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Hello, Congratulations on launch! We are excited to replay ark again with its updated visuals! I know launch is always a supper busy time for you guys, it seems everyone is hard at work stabilizing the game. Question, Is there any news about hosting an official hardcore server? Many of us in the hardcore community are unsure if ASA will be including one. If so is there an ETA for it? Thanks again for all the hard work -Hardcore community.

I dont understand how folks can even play without punching their monitors. Running into your house 2-3x, spending 5 mins trying to pick a dino up because you rubberband past it, staring at the screen like an idiot because the game is lagging and your character is doing nothing. Its like its 2015 Ark all over again.

Not really, they have been the bane of existence since forever. If I see them doing the circle of death, I just hop right off my tame and prepare for a fight. A really nice high level double barrel or sword is usually best.

- Smaller creatures can get their agro faster. Doesnt mean you can still get agro also. But a flock of dimos or following raptors can take make them focus on other tames so you dont get the stun attack. - Dinos with big AOE can make short work of these low HP creatures. Gigas are top for this, also Mammoths, Spinos and Megaloceros Male Megaloceros also has its antlers which could potentially block their attacks. - Know their spawns. Either block their spawns, by building, walk a route around them, or send/keep a dino to the spots before you go there to agressivily get rid of them before you have to deal with them yourself. - Swing through the trees like Tarzan, while whistling your pets to follow you around and go where you want them to - Use a flyer and let ground animals follow you. Best solution in my opinion, to most mainland threats anyway: Giga. Edit: I dont think while riding a Rex you agro microraptors? Just ignore them completely if possible...

Correct, on my rex, paracer, or diplodocus they won't aggro. Same with anything that size, but I'd like to be able to use the other 80% of tames. Again looking at the wiki, seagulls might be the answer. When set to hunt and aggressive, they supposedly only target small creatures which I assume includes the microraptor.

I think without a modded creature of some sort to keep them away you may just have to rely on keeping your tame on neutral and a decent shoulder monkey. Also, if you know its about to stun you for sure and isn't a surprise attack you should be able to hop off your mount and avoid getting stunned.

I am gonna be 100% serious with you here. Unless you were alive 65+ million years ago we will never TRULY know what most of these creatures actually looked like. All we can do is infer. Continuing on from that, there is in universe lore and reasoning as to why the ARK's creatures do not resemble their real life counterparts in most cases, and it is because the ARKs have modified the DNA of the creatures to fit specific niches or they are actually new species in general. Now onto the topic at hand. Frog could use a model update yes, I would even go as far to say maybe even a size increase just to make sense how full sized humans are able to ride it. Hydration buff and/or the Megatherium bug buff are a must as well.

As much as I like the ambiance created by the fog/water&cloud effects, WC really need to adjust their opacity. They've gone all out on the looks over the gameplay. Like the low clouds on mountain tops where you can barely see the torch in your hand for what feels like ages. It's one thing having an effect reducing visibility down to say 15-20m and another to bring it down to 1m where all you see is black or white screen like your game crashed. Effects shouldn't cripple gameplay to the point you must disable an effect. That defeats the purpose of graphical UE5 enhancement. I dread to think what the sandstorm/mirage etc effects will look like on Scorched Earth where they're meant to be more intense and frequent if they go down the same path.

hard underwater cave hands down

Who gives a flying Pteranodon as long as ASE is the more stable option?

