ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 7/28

Good afternoon,

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are also maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the** #「📩」support** channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord .

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will continue to stream live throughout the week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• The current schedule will be: Tuesday (7/29) and Thursday (7/31) at 2PM PST.

• **Stream link: **[dynamiclink href="https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell"][/dynamiclink]

We are currently experiencing issues with the latest update, rather than introduce new issues, we will delay the update until a solution is found. We will continue testing to be able to release the next update in full soon.

On Tuesday (7/22), we released an update that included a fix for loading mods that will continue to be developed. Another solution will be coming soon. While we have specifically tested certain mods, we are going through a list provided by the community.

In the meantime, the ‘preaquatica’ branch will remain available.

**Top priorities **

• FPS Improvement

• Continued Progress on Mods / Updating the Dev Kit

• Server Issues

• Core Functionality 

Issues pipeline (v360.6 Live Branch)

• Adding the Spearbolt to the Anvil

• Explorer Note Location update

• Raft launching fix

• Fixing the Monodon ranged attack to no longer count as melee damage

• Balancing Thalassian Rifle damage

• Updating select environmental visuals

• Adding select Tek Engrams into the boss loot table

• Investigating server cluster transfer issues

• Continuing to address areas where players are falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Hydrosphere issues

• Infected barnacle bugs

• Continuing dino spawner updates

• Linux binaries missing

• Vehicle updates in general (rafts/motorboats and stinger)

• Ocean platform placement issues

Tek Engrams to be added to boss drop loot tables:

• Tek Boots

• Tek Gauntlets

• Tek Cap

• Tek Chestpiece

• Tek Leggings

• Tek Shield

• Tek Shield Riot

• Tek Grenade

• Tek Sword

• Tek Rifle

• Tek Cloning Chamber

• Tek Light

• Tek Turret

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.