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Title: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Nehvar on May 11, 2015, 10:35:25 pm

Quote from: Studio Wildcard
Get ready for a new breed of open-world dinosaur survival game, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam Windows/Mac/Linux!

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, use your skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land. Hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements, while teaming up with or preying upon hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

This has potential for fun.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: LordBerenger on May 11, 2015, 11:20:48 pm
More Alpha Access Rust copy/Survival game BS?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on May 12, 2015, 04:50:24 am
I CAN GET BEHIND EVERYTHING THAT IS DINOSAURS.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Clockworkkiller on May 12, 2015, 05:01:22 am
*yawn*
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on May 12, 2015, 05:53:37 am
Yall niggas need some dinosaur love.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Taser on May 12, 2015, 07:01:52 am
In for

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Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: [ptx] on May 12, 2015, 12:39:05 pm
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As a man or woman stranded naked
Do they mean this literally?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Laufknoten on May 13, 2015, 01:07:57 pm
At the end of the day this is just another early access rust/dayz copy with dinosaurs. Pure pvp retardation and laggy servers included!
"How about making a cool SP game with dinosaurs and survival gameplay?" - "Nah, u mad brah? You'd actually have to create a story and characters, put actual thought and effort into making this game. Let's just take the rust-template, put some dinosaurs in it and charge 30 bucks for this bitch!"
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: LordBerenger on May 13, 2015, 01:56:40 pm
At the end of the day this is just another early access rust/dayz copy with dinosaurs. Pure pvp retardation and laggy servers included!
"How about making a cool SP game with dinosaurs and survival gameplay?" - "Nah, u mad brah? You'd actually have to create a story and characters, put actual thought and effort into making this game. Let's just take the rust-template, put some dinosaurs in it and charge 30 bucks for this bitch!"

Has any of these Early Access Survival games that flood the gaming world even been finished?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leshma on May 13, 2015, 03:06:26 pm
Yall niggas need some dinosaur love.

Found your yearbook photo m8

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Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on May 13, 2015, 08:50:26 pm
Found your yearbook photo m8

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Copy that.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Clockworkkiller on May 21, 2015, 03:34:36 am
Apparently you can eat your own feces in this game.....

....and then die from it
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 01, 2015, 07:01:51 pm
After watching the gameplay vid it does already look better and more fun than most of the other early access openworld games, certainly looks better than shit like Rust and Reign of Kings. I will probably buy it tbh it's out tomorrow, I got a lot of free time this week and I will be bored, I know I will at least get my moneys worth of hours out of it before I get bored, then I will come back and play it again when it's fleshed out even more. Plus being able to tame dinosaurs, level them up and ride them around being badass in an open world, that's my childhood wet dream right there.

EDIT: Scratch that, not sure if I will get any time soon, apparently it's so badly optimized right now it's lagging on a 770 using lowest settings.... gonna watch the comments and see how true it is tomorrow lol.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on June 02, 2015, 12:25:48 am
I think it looks cool, looking forward to it.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Thovex on June 02, 2015, 03:55:59 pm
Looks awful from what I saw on Twitch.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 02, 2015, 04:57:20 pm
Looks awful from what I saw on Twitch.

Well from what I saw it wasn't exactly fantastic but it was still better than pretty much all the other MMO survival bullshit games, it's fairly unique mechanics wise and the setting seems to be done fairly well. Though it's obvious this game is going to be plagued with Midgets on flying Dinosaurs just like Reign of Kings is plagued with black midgets ( being as black as possible in RoK makes you invisible at night and being tiny makes you harder to hit with ranged weapons with minimal downsides )
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 02, 2015, 10:21:07 pm
That awkward moment where both release times have passed and game is still unavailable to purchase...
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 02, 2015, 10:31:22 pm
There has only been one release time, that would have been about 6-7pm for us mate, i.e when the Steam servers update or whatever that magic is Steam does, but it got delayed because the devs were doing some testing on their servers or some bollocks, it should be available at about 10pm.

