Dear Survivors,

We at Studio Wildcard would like to give our heartfelt thanks to our wonderful ARK community for participating in our latest 24 hour ExtraLife charity event! 

With the help of our community and ExtraLife team, we placed Top 3 globally and raised over $180,000 for sick children and beat all of our past records by a significant amount, including last year’s jaw dropping $112,206.35! We couldn’t have done this without the help of our generous community, our amazing sponsors, and our dedicated community who signed up to join our team. 

As with prior ExtraLife events, we take this as an opportunity to share sneak peeks at upcoming content. In true tradition, we shared visuals from the upcoming Genesis Part 2 DLC including the big reveal of the teaser trailer featuring the talented David Tennant and Madeleine Madden voicing Rockwell and HLNA respectively! We also revealed a bunch of what we have in store for our players in genesis Part 2 including: Creatures, Items, Structures, and the Environment/Biome which we’ll go through in this post!

We’re excited to take you on a journey into the dark mind of the villainous Rockwell as he strives towards godhood and we very much look forward to sharing more unseen Genesis Part 2 content!  

Special Thanks:
Syntac (Raised over $22,800), RoyaleWithCheese (Raised over $7,300), MTSArk (Raised over $6000), RoycePlayers (Raised Over $5000), EliteARK (Raised over $2500), Lilmonsterr (Raised over $2,300), Telmo Sampaio (Raised over $2200), PaceyAU (Raised over $1500), Belle (Raised over $1200), Shockist (Raised over $1100), Project Tiamat (Raised over $1000), KoolKyleLive (Raised over $1000) and so many more (cant name em all!)

Thanks to our sponsors: Blue Microphones, Nvidia, Nitrado, Grove Street Games, Apex Gaming PCs

Special rates

As a further thank you to our community, we will be implementing 2x rates right through to Tuesday 12 PM Pacific/3 PM Eastern. 

New Creatures

Noglin

The Noglin may look cute but don’t be fooled! There’s a mind-bending surprise in store when it wraps around the noggin of a target — it enables you to temporarily take control of enemy creatures, tames, or even other humans!

Shadowmane

This chimerical prowler has powerful group-cloaking abilities for all your sneaking-needs, while also making use of a lightning fast chain-teleport-strike that can decimate groups of targets. By the time its victims are aware of its presence, it’s often already too late!

Stryder

Better brush up on your hacking skills to claim one of these giant mechanical Stryders! Patrolling the colony ship, they are outfitted with a variety of randomized individual components across their body, which gives each Stryder a different potential set of unique skills whether in defense, offense, or utility!

Astrodelphis

This curious extraterrestrial creature may look like the cetaceans that once swam in Earth’s oceans, but they seem to be at home in the interstellar medium, far from any planet’s surface. Place the versatile Tekwing saddle on them, and they’re a veritable fighter spacecraft capable of blasting targets out of the sky with lasers or homing charges or bombing them into oblivion. And yes, they can do a shot-repelling barrel roll!

GEN-X Variants

Some old friends will be making a reappearance in Genesis Part 2 — here’s an early look at our GEN-X variants, which include new versions of many previous expansions’ creatures!

New Items

Hoversail

You’ve never really traveled until you’ve tried hoversailing! There’s no better way to get yourself across the ring than jumping on one of these hi-tek boards and surfing the air currents, and no better feeling than skimming the skies to find the perfect tailwind while nailing flashy tricks to boost your speed!

TEK Bow

Run into trouble aboard the ship? The Federation issue TEK bow materializes arrows of any type on the fly and uses electromagnetism to shoot them at blinding velocities.

TEK Federation Suit

Suit up, survivor! You’ll find this to be an upgrade from what you experienced wearing inside the Genesis simulation. This sleek, hi-tek exo-armor should protect you in a variety of otherwise lethal situations — and best of all, on Genesis Part 2, this suit has unlimited jetpack power without the need for Element — and Flyers are also fully supported this time around!

Canoe

Not simply just for recreation, you can pick your canoe up and place it down again in any body of water. With multiple rowers working in tandem, the canoe can travel exceptionally fast. Fishing from a canoe is especially convenient, as is the built-in cooking pot!

Minigun

Need a massive barrage of bullets to keep your enemies under pressure? What this Minigun lacks in accuracy and tendency to overheat, it makes up for in sheer firepower. Place it in stationary mode to improve its accuracy and clear targets around corners!

TEK Pistol

Each crew member will be issued a Federation phase pistol, equipped with multiple lethality settings. Take care not to aim one of these in the vicinity of any crewmate or shipboard fauna, unless it is set to healing or stun mode

New Structures

Egg Incubator

Who needs to fuss with eggs when you can use the fantastical mechanical egg incubation device to cook them to perfection? This device lets you view all the statistics and mutations of eggs and incubate them at an optimal temperature while hatching them at your convenience!

Ammobox

This handy new structure will automatically fill all nearby turrets with all the varieties of ammunition, while its floating HUD shows you its total ammo stats without the need to open the inventory (and also reflected visually with the ammunition models displayed on it).

Remote Camera Security System

Secure your base in Genesis Part 2 with the Remote Camera Security System. Issue commands, view, and communicate all from a remote location. You can even use them to spy-on and communicate with your enemies!

Loadout Mannequin

No need to scream “who moved my kit from my vault?” at your tribe mates again while your turrets are soaked and you run in circles. Kit up quick and get to those griefers by storing your loadouts on trusty Loadout Mannequins, which also visualize your gear and hotbar items, for a single-press full equipment swap!

TEK Crop Plot

Want to take up gardening aboard ship? Crew members can make use of this hi-tek crop plot to efficiently raise harvestable plants just about anywhere!

New Environment

Genesis Ship

Welcome to your new home, survivor! You’ve been returned to life aboard this immense vessel representing the pinnacle of mankind’s ingenuity… What could have motivated so desperate a measure, to cast all of nature itself adrift in this interstellar lifeboat?

Biome 01

The idyllic sunlit meadows and rolling hills of this tranquil biome show little to indicate what’s in store under the influence of Rockwell’s insanity.

Biome 02

Enjoying this view, survivor? Perhaps you’d fancy a stroll along this promenade? Don’t be shy — those bridges are spacious enough for any beast you’ve tamed, and its observation towers offer the best vantage of the sprawling artificial gardens you see before you.

Biome 03

Creation is an exhilarating undertaking, one of the incomparable perquisites of godhood. I’m afraid you won’t find much in the way of creature comforts here. This garden isn’t meant for you, after all…

Biome 04

“How foolish you are, to have scurried into my inner sanctum. Did you truly expect to evade my notice here? I am this place now. And you’re merely a parasite.”

And of course, this isn’t everything there is to see about Genesis Part 2! We have so much more in store and can’t for you to check it out in March 2021! Thank you once again for tuning in this weekend and for all your fundraising efforts to help sick kids! We couldn’t be more proud of our community.

All the best!
Studio Wildcard

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