ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 7/30

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 again this 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: 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 game engine update that would allow more mods to load, rather than introduce new issues, we will delay the game engine update until a solution is found. We will continue testing to be able to release the next update in full soon.

We have reverted the initial fix of dinos/ships disappearing cryopod issue to prevent long load times with primalgamedata. This is a complicated issue, the developers have elected to roll back this fix to accelerate load times and provide a solution soon. Remember that this bug will be reintroduced by reverting our initial fix and loss of dinos/ships/cryopod issues without tribe logs will happen again.

Current top priority issues:

• FPS and Level Optimization

• Mods Compatibility / Updated Dev Kit

• Server Issues

• **Core Functionality **

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

Patch notes for today’s update (v360.7 Live Branch)

• Fixed a crash when accessing a custom radial menu.

• Added Spearbolt to anvil.

• Crystal trees / crystalized wood harvestable visual update

• Balancing of Thalassian Rifle damage.

• Raft launching fix.

• Fixed Monodon ranged attacks so it will no longer damage players and dinosaurs that are immune to ranged damage.

• Adding select TEK items to boss drops.

• Karkinos overspawn fix.

• Trilobite overspawn fix.

• Adding Alpha Karkinos spawns.

• Updated select environmental visuals.

• Reverted initial fix for dinos/ships disappearing without tribe logs as well as cryopod issues to prevent long load times for primalgamedata, more information on this coming soon.

• Missing meshes are being addressed and will be restored into the level. (unintended/abusive ratholes/etc)

Tek Engrams to be added:

• 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

More Tek Engram additions have been proposed and are a work in progress.

There is an issue with in-game broadcasting of server downtime warnings. Some servers may see the warnings but not others. This will be addressed in the future, the update times are listed below:

This update will require a minor server downtime of 1 hour to official ARK: Aquatica servers. Servers with the highest population will be prioritized. This update will be pushed starting:

**9:00 PM UTC

5:00 AM CST 2:00 PM PST 5:00 PM EST**

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