ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

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13 Jun 16:06 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by SixIzRippin

So whats the status CED? You are correct in that nobody can just jump to the conclusion that this a fix with no potential game breaking issues of itself, but is the team considering working with these guys? Are more questions being asked? Is this a firm "no" because you already see issues from perhaps server performance issues? Thanks!

The first step is to identify if this is doing anything particularly different than what we're doing in-house. Second is to identify if the results are drastically different than what we're getting in-house. We can't just copy/paste code from one project to the other to solve this but yes we are investigating and have no problems working together to solve something the community, and we, want addressed. Solving meshing takes a marathon of data. I've recently tried to promote more people using this plugin, because more testing/data is what's going to strengthen it.

Edit: More clearly, I am in their Discord and paying attention

Edit 2: This is also a paid plugin (which I didnt realize) so it does mean collaboration takes on a different meaning as he'll try to protect his IP (within his right).

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13 Jun 15:58 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by El-shaddoll

It's great that you're acknowledging all these Mesh fixs but why do the ORP fixs not get any mention?

People have cried on for ages, top of the sub on many times to remove Pin codes from ORP structures (doors/gates) like you have removed them from vaults and turrets but it gets brushed a side. This is abused so much more than meshing on ORP servers. I've had over 20 tickets in the last month for a dev to remove ORP bases that tribes use to access with pin codes. It wastes devs time to remove these structures for them to get rebuild straight after.

We'll add this to the list of things to discuss and potentially tweak.

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13 Jun 15:23 /u/wildcardvalor on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by hiimzech

good luck if its genie45 tho

Genie is not a GM. He is an enforcer. He does not giveth, only taketh away.

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13 Jun 01:43 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Also, I put up a response to this video. I'm not trying to build some adversarial relationship with the community and I appreciate the work that's going into finding a solution by the modders and people with ideas. But people should ask questions, as I did, when they see videos labeled as such.

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12 Jun 22:12 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by rororoxor

you tell me

I will

Monday

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12 Jun 21:25 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Wth is going on in here?

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12 Jun 21:21 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by StuartJJones

Hey Ced, just wanted to say that I appreciate your engagement with the community. It's a refreshing change and makes me feel Ark has turned a corner!

Thanks man!

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12 Jun 21:21 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Gimli_Son-of-Cereal

I think Atlas went a step in the right direction with land claims; a game like ARK could use a similar feature, only instead of claiming an entire island you'd claim a radius with a tool sort of like the dino leash.

Yea it's an interesting approach and I've been keeping an eye. Some challenges with that will be what determines the amount of land you can claim or the radius you get. Tribe size? Or can you just place several claim 'flags' down to make a larger radius? This will likely solve pillar spam but doesn't really address the land claim issue imo. It just removes the visual element of it. If that's all you're trying to address, it might work fine.

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12 Jun 17:49 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

There's no easy solution for this. Whenever you change the minimum requirements needed to establish land ownership people will just do that instead. So if it was 1 pillar before and we changed it to 4 foundations - people would just move to 4 foundations. Claiming land will be an interesting problem to solve for similar open world games with open building.

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12 Jun 00:32 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Le_Martian

Might be nice to have some sort of community forum in-game that we could get announcements and give feedback

Ya, I was thinking of a nice in-game way to poll players (nonobtrusive/opt-in). because the reality is that everyone that plays doesn't necessarily visit Reddit or Twitter.

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11 Jun 21:51 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by BlackbeardARK

God, I hope you're lying.

He's not. But to clarify, there are no plans for console at the moment.

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11 Jun 21:33 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by MoarTeaPls

Glad to see it's being looked at. Disregarding all of the "it's the answer!!11!!!" people, ofc this only qualifies as a proof-of-concept at this time. I mean, instakilling players is maybe a little extreme for an exploit blocker lol. It seems that the player's actions could simply be interrupted so they couldn't do anything, and after a time they could have a forced logoff so when they log back on they are transported outside the mesh.

