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Some of the PC servers are on 304.58 and some are on 304.45 on Official. There are no patch notes for either version. Why the difference and what are the patch notes?

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Originally posted by The_Great_Sephiroth

I completely agree with you. Would love to see Ark on UE 4.3x or newer. It would help everybody out.

Oh, believe me, there is not an engineer in the office that doesn't wish we were working with a more recent version of UE4.
But it's just not that simple, upgrading across major engine versions is not just a difficult task but in some cases nearly impossible.

I'm not just talking about ARK here, I am talking about pretty much any game. Major engine versions don't just constitute additions but also major rewrites of core engine code. Games getting major engine conversions after release is a rarity, the work involved in that can potentially end up being even more than just making a whole new game from scratch because you have to untangle what has just, mostly likely, become completely inoperable code and figure out where the breaks are to get everything functioning again.