ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

A global ban includes all servers in our official network, including Conquest and soon Classic PVP.

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 :)

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. :)

You found me.

Very good! Carry on. :D

We've banned many people that use that site and likely many more.

Selling them for what?

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.

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.