Alrighty, news is out there now. Probably no surprise to most that Dollie and myself have been working on ARK for sometime now. We're glad to finally be able to introduce some of ATLAS new crew members, including their Community folk.

It was a pleasure sailing the seas with y'all and we're looking forward to the changes that are coming from the team.

Ahoy Pathfinders,

Happy Holidays!

Later today we’ll be pushing out an update for both PC and Xbox, which contains a number of bug fixes, QOL improvements, and balance changes. We have a lot more changes to come and will be following up with another patch in January next year and more shortly thereafter!

We’d like to celebrate the holidays with something special, so we’ll be running a bonus Magic Mythos event! From Thursday the 19th of December, until Monday the 6th of January, the following bonus rates will be applied to our Official Network:

3x Taming
3x Harvesting
3x EXP
2x Gold

Latest Patch Notes (v402.5)

- Emergency ship ladders are now easier to use
- Bow and crossbow can now damage Army of the Damned enemies
- Added a new inventory sort option to “sort by type”
- Improved inventory functionality to prevent items from randomly shifting around when transferring between inventories
- When multiple items are sent to the hotbar, their “equip dela...

Ahoy Pathfinders,

Happy Holidays!

Later today we’ll be pushing out an update for both PC and Xbox, which contains a number of bug fixes, QOL improvements, and balance changes. We have a lot more changes to come and will be following up with another patch in January next year and more shortly thereafter!

We’d like to celebrate the holidays with something special, so we’ll be running a bonus Magic Mythos event! From Thursday the 19th of December, until Monday the 6th of January, the following bonus rates will be applied to our Official Network:

3x Taming
3x Harvesting
3x EXP
2x Gold

Latest Patch Notes (v402.5)

- Emergency ship ladders are now easier to use
- Bow and crossbow can now damage Army of the Damned enemies
- Added a new inventory sort option to “sort by type”
- Improved inventory functionality to prevent items from randomly shifting around when transferring between inventories
- When multiple items are sent to the hotbar, their “equip dela...

Have you been able to log back on since?

Hey folks,

We're currently investigating reports of players not being able to log onto specific bases as it causes the game to crash (application to shut down). If you are experiencing this on an Official Server, please fill out the information below. Specifically, having the location is most important as it enables us to carry out some data collection and analysis to identify why this is happening and how we can improve it going forward.

What type of Xbox are you using? (Is it a regular, S, or One X?)

What network are you experiencing this on?

Which grid?

Which island?

Do you have the CCC? This isn't something you're able to get on Xbox, however, if you have PC players in your company, they can help out:

Thank you very much!

We've got a fix in the pipeline for maps, it's currently going through cert at the moment, unfortunately, it's not something we can fully put through its paces until it's in the live environment, so we'll have to see for sure whether this will resolve all cases.

@BugeyedflyOkay that sounds like a different issue to the Comcast one. I will reach out to our hosts to see if there are any additional diagnostics we can run to identify why that might be the case. I assume your Xbox has its NAT set to open?

Additional info re: Comcast, they say that the issue should be resolved on their end and if there's still any trouble, you can contact them directly. I reached out to them via twitter https://twitter.com/comcastcares but I am sure there are other avenues to explore too.

Our engineers are looking into this at the moment

There are some significant differences despite the similarities in mechanics and visuals. Are you able to see non-dedicated servers and join those?

Out of curiosity, are you able to join Non Official Servers? Say an unofficial Nitrado?

could I know who your ISP provider is?

Thank you very much for the additional information! I have followed up with Comcast and I believe this is a change that they'll have to make, but I am not sure when that'll be. I will ping them again.

Could you check out this thread:

Are you guys able to show me a screengrab of the potential threats screen so I could relay that info to Comcast?

I'm in communication with Comcast right now to see if we can get them to lift it, as this appears to be on their end. Would you guys be able to share with me a screengrab of your XFI Advanced Security logs that show the servers being blocked?

Hey guys,

Currently looking into reports about players either not being able to join or see Official Servers on the Xbox. Please note that this is different to a single server being offline, or the fact that Blackwood servers are not displaying in the Unofficial Filter (we have fixed this internally and will be patching it asap). I am specifically talking about those who have never been able to join our Official Servers (it always times them out), or those who do not even see the servers list in the client. If you could fill in the information below, it'll help us get to the bottom of the issue.

Please specify your problem:

- I cannot see Official Servers

- I can see Official Servers but I am unable to join them

Are you able to see other types of servers?

- Unofficial

- Non-Dedicated

- Both

Are you able to connect to Unofficial Servers?

- Yes

- No

What Xbox are you playing on?

- Xbox One

- Xbox One S

- Xbox One X

- If m...

I'm going to lock down this thread as this specific issue was resolved by our latest client-side patch, however, if you are still experiencing similar problems please create a new thread and we'll investigate (and escalate to a mega-thread if more info is warranted).