ChrisGamingYT Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 worst map ever the textures are fugly, ark 2015 fugly the colors are cringey, barbieworld cringey the one and only new dino, while useful, feels like a lazy reskin of tapejara, and is reminiscent of all these low end palette swap mods meanwhile there are maps like AMISSA and OLYMPUS which are a thousand times better and they picked this garbage map instead *SHAKE MY HEAD* whoever at WILDCARD picked this map really doesn't know anything about ARK mods and really just did a lazy and shallow look around, screw that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxplanck58 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Spoiler Yeah - there is something flat about the lighting and foliage colors: it seems like they were trying to go with vibrant, but it doesn't quite come together in my opinion. It is kind of like an unrealistic looking Island clone with bad lighting, bad colors, floating bits and glowing bits. Not the worst map ever, but I don't think this will be in my rotation unless I get desperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycan187u Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 potatoes will do this mine looks amazing just saying ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycan187u Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/15/2020 at 12:04 AM, ChrisGamingYT said: worst map ever the textures are fugly, ark 2015 fugly the colors are cringey, barbieworld cringey the one and only new dino, while useful, feels like a lazy reskin of tapejara, and is reminiscent of all these low end palette swap mods meanwhile there are maps like AMISSA and OLYMPUS which are a thousand times better and they picked this garbage map instead *SHAKE MY HEAD* whoever at WILDCARD picked this map really doesn't know anything about ARK mods and really just did a lazy and shallow look around, screw that both these maps you suggested are 100 times worse than crystal isles loololol.utter trash hahaha my opinion lol lol ur linking trailers to the maps rofl they do not look like that ingame haha at all...amissa is a unfinished pile o poo holes for years in the mesh barren bioms/over spawns lol list goes on...Olympus is in the same boat lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam78 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 On 6/15/2020 at 6:04 AM, ChrisGamingYT said: worst map ever the textures are fugly, ark 2015 fugly the colors are cringey, barbieworld cringey the one and only new dino, while useful, feels like a lazy reskin of tapejara, and is reminiscent of all these low end palette swap mods meanwhile there are maps like AMISSA and OLYMPUS which are a thousand times better and they picked this garbage map instead *SHAKE MY HEAD* whoever at WILDCARD picked this map really doesn't know anything about ARK mods and really just did a lazy and shallow look around, screw that both these maps you suggested are 100 times worse than crystal isles loololol.utter trash hahaha my opinion lol lol ur linking trailers to the maps rofl they do not look like that ingame haha at all...amissa is a unfinished pile o poo holes for years in the mesh barren bioms/over spawns lol list goes on...Olympus is in the same boat lol On 6/20/2020 at 1:01 PM, Lycan187u said: both these maps you suggested are 100 times worse than crystal isles loololol.utter trash hahaha my opinion lol lol ur linking trailers to the maps rofl they do not look like that ingame haha at all...amissa is a unfinished pile o poo holes for years in the mesh barren bioms/over spawns lol list goes on...Olympus is in the same boat lol I do not know how long it will be since you have not played Olympus, they updated it in March of this year and I finished it a few weeks ago, not a glitch, it is spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator GP Posted June 22, 2020 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2020 On 6/15/2020 at 5:04 AM, ChrisGamingYT said: worst map ever Just as well it's free and you don't have to play on it. Personally for me the textures are fine. Yes there are issues, but overall it's a fine map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisGamingYT Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 16 hours ago, GP said: well it's free I don't recall starting this thread to talk about the price of this map a "volunteer moderator" should try to post on topic and not derail a thread this thread is about this map being the worst, laziest, ugliest official map yet, and how better community maps have been overlooked for this fugly mess of a map "it's free" is a terrible defense when the community consensus is WILDCARD needs to stop adding more unfinished content and fix core problems instead, that is hundreds of major game breaking bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 21 hours ago, ChrisGamingYT said: I don't recall starting this thread to talk about the price of this map a "volunteer moderator" should try to post on topic and not derail a thread this thread is about this map being the worst, laziest, ugliest