Community Crunch 49 and ARK Digest 32!

^~^ Thank you titancat, (Baddodo) for the amazing dossier, PlatyCeramus Fans, Unite :3

The harbor was awesome! (Black Market by Dedal)

100% job well done to all entries as well!

Congratz to the winners!

Since it wasn't considered in the posting directly for this page. Anyone who has medical reasons and afraid to view my video due to it containing strobe lights (although it apparently isn't too bad). Here are the screenshots alternative to enjoy :3  Didn't want anyone to feel left out ^.^

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There will be a couple more cold-climate creatures to be revealed, one of which is well known to fans of duck-billed creatures. 

Hm, I tried looking up various Hadrosaurs that lived in colder climates but so far I haven't come up with anything except some pages mentioning Edmontosaurus which was found in Canada,

Also the Lao-Lao fan dossier makes me think of River Monsters just by the fact it mentions Piraiba catfish.

Regarding that plant turret fert per shot thing: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! It is already impossible to build an impenetrable base, why make base defense even harder? This would be a horrible change...

1 hour ago, Hope said:

Hm, I tried looking up various Hadrosaurs that lived in colder climates but so far I haven't come up with anything except some pages mentioning Edmontosaurus which was found in Canada,

 

Also the Lao-Lao fan dossier makes me think of River Monsters just by the fact it mentions Piraiba catfish.

Yes, I was actually watching river monsters on 5/27/2016 and he was referring to the Piraiba as a "Lao-Lao", so I decided to go ahead and make one.

Also, as for cold-weather "duck bills", I could add Hadrosaurus, but there's also the possibility that they're including Iguanodonts in this family as we all did when we were kids, which makes me think Muttaburrasaurus.

36 minutes ago, Shadlos said:

Yes, I was actually watching river monsters on 5/27/2016 and he was referring to the Piraiba as a "Lao-Lao", so I decided to go ahead and make one.

 

Also, as for cold-weather "duck bills", I could add Hadrosaurus, but there's also the possibility that they're including Iguanodonts in this family as we all did when we were kids, which makes me think Muttaburrasaurus.

Nice, another River Monsters fan. c:

They're going to add Iguanodons, but I figure that's not what they meant.

Is there going to be a feats system or a character class system to enhance the RP aspect of this game? I feel like it would really help the player be able to play the game the way they want to. For instance, if someone likes to tame, they can invest in tameing buffing "feats". If they like to mine then they can invest in feats that allow them to carry extra metal or have a chance to harvest extra crystal. Hate being attacked by buggs? Have a feet to reduce aggro from bugs. This feats system would be in addition to the stats and engram mechanics.

I just want to know how easy/hard it is to make treehouses in the Redwood biome. The few preview builds posted show the standard stilt house designs built into the model of the redwoods. It would be nice if you can attach ceiling tiles to the Redwood as if it were a giant pillar, with some extra building radius than the standard 2 tile radius for pillars. Also, if the boughs of the redwoods can be spaced enough so that if you do build a structure, the tree branches are not clipping the structure much as to obscure the visibility of the interior. This also has the benefit of camouflaging above and below.

I'm going to miss ARKArt, and thanks to everyone that has contributed!  

I do have to admit I'm excited by the inclusion of an official ARKVideo contest, and very grateful that the decision was made to make this a new category for competition.

This community has an incredible amount of talent in everything from art to modding... from design and building to poetry... it's amazing really, and now that videos are an official thing in the Community Crunch I can't wait to see what people will do next.  It will undoubtedly be a very stiff competition, as some of you guys are already doing work of a quality I haven't seen in association with any other game.

You can rest assured I'll have a dog or two in that race... but win, lose, or draw, it's going to be a whole lot of fun!

So there will be a privelage system implemented in the Tribe alliances. Sounds good for those who play in tribes. Can you not do anything to help solo players? They probably make up a large part of your userbase and the fact solo players will never last more than a week in a pvp server is troubling. Starting over and rebuilding has become very tiring. Ive worked hard at many strats and learned alot how to become a leaner meaner fighter in these Pvp servers but inevitably will be beaten by groups of sloppy players whose only skill is running in numbers. Is it not possible to have solo servers? These servers could run in a similar way to Counterstrike operates on the xbox platform to prevent cheating you cannot play in these servers if you in party chat. Maybe not the greatest idea but if there anything you can do to help solo players please do.

I just got done watching the Q&A.  Thanks Cedric and Damien, I like the format.

I have to admit, I perked up at the mention that some work may be done on meadows, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if a lot of the wooded/jungle area's got thinned out a bit as well.  It's those dang smaller palms that cause the most grief as far as dino pathfinding.

I just noticed the comment on the new video contest and have an important question for one of the Community Managers (that I am sure others will wonder about too) 
Q: How will this work for those creating an ARKitect entry but presenting it as a tour in video form? Can we still enter for ARKitect using video and specify it is just to present the build or does it have to be strictly screenshots now? (Odds are I will be doing video and screenshots for anything now since I upgraded my RAM to make it possible)

Hope a CM can provide a clear answer.
Thank you.

*sigh* The plant turret nerf 

Its hard being a games developer... i can already see the comments.

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Survivor, Jor, asks, "Just an idea for the stat "Crafting Speed".  Could you design it so that the higher the stat, there is a chance we could craft a higher end item?  I know that you can create items faster with this stat but I have never seen anyone actually ever use it.  I'm sure those people exist but I've yet to encounter any."

 

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Yeah sure, that’s a pretty cool idea. Will see if we can get that balanced-up accordingly, and if so will  rename the stat, of course!

