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On 3/29/2024 at 5:11 PM, BlackVenom3000 said:

I normally don't comment but I wanted to say how happy I am about it not being delayed. I would always rather wait longer than have it be delayed or unfinished.

Good job the Wildcard team!

(People seem to think a day is a delay)

It was supposed to be released months ago. It was delayed.

I agree. Official servers are completely unplayable.

Wildcard used to publish a roadmap way way back. I doubt you'll see one again.

As for the issues, i remember being told that they completely rewrote the netcode backend among other things for ASA but it seems they simply ported the broken game over to a new engine since so many of the same issues persist.

It's not a bug, its a feature. /studio wildcard

On 12/21/2023 at 10:11 PM, CervantesMor said:

Showcase structure? Would it be the Chibi display stand? I don't think it's the base for Taxidermy or the pedestal for Artifacts.

 

Ok, later the first test will be to try to place the Cryofridge on the Paracer, immediately after I will try the exposure mode, finally I will go to tame 300 Dodos which will guarantee me space for breeding/taming when the Server  reaches the Server limit in a couple of days...

Taming 300 dodos will get you wiped by a GM. There are rules in this game. It's best to avoid doing things that not only break the rules, but could potentially get you in trouble due to misunderstanding. And yes, i know this from experience.

File a ticket. Wildcard used to wipe people who blocked obelisks, pillared/foundation spammed obscene amounts of land, blocked major waterways like the central river on Island, etc. Here is the list of rules:

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PvE Specific Griefing

> Game Blocking - you are not allowed to block other tribes from playing the game on PvE servers. This can include but is not limited to:

• Building at their base

• Blocking in other tribes dinos

• Blocking access in/out of a tribes base

• Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, Extinction City Terminals, Orbital supply crates on Extinction, Teleporters, Dispatchers, or Mission Terminals and etc)

• Intentionally filling the server tame limit via spamming tames (such as Dodo, Jerboa, or easy to ‘tame and maintain’ dinos) and/or rafts

• Leaving tames inside of artifact caves or on obelisk teleportation platforms

• Leaving tames in mission areas or blocking mission areas with tames

> Structure Spamming - placing structures down such as pipes or wires for the purpose of disrupting others gameplay is against our code of conduct.

> Intentionally using wild creatures to destroy a player's base.

GM intervention may be necessary if your structure or creature is negatively impacting a server (ie. you block off a large portion of the map so that other members of that server cannot access it).

It usually helps if you post your system specs. I haven't had a crash since the first week ASA was launched.

What's up with the satanic Santa? It has no place in your game.

32 minutes ago, deinonicuz said:

I got banned for no reason and I can't get my id. I'm trying whoami. And I canT fiGure it out

I'm so mad u guys robbed me for 40 my ps5 tag is alahlalalala how do I get my id. I've tried 

Whoami who am I and everything there is

In that post you made earlier, you said you were game sharing with a friend. Seems like a big no-no to me.

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ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all of ARK’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The Island is released now, with the subsequent expansion worlds to be added at no additional cost on a regular basis.

 

So wait, how can you say that purchasing ASA includes access to ALL of Ark's worlds at no additional cost, yet you're adding additional paid DLC to those worlds? Isn't that the definition of additional cost?

5 hours ago, Arkolucious said:

The water looks on PC aswell glitchy and has blocky artifacts - but only in native resolution (which does not exists because the game always enforces 80% resolutionscaling).

With Nvidia DLSS turned on, the artifacts dissapear - even in the lowest setting ultraperformance. So i wonder if we are getting any support for AMDs Fluid Motion Frames for Ark Ascended anytime soon. Would be huge buff for the imagequality and performance. Oh - and VSYNC - VSYNC please. Very important, i dont want to tear through the entire island while playing.

 

You can enable vsync and Gsync via your nvidia graphics drivers. I run gsync and it works great.

On 11/30/2023 at 7:09 PM, polarmole said:

Please tell me you will be Adding a performance mode or something for ps5. It looks great but 30fps makes things hard to play after ages on everything being minimum 60. Bit concerned about it if I get surrounded by Wyverns in the Future.. or Bugs in a Cave..

 

Also drops to 20 if you're in a forest with a torch. 

A graphics card that can run at that level of detail at 60fps costs more than your PS5. That can be translated as, your console is nowhere near powerful enough to run that level of detail at 60fps.

2 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

Unfortunately that isn't true. WC & Snail only care about one thing, $$$. The only way to make them listen is to refuse to buy the game, vote with your dollars by playing a game from another company. This is the only thing that will may WC/Snail pay attention. If you give them your money for ASA there is no reason for them to care how many people "say something", talk is cheap.

They literally blew all the money they were going to use to develop Ark 2 on an electric car company which just went bankrupt, so instead of Unreal Engine 5 being a free upgrade, they decided to nail everyone for $40 instead even though we've bought the original game and every DLC since.

5 hours ago, DeweyDogTV said:

maybe if enough people say something, they hopefully will do something. Low chances but what other chance. At this point, if you want to play a private server with multiple maps with friends, it might be better to spend 1000$ on computer to run the servers by yourself for you and your friends, and then you would have all the maps and stuff and it wouldnt be monthly. Since we are allowed to host our own servers, this could be the best way. If you used nitrado, paying 30$ a month for all the maps, you would be paying over 360$ a month. In 3 months, the 1000$ computer would have already been payed off and you would be saving money after that point. I went a little of topic here but i feel like nitrado is not the best way to host a server now and i know lots of people agree 

That's the thing, you CANNOT run your own server cluster with these rules for ASA.

Not getting a dime from me until this is changed.

