Discord- discord.gg/X9P6SH3S I love watching all the PvP players get so offended over this video💀 they think I’m actually putting these ideas to work and changing them. Dawg it’s just a hypothetical video
Dino behaviour is something that is sorely lacking for me. Having wild dinos roam in herds, socialize with each other, drink from rivers, sleep and rest, spawn at different times of day, would all be so cool and make the world feel ALIVE. Along with that, not having predators murder everything in their line of sight, even if it's something that will definitely get them killed. Not only would be sick for wild dinos, but tamed ones as well. It would be so awesome to have you dinos actually feel like companions instead of tools, where you actually have to care for them and they'll then care for you. Neglecting a dino could make them run away or even attack you. Taking great care of a dino would make them loyal and respondent to your needs. Bit of a niche thing, but i'd live to have Ark dinos actually behaving like real damn animals for once.
Another thing that would make it feel more immersive and emotional. Too bad they spawn in and just walk around in circles aimlessly with no goals or anything. Would be cool if they could roam around the map almost like sharks do or like you said in groups. I believe spawn regions are fine but Dino’s shouldn’t be limited to just being in that one region
With the paleo ark mod I’ll never use the vanilla T. rex ever again lol. You guys single handedly make this game feel fresh and unique. Much respect to your team and the hard work you put in to this game. I’ll be sure to credit you and some of the other modders I may have taken some footage from once I’m back home I just wasn’t expecting to get this much traffic 💯
Before adding more different ideas, dino animations, roars etc..All we want is the game to run without bugs, clag, crashes, after an update, there is always more things broken due to it.
Combat music in survival evolved actually shift depending on where you are. Beach is the iconic one, but if you're in the forest or something, it's different. It also depends on creature size.
All of this I fully agree with. Ive been a long time Ark fan but I swear it gets worse every update. A better creature AI would CHANGE EVERYTHING. Making them interact with each other in the wild, do things based off of location, not hunt everything they see even if its 100% gonna kill them. do what they SAY they're doing for Ark 2. thats all I want.
the one thing i have to disagree with is music. ark has LOTS of diffrent tracks, and theyre great, but i see your point. there isnt a lack of music, theres a lack of moments where music plays
So, how to start. Well I see where you are coming from with these ideas tho I think you missed the point with them. I'm not sure if its because you are new to the community. So lets break it down. (just going to say it now. I'm not hating just sharing my view on these ideas) 1. sound effects and TLC. I think it's a good idea on paper, but we have to remember that it's a remaster. Its not ark 2, so we can't just make ark not ark. New sound effects, like the T-rex roar is a good idea since these things should have been remastered. Certain creatures definitely would benefit from a TLC, but given what wildcard promised with ASA I don't think we'll see anything like that in some time, if at all. But that is something that most people will be happy with, obviously when not over done since you know it's a remaster and not a new game, so we have to make it still resemble ASE. 2. path finding. To be fair to wildcard, path finding was better on ASA when it lunched when compared to ASE. Abberacion is the map that screwed it up. But that's something to always improve, so I'm on board with this. 3. world bosses and RPG elements. World bosses ARE a thing, not sure if you knew. Back on ASE many maps had world bosses, they weren't just roaming around which is better when you think about it. Would you like to stumble upon a boss (a dragon for example) randomly after taming your new Rex? Probably not. Ark is a hard game as is so limiting bosses to locations or boss arenas is a better approach so to not completely overwhelm the player when he is not prepared for fighting. But coming back to ASE there were mini bosses on maps usually in caves. I think Ragnarök had 2 bosses like that? But I'm not sure. A better solution for that would be for example, putting mini bosses in caves, or maybe even mini bosses in artefact caves. You could optionally fight a boss to get some loot, or in some caves you'd have to kill a boss to get to the artefact, but they would not be so strong. So you could get to the artefact. RPG weapons I'm not sold on tho, we will get Mjölnir with fjordur so that's a thing, but getting weapons based on maps is not so good, since ark is a survival game and well we can't just forget that. Getting weapons form loot crated and drops is more than enough, we have tek tier weapons after defeating bosses. And DLC's give us more and more with every update. So I wouldn't like that really. 