Genesis stream showcase: Pressure plate, Tek alarm system, and Tek jump pad

All three of these items are customizable. The pressure plate can be linked to "other items, like traps etc", which I assume could be stuff like doors or automatic turrets. For example, if a player tries to infiltrate your base and steps on the plate, it will trigger the doors to close/lock and the turrets to target the infiltrator. The plate can also be adjusted so that it triggers when only certain things step on it. The tek alarm system, or that "sentry" from the 2nd mysterious mystery, is similar, but it doesn't need to be stepped on, it can just detect the infiltrator from a great distance. It also has a trigger radius that can be customized from the size to the shape. Finally, the tek jump pad is exactly what it sounds like. You can also change the angle on it from which you will bounce.

It's literally almost midnight for me I'll just do the rest of the reveals in the morning  :P

Genesis stream showcase: Tek Remote Guided Missile and Tek cruise launcher

These are pretty self-explanatory: shoot the missile from the launcher, get put into missile-vision, guide missile to target (creatures will be highlighted), kill/destroy target.

(Note: I'm not actually 100% sure if the missile launcher is the same item from mysterious transmission #5 pictured above, but they do look kind of similar)

Genesis stream showcase: Ocean platform

That "dock" structure from the 6th mysterious transmission. As it turns out, it's actually stationary, essentially a floating island. It has a large open space in the middle for either more foundations or a pen for sea creatures. The platform comes in two variants - the smaller wooden version or the bigger metal version.

(Note: top picture shows wooden version, bottom one shows metal version)

Genesis stream showcase: Magmasaur

The Magmasaur is another creature seen in the trailer. This creature is a bit more simple: It can eat literally anything, but stuff like oil, gas, and propellant will satiate it more. The Magmasaur can then take this food and if necessary turn it into fiery projectiles that it shoots out of it's back (at the cost of some food). The saddle for it doubles as a heat shield, protecting the rider from the extreme heat of the volcanic hellscape and enabling them to ride the Magmasaur through lava. Finally, when raw metal is put in the Magmasaur's inventory it gets converted into ingots.

There are, however, two cons to owning one: One, feeding the Magmasaur may take an extreme amount of resources. Two, the efficiency of the above features depends on the state of the Magmasaurs "internal forge". If the Magmasaur is near lava (overcharged forge), for example, it will smelt metal more efficiently and will receive a buff to it's stats, but will also inadvertently damage anything that comes too close to it, like other tames or the player (unless they are inside the saddle). If it's near water or rain (undercharged forge), on the other hand, it will become incredibly weak and will not be able to use any of it's features. In short, taming it will mean you'll have to manage it constantly.

56 minutes ago, Leebum said:

I also dont think Genesis is Pre-Extinction because the lead Dev said it doesnt follow the story "exactly" after Extinction. And if we are the original survivor, then where in the time between each ark ascension are we?

If we are indeed pre-extinction then we cant be our original survivor but rather HLNA's statement shows we are "selected" and does not prove we are the original survivor?

Not to mention the fact that the official description of Genesis states that it's "a whole new chapter in the saga of ARK". To me I think that means that the Island through Extinction was the first chapter, and now our character is continuing the story with a sequel storyline, or second chapter.

Genesis stream showcase: Ferox

Being what is probably going to be one of Genesis's most iconic creatures, the Ferox is that adorable four-armed creature from the trailer. According to the devs, it is by default a shoulder pet that will keep the player warm and also help them locate element. If it happens to consume element, however (and it CRAVES the stuff), it will essentially turn into a rideable battle tank for a short time, with a variety of different attacks. And the more it damages enemies, the more it builds towards an ultimate attack, which is when the Ferox does a ground slam that does loads of damage but will also dismount any player that isn't riding another Ferox within a certain radius.

There is also another con: The more element it consumes to go into battle tank mode, the more it fills up this "addiction meter". When the meter is full, the Ferox will go into a bloodlust mode, attacking anything and everything, including it's master and other tames. Fortunately, though, this will only last a short while, before the Ferox reverts back to it's tiny form and passes out, resetting the addiction meter as well.

On ‎10‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 7:40 PM, Leebum said:

Might I add a question: Wildcard founder said in the live stream that the survivor in the trailer has no implant scar and has no dirt on them? What could this infer?

(Throws the ball into the ring and shouts "FIGHT")

 

...Maybe it implies that we play as some test subject from a test tube, like on the ARKs, but designed for the Genesis simulation? I don't know.

Also, I've figured out that Mysterious Mysteries comes out every 6 to 8 days, though the latest three mysteries have come out every 7 days on the dot.

