It's that time of the day when the server I'm on goes down, so here's what is happening in case you don't already know:

You can now make the T-Rex ROAR!!! with alt fire. The first of many ;)
- New Structure: Reinforced Steel Vault, for when you gotta store a crapton of items with maximum security
- New Structure: Wood Spike Barricade, for when you just gotta build a quick defense on the cheap.
- New structure: "Bookshelf" to store mass quantities of blueprints and notes and implants
- Custom Skinned Mammoth Saddle & Sabertooth Saddles
- Storage Boxes now only use slots, not weight
- New Cosmetic: Dino Spectacles (Respawn to get them, or if necessary send them through the Steam Inventory using Obelisks)
- Major improvement to asynchronous background streaming, resulting in smoother overall performance when moving through the environment
- Can now adjust a setting for whether you want your dino to auto-collect inventory from things it kills
- Locked Doors now always accessible by Tribemates (PIN-coded doors follow the governance setting)
- fixed fall damage to never get a super high instantaneous velocity, is now time-based.
- fixed water jar blueprint
- Supply Drops now give crafted items again, albeit at adjusted rates
- Tribe governance can now be reset
- Flyers do 60% less damage to structures
- Guns/explosives are 20% more effective against dinos
- Doubled number of item slots on "Smithy", "Fabricator", etc
- Flyer-carried characters are now dropped if line-of-sight is broken, can't go thru structures
- Flyer-carried characters' inventory weights are now added to the carrying Flyer's inventory Weight

So this patch includes some major changes, just in case you missed them, here they are: http://steamproxy.net/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/

Update update update hypuuuu 170.0 now out so it looks like can join servers via the normal method abd it seems to be more stable, you see you all there, somehow lost all progress on my other character so back to level 0, the struggles are real.

For all those having problems joining servers the normal way do it this way. Click View on your steam home page at the top left hand corner, go to servers (4th from the bottom) select change filters then select "ARK: Survival Evolved" from the game options, then pick the server of your choice, see you all in game. Remember this is early access if you don't know what means google is your friend there will be problems and the developers and team are sorting it out, crying and leaving toxic comments doesn't help. Now hurry up and join the game so I can feed you all to my pet dragon Sasha.

Raidcall group number and other info has now been posted in latest forum. (Apologies for not notifiying earlier as I was unaware that discussions don't notify all members unless they subscribe to the forum)