4. soundtrack Inherently I'm not against that, but there are difficulties with this. Well lets start with the most important thing. ARK has a lot of music, go on steam and look at ark sound track, there is so much amazing music. Genuinely I'm surprised not a lot of people know how good the music is. But anyway, dynamic soundtrack is good concept, but implementing it would be, well not easy. Imagine your playing on lost island for example, your in the jungle at night. It's crucial for you to hear if something is approaching (we all know how dense is the jungle there, so listening is actually important). And suddenly music starts to play, a quiet but still present music. That would be distracting, but that's not all, what if you get attacked? Then the music that actively was preventing you form spotting the danger then cuts of. it just cuts of and battle music starts playing. After defeating the enemy the game is supposed to do exactly what? Keep playing the music to distract you again? Probably not, there would be some silence before it start again. You see where I'm going with this? Minecraft is a game that can do it (honestly Minecraft in my opinion is not playing enough music) since it's a sandbox game. And your not in danger so much. And also you don't have battle music when you get attacked. You would have to make a system where music plays if there are no aggressive dinos nearby. That way you could make it more frightening. You hear music and then it cuts of, immediately you know that something is nearby. But again you'd need to make it not overpowered, since I'm sure players would use this as a radar of some sorts LOL (I would have). So you'd have to make it short range so you almost won't be able to escape in time. 5. battle music. I'm just going to spit it to another category. Battle music is something relatively unique to ark, that system could have been overhauled, but not to the extent that every dino has its own battle music. Having for example categories, of small/medium/large dino size battle music. That way wildcard would have to make 6 new battle music soundtracks (3 carnivore, 3 herbivore) that way we get an overhaul, whiles not prioritizing any specific dino, or overworking the studio with new music for every dino. 6. tames for auto farming. I can see where you're coming from with this idea. There are mods for that, I believe there is a new medieval mod that does that. But this also has its limitations, mostly with resource gathering and respawning. I haven't played Palworld, so I'm not sure how it works there and I don't know if ASA changed this, but in ASE ark has timers with resource spawning, when the area is loaded its respawn timer is longer, and whilst its unloaded it's shorter. But again I'm not an expert in this so feel free in correcting me. Another matter, aren't dinos not loaded when you derender the area? So, I'm not sure how that would work. But than again Sir-5rM8 is a thing, and that solves this issue. But overall I'm not sure about this, but its definitely something to consider. 7. selling To that I'm not sure to what tell you, wildcard is a great studio, they well, made the game they know what they are doing. Snail games is probably more the reason behind all of this. But selling isn't what we want probably since who knows who'd buy the studio than. Okay my yap session is over. I'm probably mixing some stuff up. but again I'm sharing my perspective, and I'm open to discuss. Feel free to correct or share what you think about all of this. (I should have made a video out of this since not many people will read this probably lol)
@@TheMalikVideos fuck balancing PvP. The game should be known more for pve just like Minecraft and palworld. I try and pretend the PvP community doesn’t exist. Or they could make a PvP ruleset that removes some stuff for all the sweaty nerds
@@TheMalikVideosI’ve been playing ark since 2016/17ish. Purely PvE, I’ve tried pvp a few times and had the worst experience. In my opinion ark just feels like such a wasted culmination of effort by continuously trying to make the game PvP. Not to mention, the amount of balance changes (like the flyer nerf way back when) that just completely nuked the fun of flyers for a long time. Thankfully I switched to pc and was able to mod flyers back to being fun. Another example is the giga nerf, and you can’t even bring gigas into boss arenas, so for pve gigas are mostly just trophies instead of being badass apex predators. I agree with what he said in making there 2 separate rule sets for pve and PvP for both communities to exist at once, but in my pve perspective I really don’t like the focus on PvP balancing
I’m not trying to be disrespectful towards this guy and appreciate him trying to display his own thoughts on this beautiful game, but close to every single comment here I disagree with, ofc it’s his opinion and I respect that but like. Ok maybe there needs to be some new designs for Dino’s, but like path finding is more towards wild Dino’s (so they can change that) don’t think this game is supposed to be depicted more as an rpg but we have seen with the lavender golem and ice queen that mini bosses do work, but still didn’t really like alot of the ideas. But ofc still respect and love the representing and appreciation of the game, continue the work
Love these concepts! I agree with most of the points made here. I have 2 small points. The path finding is actually improved! Especially the wild dinos are way smarter to find you compared to ASE (tamed dinos are still very jank) (Though i would still love personalties and its something i wanted in ASE for years)
I like the vengeance system idea, reminds me heavily of the middle earth games (shadow of mordor and shadow of war), where orcs can avenge their blood brothers, come back to life, etc. creating stories.
I had a "human NPC" mod for SE that had a basic "farming" mechanic built in, idea being you could "tame" the humans and have them farm basic resources for you around your base. For a single player or low pop server this would intended as a QOL mod so you could passively get base level resources while youre offline or actually playing the game's fun parts. Annoyingly though it was extremely slow and janky and the "tamed" humans would only collect the tiniest scraps before wondering too far away and getting killed themselves. ultimately I ended up removing the mod because it kept spawning wild humans inside my base boundaries to kill all my tames. I tried to remedy this when we moved on to extinction by building my base on top of one of the skyscrapers to keep my tames out of range, but annoyingly the humans would just spawn inside the building itself and kill all my tames from inside the building's mesh, literally shooting through the building mesh and being untouchable to my own turrets. It had so much promise but was so badly programmed.
