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You can easily picture the scenario: Snail-Boss Shi Hai is relaxing on a Sunday evening with a round of Subnautica to briefly escape the stress of slowly but surely driving the AKR franchise, "captured" by Wildcard, into the ground. The next morning, he takes a look at the Steam player numbers and is horrified to find that many long-time ARK: Survival Evolved players are still not ready to switch to ARK: Survival Ascended – let alone pre-order ARK 2.

Our cluster has been around for 2–3 years now and was open to friends and new players. I have invested a total of 12k play hours in ARK since November 2015 (from Singleplayer, Official, BlackGoatGaming, Arkkovia to here on bukanier.org). However, in recent weeks and days, I have been increasingly considering switching to ASA.

On the untouched, icy shores of Svartalfheim, a new map created by Nekatus for ARK: Survival Evolved, players can expect an adventure that delves into the depths of Norse myths and legends. Surrounded by rugged landscapes, mysterious caves, and the eternal twilight of the North, this land calls out to fearless explorers. Players have the opportunity to lose themselves in a world shaped by ancient gods and inhabited by powerful creatures immortalized in old stories.

The ARK Valentine's EVO Event has been activated on our cluster on the respective rotation maps (DLC maps). The newly available colors include:

Since September 12th, the links on websites (https://deutsche-arkserver.de/, https://www.battlemetrics.com/) or even on the desktop no longer work and generate the error message: "Failure: Unable to connect to server, app id specified by server is invalid". The links are all structured as steam://connect/<server-ip>:query-port>.