Community Crunch 515: Bouncing into Summer!

Excited to finally be able to hop on Genesis!

so the galleon will release on.....august 30th?

6 minutes ago, StudioWildcard said:

The new servers will include a mix of PvP, PvE, Small Tribes, and Console Small Tribes. We’ll continue monitoring activity and capacity following the rollout.

Why PvP? They are almost empty while all PvE is suffering 😖

Crazy when a custom cosmetic looks 10x better than the actual dragon designs you put out.

No news about TLC creatures yet again? And still no fixes/buffs for the Mining Drill, Trike charge, etc.?

We're almost 2/3 of the way into the year now and only 1/5 TLC creatures "releasing through 2026" have been released, seemingly replaced in priority by the new Dragontopia creatures.

Edited July 18 by RKGS

Have to say I am really feeling let down by Studio Wildcard these days. Promo materials that do not align with actual released content e.g. small aquariums from the second Genesis 1 promo art and then here again Summer Bash flying dragons presumably on Genesis 1 as no other map has that water for sailing yet. Worst of all the Genesis 1 launch and the ships themselves. I do not see how Wildcard could release this and expect their players that do not buy the dlc to engage with such a core mechanic of the ocean biome on rafts! They should have at a bare minimum given them access to the sloop... the minimum! This does not affect me but you can be sure this affects Wildcards reputation.

As to the ships themselves, they are an unmitigated disappointment. Wildcard had a system already in place for larger scale vehicles and how to handle progress with them in the form of the Battle Rig garage. It is not a deep stretch to see they could have built their ships using this method. The garage becomes a dock, the dock manages parts like hulls, cannons, decks, sails, storage (loot and canon balls) and other cosmetics like bow figureheads, ships wheels etc. This would have made the ships infinitely more engaging and gave them a real sense of progress as players found more upgrades and applied them. Far more than a basic menu driven point applicator with an often flawed acquisition pathing. These missteps are doing no favours for Wildcards game or reputation and it is sad to see.

Can we consider boycotting Ark? They have been giving us mostly poop and broken promises.

-  Pay to win garbage (How to train yo-, I mean D*agontopia, Tides of Fortune, Fantastic Tames... )

-  Constant ridiculous delays (Ark 2, Survival of the Fittest, Animated series)

-  Ignoring players' complaints and criticism

-  Ruining maps from Ark: Survival Evolved (Center's ice castle thingy and skull, and lava island, too much sandstone, Scorched Earth's ruins, Aberration, Genesis part 1 ocean biome (made it playable only if you own Tides of Fortune.. which is PAY TO WIN))  !They could've fixed the aesthetic part of these problems but nope.!

-  RUINED THE STORY. (L*st Colony with its retcons.)

-  Buggy and laggy as hell (Most for people who play on servers, but it also affects singleplayer.)

2 hours ago, Lalara said:

Can we consider boycotting Ark? They have been giving us mostly poop and broken promises.

That choice should have been made the moment the switch from ASE update to ASA was made. Boycot now only gives more reasons to "sunset" servers, saving them more money while the main revenue is already in their pocket.
If you can't handle this well known behaviour from certain publishers/developpers: Never pre-order anything from them, wait till the promised project is complete.
Calling for a boycot 3 years after the fact is going nowhere, you should have sticked with ASE instead of jumping on the trainwreck's bandwagon.

Edited July 18 by MMaas

1 hour ago, KingAtlhas said:

-  Ruining maps from Ark: Survival Evolved (Center's ice castle thingy and skull, and lava island, too much sandstone, Scorched Earth's ruins, Aberration, Genesis part 1 ocean biome (made it playable only if you own Tides of Fortune.. which is PAY TO WIN))  !They could've fixed the aesthetic part of these problems but nope.!

They didn't make the ocean biome only playable if you have tides of fortune, everything that you can do in gen 1 ASE you can do in gen 1 ASA. Now whether you like it or not is a different subject but, that doesn't make it only playable if have tides of fortune. It means you don't like the fact the new ocean areas the added were only added for to be floors for said DLC, which quite frankly that's all it was added for. 

Wild card here’s some advice you need to do this in single player maybe even unofficial servers have the option to disable DLC‘s one not owned and one for all and maybe even have option to turn off certain DLC so like lost colony the pirate one trust me this will make your player happier 

So console.player get shafted on event due to stability and disconnect issues after 30 minutes of play time so no we cant enjoy the event..wc chooses not to push a fix for consoles..i will not buy anymore dlcs or content until they fix the stability issues..worst game company ever

Make glowbug tameable please. Add an icon to mods that signifies it is whitelisted! Allow dedi storage on skiff please, it's time. Add more official hairstyles. It's been a decade, or whitelist marniis hairstyle mod. Please and thank you. That would be nice. And for the love of Rockwell rollout those new Gen servers!

Great job Devs, people with hundreds of thousands of Hexagons can travel to the new gen severs and take everything instantaneously. You guys sure don’t have walking around sense do you? Does anyone at wildcard have a brain? What a bunch of wizards. 👏🏻👏🏻

let’s release more gen servers on PVP too even tho no one is playing them. 👏🏻👏🏻

 

All of these events are incredible, made with so much effort and love :)

Oh wow looks great cant wait to see the amazing content coming down and gen1 is so fun great time to b an ark player