1.Chinses New Year activities(From now until February 26, 2021):After defeating the Boss monster, there is a chance to drop a <Red Paper>, which can be used to obtain gold coins or dragon crystals; 2.Adjusted some skills of <Susan>; 3.Adjusted some skills of <Orange>; 4.<Skill Leather Armor> is adjusted to <Aid Leather Armor>: At the beginning of the battle, get 50 aid points; 5.<Special effects bandage> is adjusted to <Blue moon>:At the end of the battle, all members restore 1 point of energy; 6.<Angel Guard>'s HP recovery effect value has been adjusted from 4% to 20%; 7.The effect of <Miner hat> has been optimized from "Damage to Ore +2" to "Basic Damage to Ore +2"; 8.The effect of <Dragon Cloak> is adjusted to: at the end of the battle, gain 2 layer of Crit+ status; 9.<Student awards> ‘s exp bonus effect is adjusted from 30% to 50%; 10.<Blue Lantern>'s energy recovery effect value increased from 1 to 2; 11.Increased the price of high-level crystals at <Merchant>; 12.<Merchant> has added <5th class Spirit Stone> to sell for 300 dragon crystals, and the price of <5th class Scouring stone> is adjusted to 100 dragon crystals; 13.Add a new item <Evolution Fruit>: Use it to raise hero level by 1.It can be exchanged with Dragon Crystal in <Merchant>; 14.Fixed a bug sometimes damage output was abnormal in <Mine> and <jungle>; 15.Fixed the bug that the special effects of<Guardian Armor> were invalid; 16.Fix the bug that the skills equipped in the last skill slot will not be cast in some cases;
Join us to check out 22 Racing Series and learn about RTS-Racing from one of the developers.
We'll guide you through the strategies of resources and mid-race upgrades, sector capture, track abilities, and how to piece this all together while racing at 1000+ kph (and did we mention that this is using a full physics simulation!?)
Chat is on, so feel free to fire any questions through.
+ Fix bug where selecting the “Easy” difficulty would select “Normal” instead + Fix spelling mistake in level 4 drone appraisal text + Improve bomber and fighter sprite resolution + Show legal disclaimer on first time loading screen
You need to use the current_beta branch on Steam or GOG to play this one. If you have trouble with it, there is a most_recent_stable_beta, now, too.
Hey! This is a pretty huge milestone release... except it's on the beta branch right now, so it only semi-counts. We'll be coming off the beta branch next week sometime, and make bigger announcement posts then.
What's the milestone? FULL multiplayer beta! There are still known bugs that need fixing, but all of the features for multiplayer are now in place. This new build not only gives you the ability to gift metal in lump sums and ongoing flows, but it also allows you to provide energy to your ally empires, and even swap hacking points around.
The balance for hacking points is also adjusted in general, so that everyone gets a bit less in multi-faction multiplayer now. You take so many planets in multi-faction MP that you have hacking points coming out your ears, otherwise.
This release also is a big deal in terms of convenience with hackers even in single player. Essentially the game no longer tries to "guess" which hacker you want to use when multiple are available. It uses a better algorithm to find what you mean, and otherwise asks you to clarify.
You can also nickname any faction! Many players are already planning to have the Zenith Trader running around as Tradey Boi, apparently. Human Resistance Fighters got a few buffs, and there's a new Expatriate hull tech that works for them like the Alien tech works elsewhere.
The tech refund screen and related from last build also got some refinement and tuning. There's still a few more features relating to hacking and new hacks for you that I have planned before we come out of the beta branch. But we're getting darn close now! If you're not already playing on the beta branch, please consider doing so. We'd love feedback.
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.
Not much has changed on the client side, but this update will allow me to quickly and easily add tons of wonderful features, as the old server architecture was clunky and made it very difficult to add changes.
Here are a few small changes which you will notice from version 2.0:
I replaced the "Your packs" tab with an "Unplayed packs" tab
Search for an author or a pack name in the search tab
Username changes track across all leaderboards and pack author labels.
This is just the beginning. I plan to release updates often as I add many new features!
As always, if you enjoy the game, be sure to stop by the Discord server and chat with me and the players: Discord Server Invite