Vaculity

3 hours ago, EasyOfflineSurvivalDude said:

Was the crunch lackluster? 

     Sure. 

Do I think that is a problem? 

     Not really. 

Would I prefer actual news like the realese date of ASA for Playstation? 

     Absolutely. 

Am I able to wait for news, the Dreadnaughtus dossier and so much more? 

     Unlike most of the whining, snot-nosed brats in this comments who can't act civilized because they don't get what they want... Yes I can. 

The whole Team at wildcard is working tirelessly (for months) on these games, software, coding, artwork and much more. 

I am so unbelievable fed up with the demanding and general negativity in the comments and community, it's not even funny anymore. 

Hate me all you want, I don't care. 

They have many problems simultaneously to tackle, so the crunches for the next week's could be a bit simpler. 

DEAL WITH IT. 

The problem with Wildcard is that they have dealt with too much issues. Financial, gameplay etc. 

They broke too many promises to the point the community will just up their pitchforks. I am not even going to point every single fault they did there, because there's way too many.

Its true that some of us are just whiny lil dodos or snot-nosed brat that can't behave civilized, but that doesn't mean we are always in the wrong here. Its because of too many broken promises and too many issues plagued with ASA development that caused people to start hating them.

It doesn't matter if they did a lot of thing, if they choose to break the promise and made themselves the laughing stock, no amount of hard work will make them climb out of the hole they dug too deep in.

People can wait, but if the devs continues to only post little crunch every single week, people are going to get fed up with what they are doing. They might as well only post crunch when its necessary with some juicy info, not just post one just to fill it with nonsensical details. People don't want to waste their few minutes time to look at crunch only to be nothing but little details every time.

3 hours ago, ShebbNaub said:

I think the community needs to be a little more positive to wildcard. 
making a game is hard. I get there are issues with the game but they are working hard to fix them.

give them a break 

We would give them a little more positiveness.

If they at least give it back. Because clearly from the last few crunches and too many complaints, its clear as day that is not possible.

You shouldn't get banned with using Macros at any server with Battleye (it doesn't flag as a cheater software). But whether its fully permitted or not at an unofficial server is up to the server owner's discretion.

6 hours ago, genie45 said:

that image tells me you did not click on the spawn map for island but rather assumed that the player spawn map on the island page

the creature spawn map can be found here: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Spawn_Map/The_Island as pointerd out by joe pointed out above

 

also you were already told on this post

what exactly wiki.gg is accessing and its far less then any other wiki platform out there

feel free to continue using fandom and get your data and much more sold to everyone out there

 

you can see that fandom uses your info to serve you ads by google and other providers just by checking the ads displayed there

 

wiki gg only display generic ads for their own publisher (named freedom games)  and sometimes for games that have wikis on them (terraria had a ad campaign about their shop one time) but those ads are served for everyone logged out and not tailored to you like on other platforms 

Given the fact be brought this irritating topic means he is choosing to ignore most of the people here on the last thread.

Goes to show how much wood he gives a care about people proving him wrong.

Depressing.

21 hours ago, ladymarina said:

Once again I'll let down and failure. So now it's going to be delayed until October. Still no news of what they're going to do about the official server situation. We need to know what's going to happen before it happens. How they're going to incorporate this with any of the third party servers for console players.

They are likely going to stick to its current sunsetting month: August. No mentions of any changes to this.

Thats how stupid they are at management.

I really love how people are demanding or asking for things for posts like this ever since the first.

16 hours ago, youtubesteak said:

Can we get a confirmation on this? Or if not, is it planned or do we need to plan to get these engrams only on Island/SE/Ab?

No idea

I honestly felt like some of the point of this post is just pure contradictory.

You said "our first instinct is to try and take action with the intention of preserving the integrity of our official server network", YET some of your staff here doesn't even know how to moderate the report properly. Some very good example are restoring of lost dino and reimbursing most, if not all, data of old character to new ones because of rollbacks, because of the issues YOU GUYS didn't bother to fix or just fixed temporarily and slapped it as completely fixed. Half of your staff will fix the player's issue, the other half? They don't even know how to do their job and give "internal policy" as a sorry excuse not to even do anything, and instead just close the ticket when they still wanted it fixed.

