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Even though I was tired after work I was also excited to participate in my first event on an official server, so I hopped on as soon as I got home. Refresh timers, feed everyone, then decide what to do. The issue I have is I wanted to tame lots of event color animals, but I'm still working on my base. Plus, I have no kibble yet. But I decided to press forward anyway and at least get one Easter spino. This would also be my first spino ever tamed on official, the first for the Blue Spino Ranch, and my first post-TLC. I've been very wary of them because of the changes, but I want to give them a chance. Seeing all the cool animals did get me super hype, so I decided to check my "secret" spot--the swamp spino spawn. It has the advantage of being relatively local to my base too. Cleared out the barys, rerendered and found a gorgeous, very blue Easter female. Low level, which is actually ideal for me because I have no kibble. I was very, very surprised by two things: how fast spinos are now, even more than they were before, and they are much more persistent, at least away from the water. By the time I got her kited to my base Cadbury was hurting quite a lot, and his movement speed is base so he couldn't outrun her if he tried. I have no taming pen but I improvised and got her KO'd on the beach next to my base. Raw prime is less effective for sure but if it's all you got it's what you use, it wasn't too bad really. When she stood up I was very happy, my first spino tame is always the most exciting part of any new server. I haven't named her yet but here she is, my new ranch mascot: I swiftly decided I need some Easter argents to provide eggs to tame more spinos, but I also desperately need to get my base going. So before I logged I started working on my secondary gate. Once I complete the outer shell of that wall I can start laying the foundations for my base itself, and then the real work begins. So I'm compromising with myself a bit there, because the event animals I tame are also important since that's my kibble farm and the start of my breeding lines. Either way it was quite late by then so I finished up for the night. Today's overall goal is building and taming. Also lots of narc crafting to keep my stock high in case I come across another spino to tame.

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Hello, Made seven Argents with good weight stats so now it is leveling that counts (weight stat only), waiting for the TLC2 pass on XBOX, thinking that I can finally craft those Giga saddles ASCENDANT. YES. I had the greatest idea to level one of the misfits to Melee and Health taking the Argent to the Island map and Carno Island. However for some reason two (2) alpha T-Rex spawned and my Argent was at 650 Melee and 4500 Health ish cuz I lost it , shredded by the two T-Rexes. So I am not to fold so I went back with a boss Rex ASCENDANT saddle and all. Thought that I could go for a low level rex on the way to the two Alpha T-Rexes. BOOM they (Alpha T-Rex) moved in immediately. I found myself on low ground and the Alpha - T REXes on high ground. Tried my best to move around and back up to high ground however I could only see my Rex health go down. So I decided to jump off, killed immediately. Now no Rex death message was shown so my Rex was alive and in ARK stasis. I should have waited keeping it cool but I could not I had to get my saddle and on the way (approach) my Rex died. I feel so bad and stupid. Its HIGH ground that counts and one Alpha T-Rex at the time! So now the Easter update hit and I wait for the good fight to continue. Now with a new Argent and 2times XP. I think I might lose more in the upcoming fights but I am not to give up, ever. They are going down! Regards, Ariana

PS4 - Single Player - Ragnarok Didn't play very long last night, but I did take out Justine my Mosa and Big Plesi out for a little swim. We managed to kill a bunch of lobsters and were able to survive an attack by eels, Cnardia and we even tussled twice with Tusos. Arrived back at the Black Pearl Bay Outpost with over 100 Black Pearl (now have over 1200) and a couple hundred Bio Toxin. Used the Oil we collected to make some gas as well. I then took FireTruck my red Weight Fire Wyvern out for a stroll and we came upon a level 130 Wookie. I don't see them as often on Rag, and this was the first one I remember being this high level. So I tried taming it out in the field, but it kept aggroing, because of all the other dinos in the area. So I finally picked it up and dropped it in one of my empty enclosures at teh Big Butte Base. Finally got that tamed (Mejos, since no boa kibble). I then spent a little time leveling "Hairetta" up. Had a few chuckles having her throw me around the base. I need to remember to craft her a good helmet. I also tamed up a Anky for the Pearl Bay Outpost. I saw one not far into the plains and it was a leve l95. Not great, but good enough for gathering metal and flint for the Outpost. This weekend I have a list of things I would like to get done if I have time to play. (Easter Holiday, so will be with family) Tame a 140+ Female Doed. I have two 150 males, already. Tame a 130 plus Male Wookie. (Hairetta needs a mate) Tame and Angler Tame a Male Mosa Tame a Female Plesi Tame Giga (2 nights ago, I was flying thru the Desert Biome, and as I was engaged with a Deathworm, a 140 level Giga appeared! I managed to kill the death worm and escape just in time. But I absolutely have to go back and tame that Giga. I already have the metal gates built, and large bear traps. I just need to craft a ton of darts and narcotics. Though I suppose I could use the BioToxin once it is knocked out.)

