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Western Canadian Extinction Edition. It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here. Red dead is one hell of a drug boys. Then there’s hockey. Them flames weeeooo! Anyway Extinction had been collecting dust since release until over this past weekend. Spent a lot of time on extinction. The guys had been in the server making a base and doing things, I decided to give it a whirl and start learning. Saddle up darrath my lightning wyvern, some outpost base supplies, an extra transmitter and take a transmitter trip to this new world. Stsrt out in sanctuary, find myself a terminal, mount up darrath, scope out their base which is set up in the middle of sanctuary, and off to the nw to start our exploration. Ended up at the forest terminal...omg what a pile of experience that was. Sooo much meat and teeth. Noted the area and continued on to get back to the surface and continue exploring. We fly over Kings peak and the red forest which was swarming with corrupted dinos.....worst nightmares....picked off a few gigas and Rex which was invigorating, landed in a safe area for a stamina break. Had about 10 seconds left and all of s sudden the sun disappears and all I see is flesh and corruption. Was like DILO there’s no gigas or anything around and as I flew off in s panic I realize it’s a friggin death worm. Allllllrighty then we’re just going to carry on an focus on exploring lol So continuing the exploration east across the north well away from wyverns and worms lol. Fly through the white zone. See the magnamar thing and say screw this and carry on all the way around the map and complete my loop over the green zone. Decided to set up on a little island at the bottom of the ramp. Not ideal but I really have no concern. Little resistance from both players and dinos and I’ll own the forest titan befor long ? ideally it’s just a resource hub to drag back to rag. So set up some gates and built an 8x8x4 box with 2 floors and a Dino gate. Set up a gen, 4 vaults, a smithy, fabricator and Chembench. Placed the transmitter in the middle within reach of everything. Yay. For the next little bit I ponder getting these new tames. Desert zone and a Velonasaur objective one. Locate one and lure it into a pen. Still pulling quills out me arse after that damn they’re feisty I’m stoked now! Tame it up and carry it all the way back to base. What a haul. Lol so after that I was like man that’s too much imma just screw around base for a few. This is when I learned (decided to read about it finally lol) about the lovely new item duo....the cryo fridge and pods. ?????????? I dunno about you all but I’m beyond stoked about these. I tamed a couple more critters. (1 more lvl 483 velo and a Gacha pair) in the pokeball they go and back to base. So easy. As I thought about the possibilities of storage and quickly rush over to rag and start what I called operation consolidation. I built 6 cryo fridges and 88 pods. Battle Rex’s theri snd yutys have individual fridges. In the pods they went and one by one into cold storage. Set myself up a personal storage fridge and poof all my pets safely secured. All said and done I now no longer need the 1500 plus piece storage shed I had built to store s few gigas, spinos, snd other larger critters. Burned up all 88 pods and I have maybe 6 more tames to store st this base. Frame rates have improved and I cannot wait to start demoing the excessive amount of useless structure to improve on the Rates further. After this I had to shut er down lol but what an adventurous couple days. Now my question is why the hell did we not have the leash or the cryogenic technology since day one?! Daaayum

I wish there were more armour skins. I mean, its a bit tireing of looking at plain and boring flak armour. There should be like Samurai skins, Mongolian skins, Knight skin, Viking skins and some other armour skins. There should also be other weapon skins as well, it would help the RPing communities.

The Ragnarok devs are finished with Extinction so will now hopefully go back to fixing the issue /s Try waiting a year for a fix only to find out that it was on the horizon only a few months after it’s initial report but Wildcard dragged them away to work on paid DLC because it’s more important than people’s consoles crashing to dashboard due to a massive memory leak. The irony is that Extinction causes memory leaks even on the Xbox One X.

Is there any chance that this issue will be resolved in the coming months? We're going on almost a year since it's been reported. There are 27 pages of replies. It was briefly fixed with the June update, but then the TLC update in July rebroke it. I've not been able to play Ark since July of this year.

