Oct 21, 2019
Community Crunch 203
ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved
Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????



How perplexing, who can guess what this might be?


ExtraLife Charity Stream


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

Fear Evolved 3


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:

On The Horizon


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.

EVO Event


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

Until next time!

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Oct 16, 2019
Games like Minecraft 16 best games like Minecraft from the past ten years
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ollie Toms)

There have been a great many games like Minecraft over the past decade. Which is to be expected, because who wouldn’t want to capitalise on the runaway mainstream success of the decade, and the best-selling video game of all time? There are many things that are very special about Minecraft, and remain more or less unmatched even ten years later; but we’ve done our very best to condense all that specialness down into a simple list of six criteria, and from there, we’ve compiled our list of the 16 best games like Minecraft out there right now.

Some of these games you might look at and think, “But Ollie, my dear fellow! You must be crazy! This game looks nothing like Minecraft!>” Bear with me, and I’ll explain exactly why each game on this list has earned its place there. Each of these games are well worth a try if you enjoy Minecraft for whatever reason. And who knows? You might find your new favourite game within this very list…

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Oct 14, 2019
Community Crunch 202
ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved
Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????



How perplexing, who can guess what this might be?

Fear Evolved 3


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

On The Horizon


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.

EVO Event


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!
Oct 7, 2019
Community Crunch 201: Mysterious Mysteries
ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved
Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????



What an interesting discovery, can anyone guess what this creature might be?

On The Horizon


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!

Changes to the Code Of Conduct


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

New Addition:

If you have been hardware ID (HWID) banned, any attempt to access the Official Network with an alternate account is subject to another hardware ID ban

You can read the Code of Conduct in its entirety by clicking here.

EVO Event


Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 11th of Oct at 1 PM EST until Monday the 14th 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
Sep 30, 2019
Introducing Genesis Chronicles and Mysterious Mysteries
ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved
Genesis Chronicles



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!

Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????



How perplexing, who can guess what this might be?

Check out the rest of the community crunch here.
Sep 23, 2019
Community Crunch 199: Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????
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How perplexing, who can guess what this object might be?

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Sep 17, 2019
Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????
ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved
Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????



What an interesting discovery, can anyone guess what this creature might be?

Sep 5, 2019
Sponsored Mod Program Update - Sept 2019
ARK: Survival Evolved - Zen Rowe
Sponsored Mod Program Applications

Sponsored Mod Program applications are once again OPEN! If you are interested in sponsorship for your projects, please fill out the application here:
Apply For Sponsorship

This will be the last application period until January so make sure to get those projects in!
 
New Sponsored Mods

Finally, We have three new projects joining the Sponsored Mod Program today! We have a pretty interesting range of mod types this time for creatures and a utility mod for builders!


Clockwork Creatures

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1819883361

Mechanical steampunk beasts are on the loose! If you are a fan of the steampunk aesthetic, check out this mod which adds a range of new creatures to the game, with more brass than you can shake a stick at.


ARK Transcendence

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1785800853

Do you wish that ARKs creatures had a bit more personality to them? This mod introduces new behaviors to the natural residents of the ARK. The number of creatures it modifies right now is relatively small, but the author is working to expand that.


Structure Saver 2

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1757259514

Just got done building the perfect house and then found a better place to build? Maybe you just want ten more of that house?
This mod will let you do that, allowing players to save constructions and place them elsewhere.

Happy Modding!
Aug 19, 2019
All the Nvidia RTX ray tracing and DLSS games confirmed so far
Quake II - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

It’s Gamescom this week, which can only mean one thing – more confirmed ray tracing games for Nvidia’s RTX and selected GTX 16-series graphics cards. Indeed, the big one that’s just been announced is Minecraft, which (like Quake II RTX) is getting full, real-time ray tracing support for everything from water reflections to its entire lighting system. That’s not all, though. Dying Light 2 will also be getting real-time ray tracing, while Tencent’s freshly-announced action survival game Synced: Off-Planet will be getting ray-traced reflections and shadow support.

In truth, the number of games on this list that you can actually play with ray tracing enabled right this second is still pretty small. A lot of the confirmed RTX games you’ll see below still haven’t received their promised ray tracing and performance-boosting DLSS support, so this is more of a complete ‘this is how many games will have it eventually’ kind of thing than ‘these are all the games you can play with ray tracing right now’. Still, if you’re currently on the fence about buying one of Nvidia’s RTX or RTX Super graphics cards as opposed to the new AMD Navi GPUs, this guide should hopefully help you decide whether ray tracing is something worth investing in. Here’s every confirmed ray tracing and DLSS game we know about so far.

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Aug 19, 2019
Steam Charts: Do As You're Told Edition
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

Hi, it’s me! Yeah! No, nothing’s wrong, all’s good. I was just calling to see if you wanted some Steam Charts? … STEAM CHARTS … Yeah, that’s right. No, no it’s not. You don’t? Oh, um, I already sent them over.

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