Grissom

I honestly think the true BIG QUESTION is how will the new train tracks work? Will they just be allowed to be spammed all over the map and sucking up space like the worst type of pillar spam in history? will other players be able to use these tracks? are tracks already built on the map? 2. How will the floating OPasaur work. Will people be able to land these things on top of your base and use them like giant floating troll mountains? how will they effect building if someone decides to park on in the spot you are currently building on? I think they are avoiding these details and telling us about the mechanics of how it will be introduced because they just plan to drop a Over powered pay to win creature on the map that's hugely problematic to the player population especially official PVE and just deal with the massive blowback after the fact as that's how they usually go about things.

I would not want to see Fenrir Breedable. As for it being difficult to get the process may take awhile but the Gamma version is not difficult. If the Fenrir was to become breedable it would completely invalidate the point of doing the boss fight on the Fjordur map.

THE COMPANY also is a stable entity which in good faith has operated there product for 8 years and kept a consistent working system for that time. Private servers come and go and die all the time on top of Admins using there personal judgment and emotions to run servers. This isn't something you deal with as much when your dealing with a company. And by the way the company didn't just randomly shut off the servers one day they gave months and months of notice and as of right now I have that save file so it can still be loaded and played. And yes MANY unofficial public servers I would say the majority have mods to make the game easier and have boosted rates. Some make the game harder like the Hunted but far more just make the game less of a challenge. People can play how they want but all this is just a fact. BTW your own argument is Moot because its licensed product and all you are doing is buying the right to use it not to own it (read the TOS) so if the company wants to take unofficial server rentals away they can do this as well and the only thing you can do is run it on a private dedicated.

Please please tell me how anything will change from EA with these new magical animals on the Island. Base building will be 100% the same. Doed, Anky, Argy no one will have a rhynia early on. Moving large dinos will be a quetz. Nothing has been added to the island that changes the meta of building or logistic of the early game other than some gatherers like the Theri and it isn't even specifically better at one building feature than anything else. The island we know we are getting as of now will be 100% the same as how it was in EA other than a handful of creatures are are mostly combat oriented.

Like the Dozens of contacts i've made on the official Cluster over the years? The people who we have kept in contact with over the years so we can all come together at ASA launch and make sure we all gather on the same official so we can manage a server and not have to deal with problematic randoms. I still have access to all my Dinos by the way can download that server file any time I want. If I was on some private cluster and it went down im SOL. So no I don't see any benefit to playing on unofficial other than if I wanted to play a easier form of the game or a custom mod with a added feature or creature.

I'm sure someone like yourself is only happy about these changes because you have no plan to play the real game. Some modded Multiple X taming server with a Dino storage system. So you care about the quality of official servers very little. Offical is the only real game here. Modded servers other than Mods like Hunted that increase difficulty are made for players who cannot handle the base game. That's why I say you have no voice for people on official here. Spoiled players who lean on mods to play. When you breed from wild to top stat on official you have achieved something. When you do it on some pampered private cluster means nothing. My hard work will be here years down the road. Your at the mercy of some private owner, his friends, girl friend and his bad mood. and nothing you tame, breed mean anything because its just saved on some random cluster where you have no access to anything outside of a handful of servers.

You play unofficial anyways your door is that way ---> you have no voice here.

With the serious Mistake of removing pods we will have multiple people out taming Dodos and Dilos on day one to suck up as much tame cap as possible. If Wildcard wants to make this huge mistake again and force there majority official PVE players (working adults) to deal with no pods and Tame caps we have every intention of locking our server down as much as possible to the detriment to others. When people start complaining that the servers are running like crap a few weeks in it will be for this reason mostly. Wild card is only leaving pods out to slow progression and for no other reason really. They prefer to cater to the groups of players that can stay online and stuff meat in Dinos for 14-16 hours a day or huge tribes and not to your average working adult.

Gonna tranqing while foot kiting tames.

As a player since EA and someone who focuses on breeding with the lack of Cryopods and being a full time employee with real world responsibilities your really going to kill the game for people like myself. Cryopods were the largest quality of life change for people who actually had some sort of life outside of Ark and once again you will be putting players who can average 14-16 hours a day ahead only because they can log in and put meat in a inventory not because they have any form of skill over another player or have any sort of level of achievement they have progressed to.

Any why would you ever use this say over a argent which is infinitely easier to tame and has multiple uses which can do all these things better other than the bleed as well as has a self heal and can fly. When it comes to wild bred tames they are just not that strong even leveled. Once you put a lot of breeding time in they become more useful but other than the bleed they have they are outclasses in every way.

Ill take a 2k melee damage lightning over a mana any day. If you learn to hold X hover in the air completely out of range of your attacker and nearly instantly kill anything in the game short of a Giga, carcha or titan it changes your mind real fast. I do love the Mana but prefer the wyverns mobility style.

I'm not saying a thyla isn't a good animal and better than a saber. but the second you get a rex or a giga it's not a useful animal. A megatherium is better in a cave. A rex or giga is better to collect meat and any flyer is better for travel. The only thing the thyla excels at is collecting Hide and really that doesn't make it worth using over the former for the pain it is to tame early game with the lack of the option of top end kibble. I feel its just a cute fuzzy cat with cute babies and that's why everyone likes the thing. it's easily replaced for every job it does accept maybe assisting with titano kills on the island early game with its bleed.

We call paraceratherium's Meat Ponies because that's all they are really good for, Call one of our Dung beetles Poo patrol, So many off names we have for things in Ark its hard to think of off the top of my head at the moment.

Even a top stat trope can't compare to a top stat wyvern for killing power in any way. It's extremely slow on the ground and its melee ability is terrible. not in a million years is a trope better than a wyvern other than moving around the map and that's only burning gas. Other than that its fly speed is horrid. Id say the Bronto has gotten extremely dated. people still seem to tame them for collecting but they are easily replaced now by the theri which is more compact and has a better harvesting rate. The same with the Thyla. it feels like a early game tame compared to the shadowmane it just seems like a glorified sabertooth with a bleed.