Calico45

Loving Gen 2, I must say, and absolutely looking forward to Ark 2.

To be quite honest, the Halloween photos look like a Parasyte thing from the anime. I kind of suspect it is going to pull an Alien/reaper and decapitate you instead of bursting from your chest.

This is what I am curious about. Is Ark going to try to transfer over to the next gen consoles (and maybe continue with the lifespan a bit; Extinction was supposed to be the epic conclusion, too) or finish out the game on the current hardware and move onto that sequel that has been talked about since 2017?

I am really interested in the time capsule stuff. I missed out on experiencing a lot of that, and while I will miss some of the conveniences I am looking forward to trying out classic flyers and the like.

Definitely looking forward to the new map and all the trimmings. I would love to see the crystal wyverns become official. Honestly, I would prefer them to another real world dino, but I would happily take them both.

I heard about this when they started delaying the release the first time and people got upset. Steam counts the play time in the main game, not DLC specifically, so if you spent too much time in the main game your request is denied. I never heard of getting around it, but good luck with Visa.

So what is it, 9 pm EST right now?

Also imagine that this customer has already ordered three pizzas from this place that took months and months to cook them, and then though unhappy with the process still decides to order another and gets upset with the same wait and flakiness. At some point it isn't just Dominoes or whatever pizzaria's problem. Even if it is far from ideal, they have done it from the beginning and have shown no intention to stop; yet customers keep ordering with undeserved expectations. I think what bothers the "positive" people is that you don't have to preorder and raging over something seemingly obvious to some feels unnecessary. Just don't bother before release if delays bother you. I was not the only one able to guess that they would do another delay from past behavior. If you want to refund it, go ahead. You do you, delays suck, disappointment suck, etc. I think everyone can understand those feelings, we are all affected by this after all, but short of being blind sided or malicious intent it is difficult for me and I imagine others to feel particularly slighted.

I am glad it worked fine for you, but I still lost my character and everything I could find at the time claimed it was a known bug with no official fix. May I ask what update you think it was fixed in?

Not on PS4, I am afraid. I lost mine ascending on the Island map October 7th. I had not known about the bug before then, but then found out it was a pretty well known one with the closest thing to a workaround being a series of steps to save in-between in preparation for the crash that happens.

I did not expect these elements when I bought the game, but when I joined the bandwagon Ark was pretty solidified in its formula in my opinion. I would not mind your suggestions and I agree it would give single player, small coop, and PVE especially more depth. Imagine the better social interactions available to modders and players once they had to be coded into NPCs, like trade/shop menus/interactions. However, I would honestly want to focus on something more attune, though more helpful, to the thralls in Conan Exiles. Maybe not their exact taming aspect, but as grindy as Ark can be I would love some helpers. I know you can do that with creatures to some degree, but be able to tells NPCs to craft, gather, and best of all feed the newborns while I am off doing something else would be great. Since they are not adopting some of the more convenient aspects of the S+ mod, I would love to see the possibility of it become official in something like this. Even just seeing other survivor NPCs struggling in the wild would be somewhat interesting and dynamic without any greater interactions, with an AI similar to other creatures. I do not expect it by any means, though.

Unfortunately it isn't always that simple. I have looked around and the closest to a workaround is a several step process of saving before everything in preparation for the crash. Plus the settings, making sure they are off since it is counter intuitive. Also, I am having the problem with the PS4 version, for the record. I haven't tested it on PC. Anyway, it is hardly an official fix and it has been a known problem for a long time apparently, although I learned the hard way.

Sheesh. I want things fixed, too, the single play ascension character deletion in particular, but come on. I am looking forward to the stream and it is for a good cause. There is no reason to feel bad about that.

I like the idea of city management in Ark, but I personally need it to be on a small-ish scale. It breaks up the survival theme a bit, which can be good and can be bad. I would be open in getting more elements in this same vein into basic Ark, I would especially love a small family aspect, but I don't expect it and would assume it would be considered contrary to current/past goals of development. As fun as Ark is, it does feel weird in single player/small coop sometimes while reading the lore in the explorer notes and just being alone with the creatures. I know it could be a way to encourage multiplayer, but surely I am not the only one that likes the idea of seeing other "people" without the multiplayer problems. Kind of like the thralls from Conan Exiles. Great job on the mod, though. I bet it was a lot of work.

Thanks. I didn't know about the bug until it was too late. Since I have looked around most say that this is the closest to a workaround, but nothing is 100%.

Honestly, I didn't think to look, but even if they were wiped I have recently lost my character and everything to the ascension bug still not fixed for singleplayer. It wouldn't take very long to get back the few notes I had. Thanks for the heads up, though.

I am enjoying the event, but I can confirm that my event items disappear whenever I leave the server, I cannot find any skeleton dinos, and my game has been crashing a lot more. I am playing on the island map singleplayer, no mods, on PS4 namely. Admittedly, I haven't found the Dodorex either, but I get the message it spawned so I think that is more bad luck than a bug. Hopefully these things will be fixed soon, but I am still having fun with my first Fear Evolved event.

Thank you for the clarification.

I have not found the information elsewhere, so I figured I would ask here. How does a mod like this become sponsored and have a chance of becoming an official mod that makes it into the game? I see all sorts of speculation for which mod will be picked next, but very little on the details for the criteria.

This will be my first time catching a Fear Evolved event and I am looking forward to it. Do you have to be on an official server to participate, though? I usually like to play alone or with just a few friends.