This week's issue of ARK Digest is awesome, because we get to learn A LOT about what is upcoming in the future!
If you guys aren't aware yet, there's a modding contest being held, and the prizes include thousands of dollars, Alienware computers, NVIDIA graphics cards, as well as sponsored server listings on TopARKServers!
If you have the interest, you should give it a shot, whether you're a professional modder or a total newbie!
The newly added Gigantopithecus can equip headwear, and this is the first step towards introducing the ability to arm creatures with both weapons and armour!
The first of the musical instruments -- war drums -- will arrive in September!
The Tek tier will consist of many cool things like teleportation chambers!
There will soon be non-explosive primitive tech that will be able to damage stone structures!
In time to come, creatures will leave footprints, and these can be used for tracking purposes!
Also, players will be able to choose the orientation of structures while placing them! Yay :D
Check these out! Below, you can see concepts for both the Ballista, as well as the Plant Turret! These are just some of the upcoming weapon options survivors will have access to!
The Ballista looks very awesome! It can be placed on structures and Platform Saddles, so survivors can use it for both defence and offence!
The Plant Turret will be planted in Crop Plots, which can also be placed on structures! It would require a constant flow of water, so it is good as a non-mobile base defence!
Being in a Tribe may soon grant players some form of levelling bonuses and other benefits!
Dino AI is going to be upgraded to a more sensory-based one, which is a huge shift, of course, so we'll see a lot of changes in the creatures' behaviours!
There will be a way to get water from building a sort of well... but we will see it first on another ARK...
One way in a creature's growth might work is that there are different stages, such as from baby, youth and adult, and at each transition, the animal would grow in size!
In terms of harvesting resources with dinos, it will be tweaked to be more balanced as well as follow the dossiers more, so over-harvesting by over-damage will be clamped down on! However, animals will still be effective at doing what they are good at, just not overly good!
Structures built on top of Platform Saddles will definitely affect the weight of the mounts!
Doedicurus will be released in the coming days! It will also be an autonomous gatherer, like Gigantopithecus, but it harvests stone!
The Sci-Fi tier, also known as the Tek tier, may feature floating structures!
Survivors could see trapdoors, which are placed on foundations/floors, being used as a base defence to trap invaders!
We are very likely to have more than 70 creatures in the game!!! WOOHOO!!! :D
There will be pheromone attractors/repellers to attract or repel specific creatures!
Night vision gear will arrive as part of the higher-modern tier, while heat vision gear will make its appearance in the Tek tier!
Electrical stun arrows will be a thing! They will have brief instant stopping power to smaller creatures, but will not increase Torpor much.
We will be getting to know more about the game's lore soon! There's a sneak peek of some Ruins below, and these are actually integral to some of game's secrets!
Preserving Bins will be able to make jams and preserves soon!
The upcoming Tek tier will also feature... tameable laser raptors? :O
We could see smoke grenades as early as next week!
Elevators will be built by placing a vertical track, and connecting one of three elevator platform sizes to the track, which determine the speed at which it moves up and down and the weight it can carry! I would think that intuitively, the smallest size is the fastest but can carry the least weight, while the opposite is true for the largest platform. The largest one is even able to lift Spinosaurus!
We will see Alpha herbivores in the game!
A second ARK is coming... ;) As mentioned above, getting water from some form of well will first be introduced in this second ARK! This second ARK is probably a whole other map altogether!
Handheld light sources will arrive in the game soon!
Quetzalcoatlus will be arriving in September!!! Though it will be quite slow, it'll be able to carry larger creatures like Triceratops! :D
Once the game has been released, it will be still be updated! In fact, it won't be very different from the current update pace, except that the game itself will have better performance, more content, and less bugs!
We will have a biome that is like a desert, and lots of it!
Players will also be getting a fuel gauge of sorts for items that run on resources to see how long more the fuel will last!
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As mentioned, Doedicurus will be arriving very soon in v202, along with the Plant Turret and Spray-Paint Gun!
Sorry for the long pauses between posts guys, exam period approaches!
-Skyhawk :D
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