Welcome to a spooky edition of the Community Crunch and Happy Halloween!



What better time to introduce you to a creepily cute new creature preparing to make its debut on the ARK for Genesis 2. Would that adorable face mean you any harm? Of course not!

Stay posted for more exciting Genesis 2 reveals and teasers during our Extra Life stream!

...speaking of...

We are gearing up for another year of Extra Life. The Extra Life charity stream is a 24-hour stream where all proceeds directly benefit children in need. This year's Extra Life event kicks off on November 7th at 10 AM PST! Expect prizes and giveaways like Collector's Edition's, boosted Official Network rates, and sneak peeks at upcoming content. We also have some very special guests lined up to make an appearance and it's something we don't think you'll want to miss! The rates for the Extra Life event are listed below. Can we hit a billion?



You can sign up to the Studio Wildcard Extra Life team here[www.extra-life.org]

And you can read all about Extra Life here[www.extra-life.org]


November 7th also marks the date of the much-awaited Tender Loving Care 3 patch. We can't wait to get the turbo-boosted Wolly Mammoth and Stego into your hands along with some juicy Quality of Life additions! Read more about what's included below:
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-243-tender-loving-care-3-details-official-server-maintenance-and-more-r1658/


This past week, we completed an Official Network upgrade that will have a positive effect on all platforms. The intent of the upgrade was to resolve problems relating to character loss, player timeout, latency, and failure to download or upload player data. We thank you for your understanding and patience as the upgrade came with a brief interruption in service on the Official Network. Ensuring a smooth playing experience on the Official Network remains a top priority.



Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Thursday the 22nd of Oct at 4 PM EST until Friday the 6th of Nov at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

• 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching
  
• 2x Harvesting
  
• 2x Taming
  
• 2x XP

Zombie Wyvern by PicturesofArk


Jerboa by Amberghini


My Tribe Mate and I by Trashcan Mcgee (Discord)


Wild Caard, notice me! by Timidd (Discord)


Architecture Fun by Gamecruisers


Arks theropod offspring by Apal (Discord)


Wyvern by kawarayane


Have a safe and happy Halloween!
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Ready to be a monster and mash some buttons in the Realm this weekend?

Good!

Evie's all dressed up for Halloween and wants you to join her and the other Paladin Champions for some XP bonus time this weekend and a special avatar.

Here's your invitation to the fright-tivities:

• 2X Champion XP
  
  • Play any game and voila!

• Beevie Avatar
  
  • Play any 2 of the same (non-bot) game in a row, win or loss!

• 2X Champion XP starts at 4AM ET on Friday.
  
• Beevie Avatar starts making the buzz on Saturday at 4AM ET

We hope you'll join us for all the fun this weekend.
Evie just wants to remind you all to beehive, please!

We were previously targeting a launch date of December 11 for our 3.13 end-game expansion. As we discussed last week[www.pathofexile.com], our new development methodology gives us confidence that we'd be able to hit this date with a high quality expansion. Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be released on December 10. We do not want to put our players in a position of having to choose between these two games, so we have decided to step out of the way and delay the release of Path of Exile 3.13 until January.

We still expect to finish 3.13 by early/mid-December. The scope of this expansion will remain unchanged. During the month of delay before release, we will start work on the 3.14 expansion.

So that you still have some interesting Path of Exile stuff to play over the Christmas/New Year break, we're planning to run at least one multi-week event (for example, Flashback). We'll confirm details of these event(s) once we have put together a plan.

While this delay will hopefully not affect our development schedule, it will probably cause our release schedule to change a little bit during 2021. We'll post details about this as soon as we have more information about these dates and when we'll be announcing 3.13.

In the meantime, let's all get out our Albino Rhoa Feathers and pray to Kuduku that they don't delay again.

The time has come, Tenno. After meticulously investigating crime scenes, poring over clues and shattering glass across the Origin System, you've tracked the Glassmaker to a pivotal location. A place where the Glassmaker killed thousands, if not millions in an age long past.


More questions await as the latest victim you discover is Orokin, possibly someone who stood against Nihil in the past? Find clues to reveal where the Glassmaker is hiding and shatter his schemes once and for all, Tenno.

This will be the last chance to spend your Crystal Cred, so act quickly!



Mastery Rank 30 has arrived, along with a new True Master Test. It's only available to a limited number of players right now, but all Tenno will be able to reach Mastery Rank 30 as we release more content.

