Current Events > Anyone play ARK: Survival Evolved?

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From the vids it looks amazing. Riding dinosaurs and harambes and shit
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Yeah it's great once you find a server that doesn't have assholes, unless you're a machocist (unofficial servers are good for this, they normally have anti-greif protection). This cartoon sums up the new player experience very well lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBFMzUKwGU
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Fun with friends. Tedious by yourself. Unplayable on a server with randoms

Wait. Id be getting it on PS4. Can you pick servers on it?

Also is there friendly fire or something? Is that why randoms suck?
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Got it 2 years ago in 2015 for $20.

I was the biggest solo tribe on 448. I owned a massive portion of land. Level 98 character (on official servers). I was breeding rexes, argents, wolves, sabercats, and several other dinos for stats and colors. I had many mutations. I didn't just have ascended blueprints, I had ascended blue prints that you could only get from mooooooooonths of checking under water drops and running cave runs all day on all the caves.

Don't get ark.

You have 7 day timers on your dinos. Up to 21 day timers on everything else if you upgrade to metal. Fact is, you'll be logging in every day for your timers. I did this for 2 years.

Know what it's like to breed baby dinos? Imagine setting your alarm clock for every 3 hours only AFTER you've been awake for over 24 hours getting eggs to hatch, then getting them out of baby stage and into juvanile. You then spend the next week setting your alarm clock to every 3 or 4 hours to feed your baby dinos.

When you lose these dinos and you WILL lose your dinos, you will be hurt. If someone trolls your base while you are offline, you will be hurt. You will put a LOT of time into this game. It will give you NOTHING in return.

You can seriously lose a lot, A LOT, playing this game. Not only will you never, EVER, touch your other games, you will find yourself a slave to your base.

DO NOT BUY ARK.
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yeah PS4 has dedicated servers I believe. I play on PC so not 100% on that but google says so.
randoms and servers without protection suck because the game persists even when you're logged out. your character is still physically in the world and vulnerable to raids and robbery. you'll spend a good few hours building a base, taming some dinos, stocking up on materials/loot and the next time you log on your base will be cleaned out, demolished, and your poor dinos will be slaughtered.

weekoldhotdog posted...

everything in this dudes post can be negated by a server with faster timers/increased xp. seriously, picking the right server for you and joining a tribe is paramount to enjoying the game. or you can just play solo and tweak all settings to your liking.
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Nope, not a single person
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I play it on ps4. Gotta get a group of friends for a tribe to really benefit from it. Otherwise even if you're in a massive tribe, people can fuck your stuff up. That said, it is rather fun even if you just end up playing solo local play and up the harvest rates and growth rates for your carry capacity stat.
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Those servers are player made servers and your progress can be lost at any time that player can't afford to pay for their server.

Unless you are ok with frequently resetting progress, I advise just steering clear of ark.

You'll fall in love with it and it will burn you.

Not to mention the devs have questionable practices.

I bought SE the day it came out.

Now there's a season pass a year later that requires me to repay for SE AGAIN by purchasing the season pass...or paying extra by buying future DLCs seperately. Again, if you play ark, you will not play anything else. Ark will become your game whether you like it or not. Once you invest too much time into ark, it becomes really hard to pull out.

THIS GAME PLAYS ON YOUR ADDICTION LEVELS. If there was ever a game where too much of a good thing is implied, it's this one.

Dodge the bullet, try something else.
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I've had it since release on xbox and I've never played online. Strictly single player. Its a lot of fun when you can customize the settings. To bad it runs like ass on my xbox. I'll see what it looks like when I get the one x though
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Don't do it.
Easily the most needlessly grindy game I've ever played.
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Damn. I was looking forward to riding trexes and wolves and harambes. Doesnt sound like something I have time to constantly take care of :(
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You'll be fine if you play local offline only. Can even split screen with a roommate or whatever.
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Touch posted...

Damn. I was looking forward to riding trexes and wolves and harambes. Doesnt sound like something I have time to constantly take care of :(

And you still can. Just play offline or make a server with the settings you want. You can speed all that shit up to make it viable as a single player game
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Like taming speed. Nobody wants to spend 12+ hours taming an alpha Rex, even if they split duties between the tribe.
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Hm. So is the taminrg and raising p much all it is? Hows the combat?
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Touch posted...

Hm. So is the taminrg and raising p much all it is? Hows the combat?

look just stay away from it
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Touch posted...

Hm. So is the taminrg and raising p much all it is? Hows the combat?

look just stay away from it

xD
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Touch posted...

Hm. So is the taminrg and raising p much all it is? Hows the combat?

The combat is Skyrim with lag issues and worse hitboxes.

I would really recommend that you watch and actual session of Ark singleplayer. Even with all the modifiers turned all the way up you're still going to spend 99% of your time chopping down hundreds of trees and mining stone for hours upon hours to make even basic structures.
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The guns are really bad. Combat is flouty and impricise. You'll use a xbow 99% of the time. once you can use darts, you'll use a long neck rifle, but it fires like a old revolution musket.

The pike/sword work kinda well, but it's like minecraft. You kinda point i a random direction of the dino and just hit, the hit boxes are horrid so you got a 50/50 chance of nailing it.

Put it this way: the highest level gear you can get are tech gear. The coolest item in this set of tech gear is a saddle that you put on your rex, that gives your rex FUCKING LAZER BEAMS.

Sounds cool huh?

I dare you to hit something with those lasers. Good luck, you'll never land a single shot.

So yeah that's the end game. Broken gear that you'll never use. Oh and it's really expensive, the gas that this gear uses to power the suits....you have to tame like 15 level 300 rexes and have plenty of rockets. You'll never get there. No tribe is alpha enough to put this work in, if they haven't already done it.

Offline is garbage. Unless you're willing to turn on cheats, which degrades the replayability by a lot. You can cheat and tame anything you want, but it's the equivalent to playing SUPER EASY on any game that you normally play Normal or Hard on.

And ark is at fucking Master Ninja Difficulty.

When you get your asses handed to you, not hundreds, but thousands of times by any number of dino (I personally hate the troodons). If you don't quit the game before this happens, then you'll be forever addicted. Once you master this game you won't be able to put it down. No matter what life demands of you, Ark will come first. I gaurantee it.

When you lose your progress and everything you've forgone has been for nothing, then you will break down. I picked myself up and re solo tribed 3 more servers. After 192 days played on my account, I can tell you this game isn't worth playing. Dumbed down with cheats OR playing it the way you are meant to play it (online), you're going to lose.
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Also two things: You can't tame alpha rexes, idk what girl meant by that. 2: Don't play ark with friends.

Friendships are broken when your "friend" becomes your "boss" and starts ordering you around, then taking your shit away.

Solo all the way, but again, don't get ark.
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