But I am wondering if that's completely true or not, because this would mean that the Steam servers now contain all the game files ready to upload, so why they wouldn't just unlock it and allow people to buy it and download it ready for when their servers are ready, considering they have nothing to do with each other. Wondering if they've had an unforeseen issue and we might see another delay lol.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 02, 2015, 11:38:28 pm
Was orginally planned for 10am PST, then got delayed to 2pm PST (9pm our time) and is yet to be released
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 02, 2015, 11:41:08 pm
Yeah they missed the first release time but the second was actually 10pm+, we are in BST now which is GMT +1  :wink:.  Though they've missed it again because they're apparently still doing stuff and it "should be up shortly", which means it could be up anywhere between now and next year. Probably grab this one tomorrow I am tired now lol.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 02, 2015, 11:41:43 pm
December 2010

They still missed 2 release times dammit!
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 03, 2015, 11:51:09 am
Okay so I played it for a while and I have to say I did have a lot of fun. Yes it's Early Access, it has some glitches/bugs as to be expected, the performance is pretty bad but as they said they haven't worked much on optimization but it is now their number 1 priority. The UI is a bit ugly but it's obviously not a major issue and I am sure it'll be altered.

Well, gameplay wise, it is good fun, people can say it's DayZ, Rust, Stomping Lands copy etc etc but it does feel very unique. The combat isn't amazing or complicated by any means but it was pretty responsive compared to many other of these Survival MMORPGs I have played, that being said it's a lot of fun. I found a couple of guys, one was Russian and one German, we made a tribe and a small base of operations and we just hunted a whole lot of shit and gathered resources. We went into the sea and managed to kill two giant sharks by luring them to the shore, stabbing them with our Spears and shooting them with Slingshots which was pretty funny, the Russian guy got eaten in the process.

 Killing the Dinosaurs was fun, I threw some spears into a Stegasaurus's butt and we also hunted some players. We found one guy by the beach and the Russian guy shot him in the face with the OP Slingshot, it knocked him out instantly and we dragged him back up the beach to our house. We took him inside, layed him on the bed and shitted on him ( literally, your character automatically shits every now and then but you can also trigger it at certain times with the Z key ). Hee woke up after a while of us pissing about with him, we punched him out again and then dragged him outside where we used him as target practice for Spear throwing, he died pretty quick.

Certain creatures/dinosaurs will also fight eachother as well, but the real lure for me is the fact you can tame a whole bunch of them. It's a slow process and it's going to be difficult to tame the bigger and more dangerous Dinosaurs but it will be awesome once you obtain one. They level up just like you and of course as shown in the trailer can be ridden if you have a saddle for them. The saddles require higher levels to craft though so I imagine the real mounts of the game will be more of a high level/end game thing. Some Dinosaurs/Creatures have their own abilities, like the Dilophosaurus, that little one from Jurassic Park that spits shit in your eyes, I also saw a giant scorpion thing that has a sting that can paralyze, which could actually be very useful for helping to knock out and tame a Carnivore.

I only managed to tame a low level Parasaurolophus ( being low level myself and the fact it's a pretty whimpy Herbivore ) but it was fun getting it to follow me around, carry my shit and help me kill things.

My verdict is, it's a fairly decent game but don't buy it yet if you want good performance, even a lot of monster rigs aren't running this game smoothly on highest settings and cheaper systems struggle to run it smoothly even on lower settings, that being said they've promised their first and foremost priority at the moment is optimization so we should be seeing performance boosts soon. The game already feels unique and it certainly has a lot of potential, it's definitely one to watch in this Genre IMO.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Vibe on June 03, 2015, 12:02:14 pm
Optimization problems are to be expected for early access game, but how feature rich is it? Can you already build different builds, walls or whatever, how much crafting, farming and actual sandbox content is there?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 03, 2015, 12:21:23 pm
Of course they're expected but this is pretty bad on the optimization side of things even for an Early Access. The thing is, the features, crafts etc are all tied to your characters level ( you will not be able to experience everything at low level because you'll get your shit rekt by aggressive Dinosaurs ), so it requires you to level up and make choices in what you want to learn to craft as you do so, the problem with that is that I can't possibly test all the features/crafts until I have leveled a character up more on a server. If you venture too far into the forests at low level you also find yourself getting rekt by Carnivores so again, I can't really see everything yet.

As me and the two guys I teamed up with leveled, I made sure to get the craft skills to make Slingshots, Water Skins and odd bits like Standing torches to light the area around our base and other stuff like mortar and pestle to grind stuff down to see what I could make, whilst one of the other guys had all the skills to craft the most basic walls/foundation/ceiling/door. You get enough skill points to buy the basic crafts you will need but there are choices to make as you level and I think this is a good system because it makes being in a Tribe and co-operating with other players a lot more rewarding, as you may be able to craft stuff other Tribe members cant and vice versa.