My main thing is that the Dino’s feel so lifeless, especially once tamed 😭 I just the would have little randomized interactions with other dinos. Imagine having a Stego who plays the aggro animation when a specific Anky gets within range because they don’t get along. Or if you’re out harvesting and your Rex roars, scaring away a wild pack of raptors who were aggro’d and about to attack. Just like little things that while not much on their own, would add up to make a much more immersive experience.
The lack of players is the because of the cryos on PvP. Cryopods back how they were on PvP would make me return or server owners learning how to not put 4 hours of mods to download just to try their server. Ps4 PvP had 100s of clusters with full lobbies ASA has 1, Elite ark. As a solo PvP player we were robbed.
I've been playing ark for years and here's what I'd say: I would have been COMPLETELY fine with ASA being a one to one copy of ASE. If all we got was improved graphics, new items, and a few tlcs, I would be fine. But when I started playing ASA, it felt cheap, almost like a rip-off of ark. Not only did it not run well, but I personally hated the new UI. Even the player model feels lifeless, and I miss the old goofy character you could make in ASE. But even with all this, I was fine still playing ASA. The real issue was when they begun to make more paid content. Bobs tall tales and whatever the fuck the other one is called are both are frustrating to me. The old system of paying for maps had advantages, but they were mainly secluded in their own map. But with these packs, you get an unfair advantage over people in the same map who did not buy the pack. Let's not also forget how fucking expensive server hosting is. Ark is more fun with friends, and that should not be limited behind some bullshit price. These critiques might just be nitpicks, but honestly I think the player counts between ASE and ASA show otherwise. I used to, and still believe ark is the best game of all time. It's fun with and without friends, and has a little bit of everything. But in the direction they are going, any future updates/installments aren't going to ever capture the same fun I get from ASE. (Keep in mind my opinion is coming from someone who really only played ASA for the first few weeks, but I doubt it's gotten any better.)
Late to the party but idc, another thing I’d add along with complete overhauls is both idle animations (Such as them sitting down, looking around before probably going to sleep), and individual variation, like different patterns, eye color, and even size somewhat, maybe even sexual dimorphism in creature models!
Ok so what im getting at here is that in order to 'fix ark' we must first forsake the prevailing concepts behind the games initial appeal, thus reducing the only game which handled social dynamics and survival pvp well, to a derivative and forgettable game catered towards single player 👏
There is nothing good about the PvP in this game. It’s the sole reason why the game is dying and there is no “appeal” to ark anymore. The game once had an appeal that has quickly gotten so outdated and ran stale. There will always be the dedicated community of people who enjoy PvP and how janky the game is, but from a lasting perspective the game is essentially dead already. If you want to revive it you cater to the larger player base. The single player and pve community makes a majority of the player base. Not the PvP player base. Look at a game like Minecraft. They have changed the game a lot more through the last 10 years than what we have seen with ark while still remaining true to Minecraft. It’s certainly not known for its PvP either. A game like that lasts because it has the things I discussed in this video. Ark ironically hasn’t “evolved” at all since its release in 2017. I truly don’t know how some can defend such a shitty company
@GamermanJoe_ minecraft is partly renowned for pvp, minecraft manhunt pretty much revived the game in 2020. Anyways, ark never declined because pvp was flawed or got stale, it died because wildcard, being braindead, started adding broken features which established a pay to win element whilst inciting deviation from the games initial themes of primitive technology and life of antiquity. Pvp was never fundamentally flawed, the devs mismanagement simply made it perceived as such. I've been playing this game for 3 years and the only good parts were waging war on other tribes like its 1842 on other tribes with a warship on servers were the level was capped at 44 to secure gear balance. Asa delete ase official servers and never inherited the good ones. Your ignorance confounds me, I've been affected by wildcards stupidity far more than you have. Ffs, by the looks of your stance it seems like you support them since your proposed features are LITERALLY WHAT ARK 2 IS PLANNED TO BE.
Why do all the dinos in Ark constantly run around? Because both friendly and hostile dinos spawn randomly. If every dino spawned in a certain order, they would only run around when necessary. Seeing a Rex pack wandering slowly across the map and only reacting when needed would not only be amazing but also realistic
I agree with some of the things that you said for example when you talked about them doing new animations because I felt as though they should not have stopped TLC updates because its still a lot of dinosaurs that need one. as with the Palworld thing I understand but as far as the dinosaurs gathering resources I would want it to seem realistic like Maybe if they were to make it to where you can send out a pack of Carnaviors to get meat.
