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Thanks for the votes, everyone ! The Machairo is currently placing 19th thanks to your support

Yeah the Gasbag is a headscratcher, but then again, it doesn't necessarily need an interaction with EVERY Extinction tame. Sorry, I can't help you about about the art, I used existing paleoart for the main piece (hence the credit), and the rest in Photoshop. Thanks ! I do agree we need more herbivores... even if this one doesn't eat berries anymore

The Machairo is currently placing 20th ! It's not the Top10, but out of 200+ submissions so far, it's pretty amazing Thank you so much everyone for the support, let's keep it going ! The hardest part is to get people to see it, so make sure to spread the word if you like it

We need principled people too in this community

Thanks,I'm glad you do Thank you Freyn ! Did you submit something ?

I love the design of this creature, how you have included corruption accents seen on the other Extinction tames. They're all sci-fi while the Thylacosmilus is a real creature, so it wouldn't have occurred to me on my own submission, but I love it Honestly my only (minor) issue with this submission is the name of the species, which is so similar to another mammal in the game. But that could be easily solved with a nickname of sorts so overall, excellent submission. I'll be honest, this is the selling point for me Would you mind explaining the rationale behind making one of the variants non-rideable ? What was the reason for this design choice ?

Haha, thank you, I can only agree ! Make sure to spread the word and tell your friends, tribemates, and even enemies to upvote it Thank you so much I really worked hard to make this submission legible and to help people picture it in the game. The rest is out of my hands ! Ironically enough, the Chair does not let you sit XD Thanks !

But a bigger one would feel repetitive after the Rhynio imho.

Hopefully not the last ! That's actually even in the tags You're too kind Thank you very much for noticing. I really wanted to provide a clean presentation

This creature has a lot of diverse abilities, but my favorite is by far the resource detection !

Five votes already 😊 Make sure to check out the gif at the end if you want to see the laser shield in action !

Noone is better suited for the apocalypse than a laser-shooting Ceratopsian. So, why should you vote for the Machairo ? Well I mean, look at it : ...ok but seriously, here's my thought process for this suggestion, if you want more text and fewer pictures - I've always wanted a mobile fabricator in Ark. We have creatures/saddles that act as smithies, as mortar & pestles, as forges... Why no fabricator ? One of my core beliefs in Ark is that anything that is doable, should be doable with a tame. It's much more immersive to use a dino than a piece of machinery ! - I also happen to be a huge proponent of nomadic gameplay, which has gotten too little love from WildCard in my opinion, when the potential is there. - But it could not do just that. Look at the horns of the Machairo, don't they scream "laser" ? They do to me ! And indeed I thought lasers offered a wide range of possibilities, ability-wise. - Of course, only a high maintenance creature could pull such a function ; I tried to make owning a Machairo a bit expensive. Initially I wanted it to consume large volumes of element dust... but then figured that it's not that hard to get element on Extinction ! So gasoline it is, which fits the fabricator aspect anyway. It all worked out ! - Naturally, the Machairo is unable to harvest gasoline, but I gave it a better harvesting potential for oil when eating the corpses of Tek dinos. It can, however, not harvest oil from nodes. I almost gave it the ability to do something with oil pumps, feel free to discuss it below ! - I expect WildCard would make this a slow dino, with a painful turn radius. It's chunky and carrying a lot of gear, afterall. Try being light on your feet while carrying a fabricator, see how you like it. - It's a bit outside of my comfort zone (those of you who have seen my Aquilarhinus for The Center, for instance, know I like non-OP herbivores), so I also balanced it with a vulnerability to cold (two Extinction creatures are ice-based afterall), and to water (thus preemptively making Tropical Wyverns an interesting option once they are reintroduced with Crystal Isles, though they'll be no good for taming). Fenrirs and Ice Wyverns are also included in its foes. If any ice-based creature is added in a further community vote, I hope it'll be a de facto Machairo counter too. - About that : I wished to make the Machairo vulnerable to ambient temperature, because few creatures seem to respond to extreme weather conditions the way survivors do. It's fun to add one ! Tribes based in the snow will now have an upside for it, as the Machairo will have a harder time raiding them. The large harness might provide additional warmth (the way armor does to survivors), though. - If WildCard is feeling fancy, they can also nerf it further when it rains or if it walks in water ! Not that there's a lot of that on Extinction, but you know, transfers are a thing. - Speaking of creatures, I made sure it includes gameplay mechanics that involve most of the other Extinction tames, for better or for worse. I could not think of a good and cohesive one for the Gasbag, so go nuts with suggestions in the comments ! - The Machairo as proposed is also vulnerable when facing ranged attacks, specifically bullets, because it's very likely that PvP players would use it for raids. As such it's not designed to soak turrets, but its laser shield should provide temporary support when you want to launch a rocket into a turret wall, or aim at Plant X crops. Maybe if you play your cards right it could even help you place some C4 shielded by it ? But it's unable to walk while shielding, so your progress with it won't be the same as when using a traditional soaker. It could also be designed to have lower base health than Trikes and Stegos to further that objective. And in general, since I play PvE, make sure to give me some feedback about how such a creature would affect the PvP meta as we currently know it ! - Because it carries gasoline, it's also possible to increase its vulnerability to explosions (rockets, C4, Magmasaur attacks, etc.). I didn't include this possibility here, but if the community thinks its a good choice, I'd love to have your opinion on it ! Again, I play PvE, so make sure to give me some feedback about how such a creature would affect the PvP meta as we currently know it ! - Lastly it also comes with a proposition that is more related to the map itself. Assuming maps get a bit of TLC with their ASA release, I'm hoping we extend the usefulness of the Sludge Basin I never understood how we can drink "water" that looks like this ! We should instead die from ingesting it XD Maybe it wasn't always the plan but would have taken more work than WildCard had time or budget for ? Regardless of what happened, ASA is a chance for Extinction to premiere liquid oil in Ark, and it feels logical that a place called "sludge" on such a futuristic map would include oil residue. The Machairo is the perfect creature to accompany this potential map improvement ! I'm hoping this is a creature that will make very different kinds of players happy. I sure had fun coming up with it In any case, thank you for at least considering it. If you like the Machairo, spread the word ! EDIT : here's a gif to demonstrate how the laser shield would work in practice Enjoy ! NEW ! Check out the art made by Drawolf (and make sure to follow him on Twitter !)