I think with the leveling system, the difficulty in being able to obtain powerful Dinosaurs and the bonuses of playing as a Tribe, it's definitely going to have a lot more fun gameplay hours when compared to many other of these MMO survival games, where you jump on a server and can quickly obtain and craft some of the best stuff possible. Even if someone jumps on a server where their friends play and gets given a bunch of good equipment, they're still going to be level 1, you'll have better stats than they do, you can raise all kinds of stats from carry weight, melee damage, health, stamina etc and they all obviously play an important role. I was on my own at one point and came across another player, he threw a spear at me and tried to run, but I had solely focused on putting my level points mainly into Stamina and a bit in Melee damage, so he run out of Stamina before me and I caught up to him and speared him to death. These stats will give players perhaps different roles in a Tribe, players with lots of stamina will be great at catching or escaping enemies for instance, or those with high health will be able to tank more damage.

 People will have to dedicate time to their characters and IMO it's going to make a stronger community for the game because a low level troll just running around trying to KOS everyone and steal their shit is going to get easily rekt by higher level players. Anyone who does make it their priority to KOS every one and sticks around on that server, leveling up, is also going to be known for that and will be targeted by the more co-operative players. The leveling system means you are going to earn a reputation at some point with that character and if you're an arsehole everyone will soon know your name and what you look like, unless you want to make a new character and start from level 1 on the same server you'll reap what you sow. But this will also make for some pretty awesome Tribe v Tribe rivalry.

The Dino's all seem to have male/female next to their name and apparently it's been said that breeding is a goal, I think farming is already in to an extent.

Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Vibe on June 03, 2015, 01:02:14 pm
What happens when you die, what do you lose?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 03, 2015, 01:10:14 pm
Well from my experience, everything. You can build a one use sleeping bag to respawn on or the better option is a bed as it's permanent with a 5 minute spawn cool down, if your tribe has beds you can spawn in them and you can also fast travel between them but you can't take any items with you, you'll just drop everything if you fast travel to another bed with stuff in your pack/equipped, at least that's what the text said when I moused over it. The maps a fair size with quite a lot of detail as far as I've seen, cave systems to explore and even underwater exploration.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Vibe on June 03, 2015, 02:13:58 pm
So, you lose levels and skill points and such as well, complete wipe of your character?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 03, 2015, 03:23:02 pm
So, you lose levels and skill points and such as well, complete wipe of your character?

Lol no I meant loot wise, you can be dry looted. If you lost levels and/or complete character wipe I think a lot of people would rage quit pretty quickly, it seems like it will take a while to get to high levels and it's pretty easy to be killed, like I mentioned in my other post, my Russian friend shot some guy in the head with a slingshot and it knocked him out instantly, imagine the rage if you lost level progress as well as all your shit lol.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Senni__Ti on June 03, 2015, 05:05:50 pm
Give it a week or two, see how it changes (cheaper price on steam lasts two weeks).

Apparently not enough servers and bad optimization are the main downsides atm.

Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: LordBerenger on June 03, 2015, 06:30:03 pm
Has any of these survival games even been finished and come past Alpha development stage?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 03, 2015, 07:27:15 pm
Feck it I just bought it because what the hell...DINOSAURS

Will let you know how it goes - they've just added SP and are currently working on optimization
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on June 04, 2015, 06:59:29 am
Feck it I just bought it because what the hell...DINOSAURS

Will let you know how it goes - they've just added SP and are currently working on optimization

I, too bought the game. It's pretty much unplayable for me as it's completely unoptimized. Even on the lowest settings I get shit fps, however when I bought it yesterday the game has been updated 4 times since so I have faith this game is going somewhere so I'm still excited. If you check their steam forums they're very active and seem to be posting what they plan on doing that day and when patches are going to be released, very active. Watched some streamers play it, seems fun but buggy which is to be expected. Overall I hope this doesnt turn into another stomping land 2.0 or I'll hang myself.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 04, 2015, 03:22:04 pm
Stomping land got pulled from steam for scamming too many people, thank  fuck i didnt buy that.

I played for a few hours last night, managed to play everything on low/medium, but with constant FPS drops. Managed to tame my first dinosaur, then I lost it (guess it died). Otherwise it isn't too bad, havent' experienced any bugs as of yet but I only played for an hour.

Got high hopes from what I have played so far. BUT - you need a team, due to the levelling system. So if anyone wants to play just add me on steam - fieldtoby - and we can dominate a server!
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 04, 2015, 03:25:47 pm
If only I had a comp that could handle it...

I want to roleplay being trapped in the Digital world with kids from camp, training my dinosaur to battle other monsters and digivolve using the power of friendship...

