Community Crunch 421: 'Steampunk Ascent' Cosmo Dossier!

And this is part of what I paid $30 for...almost the price of the game itself. 
It's a huge mystery to me why the studio so stubbornly refuses to listen to the players opinions. After all, a studio needs money to exist, and to get money they just need to give people what they want.
But in the end we get this. A half-stolen creature that was made worse than the original and they still ask money for it. It's a shame.
Just give your work to modders, they will do it better, and studio can continue get money.

Edited August 3 by Hastlinger

14 hours ago, AtomikalDusky said:

While I do understand that it's pretty scummy that they used the popularity of the Maevia to make a Jumping Spider that is locked behind a payed DLC, in all fairness, it's not like they credited the people who suggested and made concept art for Dinopithecus, Desmodus, Rhyniognatha, Carchardontosaurus, Gigantoraptor, Fasolasuchus, Shastasaurus, Yi-Qi (which I'm still salty about), and Dreadnoughtus.

That is a fair point, but they at least used the official names that the creators used for their submissions. The spider on the other hand, they used a completely different species and gave it completely different abilities compared to what Maevia had. The accreditation is not necessarily towards the creators per se, its the creatures themselves. And to see the Maevia's popularity for a long time akin to the Carcharadontosaurus and not even use it's name but still its image is still a low blow. 

I probably can't recall all the specific abilities the submission creators gave all the other winning creatures, but I know for a fact the jumping spider WC made themselves does not honor Maevia at all.

2 hours ago, Hastlinger said:

And this is part of what I paid $30 for...almost the price of the game itself. 
It's a huge mystery to me why the studio so stubbornly refuses to listen to the players opinions. After all, a studio needs money to exist, and to get money they just need to give people what they want.
But in the end we get this. A half-stolen creature that was made worse than the original and they still ask money for it. It's a shame.
Just give your work to modders, they will do it better, and studio can continue get money.

It was entirely up to you to give that $30 to them without knowing what you'll get in return. Instead you could have waited untill you know what you would get and donate to those modders instead so everyone would receive the share they are entitled to.

After all, we knew already for a few years they are ignoring their customers quit often.

9 minutes ago, MMaas said:

It was entirely up to you to give that $30 to them without knowing what you'll get in return. Instead you could have waited untill you know what you would get and donate to those modders instead so everyone would receive the share they are entitled to.

After all, we knew already for a few years they are ignoring their customers quit often.

Yes that's true, I didn't know what content I would get on the remaining two maps after scorched earth. But I wanted to support the developers of my favorite game. Modders  I've always supported. I didn't expect that there would be such an unfair attitude towards the modder, that's why I wrote such a message. I still hoped that the final meaning of my message was precisely about the example of the Sovira case and not about the fact that I spent money.

17 hours ago, Jynxins said:

Gotta say, I love the Cosmo and I hate spiders. I think a good way to get around the controversy though is to have the Maiva added as a free creature to Abb and give recognition to the person who originally suggested it.  The Maiva could live in the second layer of Abb in webs in the corners and be like an "adult" version of Cosmo. Maybe not even technically related, but in the same family.

Well there's a free mod that adds the Maevia, only difference is that it's called Thorax Spider

This thing is going to be so fun to use on abberation.

Hopefully its as good as the bloodstalkers swinging mechanics minus the horrible stutter.

Cosmo with climbing picks and glide suit (my all time favorite piece of gear) presents some incredible on foot mobility. 

Sorry to the Maeva, no disrespect, but personally a shoulder pet with this kind of mobility sounds even better than a rideable jumping spider.

Edited August 3 by St1ckyBandit

5 hours ago, RaephClark said:

That is a fair point, but they at least used the official names that the creators used for their submissions. The spider on the other hand, they used a completely different species and gave it completely different abilities compared to what Maevia had. The accreditation is not necessarily towards the creators per se, its the creatures themselves. And to see the Maevia's popularity for a long time akin to the Carcharadontosaurus and not even use it's name but still its image is still a low blow. 

I probably can't recall all the specific abilities the submission creators gave all the other winning creatures, but I know for a fact the jumping spider WC made themselves does not honor Maevia at all.

Well, technically they could say that it's another creature, because Cosmophasis is an actual genus of spiders, that's why it says Neogene on the dossier and not unknown (though should't it say Holocene? Because on Aberration Helena doesn't know that they're in the future or at least what happened to Earth, and the other creatures still have their time periods written on the dossiers, though technically they are entirely new species in most cases.)

Edited August 3 by TheMoschopsGuy

8 hours ago, TheMoschopsGuy said:

Well, technically they could say that it's another creature, because Cosmophasis is an actual genus of spiders, that's why it says Neogene on the dossier and not unknown (though should't it say Holocene? Because on Aberration Helena doesn't know that they're in the future or at least what happened to Earth, and the other creatures still have their time periods written on the dossiers, though technically they are entirely new species in most cases.)

