’s too heavy to take everything, so you’ll need to think quickly, otherwise you’ll find yourself encumbered and an easy target for scavengers!



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ARK: Survival of the Fittest Tournament #1 Results Poster


Hello Survivors!

Before we start this off, I’d like to give you guys an advance warning that this post will be full of spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers about the recent, Survival of the Fittest game mode and tournament. We will be delaying the ARK Digest questions until Wednesday, where our entire digest will solely be dedicated to answering your questions.

For those of you who haven’t seen the VOD, you can check it out here:

Survival of the Fittest VOD!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we sure did over here at Studio Wildcard! For those unaware we debuted our upcoming game mode, Survival of the Fittest during a live 4.5 hour Tournament on Saturday the 1st of August!



The event was a great success, everything blew up, twitch streamers, twitter, the forums, facebook, reddit, and even players! The idea behind the event is very simple, you’re placed in a random team and are beamed onto the ARK where you’ll need to compete for your lives for the next 5 hours. There were a wide variety of balance changes made to this game mode, including some very specific interaction from our friends over at Twitch chat! They helped direct the Game Master in unleashing “Evolutionary Events” to affect both the pace and the style of the game, some of these including freak weather changes, day-to-night cycle swaps, mega crates and the ever-loved Dino drops!

First of all, we’d like to give another shout-out to the winners of the event and the contestants for their great play! They weren’t provided much details about the event, until the very night before and it was a very daunting experience, thousands watching you compete in a game mode where you don’t know what to quite expect. Huge props to them for stepping up and putting on a great show! Now to present the winners!


From the get go, the event was incredibly exciting. Within 35 seconds of play, Sl1pg8r took an arrow to the face and instantly died! This is a brand new record set in this mode, in over hundreds and hundreds of hours of play-testing, no one had actually died this early. We’d like to congratulate Sl1pg8r on pushing the game to its absolute limits! He set a brand new record and currently hold the Sl1pg8r title, quickest person to die in a SotF Tournament Environment!



Survivors were dropping like flies right from the beginning, the main culprit of the murders seem to have derived from SniperNamedG (The name definitely fits!) who would often come across gatherers not paying attention to their surroundings, resulting in both a free kill and free XP! Plus you’ll always get to grab the loot that’s left over. Let this be some advice to future participants, always pay attention to your surroundings!

Something to note is that prior to the event, the participants were given a document guidelining the changes made to the game-mode, including some hints about how we’d advise them to play. This mode is very different from standard ARK. There are a lot of changes and the core-gameplay is primarily focused about PvP and quick-taming to get those massive Dinosaur battles. Plus on top of that we had introduced Evolutionary events, this is something that would be controlled by Twitch Chat and the Game Master used to help dictate the flow of the game by creating some really odd events, such as raining carnivores, an enormous fog, the ability to track other players, supply crate from the gods and of course the many many annoying weather and day cycle changes.



The contestants were definitely surprising, we had a lot of expectations from some of them due to the amount of experience they had playing the game and others we weren’t quite sure how they would do. We were pleasantly surprised when Lirik and Echo, both relatively inexperienced players were quick to tame a T-Rex, whereas some of the veterans were left drowning in a pool of piranhas (hehehe).



As we progressed through the event, players quickly began to form and execute their gameplans, we saw a wide range of tactics, Alan from Serious Gaming quickly shot up the ranks in the levels making use of the base-building skills he’s picked up from Server 323 as he crafted foundation after foundation, unfortunately a stone wall cannot protect you from the impending doom-dome. Some groups took to the covers of the jungles to slay and tame dinosaurs, whereas the tribe of Kimbo Slice went deep into the cave to begin their training, this was definitely a risky strategy but highly rewarding, they’d be safe from a fair number of the evolutionary events however these caves are twice as tough and less-rewarding than standard ones!



Shroomz lost his partner relatively early on, and when we say early, we mean his partner currently holds the Sl1pg8r title. However this didn’t put a stop to him! He was an early adopter of our changes made to PvP and Dinosaur taming, quickly picking up a Carnosaur as an ally as he roamed the map slaying beast after beast and taking on players head on, even 2 versus 1 in some situations! Really impressive stuff, unfortunately his friend passed whilst he was kiting a T-Rex from the top of a cliff, you really can’t take your eyes off anything in this game mode - literally, 10 seconds and you could lose all your chance for victory ;).



