Longtime listener, first time caller… maybe second time? Heck still a beach bob to the forum…
But ive recently purchased a new Nitrado Server for a coworker (Que) and a buddy (D). Its a 10 man server (slightly boosted, 2 XP, 3x tame, hatching/imprint boosts, extended day hours) and my two sons love Ark so their spots in the tribe are saved. My wife (Reese) has been watching me and the boys play for years so she has started picking up the controller to get adjusted a bit. Nothing serious yet. Both Que and D have played survival games with me before. Dont Starve being our goto for 3~ years. So Ark hit freemium with PS Plus and of course I talked them into it. The following post will be our first two weeks so bare with me….
Day 1. Que loads in with me once we get off work. The day before we hosted a nondedicated just to break the ice and get a few deaths in for them. D is SUPER apprehensive at the steep learning curve. I mean like refused to login until we strong armed him. 30-45 mins into Que and myself running around punching dilos, we have a small army of the ankle biters. A parasaur on follow. And just grinding levels like madmen… he encounters the dreaded tickle chicken. Now up til this point, his biggest question was carnivore or herbivore before he decides how to proceed. Me being the cheeky DireWolf I am…. Tell him he’s a berry lover with a good heart. So he grabs his gear and just as he’s running out the little hut, D loads in. Certain the Theri will be easier then the Trike we finally took down together (after 3 deaths on his own) he enlists D’s help to get his feet wet. Apprehensive as every D declines and opts to watch from the roof….
Boys and girls, lets just say this is where the 💩 hits the fan. All I can hear thru the chat is ‘That MF Freddy (Kruger) just turned and is coming at you Que’ ‘He dont look happy’ ‘o 💩 he just dropped ALL the dilos’ then ‘tribemate Que has died to Theri’ and HYSTERICAL laughter. I mean gut busting hilarious pure joy laughter. Que loads back in pissed as high hell. I toss him my stuff and tell him dont take it like a lil bihhh. 30 secs later? He’s respawning down the beach as the bed he just found a use for hasnt cooldown’d. Freddy earned the right to live and D logs out without so much as kicking a dodo down the street.
Days 2-4 you can pretty much guess. We grind out bows, kill the Freddy that caused Que so much hell. Find another that I have to beg him to let use tane instead. Gonthru the whole “O 💩 that MF waking up again Purp! Like forreal this the 5th time ive forcefed it narcoberries”. Get him tamed up. Grind out a boat to get them to Herb Island. Of course D still isnt really having fun. Half assed going thru the motions. Low and behold, headed to Herbie Island, a Leed comes out of wherever they happen to hide… D being the old fart he is decided to go AFK while I drove. Wouldnt ya know it? SMACK. D and our lovely large storage box go flying off the boat. He respawned and logged. We get there and set up. D finally logs in again on a nice new bed safe and sound.
Now we all love ark. We’ve played it for years. And everyone knows for a fact. ARK DGAF. The 100 gb update hit on a night i was playing alone and i got the ‘8 gb noti’ n was happy thinking id be back in in an hour tops. Nahhh. Patches killed my night. I woke up to log and check everything (still on herb island so no biggie) and NO SERVERS… i mean none. Now day 1 we had issues getting it up. Day 2 logging in. Day 6 I couldnt get on AT ALL… D was waning. I even caught his DST server up and jumped in just to drag him over once. Luckily they both downloaded it and logged in just fine after a bit of a wait. I was pissed but the tribe was content to grind without me. I had tamed a Ptera with their help before and they were in hog heaven over there 🤣. I ended up deleted and redownloading then continued the foolishness again solo the nextday. By the time they logged later that afternoon I was on our original beach. The 2 x 2 wood base was a 5 x 5 stone. There was no roof but we had space and storage. And a direct line of sight (albeit diagonally across the ocean) with both soon to be bases. D finally tamed a Ptera himself (Purple Reign) and still has her to this day… but thats gonna get important later. Point is, he was hooked from that moment.
its around day 10-11 (real life days, we all have pretty hectic jobs and im normally the only one on daily. Que is almost as active. D plays hard when he can by now. We’ve gotten pretty good. Que and me have flown Pteras up the river between the two big islands a few times hunting and shooting bigger threats off rocks. Couple of Bary’s, Quartet of Raptors. 5 or 6 Tek Parasaurs (cargo and eggs/future oil packs 🤣 they still dont even know why I keep a fridge full of future genocide) are in the front yard surrounded by a gate and our building is roofed aside from ceiling by a door somebody CANT not get stuck in.. my boy needs a new challenge. So what do we do? Get our favorite Pteras and I tell him we’re going to get Real Birds… little did he know this was another learning moment