But imo, it's a good concept and the mod does prove it has value. So I'm glad you all are checking it out.

Just please remember, "Perfect is the enemy of good". No software company has ever tested all possible use cases before release, right? And meshing is a big, major issue which is taking time and effort away from forward development. If this idea can be used to counter a large portion of mesh exploits, I'd call that a win.

Edit: also, this is a fantastic candidate for a public test server. You would be able to collect mass...

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The mod has value, even for unofficial servers, and we're interested to see how these tests go. I'll be keeping an eye on its progress. In terms of a test server, the official network is a great one. I talked to the network/enforcement team and we have nearly 45 million mesh detection points. It just goes to show how much data is really needed to refine it.

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11 Jun 19:02 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Hearsay

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11 Jun 18:56 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by ShenziSixaxis

Give it time to see how he'll actually perform. He hasn't had time to go through publicity messes or experience any burnouts. Frankly, this is his first few days on the job and they're in very good circumstances with everyone hyped with E3 going on and the new creature having been announced.

Hopefully it'll keep up.

Well said. But my first publicity mess was HOD and the meshing uproar. That's actually when I first stepped into the role. But to your point, only time will tell.

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11 Jun 18:16 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

I'm impressed!

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11 Jun 17:24 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by air401

Other than f**king hate having to track shit through twitter, f**king hate twitter. Sure i guess he's okay.

Agreed - I'll try and branch out :) What's your preferred method?

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11 Jun 16:33 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by Gunnnsen

I'd anwer with another question: Have the maps itsself ever been tested? Have all areas bees tested? How long did Wildcard test?

I guess the answers will be the same...

€dit: By the way, the developer of the mod already made a Plugin finally fixing ORP in Ark, it works so well better than the amateurish ORP that WildCard implemented. Seem like he is a way better developer than all the Wildcrad developers together, so I have high hopes he can fix those things that Wildcard is not able to fix (or not willing, Wildcard does not do bugfixes as seen in thousands of instances)

We have about 45 million data points of testing :) Again, this is not a knock on the mod or the modder. They're doing great work!

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11 Jun 05:28 /u/wildcardced on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by wildcardced

The team is taking a look :) Thanks for the heads up!

Just to follow up on this. When we talk about mesh detection in the patch notes, this is what we have in place now. It doesn't take automated action yet and you may be wondering why. In some cases, it's very easy to detect when someone is in the mesh - which are all the cases you are seeing here. As said by one of the veteran ARK modders about this solution

"Ok, it detects when a player is inside a mesh. But is it smart enough to not kill you when you are inside a cave, ie. under the terrain legitimately? Or to know when you are not in inside a mesh, but in a inaccesible area between terrain and meshes (usually rocks? Probably not. "

This video isn't showing the failures - and there will be numerous. I commend the dev in this video but I would caution people from reading YouTube titles and assuming meshing is fixed from a 13 minute video that only shows a few cases. Has this been tested on all maps? Has it been tested on all areas of the maps? How long has ...

ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

13 Jun

MESH FIX LETS GO

MESH FIX LETS GO

Do GM have a standard support process and limits?

MESH FIX LETS GO

12 Jun

Just found evidence on what the new ARK map/DLC could be. Spoilers!

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Wildcard what happened to the pillers you promised you were going to fix?

Wildcard what happened to the pillers you promised you were going to fix?

Wildcard what happened to the pillers you promised you were going to fix?

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Ced?

11 Jun

Console Ark Classic Release Date?

Possible mesh fix, from this video seems quiet good, anyone has info if it would work or not?

10 man servers?

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Ced?

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Can we just take a moment to appreciate Ced?

Possible mesh fix, from this video seems quiet good, anyone has info if it would work or not?

Possible mesh fix, from this video seems quiet good, anyone has info if it would work or not?

10 Jun

Possible mesh fix, from this video seems quiet good, anyone has info if it would work or not?

08 Jun

If you shoot the Abominable Snowman in the dick it's a crit

When do they post?