JetJaguar

37 minutes ago, CptYarrr said:

They fall thru the mesh. Same issues has occured on ASE. Took WildCard years to fix it. 

Stupid bugs like that dont shock me; Ive been in Ark since the start. But I personally never once had eggs "vanish" in ASE or ASA. it literally happened after I got solid black carchs and 330 melee carchs and had bred them to try to combine stats and poof, eggs oddly "vanish".

1 hour ago, CervantesMor said:

For info: Region? NA - EU - OC - ASIA ?

NA PVE

We have a guy on the server who has 2 ark accounts/leveled characters. He tried stealing from himself with his one character and it didnt work at all.

Anyone else have an issue with carch fert eggs "vanishing"? Other folks on my server complained before about this happening but first time all of mine vanished after sitting there for 12 hours. Official PVE server and the eggs were on foundations within a small area that was also enclosed. In other words, you couldnt go up against a wall from the outside and see them. Far as I know, the oviraptor crap doesnt work unless youre in a tribe Alliance?

Created a new toon on an official server. Spawned in, right into someone's closed up house, literally, inside a storage box. Cant move, cant do anything.

Seriously, everything is just beyond goofy with the game anymore. Why aren't spawn in areas setup as no build locations?

Bah for those that were confused like me: right click the icons and you will see selections..

How the hell do I make the new glass or Steamboat Willy or anything?

I am stumped: Downloaded the official WC mods, killed myself and all I see is this:

Lets not let this slide back..

Official server: NA-PVE-5409:

This server, on a daily basis for all the folks online regardless of their location in US, China, Europe, Brazil, etc will:

• Shoot the ping to almost 400 for folks
• Lag on a constant basis
• Crash by completely going offline. Time offline varies but usually not longer then 30 mins.
• Lag everyone offline but remain up and then either will a) Crash completely after about 15-20 mins of folks being unable to log in after getting lagged out or b) after 15-20 mins of folks being lagged out, will eventually let folks log back in. The server in these instances will not crash completely.

This is DAILY DAILY DAILY! Its offline maybe 3 to 5 times in a daily period. Check BATTLEMETRICS (Though Ive noticed when the server is lagging and no one can join, Battlemetrics tends to show it as responding anyway).

Could the much Wildcard hyped new Unreal engine not be able to handle all the big bases and dinos folks have out after all? (SHOCKING!) or, could the reality be the service provider is just crap and not performing well enough to justify serving as a host?? (YOU DECIDE!)

All I know is, this is crap we paid for...again. Suckers that we are.

Oh please. The "early access" tag is an excuse to justify all the bugs and issues that are still going on. "HERRRR well guys we are technically in early access...". Give me a break. These are issues that plagued the game in 2015 and onward. Nothing new to see here. Just a perfect scapegoat word for things.

The most infuriating thing with ASA right now is the unreal lag, server crashes, and server time outs on official. Either admit that the game even with the much hyped unreal engine, cant handle the plethora of big bases and baby dinos folks have out, OR the server provider is absolute trash and you need a new host..

Yeah however many folks are online at a time has nothing to do with it. Seen as little as 18 on with 200+ ping and rubberbanding. Im sure there are dozens of folks with countless babies out during the event and thats not helping things.

BUT HEY!!! NEW UNREAL ENGINE FOR ASA MAKES IT ALL RUN BETTER, RIGHT?!

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.

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.

So when you click Help and goto submit a ticket to Wildcard, it only lets you submit a ticket for either:

Reporting Code of Conduct Violations OR

Ban Appeal and Developer Wipe appeal

What are you supposed to do if you have a glitch in game that needs help/addressing? For example:

Killed all 4x bosses on Alpha but my implant only shows me having killed 2 of the 4 and not even on Alpha. I dont want to be screwed out of bonus levels. How am I supposed to have WC look into this/address a clear bugged game issue?

The problems:

• PVE and PVP are two different styles of gameplay and need to be catered to as such. Blanket "fixes" or "changes" are not always good for one style of gameplay.
• These changes coupled with the: YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 3 GENERATORS NEARBY are dumb.
• If you dont want folks on PVE to bring cryoed dinos into caves, great. but then revert the stupid generator crap or expand the range on generators to cover more area.
• The 5 min timer after setting  up a cryofridge: why is this in PVE? What is the purpose?

