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Is solo genesis still impossible?

Hey guys been a while since I've played ark and I've been having a genesis itch. Have they rebalanced the missions to where they are all beatable by the solo player on alpha settings or are there still some impossible to complete. I didn't want to have to resort to clicking the use single player settings button if there was any way around this. Thnx in advance.

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Especially Genesis is not balanced for small tribes of two or three people, you can't reach the end game without a massive people count. Never saw a tribe of three making a gauntlet mission on alpha. We tried it multipel times and never finished the bog beat down mission and this is the easier one. Fact is  we leave Genesis and still playing on Extinction.

 

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So i don't yet know if I will get all the way to alpha boss but I currently have 135 missions complete.  I play on a private server but it is just me and another guy that logs in. Server has increased gathering, Taming, and breeding rates but that is it. No single player settings, increased dino levels or stats. No dino mods either.

I have scouted out which missions I think I can complete solo/two player and in theory I think there is a way. You don't have to complete the alpha gauntlet missions as you can skip 8 overall missions. 

 

We did all of the beta missions with transfers disabled and even beat gamma boss before enabling transfers.  Used lots of breed/imprinted Tek-Rex.  For alpha missions I have brought over my giga army that I breed for Extinction ODS and King Titan fights. 50+ breed and imprinted Gigas make short work of every alpha missions that requires fighting if you take the time to plan it out. 

So far I have beat all content with myself and another guy. Just takes an extreme amount of research,  planning and preparation. Not fun for everyone but honestly that is my favorite part.

It is easier with two players than one but there is nothing we have done yet that I could not have done on my own if I would have just prepared more.

 

Good luck.

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On 9/18/2020 at 4:26 AM, ColdIce said:

Especially Genesis is not balanced for small tribes of two or three people, you can't reach the end game without a massive people count. Never saw a tribe of three making a gauntlet mission on alpha. We tried it multipel times and never finished the bog beat down mission and this is the easier one. Fact is  we leave Genesis and still playing on Extinction.

Totally true. Using highly mutated, max level (OP) dinos in most alpha quests is just ridiculous. The allo pack (anything alpha) can drop a dino in two bites - even the Megaloceros impose some threat if you are not highly (HIGHLY) prepared. The beat downs are just unfun and stupid - and impossible solo. One fact too: is just to many quest - all boring and repetitive. Even the races are half-baked, untested and poorly implemented (but doable, at least on PC). If you want to do quests go for imprinted/breeded Gigas/Rexes/Yutis (in high numbers, depending on the fight) or just don't - you need to be as stupid as the game to beat the SP BS.

And the boss... oh boy. In my SP world I barely made out of the Gamma CMC. Flawless rexes I'm breeding for more than 1k hours (like, non stop - modded SP world with the basics to make the game fun and not just a timesink inside a timesink inside a timesink like officials, besides custom configs, meaning my rexes is something you get after 10k hours in officials) started drop like flies in the last part. One of my 150k health Yuti (with really good saddles, both max level) got killed by the BS that is that bloody boss. You just don't have time to do nothing but look down for keys. You need to pack like 2-3 sets of disposable (OP) tek armor to walk around collecting the damn keys and shooting the F Gigas (when you can to minimize the losses - if you can't kill them they will wipe all your dinos) while your dinos go around doing the mass murdering in disarray.

I lost half of my dinos (even with two pigs doing the healing), and the rest was just barely alive (some with 1-2k HP) - meaning 1-2mins more of "fight" and I was dead for sure. I can't do more quests (exhausted all the "possible" from the list) and for sure will never be able to do the beta and alpha CMC (I'm not trying even if I could go in). Was when I leave Genesis for good. They did a really poor job in this one - and it seems nothing will be balanced or fixed.

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Once you have good breeded rexes and gigas the alpha hunts are not that hard. You basically need to understand how not to grab the aggro and let the rex tank while u kill the beasts with the gigas. 2 players at least is a must.

