Good afternoon,
We are continuing to make posts through the weekend to continue to provide transparency regarding issues reported through the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed.
Our top priority remains to fix an issue with the game engine on the live version of ARK: Survival Evolved (360.1) ; proving to be complex, a solution continues to be developed in order to address mods from instantly crashing and we look forward to posting an update when possible. Once this specific issue is addressed, only then will the team be able to chase down specific mods with issues that may require an update with the updated devkit.
We are looking into issues that relate to shader issues built into the engine
We have been able to identify content that was pushed to the base game that may be conflicting with mods
To continue to remind everyone of the current solution, the team was able to push a pre-aquatica release version of A.S.E. This allowed people to return and play a version of the game before the launch of ARK: Aquatica and progress has and will continue to be made to address lingering issues.
The branch is called "preaquatica". To navigate to the branch:
Right Click ARK: Survival Evolved in your Steam Library
Click Properties
Betas
Beta participation
Opt into "preaquatica" branch
The branch is available for clients and dedicated servers now.
Current issues being tested for this incoming Monday (7/21)
Takifugu textures disappearing when Takifugu takes damage
Angler boss death animation
Mantis Shrimp taming issues
Kathreptis taming issues
Crash fixes in relation to current official server instability, in the meantime, an automatic restart solution has been implemented.
Tridachna fix to enable taming in PvE
Kibble mash not craftable in inventory
Cymathoa taking damage from rocket launcher
Incorrect icon in taming tracker
Vulcanithys fight updates
More known issues in the pipeline:
Character bugs out when using the Tek Trident after spawning in single player (GCM).
Low FPS/Low performance issues
Raft/Motorboat issue: When picking up a foundation from the motorboat while on it you are teleported to the centre of the map
Bug that causes characters to disappear when moving servers between clusters.
Stinger ship issues
Level holes in large pools of lava
Water beacon issue requiring reactivation
Hydrosphere issues
Skiff loss issues per update, we ask that players do not craft Skiffs during this time until this can be addressed.
Transferred DLC dinos issue, losing references and vanish or become undeployable when loaded on non-native maps
Missing Linux Binaries on v360.1
Planned Developer Stream:
A member of the Studio Sirens Development team will be doing a live stream
The focus of this stream would be to showcase the fixes made in the game client
The stream will go live at 2:00 PM PST, 07/21 Monday
Stream link:
For All ARK: Survival Evolved MOD Creators:
This is an outreach for all ARK: Survival Evolved Mod creators. We would love to get in touch with you all as we are actively tracking the mods that will need updates as a community. Please contact the team via the ticket system in the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK Aquatica Discord.
Look forward to more updates soon, we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.