Basically Digimon
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Taser on June 04, 2015, 05:24:36 pm
Never heard of it

... but yes

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Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 04, 2015, 05:32:26 pm
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He mentioned digivolve in the message before that, i think you may be on the tracks of something big, i think hes bluffing!
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 06, 2015, 03:18:46 pm
Really enjoying Ark so far, they keep the game up to date with a couple of small patches a day and one big update per day or two.

Got a small group gong with raptor and triceratops, raiding takes time so you have to plan everything in advance. Still a few bugs but it's shaping up to be a great game
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 07, 2015, 01:53:25 am
the game is basically Rust, with dinosaurs, I shit you not. 

Spent an entire days worth of time building a nice hut, i tamed a critter, gathered resources.  Woke up the next morning, I was dead, my critter slain, half my house knocked down, and two dudes i didnt know were sleeping in my half collapsed shack wearing my clothes.  Fuck that lol.

did i mention that instead of just looting my body, while i was sleeping, they killed me, and destroyed my chests instead of taking the goods out of them, why you ask?  idk, they are fucking evil, childish.  Kind of the reason why i was never a fan of Rust, you can truly never be "safe" because some bag of dicks will come along and eventually just kill you while you sleep.

The only thing im truly peeved about throughout the experience is that they killed my Sabretooth Tiger.  I spent like 5 fucking hours taming it, go to sleep, wake up the following morning to see if it had enough food, and everything is fucking Capital R, Rekt.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: LordBerenger on June 07, 2015, 02:34:31 am
Does ur stuff and houses get reset cuz of weekly patches? Then i'll pass.

The doom of Alpha Dev games.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 07, 2015, 07:39:43 am
the game is basically Rust, with dinosaurs, I shit you not. 

Spent an entire days worth of time building a nice hut, i tamed a critter, gathered resources.  Woke up the next morning, I was dead, my critter slain, half my house knocked down, and two dudes i didnt know were sleeping in my half collapsed shack wearing my clothes.  Fuck that lol.

did i mention that instead of just looting my body, while i was sleeping, they killed me, and destroyed my chests instead of taking the goods out of them, why you ask?  idk, they are fucking evil, childish.  Kind of the reason why i was never a fan of Rust, you can truly never be "safe" because some bag of dicks will come along and eventually just kill you while you sleep.

The only thing im truly peeved about throughout the experience is that they killed my Sabretooth Tiger.  I spent like 5 fucking hours taming it, go to sleep, wake up the following morning to see if it had enough food, and everything is fucking Capital R, Rekt.

First thing you should concentrate on is finding at least 1 reliable person to Tribe with because it makes building everything a lot easier and you can also both take different engrams to give you a lot more availability in what you can craft. Focus on getting to the level to build a wooden house, you need at least metal equipment to destroy wooden structures as far as I know and it doesn't take long to level to the point you can build the wood structures, so at least noobs wont be able to smash your stuff and you should be able to handle them if you find them trying to do so. Build it in a nicely hidden location, there are some awesome spots inside forests even not far from a coast.

Me and my Tribe have built inside a cave which is not too far from a coast and a river, have our own private hunting grounds deeper inside the cave, we hunt giant snakes, spiders and scorpions, mine metal down there and collect phat loot boxes in the caves waters. We have plenty of suits of Chitin armour from hunting in there and the creatures also carry some nice items or blueprints sometimes, it provides nice exp too, we have Pikes and can make revolvers and rifles now, they're costly to make but the ammunition is the real expense. But be careful if you do hunt in caves because each of those creatures can knock you out with its attack due to the sedation effect of its poison or whatever you want to call it. Because the hidden cave is also located in a valley inside a forest, it has two cliff faces, we have two huge wooden palisade walls either end with big dinosaur gates, we have farm plots with irrigation systems, water tanks that fill up with rain and plenty of room for our tamed Dinosaurs to chill in, even with all of that people would have trouble finding the entrance to the cave because it is literally hidden from sight. Just do your homework before you just drop your home in any old location, because it might save you a lot of time and grief.

Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 07, 2015, 05:29:45 pm
Leesin do you have the coordinates for that cave?

