If you ask most of the Ark survivors, this time of year is hard to beat. As the Turkey Trial and Winter Wonderland events are closely linked, our community always has something to look forward to during the Christmas season. Our well-known helper, RaptorClaus, will return triumphantly to deliver Christmas gifts full of loot, event items, mistletoe and lumps of coal for all of these naughty survivors. Join the Christmas spirit and get the chance to get a new Santa Claus skin, an animated series Parasaur skin and new Chibis. If you’re out there fighting for those epic RaptorClaus drops, please note: In the world of Ark, Christmas time isn’t necessarily the time of giving. Expect a little competition.
This year was an opportunity to do something with the community that we have never done before. Our very first community creature poll allowed us to add community-requested creatures to the upcoming Lost Island map. Amargasaurus, Dinopithecus and Sinamacrops are new creatures that will make their first debut in the newly launched free DLC Lost Island. Before it became an official map, the Lost Island news was trending all the time in the Ark community. Whether it was the 150 square kilometer exploration areas, the huge mangrove swamps or the unknown cave systems, the peculiarities of Lost Island piqued the players’ interest. Ending the year and holiday season by bringing Lost Island into the hands of more Ark Survivors on more platforms is a joy.
The party won’t stop next year either! In February we will spread positive vibes with Love Evolved and the community will start a new encounter in June 2022 in the form of a Nordic-inspired mod community map, Fjordur. Since the community creatures vote was successful, we’re bringing them back (with improvements) for Fjordur. We’re all excited to see the community’s creativity and passion in the upcoming round of creature submissions!
We wrap up another year of events and new content, and we are optimistic about what to expect for Ark survivors in the year ahead. Happy Holidays to everyone at Studio Wildcard. We can’t wait to see you in the new year!
ARK: Survival Evolved
Studio wildcard
$ 29.99
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures that roam the land and meet other players to survive, dominate … and escape! TAME, EDGE, BREED AND DRIVE DINOSAURS IN A LIVING ECOSYSTEM Over 50 creatures can be tamed with a demanding process of subjugation and protection. Weakens a wild creature to take it out, and then nurses it back to health. Once tamed, you can give your pet commands that it can obey based on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Pets keep leveling up, consuming food, and carrying inventory and equipment. Fly over the mountains with a pteranodon, speed through the jungle with a pack of raptors or hunt prey on a T-Rex! Experience a dynamic ecosystem with its own predator and prey hierarchies. Breed pets through successive generations to produce the best traits. Or, to put it more simply: breed and raise dinosaur babies! FOOD, WATER, TEMPERATURE, AND WEATHER Eat and drink a variety of foods with different nutritional values (including human meat!) To survive. All actions consume food and water, and long-distance trips consume. The weight of the inventory slows you down, and the day-night cycle and weather change the environment. Make clothes, build a shelter, and use fire to protect yourself from damage and the elements. HARVEST, CRAFTS AND PAINT ITEMS Harvest trees, ores and more to become a master of the craft. Use your hands, a forge or a factory owner to create increasingly complex and powerful equipment. Build a massive base with modular parts – from straw to wood to stone and metal. Customize your base by painting it and placing signs that you can actually draw on. Weapons, clothing, and armor can also be painted to express your own visual style. SUMMON THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORMS Bring rare items to special summoning locations to awaken the mythical creatures of the ARK, who arrive ready to fight. These monstrosities provide an endgame target for the most skilled tribes and their pets, and provide valuable items when defeated. RPG STATISTICS Level up your survivors by gaining experience through in-game actions to make new engrams, or find higher-level object blueprints in the most dangerous parts of the ARK. Customize the look of your character with a complex character creation system. HARDCORE MECHANICS items are durable and wear out with use unless they are repaired. When you exit the game, your character will remain “asleep” in the persistent world. Your inventory also exists in the persistent world and is prone to theft. Death is permanent loss, and you can even enslave other players for your own ends. LARGE WORLDWIDE PERSISTENCE Your character, everything you have built and your pets stay in the game on over 70 player servers, even after you leave the game. In the world there are special themed events with corresponding limited items!
