Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.98 Patch Notes

Ark: Survival Evolved is a famous action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs, fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players. The game receives updates regularly, and a while ago, a new one showed up. Check out the ARK: Survival Evolved 2.98 (v356.11) update patch notes below.

Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.98 Patch Notes

v356.11 – Minor version for servers

• Dynamic config colorsets
  • Set event colorset from dynamic config using:
    • ActiveEventColors=<name, e.g. “FearEvolved”>
  • Additional option added “custom” allows for a custom colorset to be set up directly from dynamic config.
  • If using ActiveEventColors=custom then the colorset can be defined with:
    • DynamicColorset=<comma-separated list of color names>
      • e.g DynamicColorset=Red,Magenta,DeepPink,Lavender
    • The color names must be -exact- accounting for special characters and spaces. “DynamicColorset” will only be used if using ActiveEventColors=custom
  • Updated Vday colorset
    • DarkLavender, DarkMagenta,Dino Dark Purple, Dino Light Red, DeepPink,Dark Red, LemonLime,Red, ActualBlack
• Fixed a couple issues with tek teleporters not functioning after coming into contact with water
• Fixed a crash

Meanwhile, if you missed the previous updates, the patch notes for some of them can be found below.

v356.9 – Minor version for servers – Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.98 Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue joining prim+ servers

v356.5 – Minor version for servers

• Fixed an exploit

v355.14 – 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) – Major version for servers and clients – Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.98 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.