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Put them on your breeding male. Then, when you replace the male when you get a new mutation, take it off and put it on the new baby male that will become the new breeder.

You guys are hilarious. The biggest crybully snowflakes around.

Funcom is a horrible company leagues worse than Wildcard, so no, you won't be doing better with them. If you think wildcard's microtransactions are bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet bro. Funcom milks you for 10x the money at fractions of the return. And nothing in conan exiles works. It's all massive gamebreaking bugs 100% of the time. The main feature of the current age was so broken they had to disable it for months. Your followers randomly disappear, your buildings randomly disappear, and you regularly fall through floors. Remember that tencent owns funcom. They are a worse version of snail.

Content wise, ASA will have the same base content as ASE. Only ASE is derelict and will never be updated. So when I said ASA has superior content, I mean it in the sense that it will have more content. Not that it is free. If ASE continued, i guarantee you that content would not have been free either, so it's not like you'd be winning either way. ASA has free creatures that never even existed in ASA, mods for console, which is massive for console players, and will have a new DLC story map...how is that not better content? Not free doesn't mean less content. According to that logic, every DLC expansion in ASE can't be counted as content in ASE. It wasn't free!

Probably related to DLC costing money. People hate that. Companies should work for free, obviously.

No, you missed the point. Quite a bit of the "commentary" on asa being a "bad game" is entirely disingenuous toxic fandom. They are bad faith actors mad right from the start that it costs money and never got over it or people upset that their rigs aren't good enough. 99% of the complaints fall into either of those two categories. Every time there is a DLC, no matter how cheap, they whine about it like we don't live in a capitalist society where the entire goal for business is to make money. They want it "free." And if they don't get it all free, they throw a tantrum and say "it's bad!" All the stuff about "the code" or "bugs" is ultimately secondary to the cost and difficulty of running the game. The game actually runs fine for a lot of people. Including me. So it is on their end that they are crashing or unable to run the game. The game will never be bug free. Neither was ASE. But assuming they have similar levels of bugs, the quality of life upgrades, graphical improvements, additional content that ASE will never have make it a superior product. Why don't I crash all the time? Hmm? Magic?

No, I don't need to rethink what I wrote. The logic is fine. ASA is worth the price and objectively an upgrade over ASE in many metrics. The ability to load in and out of servers quickly is alone a straight upgrade. Building load times are vastly superior. The amount of stuff I can have on screen without lagging is superior. Integrated automation features make it superior. New content instead of stagnation is an upgrade. ASE was never going to be updated. Major bugs STILL EXIST and will never be fixed. It only gets worse while ASA only gets better. I never said ASA was bug free or did not have issues. But the issues do not make the game unplayable or bad. The pros outweigh the cons. And many complainers are totally disingenuous and complain because they can't afford the game or the rig to run it well. You discount that, but it's completely true. People playing on systems that are years out of date and don't or just barely meet system requirements. People playing on settings that are above their means. Discussions are rife with people giving it a bad review because they have paid DLC. It's absurd. Nonstop complaints about "ASA SHOULD HAVE BEEN FREEEEEEEEEEEE!" People make the same kinds of complaints in world of warcraft. People too poor or unwilling to pay call everything garbage as copium. I run the game fine. If I can run it fine, it can't be an unsolvable issue.

No. It's a good game that poor people can't afford to play, so they review bomb it. People do this all the time in all kinds of games. It's literally a sour grapes reaction. More people play ASE because it's an ancient game with low system requirements that requires no financial investment. The average player probably bought it for 5 dollars on steam sale. And people are allergic to companies making money, so they flip out any time there is a paid DLC, as if people should work for free. Performance wise, the game rarely even crashes now. I got 1 crash in like 300 hours of gameplay. Upgrade the potato and the game will run better. I run it on a LAPTOP, of all things, and it runs fine. ASA is an upgrade that will have identical content and more. Having more players doesn't mean it's actually a better game. Just cheaper and easier to get into. And lots of people are hostile on principle and wouldn't buy it no matter what.

It is not bad though. It's a good game that has some issues. The same issues that ASE had. But overall, it's better than ASE regarding quality of life, aesthetics, and new content. People have these rose-tinted goggles when they talk about ASE and just can't afford to run ASA well. This breeds animosity and review bombs. In WoW, people were review bombing a good content patch because the company put a mount on the store. THis is what people do. The poors get up in arms.

Yea. It is better than ASE. Straight upgrade. The people who don't believe so are people who can't afford it or the rig necessary to run it, so they pretend it's bad as a form of sour grapes copium. There aren't nearly as many people playing ASA for the aforementioned reasons: a lot of poors.

It depends entirely on the trait. Some are useless, yes, but some are very useful. Take for example an argentavis and a ravager. You aren't going to have massive armies of them, so all you need are a few sets of traits to make very good utility creatures. I have rank 2 and rank 3 weight-reduction traits on my ravagers for pretty much every resource. Same with argentavis. I now have super carriers. Even just 1 rank 2 provides nearly 25% weight reduction. That's amazing. Especially when combined with weight reduction bonuses on a farmer tame. It not only increases the value of your stable of utility dinos, it also encourages a gameplay loop of going out into the world. I am taming stuff I typically wouldn't to improve my main line of farmers. The traits are great for your breeding line, too. I have a male breeder stacked with the mutable traits I am hunting. This makes mutations more reliable and faster. It's really obvious what to do with hatched wyverns and drakes once you extract the valuable trait. You kill em. Feed em to the other creatures. I go out taming and collecting eggs specifically to collect traits. I don't see the problem with disposal. Yes, it presents a problem for PVP for people who don't own the DLC. But PVP is trash. Has always been unbalanced trash. The game should not be balanced around PVP. And this is nothing new. Everyone can make the same argument about any expansion DLC being "pay to win" all throughout ASE, as if you didn't have the DLC, you didn't get the map, creatures, etc. People who do PVP are signing up for misery and knowingly engage in something that requires monetary upkeep to stay relevant. There is even a mod to let you use the DLC traits without even owning the DLC.... Don't play official It's always been garbage. This is a net positive to the game. It hurts no one outside of meaningless PVP on trash official servers.

Sure they do. And my opinion is above. Always someone who hates something for silly reasons. They are unpleasable. If wildcard gave them a free DLC they would complain about it.

It is amazing seeing people hate stuff that is new and only adds benefit to the game. Like some kind of game boomer. People realy WILL complain about literally anything.

It is not going to change though. Your choice is to either ride it out and get it eventually or quit. Are you going to quit? Probably not. So, there you go. No use complaining about something you aren't willing to do something about. Reminds me of WoW players who complain about the microtransactions, but still play the game or buy from the store. Given we all bought Ascended knowing Wildcard made it with its previous track-record of delays and overpromises, we can't really be surprised. There's no point in even getting excited about the 5.4 update. It's unlikely to change anything performance-wise. The most recent "optimization" patch that added FSR frame gen gave me WORSE performance because they disabled my superior nvidia frame gen option. There is nothing I can do about it. Just like there is nothing anyone can do about 5.4 being delayed. Adapt or quit. If they don't make every effort to maximize profit legally, they aren't fulfilling their fiduciary obligation. Of course they are going to work on DLC. That's common sense.

That's very dramatic. It will be fine. Whether it comes slightly later or on time, it comes. The world won't end. You already have the game and are playing it, so waiting for a small upgrade won't break you. It will never change, so whining about it won't do anything. The game has improved since launch. Sky is still up in the air.