At the moment our tribe is about 5 or 6 strong, we have 5 dilos, 3 trikes, 5 raptors, 3 horse things, and a motherfucking T-rex. Its good fun with a lot of people to play with, raptors are great for getting around and defending yourself. We got attacked by 3 guys so we followed them back to their base and broke in with a trike after they killed one of our raptors. We're friendly and will only attack those who attack us but its much more fun than rust as it takes time to level everything.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 09, 2015, 05:28:50 am
if any of the NA community would like to play, we have our own server, open to the public of course.  "NA Community" is the name, of course we ban all lljk to keep up with traditions.

Meanwhile, my Ark adventures continue, a man flew in on a giant bird, wielding what at first i thought was a log, later found out was a rocket launcher.  He wanted to blow up my house for "science".
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Asheram on June 13, 2015, 11:19:50 pm
http://steamcommunity.com/id/EyElysium/recommended/346110

Lol this review kind of makes me want to buy it.  :lol:
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Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 14, 2015, 07:29:39 am
http://steamcommunity.com/id/EyElysium/recommended/346110

Lol this review kind of makes me want to buy it.  :lol:
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Lol, it's one of the best Early Access games I've played, probably the best Early Access Survival/FPS genre game to be honest ( obviously that's my own opinion ), they've already fixed some of the performance issues and are optimizing the game daily so hopefully it wont be too long before they reach a decent level of optimization. It's not so bad for me compared to many others but I still find myself turning certain things down/off to squeeze out more FPS. Thats its big main flaw right now, if you're on a low end/mid system you might get frustrated after buying it and having to run the game looking like N64 Turok to get an FPS over 30 lol, but they're working on optimization everyday and they're doing well.

I mostly play seriously but I do make some stupid characters, I made some guy earlier with skinny legs and a huge chest/arms/head/neck on a Hardcore server ( on Hardcore death means your character is gone forever ) and just went around trolling other people. Some guy I found with broken English who was building his thatch hut was loling at how funny I looked, but his laughter soon turned to cries of panic as I said over mic "Come at me bro, I skip leg day" and started punching him, he tried to run but I kept up with him and knocked him out, I shitted on him and took all his stuff, punched him down to 1 health and waited for him to wake up, then I just said something along the lines of "Beta scrub" and killed him with one last punch, I think he was pretty pissed he lost his character to a childish twat like me.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 20, 2015, 09:20:54 pm
so i did some helpful testing for the developers and have acquired a Ark key code, anyone interested?  offers?

btw, im thoroughly enjoying the game, and the developers are quite active.  ATS also has its own server if  you are NA.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on June 21, 2015, 02:27:21 am
How active is the server?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 21, 2015, 04:49:37 am
How active is the server?

server has been up like 2 weeks, and had no advertisement, on a busy night, maybe 20 players.  Its pretty barebones atm, but we have started advertising it in hopes of pulling some other clans into the mix.  Currently, if you are just looking to try out the game, its perfect since their isnt too much going on in the server, and its always up to date with pretty stable server and 100 player slots.  If you have a clan or something to drag in, please do.  Itll spice things up quite nicely.

right now, at 10:45pm, it has 10/100 players.

Server name is: 24/7pvp |uploads allowed| TX
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 21, 2015, 12:56:57 pm
10/100 is pretty low, especially when you can use an official that is often at around 60/70 until midnight
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Angantyr on June 21, 2015, 03:08:03 pm
Another good Steam review:
Quote
Day 1 : Girl drugged me, pooped on my body and called me a noob. Several days later, I come across a small pond with a Megalodon in it. I make a small offering here and there, the Megalodon and I bond. He says he will offer me great power for a human sacrifice. Day 16: I track down the girl who had once defecated on my face. I see her attempting to tame a Stego. I sneak up on her. Load her with 30 drug berries, kill the Stego she is taming, poop on it's body. Drag her lifeless corpse back to Lord Megalodon, he seems pleased. I drag her to the beach. Add 10 more drug berries, just to make sure she is helpless. I throw her body in with Lord Megalodon. He seems pleased, but he requires more. I begin my hunt again. 10/10
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 21, 2015, 04:35:13 pm
10/100 is pretty low, especially when you can use an official that is often at around 60/70 until midnight

the official servers are plagued with abuse, better off joining an unofficial, even if it isnt ours, atleast one with some decent admins and hardware.

We are tryin to fill it up, just hard to do when people are unaware of the unofficials and play the officials, their are shitloads of competition all vying for players, and then of course the ever present idea that private servers can be run by child admins who abuse it. 
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on June 21, 2015, 05:15:11 pm
the official servers are plagued with abuse, better off joining an unofficial, even if it isnt ours, atleast one with some decent admins and hardware.

