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seance snacks posted:Started up a server with some friends recently. Currently have Aberration and Lost Island in the cluster and looking forward to this new Fjordur or whatever norse style DLC they're releasing soon If this is running in a couple weeks when my replacement cpu shows up I'll jump in!
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# ? May 18, 2022 05:17 |
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# ? May 6, 2024 02:04 |
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Just added the new Fjordur map to the cluster at 108.4.0.223:27021 And I think I saw on Steam that they're letting folks claim ARK for free right now? I imagine it's part of them announcing ARK 2, which looks good from the notes so far
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:40 |
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Decided to try this out since it's free. The graphics were hella messed up and stretched until I restarted. Then I walked around a beach and found some turtle looking things that were walking in circles. After about a minute the game told me I had levelled up in giant green block letters. What's the deal with this game? I'll be honest I came in expecting AAA co-op Horizon Zero Dawn with survival elements but from the screenshots but it feels like old school eurojank so far. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jun 14, 2022 |
# ? Jun 14, 2022 13:40 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:Decided to try this out since it's free. The graphics were hella messed up and stretched until I restarted. Then I walked around a beach and found some turtle looking things that were walking in circles. After about a minute the game told me I had levelled up in giant green block letters. It's very much jank and very little like Horizon Zero Dawn. It's closer to Conan Exiles (which is arguably an ARK clone but whatever) or Minecraft than H:ZD. e: Think Minecraft except with dinos, you riding dinos, some mechs and FPS guns. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jun 14, 2022 |
# ? Jun 14, 2022 13:48 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:Decided to try this out since it's free. The graphics were hella messed up and stretched until I restarted. Then I walked around a beach and found some turtle looking things that were walking in circles. After about a minute the game told me I had levelled up in giant green block letters. It's very, very jank. You gain XP from harvesting, crafting, killing things, and also a slow drip passively overtime. The game is extremely pretty, but also not optimized in the slightest and is stuffed to the gills with bugs. It's also extremely grindy if you're playing on a public server that doesn't have rates increased. Raising certain creatures, for example, can require near constant attention for 8 hours for some of the babies. It's a game you play for a certain niche. There are pretty good mods out there adding new structures, clothes, and creatures. You can also customize rates in server configs to tailor the vanilla experience to exactly what you and your friends are interested in. The previous server I played on had craftable NPC-style items that could handle things like feeding creature babies for you that needed a specific resource like Mead for fuel.
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 13:55 |
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Warmachine posted:You gain XP from harvesting, crafting, killing things, and also a slow drip passively overtime. The game is extremely pretty, but also not optimized in the slightest and is stuffed to the gills with bugs. It's also extremely grindy if you're playing on a public server that doesn't have rates increased. Raising certain creatures, for example, can require near constant attention for 8 hours for some of the babies. Worth noting you can turn this down to 2 minutes - or even few seconds for that matter - in the server configs pretty easily. Just about all the grind can be taken out by changing the config files (and then reintroduced with mods but that's how it goes).
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:02 |
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Yeah, I was expecting something totally different but I also hadn't read anything about it and just saw some cool pictures of dinosaurs So if I'm mainly interested in exploring and occasionally building cool stuff is Ark going to work? And if so, are there any particular settings/mods/maps I should choose.
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:02 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:So if I'm mainly interested in exploring and occasionally building cool stuff is Ark going to work? It's really good for that yeah, albeit it is a bit empty if you're playing alone - though there's a few All the default maps are very good, there's some you can download as free DLC as well which are also really neat to explore. You can transfer your character between them (there are mods which make it a bit more seamless to do so, but they aren't really necessary). I haven't actually played in a while, but I liked using ARK Omega for my big grindy mod along with a bunch of smaller QoL ones - bigger stacks, advanced spyglass, tombstones and dino storage system are four of the biggest ones. Omega is probably not that great for a first experience though, it really changes the game and makes it even more janky and deadly. e: Teleporters mod helps a lot in SP/co-op too. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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It’s kind of fun to build a base in a nice scenic spot and collect all the
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:17 |
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You can also get deep into the weeds with breeding dinosaurs to try and get a stat-perfect dinosaur. There's tons of stuff written on the internet about how dino breeding works, and tools to help you keep track of your weird dinosaur fuckzoo.
