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EVERY Souls-clone has garbage combat. Every single one. I will be salty forever that you didn’t deliver the Ark 2 we wanted. NO ONE ASKED FOR THIRD PERSON. Play Conan’s Exile, ITS GARBAGE BECAUSE OF THE THIRD PERSON.

ARK is an enormous mess of code. Dinos, structures, pathing, player connection and positioning, all these have to seamlessly feed from the server machine out to any computer that requests the info. WildCard has refused to region-lock servers (can still bypass with VPN, but it might help some), so these connections can come from quite literally anywhere in the world. It is definitely both software and hardware related. The game is just too complex after so many years of development to work with less bugs. My personal hope for ARK 2 is that they focus a bit more on consistency of how they code the game. Seems like there is a lack of that in how ARK is currently coded. There are creatures in the non-canon maps and some of them are coded in outside the base game, as a single example, and I don't know that it is 100% necessary for that to be the case. We've always had hardware problems too, on the client-side, getting ARK to run smoothly. I've seen it memory leak to consume right up to 16gb of vram, and at a different time, nearly 32gb of system ram. We can brute-force it with a stacked system, or strip it to DX10 and run in potato-mode, but these problems still hang around. It IS better than it used to be in 2015/16 though, but there is more that could be done. The devs seem to hold a, "that crap is in the past" approach to the current released game as they develop forward. They've done TLCs, I know, and anti-mesh passes on older maps, but fixes for simple map-related problems have gone untouched for years, if they were ever solved. It also usually took an unavoidably game-breakingly bad problem for them to step in to released content and do anything about it. Hopefully the design philosophy in ARK 2 breaks that WildCard tradition, and they spend time refining released maps, systems, and creatures.

I assume I have over 7k hours played. About 99% of that was in first person. THIRD PERSON IS TRASH. Have you played Conan’s Exile? It’s a joke and Ark 2 will be as well. Third person isn’t immersive. Fromsoft is the ONLY dev to get third person combat right. You honestly think Wildcard will succeed where games THAT INTENDED TO RIP DARK SOULS failed? All I wanted was Ark with better graphics. I would have given you $200 for it! There’s no other game I want and you’ve literally ruined it…..

I agree with the topic but not the flier nerf bit. It was needed and shouldnt be put back in.