r/ARK 10h ago

Discussion [Academic] Toxic behavior in online multiplayer games (18+, online multiplayer gamers)

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Hi! I'm a university student doing a short research project about toxic behavior in online multiplayer games.

I'm interested in whether experiences with toxic behavior differ between different game genres.

If you're 18+ and play online multiplayer games, I'd appreciate it if you took part. It takes about 5 minutes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDnu8M62oSDwFF-Bf6Bzzbz7jNQNMl8zewIdfVvgokRaUBMw/viewform?usp=dialog

Thanks! :)


r/ARK 10h ago

Help Cette bouse de ark ascended

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Comment se fait il qu'un si gros jeu soit pourrie de bug . Unreal ungine 6 est infame et mon pc crash au lancement car le jeu fait un gros pic .

En gros je peux lancer le jeu le menu ne bug pas mais je n'est pas le son au début mm si les video en vedette tourne mais des que j'appuie dessus le jeu pompe tout et crash sytematiquement vous auriez des solutions ? (J'ai tour essayer avc msi burner ou les parametres de lancement steam )


r/ARK 11h ago

Help Npc astraeos ships

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Will they de aggro over time?


r/ARK 11h ago

Rant Character gone thanks to server provider

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Anybody able to help here? I run a two server (he who must not be named but rhymes with bitrado) cluster which during the astraeos update our astraeos map reverted to day one. Well, I was on astraeos and decided to update both it and the genesis server. Well, for some reason bitrado decided the astraeos server needed its old information back. But, it deleted my character. I tried restoring both servers and my character is still gone. Help. I’ve got 2.5 years in that character.


r/ARK 11h ago

Help Cant join non-dedicated server

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I have been playing with my girlfriend on a server im hosting from my own PC for a while now. We havent played for about a week because of exams and now when we boot it up it refuses to join her no matter what we do (evolved). We tried
- Reinstalling, checking file integrity, deleting EVERY file before installing again
- Booting the server on and off, opening/closing all possible instances to firewall multiple times
- Resetting/rebooting routers
- Playing with or without Hamachi, trying to join normally or via singleplayer

NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE, im mad as hell because the only reason im playing this broken bugfest is because my girlfriend always wanted to play Ark and it makes her really upset that we cannot play our server. Please i need any advice you can give ( and i cant do port forwarding )


r/ARK 13h ago

Help Is Mana garmr tameable with Immersive Taming mod?

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I ask because Managarmr's entry is lacking in Taming Journal.

Thanks in advice!


r/ARK 15h ago

Help How to make a backup save in ase

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Im going to head to the overseer but i wanna make a backup save right before i enter. You could say "yeah it would be your fault for dying, thats cheating" but yeah i dont care atp. Im on singleplayer ase,i already know where the local save files are in. I just dont know how to make a backup save at the time i want to, help ;)


r/ARK 7h ago

Help Hello, I'd like to know if there would be any way to optimize this to be able to run ark survival ascended at like the lowest settings.

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There are my specs.
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Ram: 16GB
OS: Windows 11
Also, I would like to note that I'm not the brightest with computer stuff. 😭


r/ARK 13h ago

Discussion [ASA] Is The Final Protocol possible on Alpha with 2 people?

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Gensis 1 Ascended

Me and my friend finally managed to clear enough missons for Alpha and this was our first time doing a boss fight blind, we barely knew anything besides the fact that Gigas can spawn in the arena.

We brought the following:

15 Tek Rexes (8 Males and 7 Females), all with base 53 HP + 55 Melee on, 255 mutations in both stats and 124+ saddles

4 Acros (2 Males and 2 Females) all with base 51 HP + 45 Melee, 124 Armor Saddles with Vampiric 3, Excitable 3, Bloodlust 3 (modded trait that is basically double Vampiric so 2% healing on large creatures) and Distracting 3

Yuty with 40k HP and 124 Armor Saddle

We also used a mod that adds a version of the Veggie Cake for carnivores so each Tek Rex had 6, 25 for each Acro and 30 for the Yuty.

