Although there is no formal pre-download, participating in the PTR should drastically reduce your download size if you switch back your Steam branch after the final patch drops. Who knows, the final release patch may actually be deployed byte-for-byte on PTR before being promoted to the main branch! So... Join the PTR :)
Is there some fundamental piece I'm missing that would prevent this from working or that causes false positives? I suspect there are some obvious holes in a few maps that might cause issues for people just looking around and not actually trying to mesh but in my testing so far I have not really found anything fundamentally broken with the method.
It can produce false positives in a variety of circumstances in real world tests, but we've been working to eliminate them. We generally don't talk much about these changes to keep them effective, but when you see a patch like you did Friday, it's because we're tweaking things like this.
The fact that it produces false positives means that it cannot be used automatically, but ideally we could get it there. Don't get me wrong, it's a very good method - we just can't rely on it solely if it's going to ban innocent players.
Generally we don't talk specifically about what we do to catch cheaters because it gives them an advantage to know what we're doing, but I think it's worth saying that this is a method that we are aware of and have used. Thanks for passing it along.
Gotta go fast!
In all seriousness thanks for the report, this one is on our to-do list. :)
Arge ptera i am lazy asf dont wanna tame them
Very good! Carry on. :D
If u wonna inforce rules better check https://www.ownedcore.com/forums/mmo-trading-market/fps-buy-sell-trade/ark-survival-evolved-buy-sell-trade/
Here alot ppl who trade for real money like 2 years. But who care right?
We've banned many people that use that site and likely many more.
I recommend a bottle of whiskey as well if you are going to Scorched
We made it much friendlier than it used to be. That being said, it is still very unfriendly. Scraping together a living in the desert is rough so naturally the beasties there are gonna be rowdy.
The majority of patch notes are for the developers, not for the players. It's important only in that it helps them to keep track of major changes. They use short sentences that rarely make sense to people who are not in the weekly or even daily meetings. The fact that they even release the notes is kind of strange to me, since most of them are "fixed an exploit with x" and really don't impart anything significant. We are begging for more information but they so quickly changing their minds on certain issues that we (the players) would be at turns excited and then disappointed almost daily, it's kind of better for us not to know all of the things they start to add or fix and then stop for no better reason than they just don't feel like doing it right now.
This one was a small change for my analytics work I've been running.
We're continuing to look into this issue. As someone else mentioned below you can ARK in DX10 mode in the interim (-d3d10) which should prevent or at least reduce the crashing until a solution is found.
This left me with joy.
Thank you for that.
There is no official ARK discord. There are several quite popular fan-maintained discord servers however which is where I suspect this is happening.
That didn't work for him, crashed right after he started the game.
Off the top of my head, the only other thing I can think of is make sure video drivers are updated - or if they are already up to date, revert the video drivers to an earlier version, if it worked before. make sure to restart the PC, drivers often need it for full initialization.
I can make no promises that this will resolve the issue, but give this a try:
Go into steam, right click ark in your library, and select "properties"
Under the general tab select "Set Launch Options"
put -d3d11 in and try to launch.
Not so much for painting the vanilla structures. Painting works via color modification to the existing textures, so the rust would still be there; however, there are structure mods with very clean structures that allow painting. See Eco's Decor Mods and the Paintable Furniture Mod (it includes walls, though they are not metal iirc.
This looks awesome!
Curious, how is this any different than the old Paracer platform build that was explicitly ruled to be against CoC? Perhaps some clarification on "platform builds that block damage to tames." And yes, I read that it says prevent damage entirely, but let's be real here. These builds are, for practical purposes, preventing damage entirely. Turrets cannot shoot it, and even small alterations to the design can ensure that it doesn't matter what turret setup you have, you will never be damaged, and you will never be fully encase (as the CoC specifies.) Either blocking damage is allowed or it's not, but getting obscenely specific (as the CoC has) is basically saying, go ahead and build a box around your tame, just make sure there's at least one hole that it can be damaged through and you are good to go.
That is exactly what the rule is saying. The rule was to prevent people from making invincible platform dinos not specifically against turrets. The current rules also disallow sinking foundations on platforms.
It looks like there was an issue with cloud saves not getting wiped before the reset. Unfortunately, this meant that we had to wipe the servers to keep them clean but everything should be fresh now.
This has been resolved. The servers were wiped premature of the cloud which resulted in anything being able to be downloaded. We've done a full wipe of both the cloud and the server saves so everyone can start fresh.
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