dodogal Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 How do tek dinos even fit into the LORE? O_o Quote Helena Note #7 (The Island) I never thought this island was normal, exactly. I mean, there are giant obelisks floating in the sky, for Pete's sake. Not to mention that cave I found, which hid a platform similar to those found at the base of said obelisks. Well, similar except for those oddly shaped holes that were carved into its podium. I guess I just didn't care about all that. So long as I had my beautiful, unique and untainted ecosystem to study, I was happy. But now... No, I shouldn't write it off just yet. Not before I arrive at Rockwell's. There's still a chance that my data is off or, that I missed something obvious. I won't give up on my paradise just yet. It says that apart from obelisks and caves, the island should look like a natural paradise But now with the addition of tek dinos, it doesn't make sense anymore Wasn't including tek dinos in the island a mistake? I mean lore wise... (because it was even more a mistake balance wise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb68 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 well... my thought was with the corruption on the Extinction Ark, the data got sent out to the other arks, allowing for the spawning of the tek dino's on to them. without the tek dinos on the other maps you would have to travel to extinction in order to gather element dust or try to tame a gacha and hope it produces element dust. I haven't noticed a large spawn of tek dino's on the island, they seem to be rather low far as the spawn rate compared to the other dinos. I do like them, just for the extra electronics n' oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodogal Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 16 minutes ago, caleb68 said: well... my thought was with the corruption on the Extinction Ark, the data got sent out to the other arks, allowing for the spawning of the tek dino's on to them. without the tek dinos on the other maps you would have to travel to extinction in order to gather element dust or try to tame a gacha and hope it produces element dust. I haven't noticed a large spawn of tek dino's on the island, they seem to be rather low far as the spawn rate compared to the other dinos. I do like them, just for the extra electronics n' oil. They shouldn't be on the island right off the bat though, it breaks both balance and LORE. They could make it so tek dinos only appear on the island after you've ascended.... since I did not ascend yet, I removed them from the island like this (in game.ini) NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="BionicPara_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Para_Character_BP_C") NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="BionicStego_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Stego_Character_BP_C") NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="BionicRaptor_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Raptor_Character_BP_C") NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="BionicRex_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Rex_Character_BP_C") NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="BionicQuetz_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Quetz_Character_BP_C") but still I think it was a mistake to disrupt the setting like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb68 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 yeah seeing them 'after' going to extinction with the character would fit better, possible in a single player game but not so much for multiplayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaprosuchus Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I agree with you but the dev team used to be in the habit of doing random ill thought out things to keep hype up on their game until they got the last promised DLC out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb68 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 53 minutes ago, Kaprosuchus said: I agree with you but the dev team used to be in the habit of doing random ill thought out things to keep hype up on their game until they got the last promised DLC out. And then after the release of Atlas they made a new post saying they would continue to work on Ark and bring more DLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyMonkey Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I don’t think it’s a great time management of resources to go back and edit the lore for each and every little bit of content they add however in this instance they should at least have their own dossiers like the rest of the creatures found in Ark, which as we know were created by Helena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldster Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 For some reason the Gachas and holiday events bother me far more than the mechanical creatures. Wasn't about the lore for me in the first place though. I'll probably leave them in but only until I comprehend how they affect balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycan187u Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 This isn't the beginning more rather the end...these are words from our Lord an savior raptor jesus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaprosuchus Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 10 hours ago, caleb68 said: And then after the release of Atlas they made a new post saying they would continue to work on Ark and bring more DLC. i would like something more for ark. i didn't really like extinction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aylana314159 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Lore is history. The present dosen't have to match lore 100%, things can change over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowgirl Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 They don't always stick to their original words. NOW it is not in there (that I can find) but when the giga first came out the notes said it was supposed to be slow and lumbering and easily outran by most dinos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martellus Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 17 hours ago, dodogal said: How do tek dinos even fit into the LORE? O_o It says that apart from obelisks and