#BestIdeaEver awesome, thank you !!! Some of us have waited for this for a long time

A mobile mortar an pestle like the dodo saddle but id prefer a platform saddle for the araneo would be cool ian just big enough to have a mortar an pestle an maybe small chest for mats.

16 hours ago, ImpureFrost said:

^~^ Thank you titancat, (Baddodo) for the amazing dossier, PlatyCeramus Fans, Unite :3

Nice to someone who gives appreciation, Cheers m8

Survivor, Jazzop, asks, "Any chance you can add a hotkey to change arrow type, maybe hold down the crossbow hotbar selection and press another button to switch from tranqs to normal."

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Soon right-clicking on a Folder will equip everything in that folder, for rapid gear switching.

@Jazzop I really want to know this, too. I hope you ask your question again  Switching ammo without going into the inventory would be great!

Please do not nerf plant turrets to much. they are they only real practical defence against quetzals carrying a turtle and draining all of your auto turrets. Now they will be able to drain your plant turrets too???  As far as I'm concerned this only makes the quetzal more OP.  

If if you must make plant turrets use more water please at least update the plumbing system.  Give us at least Horizontal 45 and 22.5 degree angles. Maybe even a ground water well because everyone who has ever fallen through the map knows what lies below!

Okay...

From what i undertstand about the Quetzal nerf people have been complaining about how powerful quetzals are. I understand, quetzals are quite strong, but no where near invincible. It's easy to bring down quetzals either with a good amount of ammo in auto-turrets or plenty of plants in places which giga's can't reach or even other quetzals if you'd believe that quetzal air battles are by far the best part of PvP. If you nerf quetzals too much it will basically take flying battles out of the game completely, especially if you can bola everything out of the sky, seems a waste to have flyers in pvp in that case.

Now, in the same Q&A about nerfing quetzals you talk about nerfing plant turrets... ?!?!?!... what is this? You're wanting to nerf quetzals and their platforms so you decide to nerf the most common and really effective base defence against flyers? People can't even put their turrets on attack everything anymore since the plant turrets will just empty themselves, meaning that people will be able to drop carnos in bases and we wont be able to defend unless we want our plant turrets to die over night or put auto turrets with expensive ammo to attack everything... That just makes my head spin thinking about how you've come up with that answer and seen it as a sensible thing to do. Rethink everything you've said about the quetzal and plant turret nerfs.

I have some advice for any of the devs working on the quetzal and plant nerfs, play the game. Please! You're basically catering to lower level tribes and weakening all the alpha tribes and taking flying combat out of the game. Just play the game please, look at it from everyones point of view, especially the alpha tribes as they're going to get hit the hardest. Alpha tribes got into their positions with hard work and dedication. Don't undermine all their hard work because a few whiners have complained about quetzals.

49 minutes ago, nydarri said:

 

I have some advice for any of the devs working on the quetzal and plant nerfs, play the game. Please! You're basically catering to lower level tribes and weakening all the alpha tribes and taking flying combat out of the game. Just play the game please, look at it from everyones point of view, especially the alpha tribes as they're going to get hit the hardest. Alpha tribes got into their positions with hard work and dedication. Don't undermine all their hard work because a few whiners have complained about quetzals.

In my opinion nerfing the plant turrets would hit the low level players, solo players and small tribes the hardest.  The plant turret is the only defence untill you can build an auto turret and still the amount of gun powder it takes to fill the turrets is ridiculous for a solo player.

i am in a 2 man tribe and filling plant turrets is becoming a chore as is with the dung beetle.  Now we need to get another dung beetle just to keep up.

i understand having to do maintenance but the whole game shouldn't be a constant grind to refill your turrets.  Please devs re think this. As nydarri said, play the game. Play as a solo player or a 2 man tribe and get wiped repeatedly untill you grow so many plant turrets that raiders just look at it and say "nope".  Plant turrets are our only salvation!

PS- I'm finally to the point where I could feasibly tame a quetz and it's getting nerfed... *Sigh*

37 minutes ago, Benny403 said:

In my opinion nerfing the plant turrets would hit the low level players, solo players and small tribes the hardest.  The plant turret is the only defence untill you can build an auto turret and still the amount of gun powder it takes to fill the turrets is ridiculous for a solo player.

 

That's a good point, i hope devs are reading this stuff. The plant turret nerfs are unwarranted to say the least, It's hard enough keeping them up with small tribes who have few but when you've banked most of your base defense on plant turrets it will be impossible to upkeep without forcing ark to become more of a job than a hobby.

When i talk about alpha tribes getting hit the hardest i'm mainly speaking about quetzals, they get hit hard by the amount of plants they'll have to upkeep too but most of the big tribes pride themselves on good quetzal designs and air superiority. Taking all that away from them will backfre on the devs as it'll upset a lot of your hardcore fans who've spent the last few months taming/breeding the perfect battle quetzals. If they go through with the plant turret nerf and depending on how bad the quetzal nerf is they'll upset a lot more people than who are already upset about not being able to build a good quetzal platform...

17 hours ago, Jen said:

Survivor, Fatrickprank, asks, "What would the Black Pearl be used for in future updates? Will there be any other way besides the Eurypterid to harvest the Black Pearls?"

Dossier: Platyceramus by Titan Cat

 

Perfect ^~^, Another source of blackpearls could be the platyceramus ^~^

Hey Jen,

The ORC model is actually from Kings. It's his model. Not sure why the other guy took credit for it. See here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=673870347

I am Steam friends with Kings and was with him from the start of this and his Indominus Rex Mod. Hate to see someone else taking credit for it