Good if not kind of boring days this weekend in Ark though I did get a lot accomplished. Boss Fight: We ran and completed the Alpha Ragnarok fight this weekend. No losses. Big success. We had tested the fight strategy on beta, not sure if i covered that, and felt good enough to try it for real. Strategy: We split dino's between 3 tribes. I supply 7 including the Yuty normally. I supplied 7 but unclaimed two to each tribe to control. My tribe mate runs the Yuty and is a master at it. Also found that a higher food stat is good for a Yuty. It drains a lot when using it's roar. So I ran two mate boosted tank Rex's. 40k hp, 116 armor saddles. Initial salvo/Dragon fight. I stayed on the edge of arena and peppered the Dragon with an assault rifle. It made a big difference as you could see the hp just melt off its bar. With DOT damage it makes sense to keep the higher hp Rex's out of his fire. Then I turned my attention to the Manticore. staying on the edge i wasn't harassed by Dimoprh's, Ptera's or Griffins. Once the Golem's spawned in I went to work. I drug the tank Rex's around the arena eating rare flowers to bring the Golem's with me. I pulled all 6 of them over the hill into the River and just occupied them while my allies/tribe mate focused on the Manticore. Worked like a charm. Biggest thing was the infrequency of the Manticore's landing (perhaps a code that reduces potential times it will land is what makes it Alpha) but we still finished with about 14 minutes in the arena time. I now have all normal Ark tekgrams unlocked. Now I should stop hoarding that element and use some of it. lol. Rex program: With the completion of the Alpha fight and knowing the Rex's I have was plenty I shut down the Rex program. I killed off 16 breeders/mutation Rex's. I still have 19 fighters on rag, 15 fighters on the island, the main male breeder, the clean male breeder, and two clean female breeders as well as 3 bodyguard Rex's, and a fridge full of clean/potential top stat Rex eggs. I will be turning my attention to finishing up the Theri army and beginning the Megatherium project. Tames: Just a few things but nothing of signifigance. I ran around looking hard for Megatheriums for 2 days now. I've knocked out several but haven't found one to tame yet. I have found a new love for giant bear traps as taming tools though. Surprisingly all the sloth areas have space enough (lack of pillars) to lay down a few. I usually stack 6 or 7 in an area, dart the sloth (or bear or Yuty) into coming at me and getting constantly stuck and dart them enough that they turn and high tail it before they even get to me initially. i need to figure out something for the chase as i did lose a 145 bear in redwood (i found him 6 hours later and finished knocking him out. garbage) and a 130 sloth (I was desperate for a decent level after 2 hours of killing 85's and lowers) over by the beaver dams between viking bay and the canyon. That 130 was irksome because I had led it into a full enclosed trap by a small outpost i have there so i am not sure how it got out. i redesigned the trap afterwards so hopefully it works right next time. I did tame two 140 frogs, male and female. Nothing too great but I wanted another method to get CP. Frogs are fun. in a moment of leisure last night i hopped around with one that had 315 melee (at the