ladyteruki

I have a feeling this was very hard for you to publish, given that WildCard has avoided talking about how the sausage (or rather, the cake) is made for years, but I appreciate that you discuss the complicated choices that come with game development. More players (not all, of course, but more) would be willing to cut you some slack if you did this more often. Also, taking time before announcing a firm release date instead of pushing it back at the last minute is a good habit, and as we all know, it's never too late to change your habits. No offense to Raas (I've been watching him for years, there's no animosity in what I'm about to say), but I was hoping for someone bigger. Diesel-sized, precisely. But I guess that's not happening (the guest or... the bigger thing, it's hard to tell at this point).

I meant "toothier" than the previous versions released by Garuga, but thanks for the nightmares XD God, someone needs a dentist.

The Archelon is one of my favorte Ark Additions dinos, so this is good... well not news, because it had leaked a couple of weeks ago, but good thing nonetheless. does it look toothier here, or is it just the artwork that gives that impression ? WAIT, REALLY ?! You're finally adding algae as a resource ? Did I read that right ? I've always thought the underwater needed its own unique resource (especially with pearls being more and more available on land as new maps appeared), so this is making me very happy. The wiki seems to suggest that they're a component of the sushi you were alluding to last week ? I love this. More resources and recipes is always a good time for me as a PvE and SP player (and not the crap like green gems and fragmented green gems being the same thing under a different name, but ACTUALLY new resources). Am I reading too much into that "such as" ? Maybe. Maybe not. We'll see next month. That's a VERY cool shot ! And if they don't, people complain that nothing is going on, the game is stale, ARK is dead, and at least ASE had such and such map so why bother with ASA ? so it's a no-win situation.

Disappointed not to find Raasclark's short here (an excerpt of a longer video, granted), it was one of my favorite ARK videos this week, if not one of my favorite videos this week. Aaaaaaah great, now I'm craving sushi. Thanks, WildCard.

Really looking forward to what BTT will bring this time (I dream of corrugated roofs and chain link fences in Ark, sue me !), especially since this DLC has been the most exciting part of ASA so far. Also kinda curious about what paid creature BTT will introduce (since the Dread is part of the free map), but much less. Plus, more time for Ragnarok is GOOD. *clenches jaw* Honestly if it turns out to introduce gameplay that can limit the effect of pillars (with contesting mechanics, for instance), this is good. But otherwise... this is not going to make life on servers any healthier. Especially in PvE where there is no alternative.

Probably that I've missed an episode, but is there going to be a airship in the BTT update ? Previous concept art seemed to imply there would be one included with Aberration's steampunk content, but I don't remember reading anything about it since, while this recap would have been the perfect place to bring it up. (I keep finding it weird that the new spider is called "Cosmo" and not "The Cosmo" XD ) It should be illegal to be as talented as ampreh... It's just not fair for everyone else. WildCard needs to commission an entire ARK comic book from them or something.

Personally I'm of the mindset that it's better to have dinosaurs for that than automatons (plenty of other games have robots, ARK's the dinosaur one), but that said... ...repairing structures autonomously is a cool feature. Also those Owl Griffins are very cute.

I swear the design of the Yi Thing changes every time we see it. Then again the initial concept art was um, not universally liked, to say the least, and the only way was up. This looks a bit closer to the proposed design, I'd say. Congrats on making it into the Community Crunch this week, GP !

Oh, so it is THE Cosmo afterall.

Oh hello, Maevia Eureka. Fancy meeting you here... in shoulder pet form ? I'm a bit confused by the term "Cosmo" which seems to imply that it's a character name, not a species name. Is it not a tame like the Oasisaur, it's a companion more similar to HLNA ? Intriguing.

Don't worry, I think I can speak for everyone when I say that noone expected Aberration to be released in July. It doesn't help your reputation about delays, but other than that, no big deal. I think overall WildCard just needs to learn how to announce dates that are more reasonable and in line with the work that actually is already done. Anyway, looking forward to seeing which will be the next ARK Additions creature in the meantime. Well I know that's a lie XD I wonder what you were waiting on before publishing this post. This is pure brilliance !

Thank you for this laugh ! It's wonderful to know that players are heard... but listening to feedback only when it's mostly positive is meaningless if you don't equally listen and show interest when it's mostly negative. We're not seeing you taking many suggestions into account then, are we ?

God, can you imagine ? They would have postponed The Center's release just to announce a new (even if smaller) map right afterwards ? I would laugh SO HARD.

I don't even really understand what that Club is. Is it a neutral community structure you can place on a server ? Do we really need to keep inventing new things all the time, thus splitting the dev team even further between tasks ? This will never not make me emotional.

Haha, well, I can guarantee you that there are people who love The Center. I mean not as many as Ragnarok, for sure, but it has its fanbase. And seeing it blossom into an updated, gorgeous map is one of the things I look forward to the most about ASA's entire trajectory as we currently know it ! I can't wait to see what new "gameplay" (if any) is going to come with it, or simply how gorgeous its famous pillars will look. Fingers crossed that The Center's center has some interesting things to see or do, now ! It IS important. Fingers crossed that this sentence ages well in the upcoming days. Why do you make people use a secondary platform (that not everyone is active on), when you have a perfectly suitable and integrable way to do polls on the official website, as seen with the creature votes ? It'd been a while since I last loved an ARK fanart as much as this one.