max2go

Wild Card: As it stands currently, the expansion is not worth getting, because the game-breaking issues that plague the base game also plagues the expansion! Read on further for some explanation: Although I can agree that releasing expansions before the base game is out of EA is a good way to go about it, there is only one major issue there - ARK (as the base game, but therefore also as the expansion) has "game-breaking" bugs. Plus some simple yet really important features missing (such as, if you get thrown off a flying mount, the animal returns to your base / closest respawn point by itself). I won't talk about the latter, but I'll mention one of the game-breaking bugs of ARK, which is the path-finding component of the dino AI. Dinos getting stuck between trees / rocks, glitching around and other kind of nonsense that annoys to the point that it becomes eventually pointless to even have dinos with you on auto-follow and auto-attack. You could as well just remove that from the game all-together for now and just require people to ride tamed dinos one-by-one. And I'll do you another favor and mention you another major issue that removes the purpose and fun of having dinos - which is that there's no proper fleeing mechanism of those when they're being attacked and esp. for those that are set to passive and that are being attacked. I'm not an animal expert, yet I'd bet that most if not all animals are (and were, as in, this would apply also to prehistoric ones) hard-wired to flee when they're taking too much damage or are up against an opponent where they'd not stay the least bit of chance, even with one or more humans at their side. What really needs to happen here is a check for an animal to ascertain the probability of success in combat and then, depending on a few things such as animal behavior and current state such as stamina and hunger, the animal would then go into fight or respectively flight mode. But the pretty much non-existing path-finding system has ruined the fun for me on so many occasions that I have put ARK on the back-burner over and over again. Therefore, my request is that ARK's AI system is being reworked and an update released soon, with the aforementioned issues (and others) fixed.