Community Crunch 484: Ossidon Reveal and Araneo for TLC!

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Araneo steps up for the first TLC pass and a fifth creature TLC is now unlocked! 

YES. Thank you, everyone.

Galli or Pelagornis next ?

 

ARANEO!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankyou to everyone who donated for the Kids!!!!

1 minute ago, ladyteruki said:

YES. Thank you, everyone.

Galli or Pelagornis next ?

 

neither, dodo is next! lol

Love to see the araneo getting some love soon!!! Can't wait for the next 4 winners in the coming weeks.

Val tranfers? Would be nice to have a little more then a week to move before another event or another map.  Some have lives outside of the ark universe. 

LOOKS GORGEOUS, I'm really exiting to see the Ossidon arriving in the game 💪

Araneo really deserved a TLC right here (Even if there a people who didn't want it to get a TLC, trust me, I heard).

Hosenty, I think that the Creatures we don't use so often should always get a chance.

Glad to see the Araneo getting a TLC; it really needed it.

Why not make a tlc for the entire game?

I'm bemused that folks wanted the Araneo so badly they donated enough to get us to the 5th TLC unlock. Thanks, I suppose. XD

Look, I'm impressed more than anything, still not taming a spider tho. Congrats to the folks that wanted it!

(Little edit for punctuation.)

Edited November 15, 2025 by Oreochema

I swear the voting is rigged how did the Araneo go from 5 place to 1st and how can the theri be on 1st place and be now put on 2nd and apparently it went up in ranking like wth

All I hope for with the ossidon is a cosmetic roar lol, the model, idea, and hopefully execution

will be fantastic, but a good cosmetic roar would be amazing 

2 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

YES. Thank you, everyone.

Galli or Pelagornis next ?

 

they are SOOOO far out of the running, the top 4 left are most likely exactly what's getting it lol

33 minutes ago, Strawblerry said:

I swear the voting is rigged how did the Araneo go from 5 place to 1st and how can the theri be on 1st place and be now put on 2nd and apparently it went up in ranking like wth

this was done for the kids, people with a lot of extra cash donated to exactly what they wanted, as far as I'm concerned dodo could have gotten all five places in the tlc and everyone should still be happy because 175,000 and more dollars were raised for KIDS not just for you to get a shiny polish on a dino. 

13 hours ago, ASAisalie said:

Why not make a tlc for the entire game?

Called 'Ark: Survival Ascended Again'?

Edited November 15, 2025 by Joebl0w13

3 hours ago, Strawblerry said:

I swear the voting is rigged how did the Araneo go from 5 place to 1st and how can the theri be on 1st place and be now put on 2nd and apparently it went up in ranking like wth

It's not rigged, it a vote based on how much people have in their wallets. The top 5 have been shifting around constantly.

Alright, we got the bug that will still have no meta relevancy after the TLC as players will just invalidate it with Fab Snipers anyway, so can we please get the Giga next in rank 2?

Fourth winners? what does that mean?

I don't care much about Araneo but hope there will be no stupid ideas to vote some creatures over Quetzal (it's useles now and noone is taming Quetzals now) and Giga (yes, it need mostly visual update but the same we can tell about Theri).

It's not about creatures you like but about useless and bad looking creatures outdated to ASA. For example I love Thylas but voting for Thyla was a crazy idea - it dosn't need a TLC.

9 minutes ago, AUTO6 said:

I don't care much about Araneo but hope there will be no stupid ideas to vote some creatures over Quetzal (it's useles now and noone is taming Quetzals now) and Giga (yes, it need mostly visual update but the same we can tell about Theri).

It's not about creatures you like but about useless and bad looking creatures outdated to ASA. For example I love Thylas but voting for Thyla was a crazy idea - it dosn't need a TLC.

The Giga needs far more than a visual update. The rage mechanic makes it completely terrible in the late game, especially as any tribe worth their salt will have Carchs to counter/fight them head on, and they're Giga's on crack. If Carchs are pseudo-assassins, hit-and-run playstyle, then Giga's rage needs to be reworked to 1: not boot you off and 2: give damage reduction, or at least something, but rage booting you off makes Gigas not viable as they just get lit up,  kill you and all your tames in late game. However, Carch's also have boosted damage AND regen, which makes them not only speedy assassins, but tanky as well.

Giga's should be "fight until the bitter end" kind of dinos to contrast Carch's hit-and-run kit, with their rage boosting their damage and damage-reduction the lower HP they are. A visual rework will not fix their lackluster place in the meta. They aren't even worth taming for titan fights, either, as Dreadnoughtus are far better and will actually live more than 1-2 hits from one.

Edited November 15, 2025 by RKGS

Yaaay, araneo is getting a TLC!!!... anyways

Yall be focusing only on the spider getting a tlc and arguing abt donations when a tuff and wonderful artwork of ossidon and Lost colony background is RIGHT THERE!!! And I'm pretty sure fabricated crossbow as well..

Nice we got 1 TLC wasted becose of a bunch of troll, the araneo will still be useless and didn't deserved a tlc, she was still good looking for a spider when the theri,quetzal, giga and mosa model really need a remodel, no a tlc isn't for "creature that no one play" since rex, raptor, trike and stego got one its for a creature with a model that didn't aged well, GG you just waisted a tlc that will only make the broodmother fight slightly harder 

11 hours ago, ASAisalie said:

Why not make a tlc for the entire game?

Because they're got snailgames breathing down their necks to make infinite money. They should have gave the whole roster a visual makeover when they released ascended, it's ridiculous they didn't.  

10 hours ago, Strawblerry said:

I swear the voting is rigged how did the Araneo go from 5 place to 1st and how can the theri be on 1st place and be now put on 2nd and apparently it went up in ranking like wth

Because the massive amounts of money that got donated the last few weeks in chunks caused massive swings. It's why we went from just over $50k donated 3 weeks ago to over $175k this week. Massive amounts of money cause massive vote swings. 

3 hours ago, shadowacro said:

Nice we got 1 TLC wasted becose of a bunch of troll, the araneo will still be useless and didn't deserved a tlc, she was still good looking for a spider when the theri,quetzal, giga and mosa model really need a remodel, no a tlc isn't for "creature that no one play" since rex, raptor, trike and stego got one its for a creature with a model that didn't aged well, GG you just waisted a tlc that will only make the broodmother fight slightly harder 

This is false the araneo looks awful. It's one of the original creatures in the game and needed a major overhaul. Depending on what they come up with for abilities, mechanics, or stat boosts the araneo could definitely become useful.

Probably not in PVP but it'll at least give it some usefulness in PVE which is the more popular mode if you take player servers into account. The parasaur went from absolutely bottom tier garbage to being ubiquitous in PVP so it's not impossible even if it's unlikely.