There’s a new update for Ark Survival Evolved, and here’s the complete list of changes and fixes added with this patch. Studio Wildcard released the action-adventure survival game in 2017, and it’s one of the most popular games as of 2023. The latest version is named 2.96 and points out v356.8. Make sure you get the latest one for better gameplay. Check out the ARK: Survival Evolved 2.96 (v356.8) update patch notes below.
Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.96 Patch Notes
v356.8 – 02/06/2023 – Minor version for servers
- Fixed an exploit that affected the player counts on Official Servers
Meanwhile, if you missed the previous updates, the patch notes for some of them can be found below.
v356.5 – 01/31/2023 – Minor version for servers
- Fixed an exploit
v355.14 – 01/26/2023 – Minor version for servers
- Improvements to chat filter behavior
- The servers can now hot-reload chat filter lists by using ChatFilterVersion=. The value only needs to change to trigger the lists to be re-downloaded.
v356.3 (356.1 client) – 01/23/2023 – Major version for servers and clients – Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.96 Patch Notes
- Offensive Text Filter – Added an offensive text filter that we will continue to update in order to address attempts at bypassing the filter. Our system scans for the usage of numbers and other ways to replace words quite effectively, and we expect to make this more robust as we move forward.
- GameUserSettings.ini [ServerSettings] bFilterTribeNames=True // Filters out tribe names based on the badwords/goodwords list.
- bFilterCharacterNames=True // Filters out character names based on the bad words/good words list.
- bFilterChat=true // Filters out character names based on the bad word/good words list
- BadWordListURL= “URL GOES HERE”// for hosting your own bad words list BadWordWhiteListURL= “URLGOESHERE”// for hosting your own good words list
- Disabled unintended client-side visual configs
- Fix the mouse cursor lock experienced when trying to access a structure that you do not have rank permissions for in RTS mode
- Fixed being able to select Access inventory from the radial wheel on the controller
- perf adjustment: Rate limit world buff ticks
- Adjust transfer all cooldown to 2 seconds
- Fixed a crash
- Fixed multiple exploits
ARK: Survival Evolved is available on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, and Stadia (R.I.P) platforms. For more information regarding this patch, visit the official ARK: Survival Evolved site.