Same goes for reporting, especially in PvP servers. It felt either corrupted, or just half-stupid. "First instinct"? Then why "Upon further review of the situation involving H.O.D Gaming, we felt that it was not deserving of a permanent ban"? Why not investigate WHICH INCOMPETENT STAFF permanently banned him in the first place before you start reviewing this ban of his and either get him fired or something? It just shows how poorly moderated Official Servers are. And don't get me started on the fact that some GMs will listen to other players like dogs to master, and devwipe tribes that didn't even deserve it, or had done nothing wrong to deserve such a treatment.

And look at the amount of report that has been piling up in your reports of both bug and explot. 10 frigging k has not been resolved. How the heck is that letting people enjoying their experience when your staff can't even properly keep up with the reporting issue?

Maybe you guys really should relook at how your moderating GM are doing properly with both the game servers and any reports YOU GUYS never fixed, or just half-fixed before you try to raise your head high.

3 minutes ago, SaltyMonkey said:

I failed to see where the features being made available for testing were stated to be the end of S+ integration. Surely the pillars have a strong possibility of getting tested if the walls get the go ahead, don’t you think?

Well, I did say probably not and some. We don't even know if they will consider adding pillar for being tested.

5 hours ago, Arkaholic said:

Is this beta branch also for reporting major bugs as well?

...Its called beta branch for a reason, so clearly no, unless the major bug it is related to the beta items like S+ integration or new kibbles.

15 minutes ago, SkaerKrowe said:

So this is just taking the S+ building mod and putting it into the real game, right? Will that include the S+ pillars as well?

Probably not. They are only including some features in it.

Debating if I should test the beta branch.

7 hours ago, BlueberryJackal said:

1. Is S+ going to be available for consoles? 

2. The kibble rework is not a bad idea, but now some creatures are going to be completely useless, like the Dilo. Before the update you needed it, because it took too much time when feeding Ankys or Doedics with berries. Now the Dilo is useless, unless it gets a TLC patch, so it is more attractive for players.

1. S+ implementation will come to console, most of them anyways.

2. Their eggs are still usable.

9 hours ago, PreshusRoze said:

@Jen Looking forward to this little bit of S+ being implemented in the Official version of the game!

It's good that the team is (obviously) working on alternatives to the Extinction specific ingredients for the augmented kibble.
I'll admit, I'm a bit bummed that the Extinction specific ingredients were just removed in their entirety instead of an alternative ingredient being chosen/used (like several of the current taming kibbles use cooked-meat/prime-meat or cooked-meat/prime-meat jerky.

Fungal Wood = Wood
Corrupted Nodules = Organic/Hard Poly
Blue Crystallized Sap = Blue Gems -OR- Azulberries & Sap
Red Crystallized Sap = Red Gems -OR- Tintoberries & Sap
Element Dust - no ideas on substitutes

I am thankful about the removal of the Prime Fish though as it's a pain to get on a couple of maps.
Thanks for the update! Hope to see BETA work through the quirks and kinks in an efficient and timely manner so Official can enjoy these improvements/advancements.

The problem is that if they have kept the specific ingredients are kept inside, people would complain about how it is hidden behind a paywall if it does get released.

2 hours ago, Zahlea said:

Really? In what way? I was actually really hoping for this...

The main point is the blood sweat tears of finding a high level wild either for taming or killing. If they had the intention of making it incredibly easy they would've added this, but they didn't.

Plus, some random people will come and jack away the wild from you.

Something just came to my mind. Will we still have access to official server if we have that beta installed?

11 hours ago, Jipsei said:

will there be changes to the stacking in consle?or atlist the option to change it?

Not stated.

10 hours ago, Zahlea said:

This brings another thought - maybe an engram rework in the future? With there being so many different building part variations, especially now with the triangular parts being added (don't get me wrong, that's great!), a lot of engram points go into speccing buildings.

What about grouping together certain items into one engram? A simple example would be an engram sloped wood wall which, when learned, would allow the player to craft both left and right sloped wood walls.

Of course, there could be other granularities, where for instance an engram wooden wall could teach the player how to craft all wooden walls: wooden wall, sloped wood wall left, sloped wood wall right.

Given how they work, i doubt this will be taken into consderaton, hence the tribe or bp reason.

8 hours ago, InfernoRodan said:

One thing I'm curious about is if creatures that currently don't have a kibble (or kibble equivalent) for taming them, like scorpions and Parasaurs, will finally get one with this kibble rework.  It'd be real nice to finally get legitimate perfect tames on them.

