Single Player Survivors

[PraiseBob]

I have the exact opposite problem.. some caves have soooooooo much stuff  in it that my xbox goes at like 1 frame per 3 seconds. . There is no reason to have that many dinos in one cave..

Btw thanks for having an easier forum sign up than th last game I played. it was difficult getting to the editb profile page on  smart phone. but iv been trying to sign up for the Elder Trolls online forum fo years with no luck. so good on yall..

But this page here is glitching out.. I type two words and they reshuffle the words around. I have to pause after each word or it will mess up. epicly annoying.  But still better than ESO.

[SnowWolfQueen]

I do. I even wiped every wild dino on my single player and have struggled to find any of the new creatures after waiting some time for them to respawn. Even in areas that are supposed to be common for them. 

[fcsuspect]

Im on xbox. I don't know if they haven't been added to the center yet, but I haven't seen a single alpha Megalodon, Alpha Tuso, or Alpha Leed, as a matter of fact I've only seen a single Tuso since they got moved to the trench. Alpha Rexes are also extremely rare. In the trench I've noticed there is a huge lack of creatures spawning in. And also I get a huge lag spike when I leave inventories, any kind of inventory, and when getting into the water. Thank you for all the hard work. Super hyped for July 4th

[Shadow9cat]

A lot of this might have been said already, but since I don't have time to read every post right now, I'm putting my 2 cents in.

We play PS4 SP on split screen for the Island. 

Carno Island.  If you clean out the island, only raptors repopulate.

Tansition zone for the snow biome on the east side of the island is overrun with giant packs of wolves.  Don't know if this is intentional but it's wildly deadly, even with a mount.  

The valley between the Volcano cone and the next mountain to the east where you pass by the cave is full of ankys.  Matter of fact, that whole valley and woods there is full of ankys.

The transistion zone to the snow biome on the west side around that cold lagoon is also full of ankys.

In the south around the rivers parasaurs rule!

North Cave never had anything spawn.  And many of the caves have creatures that spawn only on the way out.  But it's been a while since I've gone spelunking so it might have all been fixed in the patch.  This goes for underwater progression caves as well.

Off the shore of the southern coast between the beach and herbivore island we get thousands of coels.  Our base is there so between that and our base spawn, the fps gets horrible, especially on split screen.

Redwoods- over abundance of pteranodons.  

Swamps- swarms upon swarms of leeches.  Don't know if there are supposed to be that many, but if there are... woah!

Dino wipes seem to fix most of the problems so we just do that on a regular basis and that keeps the ecosystem better balanced.  But it would be nice to not to have to do that.  It would be amazing if the carnivores didn't just kill and kill and kill.  If they had a cool down after a meal or got full and waited to get hungry again or something it would be more realistic and maybe would conserve the diversity for a bit longer. 

One last thing.  I know this is a bit off topic, but since you all are looking at single player.  The new UI is very difficult for those of us playing split screen.  We have a huge TV and pulled our couch up right too it and still can't read the text.  If we didn't already know what the items were it would be nearly impossible to navigate.  Blue on blue is not enough contrast.  It is fine when one of us is playing, but with two... well its headache inducing.  Since the new UI release, we haven't played much together.

Thank you for giving single player a good look.  Love the game!

[hotbutterbunns]

play on ps4 cave spawns don't happen. never have any animals in there. I would like to also see a way to choose what does spawn on my maps, big fan of ark but not all dinos. 

[FlyinJapman4]

It seems that after every content update, the new creatures never-rarely spawn where they are supposed to. After the post-update patch comes through, then they begin to slowly spawn. After a while the new ones will begin spawning.

 

Another issue is that I'm not playing as dinosaur yet....Might want to check in on that glitch.

[Martinigirl]

Same problem here with the eggs (single player pc). Even my tamed dino's don't lay eggs often (except for dodo's). I've had 2 parasaurs with an oviraptor next to it, and never got a single egg. There is a slider in the settings - 'egg laying rate' or something like that - and now I see more eggs with my tames, but not in the wild. I rarely find an egg in the wild, except for dodo eggs.

As for the initial question: no problems with spawning here, except in caves, which seem to be empty.

[Hasa360]

I never get any Dinosaurs in caves

[RoaringWhiteTiger778]

(Xbox1) In the crafting menu in your inventory the folders don't work/save

[DimitriNakov]

PS4 Pro. Some patches of the ground vegetation such as grass and green leaves appear and dissapear in a flash like manner, its the same with shadows in certain locations. When wearing the fur gauntlets if you exit the game and then reenter it, the textures on your hands glitch out and you can see the flesh of the hands clipping through the gloves. So you have to un-equip the gauntlets and re-equip them in order to fix it. When wearing the fur gauntlets while looking at the map, the fur from the gauntlets clips through the map. In scorched earth, after traveling through the map for a while, the joshua trees' green shrubbery from the branches dissapear and they end up looking like horrible dead trees with missing textures.