Seeing that the Shasta was my second-favorite (man, that Miracinonyx can't catch a break), I'm quite satisfied I hope it TRULY is a submarine and you don't change that part too much. Or at all. No word on what the next map will be ? Since you've organized the vote for Ragnarok out of order (and said you'd give time for people to get their next submission ready), I expected to see a mention of that. Did I miss it ? It's just sad, honestly. You got tons of questions last week about SP for console, about the ability to get saves of several maps to form a cluster... and these questions remain unaddressed in your "recap". Some people got oriented in getting this information in the replies, but wouldn't it be so much better if EVERYONE had access to these explanations in a spot you've specifically tailored for recaping these extremely important matters ? Of course you're going to push server hosting with best buddy Nitrado rather than acknowledge SP gameplay, but even so, you can do that AND offer the clarification that is asked of you in the comments of your own website. I don't feel like it's a lot to ask.

I'll go further : people being annoyed now are people who wanted to be excited. The ones who didn't want to be excited have long left this community ; by definition, you don't disappoint people who expect nothing ! People who are annoyed about ASA 2 months away from release are people who wanted to picture what it'd be like to have a better experience of Ark than the one they know in ASE, and have been deprived of all the positive opportunities to do that. We've given WildCard a chance to excite us. They said "previews every two weeks" and then we didn't get previews every two weeks. Even in this present Community Crunch, people ask about previews : that's not being negative. That's wanting to be curious and excited, and being refused that because "if you don't like asset comparisons, then we don't know how else to talk about this game". You know how I know people want to be positive and are not allowed to by WildCard ? Look at how active these forums get during a creature submission period. Everyone has ideas. Everyone wants to see things (are they all realistic ? no ! but it's not what matters) in ASA. Everyone is posting pictures, listing abilities, designing custom dossiers, drawing diagrams, doing everything they can do to give some form of reality to the way they imagine playing maps in ASA. That's positive as f*ck ! People WANT to picture what playing ASA will be like. People WANT to imagine what they'll do once The Center will get a TLC (a lot of us are hoping for one at least). People WANT to fantasize about how new creatures will interact with the ones we already know and love. People WANT to be given new ways to find joy in a game they have sunk thousands of hours in ! THIS IS POSITIVE. The reason why the Yi Something incident bothers me (especially considering the creature was at the bottom of my own ranking) is that what little joy this community finds in projecting themselves in ASA, the sliver of hope we try, vote after vote, to build together... WildCard doesn't seem to respect it. Frankly, if someone can post this to introduce to a community a creature that doesn't exist, and make it in a way that it's liked enough that thousands of people vote for it... why can't WildCard find a way to discuss ASA without showing the game ?

You know, the more I think about it, the more it appears that I don't want Ark to succeed. I don't want Ark to fail either. I want players to thrive. I want players to have a good time. I want players to be given reasons to talk about ASA positively, not because the sales will need it, but because it's actually positive to project ourselves in the game. I want players to celebrate excitedly the upcoming release of a new, more modern, hopefully better version ; instead of being promised it's gonna be all these things on absolutely no visible basis. I want players to not be squeezed until their last cent, and especially not in exchange for a poor experience. I want players to enjoy actual previews of what gameplay is going to be like, whether these previews happen through ingame screenshots, through videos, or simply through written explanations of features. I want players to not be expected to spend money on Day 1 on a game that they know nothing about until the last minute. I want players to not be asked to worship a game that doesn't respect their essential rights as consumers. I want players who take the time to submit custom creatures, with custom art, and who take the time to vote for them, to get the creatures they actually have voted for, or else the concept of a community vote is meaningless. TL;DR : I don't want Ark to succeed or fail in the abstract. The players are what determines the success or failure of Ark, and I want WildCard to act like they know it. I want players to be given reasons to make ARK succeed, and I promise you many of us would happily do it the same way we did it the first time. Our loyalty to this franchise is not owed, it is earned.