Doubt it. If they have no kibble, it probably will stay that way.

7 hours ago, Mustangmilkyway1342 said:

When will S+ be available for the console versions for Ark?

Aak the mod maker. Oh wait, he has no plans for it.

7 hours ago, TylerRundle said:

they should add tek translator were you can see all the Dino levels and locations 

Too broken in vanilla gameplay.

7 hours ago, Dhowell117 said:

Eventually  would we get the S+ Mutator and the Hatchery in a future update?  

Nope.

7 hours ago, DJNick2006NUK3 said:

If you guys look closer they said extensions that means TLCs and yes MORE DLCS! Yeah I knew that extinction wasn’t the last and I’m guessing a map just a huge ark filled with water and a few islands and be able to plant trees. Now that’s what I think they might do or add SotF to consoles and there giving s+ to pc for them to test then other platforms will be able to try out and test. Just remember this is what I think will happen.

Now where did you spring that assumption that thry will add more dlc? Tlc is in question but dlc? How.

6 hours ago, Tronguyjones said:

FOR ABERRATION:

I noticed that not a single aberration dino will drop "extra large eggs". Please don't release this and leave the ab players 2 weeks behind. 

Creatures that should drop extra large

Spino, basilisk, rock drake, and maybe megalo?

We will only know if thet add that kibble set to those eggs when the beta goes live.

3 hours ago, M4gician said:

It would be great if we could do Boss Fights from Transmitter. When it came out it was possible but removed.

I just hate the overloaded Obelisks. Yesterday I saw a Bronto directly on the Platform. Doing Bossfights that way is very hard. 

Also waiting till a beacon comes down isnt very practically.

 

Unfoetunately i doubt they will change it back, long as there are immoral player there sending other peoples dino to oblivion with it even under offline protection.

1 hour ago, Aylana314159 said:

I did read Orionsun's post. Which is exactly why I said WC should allow his mod(s) to go open source or at least be handed off to a responsible mod author(s) to be maintained. But those are WC's decisions not Orionsun's and we have no information.

 

With abandoned mods, it always possible a game update will break some part of the mod.

And its going to be something he will deliver by their final decision, so we won't know until then.

2 hours ago, Zahlea said:

Something I just noticed... The image shows railings on the ramps, but that is not mentioned in the change list. I wonder if the railings are coming as well?

I actually hope not, because if one looks closely, they see that the railings are not new models but only the original model rotated:

 

This looks a bit weird, not to mention it doesn't meld very well with the railings on the ceilings. If I compare it to how S+ does it (see image below), where the railings have new models that meld well (or, at least, better) with railings on ceilings, I do hope they get an extra iteration

It was done with fence support, which judging by the looks of it, is a hastily patched up version of dynamic adjustment of railings model, since it just rotates and not adjust.

2 hours ago, arkark said:

Please be very careful with new kibble implementation. As it appears to be this is gonna be game breaking, I mean, it is extremely dependant of extinction DLC.

Most of the new kibbles requires resources that are only obtainable there, element dust, red and blue sap, corrupted nodules, fungal wood (ye this one also obtainable on extinction)...

This means tribes will be forced to buy the DLC just only to get the resources.

One possible solution would be just not to disable the possibility of crafting and using the old kibbles, or even making old kibble recipes craft the new kibbles.

Another solution is just a rework of the new kibbles recipes, removing the DLC dependant items.

Thet never mentioned anthing about the reworked kibbles retaining the recipe from extinction. We can only wait until the public beta comes out this week to kmow of they are lazy or not.

1 hour ago, Weiss said:

I'm pretty sure WC will keep in mind that the new kibbles will need to be made of resources that are available on every map. They never said that the extinction kibble will replace the old ones 1-1. For some reason most people expect that to happen though? That would make no sense at all (I know, it's WC, but still...)

I really hope they'll get the translation right this time. Some kibble have the same translation which really sucks - you never know if you grab the right one, and you have to guess which one your baby wants. (you want superior kibble? There are two stacks, named the same, made from different mats, used to tame different dinos... *sigh*).

 

The structures I want the most are stone ramps. I don't know the mod, but I'm looking forward to what has been announced. I can already see myself tearing down half the base just to rebuild, it's going to be fun. And I'll need less room for kibble dinos

They mentioned nothing about thr recipe point, so given their reputation, most people would assume the worst for that. The stone stairs/ramp woudl make a great addition. Its a shame it wasnt added before.

