Community Crunch 433: ARK x Power Rangers Wave 2, Cryopods Update, and more!

We’re blown away by the extraordinary generosity of our community during last weekend’s Extra Life charity event! Thanks to you, we’ve made a real difference together. And the excitement doesn’t stop there—a mighty new adventure that’s just around the corner!

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ARK: Survival Ascended is bringing even more morphing action with ARK x Power Rangers Wave 2, set to release on January 23 for Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. This exciting follow-up to the original Power Rangers mod pack introduces new heroes and villains, available as a standalone pack for $9.99. Survivors can suit up as the iconic Green and White Rangers, harness the power of the Megazord, and encounter even more legendary characters.

Player Character Skins [with the signature weapons and emotes!]

Green
White
Lord Zedd
Rita Repulsa
Goldar
Alpha 5
Putty

Creature Zords Skins

White Tigerzord
Titanus
Green Dragonzord
Megazord

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We’ve got a pretty important update on Cryopods that addresses some community frustrations on both PvE and PvP. Let’s begin with PvE.

We’re reverting the requirement for nearby Cryofridges when deploying Cryopods on PvE entirely. This brings back the experience to match what was on ARK: Survival Evolved. This change will come into effect on Monday, November 11th.

Now for PvP. We’re not walking back all the changes for this game mode, but we will be making an adjustment. As of Monday, November 11th, we will no longer be checking to see if Enemies are in radius when deploying creatures from Cryopods (the cryofridge requirement will still remain), and we’ll be monitoring and evaluating the impact of this change and whether we feel it’s necessary to take it a step further. We’ve some other ideas about how we can address some of the pain points in PvP related to cryos, namely with specific tweaks to caves and cryo-related behaviour around caves, however we’re going to hold on those changes for now until we’ve gathered more data.

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We’ve identified a stall when dynamically downloading custom cosmetics, and it relates to the way that the mod plugins are being loaded in game. We’re looking into a solution to change how the mods are loaded and hope to have that resolved as soon as possible. In the interim you can eliminate the stalls by disabling “Dynamic Downloads” in the options menu. This will prevent the stalls, but also stop you from loading any custom cosmetics that are dynamically downloaded (ones you’ve manually installed should still work).

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We’re working closely with our partners at Nitrado to make the official server saves from our sunsetted servers available soon. We know how much these worlds mean to you, and we’re committed to helping preserve your hard-earned progress. Stay tuned for more updates!

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On April 8th, we deployed a new type of server across the network (for the various game types) that we refer to as “Expire” (which is what you can search for in the session filter).

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on November 15th. We’re preemptively using our allocation for Extinction to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience Aberration Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto Aberration temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on November 15th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.

We are beyond grateful for the incredible show of what can be achieved when gamers come together for a cause at this year’s Extra Life Children’s Miracle Network fundraiser!

Once again, your generosity has left us in awe, smashing our goal with an incredible $130,788 during our 24-hour streaming marathon. This leaves us at a total of $1,071,697.27 raised in 23,382 donations over a decade of ARK Extra Life events. Yes, it’s been 10 years, wow!

Thank you to our wonderful gaming community for making this event another unforgettable success. Your generosity continues to make a profound difference in countless lives, your support means everything to us, and the kids!

If you missed the stream, read the recap here to learn all about what was revealed!

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For our Twitch users who won a prize, please remember to temporarily unblock whispers from strangers so we can reach out and arrange your prize delivery. We haven’t been able to connect with the following winners yet:

Shadowfax92086
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muns6666
ghastlyj580
HotCakesTV
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noprobllama96
firewolf0989
yime_neox
thecynshell
mcdavid42
stingsilver
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