You're entitled to see criticism that way. And there is, certainly, some criticism that is fully toxic. But, speaking for me and noone else (they can also reply to you if my answer doesn't fit their thought process), I also think there is a way to be critical of issues in hopes they are CORRECTED. When I point out issues that I can't just overlook, I point them out where WildCard can see them (whether they really see this feedback is another question, and whether they care about that feedback another one too). So for instance I hope that when I say "it looks like people on official can only save one map/base", WildCard clarifies that this is intended or offer options if it is not. Sometimes it's as simple as "yes, we didn't think that people could have several bases on the same cluster, here's how this could work if you want to save other bases on a different map of the official cluster". That's why I'm not "just moving on". I want this game and this studio to treat us better, and to communicate with us better. And I'm not sure how they would do that if we only said "I'm ride or die, do what you like, I'm here until death, my money is owed to you whatever you do". Which you are free to feel and say. But that's not how I see things.

Good luck to our friends on official. I haven't been to official in years but I remember my days there fondly. If they haven't deserted the clusters by now (and I hear a lot of them have...), official players are about to lose a lot of stuff in this, since only one map can be saved. Also apparently our console friends are not getting the option to play in SP ? That's how I'm reading it, but feel free to clarify, if someone by any chance is reading feedback. The timing of announcing the ASA partnership with Nitrado AND providing a discount for ASE hosting doesn't have the greatest optics, but hey, if we cared about optics, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. Completely off topic, but can we expect a survivetheark account on Mastodon ? If a platform with a prehistoric name is not the right place for Ark, none is. And the air is becoming unbreathable on Xwitter. Unless you plan a partnership there too, I don't know. So people told you very plainly that they were very disappointed with the design changes of the artist formerly known as the Yi Qi and you did... nothing ? Ok. Duly noted. Riddle me this : why should we vote for a creature that you change so much ? We're supposed to vote for a species as abilities are only treated as a suggestion, but you change how the species look, so it becomes... not the creature that won in the first place. That also happened with the Fasola, but at least the Fasola didn't look ridiculous. You even change the creature's name now ! What exactly are we voting for at the end of the day ? Some clarification is needed before the next one.

It's a community-submitted, community-voted creature... if THAT is not a form of fanservice, then the word has lost all meaning. To be clear, people are responding to the visuals of the creature. As far as I know we haven't heard what precise set of abilities will be retained. So the wonky wing and/or the Terror Bird look are the issue most people have been bringing up with the design ; not gameplay mechanics, balance or anything like that My personal theory is that we haven't seen the dossier yet because they might be working on redesigning it a bit after getting feedback. At least they will if they haven't completely lost their minds. I vaguely remember that it has happened before, someone refresh my memory, what creature was it for ? That's a big question of mine since the submission stage. It's supposed to eviscerate creatures... but [at least in ASE] we barely have blood, and zero viscera in this game. Not sure how that is supposed to materialize. Speaking of submissions, those for The Center have been closed and archived, but I don't see a link on Twitter yet for the ranking. Anyone knows if it's been posted elsewhere ?

We did it everyone ! We reached 100 upvotes ! It might not get us into the Final 10 but it means a lot to me Thank you for supporting the Aquilarhinus !

Thank you Hopefully once you're able, you'll come back to vote for it. We're so close to a symbolic 100 upvotes !

If you like the Aquila's electricity saddle, stay tuned for my Extinction submission ! (assuming it's the next one we vote for) I agree, more herbivores would be cool.

It's certainly something to think about I didn't know about it being Walking with Dinosaurs, but that's a good point. I've tried to stay away from creatures who appeared on a big franchise like Jurassic Park/World, but documentaries are obviously a different matter.

Thanks ! I'm baffled myself ! Only a few hours until the votes end, I'm hoping against all hope... XD Is Muttaburrasaurus more recognizable than Aquilarhinus ? If we want to be technical, the Mutta isn't a Hadrosaur. I hadn't planned on submitting it again (I already have creatures in mind for further maps), but then again I hadn't planned on seeing it succeed that well XD We'll see. The next vote is far away

I liked the Owl too Who knows, maybe we'll have another Carchar situation. I wouldn't count on it, but it can happen in theory.

No I think it's just them repeating what they've said before, which is that every map is getting a new unique real-world creature. They say "we" because we come up with the ideas and vote for them, but at the end of the day they're the ones creating it. If they were to announce DOUBLE the amount of creatures, they'd make a much bigger fuss about it. Although of course, that doesn't mean they can't add more creatures than the ones we vote on. But they probably would keep that as a surprise. Then again what don't they keep as a surprise, even the Steam page is gonna be a last minute reveal.