Community Crunch 362: ARK 2 Wooden Structure Tier, EVO Event, and More!

RIP Hulk, We've used your amazing mods since day one. You had amazing talent and you're going to be missed hark hardcore. See you when we all ascend there guy.

I think it's nice that Hulk is said goodbye.

I find it a pity that there is only Ark2 news.
That there is nothing at all to ASA today is a pity.

Maybe there will be something interesting next week.
I had hoped very much for another picture.

RIP Hulk.

RIP Hulk 
 

I find it a disappointment that we as a community are not shown further things/designs/ideas of ASA . Official servers are dead at this point but Wildcard still is keeping us wait until at least end of August! If not even longer then that. They should start to make longer Community Crunches with further more detailed information.

nice art for ark 2 

RIP HG 🙏😔 I thank you very much for the contributions to the Ark Mods community, I have used some of your Mods, especially the HG BUILD, one of my favorites, I wish that your soul can be at peace.

on the other hand... and the news about ASA? 👀

 

I really like how wildcard acknowledge the death of people in their community, other companies wouldn't bat and eye.

That's honestly really respectable.

I'm shocked to learn about Hulk. I had heard that he was not going to be able to maintain the mods for health reasons, but I had no idea it was that bad. I didn't know him personally but like many, I used and loved his mods. My condolences to his family and friends.
WildCard, where are we on the Valguero shrine update, by the way ? We've had a lot of ascensions this year, and it's only May...

The building system in ARK2 is intriguing. I have questions... which probably won't get any answer anytime soon, but the questions are fun themselves (so many roof angles !). This is cool speculation, as opposed to a lot of speculation about ARK2 in the past 2 years. It's still "just" concept art, and of course it doesn't mean everything in it will be in the game eventually, but oh well.
(...and that's just ONE tier ?!)

You know what would be fun ? If you organized a few dev streams of live (re)modeling some assets or creatures for ASA. Since work is ongoing, it could be nice to see the work in progress, and get us invested in how much time it takes, what goes into it, etc. For assets we already know by heart (like the sleeping bag you presented last time, for instance), there is little to no need for secrecy anyway. Might as well show us the WIP, explain a bit how devs work day-to-day and/or approach the upgrade, maybe ask for feedback live ("too much fur ?"/"what do you survivors like about the current smithy ?" etc.) or, if your team is not comfortable with it, just have some quiet 3D work without looking at the chat with the game's soundtrack in the background. 

Edited May 20, 2023 by ladyteruki

#SaveOfficialServersPlease 💔💔💔💔 

12 minutes ago, Diabolos said:

Unfortunately live streaming development isn't really doable. Take for example from above, a wooden wall. It takes roughly one day to get a prototype for a concept. They likely create a dozen slightly different prototypes and which then go by the department heads desk and either one gets approved or they submit different concept art to build off.

The above does not account for 3rd parties doing the 3d modelling, as ARK 2's assets are being developed by Digital Domain.

The WIP/Secrecy is because after lots is said and done, they need to piece it together and then do quality assurance, to make sure styles mesh well together. You wouldn't go out wearing an orange sweater with neon green pants would you? Developers don't want to bring something to your attention until they are sure that it's at least within acceptable tolerance of what they have envisioned.

I don't know, I've seen other studios do it and people loved it, as long as the limitations of the exercise were clear. It doesn't need to be the definitive version of the asset, anyway. Just involving us in the WIP, having the possibility to see why things take time (and as such, why things cost money, which includes paying for salaries ; a lot of people don't seem to have a clear grasp on that), having the opportunity to ask questions out of curiosity for dev work, and/or letting the community take part in the asset upgrade... that's nice in itself. It doesn't have to be the finished product. 
(I was specifically talking about ASA by the way, not ARK2)

Rest in peace Hulk, I didn't know of them or their mods but I send my condolences to his family and those who DID know him, I am sorry for their loss.