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:25 |
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Yeah the way to enjoy this game in 2022 is to build vibes. Like everything you build or tame should be a part of your vibe cultivation strategy. For all the games jank it is crazy satisfying to make a handsome base in a pretty location. The game is like stardew valley to me at this point except my wife is a gigantic predatory bird.
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:42 |
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I've added Dino Storage v2 and built a soul terminal but I can't work out how breeding works. Do dinos in the terminal not breed and I have to take them out? I also have enabled the Newborn Auto Trap and it says it needs soul balls but I put like 50 in there already. Does it not work if you have the terminal doing other things i.e. are you meant to only have 1 kind of automation happening?
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 16:32 |
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Is there a mod or preset for enjoying this without the grind? Played it a few years ago but lost interest when i found out you have to bring like 20 trexes bred for supremacy to do any bosses or whatever which kinda killed my motivation to progress (coupled with the grind). I just wanna have a dino (or couple) of each type as I progress to grabbing newer pokemon up to the bosses, making some cool bases along the way.
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 21:26 |
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Mr. Crow posted:Is there a mod or preset for enjoying this without the grind? Played it a few years ago but lost interest when i found out you have to bring like 20 trexes bred for supremacy to do any bosses or whatever which kinda killed my motivation to progress (coupled with the grind). You can just change the settings when setting up a server, up the dino levels, increase gather, tame and breed speed etc.
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 21:41 |
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Mr. Crow posted:Is there a mod or preset for enjoying this without the grind? Played it a few years ago but lost interest when i found out you have to bring like 20 trexes bred for supremacy to do any bosses or whatever which kinda killed my motivation to progress (coupled with the grind). What part of the grind is the worst for you? "Best Egg" removes RNG from breeding completely. You can also use the console to imprint/speed up growth, removing much of the grind from breeding. "Upgrade My Dino" helps improve your tames and add mutations instead of searching for perfect ones, at the cost of resources. "Upgrade Station" significantly reduces equipment RNG, at the cost of resources. Any stacking mod, and significantly increasing the weight multiplier setting for dinos and player, makes resource gathering much much easier. "Dino Storage" makes managing a bunch of dinos a lot easier.
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esquilax posted:What part of the grind is the worst for you? I can back Upgrade Station and Dino Storage. Both are borderline gamebreaking with how useful they are.
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Mr. Crow posted:Is there a mod or preset for enjoying this without the grind? Played it a few years ago but lost interest when i found out you have to bring like 20 trexes bred for supremacy to do any bosses or whatever which kinda killed my motivation to progress (coupled with the grind). Use the individual settings to increase gathering rates on the server ini. Using the globals can cause a lot of lag. If you are single player/local: ignore this advice.
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# ? Jul 2, 2022 05:05 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKFJfqfOyz4 Lol, I went exploring an ice cave I came across with my otter to keep me warm and I guess I slipped and fell into a void. RIP my otter. nexus6 fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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nexus6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKFJfqfOyz4 Ya either this or his other one + this one that patches the bosses look perfect in conjuction with some pf the other listed mods https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r2uw_94fVJo&t=0s Thanks!
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# ? Jul 2, 2022 17:23 |
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Well, resurrection of an old thread I guess. New trailer for that animated series they announced a few years ago. Has Russell Crowe and Vin Diesel as both executive producers and the voice of a character. https://youtu.be/mMTbYmS5o_Y Seems fairly on point to the game at least..
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 23:23 |
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Friendly reminder that Ark has now launched on the switch too
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 23:50 |
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Salisbury Snape posted:Friendly reminder that Ark has now launched on the switch too
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# ? Dec 24, 2022 01:09 |
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I've got less than 5h playtime across my single player save and my daughter's, it's using 9.1gb so far lol
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# ? Dec 24, 2022 11:41 |
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Also only has The Island and Scorched earth available so far. It's probably still going to require it's own memory card
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# ? Dec 24, 2022 11:42 |
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Salisbury Snape posted:Also only has The Island and Scorched earth available so far. It's probably still going to require it's own memory card Yeah, each map is huge. Having all of the maps installed is north of 200GB.