official map yet, and how better community maps have been overlooked for this fugly mess of a map "it's free" is a terrible defense when the community consensus is WILDCARD needs to stop adding more unfinished content and fix core problems instead, that is hundreds of major game breaking bugs Moderator was trying to be nice. Saying why are you complaining about something that cost you nothing and if you don't like it don't play on it. Very valid point that I agree with. Lots of people love this map. It looks great on max settings that I play it with. It is much improved over the mod version of the map in many ways. Doesn't seem unfinished at all. Take your old argument and put it somewhere it makes sense. I'll let you decide where that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxxGodzxxX Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 On 6/22/2020 at 6:48 PM, ChrisGamingYT said: I don't recall starting this thread to talk about the price of this map a "volunteer moderator" should try to post on topic and not derail a thread this thread is about this map being the worst, laziest, ugliest official map yet, and how better community maps have been overlooked for this fugly mess of a map "it's free" is a terrible defense when the community consensus is WILDCARD needs to stop adding more unfinished content and fix core problems instead, that is hundreds of major game breaking bugs If you don't like it , go back to fortnite then . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rio4201 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 I disagree, both my gaming laptop and my gaming desktop render things crisp and vibrant and it's a great map, especially for those of us in PvE who like to breed and spread our builds out a bit. love everything about this map with the exception of how tight some of the resources are to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deedoubleu Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Everything looks kinda crappy on my settings, but Ci doesn't infuriate me as genesis1 did. Having fun so far actually. For each their own I guess, but for me gameplay was always more important than eye-candy and Ci plays just fine eventhough it does need a lot of work still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singalty Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Maybe we were just spoiled by Ragnarok, which is still one of our cluster's favorite maps. But Ragnarok for example has had three years of active tweaking and refinement which has set the bar really high for free DLC's in ark. Sure there are things that could have been done better for CI and I am sure will be improved. The players on our cluster are really divided about the aesthetics, which usually means that they are actually fine (I don't like some of them, fyi). @ChrisGamingYT your controversial subject has captured attention, but maybe it's more productive to focus on specifics and start a bug discussion on each item you think needs improvement. It's what the rest of us do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisGamingYT Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share Posted July 6, 2020 4 hours ago, singalty said: but maybe it's more productive to focus on specifics and start a bug discussion on each item you think needs improvement. It's what the rest of us do. I have filed many reports about major game breaking glitches (overspawn problems, mesh problems, texture problems, etc...) and they never got fixed. I don't trust the ticket system of wildcard anymore, any report we make is going directly to the trash. They don't seem to care about the community feedback apart from a few friends they have in mega tribes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 2 hours ago, ChrisGamingYT said: I have filed many reports about major game breaking glitches (overspawn problems, mesh problems, texture problems, etc...) and they never got fixed. I don't trust the ticket system of wildcard anymore, any report we make is going directly to the trash. They don't seem to care about the community feedback apart from a few friends they have in mega tribes. Thinks the ticket system doesn't work well so comes here to trash the forum system of sharing problems and bugs. A lot of us read the bug reports. Me personally, I read them to find out what is broken and to read about and use work-arounds when needed. I also like to read about useful techniques and other interesting things to help me play the game. I've read this post, but I think it contains 0% useful content for my purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbal98 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 This is like bringing a Ford Pinto to the Daytona 500 and complaining about not being fast enough. If only all computers were created equally right; maybe you should start a protest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyitsnick Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Yea, It's not great, that's for sure. Someone who's never designed a video game or even made a map before, created