No hate but the game isnt "exactly the same" pathing is similar but different improved for tames and its wild dinos try to avoid being trapped. Also the music in the game is great and theres closer to 50 tracks not the 2 you mentioned the songs are biome dependent or some unique to boss fights
Even if that is true it’s still god awful and not an improvement worth 45 dollars. I don’t necessarily think the music in ark is bad and I actually cut out a part where I mention the music is pretty good, there’s just no variety to it and I’ve only ever heard combat music and main menu music. I’m not sure how your hearing new music but I only ever hear the same track on repeat in combat
I've been playing ARK for ages and your point on music/ambience really resonates. What's weird is that I KNOW ARK has a bunch of different, great-sounding songs (the composer, Gareth Coker, has done good work and I'd suggest listening to the OSTs to hear what I mean)... but they just go unused in the actual game. Sure, boss-fights, combat, etc. all gets used. But if I'm walking through the redwoods? Or caravaning across the desert? Or diving for pearls in the deep ocean? Silence. I agree fully and strongly with needing ambience music to actually be USED. It exists... it just goes unused. I think it's a developer-side issue, not a lack-of-music issue.
There was some stuff i mentioned in the music portion of the video that I unfortunately it out of the video but I wish I would have kept it in. One thing I mentioned was that of the little bit of music I heard it was actually good music it wasn’t bad at all. A bit generic but It wasn’t really bad. You just never hear it and yeah ambience is definitely missing. Gives it a bit more tension that’s definitely needed for both new players and experienced players
Great point. It’s very likely many honestly either don’t know about it (as the marketing for the game leading up to its release was atrocious) or they do know about it but simply can’t run the game after trying it. Either way not a good look
Ark is what got you as a youtuber on my radar ngl. But you are genuinely fun to watch with other games too and I enjoy your content. Keep doing what your doing man, idk how you haven't blown up like the girlfriend my primo toootally doesn't have in his closet. But you def have that potential and are def deserving of it. TL;DR Unhinged rant with the hopes that hopefully snail games will see my comment cuz I distain them and they should feel bad but also some ADHD induced ideas are thrown in there Lol. Don't mind mi 😅 Ark would be so much better if a lot of things changed. Music is a huge pathological way to get people to think about your game, and your music choice ngl was perfect for all of those environments. "Different music? Giga?... It's ramping up.. field boss? ... Lyrics in Latin???... SEPHIROTH?!?!?" Some changes could be, DLC packs for both Evolved and Ascended. Like you said, it's the same fuckin' script so there's no reason not to make minor adjustments to allow players who prefer the better graphics to enjoy it all in Ascended, and those of us with shit eyesight and are colorblind who don't care about the quality as much to enjoy it in Evolved. New creatures, events, etc. Ya it seems like a cash grab, but as long as it isn't expensive, I could see it working in all of our favors. Some other points Nitrato; are just shit people as a whole. Maybe at one point they weren't back in the day, but from what I've seen/heard.. ya no, I play single player with just my husband and I cuz we don't have the time to play often, are preferring to go hiking or just out, and don't know anyone else that would play it so it works. BUT I know I'd be fucked if I wanted to play with other people without starting my own server cuz their shit's too expensive for what it offers. Snail Games; everyone knows they are a bunch of greedy self absorbed cucks who are ran by a racist and misogynistic volatile man child with the ego of a frat boy who thinks he knows what women want cuz "mom said I'm handsome". If Wild Card was sold to a better company, or like you said, to a collective in the community, it would get soooo much better. Snail Games have blatantly refused improvements proposed by wild card for bullshit or no reasons at all in the past. Even Tencent would be a better choice. And that's saying something. But in my experience, that also touches on the other issue, the community. Toxic af with people that wanna feel like they have some semblance of power cuz they don't and never will in real life. *cough cough* snail games tribe *cough* Don't get mi wrong, I know there are people that are amazing and helpful and just wanna enjoy the dinos with their friends and make new dino/survival loving friends. They all play on private servers or solo non-dedicated servers. Lol. This game has so much potential I hope it gets to meet it one day.
It’s just like you said ark is what’s given me a platform to this community and opened up lots of possibilities for me so I’m forever grateful for it. But it pains me every now and then knowing how good this franchise can be and how good it once was with evolved. They literally had everything and now I wouldn’t even consider Ark a “mainstream” game anymore lol
there's no point recommending points to Ark so they could improve it since they're not even worried about the path the game is over or they are, since the game is being keep by the modding community again.
I definitely agree with a lot of the points made here and im so glad people are starting to realize that ascended is literally just a port with some fancy UE5 graphics
Im loving ASA, for me the only thing that needed ark was graphics, and I now that graphics mean nothing to a game but ark is awesome gameplay wise (for me) the map remakes are far better, and as a ps4-5 user ASA is a HUGE upgrade, same fps than ASE and little to no crashes. but I agree with most, things especially music.