Curious the building blocks seem same as in ASA ,on one hand they say ARK 2 would be complete different then they show us something very similar ,mixed emotions dont know if this is a good or bad sign,as the description of,souls like game seem like to me they were going the route, of a single player game, but from these housing its clearly ment for a community not just single players. Also they showed on Alien creatures on the trailer, but this structures pic, depicts few of the all recognized dinos: A Bronco, a couple of Ankys a Stego and a Para lying down, pteras obviously fill the skys and one landed on a roof. So really confusing pic about ARK2 ,I was hoping for a continuing of the story on an Alien planet ,its hard to read from this how different ARK 2 will be and or stay same as ASA. 
Side note,also noticed the Pillar in the room lol.. wonder if ARK 2 servers gone get pillared like in ASE,Its one thing I never experienced in other games and a hurdle to overcome..

Seems kind of pointless wiping beginner servers that will just be shut down shortly after anyways..

show how the animals will be remodeled in A.S.A, please update the arms of rex and giga

sry but that is just laughable.

a freaking concept art with the captions "representation of actual custom player builds"

 

im realy curious how you will top that brainfart in the next week

All this effort spent on Ark 2 is going to be wasted. 
 

If you put up a poll, what percentage of your user base do you think will buy Ark 2? I bet you’d be shocked. With ASA I’ll never need Ark 2….why would anyone need Ark with no first person? 
 

Id wager that less than 25% of the userbase gives a damn about Ark 2.

I don't like it because it was like a Vikings mod and the bad thing about all this was for ark2 that we expect something more than this nonsense, they also do everything wrong, they didn't have to get anything from ark2, only new things from ASA now I don't know what do I buy ASA or wait until ark2 comes out because I'm disgusted with everything

can you pls, PLS fix this in Asa?
https://ibb.co/1n7tvFx

 

Alot of good the Evo events are for me! Last event and this event I'm not getting any xp! I'm 3/4 of the way to lvl 143 and I'm not getting xp for crafting, gathering, tek pod, or shooting a dino. The only way I'm getting xp is by killing dinos while riding a dino. smh

What's the point of even playing anymore.....

Update; I'm getting xp in the tek pod while offline. So, off to FFXIV I go then.....

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by Rhaya

44 minutes ago, Harley4you said:

can you pls, PLS fix this in Asa?
https://ibb.co/1n7tvFx

 

How would you get out of this?

If you expand triangle - you won't get 45 degree angle

Nice buildings, and structures, but how will it work?

Like BP's for the structures? Or you could buid freely and set an angle of each structure (on the pic you have sloped roofs on different angles)?

46 minutes ago, Harley4you said:

can you pls, PLS fix this in Asa?
https://ibb.co/1n7tvFx

 

What do you want fixed about it? You cant make it so the triangles are as long as the squares from top corner to middle of bottom edge. If you did that the left and right sides of it would be longer than the bottom side and longer than squares or walls. Thats just not how geometry works. If you want something to fill in that corner half way you need to ask for a new type of foundation, but the distance from one corner to the other is longer than a wall, so a new issue would come up there.

With the old keep-mod (with the new I have not yet built) there are triangles so that you can bevel the corners. 
Especially for these long triangles there are also sloping, longer walls and the like.

1 hour ago, acat said:

What do you want fixed about it? You cant make it so the triangles are as long as the squares from top corner to middle of bottom edge. If you did that the left and right sides of it would be longer than the bottom side and longer than squares or walls. Thats just not how geometry works. If you want something to fill in that corner half way you need to ask for a new type of foundation, but the distance from one corner to the other is longer than a wall, so a new issue would come up there.

exactly, but as you said yourself, it´s fixable, i don´t care how they do it
change size, add a type of wall that auto adjust it´s length etc, see any building game in the world for reference

2 hours ago, Michau said:

How would you get out of this?

If you expand triangle - you won't get 45 degree angle

right, but you don´t have to stay at 45
i think it´s an obvious issue with plenty obvious solutions, so many games solved it over the years, no need to talk about it