Ark Survival Evolved update 2.84 is out now for PS4, PC, and Xbox One. You can get the complete patch notes for the update from here.
Just like every year, Studio Wildcard is running an event themed around Halloween in Ark Survival Evolved. This is called Fear Evolved and it will be live in the game beginning today, October 19th, until November 2nd. You can get the details on the new update including bug fixes and improvements from the patch notes shared below.
Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.84 Patch Notes
- The Fear Evolved Event event will run from October 19th 1PM Pacific to November 2nd 1PM Pacific. See this thread for details:
- Unofficial server owners can activate the event by adding -ActiveEvent=FearEvolved to the launch arguments
- Fjordhawk balance pass
- Reduction to Fjordhawk flight speed when picking up death lootbags
- Increase time before hawk becomes invisible to 20 seconds
- One hour cooldown added on retrieval of player’s inventory when killed. This can be overridden with launch argument – -MinimumTimeBetweenInventoryRetrieval=<TimeInSeconds>
- Reduced base health and health per level gained on the Fjordhawk by approximately 40%
- Added 2x damage multiplier from guns and projectiles
- Visual improvements will be added in the next major version for client display of the cooldown time
- Fixed multiple crashes
- Fixed several Exploits
Studio Wildcard’s Ark: Survival Evolved is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game. Players must survive being trapped on one of many areas populated by wandering dinosaurs, fantastical creatures, and other prehistoric animals in the game. The game includes both single-player and multiplayer modes. Multiplayer enables the formation of tribes of people on a server.