OutlawFirebird

The island seemed to always have lower level creatures. I believe Ragnarok is when levels became more consistent. As far as the lack of dinos. That I believe is a side affect of introducing wild babies. They take up a spawn. I have the dino count on 3 and difficulty on 6 on my server and everything is still low level. And there are still parts of the map that seem empty. Also I know caves should be harder but there are ridiculously amount of creatures in some.

Achievement I'm not sure about. Usually mods disable achievements. But I had one pop up with mods installed. As far as mods not installing. I had that problem with the ceratosaurus. In order to get it to install, I found a server that had it installed. When I tried to join it auto installed the mod.

Sounds like they are in deep with ASA. Especially with what's going on with nitrado. So I would say a couple years at least or not at all. Wasn't ark 2 announced before ascended? I thought it was weird to put all this effort into remastering ark, instead of focusing on ark 2.

Reviews should reflect how one feels about the game. Doesn't matter if it's a full release or early access. If there are issues it needs to be stated. From what I am seeing ASA is suffering from the same old ark issues. I think it's the frustration of them not learning from there past issues. The whole sever monopoly is not helping with reviews either.