These are as buggy, no pun intended, as it gets. Look at my profile and past threads about this dumb tame. Here is my input after wasting countless hours on these:

• Make sure the dino you're trying to get impregnated is one of the actual ones that is confirmed as working on officials (ie. Rexes, Parcers, Brontos, Diplos, etc) For example: No one on our official server seems to have been able to successfully get a spino impregnated even though folks have claimed they work fine.
• Get the bug down to 10% (To be completely safe, I was getting bugs down to less then 100 health and it worked)
• After its confirmed at 10% or less, THEN make your dino eat the phermone
• Be patient. Time for Wildcard and Ark moves completely differently from real time. It sometimes took 10-15 mins before the bug finally impregnated our dinos. No rhyme or reason why.
• Make sure the area you're trying to get the bug to impreg your dino is open and clear. That means no trees around, no tree platforms, etc. If the bug gets "stuck" on anything or bumps into anything while trying to fly up to do its animation, it wont impreg the dino.
• Ive found traps to be more of a hindrance then help despite dozens of folks having no issues. I did use a trap twice and it worked; other numerous times I had issues with traps and free range/no trap seemed to work better.
• When all else fails, stupid as it sounds, go out of render range and come back. Make sure ANYONE there with you does the same thing. Going out of render somehow "resets" the bug and it will do the animation and impreg the dino.
• we've had them get impregnated both when we were ON the dino and when we were OFF the dino. From my experience, it doesnt seem to matter either way.

I hope some of this has helped. We have a number of bugs now (As awesome as they are after the nerf...).

Some various suggestions:

• Read your suggestion forum, tweets from users, discord comments from users, and so forth. The information aside from the general complaining, is valuable. Listen to your consumers.
• Hire an intern to cheaply provide updates/interact with the community. The silence, occasional offhanded comment in discord or tweet, does more of a disservice then anything. No matter how big or small Wildcard may be, there are no shortages of interns that would love to be the "frontline" person for a company. ANY interaction is better then none.
• View PVP and PVE as two different forms of gameplay. Blanket fixes and changes dont always work in one setting.
• Render Distance: In an attempt to help server lag/issues, this was changed (it hasnt helped). In the process the new render range has created new issues. Namely, getting dinos to follow you correctly. With poor AI follow already an issue, this has exasperated the issue even more so. Please revisit this.
• Make reporting actual in game problems that arent related to exploits, easier and more clearly stated. As of right now, I cant see anywhere I can report an actual problem with something in game that isnt related to griefing or an exploit. Are there no "customer service" options? Or is it so hidden it's difficult to find?

Our server just hit it today. Dozens of them reporting it on Facebook. You would think over the years having observed player bases and caps on officials, WC would have been prepared. They touted how much better the new Unreal engine is, can handle drawing things in better, and all that BS. Why not raise the dino cap then? Raise the cap and release cryos now so folks can attempt to enjoy things.

These WC jokes and the buffoonery that sounds them are ridiculous.

Why did last night's patch in the middle of the 24 hour only event no less, make rendering distance outrageously small? Now you get:

• Swaths of areas showing NO dinos until you are pratically literally on top of them
• Flying into things like gigas that literally appear out of nowhere because of the new idiotic rendering
• Cant see your own dinos across your base
• Cant go fast on a dino and have one follow because, wow, yep: they render out

This has to be one of the most thoughtless things added to the game. And you thought flying babies, vanishing dinos, or dinos going through the floor was bad? This takes the cake..

NA-PVE-5409 crashing every hour

Last crash finally has kept the server offline for over an hour

Cant believe these "professional" companies run this stuff on servers in some kid's basement.

NA-PVE-5409 - Down EVERY HOUR, EVERY DAY. Been going every week now. Numbers of folks submitted reports. CLearly does NOTHING.

Im not using a trap at all. I bring the bug back to my tamed dino.

I managed to get one to impreg a parcer.

Been using a 145 dilpo now but it wont impreg the diplo.

I ment to say 50 hit points. Like each time I got it under 100 health lol. Far lower then needed..

At least 4x now Ive gotten a female Rhyniognatha down to like 50 health, hopped on the dino I wanted impregnated (A diplo and then a Rex) and each time, it doesnt happen. The dino just keeps getting attacked by the Rhyniognatha. Eventually I end up killing the Rhyniognatha in trying to keep its health under 100 hit points. Why is this not working? 3x on the diplo 2x on the rex. Not working..

NA-PVE-5409

This server is down once an hour. Downtime varies from a few mins to hours at a time. Right now its up with PING over 300. Its basically unplayable.