Crystal Isle, and it shows. Her last edit on the map was back in Oct of 2019, SHE, broke a bunch of stuff on her own map and basically abandoned it. You can go to the mod listed in the workshop to see it's last update. After that date, it sat and fixed. And because Wild Card is awesome and wanted to give away another free map, Crystal Isle was really their only option as there is no other map that's anywhere near useable for release. I know what you're gonna say. Olympus,Volcano,ect ect ect. They are good maps, no doubt, but there isn't enough on those maps to stand up with Valguero and Ragnarok. The chick that made this map is the one we should be blaming. They actually hired her awhile back for the Atlas game, LOL, it's all starting to make sense now right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeldei Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 On 7/9/2020 at 5:16 PM, heyitsnick said: Yea, It's not great, that's for sure. Someone who's never designed a video game or even made a map before, created Crystal Isle, and it shows. Her last edit on the map was back in Oct of 2019, SHE, broke a bunch of stuff on her own map and basically abandoned it. You can go to the mod listed in the workshop to see it's last update. After that date, it sat and fixed. And because Wild Card is awesome and wanted to give away another free map, Crystal Isle was really their only option as there is no other map that's anywhere near useable for release. I know what you're gonna say. Olympus,Volcano,ect ect ect. They are good maps, no doubt, but there isn't enough on those maps to stand up with Valguero and Ragnarok. The chick that made this map is the one we should be blaming. They actually hired her awhile back for the Atlas game, LOL, it's all starting to make sense now right? A lot of people love Crystal Islands, though. So, it's not universally true that ISO is bad. You can't please everyone. And I doubt ISO is responsible for Atlas failing. If ISO is involved in map design, Atlas looks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 On 7/20/2020 at 1:21 AM, Zeldei said: A lot of people love Crystal Islands, though. So, it's not universally true that ISO is bad. You can't please everyone. And I doubt ISO is responsible for Atlas failing. If ISO is involved in map design, Atlas looks pretty good. Yes, you can't please everyone. I recall that she noticed this too, and found it quite demotivating. The map would probably have been done quicker if she didn't get so much non-constructive feedback about it. If the map isn't your cup of tea, well then, don't sip it. It is a very different style of map than most. I personally love Crystal Isles, the beauty of it. Also it looks in some ways more natural and less artificial than some of the other maps. I don't like how many bugs it has, but now that it is an official map, I'm thinking those will be fixed over the course of the next year. I don't like all of Crystal Isles though. I don't like how dark Eldritch Isle is and the constant sound affects you hear in that area. I think the sinister feel could have been achieved in a way that isn't so annoying (at least to me it is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeldei Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 7/20/2020 at 1:28 PM, wildbill said: Yes, you can't please everyone. I recall that she noticed this too, and found it quite demotivating. The map would probably have been done quicker if she didn't get some much non-constructive feedback about it. If the map isn't your cup of tea, well then, don't sip it. It is a very different style of map than most. I personally love Crystal Isles, the beauty of it. Also it looks in some ways more natural and less artificial than some of the other maps. I don't like how many bugs it has, but now that it is an official map, I'm thinking those will be fixed over the course of the next year. I don't like all of Crystal Isles though. I don't like how dark Eldritch Isle is and the constant sound affects you hear in that area. I think the sinister feel could have been achieved in a way that isn't so annoying (at least to me it is). So far, my most pressing issue about the map is the size. It's too big, and this seems a bizarre trend among mod maps. Everyone's trying to outdo each other on map size, and it always has the same problem. Takes ages to get anywhere. And there seems to be vast swaths of the map devoid of much life. It's got the opposite problem of Genesis' ocean biome. Center had this problem too with oceans in particular, but in CI the dead zones are everywhere. But ya, it's not a perfect map. I wish it had more engaging cave-endgame and more than just 1 boss arena, but oh well. It's a good map to cluster with another, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 7 hours ago, Zeldei said: So far, my most pressing issue about the map is the size. It's too big, and this seems a bizarre trend among mod maps. Everyone's trying to outdo each other on map size, and it always has the same problem. Takes ages to get anywhere. And there seems to be vast swaths