Oldskill

Now EU-PVE-Official-TheIsland344 is back online, but seems disconnected from cluster. It does not show in servers lists at transmitters, I cannot join it back. It is reachable from main servers lists menu, when launching game (but I dont have a char on it so I cannot use that to access my stuff).

Lost 2 characters level 130+ today, in 1 hour interval, on 2 different transfers. Each time, this: Characters nowhere to be downloaded at source or destination server. The sad truth is, only those whom have had their character duped can fully recover from such a loss. I understand it is not allowed by TOS to have dupes ? Yet, most people, who have one, got it by accident, and it then becomes the only safety net to character loss.... If losing chars wasnt fixed in 6 years, maybe its time WC implements a real safety net, a character save/clone feature, which could be activated upon character loss - which would save player id (to keep imprinted dinos), level, bosses/tek cave status, haircut etc ? And could be managed by players, rather than wait for a ticket to be read/treated.

Surprise, 1000+ melee boss rexes do not frighten Manticore into better landing : I am done attempting Valguero boss, until WC fixes it.

On official: * Gamma : we did about 10-15 runs, lost one squad once (Manticore not landing) * Beta: we did 4 runs, no squad loss (a few rexes here and there) * Alpha: we attempted last Friday, we survived Dragon/Megapithecus with 17 minutes left on counter, Manticore tried to land, but kept bouncing back in the air most of the time. 3 pump-action shotguns with 260+ damage did not help, it has too much hp. Our rexes all had 800+ melee , it ended with less than 10% hp left. Frustration. We are used to leaving 1 rex to aggro it, but this time, it didnt work very well - as you need to move when it tries to land on you, and it was landing super fast, thus hitting the rex and taking off again. When Valguero servers are added to the official cluster, this issue may go unnoticed 95% of the time, because the cluster's boss rexes are overpowered. But the occasional not landing at all, will still occur until WC acknowledges the issue.

I put to sleep a castoroides 150 with 32 pt in melee, then it got hit by a terror bird, lost taming effectiveness, so I let it wake up, put it back to sleep, but it somehow started with a low taming effectiveness, so I left ark for a while . when I came back it was gone. Then I put to sleep a direbear 150, by the time I came back with some kibble, a carno was eating it. Then I pretty much did nothing useful. Yay.