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JuffoWup posted:New trailer for that animated series they announced a few years ago. Has Russell Crowe and Vin Diesel as both executive producers and the voice of a character.
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JuffoWup posted:Well, resurrection of an old thread I guess. Honestly, not at all in the slightest in my opinion. It feels like one of those very loose manga adaptions of various Zelda games or JRPG's in that the main beats are the same, but drat near everything else is entirely different.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 06:42 |
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/04/02/ark-2-is-delayed-and-ark-1-is-being-killed-unless-you-buy-a-remaster Starting to rethink my plan to shotgun marry Vin Diesel
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# ? Apr 3, 2023 15:52 |
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I can't believe the game that started producing and selling expansion content while it was in early access would do this sort of thiquote:It’s not as if Ark was terribly beloved for some of their decisions before this, including releasing the aforementioned $20 DLC for a game that was supposedly in “Early Access,” but this is a new level.
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# ? Apr 3, 2023 22:55 |
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From everything that I've heard of him, this should have been expected the instant Jeremy Stiegletz came back. In any case, this is going to be a MASSIVE clusterfuck in no small part due to the modding situation and how that gets shuffled out.
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# ? Apr 3, 2023 23:30 |
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The reaction would probably be less angry if there hadn't been a tweet from Stiegletz promising the UE5 version would be free as recently as the end of January.
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Kanos posted:The reaction would probably be less angry if there hadn't been a tweet from Stiegletz promising the UE5 version would be free as recently as the end of January. Yeah that was a thing. Even then I knew there was gonna be a catch of some kind.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 19:14 |
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Genesis part 2 has been around for what, 1.5 years? Season pass indeed LMBO.
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# ? Apr 4, 2023 20:55 |
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Steve from the Nooblets channel has made a video explaining the current situation. Bullshit filter included. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC6aTQBpCyI
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 03:06 |
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I think the charging for DLC part is what really annoys me. I don't mind paying for the UE5 ver since you get Ark 2 with it, but charging for the DLC again is just balsy greed.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 04:50 |
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Lord Booga posted:I think the charging for DLC part is what really annoys me. I don't mind paying for the UE5 ver since you get Ark 2 with it, but charging for the DLC again is just balsy greed. Like Nooblets said though, charging SOMETHING for the upgrade isn't bad per se if it was reasonable. Like paying $20 to $30 and being able to transfer all of my poo poo would be amazing...but that's not what's happening here. It's too sight unseen for something we know next to nothing about both in terms of ARK Ascended and ARK 2 on top of being asked to pay TWICE for everything.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 05:25 |
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Please give $89.97 to the Wildcard UE5 Scholarship Fund
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:42 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRAfGs4xlqs
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# ? Apr 13, 2023 23:52 |
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This game on any pvp server is absolutely hilarious. I have been playing their conquest mode and the following has happened. -Server being ddosed continously -Leaders home internet being ddos'd, 2 modems fried -servers being botcapped repeatedly -accounts being spoofed to popcorn admin rooms -Spoofed to delete characters -Aimbotted -Servers crashed repeatedly -Streamers playing in cheater tribes with HWID banned players making videos claiming they were innocent while being involved in all this -20 members being personally ddos'd during a raid -spoofed again to popcorn cryofridges -multiple peoples characters being deleted after logging off for the night, authentication not possible on multiple servers after Yeah don't play this game, it's full of cheaters.
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Simon Numbers posted:This game on any pvp server is absolutely hilarious. I have been playing their conquest mode and the following has happened. Big-name multi-server tribe PVP in this game is an amazing dumpsterfire of bullshit. I'd be interested to learn more about the character spoofing, as that's a pretty sophisticated attack to pull off vs. 50 bootleg key reseller aimbot accounts logging in to fill server slots (as is tradition).
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