STILL TO THIS DAMN DAY DO I NOT UNDERSTAND THE FLYER NERF ᵇᵘᵗ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ʲᵒᵇ ᶦ ᵍᵘᵉˢˢ

Extinction, Modded Single-Player: The Experiment, the Betrayal, and the Second Lottery. So, it’s actually a single day update today, and it was an eventful one indeed. I led the day by overseeing the completed maturation of my three wyvern babies, set my imprinting timer for the four dimorphodons I’m raising, and set out immediately on my wyvern with a mind to perform an Experiment. One that I needed to do first-thing because there was a super distinct possibility I’d be needing to restore a save if things went extra south on me. After scoping the map on my wyvern, I found the goal: an Element Vein just before the Forbidden Zone. I’ve seen Element Veins run by a team of four, but I really wanted boots on the ground experience on the matter. So I teleported home, parked Polyhymnia, and fetched Indira, my best velonosaur. I was curious about a couple of things. Firstly wanting to get a feeling for the pacing of the waves as a solo player, and secondly if I orbited the center spire with Indira if I could hope to keep up. Well, the Experiment...did provide the experience I was looking for. And ended shy of tragedy early into wave three. In a word keeping up with one turret-o-saur is absolutely not a thing. I was losing ground rapidly, but it was wave three, with the center spire nearly toast and Indira feeling more and more like she did not sign up for this poop, that the wyverns and gigas came to say “What’s up?” trashed the spire, and left me spamming the teleport remote to get my burning, bloodied and betrayed-feeling Indira - and myself!! - the heck out of there. Apologizing profusely to Indira for my irresponsible gamble, I spent a while feeding her to bump her health up and made sure to park her to a far internal area to be certain nothing could clip through and nibble her while she healed...and let out an aggravated huff. Really, I learned nothing. -I knew the waves are many dinos strong. -I knew they came from all directions. -And I strongly suspected that by the time I’d gunned down the one angle the others would have closed in to smack away at the spires. So with my remaining time before the imprinting cycle I grabbed my eagle, a new stack of awesome dino trackers, and teleported to the sunken forest to take some more stabs at finding a lucky gacha. On the way I found a 156 tek raptor I paused to bring in, and three more hobby dimorphodons. Dropped a few failed gachas off to join the other eleven in the wasteland and went back to imprint my dimorphodons before resignedly ducking back below to toss more snow owl pellets at every gacha in sight, because Operation: Element Vein is going to need much more iteration for me to find a way to pull it off. I ended up keeping a gacha that makes oil, because I had the available slot for a male, and carried on. And, I am SO RELIEVED to report, that at a final tally of thirty-one aggressive sentinels of the Wasteland for me to watch over like a murderous, unruly wildlife preserve of tagged gachas, I got one!! She was an ultra-squishy level fifteen, but she makes element dust!! I **immediately** teleported her home and staked out a zone acceptably removed from my other three pairs, and immediately logged out to make a hard save. On loading back up, I piled materials into Maxine’s inventory, and happily indulged in my favorite kind of Ark grind - the time and patience variety - until I had enough dust for my second enforcer. All in all it was a great day. Indira and I lived through my curiosity, I bypassed my urgent desire to crack the Element Vein code, and I’m quite pleased. Next up I continue building my bird army for OSDs, and need to start putting thought into an ideal tank for that project. I will continue to ruminate on the Element Vein project, and look forward to those attempts soon, just a bit better prepared than I was yesterday.