time) and knocked out 3 Scorpions and a Raptor as well as had a Megalodon on the run until I killed it. Frog does too much damage to knock out a Saber though. I don't see me using it as a normal taming mount but it's just fun to hop around sometimes. I won't be using it like that once the raptor TLC hits though. I also knocked out a 150 Baryonyx. I didn't tame it as it didn't have good stats but they are still on the list of dino's to tame and I considered taming it just for that reason. in the end lack of the proper kibble kept me from doing it which is fine as it I had already deviated with the frogs. I need to bring back up my list of dino's yet to tame but it has to be around 30 left at this point. Raising: It was hatch day! That's a bit sloppy looking but I think the gist is gotten. i hatched a ton of Quetzal, Yuty, Argy, and a few Theri eggs. No Quetzal's or Argy's got what I was looking for (Argy parameters are a male with the 1300 stamina and 768 weight or a weight mutation, Quetzal is a stamina or weight mutation) and most of the Yuty's followed suit as well. I only hatched Theri eggs from the top male and the 1710 stamina female (wild tame) I acquired in a trade. I kept a Theri that got the 1710 stamina, it missed on the hp but it got a melee mutation. I now have 408 melee to breed into the line (I made a deal to acquire some 408 eggs as well. i'll hatch those tomorrow morning). Theri was at 75% when I came into work this morning. Yuty wise, I finally got the color combo with the stats I was looking for. This is an interesting story as well. So the Yuty with the white stripe/crest was from the Yellow Yuty I traded for a bit ago. It's essentially no longer my line. Bittersweet but i really wanted the colors on this one. The Yuty with the reddish brown stripe/crest is fro m my own line and it's own natural yellow mutation. It got a food mutation. This means I have the colors I seek and my own line still viable. That is great. Both are females so now I need to breed for a male. Yuty's currently stand at 10.3k hp, 2184 stamina, 331 melee and were at 49% when I came to work. Trades: I finally found someone with a pink stripe for the Yuty's. I traded a blue egg I received in a different trade. I'll reach out to her to make sure it hatches as promise and will give her my current full grown blue male if it is not. I have several eggs from him as it stands and while it looks nice I'm not overly concerned with having a blue line (lot of blue lines on the market). That is mostly it. I am set up to replace the eggs from the stamina Theri trade last week. She hatched them and for some reason they starved. She's going to give me a very nice white/gray combo egg as well as a cyan feather egg (region 0). I did some small on server trades in the form of BP's. I need to put those on the market here. I am also going to look for a few other stripe and face colors for the Yuty line. I want to try a few out though I think the pink will be killer. On the Docket; One day of work this week. Tomorrow morning I will hatch some more Quetz, Yuty, and Argy eggs as well as the 408 melee Theri eggs. I'll continue my Megatherium hunt. I will introduce my tribe mate to the island and the Megapithecus fight, some more Rag fights, and maybe start talking to my allies about an Ascension run. See ya next week.

