FlorianWind9

Without personally editing the files and settings yourself to omit the nonsense; pretty much yeah. This is unfortunately what Ark, A.S.A., is becoming. It's just fortnight now; a generic foundation upon which to heap any and all things you can possibly think of: (especially if you can get some sweet collaboration/advertisement money out of the deal) "Power Rangers" 🙄😢 Well, I do like the addition of the train and poker table. I really like trains and having little "card-based side-games" in video games can be fun. There was this one Pirates of the Caribbean game for the PS2 I played a long time ago and my favorite part about it was actually playing the high-stakes card-game in it. I do also like steampunk as an aesthetic just in general, and the customizable war-vehicles in extinction are pretty cool. With the addition of the hover-skiff, I had long wished for other vehicles to be put into the game. As much as I love the dinos, having a non-dino version for things in the game was always nice for me because on a PVP server people tended not to attack bases that had no dinos. (Because if there were no pets to attack then what was the point since you would not be committing as much emotional harm to your victim?) Was the general sentiment I got from people. So, since all there really was was the raft, I had long wanted an air-balloon of sorts, a train of sorts, and a motorized vehicle of sorts to act as further non-dino ways of traversing the maps and hauling resources around them. However; do I like the Western, Steampunk, and Mad Max themes for Ark specifically? No, not really. Again, the Steampunk aesthetic I would love and use in my single player world, but on a multiplayer platform and being an actual part of the game's core story? No. The themes look cool sure, but they clash with the rest of what Ark is/or was. Still, if the rest of what the game has become was good then I would put up with these three things in particular just as personal cosmetic choices. Unfortunately, snail seems to be going in a direction of cosmetic freedom far beyond these which just does not work for me. Much as I loved when they added the T-Rex goofy suit to A.S.E., I really don't like seeing all that stuff in Ark. Just doesn't fit; just doesn't immersion. This is very true and yes the direction of Ark seems to have lost all its original identity. Before, even if they were going crazy with what they were doing (like with the Genesis DLCs) they still made their own original creations and attempted to blend the stuff into the identity of what Ark was. Not anymore. This is why I believe that Ark 1 should have ended with the Extinction story expansion with the 2 Genesis DLCs being their own separate game; and "Club Ark" and all the memey fortnight goofy social media nonsense should be separated into its own separate game specifically made to create that atmosphere and cater to that crowd. When the Genesis DLCs first came out and their public relations statement about it was: "We were originally planning on ending Ark 1 with Extinction and moving on to an Ark 2, but since we've decided that all you players just love buying expansion DLCs and continuously increasing the amount of storage space that our game takes up on your gaming device, we've decided to make the Genesis story a further DLC expansion to Ark 1! Isn't that great guys?!" I'm paraphrasing but the answer to that question was, and is, "No. It's not great. And it's not what the players wanted or asked for." Just look at how the original reception for Genesis went. At the time, everyone was perfectly satisfied with the content and scope of Ark 1 and with how its story ended and were all excited about and waiting for an Ark 2. When the completely out-of-nowhere announcement was made for the Genesis DLCs it left the playing community confused and irritated. It was at this time that they first widely displayed the fact that they have no idea what their player-base wants. Now, A.S.A. is a continuously growing homunculus of a game that has no original identity. You are absolutely not the only one who feels this way. There are many many who feel this way. I do to.

Now, while their decision to make the research facility of Arat Prime look like Lord Dracula's Castle from Castlevania is incredibly cringe to me and I do not like it at all nor do I understand any sound reasoning for having gone with this decision. Still, as far as the other there is first the very true saying that "Any sufficiently advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic" so that any "magic" in Lost Colony could hopefully be explained by it being part of some advanced technology involving element. Second, the "demons" or "vampires" I very much hope could be explained the same along with all the other fantasy elements that have been added to Ark. Again, vampires and Dracula's Castle in Ark is cringe; especially since it's apparently the main face and focus of The Lost Colony's whole deal. But, I suppose you could say that it's all due to element's corrupting and changing nature upon genetic beings. After all, we get the Titans in Extinction and Rockwell's mutated form along with his mutated monster survivors in Genesis. So, I guess, why not vampires? Hopefully not true vampires or else Mei Yin is going to turn into one seeing as how she was bitten by one in the video. 😰

If you play single player and purposefully remove everything in it that isn't; yes. (This is the game-mode I usually go for.) If you play single player and purposefully remove everything in it that isn't dinos or sci-fi; then yes. (This is the game-mode I do when I want a little sci-fi spice.) If you play the game normally without removing things and play it on multiplayer servers then yes. Not my favorite game-mode or even one that I will in the least entertain as viable. Unfortunately, this is the version of Ark that its owners have decided the game should be in its natural state. I don't know if I'll ever buy A.S.A., but if I do then I will unfortunately never play multiplayer. Which is a real shame because by far the best time I ever had on A.S.E. was playing on the official servers with other people.