[LOG_TRANSMIT] Requesting status report.
[LOG_RECEIVE] Our explorations are expanding. Lots of terrain to cover.
[LOG_TRANSMIT] And it's not all solid ground.
 

[LOG_RECEIVE] Terminal Entry MM-07
[LOG_RECEIVE] Swamps, lava, mountains, craters --
[LOG_RECEIVE] Blazing a trail is hard work here.
[LOG_RECEIVE] The trick is to interact with the "trail" as little as possible.

FLYING VEHICLE CONFIRMED?!?!

On ‎10‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 9:17 AM, Lucraft said:

Wait what ??

[LOG_TRANSMIT] Requesting status report.
[LOG_RECEIVE] We've taken a turn toward the nautical.
[LOG_TRANSMIT] Not surprising -- it's a big ocean.
 

[LOG_RECEIVE] Terminal Entry MM-06
[LOG_RECEIVE] Ocean explorers are always scanning the horizon,
[LOG_RECEIVE] hoping to cry "land ho!" when they discover a new land.
[LOG_RECEIVE] And if you can't find a new land, you've got to make one yourself.

Sounds to me like the dock is a larger raft with more for space for building. The normal raft also allows building, but the dock seems like it's taken that and cranked it up to 11.

This is called a dock. From what I've gathered it's like a raft on steroids.

GUYS I JUST REALIZED!!! -

So I was looking back at those mysterious transmissions that Ê€2Š(¥ËÌY has been putting out, when I realized just how [LOG_RECEIVE] speaks throughout them. With Genesis chronicles just having been released, I now realize that there's only one character that would speak like that - HLN-A!!!

[LOG_RECEIVE] isn't just something to do with HLN-A or it's creation - [LOG_RECEIVE] IS HLN-A!!!

It all makes sense - those weird messages [LOG_RECEIVE] has been making were her observations of survivors and other things within the Genesis simulation. HLN-A is in the simulation, tagging along with survivors like us so she can make observations of us and the environment (the mysterious transmissions - this is they they exist in the first place!), observations which she then relays to [LOG_TRANSMIT] (Helena). This makes sense since Helena has said that the simulation is "out of her reach", so she would need to make HLN-A in order to get analyses of the simulation (we've seen in the trailer that HLN-A is capable of entering the simulation). After the findings are relayed, Helena has HLN-A record them in those terminal entries. What for, I'm not sure, maybe it has something to do with what HLN-A has displayed in the chronicles, that she's not entirely educated on survivors or just surviving in general? So she makes the terminal entries as a sort of reference? Or maybe it's part of Helena's endgame, which we're still not sure what it is? I don't know. I'm just glad I figured this out.

Based off the message that comes with the image and just the look of these objects themselves, I'm guessing this is some kind of new tek weapon or device.

23 hours ago, TinyHippo said:

So I was responding to a different thread when I realized I was typing way too much and that most of it wasn't necessary for the situation and didn't really belong in the thread but it started me down a train of thought which led to this.

As we all know Helena won't make a new training simulation.
It's really hard to say what Genesis will be until we know the timeline, so lets get that out first (I'm in different threads on different forums, hard to remember what was and wasn't said where.) All we know about it for sure for now is that it's not a simple "right after Extinction" continuation. I'll say that it's before Extinction because the chronicle notes aren't going to be appearing on Extinction, but only on the maps before Extinction. Then we need to know what the simulation is for. Genesis, of course, refers to the beginning of something. Then, what is the most likely thing that the old humans (and deus) would decide to simulate and call a Genesis Simulation? Reseed Protocol. Reseed Protocol could easily and logically be called a new beginning for Earth. The old people liked preparing so much they wouldn't let people off the Arks until the Arks said they were prepared, so why wouldn't they do the same with Reseed?
At least for now, I'm guessing that Genesis is a simulation of Reseed before it happens. Why are we going there? Reseed keeps failing for some reason. This causing the System to think that Reseed won't work. If the System thinks it won't work, it's not going to do it. We need Reseed Protocol to activate for the Arks to purge the element from the Earth, so Helena sends us in make The Genesis Simulation succeed with Reseed so it'll call Reseed a go when we kill the King Titan in Extinction later.

All that I can say with relative confidence.

