Update

The Winter Wonderland patch on December 14th will introduce brand new narrative content - featuring actors Maddy Madden (The Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) reprising their respective roles as Helena Walker and Sir Edmund Rockwell.

All of Helena’s and Rockwell’s Dossiers and Explorer Notes will also be voiced by the actors, as will survivors’ epic confrontation versus Rockwell on ARK Aberration.  The highly requested Scorched Earth ascension will also make its debut!

I consider myself lucky to have encountered Carcharodontosaurus medicupestis and survived to tell the tale. While I'm not sure if this predator grows larger than a Giganotosaurus, I hope I never find out. A single one of these powerhouses held its own against an entire army of us, and that encounter cost us dearly.
 
The Carcharodontosaurus can sweep attackers aside with its tail, but it's the other end you should really be wary of. It has teeth like steak knives stuck in a jaw strong enough to shred most prey. Even a near miss will shred you, but good.
 

With the latest patch from Wildcard, the bug that a dedicated ARK server crashes with a map size (savefile) of 4GB is finally fixed! The other patch notes are:

Fjordur will be a free, official, non-canon DLC expansion map coming to ARK: Survival Evolved on June 12, 2022. Expected "features" from the new map:

New animal that will be released in June 2022 with the new DLC map Fjordur:

Even with all the other monstrosities here, this fugitive from a Creature Double feature deserves first place. I mean, Dracula is already in the name of his species! And Desmodus has a scream that he can use to scare pretty much anything that gets in his way. He's also smart enough to limit himself to victims he can kidnap into the night.

With over 60'000 votes the "Desmodus Draculae" wins the second Community Creature Vote!  In the next week the concept and the dossier for the new inhabitant of ARK will be presented. Some possible ideas are uploaded here in the Gallery (see also the official proposal on SuriveTheArk.com, creator is Shadowenigma250x)

https://survivetheark.com/index…