Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Ark: Survival Evolved takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. On ARK, they must then hunt, harvest, craft, research technology, and build shelters to protect against scorching days, freezing nights, volatile weather systems, dangerous wildlife, and potential enemies.

Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. Build your character’s strengths and gain items, skills, and pet creatures using in-depth role-playing systems. Start a tribe with hundreds of other players to survive and dominate competing tribes...and ultimately discover the ARK’s true purpose.

The rather svelte Pachy is a nimble creature and easy-to-tame herbivore, with a singularly exceptional ability: it can execute a “charge” attack that rapidly builds speed, and the harder it hits anything with its bone-plated spiked skull, the more “torpor”-inducing damage it causes. It can even charge straight through structures with this powerful attack, making it a one-of-a-kind creature for quickly causing a KO on your enemies!

Also in today’s ARK v207 update, among many new features, Studio Wildcard has added a Raft to explore the oceans & live a life at sea, and a massive new system for building structures on top of large platforms including mobile Bronto bases, providing Tribes with tremendous new tactical possibilities.

Current Version: v208.0
* Fixed some server crashes
* Fixed issue with wall signs & activated powered electronics not attaching to platform structures
* Fixed Brontos/Rafts getting pushed by structures built onto the them
* Fixed invisible character materials after equipping armor in singleplayer/local play
* Wild Dinos (i.e. Sharks etc) will no longer attack rafts
* Fixed a save-painting crash
* Fixed platform-attached climbing ladder funkyness
* Fixed Torch/Fire Lights not being attached correctly on moving platforms
* Rafts physics no longer get stuck underwater at low server fps
* Platform saddles can no longer be colorized when structures are already placed on them (for now).
* Fixed a client case where all saddle-platform structures could be detached depending on network payload order
* You can no longer spawn at platform-saddled beds/sleeping-bags that are "thru"/near enemy structures
* Brontos can now properly climb ramps / base on structures again
* Rafts/Buggies (vehicles) no longer show "Feeding Trough" icon ;)

v207.0
* Driveable Dune Buggy Modding example (we'll let modders have the first crack at vehicles with this example :)

(also available for server admins to spawn for experiments, and so is the Dragon)

cheat spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Dragonfly/Dragonfly_Character_BP.Dragonfly_Character_BP'" 1 1 1

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Vehicles/VH_Buggy/Blueprint/PrimalItemVHBuggy.PrimalItemVHBuggy'" 1 1 false -- for proper driving physics on dedicated servers, highly recommend that server admins who use the Buggy run their server with INI change:
"steamapps\common\ARK\Projects\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer\Engine.ini"
[/script/engine.physicssettings]
Server_MaxSubsteps=5
Server_MaxSubstepDeltaTime=0.1

* New Creature: Pachycephalosaurus!
* New Item: Water Raft!
* New Item: Scuba Pants, providing excellent hypothermic insulation, but only when in water.
* New Item: Craftable "Amnesiac Soup" that resets all of your Engrams and Skill Points!
* Paintings / Warpaints can now be saved, loaded, and shared! (they require the corresponding indicated amount of paint to apply, of course!) -- can someone make a Bitmap to ARKPaint converter now? ;)
* Human and Dino Warpaint
* Collidable Saddle Platform & Build-on-Saddles: make your big ♥♥♥ brontos and plesios into mobile bases, build just about anything up from them! Build ladders to climb up onto them, whatever -- the possibilities are nearly endless!!! ;) We originally were gonna limit it to sleeping bags and turrets, but let's just go all-out and make it work with everything.

Note: Plesio platform-saddle coming in future update.

* Scuba Torso Top included in Tank Item
* Auto Anti Hack Banning (Speed currently, Aimbotting coming shortly): experimental server commandline option -antispeedhack
* Ogg Music now plays on Mac and Linux (main menu, loading, spawning, etc)
* New ServerSettings "DisablePvEGamma=true" option now prevents gamma changes in PvE
* DestroyWildDinos cheat command, instantly destroys all Wild Dinos. Useful if you want to force repopulation of the ARK... sounds apocalyptic. Similarly, DestroyStructures
* When placing a FenceFoundation/Wall/DoorFrame/GateFrame, you can now press the Use-Key to rotate them 180 degrees when snapped (i.e. to "flip" them)
* Eliminated Server lag/stalling associated with clients that have poor connections getting a BUNCH of structures sent to them all at once
* There's now an on-screen overhead icon when a Dino of yours is in range of one of your Troughs.
* You can now place crop-plots on Structures
* You can now name Refrigerators... Maltheus :)
* 50% of the Inventory weight of a Monkey on your shoulder is now put on you ;)
* Rocket Launcher no longer consumes 2 ammo per shot; only 1 ammo per shot now.
* There are various new craftable dye colors including Cyan ;)
* Fixed Claiming of dinos on PvE! (thankfully the timers are saved, was just an input issue)
* Custom Chat bindings now work properly when menus are open
* Fixed UI crash associated with "blueprint skins"
* Server admins can now ban via SteamID when a player isn't currently connected

Tame and ride one of 70-plus amazing dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, including gargantuan creatures on a scale never before seen in video games! Fly a Pterodactyl squadron over snow-capped mountains, race through the deep jungle with your pack of trained Raptors, tromp through a fortified enemy base along a convoy of gigantic Brontosaurus, or chase down prey on the back of a raging T-Rex. Players will quickly learn that dinosaurs aren’t the only dangerous creatures on the island. Other players are organizing rebel tribes to accumulate resources, experience, re-spawn points, and to construct sprawling villages and cities, with technology spanning the primitive stone-age to the modern electric-powered era and beyond. And they will fight to destroy anything they see as a threat.

Ark: Survival Evolved will include Oculus Rift VR/Morpheus support and a thorough integration of Steam community features such as Steam Economy and Steam Workshop for custom maps and mods. Players will also be able to host private/LAN servers, and have access to a custom-built version of the Unreal 4 Editor for creating mods. The world of ARK is designed to be player-oriented and ever-expanding!