ARK Update 2.48 Patch Notes (ARK 2.48 PS4)

ARK update 2.48 patch notes released for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to the official ARK 2.48 patch notes, the latest ARK Survival Evolved update brings quality of life improvements. In addition, ARK version 2.48 also includes stability improvements.

Previously, a big update was released which added ARK Genesis part 1 DLC with new features, bug fixes, and quality of life improvements. Players can now discover, utilize and master new creatures, new craftable items, and new craftable structures.

Unfortunately, many players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game online. Today’s ARK version 2.48 is expected to fix a few of these errors. Check out more details here.

ARK update 2.48 patch notes (Updated)

New Valentine’s Event

Event Details

• This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=vday

Dates

• 2/11 – 2/18

Activities

• Valentines Coelacanth can be caught for chibis, chocolates, candies
• Mating can randomly drop chocolates and candies!

Rates

• Increased breeding rates to 3x (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
• Increased taming rates to 3x
• Increased playerXPrates to 3x
• Increased harvesting rates to 3x

Skins

• Valentines inspired shield skin*NEW*
• Valentines inspired sunglasses skin*NEW*
• “Cupid Couture Bottom” (Pants Skin)
• “Cupid Couture Top” (Shirt Skin)
• “Halo Headband” (Hat Skin)
• “Teddy Bear Grenades” (Grenade Skin)
• “Bow & Eros” (Bow skin)
• “Love Shackles” (Handcuffs Skin)

Items

• Box o’ Chocolates
• Valentines Dino Candy

Emotes

• Flirty Emote

Chibi’s

• Crystal Wyvern*NEW*
• Mesopithecus*NEW*
• Otter*NEW*
• Enforcer*NEW*
• Velonasaur*NEW*

Wild Event Creature Colors

• Lavender*NEW*
• Cream*NEW*
• MediumLavender*NEW*
• Peach*NEW*
• DeepPink*NEW*
• LightPink*NEW*
• Dark Red*NEW*
• Red
• Magenta
• Light Red
• White

Bug Fixes

• Can no longer carry/base Corrupted Dinos
• Notes have had their character limit restored to the previous value (no longer cuts off after one line)

• Added option to disable light shafts and bloom
• Fixed an issued that caused bionic dino skins to disappear
• Fixed an exploit which would cause players to become invisible
• Fixed multiple level issues including holes, floating foliage, areas where they could get stuck, and missing volumes
• Lava Lizard can now be spayed or neutered
• Fixed some missing icon related to holiday emotes
• Improved localization

• Fixed game crashing issues.
• Network connection improvements added.
• Performance and stability improvements added.
• Other minor under the hood fixes.

ARK 2.48 for PS4 is now available for download.