PS4 - Single Player - Ragnarok map Last night I spent some time leveling up all the new Wyverns that I hatched over the weekend. When I got back, I put Nurse Ham, Dr. Porkenstein and Dirk Piggler near the Wyverns to help them regain HP faster. As this was happening, I went out on a metal run with one of the Q's and Ankys. When I got back, I noticed that all the meat bins were empty in the area of the Wyverns. Apparently the Daedons were REALLY hungry, as they ate thru 6 full bins. So off I went on meat runs to refill the bins. Since I was at the Big Butte Base, it was a quick trip over to the Murder snow, and I harvested a dozen rhinos and another 12 or so Mammoths. I had been growing this herd for a while, by killing any predators in the area, and then moving the Mammoths and Rhinos close to each other for protection. So I did feel a little bad about the genocide. Returned to fill up some of the bins and set off towards the swamp on the west coast to gather meat. While I was doing this, I noticed a Diplocaucus, Diplodocus, Diploduckass, .... the swimming Air dino! I had never tamed one. So I made a mental note, and continued on the meat gathering. I returned to base and found the meat bins already empty! arrggh, so off I went on two more runs, until finally the Daedons stopped pigging out. (see what I did there?) (During the meat runs, I also grabbed a few beacons, and was frustrated to discover that 2 of the Red beacons and one Yellow/w ring beacon all landed and were un-accessable! ) Finally made my way back to the West coast swamp, and searched for and found a AquaLung dino. It was a level 95, and I got it tamed up. (I picked it up with the Wyvern, and dropped it in the empty plains to tame it.) Once back at the Outpost base, I decided to take it for a spin. Well we searched and searched for Trilobytes, since I heard these things were good at killing them and gathering resources. Further and further we ventured, with no Trilobytes in sight. Then suddenly I was Baryonyx stunned and before I can even react, there are 2 Barys, a sarco and a Karpro all attacking us. Being such a fresh tame, the AquaLung was not ready for such an attack, and he soon died, I was barely, and I mean BARELY saved because I had my ASC pike, and managed to get most of my hits in while they were focused on my dino instead of me. I swam to shore as fast as I could, as I could see piranha closing in. Then began the cat-n-mouse game of me sneaking back to the outpost, while trying to heal before getting attacked again. I ate all the food in my inventory, and eventually the loud pounding and red screen of near death went away. A few minutes later, I was just feet from my outpost front door, when WHAM, I was kapro'd and with my last breathe, I piked him to death. Somehow I survived! But then a stupid boa killed me from behind, as I was trying to get into the base. So I spawned back on the Plesi platform, grabbed my Baryonx (oh yeah, I forgot to tell you I had tamed a level 90 Bary while doing the meat runs and taming the Aqualung. Of course that took forever, because I Noobed out, and filled him with prime meat, and not FISH. (smh) So "Green Bary" and I head over and kill the boa with extreme prejudice. I grab my stuff, and then I go back out on the Wyvern to find another AquaLung. I find and tamed a level 20, level 45 and another level 20 all concurrently in the safety of the plains. But I really wanted a high level, and then I spotted the level 130. So grabbed it with the Wyvern and dropped it in the plains near the others. It was getting dark, but this AquaLung was a cool red color, compared to the green of the previous ones. I took out my crossbow, and shot it with a tranq. "You killed a Level 130..." I had not noticed that it apparently was very bloody from fighting with something prior to me picking it up. Needless to say, this really put a damper on my mood. I flew the three tamed low level dipsh*ts over to the Pearl Outpost base, and realized that I needed some better protection for them. So the wyvern and I gathered up enough resources to build a 3x4 addition to the outpost and added a dino gate on one side. I loaded the three Dips and the Bary, plus the frog from the weekend into this pen. Leaving the 2 Pteras in their enclosure above the base. Then I realized that I had lost my level 150 tamed Dimo. I am pretty sure it was on my shoulder the whole time I was in the water testing out the now deceased AquaLung. I flew over the area of that fatal attack, and did not see it. But no deaths in the tribe log, so not sure what happened to "BatGirl"? As I was landing back at base, an all black level 100 Dimo landed feet in front of me, just offering itself. so... bola'd, tranq'd. tamed. Hello "Murder Crow". Cooked up some meat, chowed down, and went to bed. (in the game and IRL)

This isn't new, ESO was made by Zenimax and not Bethesda because, Zenimax is a sister company so they have the ability and access to do so. This game is no different and by it being created by "snail games" it is made with a different dev crew and just like eso was made by a different dev crew. Zenimax used code from the devs at Bethesda too so this shouldn't be a shocker. In short this has been done before and it will be done again. If you don't like the game don't buy it pure and simple but, don't be surprised if wildcard supports snail games.