 

aberration was when helena met the tek tribe with diana and santiago who were from her future. and those tek tribe people saw what happened to the earth when they nuked the overseer and could see the planet from the overseers platform.

when will you add servers for arkpocalypse consoles only? and will you disable access to the console menu in pvp modes? players turn off grass and fog.

13 hours ago, TheMoschopsGuy said:

Well, technically they could say that it's another creature, because Cosmophasis is an actual genus of spiders, that's why it says Neogene on the dossier and not unknown (though should't it say Holocene? Because on Aberration Helena doesn't know that they're in the future or at least what happened to Earth, and the other creatures still have their time periods written on the dossiers, though technically they are entirely new species in most cases.)

Also a fair point. But it's still a jumping spider nonetheless, just like Maevia. Why abandon an already popular submission creature and use 90% of its image for something else? Was WC not a fan of the name or vision everyone had for it? I wish they could at least give us a reason behind the decision...

So I'm curious, it eats the larger spiders webs? So you must hunt down Areneo to use its ability? Really, it is a spider why put this in, why can't it produce its own?

2 hours ago, Veloci2 said:

So I'm curious, it eats the larger spiders webs? So you must hunt down Areneo to use its ability? Really, it is a spider why put this in, why can't it produce its own?

This is my only reservation. Hopefully you can store a big amount of ammo because hunting down spiders and letting them web you does sound like a bit of a pain.

On 8/4/2024 at 9:24 AM, Collprince said:

 

aberration was when helena met the tek tribe with diana and santiago who were from her future. and those tek tribe people saw what happened to the earth when they nuked the overseer and could see the planet from the overseers platform.

Yes, but then shouldn't helena classify aberration creatures as neogene too?

Well Cosmo seems to have more to it than I once thought, though I wonder if "Eating the webs of bigger spiders" means what I think it does, and if it does I hope Areono gets a TLC in the near future.

Based on research I did and for those who don't know, according to its dossier, the Cosmo is apparently part of the "Cosmophasis" genus. A genus of jumping spiders that use chemical mimicry to be accepted by ants.

<Cosmophasis baehrae

I guess they got the name Cosmo from the genus.

With this new, useful, glow pet WildCard just made the other established glow pets completely obsolete. Unless WildCard gives the other shine pets useful abilities besides just glowing they will sadly just be left behind and forgotten.

like almost all the creatures on the island completely overshadowed by creatures from newer maps like GEN 1 and GEN 2 by player voted creatures and Garuga creatures, if WC does nothing about it many creatures will remain and become completely useless, so much so that their presence in the game will no longer have any value. WC you do not listen to people who ask for special servers like hardcore or orp, you do not listen to all the people who ask and propose TLC for older creatures, you do not listen to those who ask to remove the possibility of removing foliage, shadows and fog to have a more correct pvp. But you waste time on mods and useless collaborations when the game is still in early access with still many problems. Often some referring to paid packages and creatures call you WC greedy and looking for easy money, but it is not true you do everything to fail and not get a cent, if you really wanted to make money you would listen to your customers.not to mention the mirage of ARK 2 and that abortion of SOTF  

21 hours ago, Kokoro30 said:

With this new, useful, glow pet WildCard just made the other established glow pets completely obsolete. Unless WildCard gives the other shine pets useful abilities besides just glowing they will sadly just be left behind and forgotten.

I'm never gonna abandon my boi Bulbdog, it's bros before cosmos.

What happened to the tech creatures ?

I wonder what other abilities the cosmo will have? and also confused by the name considering there is also the other spider everyone talked about?

17 hours ago, DarkDraken17 said:

I wonder what other abilities the cosmo will have? and also confused by the name considering there is also the other spider everyone talked about?

Cosmo is probably named after its genus, Cosmophasis

On 8/3/2024 at 3:24 PM, St1ckyBandit said:

This thing is going to be so fun to use on abberation.

Hopefully its as good as the bloodstalkers swinging mechanics minus the horrible stutter.

Cosmo with climbing picks and glide suit (my all time favorite piece of gear) presents some incredible on foot mobility. 

Sorry to the Maeva, no disrespect, but personally a shoulder pet with this kind of mobility sounds even better than a rideable jumping spider.

Yes, I agree it will be a great addition to ab. however, it would not have hurt to have another climbing creature to ab. I suppose that they have the new yi ling, so the rideable spider wasn't as needed.

On 8/2/2024 at 8:56 PM, ShadowShadex said:

This creature is a joke.

just like shinehorn.

On 8/10/2024 at 2:57 AM, FishAndChipies said:

What happened to the tech creatures ?

its Tek...

On 8/9/2024 at 7:30 PM, AtomikalDusky said:

I'm never gonna abandon my boi Bulbdog, it's bros before cosmos.

I feel for you man. Shinehorn is my favorite shine pet and I really don't want to abandon them either, but in terms of actual use this new shine pet would provide much more than the cute goat. Sadly the shinehorn currently cannot save my life if I am attacked, lost my mount, and desperately need to get away fast. I really hope that WildCard adds another use for the OG shine pets but I sadly know that they won't.