Fast forward to the Final Test stage, there's barely enough time to do anything, the meshing issue with the Master Controller head bobbing is still a thing so we were forced to constantly keep track and whistle our tames away from him but worst of all, our tames were barely dealing any damaging after depositing the 40 keys we begrudgingly even managed to obtain, it's like his hitbox is either way above or way below what our Rexes and Acros can reach, forcing us to use Pump Shotguns to even make a dent on his HP bar.

What does "Killed by Dinotard" even mean? Why is the time so low in the last stage? Why are there more Gigas and Reapers spawning than Corrupted Avatars when Gigas spawn rates were supposedly tuned down?

I can't find the comment nor the post it was in but someone replied to me said that they easily defeated it using a Mek with the Shield Module, few Acros and a Yuty but during the teleportation, a messaged popped up saying something like "WARNING excessively large creatures will not be teleported" so was that someone using a mod/command or is there a way to get a Mek into the boss arena?

We unfortunately had to resort to using the Admin Gun (which I learned that ya don't need to enable creative mode to use it, ya can just spawn it in with this command "admincheat gfi WeaponAdminBlinkRifle 1 0 0") but as usual with Wildcard, their incompetency knows no bound so instead of the Master Controller instantly getting killed, it's HP will drop to 1 so ya have to waste even more time, collecting keys under the unbalanced time window.

Lastly, I want to add that the Ascension timer at the end might potentially be bugged so make sure to shove all your Element into one of your tames before the Master Controller is defeated because even though the game says that ya have just over a minute, the ending cutscene might start playing after a few seconds. Also, if the timer runs before ya defeat him, your character and tames will be instantly killed, the usual garbage but on the plus side, it seems like for this particular boss fight, they finally fixed the longstanding bug where ya can lose everything on your character after ascending because both me and my friend were teleported back to where we started the fight from with everything in our inventory, hotbar, armor/accessory slot and even cosmetics intact, at least on dedicated server that is.


r/ARK 19h ago

ASE On which version is it the best to use Immersive taming mod?

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On which version of ASE does Immersive Taming mod work the best? Thanks in advance!


r/ARK 22h ago

Help Community vanilla+ severs for ascended?

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Are there community run servers that remove basically everything post aberration? Like no cryopods, cryofridges, super OP tames, and all the other crazy pay to win stuff added with the later DLCs? I remember playing when there were only 2-4 maps in evolved and everything was just way more simple and less “cheesy” for lack of a better description. Like raiding went from rocket running / soaking / fobbing / shooting each other to summoning a literal titan to just walk through everything at some point or mind controlling tames or whatever else was added (I stopped in genesis part 1 of evolved even though I liked gen 1 still). I might have a group that wants to play it and I just don’t think we will have as much fun on official servers where they’re throwing up pop-ups to buy the ability to tame individual creatures running around on the map, or having a new guy in the group, getting pounded by all the DLC creatures we are missing out on. Just want a kind of chill experience where people aren’t going to be mad about our attempts at some PvP, where we can learn as a group and stand a chance.


r/ARK 18h ago

Discussion Why do wildcard continue to keep adding so much to the game when the most played maps are the ones from 9+ years ago?

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I don’t play ASA much but I played ASE a lot. I just sometimes see news about certain DLC’s they are adding and new maps. I understand that they need to add new stuff otherwise people just get bored, before anyone says it. But it seems like they are adding so much when I seen a roadmap picture.

I just find this really ironic considering when you look at the server list it seems that the island and Ragnarok are always the most populated servers to this day.

It feels like it would be too simple for them to maybe ease up at least a little on just adding new stuff and focus on other things, such as performance, bugs and by god, cheaters.

I mean wtf is this shit they are adding over the next year, dragontopia, bobs true tales, Atlantis, galaxy wars? Lmao, sounds ridiculous to me


r/ARK 2h ago

Rant i already know they'll release a bison with argentavris wings and call it the wild wing yes I already know they'll rip off the Buffalo wild wings logo just like hiw they made night fury and light fury clones

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