ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

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Hello Survivors!

We are happy to announce the conclusion of the Sept-Oct 2018 ARK Modding Contest. More than 60 mod projects were entered for this contest and the community has certainly come a long way since the last one. Mod authors were tasked with putting forth their best creations for a chance at the grand prize. The community also voted on their favorite mods to go alongside evaluations by Wildcard Staff. It was a pleasure to explore everyone's creations, and if you missed it you can find a collection of all the spotlights that Zen Rowe did for the contest over on our Twitch channel.
Without further ado, here are the winners of the Sept-Oct 2018 ARK Modding Contest!

1st Place - $15,000 Valguero

Our grand prize winner is Valguero, made by Nekatus and Buttman, which had a strong showing in both the technical evaluation and the popular vote. This is a beautiful map with a significant degree of polish and the sound effects a...

Hello Survivors!

We are happy to announce the conclusion of the Sept-Oct 2018 ARK Modding Contest. More than 60 mod projects were entered for this contest and the community has certainly come a long way since the last one. Mod authors were tasked with putting forth their best creations for a chance at the grand prize. The community also voted on their favorite mods to go alongside evaluations by Wildcard Staff. It was a pleasure to explore everyone's creations, and if you missed it you can find a collection of all the spotlights that Zen Rowe did for the contest over on our Twitch channel.
Without further ado, here are the winners of the Sept-Oct 2018 ARK Modding Contest!

1st Place - $15,000 Valguero

Our grand prize winner is Valguero, made by Nekatus and Buttman, which had a strong showing in both the technical evaluation and the popular vote. This is a beautiful map with a significant degree of polish and the sound effects a...

For more info check out the latest Crunch about our new teaser

We're going to get some of our basic setup out of the way today. We'll start with the core stub files for our two main multi-component structures and the base files for our data container items.
Primarily we will find the progression of these videos on the develop branch of the gitlab repository.
You can find the specific commit for this video here: https://gitlab.com/ZenRowe/VSS-ARK/commit/f02d84b78002f20ce696241179fdf162baed636b

I recommend at least the following, you might be able to get by with less depending on what you are doing: 32GB RAM 8+ core processor Decent GPU: If you can play ARK with it, it's should be fine 500GB SSD specifically for the devkit: This might be a tough one for a laptop, but the devkit take over 100GB of space just on initial installation and it gets much bigger as you make mods. You can install the devkit on an HDD if the SSD is prohibitive, but be aware that it's going to mean vastly longer loading times for everything.

It's great you guys are trying to figure out this issue. As I said since installing my 2x 2080ti's I haven't had ANY issues what so ever, and I've seen reports of other games with the the same thing happening.. However it's awesome to see Nvidia are able to reproduce the issue and are aware of it.

With that said, our entire studio is in crunch mode right now for the Extinction release, however I am going to speak to our Lead Developer and Project lead as this is clearly happening to a bunch of you. I'm not promising anything this side of Extinction release (couple weeks), but I'll certain

There was actually a mathematical error that I made during the design of the backend automation.
I got to bring some extra eyes on it today and have fixed it so that the scoring is now reflective of the intended weighting.
I am still getting some extra checks done to be safe, but I have added to the rankings the split for evaluations and vote scores.
There is also still the potential for further evaluations from other Wildcard employees over the next week, so scores could still continue to change for a bit.
Thank you for bringing attention to the issue.

Here is my SLI usage in ARK just now whilst taking screenshots for the new patch.

Wardie above said that he rolled back drivers and it's working fine, he also said he replaced his aging PSU. So I'd probably try rolling back drivers to see if it fixes the issue.

Don't worry it will happen, it's still on my to-do list. We just super busy with a lot going on in Q4, so once that's out of the way I'll have some time to take care it.

Thanks for hanging in there!

Noted, thanks!

I just did a quick google of your card and it draws 280-300w on it's own lol. Now I'm not saying your PSU isn't enough, just in general these cards can really hog power.

This is simply not true. I have been running ARK on SLI for the past 3 years, and I continue to do it today. I use it to film all of our trailers. I usually see a 20-30fps increase with SLI turned on. I am now also running ARK with the new RTX cards in SLI getting anywhere from 80-100fps on epic and in 4K.

@DylanT30 have you tried using DDU to do a proper deep clean of the drivers and then to re-install?

From the quick research I did I have seen the same issues happening with Rainbow 6 and Far Cry 5. I'm also seeing a lot of BSOD issues with the new cards from them drawing too much power for peoples power supplies.

At 1pm Eastern on October 11th we will be taking down some of our NA and EU servers for maintenance on PS4 and Xbox. We expect maintenance to last for approximately 2 hours. During this time the servers will not be running therefore time will not progress. Once the servers are back online, they will require re-adding to your favorites list as they will have new IP addresses. Below is a list of all affected servers.

PS4:

Xbox:

Hello Survivors!
Starting on Monday, October 8th at Noon Pacific I will be streaming as I check out the contestants in the ARK Modding Contest and will continue every weekday for two weeks until voting ends. ?
You will find below the streaming schedule for every mod! (All times are Pacific)
Come check out some new mods and support some old favorites at https://www.twitch.tv/survivetheark

Monday - 8th
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: Hope Ark Evolved
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM: Homing Pigeon
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: Primal Fear
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM:
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM: Divide and Conquer
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM: RedDwarf's Holiday Mods

Tuesday - 9th
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: Antartika
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM: Dino Patrol V1.75
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM: ARK Additions: The Collection
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM: Wooden Hanging Bridge
04:00 PM - 05:00...

We base the list off of a few metrics, namely the average players playing and the max number of consecutive players. We look at this across a week (rather than just a single day, as many of our players only play weekends or only play during weekdays). We never stated that all servers on our list are ones that are completely dead and have zero players but generally speaking there are quite a few that are completely dead with maybe a single person playing for the entire week duration.
I'd be happy to look into your server though and see if there is indeed a mistake in the list, but the current list was actually given a very generous cutoff point for being considered "active" especially with this round of cutoffs compared to previous migrations.