By 2pm PT/5pm ET today, the latest ARK: Survival Evolved update for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One should be available to download, Studio Wildcard has revealed. It was previously scheduled for April 24, but took a couple of days to pass certification.
Version 506 on PS4, and v753 on Xbox One, here’s the full list of patch notes for today’s update:
New Content
New Mechanic: Aquatic & Amphibious Creature Breeding
New Dino: Equus!
New Dino: Leedsichthys!
New Dino: Ichthyornis!
New Dino: Iguanodon!
New Structures & Mechanic: Tek Underwater Bases
New Structure: TEK Teleporter
New Structure: TEK Mosa Saddle
New Structure: Tek Power Generator
New creature sounds for: Dodo, Raptor, Quetzal, Parasaur, Rex, Trike, Pteranodon, Dilo, Direwolf, Compy, Dung Beetle, Argent, Pachy, and Mammoth.
New female/male character sounds, inventory sounds, building sounds, crafting sounds, and a couple items/weapons.
20+ new Explorer Notes
1 New Hairstyle and 1 New Facial hairstyle (male and female variants)
General
Total Inventory Menu redesign (other UI’s coming soon!)
Flyer Nerf
Ridable fliers (not the Moth) now have ground attacks.
Limited one C4 attached per dino
Sheep now have a “Slaughter” option when you have a club, sword, hatchet etc equipped, also works on PvE
Player invulnerability after Eel attack increased to 5 seconds.
Scuba tanks now provide oxygen underwater even when a player is offline.
Underwater mines now respect enemy foundation radius.
Underwater mines increased damage by 33%, increased targeting range by 100%, increased movement speed by 100%.
Cluster grenades no longer fragment if they’ve been destroyed by damage.
Vault health and physical size has been decreased.
Speed buff gained from Oxygen stat on dinos decreased by 80%.
Tek Structures now give appropriate insulation on Scorched Earth.
Turrets can now be placed underwater. Underwater turrets will not target anything above water.
Maturation Bar, Egg Incubation bar, and Taming bar now also displays the numerical progress percent.
Fixed weight calculation/updating issues.
Vaults are now paintable
Therizinosaurus spawn weight and aggro ranged decreased
Certain creatures now have special weight reductions for specific resources similar to the Beaver:
Mammoth reduces weight of wood by 75%
Ankylo reduces weight of raw metal by 75%
Doed reduces weight of stone by 75%
Beaver and Thorny Dragon now adjusted to 50% reduction for resource-weight (they do a few) due to being a jack of all trades, as opposed to specialising.
Posting an update on the Primitive+ console release, Director Ced said, “Things need to be a bit more optimized before making it to console, so I’ll need to spend a little bit more time making sure it’s console ready.”
ARK: Survival Evolved is expected to be content complete this spring.