Take out a Doed and harvest every light pool you can. The dust will add up quickly! (Or of course just farm an element vein) That is a logical idea, but... ”What I Did in Ark, A Long Time Ago.” So, way, way, way the heck back, in the early days of Xbox EA, I’d recently finished construction on Castle Valkyrie, on Grand Peak...before the redwoods were even a thought in WildCard’s mind. Before The Center, before admin commands or advanced server settings like stat control. And it had become something of a hobby unto itself of letting friends interested in their possibilities as new Ark players come to tour my home, see the map, maybe get a tame or two. And on this day I was hosting my little sister. She had a short wishlist we set out to obtain. Beginning with my home tour and including ringside perspective on a spare eagle for a dimorphodon hunt to show off my beloved birds, she wanted a green eagle, and a wolf. We nabbed the wolf while up north on the dimorphodon hunt, located a green eagle right on Grand Peak, and headed down to the treacherous, pseudo-affectionately dubbed 1,000 Ways to Die Beach just to the north for a clinic on dimorphodon taming, because I’d sold the birdies enough for her to want one. We parked the eagles in an alcove on the beach by Spectre, my prized albino Rex that lived down on a beach as a guard for the birds while I was down there. He had manned that post on neutral to great success, so I felt confident leaving the eagles on passive by his feet, and set out. And, well, on the way my sister saw a doed, and thought she was adorable. And when told of their rolling traversal mechanic, she wanted her. So, I figured we were getting our first doed, as I’d never tamed one, and we set to work with the tranqs. On taming my sister named her CT, after a character in her favorite web show...but there was something...off, about her. CT wanted to fight the world. She inexplicably seemed to be instigating fights for no apparent reason. We led her back to where Spectre was and figured the dim- witted doed would be safe with him until we got back with a saddle to try to negotiate her path home. Well, my sister had to go unexpectedly, and it would come to pass she never played again, which would become important because on approach with my tribemate we were met with horror: CT had picked a fight with the dimorphodons. And the cowardly little (insert expletive) had realized her error and balled up, leaving my poor Spectre fighting a losing battle against the dimorphodons. He was already bloody, and even though I dove in immediately to try to aggro the flock off of him... I was too late, and he died. Because of CT. And I was heartbroken. He was only my second significant loss. I left CT on the beach, hoping something would eat the damn thing. I wanted nothing to do with her, or any doed at all. The problem was, CT was winning. Alive and well as the weeks wore on and justice went unserved until fast forward to my tribemate and my greatest triumph thus far, conquering a pair of gigas that had spawned up on the northeast mountain. After we quite carefully walked our new world-destroyers back to Castle Valkyrie, we gleefully brought them to 1,000 Ways to Die Beach for training and to relish in the raw power we now called ours. We made our way onward, until...there she was. CT, still alive in spite of being flatly abandoned to the harsh beachside. I dismounted, and regarded the doed, only feeling more bitter and angry as the weeks had passed. And I made the call. If nature wouldn’t do it, by god I would. So I unclaimed her. And fed her to Sekhmet. And vowed I was done with doeds forever, and have never had one since. —— One might say, and I might concede it’s irrational to be soured to a whole species over a bad experience with one that didn’t seem right in the head from the off...but my distaste for them runs quite deeply to this day. ? But just farming the benches and light posts was something I didn’t realize I could do, so thanks for the heads up!

Xbox - Nitrado Unofficial Server - Extinction Did a little bit of breading tonight. Started of my snow owl breeding project by mating the wild tames I had in an attempt to get a pair with all the good stats. Eventually got a good female but didnt get a male. Not too fussed as it alows me to bring in the low low male I tamed up for its colours. All I need to do is breed the new female with the low level male and get a pair with all the good stats and the nice white/blue body and black markings while dropping the god awful mint green belly colour from the low level male. Also hatched up two giga eggs. Wasnt going to imprint at all but I did a little bit on both. Got them both up to 30% maturation and 30ish% imprinting before cryoing them for the night. Unless theres a patch real soon for the cryo issue I wont be imprinting them again. Am glad I imprinted them a little bit as it got the health from 18k to 23k and the melee from 205% to about 215%. Should help out a bit rather than the nil imprint i was planning on for these two. Nearly managed to kill myself with my lightning wyvern on the meat runs in the sunken forest. Somehow a raptor managed to get the high ground above me and my wyvern and get the pounce on me just as I used the lightning breath on my wyvern. It killed the raptor instantly as it took me off the wyvern and the breath nearly killed me but it only knocked me out. Never been taken off a wyvern before, but i have been waiting for it to happen. Am definitely feeling the low spawn rates in the forest when it comes to the meat runs, am glad I transfered across my wyvern for breeding purposes, helps out alot.

Woo exciting stuff!