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Console Ark has always been a struggle, just because of the (lack of) power that consoles have. Here are some REALLY SIMPLE changes that could be made to make a console player's life much easier.

 

1. GRAPHICAL SETTING OPTIONS. For real guys, why can't console players turn off the godawful light shafts, shadows, and bloom quality from the game menu? Every time I log onto Ark, I have to first go onto my single player, type in these commands and then log into whatever server I'm playing on, and then do it again when my game inevitably crashes while I'm playing. I don't know if anyone from the Dev team has played Ark with high gamma, and then flown up into the sky. Your screen literally turns white, you literally can't see anything. Not exaggerating. Allow us PLEASE to tune these settings. As well as that, if it's at all possible, give the option to change resolution settings. Console players don't need textures to look amazing, we’re playing on an xbox and a $100 TV from Walmart. We just want to get above 5fps inside our bases. Please Wildcard.

 

2. MOUSE AND KEYBOARD. I know this one is a longshot, but Xbox just gave the capability, and Ark is such an advanced game. It could be made a lot more fun, competitive, and just convenient by allowing mouse and keyboard. Xbox Small Tribes servers are already loaded with people playing on mouse and keyboard because they are Cross-platform. Anyone who's played console will understand the struggle of making gunpowder. *Press and hold* "One stack of sparkpowder" *Press and hold* "Two stacks of sparkpowder". It's excruciating. 

 

3. TRANSFER ITEM OPTIONS. On the subject of making gunpowder, the whole “press and hold” to transfer one stack this is horrid. Making bullets requires you doing this hundreds and hundreds of times, whereas PC players can hold down T and wave their mouse around to transfer stacks super quickly. If we can’t have mouse and keyboard, something that would be great would be a “transfer x amount” feature. Or even a “transfer x stacks”. Small things, like when you added LB to take all, go a LONG way to making the game more convenient and streamlined for controller players.

 

4. DINO MOVEMENT. Jeeeeez guys this is brutal. I loved the “disable ally looking” option that you added, I’m asking you to take it a step further and give an option to turn off passive dino movement. I don’t want 100 wyvern tails dancing all over the place, I don’t want massive Bronto tails pushing me around. I don’t want my dinos to have an aneurysm every time they eat food. I know that it’ll look weird just having all your dinos sit there like statues, but its so worth it if it would help the framerate, even a little bit. If it’s simply an option, that puts the power in the players’ hands to decide if it’s worth it.

 

5. ACCOUNT LOYAL IMPRINTS. This isn’t a console-specific suggestion like the others, but still this needs to happen. You guys obviously feel pretty bad when your players lose characters. But rather than you having to deal with thousands of tickets, why not just give us what we wanted in the first place? I’m going to tell you right now, if you made dino-imprints loyal to an account rather than a character, people won’t care about lost characters anymore. Very minimal people care about losing tek engrams. Everyone on Ark knows someone that can get them another run through the Boss Fights. The biggest hit when you lose a character comes from the fact that you now have Dinos without imprints. On PvP servers, imprints are everything. Back when you guys set imprint timers to 8 hours from 3-4 hours, you cited that you were making the game a little healthier. If that’s still something you care about, you should give people the ability to hold onto Imprints. I’ve had tribemates lose a character and lose upwards of 500 imprinted tames because of it. That’s hours of work, wasted. Unlesssss, you guys come through for us on this. I know that the community agrees on this.

 

6.FIX ARGIES PLS N TY. Yeah I almost forgot, also not a console-specific thing but holy hell. Fix the Argent's picking issues. 

 

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On 6/11/2019 at 5:28 PM, Rossnvnw67 said:

Obviously guy, but in a chem bench you need an equal amount of spark and charcoal to craft gunpowder. So you have to press and hold for 1 second, 30 times to transfer in the spark. Then transfer all for charcoal. My point is that it would save time to click a button that says "transfer 30 stacks" rather than clicking and holding 30 times. It's just inefficient and when you play on official making vaults upon vaults of turret ammo at a time, you waste literally hours of your time just moving items around and transferring. 

no, he means type gun then press the transfer all button. oh, and sorry for the necro.

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Weird difference between versions I also noticed after migrating from the Steam version to the Windows Store (so modified Xbox) version- for some god-awful reason you can't mass-eat berries by holding down the use key/button like you can in the Steam version, and instead have to spam it for each individual berry.

For the love of god, just let me hold the key.

Also give me back my hotbar keyboard labels.

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PS4

Agreed with most of the ideas presented here.

The blinding light is horrible.

I would love a transfer amount ability. As Is, I usually play on a server that has increased stack sizes. So I need 200 stone for a blueprint. I can either tap X 200 times or press and hold and now I have 23K stone in my inventory and can't move.

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On 7/3/2019 at 1:02 AM, CHevey0 said:

We need to address the Triangle button on PS4 (not sure on the XBox equivalent) If im trying to pick up some fibre/berries i then accidentally throw my shoulder pet or i cant throw out my shoulder pet because the game thinks im trying to access an inventory or get to the settings on a floor. The button has way to many uses. If we could map the buttons or at least toggle what the button does. Its so frustrating!

Would be the y button on xbox.. But agree with 1-4 would love to see imprints as tribe wide instead of account locked.

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On 5/8/2019 at 1:54 PM, ThePryBar said:

Why do you need assistants to play the game for you? Beer is easy to make just takes time but is excellent for PvP. Same with bees to make honey for vegetable cakes and for fishing or broth of enlightenment. Your suggestions are that of a lazy person whom doesn't like any challenges.

So I mainly play PVE and dont really see a reason for beer as a PVE player and you may consider this suggestion lazy but I see it as a sole player that only gets a few hours a day to play a way to deal with the 20mins of maintaining the base and being able to get into the things I find fun in the game like taming, fighting bosses, doing the caves, etc. It is just an add on which doesnt mean you have to use it if those are the things you like to do in the game.

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Not sure if this has been suggested (meaning it probably has) but I would really, really like to see a change that allows you to save multiple games/characters on Ark single player console (PS4). I only play single player and would like to be able to try out multiple characters without having to erase my current player and start over. I would like to be able to switch back and forth between saved games. I hope the developers have considered allowing this before they completely abandon this game for Ark 2.

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