These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 185.3, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.
UI Changes
- Server Passwords now appear as Asteriks’ in Admin Managment UI (soon you’ll be able to change this dynamically via the UI), and “message-of-the-day changing in the UI” crash is fixed
Bugfixes
- Fixed various mods crashing — any which used custom Materials, such as Apako Island: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=469987622&searchtext=
- Fixed a Chatbox crash
- Eliminated some Snapshot_16 “permanent” hangs if banned or missing communication from server during connection
Performance
- Improved speed of background loading core game data while at main menu
(Original Announcement on Steam)
Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (185.2)