We are tryin to fill it up, just hard to do when people are unaware of the unofficials and play the officials, their are shitloads of competition all vying for players, and then of course the ever present idea that private servers can be run by child admins who abuse it.

My first server was an EU official server (think located in UK) admins were pretty chill, one group raided their base but they didn't care and were pretty laid back aboiut it. Only problem was the group of about 30 people haha.

Second server was an official and i've had no abuse or hackers on the servers at the moment, though I've taken a break for about a week
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leesin on June 21, 2015, 08:49:54 pm
The problem I found with official servers is that they tend to get laggy and I experienced the worst desyncing on them, at least on the ones I tried out. I have been playing on an unofficial PVP server and the max pop I have seen was about 50/70, runs great with minimal desyncing and it seemed like enough players considering it's normally between about 2-7 players per tribe, plenty of space for people to build up and not destroy each other in seconds yet still enough players that we have had enough PVP action, raided and been raided, when you relocate you have time to build up again etc.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Senni__Ti on June 21, 2015, 09:45:13 pm
so i did some helpful testing for the developers and have acquired a Ark key code, anyone interested?  offers?

btw, im thoroughly enjoying the game, and the developers are quite active.  ATS also has its own server if  you are NA.

I'm interested, orion prelude key and a san andreas key in exchange?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Leshma on June 22, 2015, 12:29:14 am
AC3 gift
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on June 22, 2015, 05:38:25 am
ill sell the key off to anyone who wants it for 10 bucks(or like a steam game equivalent in the relative price range, like FF13 for 7.99), well below half the price.  If this sounds okay with you, just pm me.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Vovka on June 22, 2015, 06:01:03 am
ill sell the key off to anyone who wants it for 10 bucks(or like a steam game equivalent in the relative price range, like FF13 for 7.99), well below half the price.  If this sounds okay with you, just pm me.
game price for Russian is $ 7.8  :P
unfortunately this is my family's weekly earnings (
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SeQuel on June 22, 2015, 06:26:10 am
game price for Russian is $ 7.8  :P
unfortunately this is my family's weekly earnings (

Must be rough being Russian.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: BlindGuy on July 10, 2015, 05:04:47 pm
Don't tame a sabretooth and ride it unless you like seeing big furry testicles all day. At first this game was adventure and warfare, then we started farming and it became a game of "Catch the Dinosaur Poops" to make fertilizer. Then there was an infinite c4 bug that some guys killed all our pets with. Now its a terrorist training simulator while we live in a damp cave and make improvised explosives all day while we plan our guerrilla strikes on our enemy tribe.

Fun things we did: Build a BooBox, a 1x1 room with small windows but no doors, and a hole in the ceiling, then drop innocent ppl into it from a pteradon (fun fact, the spellchecker wants to change pteradon to Adopter...). Then keep them alive and use them as a blood farm and entertainment center. (remember to feed them :D)

Force people at gunpoint to make insane parachute base-jumps over shark infested waters. Shoot their friends in the leg to make sure they know we serious.

Tranq dart ppl and then drag them to weird locations, then fill their pockets with so much dino poop they cannot move.

Re-enact the movie "Winchester '73" with every other tribe we find building in a rocky place.

Re-enact the movie "The Damn Busters" with every tribe we find building on a river or beach.

Re-enact the movie "Apocalypto" with slingshots, bows and throwing spears on every naked peasant.

Stomping on players with T-rexes.

Land-mines.

Pooping on ppl. A lot.

Then spend two hours painting your dinosaur saddle to match your pink and purple plate armor.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on August 23, 2015, 11:24:09 pm
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Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Kafein on August 24, 2015, 07:14:19 pm
cymro pls
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on August 24, 2015, 07:24:20 pm
Dunno wtf happend there  :lol:

Any chance 3 of those can get removed xD

I posted this just before the forum went down, of dear haha


Ty mods
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Asheram on August 24, 2015, 09:19:56 pm
ill sell the key off to anyone who wants it for 10 bucks(or like a steam game equivalent in the relative price range, like FF13 for 7.99), well below half the price.  If this sounds okay with you, just pm me.
You still have key to sell?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: AntiBlitz on August 25, 2015, 01:30:35 am
You still have key to sell?

nope, sorry, traded it away.
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Teeth on August 25, 2015, 10:31:31 am
What the fuck is up with the UI, too ugly to even look at. What is this, 1992?
Title: Re: ARK: Survival Evolved
Post by: Vibe on August 25, 2015, 10:59:59 am
the text burns my eyes