[2019] Ark Genesis and survivetheark.com/g/

About three days ago, this page was put out. As we know, the ARK text inside of the video originally decoded to "THIS ISNOT ARK2". There's more to it though.

Music3.mp3 On the /g/ page, your web browser loads a number of audio files that play music and sound effects in the background. When these audio files were created, they contained metadata from the program that created them. Looking at this file through a hex editor, a program that allows you to see the raw bytes of a file, you can see "ARK_Genesis_Countdown3_ALTERNATE_v2.wav". This file path was (in theory) the original filename of the audio before it was converted to be uploaded online. Here

is what that looked like inside of the file. This filepath follows the same name format as Extinction and other maps did, which leads me to believe that this is a new map. For example, the audio file for the Extinction music is GC_ARK_EXT_Biome2_Combat_LOOP_v2. This map name also fits with the "g" name Wildcard have been using for this big reveal.

Stage 2 video About a day ago, Wildcard released a new video for the /g/ page. There's not much I can say about it right now, but the text spells out "Init AP Uplink". Not sure what that means. Forum user TEM187 mentioned here that it could mean Arat Prime, but I'm not sure what that means. I've heard about it around the forums, but I can't say for sure what it is. If you know what that means, please leave a comment!

tl;dr; On the /g/ page, some of the audio files loaded by the game contain the string "ARK_Genesis_Countdown3_ALTERNATE_v2.wav" in the metadata. This was the original name of the imported file. This pathname follows the same format as the Extinction audio data, which leads me to believe that this is a new map. There was also an update to the video files that contain the text "Init AP Uplink" spelled out in the ARK code. You can find out more about the ARK code here. I'll continue to update this post as new things are found.

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