ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

If you haven't loaded your save since the latest patch, don't.

I'm sorry peeps. Definitely not the news I wanted to bring you.

An update on XBOX single-player save files:

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The process of testing continues.

In the process of testing a fix for this.

We are investigating an issue involving XBOX single-player saves.

Don't expect the worst, stay positive. Hoping to have more information soon!

And before you say CED OVERHYPED THISSSSSSSSSSSSS - I did say little surprise lol

We just dropped a nice little surprise patch. I won't post the spoilers but they are out there.

We are still in the process of certifying that patch for Playstation. We'll keep you in the loop.

Don't be fooled by Noglin's adorable looks. Behind that cute face is a mind-bending surprise - the ability to take control of enemy creatures, tames, or even other humans!

#playARK

Last post. Another look at what didn't make the cut. We wanted to have the ground appear corrupted and have this fog appear as well but had a lot of problems pulling it off - mainly related to time. Cheers!

Keep in mind the dino is moving on very straight lines but that would eventually be randomized a bit to give it more of a human feel.

Anyways the point was to show the journey in developing a feature. None of this was even used.

And a SUPER early proof of concept. Pay attention to the debug strings in the top left. It's informing you of the dino's decisions and available moves.

Ok another example

In reference to the last tweet, As my buddy @WC_Zane told me I should mention. They would literally tell me to go home.

After spawning, dinos would only choose pathing points that had available routes to the center.

Unfortunately, there were too many edge cases to ship this in a final product. But it was fun. Let me know if these things interest you!

The idea from here was that if I dino did not have at least 1 pathing option, it wouldn't spawn at that point. Spawn points were meant to be the outer ring.

So in theory dinos would use this to know what direction to travel.

Here's how complex it could get on a real map

Obviously, I was aiming for this because it offers more variety to the player. Other ways of doing it would be creating pre-defined pathing routes that the player can 'game'

This could be 'gamed' too but I felt like it would provide a more fun experience.

The idea was that the dino would be able to use the green pathing points to navigate to the center. This would be dynamic in the sense you could put it anywhere on the map.

The Year: 2018

The Mission: Create a new event named, Horde Mode for the Extinction DLC.

The Problem: Pathing. I tried to create a 'neural network' that would detect obstacles. I got it SO close. 4 months on this and we got so close to the deadline I had to use another method