However gauntlets are near impossible and races are extremely laggy on official. If there wasnt that bug that allowed to put tamed dinos inside the gauntlet arena I bet not even the 0,1% of ppl that completed that missions would have succeed.

The boss imho is well balanced and its not designed to be solo or duo. You need a full group at least 6-7 ppl to deal with the keys and the threats.

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168 missions reached.... by playing solo on official server =>
 

Races : they changed the time limit, with some practice on them => easily doable except tokyo skiff (the one i skiped on that category)
Escorts on land : one imprinted giga and gg
Alpha brutes on land : all of them except spino and lunar brutes can be done with the good old pack of rexes + yuty => 35k / 1431% base, max hp to 80k at least rest in melee, 120+ saddles are mandatory
Alpha astrocetus : easy to beat with two players on gigas (it have very very low hp) but it one shot you while mounted so be careful and kill it fast :o
Checkpoints on land : same as escorts, giga and gg 😛 (don't forget the lightpet for lunar one ^^)
Gauntlet..... those are a bit more tricky but there was and probably still is some way to get a giga inside the arena and then, one giga can beat all alpha gauntlet (care with magma medley, the giga can be shredded in no time if you're not careful 😛 )
Fish => arctic : good luck for alpha wihtout using an auto script but doable if you're good at that (personaly, i skipped the alpha)
bog : there is a little trick that allow you to not be annoyed by piranhas ;) 
escorts in ocean : i skiped both alphas because it's complicate (or maybe impossible) with a basilo probably a good mosa can do the job
Brutes in ocean : that was the most annoying part, i used a basilo pack but orders are fully bugged after they took any damage from the deep sea... so..... good luck with that :/ (btw... basilos 40k 750% base (hp pumped to 60/80k + 110+ saddles and they are easy)

Moeder..... i did it long ago when it was bugged so no tested but the same basilo pack should be able to deal with it like with any alpha brutes

So to sum up : alpha arctic fish / 3 brutes in lunar / tokyo skiff / alpha spino / 2 escorts in ocean => -8 from 176 and you have the count ;)

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You need 168 missions to unlock the alpha MC boss, but 6 of the missions you can not do solo (the team basketball games).

So that will require you to successfully complete some of the missions that few have ever completed: alpha bloodstalker race, alpha skiff race and alpha turtle escort.  I don't personally know anybody who has completed any of those - I am sure there are a few out there.

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19 hours ago, frenchycaro said:

Fish => arctic : good luck for alpha wihtout using an auto script but doable if you're good at that (personaly, i skipped the alpha)

Macro is not really needed. The problem with that mission is that it spawns less coels than the requiered number, so if you just sit and fish you wont be able to finish it. Happened to me lot of times, 5 min left and no more fishes to be catched.

The trick to do the mission is just kill some of the coels because when you do new ones spawn. Like you kill a pair of mission coels and the mission will spawn 8 new ones and the mission becomes doable.

 

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On 9/25/2020 at 2:45 AM, frenchycaro said:

168 missions reached.... by playing solo on official server =>

So to sum up : alpha arctic fish / 3 brutes in lunar / tokyo skiff / alpha spino / 2 escorts in ocean => -8 from 176 and you have the count ;)

How did you complete the 6 basketball team games that require a tribemate if you are playing solo?

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  • 8 months later...

Finished 171 missions in total (165 solo + 6 duo which are the basketball games) on my server which has Official Difficulty.

I've done Alpha Controller solo too. There's a couple of Alpha missions still to go like Alpha Gauntlets, Alpha Ocean Escorts which I've plans to complete.

Hoping to help others, here's my playlist guide of these missions: 

Ark Genesis 1 - Missions Playlist - YouTube

I'm uploading every day 1 video, the fastest I can do with a full time job as a Data Science nerd.

