New

• New Achievement: TheCenter Guardians Achievement for defeating its bosses
• New commands to see where Dinos are when hibernated, as well as teleport to the nearest hibernated creature. “cheat hiwarp raptor_character_bp_c” and “cheat hibernationreport raptor_character_bp_c”

Changes

• TheCenter and PGMs now use TheIsland’s alpha spawner arrays.
• TheCenter lightning light flashes now stop after it has rained!
• Dragon boss no longer present on TheCenter
• Center Boss damage reduced by 33% versus TheIsland bosses
• Fixed Bosses so they no longer have random levels, but will scale correctly on game and server difficulty.
• Troodon food has increased
• The implant has been locked to the first slot of inventories
• Leeches have been added to the Swamp Cave
• Significantly reduced the number of Arthros in Swamp Cave
• Pressing B on the controller when you have a Combo Box open will now result in canceling it (eg PGM)
• Torches on dino saddles now scare away Troodons.
• 25 more element to build Tek Generator
• Reduced Dolphin tamed run speed by 15%
• Night Vision goggles drain 20% slower (last longer)
• Added special corner icon on “skin” items to tell them apart from regular items.
• LT and RT Functionality swapped for Painting
• Changed title on “Tame Groups” panel to “Tame Ordering Groups” and will now display an asterisk next to the active groups button label text
• Double-tap X (controller) to activate weapon attachment is now indicated on options controls gamepad
• When you already have a survivor (i.e. you have the respawn button visible), there is a confirmation dialog for when you “Create New Survivor” saying “Warning: This will destroy your previous Survivor, are you sure you wish to proceed?”
• TEK Tapejara Saddle now has a torch socket
• TekCave Purlovias now have a 65% chance to be underground (previously was 50%)
• Yuty now has a faster rotation rate when in melee attack range (see the Rex)
• Wild Itchy now has a 20s delay on its theft attack and a 2500 radius for targeting player or tame after it’s found you.
• Boss Arena Cooldowns are eliminated in Single Player
• There is now a “This Weapon Can’t be Used Here” prevention volume HUD notification in appropriate areas (e.g boss arenas)
• There is now a 25% chance of fog with any rain!
• More Eels, Trilobites, and Euryps in underwater overworld
• Polar Bear aggro range in the ice cave should be increased to something similar to the other hostile creatures in there.
• Removed non-iceberg Kairuku spawns on TheIsland
• Reduce targeting range of AI in both underwater caves by 50%, and reduced spawn quantity in HARD cave specifically by 33%, also Eels in the hard cave now spawn in groups of 2, not 6
• If there is no inventory or harvesting component on a corpse, it will no longer display it the fact that <NAME> is dead.