[Sooky]

not sure if its just me but my re spawn rate for crystals across the whole map doesn't seem to occur unless i need to be corrected and crystals don't re spawn after being farmed which doesn't sound right? other then that my single player experience is fine, Quetzals are annoying as per PVP but spawning them in was something i didn't learn about till late in the game, PS4 admin wise i was wondering if you can spawn in crystals for crafting etc again something i should look into.

[DimitriNakov]

7 minutes ago, Sooky said:

not sure if its just me but my re spawn rate for crystals across the whole map doesn't seem to occur unless i need to be corrected and crystals don't re spawn after being farmed which doesn't sound right? other then that my single player experience is fine, Quetzals are annoying as per PVP but spawning them in was something i didn't learn about till late in the game, PS4 admin wise i was wondering if you can spawn in crystals for crafting etc again something i should look into.

In Single Player settings you can set the Resource Respawn Period Slider to 0.1 and all the resources respawn almost inmediatley after walking away from them. IMO its better than using the console to spawn resources.

[Martinigirl]

On maandag 19 juni 2017 at 9:29 AM, Martinigirl said:

Same problem here with the eggs (single player pc). Even my tamed dino's don't lay eggs often (except for dodo's). I've had 2 parasaurs with an oviraptor next to it, and never got a single egg. There is a slider in the settings - 'egg laying rate' or something like that - and now I see more eggs with my tames, but not in the wild. I rarely find an egg in the wild, except for dodo eggs.

As for the initial question: no problems with spawning here, except in caves, which seem to be empty.

Edit: the above is for the Island map. I hope you devs are aware that there is still a memory problem with this game. I cannot play any of the other maps due to memory crashes. Even on the Island map I can only play with the lowest settings possible, and even then I still cannot fly. I truly hope this will be fixed before release, as I would like to try the other maps too.

[sharebear1986]

I play single Player exclusively.  Never had a problem with respawning resources, or animals. My only problem is when I go into certain caves, it lags so hard because I have the opposite problem.  Way to many flying, land and water creatures spawning in causing it to lag, I have been unable to explore a couple caves on the center.  I seem to have the opposite problem you are asking about.  All in All I really enjoy the game mind the hiccups but hey that is life.

[sharebear1986]

On 6/17/2017 at 5:20 PM, PraiseBob said:

I have the exact opposite problem.. some caves have soooooooo much stuff  in it that my xbox goes at like 1 frame per 3 seconds. . There is no reason to have that many dinos in one cave..

Btw thanks for having an easier forum sign up than th last game I played. it was difficult getting to the editb profile page on  smart phone. but iv been trying to sign up for the Elder Trolls online forum fo years with no luck. so good on yall..

But this page here is glitching out.. I type two words and they reshuffle the words around. I have to pause after each word or it will mess up. epicly annoying.  But still better than ESO.

Same here, I can't stay in the cave on the center PS4 though

[Bigdaddy99]

I love singleplayer,  I hope that some quests and ai humans get added for release....as far as the spawns go, seems to be random, but se is far more likely to have a barren map....its happened many times with me, forcing a new game....also, aside from only getting fire Wyverns, sometimes another random creature will overspawn....usually jugbugs or raptors...

[RadiantBlader]

On PS4:

Kairuku spawns on the icebergs in the north are completely inactive, Hesperornis does not seem to be spawning at all, Ovis and Equus both seem to have lower spawn rates than they should, and I have yet to see a normal Tusoteuthis after three laps around the ocean floor.  Also, I don't know if it's a glitch or not, but Liopleurodon and Basilosaurus keep spawning at the bottom of the ocean, even though the dossiers say that they live in shallower water.

[BaMxBooZeLLed]

Xbox One

I rarely get dinos in caves(any), and when I do see them its usually only a few. 

Only a few times I can remember where I havent seen dinos out and about on the map. 

 

 

[clumsynynja]

My fiancee is noticing a sever lack of trilobites on her xbox single player games; and by 'lack of', I mean 'none'. 

[fcsuspect]

23 hours ago, DimitriNakov said:

PS4 Pro. Some patches of the ground vegetation such as grass and green leaves appear and dissapear in a flash like manner, its the same with shadows in certain locations. When wearing the fur gauntlets if you exit the game and then reenter it, the textures on your hands glitch out and you can see the flesh of the hands clipping through the gloves. So you have to un-equip the gauntlets and re-equip them in order to fix it. When wearing the fur gauntlets while looking at the map, the fur from the gauntlets clips through the map. In scorched earth, after traveling through the map for a while, the joshua trees' green shrubbery from the branches dissapear and they end up looking like horrible dead trees with missing textures.

