TyranntX

After all, the worst attention you can give to ANYTHING, is no attention at all

Won't ASA have a better reporting system to curb cheating like such as INI file tampering? Could have sworn I read something along those lines

Adding on, ASA's going to have better AI pathfinding... meaning a following creature be they tamed or wild won't get stuck as easily. So being fast and maneuverable will more than likely be a well desired trait for anyone travailing on land less they desire their slower tames become raptor food.

And just because it a happened once, doesn't mean people WON'T believe it will happen twice. Hell just look at the least two crunches and you'll see there are users who are asking for more than one creature to make it. Heck, even now there's people asking for a "Wild Card's Favorite"

And that's fine and all, but now it's got people thinking the same will happen with Gigantoraptor... or at the very least hoping it will. Only to cause the same backlash as before, but in reverse.

Tell that to the Carch, who not only didn't win but got straight up added anyway

Well to be fair, votes in the past have always been much closer than this. This vote on the other hand does seem to have something a little suspicious in the air. Especially when you consider that gigantoraptor had LOTS more attention in the original post AND got more votes during the first round. So at the very least if Faleso DID win fair and square the polls would have been ridiculously close, but this time they weren't? Huh? It's a little strange if you think about it.

I recall some one earlier making a claim that a content creator/influencer used a vote bot to cheat, though I think they were being sarcastic or just joking, I doubt anyone expects any real cheating unless WC looks into it. But yeah, for all the hype Giganto raptor got you'd think it'd won... or at the verry least come in second by a significantly smaller margin.

Having better fire resistance isn't enough? And high? Gallimimus is stated in the dossier to be faster than speed tamed raptors... and is a three seater. just because a creature isn't a copy paste "fast giga killer" doesn't mean it's boring. I find it more boring that each and every carnivore is basically the same... with the only "different thing" being that "This one flies" or "This one's really big"... Eight meat eaters in a row (and yes, I'm counting Omnivores because they are effectively the same thing) has made me and many others lose taste for them, it's time for something else to win for a change, something that ONLY eats the leafy green stuff.

I like the new tree too, it actually LOOKS like a tree! and not a lizard's foot growing out of some lettuce like the UE4 tree

besides given how easier it is for an animal to hunt instead of forage is there any really difference between Omnivore and Carnivore? maybe in ASA we could see some more subtle benefits to a balanced and mixed diet for all "omnivores" but at the moment, there really doesn't feel like there is any difference.

Tough love my guy, we had well over 100 carnivores even before the first creature vote, and hardly any herbivores since then. Hell all the new creatures of Fjordur were NOT hervivores! We have enough predators, we really don't need more.

Tell that to the people who keep asking for more carnivores. they claim its for "More variety in creatures", but no... we know their game, the just want yet another dumb toothy thing to beat down other big toothy things. If they wanted variety, not only would we likely never had gotten carcha but we would have had some herbivore winners in the past. So again I say, ban carnivore/omnivore submissions next vote... if it don't eat leaves, roots, vegies, or fruits, it can't participate.

Not to mention.... What would the lizard even do? Bear trap? Who the hell even uses those? Golem killer/tamer? Again, who even uses those? This is just going to be yet another predator for the PvP crowd who's never touched anything not an official server a day in their whole life (and likely never will). Other modes exist, why can't we get a creature hat's only useful in PvE or Single player for roleplaying reasons? Or just for doing something for fun?

Which Is why I suggest WC just flat out ban carnivore submissions for all remaining votes. because at this point it's the only way we'll get ANYTHING new and interesting.

Documentaries hyping up successful hunts of predators don't help much either. Especially when in all reality only 30% of hunts have a favorable turnout for carnivores. All this vote did was give us a triassic animal, which is cool and all but do we really need another big carnivore?

Can we please BAR carnivores from all future votes? We've had like eight in a row at this point.

Would have lost it anyway to an alpha tribe at one point or another, so frankly I don't see much difference. As for your bad expeience on unofficial servers, I'd chock that up to just bad luck. Becasuse it's never happened to me once, only thing close to a bad experience I faced on unofficial was some kid capturing players and locking them up in some demented prison for laughs, he was hunted down and given the same treatment after his base got wiped by the admin. Official servers on the otherhand have been toxic since day one, on PvE you got seas of pillars leaving nowhere for newbies to build and on PvP you got Trolls and Cheaters who think they're funny by being trolls and cheaters. Neither Unofficial or Offical servers have propper protection, but that's largely due to the older technology of ASE. ASA will have FAR better protection just by using current tech. I'd argue that it's also not fair to deny WC the money their due, no one likes to work for free so why should ASA be free when WC has stated why that just isn't possible?

If we can special craft saddles like that, I'm going all out and giving my tames the best armor resources can make

Hate to break it to you but much of the toxic enviornment I described was common place in Official servers, and out right rare in unofficials. Heck I almost never see such behavior in unofficial, and when I do the ome causing the issue is often punished the next day. On the other hand though Hackers are an issue un every server, not just unofficial. So again the only "problem" people have is they can't get away with being horrible as easily anymore. As for your solution, its simple. wither find another unofficial server, make your own, or play singleplayer. plenty of options to keep on playing without official servers.

