Upcoming This-Week Patch Notes:
- MASSIVE GPU Perf Gain for NVIDIA cards, about 10 Miliseconds per frame (this can be up to a 20-40% gain depending on your FPS). Coming as soon as NVIDIA will let us get new these beta drivers out.
- Industrial Multi-Grill
- Two new tripwire traps:audio alarm and gas bomb
- Audio-Alarm Away & Offline raiding notifications, Phase 1!
- Eggs for all animals and circle-of-life 'Taming Efficiency' boosting per-dino Egg-Kibbles
- Approximate +20% Dedicated Server performance gain... PHYSX!!!!! >:-P
- Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky
- Machined Shotgun
Next week:
Sign painting
Electronic Animal Trackers
Collidable Saddle Platform & Build-on-Saddles
Non-Dedicated Host Session
Titanomyrmas
Dimorphodons
[MORE NOTES TO COME]
A little further out:
- Competitive "ARK: Survival of the Fittest" game type
[MORE NOTES TO COME]
Upcoming Version: 185.5
- About +35% server performance gain
- Fixed the fix: Max height of structures above the ground is now 25,000 units. Previously was 15,000 units. Thank you
Current Version: 185.4
- Approximate 10% Dedicated Server Performance gain
- Approximate 80% faster savegame load speed
- Fix for AMD GPU shadow flickering (partial... can still flicker but far less frequently. full fix is coming this weekend)
- Eliminated issue where large amounts of structures could cause client disconnection or bandwidth starvation (mega lag)
- Reduced client hitching around large structures
- Improved client physx performance onto large structures
- Mods will now load properly on clients launched with commandlines (such as -nomansky)
- Mods will now download dynamically upon connection even if you connect to a server directly thru the Steam Client
- Fixed some more Admin UI crashes
- All Chat is now logged to RCON
- Max height of structures above the ground is now 25,000 units. Previously was 15,000 units. Thank you