When you complete your True Master Test and unlock Mastery Rank 30, you'll receive:

• 3 Umbra Forma
  
• 15 Loadout Slots
  
• 30 Riven Slots
  
• True Master Chat Emoji
  
• True Master Emote
  
• True Master Sumdali Landing Craft Decoration
  
• Relay Blessing

Plus, a new set of Legendary Ranks for you to earn in the future! Keep ranking up your Arsenal and you'll be taking the True Master Test before you know it.

Engulf your enemies in the sacred fire of the empyrean as Nezha Prime. The Prince of Flame arrives in his ultimate form along with the Guandao Prime, Zakti Prime and more!


NEZHA PRIME
Behold: the Scion of the Burning Wind, donned in his most courtly accoutrements. Featuring altered mod polarities for greater customization.

GUANDAO PRIME
Engineered for the divine to reap a harvest of lives.

ZAKTI PRIME
Unleash waves of gas damage with a smattering of spiny, toxin-filled flechettes.

NEZHA PRIME GLYPHS
A show of devotion to Nezha Prime.


- Ransha Prime Armor
- Baurahn Prime Ephemera
- 90-Day Affinity Booster
- And for the first time ever, a 90-Day Resource Amount Booster!

Get these items instantly with Nezha Prime Access or earn Blueprints in-game for Nezha Prime, Guandao Prime and Zakti Prime!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442700/Warframe_Nezha_Prime_Access_Fire_Walker_Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442703/Warframe_Nezha_Prime_Access_Accessories_Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16631/Warframe_Nezha_Prime_Access_Warding_Halo_Bundle
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16632/Warframe_Nezha_Prime_Access_Divine_Spears_Bundle

It's All Hallows' Eve. Creeping away from the horrors of the battlefield, Frost indulges in the nostalgic fun of Halloweens' past: candy. From October 27th to November 10th 2020, experience the chills of Sugar Fright!

LEARN MORE[rainbow6.com]

We've prepared several pieces of concept art of the cosmetic effects released since the launch Heist. If you liked the Glimmerwood, Temple and Darkwood microtransaction series or if you're interested in seeing the work of our art team, check out the concept art below.

: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/1091500/announcements/detail/2958261948858396505]here[/url].

Once roughly every two in-game days, a candy hunt event will begin. You'll have 3 minutes to collect as many candies as you can. The top 3 players are given special loot bags as a reward. These candies and loot bags can be opened for various types of loot ranging from scrap all the way up to an M249!

If you don't make the podium, that's okay. The Candies you collect can be upgraded for better loot.

There are various items available to help you during your hunt. The Pumpkin Bucket will allow instant pickup of candies and the Scarecrow Wrap and will provide you with an advantage via Candy Vision.

We've also updated the Halloween loot tables from last years event and added a new item "Ghost Costume" (see above image), you'll be able to find these as rare drops from killing Scarecrow NPCs.

The Halloween event will run until November 5th. More Details can be found on the blog[rust.facepunch.com]

Have fun!


A decorative mount that can hold the skull of a friend or foe, including his/her name.
Comes in 4 variations

Inflict fear into your enemies with these decorative Skulls on spikes.
Comes in 3 variations

Replace your default underwear with some new spooky underwear.
No crafting required!

Just like Bewitching Evie on her broom, these last few weeks of October have really flown on by. We're making sure to bring you even more excitement this week.

While all of you join us for Vora's live release this week we know you'll also be looking forward to what we have brewing up with it.

Here's what you can expect:

Vora's Pact Update Live

• You heard it here! Vora is expected to be live on Wednesday the 28th. Not only her, but also a whole new Battle Pass experience with the Arcane Pacts addition. As if that wasn't enough, we also will be launching the brand new version of our Frozen Guard map with this update.

A Very Beevie Halloweekend?

• Bzzzzzzzzz...if you don't speak bee, that's ok - Evie decided to dress up as a bee this weekend for Halloween and is going to give you a shot at her avatar wearing this! There will be other bonuses in store as well for everyone. Make sure to look out for the blog with all the details coming on Thursday the 29th.

Pumpkin Carving Contest

• This coming weekend we will be asking to see your best Paladins pumpkins! If you haven't already, head over to our community box[app.box.com] and download your favorite PDF to stencil onto a pumpkin. Or, if you're feeling even more creative, feel free to make your own design of a Champion on a Pumpkin! Either way, we'll be giving away some skin codes to the best ones we see on social. Don't miss out on this fun way of celebrating Halloween with us!

