Patch Notes 172.5

[Jeremy Drake Stieglitz]

Current Version:
172.5
- Torch no longer loses durability when you pick from plants with it equipped.
- Tamed Dinos no longer get OP health boost from harvesting bodies/plants, now they get a more mild health restoration. May further adjust if needed.
- Fixed Female Sabertooth Riding animations (no more T-Pose), and tweaked riding animation speeds on Saber, Trike, and Bronto

172.4
- Dinos that are being tamed no longer disappear or lose their inventories upon save-game being reloaded. (in singleplayer or multiplayer). Thanks everyone for helping us nail this bug! (Server Admins may wish to update at their leisure for this hotfix)

172.3
- You can now rename your tribe. (if you are the founder or have transferred the ownership)
- You now also earn 50% of the XP on your human character that your mount earns (when riding it).
- You can no longer grab onto ladders thru walls.
- You can now search for sessions by name.
- In PvE, you can't build in caves/cave-entrances anymore and all such structures are auto-destroyed (but sleeping bags are allowed). This is to prevent PvE players from blockading the caves with no other players able to damage such structures.
- Torpor now increases per level on creatures as a percentage of their max torpor, not via an absolute value. Makes big high-level creatures tougher to knock out.
- Tribechat key can now be rebound via UI
- in Pve the flyers can no longer grab players who are on a different team
- Punching structures you can't damage (such as metal) still hurts you now, so you can kill yourself in metal cages etc.
- 10% global insulation effectiveness boost
- Minor GPU optimization to shader caching.
- Servers now auto-restart if they crash, should yield better server uptime for now.
- If corrupted local or server save files, data is now automatically restored from the last backup.
- "Pistol whip" melee damages are nerfed appropriately and they now lose durability accordingly.
- Base Food/Water Resource consumption rates reduced by 25% each
- Mountain Stones now have a lot more metal. Still more to do here (actually new resource visuals and rich metals on the mountain summits) but wanna reserve the full map update 'till Friday, as it will require more testing.
- Dinos can no longer damage metal structures. Rockets are now using "demolition" damage type which makes them as effective as C4. All explosions effectiveness vs structures increased 50%.
- Grenade Engram moved to level 30, & no longer requires Crystal to craft.
- Visual Glitches ("pop-in") on caves with low view distances is fixed.

Coming This Week:
Jurassic ARK Content Update
Hardcore GPU optimization pass 1: expected gains ~10% on high-end, ~20% on mid-range, ~30%+ on low-end.
Tribe Government Types
Spike Blockade (primitive tech): very effective vs dinos
Food Storage Salt Bin (primitive tech): lets you keep your foods from spoiling longer prior to getting a fridge.
Melee Attacking without stamina will now be allowed on Dinos and Players, but will increase your torpor each time you do it >:)--
Post-Login Msg if you died indicates why you died, who/what killed you, etc.
Capability for flyers to carry low-height dinos, not just humans.

Previous Patch Notes:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/615086038683522620/

[SighFactory]

Oprindeligt skrevet af BlackWater:

Oprindeligt skrevet af DefectiveZombie:

Sense of urgency? This game is obviously a labor of love. They don't need people being irrational and frantic to create a sense of urgency. Let the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing develop at a natural and healthy pace instead of throwing tantrums like a pack of 4 year olds.

https://minipong.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.gif?w=195&h=217
lol

LOL I had to guess what those 5 letters were to get the link to work. Spot on. ;)

[BlackWater]

Oprindeligt skrevet af DefectiveZombie:

Oprindeligt skrevet af BlackWater:

https://minipong.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.gif?w=195&h=217
lol

LOL I had to guess what those 5 letters were to get the link to work. Spot on. ;)

lol I didn't even notice the censored words lol, good on you for being able to figure it out. Also I think quoting a censored message uncensores it while its still in the reply box.

[Grim Reaper]

I have been cracking out on this game. However after so much effort into a metal base just to have it destroyed ruined what i considered the best aspect of the game. I and by proxy a lot more people will not play until the metal structure is fixed. If Me and my 7 friends spend 5 days making a base out of the best material in the game it should take (7 friends X 10 hrs a day X 5 Days = 350 hrs) atleast 3 times as long to get into i.e. 1050 played hours. Everytime we log we get wiped it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and takes away so much from really an amazing game otherwise.

