Epic Games has begun to implement its long-awaited achievements system within certain games played via its PC launcher. At the moment these will be tracked in the background and only displayed within some games while the interface is fine-tuned. In a message posted to Twitter last night, Epic cautioned the feature was still an early version and would be improved over time. For now, here's how it looks in action within Ark: Survival Evolved: Read more

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/0c9258f51eed6caef3dcc23f73c8b46fe7166022.jpg Download in full resolution An Update on Genesis Part 2 As we gear-up for the epic conclusion of ARK: Survival Evolved’s storyline with ARK: Genesis Part 2, we’re checking in with the community on its progress. Near the beginning of this year, the studio transitioned to working remotely. While the development of Genesis Part 2 has been ongoing throughout, and significant progress has been made, going from a highly collaborative in-office workflow to remote comes with specific challenges. Upon further evaluation, we now have a better sense of the production timeline for Genesis Part 2. The new locked-in release date is now March 2021 simultaneously on all platforms. We understand that you are eager to get into it, and this news is disappointing; however, we are passionate about delivering something genuinely special, memorable, and suitably epic. This additional time allows us to ensure a better and unique experience and is well worth the investment. We’ll be showing an extensive first-look at Genesis Part 2 later this year, revealing more details about completing your quest for ultimate survival; the forthcoming preview will reveal some of the new creatures, items, locations, features, and more! We do however have other significant updates locked-&-loaded

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/f27211312b86c4b57c695a030e50c54f4bb99800.jpg Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! This week we take a look at some awesome community fan art and community content. Summer Bash will be wrapping up on July 21'st, so be sure to make the best of those wonderful summer days in ARK. EVO Event {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/f90265bda571d276453d5fc94e60165325de06eb.jpg While Summer Bash is active from June 25th to July 21st, there will be no special EVO event rates. Summer Bash Rates 3X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation) 4X Player XP 4X Harvesting 4X Taming Fan Art Castle Build by @sefiroultima {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/7a952745cb3561475e1d27408ba6a9a9816e800f.jpg Speed Genesis Build by @sam_stimo {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/b80568cd32e974149545bcd0904358e582313ece.jpg Masters of Genesis Simulation by @Scutal {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/1bfd54b24d401492d914558c691589ffec975221.jpg OC Playing Ark:Survival Evolved by @BrekrofMadness {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/36567e31956b6acbdc14ff00efc2e3613f784cff.jpg Faith (Mod Map) by @JaceMonsen {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/da52ae5e43b165f5c71ddc7758bf5520d7d1bd8b.jpg Ragnarok by @caffeineluvver {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/a94baa7c4c962e21e1a650c126bf4071ee5ef807.jpg Cute Little Rat by @ARKLove9 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/6156529f845f81fc726ca73497e066cdbd35d336.jpg

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/8b15bc091fcb8131e0b2e64fac7d01a083aaeb76.jpg Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! This week we take a look at the new sponsored mods and some awesome community fan art and community content. New Sponsored Mods The Hunted {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/cfddf8690d9e74ffba3dc563c29bd54b440d12b9.jpg The Hunted is a mod that aims to emulate the difficulty of ARK to be more like it's early development days. The Hunted has plans and development for features like territorial behavior, nesting and new taming methods. If you don't think you should feel safe in a survival game, this might be a mod you want to check out! Check out The Hunted Dino Hoarders' TLC {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/ab1ac395054c44714d6b09178edf2c0438ed3baf.jpg While not an official TLC for the game, it is always fascinating to see new artistic approaches and styles from our modding community. Dino Hoarders' TLC has plans to do community TLCs on a lot of the games creatures with a unique art style! We look forward to seeing what is to come with this mod. Check out Dino Hoarders' TLC Tiamat {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/911c39636015d3377fe4533ae80a399d06b581e9.jpg We're a little late with the official announcement but this project was a late addition that started sponsorship in June! Tiamat is a beautiful map with a focus on the ocean, an

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Summer Bash Extension {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/b95b40246979ba9924745848a8153e5057307c42.jpg We realize some players were unable to take part in the beginning of Summer Bash and have extended our Summer Bash event an extra week. You have until July 21st to kick back and relax in the summer sun Patch Notes Roundup {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/66780e1ec5f45c32c2c62b06c9b4de29e2b2f5de.jpg It's been a few months since we've done the last patch notes round-up and much has been added. From the launch of Crystal Isles on PC to the introduction of ARK to the Epic Games Store, there's been much going on. With hundreds of additions, changes, or fixes, we figured it'd be good to kick off an ARK summer with a recap of the past few months. Significant Milestones - Launched Crystal Isles as a free expansion on PC - Launched ARK on the Epic Games Store - EGS Clients can now use the favourite server feature - Whisper (ALT+B) and Yell voice (Shift+B) chat have been added - New command line arg: -PublicIPForEpic= If this command line arg is used, this is the public IP that EGS clients will attempt to connect to. If this command line is missing and -Multihome is specified, then EGS clients will attempt to connect to the Multihome IP Note that if you're using Multihome and specify a non-public IP address, then players will not be able to connect to

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Ray tracing is the big buzz word of 2020 in PC gaming, so we’ve created this list of all the confirmed ray tracing games you can play on PC right now, as well which this year’s will get ray tracing support in the future. And because ray tracing tends to go hand in hand with Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech these days, we’ve also listed all the games that support DLSS, too. (more…)

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