Thread: Current 217 Patch Notes and 'Further Out'

Upcoming Version: v217.0

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• Hornless female Megaloceros added
• Inventory Quality of Life: You can now sort inventory lists by many factors, and also text-search them dynamically.
• Craftable Consumable Bug Repellent. Yes!
• Poison Gas Grenade cough cough cough
• Primitive Club (great for conking people on the head and knocking them out, regardless of armor)
• Overstocked Snow Metal Rocks now yield Metal Ore at the same approximate rate as "Rich Mountain" Metal Rocks
• Trophy System (including the SotF Trophies!!!)
• Various bug fixes TDB
• Foliage fillrate performance optimization
• About +25%-30% server CPU performance gain due to Spatial Octree optimization
• You can now double-click an Engram to Learn It
• New Option (default true) to automatically open Engram Window after applying all available Level Ups
• Radios no longer take over Tribe Chat. Tribe Chat always functions as normal on its own "Channel".
• Inventory Slot counter
• Jerky crafting time reduced by 33%
• Fixed aquatic creatures following targets across water zones
• Fixed pop-in of underwater rock/canyon meshes
• Server VAC enabled! Auto Banhammmmerrr Go!

[MORE NOTES TO COME]

A Little Further Out:

• Sit on chairs & benches
• Quetzalcoatlus & Flying Platform Saddle. (Airship?)
• Machined Sniper Rifle
• Mountable War Drums
• Server VAC (setup on our end, just waiting for Valve now)
• Creature Breeding & Babies! Yes, they will grow dynamically in real-time!
• Custom RP-oriented Recipe/Cooking System (including Skill-Based results)
• Sword & Shield
• Mosasaurus
• ARK: Fear Evolved
• DirectX12 Mode for Windows 10! Approximate +20% perf
• Specific Representative "on-ground" meshes for all dropped items
• Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky

[MORE NOTES TO COME]




https://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/3mz0vd/patch_notes_upcoming_version_217/

Most interesting to me:

-The substantial server CPU performance increase
-VAC is enabled, that is fantastic!