Ark lacks of direction, there's nothing that makes you do the bosses, yeah the tek stuff's nice but what do I need it for when I can easily beat the Bosses without it anyways? I've never completed an ark map EVER. In minecraft you are obligated to go to the nether for special ressources or to the end for better stuff and other boss fights which are also rewarding. Ark doesn't have that and that makes it kinda dull
Nice changes... I im very sad that a lot of ark's dinos and stuff is just... Get out of the way, yknow what i mean? Just bound to be forgotten. Thats why i absolutely LOVE the ark mod community, and that probally is the only reason for me to play ark these days. Sunken wolrd, garuga, the paleo ark team, moronada brings SO MUCH to the game! I personally will prefer a far less "beautyfull" graphics for some fun shit. So, thinkin on wise, i got some ideas to make ark feels fresh too. For example, the overall weapons and characters. Like... A stab mechanic for swords. Or maybe you can launch your axe? Make a shield bash? Take more stuff to make the game fells not so mechanical... Trinkets and things to equip. Like... The drops of dinos like argy claws and rexes cranium, i think they can be equiped, like some rpg mechanics gives more speed? Do more damage? Swim faster? Or more, put some special items for the characters of ark series. Like the japanese (or chinese, idk) have an especial sword, that are some regional weapon. Or the roman one, that can have an armor set that improves something. Some ideas. Some animation improvement for all dinos too, like making the raptor stop... Look around... Make some random idle animations that can be not only the stiff and walk... But well. I dont think someone gonna make the mods, or ark will ever listen the ideas. And i know theres a LOT of people that have great ideas too. Wildcard do not listen their own community. Some new dinos and mods, its great, of course! But, for 40 dollars? And half of the "new things" (aka bob tell tales, and fantastic cretures) costs more. Thats pretty sad. Ark is my favourite game. And its decaying to this.
I feel like putting the whole games future on the shoulders of modders would be a very bad idea. maybe selling the company to Microsoft would be a better idea (Mostly because microsoft already gets good money from ark with how a significant portion of ark Xbox players play the game through gamepass)
That last point Def needs to happen funnily enough. Wilcard has been a studio for 8+ years and haven't learned anything. Same bugs and Ark bs from the last game and some new AsA specific bugs. Best outcome by far.
As a veteran player, I agree on all points, they literally sold us the same game, with mega graphics, but terrible optimization, and with some improvements, which could have easily been added to Evolved. What bothers me the most is that they did an absolute copy and paste with the creatures, but with worse AI for their actions, you can see it by comparing models like the ankylosaurus, that its skin is deformed in some areas, like the spines on its tail , or other creatures, who have certain parts of their model, that are bugged or broken, they could have updated models and improved them, but they only made touch-ups in HD, but nothing more. I really love this game, and for that reason alone I continue playing it, but I won't spend more on it, its Bob dlc is literally more blatant pay to win than the old dlcs with their creatures and broken items, there is so much that can be improved, but they only insist on getting the most out of the base game, but in the wrong direction.
I just wish they would of added literally anything to make single player less crushingly lonely. World just feels lifeless and empty after you build your first stone house, argie, and gun. The survival aspect becomes an annoying chore instead of a core part of the game. Then you just spend your days mindlessly farming in a big empty world so you can do the bosses and move to the next map. No need to "defend" your base because nothing can hurt your stone box of a house, no need for defenses or turrets because again, nothing at all can hurt you. You get so much room to play with but you ultimately just stick to the same 2-3 areas because there is no reason to explore. nothing to actually find outside of the boss fights and caves, nothing to do. The lack of a social aspect just turns the experience into a giant lonely borefest. I'd want NPC humans that would grow evolve and threaten you or could potentially be friendly to trade with. Spawned in villages that I can interact with on some basic level (like minecraft villagers). Imagine having two rival NPC towns that go to war with eachother that you can side with. Or getting a mission to transport resources from one village to another for a reward. Or just some better sense of a world that existed before you and long after youre gone outside of the smattering of ancient ruins with nothing notable inside we currently have in SE. sorry for the rant, just years of frustration after loading up my current game on Gen 1 only to sit around my house, cook some meat, then log off after hours of ideling because im too bored to bother doing anything.
Nah all of this is just stuff that some will like, some will hate. ASA will grow as more maps release and get the game optimized. Yall are just impatient
I think something cool they could do would take like what grounded did the bigger you build your base or the more creatures you kill in an area almost like a tower defense or horde mode. Waves of certain creatures will come and attack your home base and it can even happen when you're not there
“PvP players when you suggest making the pve experience better.” *they are offended they can’t sprint around in circles shooting crossbows with their 3 foot character models* I warn you brother being in the PvP community may end up giving you permanent brain damage. My mindset is “make fun dinosaur survival game actually fun and feel like your surviving dinosaurs”
One of your suggestions was to add open world bosses, which would ruin immersion, and a proper pve experience. Another suggestion you had was afk farming, which is arguably the most atrocious feature of any game because it doesn't promote player activity. You also definitely haven't played enough ASE to understand ASA is an upgrade, ASA simply needs content.