Well yeah, why would we have mods on day one of ASA? Sure mod developers will get access to the dev kit for ASA to port over their mods but that doesn't mean it will be instantanious. Did Skyrim have mods on the first day? When the first mods came around were they all that advanced as they are now? It will take time for all of our favorites to make the port over, but at the very least they will indeed be usable on both console and pc, cross platform will be a thing to so that's another bonus.

ARK 2's been delayed, to next year. Plus you could argue that we don't reallt NEED a sequel, ARK 1 stood just fine on its own and tied up enough loose ends to tell a great story. BUT it's because ARK did so well that it's getting a sequel, so why is the first game getting remastered so bad? Is it because it's just the first game but with prettier graphics? No, that can't be it, it's going to have a boat load of features not in the original. Plus if that WAS the case, why bother remaking any game at all? Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Halo? Pffft, Just dust off your old console am I right? Who cars if they smell like they're on fire everytime you start them up? Who cares if the load times are about as long as episode of anime? Remaster bad, don't make the same game twice... right? Sarcasm aside, lets do a price check on ASE and ASA. The OG game was about $59.99 on the official launch, DLC's costed about $19.99 each. OG ARK had five DLC's so that totals out to $159.94... Not Including Tax or inflation. ASA on the otherhand is priced at $59.99, and includes ALL the previous DLC's and new features and contnet unique to it. Granted the DLC's are going to be released overtime but you are still paying less than half you did back in the day, and it's not like the game WON'T go on sale often either, Especially how close it will be to the holidays by then. Also ASA is getting a NEW DLC that's taking place right after the events of GEN 2, which will likely be Arat to build hype for ARK 2. Which again, is going to be a vERY different game. So is the pricing the issue here? No I don't think is is either, just like with the idea of weather or not to remaster a game there's a bit more (or I suppose less given what I beleive the real issue is here but we'll get to that later) going on here. Are the bugs in the game and WC's inability to fix them really the issue here? Not really, ARK 1 runs on the UE4 engine, ASA runs on 5. WC stated that many of the issues they'd like to fix in the past simply weren't doable because of restrictions on the older engine. This is also why many of the promised fetures never made it in as well, along with time constraints. so you can't really blame either WC or Snail for that. Hm, maybe there is a point to this whole remaster thing after all and why it shouldn't be DLC? A newer engine means better tech, better tech means better tools to squash the bugs that have persisted up until now. And as this crunch has demonstrated, better tools means graphics that are more inline with the astetic of the game instead of psedo-metal-plastic stuff smashed together. ASE had plenty of issues, many of them exploitable and could go unpunished for months if not years, but ASA's report system will see some actual justice this time around... which brings me to what's ACTUALLY the issue here for people. No, the real issue people have is the Officials servers shutting down. They hate how their Hard (*cough*stolen*cough*) work is "going to waste". They are upset that the sea of pillars preventing players from setting a base down and play the game are going to be gone forever. They don't like that their poo farm of a breeding line of vanity tames is going to be cyber dust. and given the already divided nature of official server players and the rest of the playerbase, tentions are obviously going to be running hotter than usual. I hate official, PvE never has anywhere to build and PvP is infested with trolls who wipe wood/thatch huts for giggles never mind if the owner would ever be a potential threat (99/100 they likely wouldn't have been). Official players are just mad, they can't keep proving why officials are toxic waste dumps, and likely can't get away with the same tricks they used before due to the new features and prevenetive mesures ASA will have. and they can't very well do the same in unofficials on ASE because they'd just get banned there too. For better or worse, ASA's going to happen. It's not going to be DLC because it's not the same game as ARK 2, and it's not going to be Free because Business. and I doubt ARK 1 will become free (at least not permanently) because the majority of it's features still work. Yeah sure it sucks, but as some one who already has a next gen console AND a PC, I'm not really losing much. I'll definetly Buy ASA to support Wild Card (maybe encourege them to do what MARVELOUS! did to Natsume and cut them out of publishing so they could just do it themselves), I wasn't planning on getting ARK 2 but if news like this keeps impressing me I may reconsider. I just don't see any real issues here to speak of. At least none that son't have a simple solution to them.

ARK 2 is going to be a VERY different game than ASE, even when compared ASA. Souls Combat, 3rd person only POV, Parcor to name a few key difference. So it wouldn't make sense to make A WHOLE GAME'S worth of DLC for the sequel, especially since said DLC is just the first game. Think about it, what sense would it make for Dead Island 2 to have DLC that's just the campaign form the first game? What if Halo 2 did that, would it make sense? Why go backwards in time when the logical step is to expand the lore by going forward?

Edited to end the fighting, sorry Joe

Well you're a fraction right, less than half but not completely wrong. This IS snail's fault but what you fail to realise is that both WC and snail are BUSINESSES, they aren't your friend so why should they hand things out for free? Hell you literally were complaining that you can't afford a next gen console just TODAY. Also why does everything HAVE to be part of one game? Why does WC HAVE to pass up on remastering the game that made them big money? ARK 2 is going to be a VERY different game, even when compared to ASA. No you don't, you just need Dinosaurs whith bigger numbers than your enemy's. ARK is a survival RPG, and as an RPG larger stats always beat smaller ones. Also there's still PLENTY of unofficial servers besides whatever you were on, besides how is that any different than the official servers going down other than the fact you can make you own unofficial server?