46 minutes ago, Aylana314159 said:

With no mod updates it's still possible a game update will break the mod. S+ is one of the reasons Ark was so successful.

 

WC could allow s+ and plat+ and platforms anywhere to go open source or at least be handed off to a few mod authors to maintain.

If you had read the post (which apparently you didnt judging by this post, no offence), you would be aware he plans to give the source code to an interested party to continue on. The problem is whethrr if wc will permit it or not.

I really love how many people who are against the reworked kibble system are appearing with this crunch. Its sickening, really. I really do hope they change the last (and for Exceptional case, Fungal wood) material for kibble though when the public beta hits, because it would make it near impossible for anyone without extinction DLC to craft it.

I wished the cryopod were craftable at City Terminal, because having it only in Replicator and as OSD drops isn't really a great idea as it would not encourage more use of it.

2 hours ago, b0ender said:

I love kibble rework because it will save us some slots in tribe, and at the same time I don't like it because so many dinos will be pointless to tame now. Basically this will reduce what we need to do in game. Normally I like new tasks, new content, this will do completely opposite. This is replacing taming different dinos with boring farming of red sap, mejos and other ingredients, taming low things isn't too fun either but it is little bit more fun then farming.

Cryos were all we really needed to deal with kibble farms.

 

I like structure+, but I don't expect it soon. Not everything thats listed here. Knowing WC, half of listed things will get postponed up to a year from now.

I get what you mean, but heres a quick question: Do we really need to tame majority of these dinos/creatures? Unless you are the hoarding type, having them around is simply more than enough.

I highly doubt WC would postpone that far though. Sure, they will postpone the full release, but given the fact I have never seen them set a *public beta* for anything related to features afaik (correct me if I am wrong), it can't be helped for this case.

Also, tribe's moral code are worse than the bugs, because something tells me Cryos and kibble reworks won't be enough to stop them from hoarding dinos just for eggs.

4 hours ago, Aylana314159 said:

I imagine of s+ gets pulled from the workshop the game population will plummet. Or if/when WC releases an update that breaks the mod version of s+, same thing.

 

The utility guns are awesome.

The automated systems are awesome (they require fuels).

The pull system is awesome.

The better tek is awesome.

Hitching post is awesome.

All of this on top of the building improvements and ini customization, is simply amazing.

Then again, its the mod maker's decision if he wants it pulled.

EDIT: The mod maker won't be removing the mod, he won't be updating it anymore after he released S+ update for Extinction.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/731604991/1741103267268036422/

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

once again the test will be done on PC. As if they really needed to test it. The consoles are still put back and we would have had a better judgment and finally a pleasure to test this but we still have to wait. I'm not here to spit on PC players but I find this PC test completely useless and devaluing for us console players. The MOD S+ is existing and we ask them to test it? 

Just because it exist doesnt mean its 100% stable when parts of it arr being cannibilized and implemented as base game. Would you rather suffer thr bugs it might contain inside like all the other bugs that has not been fixed? PC in a sense are mostly the guinea pigs so consoles can get less issue.

58 minutes ago, Oli4 said:

@Jen Will we have to do bosses again to unlock the tek variants of the S+ structures?

Most probably not, but need to wait until.the public beta goes live first.

3 hours ago, AcexHellhound21 said:

Also there is a tribe (idk the name) Hogging all the Christmas gifts that Raptor Claus drops on Xbox official Extinction1030 is there any chance you can make a giftbox detects that the same tribe is the only one taking all the stuff and makes it lock them out for 24 Hours? that would remove Gift hogging and make it more fair to other players also add a Titan Taming Cool Down as well since players are also hogging Titans preventing players from getting the stuff they need for king titan (Ascension).

gift drop are like beacon.  Be the first to snatch them... Unless that server is pvp .

The 30 second limit was there to make sure people don't just pick up and place down like Fortnite PvP. Though I do agree that 30 second is just too short.

As for the kibble rework. I really hope the final phase don't require prime fish. Because exceptional kibble is already annoying enough to make with finding that particular ingredient that rots rather fast, even with preserving salt. And like someone said, you don't find fish that leave behind prime fish meant in scorched earth even with ichy buff.