Honestly i think ark with all the suggestions you made, would'nt be ark. In my opinion the things that ark would need to be a good game is: 1. No more good damn snail games. They are from what i know, the ones pushing everything to cost so much. 2. Get rid of the old bugs, such as clipping, as these are probably the worst part of ark. 3. Optimize the game. 4. Make multiplayer servers free, or make smaller servers (maybe like 3-5 player) servers free. This is what ruins the game most for me, you can't just play with your friends. Either its the annoying non dedicated hosting, with teathering, or its spending waaaayyyy too long looking for a server to match the rates, and mods you're good with.
I mean what can we really call “ark” at this point. Sure the game started off as one thing but ever since it’s been so far off and derailed from what it originally was. An all time low player count certainly speaks for itself. If they want to build a bigger player base they may need to change some things up even if it feels less like Ark. right now as I see it Ark is a niche game and no longer mainstream
I do. But it’s not the modders job to do the developers job for them. Unfortunately the modders are better than the developers and are single handedly keeping this game from bankruptcy
No matter how much you squeak they dont care. Plus your opinions looks like you wanna kill the game instead of make it better since is easy say it instead of make it.
istg if snail game got delisted it would be better even if microsoft buys it idc as long as it is not ea and snail games its okay sure if microsoft buys it update will take years but they don't make everything paid this was just money grab game tbh
Finna be honest with you if i have the money to buy studio wildcard/the ip of ark i would save it but the thing is if Microsoft could buy it snail games actually ruin the game paid mods that are very shitty
Animation take many fps and many dino spawns take also fps but and ark fix many issues but was take long time i think sailgames do many wrong and the people that work with wildcard idk what them do moders are the best what can happend do tge game the people that play ark know more what we need what i need in ark is faster map loading and also need stable fps but good Grafik means pfs issues but this with sounds on places im with u would also do ark new realesed animals for free also would do Bob's tale for free or as a pay mod and after enough payers as official realesed and I would focus on TLC/dlc but only take models for it and for fps unreal engine update for sound would I take biologist/archaeologists
It’s not the same or nearly as efficient as palworld because you still have to wait for resources to respawn. Deal with weight and tracking issues etc. items where you could just place a farming station down could be cool.
Just had to comment before I really started because I have always said Ark is one of the best/worst games ever. Glad Im not the only one who thinks that haha
The idea from what I know was to build a platform for ark 2 and (as you guesssed it) make money to fund it. It seems like that severely backfired on them in the long run
This is so misleading, you don't need to pay to play with friends, there are official server for that exactly porpoise... Just gotta face the true ark's problem "Server connection" Lags... Crashing... Game simply closing... This is the only (ONLY) problem on ark... Everything else you said its just a review of big games fan boy... True ark players know what is real issue. Ark for me is perfect, but the server connection should get more attention, besides that all criticism just mean you didn't liked the game, nor its your type of game... Go play something else, every game needs money, you think the programmers did all the coding for free? The artist, modelers, sound effects... All are free? ....
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I love watching all the PvP players get so offended over this video💀 they think I’m actually putting these ideas to work and changing them. Dawg it’s just a hypothetical video
Dino behaviour is something that is sorely lacking for me. Having wild dinos roam in herds, socialize with each other, drink from rivers, sleep and rest, spawn at different times of day, would all be so cool and make the world feel ALIVE. Along with that, not having predators murder everything in their line of sight, even if it's something that will definitely get them killed.
Not only would be sick for wild dinos, but tamed ones as well. It would be so awesome to have you dinos actually feel like companions instead of tools, where you actually have to care for them and they'll then care for you. Neglecting a dino could make them run away or even attack you. Taking great care of a dino would make them loyal and respondent to your needs.
Bit of a niche thing, but i'd live to have Ark dinos actually behaving like real damn animals for once.
Another thing that would make it feel more immersive and emotional. Too bad they spawn in and just walk around in circles aimlessly with no goals or anything. Would be cool if they could roam around the map almost like sharks do or like you said in groups. I believe spawn regions are fine but Dino’s shouldn’t be limited to just being in that one region
man, it makes so much sense, i hope they finally get this
i think there was a mod for that, the dino emotes mod, i think, made them go to sleep and be more interactive, donnu, but it would be cool
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"Calm music"
"Shits"
"Calm music"
Interesting use of my team's Tyrannosaur for the thumbnail 😂 glad you enjoy our stuff. You're gonna love our rex even more with tomorrow's update!
With the paleo ark mod I’ll never use the vanilla T. rex ever again lol. You guys single handedly make this game feel fresh and unique. Much respect to your team and the hard work you put in to this game. I’ll be sure to credit you and some of the other modders I may have taken some footage from once I’m back home I just wasn’t expecting to get this much traffic 💯
When are you adding the legends expansion to ascended?