When the clock struck TWO, the Game Master released the Mega Supply crate and boy oh boy is this an exciting part of the game! That crate is stacked to the top full of goodies and if you can get a hold of some of those, you’ll gain such a massive advantage. Of course it’s a bit tricky as the descent is a lot slower, and its location on the map is extremely obvious, so it’s likely to attract other players, as you guys saw in the livestreams. Plus it’s too heavy to take everything, so you’ll need to think quickly, otherwise you’ll find yourself encumbered and an easy target for scavengers!



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First of all we’d like to thank everyone for tuning in and participating in the event! We had a lot of viewers and activity across the board! Social media was blowing up, we had a great turnout, there were a ton of prizes and we actively held the number one spot on twitch during the tournament!

For those who hadn’t tune in, you can check out the broadcast here:

http://www.twitch.tv/survivetheark/v/9332264


If you’re going to watch the vod then you’ll want to skip this bit!

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Alrighty!

Out of the 70 survivors and 35 tribes who started the event, the final two we ended with were #TEAM POLPHIN! Congratulations to Apolloz [http://www.twitch.tv/apolloz] and DarkDolphin [http://www.twitch.tv/darkdolphin] for taking first in the event!

Second place goes to team Royalrph! ESGame aka PartiallyRoyal [http://www.twitch.tv/esgame] and Pedro Saltana [http://twitch.tv/PedroSaltana]!

And finally third place goes to Anthony Kongphan [http://www.twitch.tv/anthony_kongphan] and TheSparrowJourney [http://www.twitch.tv/thesparrowjourney]

You guys were phenomenal contestants and it was both enjoyable and educational watching you play and show off your different strategies throughout the tournament.

We’d also like to give a special shout out to Twitch, Gunnars, Curse Gamepedia, Logitech and uHostPro for the help in setting up the event, ensuring it ran smoothly and all the goodies for the giveaway!

And special thanks to you guys for allowing us to create such a fun game mode and supporting us in hosting events like this! We’ve got some more work to do on the mode and can’t wait to release it to you all!

Thanks again for all the support and for tuning in <3

Until next time!

Wildcard Jat and the ARK Survival Evolved Team!

First of all we’d like to thank everyone for tuning in and participating in the event! We had a lot of viewers and activity across the board! Social media was blowing up, we had a great turnout, there were a ton of prizes and we actively held the number one spot on twitch during the tournament!

For those who hadn’t tune in, you can check out the broadcast here:

http://www.twitch.tv/survivetheark/v/9332264


If you’re going to watch the vod then you’ll want to skip this bit!

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.

.

.


Alrighty!

Out of the 70 survivors and 35 tribes who started the event, the final two we ended with were #TEAM POLPHIN! Congratulations to Apolloz [http://www.twitch.tv/apolloz] and DarkDolphin [http://www.twitch.tv/darkdolphin] for taking first in the event!

Second place goes to team Royalrph! ESGame aka PartiallyRoyal [http://www.twitch.tv/esgame] and Pedro Saltana [http://twitch.tv/PedroSaltana]!

And finally third place goes to Anthony Kongphan [http://www.twitch.tv/anthony_kongphan] and TheSparrowJourney [http://www.twitch.tv/thesparrowjourney]

You guys were phenomenal contestants and it was both enjoyable and educational watching you play and show off your different strategies throughout the tournament.

We’d also like to give a special shout out to Twitch, Gunnars, Curse Gamepedia, Logitech and uHostPro for the help in setting up the event, ensuring it ran smoothly and all the goodies for the giveaway!

And special thanks to you guys for allowing us to create such a fun game mode and supporting us in hosting events like this! We’ve got some more work to do on the mode and can’t wait to release it to you all!

Thanks again for all the support and for tuning in <3

Until next time!

Wildcard Jat and the ARK Survival Evolved Team!