[2019] Duped Items, Falling Titans, and a Deaf Ear from Wildcard

Throughout the past weeks various servers have been being harassed by a now Infamous "Human Lvl 135'' character who has been spamming servers with duped TEK, dropping tamed dinosaurs with a unreal amount of stats in to player bases, force taming Titans/Titanosaurus. These servers include but not limited to: 10 / 35 / 41 / 57 / 184 / 188 / 356 which are all on the PvP Cluster on Ark, however it is key to note that this blatant 'exploitation' of the game can happen seemingly on any cluster PvE and Unofficial included.

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Duped Spam

These was the first signs of the Human character, he would go around servers spamming a variety of places including obelisks with a unreal amount of wasted spam.

We clear the spam

and he comes back with more, and when we clear it again

he comes back with more

This spamming is illegitimate and there has been A LOT more then across many servers, the steam profile of this character is https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198966073730/ and his server history shows he has only logged on to targets of his. At first no one was worried, we would come clear with Meks and continue with our day but this soon developed into more malicious attacks.

He is also able to spawn in multiple max lvl 135 characters for himself to use, banning his account won't do much as he can just buy another one and even hardware ID banning is easy enough to get around

https://i.redd.it/o33wyc4qntc31.png

Dropping Dinos with Illegitimate Stats

Then Tames started being dropped from sky boarder to soak our turrets and kill dinos lying around at bases. Any server with Land bases/TPs was susceptible to this type of exploitation. This is terrible in itself but worsens when we look at the stats of the dinos and as you can see from this video https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0eUl0wICFb4&feature=youtu.be the dino has been force-bred into having stats that are just not legitimately possible, and that's before you even see that every mutation was in in specific category. This is just one of the MANY and I stress many cases. another one being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LN6DySJ08. For anyone that might say the line is possible, that means whoever was breeding has gotten a completely clean line with ONLY mutations in health and you're also saying someone did the same for Ankys, Not only that you also think that someone out there has been breeding a completely separate giga line and has managed to keep up and surpass the one everyone else uses... A random bastard that never got caught in a cave getting double mutations every other week...

https://i.redd.it/s9anlabtntc31.png

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The types of saddles that were being used

Force Taming Titans

Force taming Titanosaurus and Extinction Titans, is another tactic that is used to f*ck with servers as seen on Gut's Stream. where multiple are spawned through out the map and the forest is seen falling from the sky. Below is a picture showing a desert titan being spawned at sky boarder by the human

https://i.redd.it/z174b25xntc31.png

The Titans have a different server number each time, this includes the dinos he drops as well

Along with this he has force tamed multiple Titanosaurus in the past and sends them towards TPs/Spam to either soak bullets or clear spam

Server 35

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We have reached out to Wildcard in anyway we can and we have received no response, if this behavior is continued to be allowed this will only lead to more and more serious stunts being pulled by the attention-seeking 'Human'. This post is only here to shed light on this massive issue and I won't be discussing who the person might be and what tribe they belong to as it can not be proven as some believe it might be GG (Gang Gang) or their friends, but whoever it is they have definitely spawned items in for their own tribe already. All that matters is Wildcard stepping-up to take care of this and compensate their players if this continues for a longer time. Please Upvote to get their attention

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This is a plethora of useful information so a genuine thank you for the way you've presented this. A couple of things:

- There are some exploits that we rely on 3rd party partners to assist with (IE: BattleEye). In the case of the infamous "Human Lvl 135'', that character has now been banned by BattleEye and the method that was being used will be detected going forward. Exploits are always high priority but reproducing them becomes the challenge. No one wants to give away the way they are cheating and those that do usually miss key information. That's not a jab at those trying to help, it just means we spend a lot of time, days or weeks even, trying to reproduce some of these exploits.

- Sometimes there isn't a lot of information we can give you other than "we're looking into it". Other times we are radio silent because we don't want people to change their behavior. You might think, why? It gives us and teams like BattleEye a way to detect and prevent the cheat in the future. If people know we're looking into them they'll likely change their behavior. With that said, we'll do a better job at letting the community know we're looking into these things so you don't think we're turning a blind eye to what's going on.

-There are things brought up here that we are still looking into. If anyone does have information on how some of these exploits work, report them. I read that you have reached out to Wildcard, hopefully, that was through the Report Abuse function on the website. Things get missed in tweets/Reddit messages but that's a queue that's monitored by the enforcement team.

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention!

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