Also, this won't stop some of the tribe from capping the server. One of the se was capped with 2 to 3 tribes filling their tame limit with nothing but rex and wyverns, a total of 1.5k cap used. And it's refreshed every 2 to 7 day. And I doubt it's gonna be dealt with.

1 minute ago, Blazen73 said:

Never said they did, just said they took away the excitement of finally getting to check out the new DLC on our home cluster.

It would be absurd if they did. They probably won't, but if they did, they have a lot to answer for.

21 minutes ago, Kitsei said:

So the release for the PC happen or is it delayed?

It will happen today. They just ran into some snags.

13 minutes ago, Blazen73 said:

@Jen Please, please reconsider not giving notaming an extinction server. This was a challenge that I was really looking forward to only to have it taken away from me and everybody else that plays notame. If it's because it's tek oriented, give notame players the option to use tek and remove the notek part from notek-notaming. This is how it was in the experimental build and is how it should be now to keep end game notame players like us something to progress on after reaching endgame. I was really looking forward to extinction and after seeing the trailer for the map I'm only looking forward to it more. Please reconsider this decision, even if it means only giving us one single map on the cluster since notame only has 1 for each region in the cluster.

They didn't state they are gonna add no-tek server? Or am I missing something.

I really love the amount of console players raging about WC "being unfair" to them for delaying the release. If they truly ignore console players, they won't even bother releasing Extinction at all, not to say just delaying it. 

13 minutes ago, JakejakeT600 said:

Over 300 comments raging over how unfair this release was to console users, and still ignores it. We give too much over to people like you, EA is starting look like more justly than you

And you are telling me that they releases "pay to win" loot chest? Care to explain? Because the way you said it sounds like they only make loot chest paid, the way to win.
 

53 minutes ago, teknology said:

I hope there is a setting on all platform that make the Titans perm tames On single player, private session with mates or just unoiffcalvserver 

fingers crossed 

They are already permanent tames on single player (just one per)

3 hours ago, Jtmorris said:

Ooh console snubbed again. No acknowledgement at all. 

Exactly what is "No acknowledgement" to you, Mr. Rager?

3 hours ago, TemperanceXIV said:

“ARK: Survival Evolved will be free to play for a week, starting November 6th through November 11th! On-board your friends and family who have not experienced to give them a taste of The Island, Ragnarok, or The Center yet for no cost during those few days. And consider buying it if you enjoyed your time on the ARK to keep on surviving!”

 

Good luck with that on console lol

They said nothing about the paid DLC being free for a week, I don't get your point on this. Care to elaborate? 

5 hours ago, jamesbaker1993 said:

Will there be any "fresh start" servers available at launch? Mainly looking for servers that prohibit transfers on release. I very much enjoyed the fresh start Rag servers that went up earlier this year on official; the PvP on a level playing field feels so much better. For players that don't have max-level, ascended characters to transfer in, what options do we have? I considered small tribe, but with transfers it seems so toxic. Was invited to a pre-Extinction boosting party (level 1 to 100 via Grinders) on small tribe official (basically so I could have a character to transfer), but then where is the fun (Plus I feel like that's kind of scummy and in violation of something somewhere)? 

All DLC server will be considered as almost "fresh start" for a few months. If you meant no character transfer as well, you will be totally disappointed.

4 hours ago, Indoraptorgod2 said:

The megramar will it be rideable and don't make it tamalbe can we get eggs

We don't know, and we will only find out AFTER its released.

3 hours ago, robbydeath said:

It's going to be really lame if you bring extinction to consoles and don't have any sort of new servers. Can you please release conquest soon or at least mention whether you will or not or at least consider bringing some sort of new server to consoles with extinction? All the servers seem full or controlled by large groups that will go wipe anyone they find there. There are large groups of people I know about waiting for conquest with extinction on ps4 to return to the game.

Thanks for your consideration and reply

You do realize that they can't do that if consoles aren't going to get DLC until after at least a week, right? There isn't any point for them setting up servers for something no one on console can get right now.

2 hours ago, SaraVieira said:

 

Hi. On new map "extinction" we can transfer matts and Dino's to that map?

Im asking because on abb at first we can't transfer anything.

 

Much like abb at first, you can't transfer item and possibly dino... but for this DLC case, idk if all dinos are barred since majority of them from both Island, Aberration and SE will appear (and I hope it is.)