[KevoTheFello]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Grim Reaper:

I have been cracking out on this game. However after so much effort into a metal base just to have it destroyed ruined what i considered the best aspect of the game. I and by proxy a lot more people will not play until the metal structure is fixed. If Me and my 7 friends spend 5 days making a base out of the best material in the game it should take (7 friends X 10 hrs a day X 5 Days = 350 hrs) atleast 3 times as long to get into i.e. 1050 played hours. Everytime we log we get wiped it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and takes away so much from really an amazing game otherwise.

Its because the devs didnt think people would raid and destory peoples bases just to be ♥♥♥♥♥, the people with the abilty to totaly wreck a base like this has no need to do so

[Neogenex]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Grim Reaper:

I have been cracking out on this game. However after so much effort into a metal base just to have it destroyed ruined what i considered the best aspect of the game. I and by proxy a lot more people will not play until the metal structure is fixed. If Me and my 7 friends spend 5 days making a base out of the best material in the game it should take (7 friends X 10 hrs a day X 5 Days = 350 hrs) atleast 3 times as long to get into i.e. 1050 played hours. Everytime we log we get wiped it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and takes away so much from really an amazing game otherwise.

Its EARLY ACCESS... and the devs already know about this issue so why complain? I do feel your pain though and also can not wait for this to be fixed, along with many other issues. One thing at a time though. :)

[Tip]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Weeblestomper:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Grim Reaper:

I have been cracking out on this game. However after so much effort into a metal base just to have it destroyed ruined what i considered the best aspect of the game. I and by proxy a lot more people will not play until the metal structure is fixed. If Me and my 7 friends spend 5 days making a base out of the best material in the game it should take (7 friends X 10 hrs a day X 5 Days = 350 hrs) atleast 3 times as long to get into i.e. 1050 played hours. Everytime we log we get wiped it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and takes away so much from really an amazing game otherwise.

Its because the devs didnt think people would raid and destory peoples bases just to be ♥♥♥♥♥, the people with the abilty to totaly wreck a base like this has no need to do so

if they made a survival game chances are they have played 1 or 2 themselves lol , so yaaaaa they knew this would happen to think otherwise would just be you sucking the dev's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with excuses made up for them. :-)

[⚡Wizard Of Aus⚡]

hows about you make the game playable for the thousands who are unable to even open it that you have taken money from . . . . . . ?

[AshliRose]

172.4
- Dinos that are being tamed no longer disappear or lose their inventories upon save-game being reloaded. (in singleplayer or multiplayer). Thanks everyone for helping us nail this bug! (Server Admins may wish to update at their leisure for this hotfix)

ok then where the fudge is my Albino Trex from yesterdays afternoon crash??? We have video showing where we had her at 98% tamed and then crash and when we got back in the game she was gone ENTIRELY!!!! We spent several hours taming her from about noon til the crash which was about 2:30 PST only to loose all the time we spent on her cuz she was gone completely...she wasnt even in the region so we could knock her back out and start over =/

[Mahna]

Welp here is some relevant info.
https://twitter.com/survivetheark/status/609468966164123649

[Vertaki TTV]

http://puu.sh/imrJ0/42b1c28004.jpg

It looks great from what I see!

[BlackWater]

Oprindeligt skrevet af vertaki:

http://puu.sh/imrJ0/42b1c28004.jpg

It looks great from what I see!

Duuuuuuuddddeeeeeee..............that looks cool.

[DammitLloyd]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Sass_SGE:

172.4
- Dinos that are being tamed no longer disappear or lose their inventories upon save-game being reloaded. (in singleplayer or multiplayer). Thanks everyone for helping us nail this bug! (Server Admins may wish to update at their leisure for this hotfix)

ok then where the fudge is my Albino Trex from yesterdays afternoon crash??? We have video showing where we had her at 98% tamed and then crash and when we got back in the game she was gone ENTIRELY!!!! We spent several hours taming her from about noon til the crash which was about 2:30 PST only to loose all the time we spent on her cuz she was gone completely...she wasnt even in the region so we could knock her back out and start over =/

I think that fix only applies to when a server goes down for maintenance at which point is planned so they have the chance to save right before they bring down the server. During a crash they won't have the time to save because its unexpected. So it'll just roll back to it's last save and would reset the dino's and resources in the world.

[Lord Zultron]

Na we still have that issue on unofiical servers when we shut donw server and start it people lose their tams

[Gucci Mane]

Where are the patch notes?

[NoiT]

i knew there was no patch.. they cant opimize for ♥♥♥♥. remember the last ''optimization patch'' on the 4th.. made the game worse for some including me. well atleast the yhave 10mil now so why should they even care.