I’d love to see them bring you guys on board to TLC dinos for the official game. Your guys work is incredible.
Before adding more different ideas, dino animations, roars etc..All we want is the game to run without bugs, clag, crashes, after an update, there is always more things broken due to it.
Combat music in survival evolved actually shift depending on where you are. Beach is the iconic one, but if you're in the forest or something, it's different. It also depends on creature size.
All of this I fully agree with. Ive been a long time Ark fan but I swear it gets worse every update. A better creature AI would CHANGE EVERYTHING. Making them interact with each other in the wild, do things based off of location, not hunt everything they see even if its 100% gonna kill them. do what they SAY they're doing for Ark 2. thats all I want.
We can hope. The future certainly isn’t looking so good for ark 2 however with 2025 right around the corner
The only creature that kinda does that is the Hyaenodon, why not make it for the other ones too?
the one thing i have to disagree with is music. ark has LOTS of diffrent tracks, and theyre great, but i see your point. there isnt a lack of music, theres a lack of moments where music plays
So, how to start. Well I see where you are coming from with these ideas tho I think you missed the point with them. I'm not sure if its because you are new to the community.
So lets break it down. (just going to say it now. I'm not hating just sharing my view on these ideas)
1. sound effects and TLC.
I think it's a good idea on paper, but we have to remember that it's a remaster. Its not ark 2, so we can't just make ark not ark. New sound effects, like the T-rex roar is a good idea since these things should have been remastered. Certain creatures definitely would benefit from a TLC, but given what wildcard promised with ASA I don't think we'll see anything like that in some time, if at all.
But that is something that most people will be happy with, obviously when not over done since you know it's a remaster and not a new game, so we have to make it still resemble ASE.
2. path finding.
To be fair to wildcard, path finding was better on ASA when it lunched when compared to ASE. Abberacion is the map that screwed it up.
But that's something to always improve, so I'm on board with this.
3. world bosses and RPG elements.
World bosses ARE a thing, not sure if you knew. Back on ASE many maps had world bosses, they weren't just roaming around which is better when you think about it. Would you like to stumble upon a boss (a dragon for example) randomly after taming your new Rex? Probably not.
Ark is a hard game as is so limiting bosses to locations or boss arenas is a better approach so to not completely overwhelm the player when he is not prepared for fighting. But coming back to ASE there were mini bosses on maps usually in caves. I think Ragnarök had 2 bosses like that? But I'm not sure.
A better solution for that would be for example, putting mini bosses in caves, or maybe even mini bosses in artefact caves. You could optionally fight a boss to get some loot, or in some caves you'd have to kill a boss to get to the artefact, but they would not be so strong. So you could get to the artefact.
RPG weapons I'm not sold on tho, we will get Mjölnir with fjordur so that's a thing, but getting weapons based on maps is not so good, since ark is a survival game and well we can't just forget that. Getting weapons form loot crated and drops is more than enough, we have tek tier weapons after defeating bosses. And DLC's give us more and more with every update. So I wouldn't like that really.
4. soundtrack
Inherently I'm not against that, but there are difficulties with this. Well lets start with the most important thing.
ARK has a lot of music, go on steam and look at ark sound track, there is so much amazing music. Genuinely I'm surprised not a lot of people know how good the music is.
But anyway, dynamic soundtrack is good concept, but implementing it would be, well not easy.
Imagine your playing on lost island for example, your in the jungle at night. It's crucial for you to hear if something is approaching (we all know how dense is the jungle there, so listening is actually important).
And suddenly music starts to play, a quiet but still present music. That would be distracting, but that's not all, what if you get attacked? Then the music that actively was preventing you form spotting the danger then cuts of. it just cuts of and battle music starts playing. After defeating the enemy the game is supposed to do exactly what? Keep playing the music to distract you again? Probably not, there would be some silence before it start again. You see where I'm going with this?
Minecraft is a game that can do it (honestly Minecraft in my opinion is not playing enough music) since it's a sandbox game. And your not in danger so much. And also you don't have battle music when you get attacked.
You would have to make a system where music plays if there are no aggressive dinos nearby. That way you could make it more frightening. You hear music and then it cuts of, immediately you know that something is nearby. But again you'd need to make it not overpowered, since I'm sure players would use this as a radar of some sorts LOL (I would have). So you'd have to make it short range so you almost won't be able to escape in time.
5. battle music.
I'm just going to spit it to another category.
Battle music is something relatively unique to ark, that system could have been overhauled, but not to the extent that every dino has its own battle music. Having for example categories, of small/medium/large dino size battle music. That way wildcard would have to make 6 new battle music soundtracks (3 carnivore, 3 herbivore) that way we get an overhaul, whiles not prioritizing any specific dino, or overworking the studio with new music for every dino.
