Lewiatan

Jen talked about it some time ago. Now it's hard to find the thread/twitter..

Development of Primal Survival was put on hold. Also, Wildcard wants to increase game price... Too bad the quality of the game does not justify it. On PS4 is around 50 dollats/euros already. I wonder if they're running out of money to finish the game.

They will be releasing content patches after premiere. 258 is just the last content updates in Early Access. Thankfully...

I left official servers in November already, because I was fed up with repetitive gameplay that ARK offers and It still does. I had been waiting to have a reason to start playing on the official servers again since then. Wildcard gave me no reason to do so gameplay wise, so I was waiting for optimisations and bug fixes that did not come in the end, because toilets are more important apparently. Now the real game development begins for Wildcard, let's see if they can make this game something more than grind fest.

Yeah, maybe in the next month considering how often they release patches. I do not feel like waiting for that.

Yeap.

With Mk2 I dislike how slow a quetzal is. It is not fun to hold shift+W buttons for 7 minutes to reach far sides of the map doing nothing productive. Wyverns need to have seperated stamina bars, one for movement, the one for breath attacks. So you can nerf their power without reducing their agility. That what I really need to have solved in Mk3. Let's hope the key content will be added quickly.

They said they are going to make further changes according to feedback of Mk2. That qualifies for the promise to be honest. Rubberbanding, heh. This is what happens when you have low tick server (read up how low tick rates BF4 servers were at the beginning and how awful multiplayer was, because of it) and thousands dinosaurs roaming the Island at the same time. Sometimes server is so overloaded that I have to wait in a queque to have my rifle reloaded. I understand the annoyance that was one of reason why I left official pve 417 server, but regardless of our complains they won't do anything about it unless they release all dinosaurs at least and that means 2 updates yet.

The gameply balance is one of the most important aspect of any game. It must be challenging, but not tedious or boring as current flyers are, maybe with one or two exceptions. We reached the point when it is high time for Wildcard to make this game fun, not keeping it in state of grindfest as it is now. The new dinosaurs can be released at any stage of development, the balance must be done before premiere. If someone promised something, I expect him to fulfill that. This is important matter for community and the longer we wait for Mk3, the more players download the Classic Flyer Mod (now over 100 000) and their level of trust in Wildcard drops to zero.

Where are Mk3 Flyers @Jat? It's been a few days and I bet you have already tested new numbers.

To be honest, they have so many things to do I prefer to have them working on Flyer Rebalance Mk.3 and final conten patches than that event.

It's even more irritating, because their offical ARK twitter account reminded us 2-3 times to post questions in Ask a Question threads...

Where is the digest? @Jen You said you would post new one soon @Jat. it has been over a month since you posted last one and the thread with questions is already 20 pages long. I think we deserve to be treated seriously.

It's been a month since the last Digest @Jat ...

Primal Survival has been delayed for unknown period of time. Jen posted this infromation on her twitter some time ago this month.

Yes, it does. So I have no idea how it's going to work now.

Even though they claim they read forums I do not belive them. I don't know why they don't have beta servers for testing stuff they're working on, the more people playing around with unreleased content, the more likely bug would be found. Also for future, don't bother reporting a bug to Customer Service you will get copy-paste reply how grateful they're are for you being active member of community and... they will not help you solving the problem at all and mark the ticket as solved even though it was not. I reported bug that disallow you to forcefeed your Oviraptor (Ovi gets stuck in eating animation loop , but food rate is not going up), over half of a year passed and it is still not fixed.

Jat said on reddit applications would be open in February. In my opinion they have very few testers or testers stopped bothering about testing for various reasons owing to the fact fixing Allosaurus spawining in bases took them 6 months. I was QA tester in different game and I'll tell you this. Nothing more discourages tester than his feedback being ignored by developers.

Only 4 animals made it to the patch, but to be honest. I prefer to have major features and Quality of Live improvements being added to the game than delaying them to add dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are trivial and can be added at any point of development, even after premiere.

I watched the video. Firstly, has it been even recorded in 1080p? The video is so pixelated even in full hd mode. Secondly, the Tek Tier preview did not make me excited at all. It only makes me worry that once one of the tribe get hand on it, they would obliterate every player on their server. The abillities of power armour are so powerful there is no way to counter it. People will start to block obelisks to not let anyone getting Tek Tier stuff, no one would love to lose hundreds hours of work, because of overpowered tier. It's bad that you did not mention at all in the video how and if players may counter it. Controls of jet pack are very clunky and dev's struggles with using it proves that. It seems that all creatures wouldn't make it, only 3 were showed. If only more Quality of Live improvments had been adding to the game... it would have been much more enjoyable game. @Jat I hope this time we won't be waiting for Digest another month like for New Year's one. Please, let there be some significant questions and answears for game's future.

It's quite underwhelming community crunch. Also, where is the digest you promised 2-3 weeks ago?

It reminded me "Horse Armor DLC"...

Where is digest you said would have been on last Sunday?

Digest?

It is called in game industry a bullshot. WC created such one in SE trailer. The scene when wyvern climbed down the cliif to prevent you from taking an egg.