ARK: Survival Evolved/Patch/Xbox 781.15

 ARK: Survival Evolved

 

781.15

Type

Major version

Availability

Client

Server

Yes
Dec 18, 2018

Chronology

Winter Wonderland!

• Raptor Claus
  • Flies over any map between 0am and 2am in-game (with event enabled)
  • Drops Holiday Gifts
• Gacha Claus
  • Spawns where you'd find Parasaurs on all maps
  • Has holiday colors and wears a Santa Hat
  • Cannot be tamed
  • Doesn't like being near other wild dinos
  • Accepts Coal
    • Gives Holiday Items in return
    • Drops Dino Candy
      • Feed this to a tamed dino for a strange effect
  • Accepts Mistletoe
    • Gives Items in return
• Colorization
  • 20% of wild dinos will spawn with Holiday colors
• Uses the ActiveEvent system
  • ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland
  • Cleans up after ActiveEvent is reset
  • Auto applies to all non-TC sessions from 12/18-1/7 (UTC)
  • Run with ActiveEvent=None to disable

Extinction

• Fix for King Titan environmental effects starting again after boss despawned
• Fix for other bosses interrupting King Titan environmental effects
• Cave entrance cooldown display bug fix
• Increased radius of city meteor shield
• Improvements to dome shaders
• Reduced meteor impact damage to 750
• Improvements to height fog in desert biome

Titans

• Increased Mek sword damage to tamed titans approximately 9x
• Increased Mek pistol damage to tamed titans approximately 3x
• Increased turret damage multipliers to tamed Titans
• Changes to Titan downloading
  • Titan is disabled for 15m after download
  • Titan takes increased damage during this time
• Increased Titan download cooldown to 6+ hours
• Fix typo in vertical Can't Damage message

Orbital Supply Drop

• Buffed Legendary Drops in difficulty and quality of loot
• Can now be claimed by a tribe in PVE
  • Only that tribe can disable shield, eject items, gather loot
• Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
• Improvements to shield behavior on low FPS servers
• Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

Element Vein

• Can now be claimed by a tribe in PvE
  • Only that tribe can harvest element
• Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
• Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

Desert Titan

• Increased damage when it strikes itself with lightning
• Improvements to Desert Titan follow to address flying away
• Fix for flocks not defending properly
• Improvements to tail attack accuracy
• Made tail attack damage consistent
• Disabled cryoing the flock
• Fixed encumbered movement when walking on a Desert Titan

Dropped Items

• Improvements to dropped item interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
• Prevented dropped items from falling through structures on load
• Prevented dropped items from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them

Eggs

• Improvements to egg interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
• Prevented eggs from falling through structures on load
• Prevented eggs from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them
• Fix for invisible Rock Drake and Wyvern eggs

Velonasaur

• Increased accuracy of AOE attack
• Reduced AOE damage to compensate for increased accuracy
• Wild Velonasaurs will no longer shoot for too long
• Fix for Wild Velonasaurs not doing damage in PvE
• Improvements to desyncs between spines and damage
• Reduced hovering when walking
• AOE attack will no longer loot victims

Managarmr

• Fixed anim bug related to Ice Breath
• Fixes for several orientation desyncs
• Fixes for desyncs when moving on low fps server
• Minor buff to landing damage
• Improvements to ice breath targeting
• Added message when you are unable to dive
• Slowed down baby Managarmrs

Enforcer

• Fixed instances where Enforcer could teleport to a non-existant wall
• Fixed instances where it could jump back to its last jump position

Scout

• Improved Scout tagging accuracy
• Improvements to player inspection mechanic
• Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged

Item Balloon

• Fixed instances of it not going to the correct destination
• Fix for cases where balloons didn't explode after landing
• Improvements to weight calculation

Gacha

• Fix for unclamped loot quality
• Fix for incorrect UI when taming is interrupted

Ice Titan

• Fix for broken dino animations related to Ice Breath
• Increased collision radius for shoulder Corruption

Flyers

• Improved flyer following when in water
• Added Whistle Land Flyer command
  • Commands a flyer to land nearby

Crash

• Fix low frequency crash

Manticore

• Improvements to landing logic

Performance

• Improvements to server performance

Map Markers

• Add support for decimal values

Snow Owl

• Slowed down baby food consumption rate

Daedon

• Disable healing when frozen

Xbox

• Improvements to dino quality
• Improvements to environment quality