The tricky question, then, is why does Reseed keep failing? It could be working with the Arks to determine what will be in the simulation, which makes sense because the simulation is about the Arks, in which case it would keep getting worse along with the Arks. That doesn't fully answer the question though. We know that the Arks moved the goalposts beyond the Arks own reach, and we beat up everything we found on the Arks, so what could Genesis think is there that we couldn't handle? I don't know.
Another possibility is that something on the Arks would cause Reseed Protocol to fail. I'm not sure that this is very likely since anything which could destroy the Arks so thoroughly that they wouldn't be able to purge the element would also destroy the Ark that they're on, likely causing themselves to die or Reseed to not activate on that specific Ark. There is, of course, one exception to this. If the simulation took Rockwell and Aberration into account, that would explain why Reseed keeps failing; there's a pretty big obstacle that hates the people who activated Reseed, and, along with his own goals, would likely want to make Reseed fail just to spite us. We also know that Rockwell will come back to haunt us because of the end of Extinction, but I don't think Rockwell is taken into account by the System because Helena thinks he's dead, and Helena knows whatever the System knows, so the System actually can't know about Rockwell.
The last possibility is that something went wrong with the Simulation. The simulation has not simply failed or been incorrect, we know the System is too accurate to simply be wrong. So the Genesis Simulation failing would have to be caused by an outside source. This source could either be normal Corruption, like what everything else on Earth has, or it could be data corruption spread by Rockwell working behind the scenes. Normal Corruption doesn't really seem to spread to electronics much. The only examples of it happening are the enraged rexes and trikes, but there are no examples of normal Corruption affecting bigger, more connected things, such as enforcers and scouts, terminals, obelisks, and most notably the barriers maintaining the sanctuaries. They've all been immune to Corruption so far. Of course, this really only leaves the possibility of Rockwell (there could be some other character doing this, but we don't know of anyone else who could and would so I'll just assume Rockwell) purposefully corrupting the Genesis Simulation, either for his own goals or to spite us, or both

Honestly I think there's just not enough information at the moment to conclusively know the premise of Genesis. If you recall at the end of Extinction, the last thing our character did was get their implant removed. Then, in the Genesis trailer, the first thing our character did was inspect their arm to find no implant. Then, at the very end of Extinction, you have the scene we know for a fact shows Aberration having crashed after the reseed protocol. If Genesis really does take place before Extinction (and the reseed protocol), then why even keep that scene in the game if it thereby has no relevance? I dunno, to me it just seems like Wildcard is trying to visually insinuate that Genesis takes place after Extinction. I could always be wrong, though. Again, some of this is just speculation. All we really know is that Helena is sending us to some (broken?) simulation with a robotic companion based somewhat off herself. And then that's it. We have a few vague descriptions of some of the creatures, and Helena appears to be communicating with something, but I don't think there's enough info yet to know anything about what the simulation is or was intended for, where and when Genesis takes place, exactly what Helena's endgame is (other than that she's trying to train us for something called "The arrival"), if the Aberration scene in Extinction has anything to do with it, or anything else. We can just guess for now.

That being said, I kind of like the idea of Rockwell having some antagonistic role in Genesis Part 1.

21 hours ago, TinyHippo said:

And I'm back to actually talk about the contents of the Chronicles.
The notes themselves are mostly lacking in story. They tell more about HLN-A as a character than about the story of Genesis.

First: HLN-A
At first I figured that the Mini HLN-A was really just a Mini Helena, as in, Helena copied herself into a little drone for you, but HLN-A seems to be an entirely new person, with no understanding of Helena or how survivors survive. Any part of Helena that was put into HLN-A is a very tiny one so HLN-A can be considered her own person I suppose.

Second: Genesis
Pretty obvious but it deserves a point here. Genesis is definitely a simulation like people were thinking, and of course, this brings me to my next, final, and most important point,

Third: Corrupted Avatar Skin
What do you need to be in a simulation? An avatar of course! An avatar is what you play as in any simulation or game. In Ark, your character is your avatar of course. If you were playing goat simulator, the goat is your avatar. You get the idea.
So of course, an avatar could be defined as a sort of fake body. It's you, but not really. You're just pretending to be it. A sort of you away from you.
Now, if there is a corrupted avatar, then there are three possibilities:
1) The simulation is creating a fake corrupted thing for you to fight
2) The simulation itself is corrupted
3) The person controlling the avatar is corrupted

I pretty much agree with all of this. Also, here's the notes themselves:

LAVA CAVE: "Take a look at this. Its a bit of flash that the other survivors must've missed. Good thing you've got ol' HLN-A following you around, right? There's a reason I'm following you around. My creator, Helena, used to be a survivor like you. If I observe you, maybe i can understand her better."


SOUTH CAVE: "It fascinates me how you survivors find your own solutions to problems. Stranded in a strange land with no tools? Just punch the trees! I never would have guessed that's effective. Can't wait to see what solutions you come up with in the Genesis simulation. Like... how do you build a fort on the open sea? Or in a volcanic hellscape? It's not all punching trees, mate."