3 hours ago, wildbill said:

Yes. Would be nice if there was an actual forum where we could ask questions and get helpful advice and not just see posts by a bunch of haters. Got to wonder if they hate themselves and blame the whole world for their problems. There really is no excuse for hating a game that is in Early Access. It is clearly labeled that it is not finished and will have bugs and if you don't like games like that, well just don't play them until you see that they are in better condition.

I suspect the ARK discord is a bit friendlier than this forum or the steam forums. I'd ask my questions there, but it is way too busy at the moment.

I was just wanting to know where is the mini map. Never got an answer to that, but instead got triggered reading some really hateful posts.

Then maybe they shouldn't be charging $40 for us to beta test for them. They had originally announced this was going to be a free upgrade as seen here where they backtracked:

3 hours ago, DeweyDogTV said:

There are many things that are not working as planned or hoped for with ASA but the game is still early access on steam so the people that are getting it should be ready for this because its new and still in early release. Early release players should be ready for bugs and problems and be there to to report them and help the game not expect it to be perfect and review it poorly. Just wait for 2024 when it comes out fully and then review it based on how it plays. There are a few things that they seem like they wont fix one of those things being server hosting being only by nitrado, but other than that we should just wait until it fully releases. 

Early access is simply weasel words for "The game isn't ready yet, so don't complain about the bugs even though we sold it to you for $40".

If the Unreal Engine 5 upgrade was Free to season pass holders like it was originally intended, or if the price for those people was reduced to say... $20, then perhaps i'd agree with you. But the fact is promises were made but not kept, and it's annoying as heck to pay $40 to be someone's beta tester.

On 6/3/2020 at 6:10 PM, norkalli said:

I stand in solidarity with black people. Ark players are primarily white and it's about time we experience some dissapointments, setbacks and letdowns so we can feel the pain experienced by African Americans. I support the event/new map being postponed until racial disparity is 100% solved in the US and abroad. Black Lives Matter

Racial disparity? You mean like how for every black person murdered by whites, there are 8 whites murdered by blacks? Or how you are twice as likely to be shot by police while unarmed if you're white than if you're black? Last year 10 unarmed blacks were killed by police in the US, 20 unarmed whites. And most of those unarmed killings were completely justified because they involved the suspect attempting to disarm the officer to kill them. In one of the incidents three cops were shot, with one of them dying in the hospital afterward. But still it has been called "unarmed killed by police".  What happened to George Floyd was despicable and was straight up murder. Those involved have been arrested, jailed, and will face justice. The nation was all in agreement with this, but of course groups seeing an opportunity couldn't help themselves and have tried to start a race war. The democrats set loose Antifa who destroyed black businesses and neighborhoods while inciting violence in those communities. Not one single democrat has come forth and denounced their actions. Their silence is clearly acceptance of these acts.     

We have equality in the United States. Equality of opportunity. Everyone has the ability to achieve greatness and wealth. Just look at Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, countless actors and sports figures. All black and most came from poor backgrounds and made it to the top. Morgan Freeman was asked if Race has anything to do with income inequality and look at his response... What this country does not guarantee is equality of OUTCOME. And it shouldn't. If you want to make it big, you gotta work for it. It shouldn't be handed to you and it is deeply anti-American to punish people who did nothing wrong except being born white to give others an advantage.

Taking cities hostage and making demands like whats going on in Seattle today is not going to change anything. Have you even seen their list of demands?  This isn't a group wanting equality. They're even demanding white people sign over their property to blacks. Last time something like that happened it was the Nazis forcing the Jews to sign over their property. It's insanity.    

2 hours ago, HighFlyer15 said:

Calling it now. This will be way too good for PvP combat and PvE players will suffer for it. It'll be nerfed into the ground, becoming another quite useless creature in the large catalog of creatures nobody bother using.

Kinda like the quetzal? Griffin? Reaper?

With how badly they ruined Griffins, they should have least made the damn things breedable. Their excuse at the time was they didn't want "fantasy" creatures to be bred. Well.... lol. The magmasaur, mana, bloodsucker, ferox, and like a dozen more creatures kinda throw a wrench in that

9 minutes ago, marvelfan710 said:

even if the dino gets nerfed to the ground, it will be able to grind stuff, so you don't have to make an expensive grinder. ??

But can it grind up all the crap we won doing missions on genesis  since wildcard decided it cant be ground up in the Inbd Grinder.  There are already caps on mats obtained using the grinder, this latest 'not grindable' crap is stupid

3 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

Dear WildCard employee who made the X-Dinos and now the Tropeo : you're good. You're real good. Ask for a raise.

A wildcard employee didn't make the Tropeo. That was made by those modders who made Crystal Isles.

4 hours ago, Duckhunter1030 said:

So you are going to ruin genesis with gigas and op rexs coming in. This game was a challenge but now it will simply be easy and pointless. Don’t be surprised when players stop playing this game altogether. So much for something new. 

Enabling transfers did not ruin SE, aberration, ragnarok, extinction, or valguero. Nobody is forcing you to use them, you can play with your crappy dinos all you want.

5 hours ago, Grandta said:

Will we ever see the day when upload timers are removed?

 

 

Agreed. Upload timers were added as a solution for duping, and all it did was make dupers more patient. It never actually solved anything. Getting rid of the timers is the right thing to do.

Re: Server Crashes since 310.29 possibly caused by throwing out cryopod.

Our Genesis server 594 has crashed about 8 times now since the update and the past two times it crashed at the exact moment i tossed out a cryopod. Maybe this info can help if wildcard actually reads their own forums (which history shows they don't). *sigh*.

It's crashing when you throw out a cryopod. Last two were exactly on the moment when i tossed out my anky.

Since the update PVE GEnesis 594 has crashed 4 or 5 times. Box tribes on my server are rapidly uploading as fast as they can.