Similar problem, but in my case, whenever my friends join my non-dedi server, their armor is invisible, so basically where armor should be, you can see through them. Im on Xbox by the way.

[Dragonicseeker]

On ‎6‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 5:41 PM, Dragonicseeker said:

I play Xbox one since day one but played single player mostly and I noticed a lot of problems on all three arks so for

The Island: Herby Island will spawn a lot of paras, Redwoods pteras, Alphas become nearly non existent, trilobites hardly spawn, Equus don't spawn much or on herby island guessing to the paras, The Snow Biome wolves need to be tuned down a bit, Caves still don't anything til I'm leaving, Carno Island raptors need tuned down a bit, Kairuku aren't spawning on icbergs which makes it hard to find them, Archas in general are very rare if not ever spaning to me atleast, Finally Where ever it is on any map nothing really spawns around where I decide to set up shop literally everything  Just goes out of render distance and may not see them again til I venture out to look. Quetz have less spawns now than they did b4 bc at the most I could find 6 on the map if lucky usually 5 but now I found 2 that's it no more than that.

 

The Center: Quetz haven't spawned at all looked everywhere not a one I noticed b4 less spawned after a new dino was added but thought nothing of it. Daeodons have fewer spawns bc I found 2 diferent packs one had 3 in it the other had 5 which I had to kill bc I was escorting a mammoth and anky bc to base on foot. Half Burnt Island has raptors after everything else dies, Giant Bees are impossible tames bc they book it as I get there b4 destroying the hive or fly up too high for me reach or over water, Paras tend to over spawn a lot bc I have problems finding iguanadons, Alphas spawns decline overtime, Huge amount of lag by the river that's by the entrance to the underworld, Dilos over spawn in the swamp same with titanboas causing major lag, The jungle south cave has bugs over spawning outside the cave causing lag and frame drop.

 

Scorched Earth:  Spawns in general have changed used to have an abundance of dinos to tame/kill etc... Now dinos aren't to abundant I have venture far and wide for tames, Raptors aren't in short supply by my base however,Equus are hard to find bc they either eaten by rrators, wolves, terror birds, etc... 

 

That's all I can remember from my experience hope it helps narrow down the problems. I know others are having the same if not more or less issues.

 

Thanks for listening to the little people

So after playing on all 3 arks I have a more issues that I found:

1:    Items I drop bc I am encumbered will fall through the world about 35 to 40% of the time. Items I dropped while standing on or near by a rock or tree will auto delete it. Items dropped by water dinos while on them or not will most of the time auto delete.

2:    The Center Map: Megladons spawn alot in the shallow ocean, Mossa aren't spawning much like plessie do, Anglers spawn a lot too many have filled my sharks and dunks to the point they can't move but if I turn off the harvesting the get stuck on the bodies. Euriptyrids are so rare I used to find them in a few places in the open water or the crevice but now i'll find them maybe once or twice and only 1 or 3 at either time.

 

 

Hopefully this the last bit of issues I have found if not i'll post it here.

 

   Thanks Again

[EntwinedPuppet]

I'm still having an issue with stone anything turning black with a weird particle in the air, any time im in contact with water. And theres still a stutter in the gameplay.

[DimitriNakov]

PS4 Pro. When walking on shallow water while mounting a dino there's an audio bug in which only one footstep splashes and the other one is mute. I am also hoping that you fix the excessive bloom effect on water, snow and metal structures, they are making me blind and this issue has been reported several times long time ago by the community, this affects all platforms.

More Bugs: Baby cuddle Interval Multiplier slider in settings doesn't work. When you kill an argy while flying and the corpse falls on a rock it sinks through the rock. Yutyrannus' feet claw textures are not loading properly and looks really bad. When traversing the snow biome during dawn there's an excessive amount of flickering glitter in the snow. There are texture errors on some of the rocks that are on the shore of the river that divides the Grand Hills from the Northern Plains, they are located on the Grand Hills side near a waterfall, their texture flickers and switches incessantly from snow to regular rock in a loop. Standing close to several eggs that are incubating near many ACs causes fps drops.

[DimitriNakov]

@Jat Hey man, I was wondering if you guys are still reading this bug report thread. We would appreciate some reply that the bugs we reported are being worked on. Please don't leave us in the dark, a short reply would be welcomed. Have a nice weekend.

[GeminisDaniel]

Is happening to me, on PC and single player mode after the updates 259-260. If I leave some area for like 1 or 2 hours and I come back, the area is almost empty but I can still find mostly argentavis, pteras, raptors, dimorph or wolfs. Beside, Spinos, Hesperornis, Allos or Tusos are practically extints in my game on The Island.