Jat · @Jatheish
18th May 2016 from TwitLonger
The Center Update for Xbox and PC..
Longer tweet as there's a bit to share and it wouldn't fit in 140 characters!
So here's the lowdown of what's going on right now. Currently we've launched approximately 60 servers on Xbox for The Center. We would like to launch more, but at this time we're not able to - until a further content patch is pushed out. As there will be only a certain number of servers being displayed on the session list. We hope to push out a patch immediately, with a few content fixes for Xbox, including the update which will allow us to host more servers and hopefully it will go through cert and be approved quickly so those servers can be setup.
Currently we've identified an issue where our servers are not able to go over 70 players on the Xbox. The development and live-game team are currently iterating on this issue and we're hoping to get it resolved as soon as possible, it may not be so straight forward and also require a content update but we'll have to see as we're still in the process of investigating and figuring out what exactly is preventing us from launching larger servers. We've launched big servers before on other platforms, this is a new issue we've run into and it's pretty difficult to iterate on in the development environment due to limitations but we're hoping to get it resolved asap - hopefully tonight, so we can make sure that the current servers which are online are able to get the full 100 players.
Players have asked us about Hardcore servers, Primitive servers etc. For now we'll be primarily launching with PvP and PvE. With the main focus on PvP. Later on we'll likely include other types, however in the mean-time these are the most popular game modes, where the large majority of our player-base play on and we want to ensure that as many of you can experience the latest update as soon as possible.
As for PC, we're still planning on rolling-out servers for The Center, and they are currently being prepared - it's taken longer than we've liked due to the issues that have arisen with today's patch and we're sorry about that, sometimes issues will crop up and we'll do our best to take care of them as quickly as possible, but they can and will delay things. Though we definitely do plan on bringing them up. Hopefully we won't run into any issues with those! Though I imagine we won't as it's a different set up.
Sorry about the mess and headache that's been going on, definitely understand that is frustrating and you guys just want to play ARK and The Center, so we'll do our best to get everything set up as quickly as possible for you.
TLDR:
- Working on the 70/100 issue. Hopefully doesn't require a content fix, but will have to see as we're still investigating.
- Have 60~ servers online at the moment due to a limitation to how many can come online. To bring on more, we'd need to do a patch - it would have to go through cert etc. We are planning on doing a patch to take care of some content and make more servers available, so hopefully we'll be able to push that live asap!
- PC servers are currently being prepped and we plan on launching them tonight, just all the mishap has been slowing us down today.
Thank you guys for your support and we really appreciate the passion we've shown, the amount of engagement has been insane today and we know it's because of how much you love our game and we'll do our best to do right by you.
I'll keep you posted through the night as we keep on making progress with the tasks, hopefully we're able to get the 70/100 server issue resolved and the PC servers up asap.
Cheers!