caves, the island should look like a natural paradise But now with the addition of tek dinos, it doesn't make sense anymore Wasn't including tek dinos in the island a mistake? I mean lore wise... (because it was even more a mistake balance wise) Yes!!!! Lore!!!! But before lore, lets address a little of my expectations. So I love the Tek dinos and all things transformers. I really do and I, as a private server admin/owner, have enjoyed Tek Dinos and are still a lot of fun to me and friends. I did struggle with a few things though, when I first brought up the "dinobots" in Ark I suggested these would be built and fueled much like Tek tier stuff now days. They would be powerful and mechanic (with fuel to balance its use). I never factored breeding (but maybe dynamic breeding was not even a thing back then when I brought this up). So, if I were to implement Tek Dinos today, I would do so based on parts. After Extinction, parts have qualities associated with them and that changes with the quality of the Enforcer (for example), Enforcers work pretty well with my original expectation for this type of critter, the only thing is that I thought it would require a hangar to build stuff and we could see a Tek Rex being gradually assembled as resources where donated to it. It was pretty cool the way I pictured. Then came the Tek Dinos as they are, and while they are totally awesome to me I had to find ways to justify the lore behind it, I am a lore driven person after all. First issue you raised, Helena and Tek Dinos/natural: I have always assumed that I was not close behind Helena's tracks, I have always thought that there is at least one or two generations in between the events of those survivors and myself. I never assumed ourselves (Humans) to be 100% the humans we are now, so longevity, strength, resistance, etc.. are not necessarily identical to our reality. Many years could have passed since Helena's initial discoveries. So between her observations and my own, there could have been a lifetime of changes to the specific Ark we have survived on. Could the Corruption be an explanation to the Tek Dinos? I personally did not not think so (but now it makes more sense), the Tek Dinos are either an inherit "glitch in the system" or since this was brought up, if the Arks are connected in a single network (and by all means it seems so, because we transfer between them), then Rockwell might have initiated the whole corruption, willingly or unwillingly. Rockwell was around the same time Helena was, etc... So if Rockwell triggered the corruption AFTER they went to now called Aberration, Helena's Island notes are in perfect harmony as the events happened after she wrote them. The harder to explain stuff: This is were I start to take issue, lore wise. Why, for all that is logic, do Tek critters drop meat, hide, etc...? WHY? its a tek beast, I expected components, stuff like that, blue blood or something, and yet they are just a reskin of the base template with a max level boost. The fact that Tek animals hunt/seek food, I can somehow justify (poorly at that, but just to find *something*) by saying Tek beasts still eat to process energy somehow, it would be so advanced that is mimicking a living organism so well. Tek breeding, this is another that I can imagine the Tek animal assembles a miniature (blueprint injected in egg form) internally and thru some kind of nano-technology they can grow and reconfigure its size appropriately as per design. Again very high sci-fi, but I NEED a justification for it, this is the best I could find. I just cannot explain the drops to myself and that specifically hurts the lore a lot to me, I would be ok if Wildcard messed with the Tek dinos loot drop or moved them to building templates, either way, I love that they are in and there are still some Tek ones missing and I hope they will come in as well. EDIT: Loot table has been ajusted on 292.100 patch as quickly noticed by a friend of mine, haven't hunted them on the Island for a while, so my worst issue with them has been resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodogal Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Martellus said: I just cannot explain the drops to myself and that specifically hurts the lore a lot to me, I would be ok if Wildcard messed with the Tek dinos loot drop or moved them to building templates, either way, I love that they are in and there are still some Tek ones missing and I hope they will come in as well. EDIT: Loot table has been ajusted on 292.100 patch as quickly noticed by a friend of mine, haven't hunted them on the Island for a while, so my worst issue with them has been resolved. while I appreciate they don't drop meat anymore, their new loot is too OP for the Island, easy electronics and elements... that's why they shouldn't be on the island in single player mode, at least before you ascended other issues : they still have red blood (why not make it black like oil?) and they still behave like regular dinos (do regular predators eat metal? do tek predators eat meat?) all of this reeks lack of polish, they're still essentially a skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngrySaltire Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 8 minutes ago, dodogal said: do tek predators eat meat? So Ark is the prequel to Horizon Zero Dawn ? ? Tek raptors and tek rexes consume all the biomass on all the Arks and on Earth and we need to restart the whole system again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tapioca Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I am a year late and brand new to the game, but I don't think Tek Creatures eating meat or dropping the meat they collected is lore breaking in any way. They were deaigned to immitate the life on the island, so they hunt down and kill and (collect) consume the other Ark animals. If anything, they should drop spoiled meat as well, since they are just collecting it. On the other hand, maybe their design causes a preservative effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castlerock Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 other issues : they still have red blood (why not make it black like oil?) Im not sure what the name of the color of their blood is, but it has never been red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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