of the map devoid of much life. It's got the opposite problem of Genesis' ocean biome. Center had this problem too with oceans in particular, but in CI the dead zones are everywhere. But ya, it's not a perfect map. I wish it had more engaging cave-endgame and more than just 1 boss arena, but oh well. It's a good map to cluster with another, I think. Yes, not a bad map when you play it on an unofficial in a cluster and with the right mods. You will really want a teleport mod with this one, that is how I play it. You can't get all the Tek unlocked with the one arena. I found that disappointing so I've done one other boss fight on the Island to unlock some of the Tek I didn't have. I've also had to go to Ragnarok to get a decent pump shotgun BP. I've yet to find a decent saddle BP for the Megatherium, but they might not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeldei Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 5 hours ago, wildbill said: Yes, not a bad map when you play it on an unofficial in a cluster and with the right mods. You will really want a teleport mod with this one, that is how I play it. You can't get all the Tek unlocked with the one arena. I found that disappointing so I've done one other boss fight on the Island to unlock some of the Tek I didn't have. I've also had to go to Ragnarok to get a decent pump shotgun BP. I've yet to find a decent saddle BP for the Megatherium, but they might not exist. If you want saddles, I'd recommend Genesis. I got loot for days doing dodo ball and other missions. In bulk. Saddles galore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Zeldei said: If you want saddles, I'd recommend Genesis. I got loot for days doing dodo ball and other missions. In bulk. Saddles galore. Ah. The cluster I play on has Genesis, but I've yet to buy that DLC. I have to admit, the strange way they sell these DLCs, in something called a "season pass" has baffled me. Why can't I buy it for like $25 like I did scorched earth? And DILO I'm I getting when I fork over $34.99? I have no idea, so I've stayed away from it. The way they marketed it too, like it was some big mysterious thing. I buy something for what it is, not for the mystery of it. Maybe I need to read up on it, probably is very well explained now, but when it first came out, it made no sense to me. I recall it being part I or something too. Can I buy the whole thing now, and not get just some part of it? Scorched Earth never seemed finished the whole time I played it, still doesn't. Didn't want to repeat that again. The cluster I play on also has Valguero, which I think has some of the Genesis stuff, or maybe it is the Extinction stuff. I stopped playing ARK for over a year and have totally lost track of what is going on. Only started playing it again regularly when Crystal Isles was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piffguru Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/22/2020 at 6:35 PM, wildbill said: Ah. The cluster I play on has Genesis, but I've yet to buy that DLC. I have to admit, the strange way they sell these DLCs, in something called a "season pass" has baffled me. Why can't I buy it for like $25 like I did scorched earth? And DILO I'm I getting when I fork over $34.99? I have no idea, so I've stayed away from it. The way they marketed it too, like it was some big mysterious thing. I buy something for what it is, not for the mystery of it. Maybe I need to read up on it, probably is very well explained now, but when it first came out, it made no sense to me. I recall it being part I or something too. Can I buy the whole thing now, and not get just some part of it? Scorched Earth never seemed finished the whole time I played it, still doesn't. Didn't want to repeat that again. The cluster I play on also has Valguero, which I think has some of the Genesis stuff, or maybe it is the Extinction stuff. I stopped playing ARK for over a year and have totally lost track of what is going on. Only started playing it again regularly when Crystal Isles was released. Its been said in plain english since the beginning, the season pass is you buying 2 maps genesis 1 and 2. They are only selling genesis as a pack, so when you buy the pass you get genesis 1 thats currently out and will get genesis 2 when it comes out at a later date. And no valguero has no genesis stuff in it, it has island/scorched/aberration stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millwight Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Genesis Part 2 is scheduled for release in March 2021. but wild card has missed every scheduled release date so far.✌ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moozoo Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 >the colors are cringey, barbieworld cringey This comes from Aberration which I'm guessing you also didn't like. There are plenty of places on the map without this look. Just don't go to those biomes. i.e go redwoods, snow, swamp or the central plains.etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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