Hello, As many of you know, since a few patches ago, an optimization patch introduced the concept of dynamic render distance to the game. Since then, a lot of people on these forums and in-game have voiced their concerns if this will remain the state of the game for the foreseeable future or if this is a temporary change. Currently this mechanic completely breaks the game in many aspects which I will detail below. This has been plaguing our servers for weeks and is incredibly hurtful to the enjoyment factor of the game. I am sure many will agree that infrequent crashes or slightly lower performance are much more preferable to not being able to see creatures before they become a threat, or escape from you. On the other hand, these supposed performance changes have really not helped the game stability in any measurable amount as far as I can see. After this most recent patch, I logged onto the game and with my tek binoculars determined that the render distance was currently... 45 meters. Let me tell you why this is unacceptable. For reference, a giganotosaurus is roughly 40 meters in length. -Threat detection and hazards: Currently, you can be standing within aggro range of a giganotosaurus, and not be able to see it. When we did the tek cave, only the leading rider in the group could see the wild giga approaching, and it made it very difficult to coordinate and counteract the threat. I can only dread what will happen on scorched earth, if you pick up an egg not knowing where, and how many adult wyverns are flying nearby waiting to pile on top of you. You need to see threats from a distance to be able to react accordingly. Not to mention, currently many players are having problems with the dragon boss being invisible and it is likely because of this; -Taming: Currently, taming a dino can become a great challenge because it can escape from you very easily when you try to knock it down; -Severe graphical downgrade for a game that was marketed and sold, a second time for ASE players, with the promise of having an HD experience. Instead, this is a clear major downside compared to ASE, and is very disappointing for players who have machines that can handle the game but have no option to see further than 45m on EPIC settings; -Dinos on follow, ai dinos, and any related mechanic are NON-FUNCTIONAL. Any time a dino unrenders, they remain static and stop moving. This is very problematic combined with server lag, which makes any dino very slow to respond and don't even start moving until unrendered. keep in mind a giga is 40m long, but unrenders after 45m. This means if it's not a single stride behind you, it stops moving altogether. For all these reasons, I plead with Wildcard to consider the ramifications of this problem and to please address the issue going forward. This mechanic completely cripples the game, and does nothing to help performance whatsoever. And even if it did, most of us would rather have the lag (which is still around and as strong as ever, by the way). If this change is intended to make the game run better for consoles, then this proves that pc servers moving forward should not all be crossplay by default and that this should only be enabled on crossplay specific servers instead of PC servers where most of our machines can handle the increased render distance. Thank you for reading.

Total trash game in single player... doesn't even save the game. Bullpoop..

New YEar Hardcore server Please one cluster is all we need pve/pvp it dont matter, something would be better then nothing. Soon as one i sout im moving to it.

So why is everyone that was not responsible for the exploit punished, causing irreparable damage and loss to everyone's basis?

what a joke... stayed up all night for giga's by baby phase for my giga's......... why are we being punished again? because their things aren't in order... I set an alarm for imprints. everything is gone, I've been sitting there for so long, they really just do what they want. what is this? now I'm looking for my baby dinos this setback puts me exactly back where I uncryo everything 10 female babyrex gone 2 female baby otter gone 3 giga's 10 mega's to me it's so bad wildcard the whole event I'm saving up dino's this is no more nice

Another inane WC decision: Punish EVERYONE for select tribes abusing things. FIrst, take down the servers with NO warning, provide ZERO updates as hours stretch on, then BS folks with "Oh 8 hour roll back" while tons of people lost items, boss fights, and more importantly, WASTED HOURS OF THEIR TIME IN GAME for whats more like a 10-12 hour rollback. Absolutely hideous customer support and service. Its shameful that you guys treat everyone this way after folks were suckered into rebuying the what was once going to be free, ASA release. No offers to bump the event longer or raise the rates. Nope, EVERYONE suffers for the idiocy of a few.

The last announcement claimed a 8 hour rollback, however this rollback was way longer than 8 hours. Please roll it back to the correct save, this is something like a 12-16 hour rollback...

Ha u must of loaded the game then instantly gone straight to the forums to complain. Wildcard don't care what anyone wants or needs. I can all but 100% confirm no one at wildcard uses these forums because nobody there cares

I've been following Ark since launch back in 2015, it's my favorite game at the end of the day. Ascended has a list of problems longer than Rapuzels hair if you include the never ending incompetence from snail games and non stop broken promises from Wildcard but honestly guy, honestly I could forgive all of it...if you could fix the crashing. I'm not sure about console but you crash a bare minimum of three times while playing on PC a day. I didn't mind the first two weeks of release one bit but this is sheer neglect at this point. Fix. The. Crashing.

Making the petition for Hardcore ASA servers! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Is there any chance we can get Hardcore server as a Christmas gift from our beloved devs? @Cedric @Dollie@StudioWildcard We've got the max number of votes out of all suggestions so far...

Devs keep saying they listen to their community... Will they hear us here? I don't understand that suggestion system at all. This topic is second of all by number of votes, and we get 0 feedback from devs on what we suggest/ask. Maybe dear mods/devs will clarify it?

I am truly surprised (sorry I mean disappointed) that the existence of another popular game WoWith hardcore mode... was able to generate HUGE popularity from doing nothing but tweaking an existing game, promoting it - and boom... $$$$ ...but here we are with ARK devs heads doing their best impersonation of sand worms.

Just found this topic and upvoted it. But only 22 votes?! Anybody posted this on one of the hardcore discords?

pls bring hc servers i very much want to play not w/o hc severe

Please Studio wildcard give your loyal players Hardcore official servers now that PLAYSTATION, Xbox and Steam are out. Thank you

I'm really looking forward to playing with my console pals! Surely wc won't ignore such a dedicated group of their playerbase.