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I see, thank you. I still highly prefer written format over video format, but there's nothing I can do but endure if I'm interested in the Crunches. Unfortunate, but ultimately my choice.

As someone who has no interest in Livestreams (for various reasons), will I now completely miss contest results?

I agree on the incline running. It would make early game metal and crystal gathering safer, and help run away from surprise predators (I'm looking at you, Giganoto-out-of-nowhere-while-I'm-gathering-metal)

Sorry for the late reply. I worry for your argumentation skills if you have to resort to bad language and offhanded comments. However, as you asked, here are some links to proof of feathered dinosaurs (that, we all know, gave birth to birds. That have feathers). All were easily found with Google, and these include the amber I was talking about. https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-scientific-evidence-of-dinosaurs-having-feathers https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaur-feathers-colors-nature/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutyrannus https://observationdeck.kinja.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-dinosaur-feathers-and-scales-1603368757 http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/the-swimming-raptor-of-mongolia/ https://www.seeker.com/new-giant-raptor-the-largest-ever-with-wing-feathers-1770432223.html http://www.icr.org/article/do-quill-knobs-show-dino-bird-evolution/ We also have feathers, or feather-like filaments, showing up in non-Theropod lineages, such as Ceratopsians, though this is more circumstancial. There is so far no evidense of feathers in lineages like Hadrosaurs or Sauropods. I hope that is enough information to satisfy you, and you read through it all. Please feel free to provide me evidence of Raptors lacking feathers.

It's not "highly speculative theorizing", we have scientific proof of feathered dinosaurs, especially in the raptor lineages. Heck, at one point some sceintists thought raptors to be secondarily flightless birds, though they were in minority. We have a fossil record of feathered dinosaurs, and even a feathered dinosaur tail in amber. We have such detailed feather fossils, that we actually know what color Microraptors, and a few other dinos, were.

For me it's how much I love the actual real raptor look, and how outright goofy these naked ones seem to me. I will live with what WC gives us, but tht doesn't mean I love each and every dino they push out equally. The other thing that causes me to nitpick is my love of realism and immersion. Again the naked Raptors break both for me. I'd laugh at them, but they tear m low level character to shreds.

The Raptor update is just as visually underwhelming as I expected. I have never been a fan of the zombie-hands and featherlessness, and this just amplifies it. Sure the new feathers are better, but still. The thing is, we can all see that the Raptor is nothing but a Jurassic Park homage. Down to the level up sounds and even some of the animations! If nothing else, I would DIE to see the hands corrected on all the animals that have them wrong, Rex, Giga, Yuti, Raptor.... Yeah sure, I know ARK animals are no meant to be the original ones, but Raptor, when I first saw it, was such a HUGE let down I immediately went "meh".

There actually is another large bird that could fill the "actually an eagle and not a giant vulture" niche: Haast's Eagle. True, it wasn't nearly as large as Argentavis was, but ARK deviates with the sizes anyway. If they do make Haast's Eagle, I do hope they make a fully new model instead of using the old Argy one. To me, the old Argy model looks... silly. Like it's a weird, feathered cube with wings and head sticking out. I much prefer the new model, but then again I'm also upset about the "new" Spino model so... Each to their own.

I very much agree on the spino. Apparently there's two (or three) ways people think on this: us, who prefer it as close to what it to our knowledge really was like, those who prefer the Jurassic Park/outdated look, and those who don't much care. (On the same note, I know they're not going to make the Raptor better, but one can always hope, right?)

I really do like the changes for dino looks for the most part, but being a huge realism/immersion enthusiast broken wrists, featherlessness and other "mistakes" throw me off. In the same sense, I really don't like how the new spino looks. It was a very, very weird dino, and I wish it was more like that. That said, Holy moly does the updated Bigfoot look much better now (I refure to think of it as a Gigantipithecus). I wonder, what does the Random Supply Crates actually mean. If made random, it chooses and picks from all available items, mods included?