Oct 30, 2019

What graphics card do I need for HDR and what PC games support it?

Assassin’s Creed® III - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

HDR on PC hasn’t improved much in 2019. Despite there being more HDR gaming monitors than ever before, the very [cms-block]s for HDR continue to be quite expensive compared to non-HDR monitors, and the situation around Windows 10 support for it is still a bit of a mess. However, provided you’re willing to fight through all that, then the next step on your path to high dynamic range glory is to get an HDR compatible graphics card.

Below, you’ll find a complete list of all the Nvidia and AMD graphics cards that have built-in support for HDR, as well as everything you need to know about getting one that also supports Nvidia and AMD’s own HDR standards, G-Sync Ultimate and FreeSync 2. I’ve also put together a list of all the PC games that support HDR as well, so you know exactly which PC games you can start playing in high dynamic range.

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Oct 28, 2019

Community Crunch 204

ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved

Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ????

How perplexing, who can guess what this might be?

Fear Evolved 3 Update

Credit (@ScutalTheLizard)

The content from the community from Fear Evolved has been nothing less than amazing! Due to some early launch issues, we'll be extending the event to November 8th 10AM PDT. We realize how important these events are for our community and have been monitoring your feedback throughout the way! There is still an update planned to iron out some existing issues with creature spawns.

The feedback we receive from this event will be invaluable as we roll into Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland.

ExtraLife Charity Stream

The ExtraLife charity stream this year is going to be a hot one! In addition to OVER 5K IN GIVEAWAYS, we'll have fun challenges and contests including 'Hot Ones' themed events. Be sure to stop by for the 24 hours stream and tons of hilarity!

Want to hang out during the stream? No problem! We've set up a Discord server:

ExtraLife Discord Server Invite

https://discord.gg/v4YPpEf

On The Horizon

PS4 Primitive+

The engineering team is attempting another patch to address the current issues with Primitive+. We hope to have more news for you tomorrow!

Valguero Transfers

Transfers into Valguero open up tomorrow! See the details on transfer timelines below:

EVO Event

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

Until next time!

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Oct 22, 2019

ARK: Fear Evolved 3 Begins!

ARK: Survival Evolved - ARK: Survival Evolved

An Important Message from Studio Wildcard Co-Founders Jesse and Jeremy

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The upcoming Genesis expansion adds a lot of innovative and fun new features to ARK and is our most complex expansion pack to date, with a completely new mission system that dramatically changes the way you can play ARK. As a team we have decided that an extra month of polish and balancing is needed to deliver an awesome experience to everyone on launch day, so our anticipated simultaneous release for all platforms will be late January 2020. Meanwhile, we will continue to create fun new events and updates for ARK, including today as we launch Fear Evolved 3, and with the extra time we plan to add mouse-and-keyboard support on consoles this year as well as working on some surprises for the entire community at our biggest-ever Winter Wonderland event in December!

Fear Evolved 3 Event

We are excited to bring you the third annual Fear Evolved, bigger and better than before! The blood-moon, DodoWyvern, DodoRex, have made a return to ARK from October 22nd to November 5th! Find tombstones to and gather what you need to craft spooky skins or hunt down the elusive DoDoWyvern - the choice is up to you. For those who have experienced Fear Evolved before, we've added some new tricks and treats to ensure Fear Evolved maintains its legacy as a community favorite.

Event Rates

2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
2X Player XP
2X Harvesting

Wild Creature Event Colors

Dino Light Orange Dino Light Red Dino Dark Orange Dino Dark Red DragonBase0 DragonBase1 Dino Dark Purple Dino Light Brown Dino Dark Brown Dino Light Green Dino Light Grey Dino Darker Grey Dino Light Blue Dino Dark Yellow DragonFire NearBlack

NEW Event Items

Jack O'Lantern Mask Hockey Mask Headless Neck stump Halloween-inspired Dino Colorization Candy 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

We hope the community enjoys Fear Evolved 3 and we look forward to bringing you more exciting events like Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland!

Until next time!

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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

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

Prior Event Items

Pumpkin Stolen Headstone Scarecrow

Prior Event Skins

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.