***Rotates every Wednesday at 4AM ET***

• Inara
  
• Sha Lin
  
• Koga
  
• Pip

We're continuing to ask our community's opinion on a new microtransaction design. Last week we determined a Skill Gem that would receive a new effect - the majority of the players voted for Cyclone. We're getting really close to finding out the end result! Today we're opening a new poll in order to know a theme of the upcoming Cyclone effect.

Cast your votes in this thread![www.pathofexile.com]

Over the years, many supporters have purchased the ability to design a Divination Card to make their mark on Path of Exile forever. We've heard a lot of stories behind the scenes about the meanings behind their designs and we wanted to share these with you. In the first of this series, we talked with ReignFreeze who designed The Bitter Blossom Divination Card to learn the story behind the design.



I joined the Path of Exile family in Closed Beta. I got my beta invite two days before my birthday in 2012 and I was pretty excited. I have always loved RPGs - I grew up with Diablo 1 and 2, HeXeN, Baldur's Gate, and many others. They had occupied my mind in a positive way that I'd never experienced with any other hobby before. Jumping into Path of Exile felt like coming home. There is a special place in my heart for the first time I defeated Merveil and entered the freshly created Act 2 for the first time, and who can forget the Piety-runs, trying to get the best bases we could back then. While the early days of the game may not hold a candle to where we are now, it's important to remember where we all came from and that initial love for the game.

Even 8 years ago, I knew I wanted to be part of the game. I didn't have the money to support the game with any of the packs so I tried to give it all the publicity I could. I would convince all my friends and colleagues to download it and play. I would talk about it on streams and podcasts, any time or place I got the chance. I played before I started college, all through my courses, and out the other side. I've worked hard to make a career that could allow me to afford luxuries that were only dreams of a kid with his eyes glued to the computer screen. I bought a few supporter packs here and there, with fun-money, and over the years it built up to a substantial collection. Ultimately, GGG reached out and offered me the opportunity to purchase a div card. I was ecstatic. I didn't even realize that this was still an option. I had always assumed that this ability, similar to the uniques, was tied to supporter packs that were no longer available. Unfortunately, I could not afford it at the time it was offered, as I ran into some minor health complications.

Every year, I would reach back out to GGG and see if I could still purchase the Divination Card and every year they would tell me yes. But things never quite lined up nicely. After a series of unfortunate events and setbacks, the stars finally aligned. We had had a vacation cancelled due to covid and my significant other told me that I should use the cash infusion to finally purchase the Divination Card for myself. It was a pretty welcome consolation prize. As I worked on what I would choose, I became more and more excited.

I love Magic: the Gathering, I love Death Guard (WH40k), and I love Path of Exile. This card would incorporate the theming of all three of my favourite things. The name, 'The Bitter Blossom' is obviously a reference to the classic Magic Card. The flavor of the gem choice and accompanying text is in reference to the Death Guard and specifically their "Feel no Pain" rule. And lastly, I get to be part of my favourite game forever with the creation of this card. I like the aspect of all three games that are grim and dark in nature. I wanted the art on the card to include some sort of flora growing out of a pustular demon and I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

As for the reward itself, I was hoping to make a card that gives any random corrupted chaos gem at gem level 22, with no gem quality. I felt this would give chaos players, especially those with Essence Drain or Toxic Rain builds something to chase for to really push their damage to the limit. After discussing with GGG, we came to the conclusion that the card would instead give a level 21 gem with 23% quality as Divination Cards can't grant items that don't exist.

And lastly, in keeping with the theme, I wanted the number of cards to be a set or multiple of three. In MtG the three colour wedges are generally the most powerful while having the cost of spreading your deck much thinner across your land base. Additionally, in Death Guard, the main symbol is three decaying skulls and references to three appear numerous times throughout their lore. And lastly, it reminds of the launch of PoE's full release - three acts, three difficulties and late, three Ascendancies per class.

Now that my Divination Card is completed and released, I get to be part of my favourite game forever, and that's something pretty special. Good luck, have fun, don't die, exiles!

Our Tender Loving Care 3 update approaches on November 7th and, aside from the dedicated reworks of the Stego and Mammoth, we've added a bunch of Quality of Life changes to make your time on the ARK more enjoyable.

We're particularly excited about introducing insect and wyvern breeding to the game and look forward to players getting their new breedlines goin!. We're aware these creatures may need some balance once breedlines get underway and we'll monitor and adjust as necessary.