I know; however, that time likely will never come unless the IP gets transferred to some other owner. The absolute best time in the history of this game was during the period when it was owned by Studio WildCard; before they were forced to sell themselves to snail. During this time, there were new creatures and new items and new mechanics added to the game every single month; and all of it for free! You just had to buy the game. There were bugs and glitches back then to, but usually they were personally addressed and fixed quite quickly. There was frequent and personal communication from the development team as well and they often showed both their passion and enthusiasm for the game they were creating as well as that they listened to and cared about the players' input. After they sold themselves to snail, all of that slowly eroded over these last 8 years. It started with the breaking of a promise and the release of a cash-grab DLC for the game; then continued until where we are now. At first, up through the development of the Extinction DLC for A.S.E., much of the same enthusiasm, passion, personal contact, and generosity was still shown because the majority of WildCard's original studio staff were still connected to the game. Even through the development of the 2 Genesis DLCs a lot of this could still be seen for the same reason, although further cracks and distancing were beginning to be shown. After that though, it all started to go very downhill; slowly at first with the obvious distraction from Ark II by way of creature community votes and The Lost Island and Fjordur; then very fast at the breaking of another promise and the announcement of A.S.A. Now, either none or almost none of the original WildCard staff are still connected to the game and it has been entirely taken over by a parent company that not only values money over people but also has absolutely no idea what its doing. A company that values money over people, but knows how to effectively get that money, can still create wonderful things. Snail has no idea how to do business properly. These same issues that you're having are ones that were promised to be, but never were fixed from A.S.E. Now they exist in A.S.A. but in an even wider assortment and the company that owns the game has shown over 8 years that it does not care about fixing things unless it can do so with little to no effort involved. 8 blackscreens in a row after a crash? Well, you can still launch and play the game for some period of time right? At least long enough for that 2 hour no refund Steam policy right? In that case, I'll focus on making this $5 fantastic tame that I'll add to the game which will, if previous history is any indication, only break more things. This is the state of the company that owns the game. Ark was already in a special place in the history of gamers. It has since begun to move away from that place.

I don't mean to be "that guy". But let's not sell some creatures short. For lizards there is Megalania and Glowtail and Dimetrodon is sorta a lizard-like For snakes there is Titanoboa and Basilisk As for fish you can tame Coelacanth, Piranha, and Sabertooth Salmon with a fish basket. And then there's the Xiphactinus which is I assume the one you meant. Although, you could technically also count the Angler and the Dunkleosteus as they are somewhat "fish". There are sooo many creatures in Ark that we can sometimes forget a few that get lost in the bottom of the pile. 😉 But there are indeed many types of creatures that are very under-represented in Ark with having only 1 or 2 creatures of them. If it was my decision, I would disqualify certain creature types from future community votes. Primarily two-legged carnivores like the Raptor and Rex; and four-legged long-necked creatures like the Bronto and Diplodocus. There are probably other types that I would disqualify to, or would do so if 1 or 2 more were added, but those'd be the main ones that there are already plenty enough of.

Whenever I think about Ark or WildCard these days I always think about No Man's Sky. Now there's a game and a studio whose history has been as opposite to Ark as it can ever be! It's an amazing concept to think about! If only Snail would follow the same paths that they have then Ark would be so incredibly amazing I'd gladly pay $15 for a cosmetics skins pack! Snail would have absolutely no problems with money then!

You do not need a subscription to watch the animated series. Unless you mean a generic internet subscription. But even then, there are friends with internets or libraries or restaurants. 😉

And ruin the company routine that has worked so very very well for them and their pocketbooks since the beginning of A.S.E.? 🤔

They originally told us that their game couldn't handle a map any larger than The Island to. This statement as an excuse to why instead of adding the promised desert biome to The Island map that they had to make it an entirely separate map in their paid DLC Scorched Earth. Then not long after a modder gave us Ragnarok which is 4x the size of The Island. For that matter, they used to tell us that their game couldn't handle more than 2x rates. That was 2 or 3 2x permanent rate increases ago. Base rates is like 8x or more than original when A.S.E. first launched.

They probably expect it to go very well. Considering that people have gladly paid to be beta-testers and guinea pigs for their games since the beginning of A.S.E. People have happily paid to be perpetual beta-testers; have happily paid for over-priced mods and extra fantastic P2W dinos; have happily paid for continually broken servers; have happily paid for unfinished maps and other never to be finished or working properly content; have happily paid for a glorified graphics update and extra features originally promised to be added to the original game now held hostage for ransom; so why would people not happily pay to be walking advertisements? Snail might as well add a cosmetic skins package for $15 that lets you buy a set of clothing advertising Nike wear. 🙄

The Monster Hunter series would disagree with you. 😉 I, however, do agree with you. 👍

This is exactly how these systems worked in ASE to; unless you were playing on Single Player or were Hosting a server and had the permissions to tweak the setting? 🤔

Because wc/sg are sooooo committed to keeping their promises? 🙃 Personally, at this point, especially since many of the "real world" creatures have ended up acquiring some form of SciFi attribute; I say just open up the creature submissions and let the community go wild with their creativity! 😁 At this point, with Ark being what it is, there really is no good reason not to! 🙂

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