SNOW CAVE: "This place is dangerous! If you don't starve, the dinos will get you -- or the environment, or who knows what else. Thirty percent of survivors don't live to see a second day, and fifty-five percent don't make it past the first week. It's a little odd that they're called "survivors" when they're not so good at it. You, though? I got a feeling about you. After all, they're putting you in the Genesis simulation for a reason, eh?"


THE OLD TUNNELS: "I don't understand how you survivors decide what to tame what to eat. Take a gander at the creatures we've seen lately. They aren't exactly cute! What makes you look at something that's all scales and fangs and say, "that one there, that'll be a right rippin' pet?" Or "I fancy that dino for brekkie this morning?" Tame 'em or eat 'em, that's your call, I reckon. Just don't let 'em eat you, eh?"


RUINS OF NOSTI: "This Ark has creatures that never were, if you catch my meaning. It's not all dinosaurs from prehistory. The minds behind this Ark dug into their mythology books, not just their "Dinos for Kiddos" books. Get used to it -- you'll see some things in the Genesis simulation that never were, too. I reckon it's yet another way to keep survivors on your toes."

Genesis chronicles just got released on all platforms  

Me: Kills Dodo with a spear, cooks it, and eats it.

Everyone else in the DNA cloning lab:

[LOG_TRANSMIT] Requesting status report.
[LOG_RECEIVE] Rumors everywhere. The bog has a boogeyman.
[LOG_TRANSMIT] Today's rumors are tomorrow's folk tales.

[LOG_RECEIVE] Terminal Entry MM-05
[LOG_RECEIVE] We find the lucky ones trapped in giant webs.
[LOG_RECEIVE] But we find the unlucky ones as corpses, drained of blood.
[LOG_RECEIVE] Unluckiest of all are the ones we never find.

Given the above text, I assume that this is some spider creature that spits webs and lives in bogs (hence they say "The bog has a boogeyman"). It seems that if you get trapped in it's web, it will attack you and slowly drain you of health. I wonder how we'll be able to combat that...if at all.

Also, is [LOG_RECEIVE] saying that there are more of itself? I mean, it's saying that someone or something is spreading rumors, and "everywhere", and also that "WE find the lucky ones in giant webs". Is it referring to itself and Helena, or, if it's a specimen-monitoring AI as necaradan666 suggested, more of itself, monitoring the specimens? Interesting.

According to this, Genesis chronicles should start sometime around the 11th. That's so far away...

*Nearly a week later with still no Genesis chronicles*

Me: *furiously pounds fists on desk* WHERE'S - MY - GENESIS - CHRONICLES!!!

17 hours ago, ArkTheorist123 said:

 

Never mind what I said earlier about it being an eggshell, I read the ARG and I'm now like 99.9% sure it's the fishing net they were talking about here: https://ark.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Net_(Genesis)

I thought we were going to get some more voice lines from HLN-A. Though given they say "Survivors with the cosmetic HLN-A will find some explorer notes provide a glimpse of what to expect in the forthcoming Genesis expansion", I guess there's still a possibility that if you collect these special explorer notes with HLN-A equipped, she may say something special. As for the new thing they just teased with that third transmission, it's late where I am so I don't have time to translate the text next to it right now, though someone else is more than welcome to do that. For now it looks to me like some sort of eggshell. Here is the ARG that comes with it: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/472542-supply-manifest-record-4c3328cc/&tab=comments#comment-2634834

Not sure if the gem in the above picture is important or not.

I'm just amazed it took them almost 2 months to make this.

20 hours ago, Truthgamer10055 said:

Where did the stuff from aberration come from like the reapers rock drakes and other creatures Because they are on extinction so they would have to have Been on earth before the ark were made 

1 did they get created by the system just for aberration(not possible)

2 did they mutate naturally on earth (seems unlikely)

3 did element mutate them on earth 

4 did humans make them on earth 

 

The Sunken Forest on Extinction was most likely a prototype version of Aberration before it sunk into the ground, similar to how the other two domes are prototypes of SE and the snow biome on the Island. Hence, the proto-Aberration might have housed the (man-made) reapers and rock drakes we end up seeing in the official Aberration, similar to how the desert dome houses the morellatops, a SE creature. So, when that proto-Aberration sunk into the ground, it must have taken down the shield surrounding it, allowing the reapers and rock drakes within to escape into the wastelands. This would explain the existence of the both the normal and corrupted reapers and rock drakes. The surviving vegetation from the proto-Aberration would later go on to blossom into the Sunken Forest we know today.