The insects and creatures that can now be bred are: Spider, Onyc, Moth, Scorpion, Arthropluera, Mantis and the mighty Wyverns!

The new (Wyvern are unchanged) hatching/gestation and maturation times are as follows:

• Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes (Matches Pachy)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 1 hour, and 1 minute (Matches Dimorph)

• Total Gestation Time: 3 hours and 58 minutes (Matches Procoptodon)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 1day, 4 hours, and 3 minutes (Matches Kairuku)

• Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (Matches Kairuku)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 6 hours, and 51 minutes (Matches Pegomastax)

• Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 59 minutes (Matches Raptor)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 13 hours, and 12 minutes (Matches Raptor)

• Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 29 minutes (Matches Sarco)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 3 hours, and 26 minutes (Matches Stego)

• Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 46 minutes (Matches Stego)
  
• Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 6 hours, and 27 minutes (Matches Tapejara)

• In addition to insect breeding, we went back and showed some love to a few of ARK's well-known inhabitants.

• Reduced maturation time by approximately 15% (Total growth is around 10~ days)

• Increased base health by 33% (from 190 to 250.3)
  
• Increased movement speed when ridden by 25%

• Added a (slow draining) bleed to its basic attack

• Reduced depth requirement for breeding so that it can be bred on other maps

• Wyverns are now breedable (Zombie Wyverns cannot be bred)
  
• Slight stat rebalance now that they're breedable and to bring them in line with Crystal Wyverns

• Reduced gestation/aging times to match Megaloceros
  
• Pack Bonus: Damage Reduction and Damage Increase per pack member within range
  
• Added a bleed to its basic attack

• Increase base weight capacity from 55 to 120 (Matches Bulbdog)

• Increase metal weight reduction by 10% (from total reduction of 75% to 85%)

• You can now turn when rolling with a Doed (similarly to the Genesis Race Mission)

• Now has eyes

Use the interactive taming HUD to monitor your unconscious wild tamable creatures. Keep track of the following:

• Creature's Gender and Level
  
• Taming and Unconscious Progress
  
• Taming Effectiveness
  
• Current Health and Food status.
  
• Distance from your location
  
• An option to track specific creatures via in-world waypoints (which can be hovered for an over-screen overlay displaying additional information).

We've decided to increase the Boss Element reward on some maps to bring the Ele more into line with where we're at with new expansions.

• Element reward from The Island bosses has been increased by 100%
  
• Element reward from The Center bosses has been increased by 100%
  
• Element reward from Scorched Earth has been increased by 50%

A quick and easy way to update the settings of your nearby turrets within a radius. It's set to currently match the Official Server Turret Limit radius, but players can also toggle viewing the radius on/off. The current functionality it supports is as follows:

• The ability to set a pin code to all turrets in range
  
• The ability to copy settings to all turrets in range
  
• The ability to copy settings to pin code-selected turrets in range
  
• The settings which can be copied are: power state, range, targeting, warning

We are anxious to get these community requests and quality of life improvements into your hands! The Tender Loving Care 3 update launches on November 7th on all platforms! We realize the TLC patch releasing at the same time as Extra Life is less than ideal for players. To compensate, we'll be extending the duration of the Extra Life boosted rates so everyone can enjoy the boost!


Next week on Tuesday/Wednesday the 27th/28th, we plan to upgrade our Server Transfer infrastructure. The intent behind these upgrades is to resolve problems with character loss, player timeout, latency, and failure to download or upload player data at times.

We've recently put a lot of time into refining the transfer logic, and combined with the hardware upgrades; we should see some significant improvements with our Official Servers. Our goal is to get these upgrades to you as soon as possible, particularly before our Extra Life weekend, where we expect a lot of player transfer footprint to take place so that our servers and transfers are running as smoothly as possible.

We anticipate that the TRANSFER downtime could last up to 24 hours, and this could be simultaneously on PC, Xbox, and PS4 or take place one after the other. We will provide a more specific timeline of when this update will take place per platform early next week.



Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Thursday the 22nd of Oct at 4 PM EST until Friday the 6th of Nov at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

• 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching
  
• 2x Harvesting
  
• 2x Taming
  
• 2x XP

Ravager by bluedragonark


Velonasaur Variant by Nisis


Snow Owl by Allomro_395


Inktober 2020: Day 15[www.deviantart.com] by vernhestand


Deinonychus by dra


Atmosphere May Inn and Uzi by kawarayane


Catch you on the flip side!
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