Fixes & Improvements

• [Console] No longer crash if generating a PGM after loading TheIsland.
• Improved TheCenter Lava
• Sounds have been added to the UI Radial Menu
• Improved MoveTo attack trace, should be easier to select smaller targets now.
• When teleporting to player pos via tether, the teleportee now gains a +2 z offset
• Stonepick Melee attacking while running no longer stops the run toggle on controller
• Volume of crouch-prone in-out increased by 45%
• [Console] PGM no longer ooms after initial generation
• Fixed a potential lighting issue when leaving the Broodmother Arena
• Fixed some super-bright water reflections
• Increased the capsule size of Pternadon to make sure it can’t fit thru player sized door frames
• Improved Troodon low-poly
• TheCenter now has Obelisk amb sounds ala TheIsland
• No longer missing the option to delete individual player dedicated saves for maps
• Placement Rotation indicator now appears with controller
• Fixed a case where Right Trigger would punch forever
• Correctly focusing on engrams when tabbing between Engram and Inventory UI
• A whole bunch of split-screen bugs were resolved!
• Fixed a case where the UI would focus drop all after placing an item into the quick slot
• Fixed a fog of war exploit in SP
• Fixed ATV not saving
• R. and SG. commands no longer work in console shipping environments
• ATV: RB should toggle first person as when riding a dino, RT should honk horn
• Fixed a case where Megalania couldn’t climb Destructible Rocks — perhaps just on console?
• FPV hands now enter a special ‘dragging’ anim pose when dragging a body
• When there are no additional element items to load into the weapon, Tek Rifle icon text should say “0%” (or whatever %), not “0% +”
• Fixed a case where Corpse Locator did not work reliably while underwater.
• Fixed an issue where certain engrams weren’t learnable (e.g The Campfire)
• Removed difficulty strings from PGM spawn points
• Fixed a case where Extended H player hud label for tribes would be cut off
• Safari Hat and Thorny Dragon Skins & Parasaur Saddle can be dropped like all the other skins
• Slightly louder & farther atten human death sound
• We now display dino entry icon next to “you have tamed” notification
• Fixed an issue with low quality Beaver Dams
• Tek Rifle and Explosives damage foliage
• Increase Explorer Note unlocked volume by 5%
• No longer play time transitions when the player has no pawn.
• Attaching quality torches to saddles no longer converts them into primitive quality when the durability runs out.
• Fixed a case where remote inventories were not transferring to the appropriate folder.
• Gigas are no longer able to gather wood by eating snow trees in the snow biome.
• Fixed Cave spawns on TheCenter
• Accessing a Bee Hive no longer provides health
• Boss Arena teleporter pads and obelisk pads are correctly colourized.
• Obelisk laser beam is now aligned with the terminal center.
• Sand looks darker, wetter, and shinier where appropriate (more for console)
• Rain VFX has been improved to not be so close to the camera and now appears no matter how fast you go
• Cave lighting improved on Carno Island
• Tek Jepack superboost (“takeoff”) sound has been changed to make it sound more like a jetpack
• Removed the drop shadow from the right hud icons
• Host Sess UI: Delete Procedural ARK button needs to have a confirmation dialog
• Fixed case where some loading tips would be cut off.
• Tribe Log increased on Console
• Now buttons which are selected appear brighter on the Main Menu’s Help menu.
• Engram label texts are not modulating by the UI panel alpha (thus aren’t fading out with the rest of the UI)
• Fixed a case where the number of empty item blank spots in storage boxes are inaccurate when you have any filter enabled such as search filter or folder filter
• Center burned tree LODs have been improved
• Improved LODs for various trees, twigs, branches, stumps, etc.
• Fixed a case where female face texture may have been lower rez (perhaps console only?)
• The level up animation on the Mammoth no longer causes the player to become a gymnast.
• Dolphins don’t spawn in underwater caves
• Fixed a case where the Alpha Buff wouldn’t display on underwater creatures.
• Improved LODs for Woolly Rhino, Beaver, Camelsaurus, Ichthyornis, Daeodon, Stag, and Sheep.
• Made sure TheCenter prevents flyers in its key caves
• Eliminated any bigfoot ground shakes
• TheCenter now has combat biome appropriate music (ala TheIsland)
• TheCenter now has wind and ambience SFX in the boss area
• Wild beehives are no longer affected by the StructureResistanceMultiplier
• After Alpha Ascension, you should have access to the Rex Bionic Skin. After Defeating TheCenter End Bosses, on any difficulty, you should have access to the Giga Bionic Skin.
• Wyverns should now teleport to the Manticore Arena.
• Female now have a status suffocation-enter and suffocation-leave sounds
• Decreased implant open/close volume by 20%
• Reduced Slingshot fire vol by 10%
• Baby Wyverns no longer consume too much milk.
• Analog stick panning of 3D Painting Preview is no longer step-based (for precision)
• Fixed case where Gorilla LOD would be on low/fur would vanish from a distance.
• Moved any Explorer Notes previously found in the TEK Cave as it is a gauntlet dungeon and can be distracting for players.
• Gorilla Boss punch sounds adjusted.
• Pegomastax attack SFX are no longer vicious sounding.
• ORP Dinos should no longer have AI’s and thus not be particularly useful in boss fight.
• Fixed a case where TheCenter would have no atmospheric fog.
• SP no longer has a massive slowdown until respawning when suiciding
• Pressing Right Bumper with a controller when the Transponder Node weapon equipped should set the frequency, equivalent to pressing ‘N’ on keyboard control
• Hesperonis no longer teleports/pops back up to the surface after diving.
• Increased return-from-boss teleport pawn spread (less cases of being stuck when returning back to the Ob!)
• TheCenter Night has been made darker
• SP: Hair grows 20% slower
• Transfer-all sound increased by 33%
• Minimum draw distance increased by 10%
• Dragon Player spawn adjusted slightly
• Fixed a case where Wandering Fish would cluster in corner
• FPS no longer dips when you painting yourself
• All HUB UI will be auto-closed when there is no player character (Previously Explorer Note UI that was opened would persist through respawns)

Primitive+

• Pachyrhino and Lystro are now tameable with Bug repellant and Rare flowers respectively
• Primitive pick axe and torch should now persist after logging out
• Battle axe and Viking axe blueprints now work in the grindstone
• Crash fix for flying over an Explorer Note.
• Fixed character creation screen cursor not displaying in Primitive+