Update v66 was launched for Ark Survival Ascended, which brought several fixes and improvements. The action-adventure survival video game was developed by Studio Wildcard in 2023. Generally, the game has a regular update schedule and offers players a better gaming experience. For instance, the latest version arrived a while ago and fixes crashes. Here are the details.
Ark Survival Ascended Update v66 Patch Notes
- ARK 10 Year Anniversary event is now live!
- Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding “-Activeevent=birthday” into their commandline
- Added a drop-down option to enable Active Events in Host/Single-Player mode under Game Rules > Rules
- More info can be found here
- ClubARK has received a new tropical makeover for the anniversary celebration!
- Migrated from Unreal Engine 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.5 to improve Ark’s foundation towards better performance, stability, and visual quality
- Individual DLC maps are now able to be installed and uninstalled separately from the base game
- Added Single Player Backup Saves (beta)
- Create, restore, and auto-generate backups across all platforms
- Added a new “Performance Only” graphics preset on PC, which disables certain features to boost frame-rate at the cost of visual quality
- Dino QOL (as inspired by AvianApexY of Curiosity)
- Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously
- Wild creatures will sometimes play animations
- Added returning structure: Egg Incubator
- Added new structure pieces, variants and skins:
- Thatch (30)
- Barn Door, Cellar Door, Double Door, Double Doorway, Fence Foundation, Fence Support, Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Hanger Door, Hatchframe, Ladder, Pillar & Beam, Quarter Ceiling, Quarter Foundation, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Quarter Wall, Ramp, Ramp Corner, Railings, Shallow Sloped Wall, Staircase, Thin Pillar, Trapdoor, Triangle Ceiling, Triangle Foundation
- Wood, Stone, Metal (30)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall
- Adobe, Tek (22)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Inverted Quarter Roof, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall
- BTT’s Frontier Showdown, Steampunk Ascent, Wasteland War (30)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall
- Thatch (30)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Extinction ascension cinematic
- Fixed several ground conforming issues with various creatures
- Fixed several creatures and saddles having messed up LODs at low graphic settings
- Prevented the Aquatic trait from appearing on flyers (when bAllowFlyerDinoSubmerging is false)
- Fixed “Join Last Session” sometimes not working as intended
- Fixed inability to “drop all” on a creature inventory when the player’s inventory is slot capped
- Fixed lots of structure lights causing shadow flickering
- Fixed water flickering after transferring a character to a different server
- Fixed Snow Owl’s dive bomb impacting mid air with a Companion equipped
- Fixed various visual issues with the preview window while painting a structure
- Fixed Pyromane not becoming doused from touching water after teleporting out of a Vacuum chamber
- Fixed visual artifacting when using spyglass and scuba helmet
- Fixed Industrial Cooking Pot gaining water without irrigation
- Fixed gamepad inability to rotate on the spot with a Tuso, now works with A/X
- Fixed Reaper and Basilisk bury mounts not matching the terrain
- Fixed Biogrinder not providing mutton when grinding Ovis
- Fixed Extinction’s Sunken Forest location where creatures would spawn in the mesh
- Fixed multiple lakes missing water volumes on Extinction
- Fixed several holes leading to the mesh on Extinction
- Fixed Mei Yin’s Note #28 on Extinction being under the mesh
- Fixed missing textures on Extinction
- Fixed water postprocess appearing erroneously on Extinction
- Fixed all of the Titan’s node VFX appearing missing
- Fixed cases where the BattleRig would sink into the mesh on server restart
- Fixed a client crash when entering photo mode after firing a BattleRig Flight seeker missile turret
- Fixed a visual issue with some of the Wasteland Structure skins
- Fixed the cooldown on “training” sometimes getting messed up on Managarmrs after transferring to a different server
- Fixed several creatures that were unable to base on platforms
- Fixed short player character’s legs deforming when walking or running up slopes
- Fixed LOD issues on various Animated Series Pack character skins
- Fixed a visual issue with the Animated Quetz skin
- Fixed Bladewasp Hive visual issue at far distance
- Fixed VFX issues with the Baryonyx and Thylacoleo roar
- Fixed Tek forcefield sometimes appearing to have multiple layers
- Fixed a visual issue with the level up animation on Phoenix
- Fixed Delivery Crate’s balloon not visually inflating when deployed
- Fixed Charge Lantern material breaking when painted
- Fixed missing VFX for heat cooldown in some places on the Tek Railgun
- Fixed a visual issue with the Overseer’s boulder in the Megapithecus phase
- Fixed several exploits
- Fixed several client crashes
- Fixed several server crashes
Astraeos Official Release v0.0.6
New Additions
- Added New landmass Lemnokis
- A massive new area with big, cold and warm areas. Beaches, redwoods, mountain ridges, temples, new caves and other exciting areas await you!
- Added New area: The Maelstrom
- Added Many new bigger and smaller caves
- Added Aberration fertile cave including Gasveins, Green Gems and aberration fertile biome creatures like Karkinos and Cosmo
- First Double-miniboss: Kalydonios & Erymanthian (Terminal can be found on Lemnokis)
- Added Claypiles for harvesting Clay
- Added Astral Direwolf which drops the same loot as yellow ice cave drops
- Added Astral Mammoth which drops the same loot as red ice cave drops
- Added Gas Veins all over Therokis
Changes
- Adjusted Grassclutter meshes on high distance
- Adjusted Grassclutter density on close distance
- Adjusted Grassclutter colors
- Adjusted Bossfight tribute description
- Adjusted Cedar Tree colors
- Adjusted the lighting in every cave because of the engine upgrade
- Remade the temperature curve on the whole map
- Astral Deinosuchus now drops the same loot as red swamp cave drops
- Astral Megalodon now drops the same loot as yellow underwater cave drops
- Astral Mosasaurus now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops
- Astral Tusoteuthis now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops
- Lightning creatures are now immune to spike wall damage to prevent AFK farming
Fixes
- Fixed Meshholes
- Fixed Post process volume issues
- Fixed Physic volume issues
- Fixed a ton of technical issues with materials
- Fixed Missing foliage at some places on Therokis+
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