Schrottix

Hi, I'm a ASE PvP veteran. Something that many others probably agree with, is that ASA is worse than ASE, here some examples Building system: while the new building system adds many Quality of life Improvements, it adds many Quality of life Improvements. for example you can no longer do double walling. or other fancy stuff with giant hatchframes(in the way they were in ASE) e.g. quetzal platforms, turrets on hatchframes, cryorooms. though now there are newer ways to do those things, to me they seem a lot more limited. another example is removal of pipes and electrical cables, in my opinion those were a really cool game mechanic, and thier removal took away many possiblities such as turning off turrets by destroying the cables or outlets, or building your own water pipe from a water source to your base. another thing i don't like is that there is only one item type for multiple structures, its kinda unrealistic to craft a structure and then be able to build multiple completly different ones, it also makes things harder because now you have to select structure in invetory or hotbar and then also swap the the type you'd like to place, instead of just selecting it once... Player: though its kinda funny, the characters can be WAY to small ... a character shouldn't be able to hold a pickaxe which is almost as tall as the character itself lol also i don't like that you nolonger can increase the player movmentspeed with skill points, i hate it because youre so much slower in early game and because you since you cannot put points into movement speed, you put them in HP Weight and Fortitude, which while useful make the player fell more like a Fortified sand sack, when munched by PVE. Performance: ASA performance is Terrible, as probably many other upcomming games that use UE5 since its a "Next Generation Engine" which most used Hardware is not. i barly get 50 FPS with lumen enabled and all other settings on low/medium on my RTX 3080 TI 1080p@144hz, and i get up to 100FPS with shadows and lumen disabled(also disabled Distance Field AO cuz it flickers on foliage) which his stil less FPS than in ASE on Epic Settings. Though the quality of Graphics are way better in ASA, graphics are not all, graphics don't need to be super realistic they just need to be pleasing to look and without interruptions(e.g. lags and flickering) a perfect example of that is Minecraft which allows for a huge amount of creativity with a seemingly limitated tool set and its own style of graphics. Physical Map Removal: In ASA you nolonger have a Physical map you Pull out and you can look around with, instead you have a UI that pops up which in my opnion is a huge step back and drastically decreases imersion. here some numbers: When looking at the Stream Charts "average player peak" 30.03.2024: ASA - 19k https://steamcharts.com/app/2399830 ASE - 33k https://steamcharts.com/app/346110 Why bring back the Official Ark Servers, if you can play on Unofficial Servers? for me unoffical servers are just not the same, i its hard to explain since its mostly how i feel about it... the best explanation i have is: They are Official since they are official much more players will play them, because its a central official place for players to play at. also they are unmodded which for some takes a lot of the immersion away. also its a place where you are guranteed to play a long time, there is no risk of servers beeing taken down or wiped(which right now sadly is the case). Why bring back the Official Ark Servers? My Answer is Nostalgia! Me and probably many other PvP Veterans favor ASE because we've spend so much time in it, thousands if not ten thousands of houres. And ASA will never be similar to it in so many Aspects. Also the reason I'm writing this is that I'd love to play Arkpoc in ASE which i cannot because of ASA. MONEY!? I know that the decision makers at Wildcard only care about money and not players ... you cannot make much money with servers you reopen after closing them. unless... you take money for running official servers such as a donation option or a subscription for playing on official servers. ( or be nice devs and make it for free lol ) Final Thoughts: also taking down some ASA servers to make place for ASE servers might be an idea, because many ASA servers have almost no players (an Arkpoc Cluster on ASE is a might be a great idea!! ). i really hope that this post does something. Vote up if you do too!