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On 9/25/2020 at 8:45 AM, frenchycaro said:

168 missions reached.... by playing solo on official server =>
 

Races : they changed the time limit, with some practice on them => easily doable except tokyo skiff (the one i skiped on that category)
Escorts on land : one imprinted giga and gg
Alpha brutes on land : all of them except spino and lunar brutes can be done with the good old pack of rexes + yuty => 35k / 1431% base, max hp to 80k at least rest in melee, 120+ saddles are mandatory
Alpha astrocetus : easy to beat with two players on gigas (it have very very low hp) but it one shot you while mounted so be careful and kill it fast :o
Checkpoints on land : same as escorts, giga and gg 😛 (don't forget the lightpet for lunar one ^^)
Gauntlet..... those are a bit more tricky but there was and probably still is some way to get a giga inside the arena and then, one giga can beat all alpha gauntlet (care with magma medley, the giga can be shredded in no time if you're not careful 😛 )
Fish => arctic : good luck for alpha wihtout using an auto script but doable if you're good at that (personaly, i skipped the alpha)
bog : there is a little trick that allow you to not be annoyed by piranhas ;) 
escorts in ocean : i skiped both alphas because it's complicate (or maybe impossible) with a basilo probably a good mosa can do the job
Brutes in ocean : that was the most annoying part, i used a basilo pack but orders are fully bugged after they took any damage from the deep sea... so..... good luck with that :/ (btw... basilos 40k 750% base (hp pumped to 60/80k + 110+ saddles and they are easy)

Moeder..... i did it long ago when it was bugged so no tested but the same basilo pack should be able to deal with it like with any alpha brutes

So to sum up : alpha arctic fish / 3 brutes in lunar / tokyo skiff / alpha spino / 2 escorts in ocean => -8 from 176 and you have the count ;)

Taking all these as a note, starting solo on genesis. Ty for the nice detailed list

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Hey everyone!  Kinda new to the scene, but I am actually in the middle of a 365 day stream completing all this on officials.  I came here looking for answers but I think some of you may actually ind my stream to be helpful, since it's all done above board and it's all visible.  I'm extremely new to the game but I've been able to get through most of these missions and things with what we have available.  There is only three in the tribe, plus a couple allies we've amde along the journey from the Island.  It may not exactly answer your question, but the stats at which I complete these and how are fully available to view in our stream.  I tend to say official settings so as not to get flooded in our server but feel free to stop by and ask questions!  We have a lot of veterans who show up and are interested and even pick up some things!

Sorry about the self promotion, but I do think my stream is relevant to the topic.  Youtube/Azonavox.

 

Hope you find it helpful!

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On 5/29/2021 at 6:35 AM, Freespirit said:

Finished 171 missions in total (165 solo + 6 duo which are the basketball games) on my server which has Official Difficulty.

I've done Alpha Controller solo too. There's a couple of Alpha missions still to go like Alpha Gauntlets, Alpha Ocean Escorts which I've plans to complete.

Hoping to help others, here's my playlist guide of these missions: 

Ark Genesis 1 - Missions Playlist - YouTube

I'm uploading every day 1 video, the fastest I can do with a full time job as a Data Science nerd.

Just watched you do Alpha master controller solo, i seriously didn't think this was possible on official settings - well done! Awesome job!

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On 9/10/2021 at 12:42 AM, Luizza said:

Just watched you do Alpha master controller solo, i seriously didn't think this was possible on official settings - well done! Awesome job!

Thank You & indeed I am very happy that my videos have been useful to you, more so that it might build confidence & inspire you & others to complete the game. I have myself been inspired by Philinger Phoo & his solo playthroughs made me feel that Ark Solo un-boosted is possible. As of this date, I have also been able to Solo Hunting by Moonlight on Alpha on Official using the Tek Pistol so my Gen1 mission tally stands at 172 of 176.

Regarding Gen2, well, I think I can show a full 100% guide for it & have completed most of the missions, some of the videos need editing after which I will upload them. Only Bulbdog Fetch & Star Dolphin on Alpha, & ofcouse Rockwell Prime on Beta & Alpha remain.

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