Community Crunch 432: Fear Ascended, Extra Life, UE 5.4 News, and More!

Have you actually met a deadline this decade? Except that Nitrado contract, of course.

>crowbar added

Gordon Freeman mode let's f***ing goooooo!

Edited October 26, 2024 by absurdlyobfuscated

x100! x100!!!

No dodorex or dodowyvern? Man, that sucks. That was the best part of Fear Evolved, and limiting zombie dinos to the Club Ark thing is even worse.

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We could get through it quicker if we put more people onto it, but that adds more risk to the cake we’re giving people now (ASA) and we’ve got a lot of orders lined up for the rest of the year. 

I have a feeling this was very hard for you to publish, given that WildCard has avoided talking about how the sausage (or rather, the cake) is made for years, but I appreciate that you discuss the complicated choices that come with game development. More players (not all, of course, but more) would be willing to cut you some slack if you did this more often.

Also, taking time before announcing a firm release date instead of pushing it back at the last minute is a good habit, and as we all know, it's never too late to change your habits.

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A very special guest has joined our lineup—content creator Raasclark

No offense to Raas (I've been watching him for years, there's no animosity in what I'm about to say), but I was hoping for someone bigger. Diesel-sized, precisely. But I guess that's not happening (the guest or... the bigger thing, it's hard to tell at this point).

Wait, I think I'm misunderstanding something. Is Fear Ascended only going to be for Club Ark? If that's the case, I'm disappointed. What about those of us that don't use Club Ark? Are we SOL for this event? I see we're getting dino colors but is that it? The other features are for Club Ark? If that is the case, I'm severely let down.

I really hope this is just a misunderstanding on my part.

what about the rates for event please 3x

5.4 delay lol, but 5.5 is coming out and well im ok with waiting at this rate, i rather get more content even if we have to deal with bad performance

Only 2x for the event? What happened to 3x events? Few months ago we had 3x almost every weekend, now we don't even get 3x on events... We haven't had 3x since July 5, come on guys, you don't want us playing or what?

Just now, Crysis3108 said:

Only 2x for the event? What happened to 3x events? Few months ago we had 3x almost every weekend, now we don't even get 3x on events... We haven't had 3x since July 5, come on guys, you don't want us playing or what?

P.S.: Also on ACE we had over 10x on Extra Life, now we only get 6x after a ton of money...

Thanks for the disappointment 

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this game, but sadly you're messing the game up far too often, in too many ways.

In no particular order:

Rendering issues (both distance a d flickering)

Disconnect issues (river on ab is atrocious)

Lag spikes are insane

Dinos falling through floor still

Boss under map able to hit my base (still, been like a year now)

Under sea drops are pointless

The whole cryo debacle

The edges of surface entrance caves counting as the surface for purposes of a nasty case of sunburn

Chat bug is infuriating

Mushrooms affecting you even when far above them

Not being able to build on platforms (too many structures on server)

Still clip into mesh if flying close to drake scar or using drakes on surface 

Why is it that some of these still exist after such a long time? Is it an inability to fix or just unwillingness? Thus game would be WAY more popular if youd just fix it, get rid of the cryo spam and stick to a timeframe.

Edited October 26, 2024 by Eskwyre

No Dodowyvern, No Dodoreaper, No Dodorex... what.. the.. hell? Why? Why on earth are you leaving these out?

So is there not going to be skeleton skins for bronto, jerboa, carno and quetzal? I seen the skeleton chibi for those creatures but the actual skins are not actually listed.

While I was hoping for more positive news on the 5.4 update, I really just want this game to run the best, so take your time, despite the negative opinions.  Yall are still doing great work! 

 

Also, first off I cannot express how much I absolutely NEED the werewolf skin. 

 

And umm, wasteland war, what the hell is that?? 

The cake is a lie! ?

Your cake factory hasn’t been saving progress on XboxSX single player.

We hit 12x in 2021.

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I've been telling myself these last few days that the only way I wouldn't mind a delay in the 5.4 upgrade would be if they decided to upgrade to 5.5 and then boom, it's not confirmed but that's what it seems, plus with all the new UE5 tools they can improve a lot ARK making it worth the wait

(excuse my wall of text, lol)

Ok, so it was 12x, then it was 8x, now it's 6x with drastically moved goalposts between each tier, leaving us with expectations of what will basically be a slightly better evo event rate, if we look at donation trends over the last couple of events.

Not sure who's idea this was, but it will have a dramatic negative effect on donations,
We already saw evidence of this between 2021 and 2023 while I understand that donations are meant to be from the heart, anyone with any business and/or marketing experience would know that removing the incremental achievable incentives for people to purchase (read: donate) just to see how high they can get it will have an impact,

It's no secret to anyone that giving people smaller achievable goals will always yield better results in comparison to large ones that feel "too far away to bother trying" 

Worse still for the player base, the 2022 rates on ASE where naturally 2x more than 2024's rates, so the 6x this time around is really the equivalent of a run of the mill typical event weekend on ASE...

Where is the incentive for people to even bother logging in?!

Additional rates come at no additional cost, so I just don't see the reasoning behind this decision, maybe it's just me, but it feels like a punishment not an incentive.

Being required to give more to get less is not a good marketing tactic, especially when the whole world is already tightening their purse strings. 



And I'm not sure if I read this wrong, (correct me if I am) but it sounds to me like Fear Evolved will be kneecapped without the most popular features, the dodo-wyvern and dodo-rex (It's not what they said, but what they didn't say (or show))

And again I could be wrong but this post reads like it will be for the most part restricted to Club Ark, and as much as I liked the initial concept of club ark, it's pretty much useless, and I (and I'm sure many others) simply don't use it because it punishes solo players who don't have a team for some of the games, and anyone with less than perfect internet can just forget about being able to play most of the games due to elevated ping issues (And this kind of crap feels like it's being forced upon us.. using a COMPLY OR ELSE methodology, with no alternative offered)

(and quite frankly minigames are just mindless unimaginative filler, many of us just dislike the minigames, much like the ones added to the genesis DLCs which felt like boring chores than actual content)

I'm sorry, but this is yet another (2 infact) swing and a miss..

Edited October 26, 2024 by Sausagedog85

Gotta know is this creature that can be spawned through commands or spawners a dodorex? if so will it spawn in like before when it randomly spawned somewhere on the map, and/or can be tamed via the old way using the cooking pot (atleast an option for single player/unoffical/non-dedicated)

Edited October 26, 2024 by Jbb22207

2 hours ago, Gamerman88 said:

5.4 delay lol, but 5.5 is coming out and well im ok with waiting at this rate, i rather get more content even if we have to deal with bad performance

more content over performance?.... Great. fantastic lets add more content in a game that is barely playable what a fantastic choice at this rate ark survival ascended is gonna die, Singleplayer and host-nonededicated is not even functional and its rlly sad and yes i've done my bug reporting and this has been going on for months and needs to seriously be addressed whats the point of adding more content if we can't even enjoy the base game i mean yes if we have to wait we have to but rlly in all seriousness Performance and crashing and such bugs that are game breaking should be the 1st things that get worked on not new content im done paying for things for this game intill the game gets actualy fixed i've had enough.

So no Fear Ascended proper event then? no spooky pumpkins, gravestones, Zombie wyverns on servers for all to have a go at claiming? No dodo moon showing? You DO know a huge chunk of your players cannot play club ark, don't you? It's still unplayable for sooo many

 

Grandma is very disappointed, miss my zombie wyverns soo much and now no chance of replacing what was lost ?

 

Heres one for size.... Sunset Club ark instead of trying to force us to play that poope