6. tames for auto farming.
I can see where you're coming from with this idea. There are mods for that, I believe there is a new medieval mod that does that. But this also has its limitations, mostly with resource gathering and respawning. I haven't played Palworld, so I'm not sure how it works there and I don't know if ASA changed this, but in ASE ark has timers with resource spawning, when the area is loaded its respawn timer is longer, and whilst its unloaded it's shorter. But again I'm not an expert in this so feel free in correcting me.
Another matter, aren't dinos not loaded when you derender the area? So, I'm not sure how that would work. But than again Sir-5rM8 is a thing, and that solves this issue. But overall I'm not sure about this, but its definitely something to consider.
7. selling
To that I'm not sure to what tell you, wildcard is a great studio, they well, made the game they know what they are doing. Snail games is probably more the reason behind all of this.
But selling isn't what we want probably since who knows who'd buy the studio than.
Okay my yap session is over. I'm probably mixing some stuff up. but again I'm sharing my perspective, and I'm open to discuss. Feel free to correct or share what you think about all of this. (I should have made a video out of this since not many people will read this probably lol)
theres are all good concepts to make the game more interesting, but none of this will go over well with PVP balancing
@@TheMalikVideos fuck balancing PvP. The game should be known more for pve just like Minecraft and palworld. I try and pretend the PvP community doesn’t exist. Or they could make a PvP ruleset that removes some stuff for all the sweaty nerds
@@GamermanJoe_ pve players will play through the game once, maybe a few times. pvp players will keep coming back no matter how many times theyre wiped
@@GamermanJoe_agreed wholeheartedly
@@TheMalikVideosI’ve been playing ark since 2016/17ish. Purely PvE, I’ve tried pvp a few times and had the worst experience. In my opinion ark just feels like such a wasted culmination of effort by continuously trying to make the game PvP. Not to mention, the amount of balance changes (like the flyer nerf way back when) that just completely nuked the fun of flyers for a long time. Thankfully I switched to pc and was able to mod flyers back to being fun. Another example is the giga nerf, and you can’t even bring gigas into boss arenas, so for pve gigas are mostly just trophies instead of being badass apex predators.
I agree with what he said in making there 2 separate rule sets for pve and PvP for both communities to exist at once, but in my pve perspective I really don’t like the focus on PvP balancing
Id be farming dinos 🤣🤣
I’m not trying to be disrespectful towards this guy and appreciate him trying to display his own thoughts on this beautiful game, but close to every single comment here I disagree with, ofc it’s his opinion and I respect that but like. Ok maybe there needs to be some new designs for Dino’s, but like path finding is more towards wild Dino’s (so they can change that) don’t think this game is supposed to be depicted more as an rpg but we have seen with the lavender golem and ice queen that mini bosses do work, but still didn’t really like alot of the ideas. But ofc still respect and love the representing and appreciation of the game, continue the work
Love these concepts! I agree with most of the points made here.
I have 2 small points.
The path finding is actually improved! Especially the wild dinos are way smarter to find you compared to ASE (tamed dinos are still very jank)
(Though i would still love personalties and its something i wanted in ASE for years)
I like the vengeance system idea, reminds me heavily of the middle earth games (shadow of mordor and shadow of war), where orcs can avenge their blood brothers, come back to life, etc. creating stories.
I had a "human NPC" mod for SE that had a basic "farming" mechanic built in, idea being you could "tame" the humans and have them farm basic resources for you around your base. For a single player or low pop server this would intended as a QOL mod so you could passively get base level resources while youre offline or actually playing the game's fun parts. Annoyingly though it was extremely slow and janky and the "tamed" humans would only collect the tiniest scraps before wondering too far away and getting killed themselves. ultimately I ended up removing the mod because it kept spawning wild humans inside my base boundaries to kill all my tames. I tried to remedy this when we moved on to extinction by building my base on top of one of the skyscrapers to keep my tames out of range, but annoyingly the humans would just spawn inside the building itself and kill all my tames from inside the building's mesh, literally shooting through the building mesh and being untouchable to my own turrets. It had so much promise but was so badly programmed.
I think the way primal fear handled progression is a really good way to maybe take the game
Man I had people tell me that ark is fixed but I have crashed multiple times or my game freeze or the mods don’t work correctly and the game lags
My main thing is that the Dino’s feel so lifeless, especially once tamed 😭 I just the would have little randomized interactions with other dinos. Imagine having a Stego who plays the aggro animation when a specific Anky gets within range because they don’t get along. Or if you’re out harvesting and your Rex roars, scaring away a wild pack of raptors who were aggro’d and about to attack. Just like little things that while not much on their own, would add up to make a much more immersive experience.
The lack of players is the because of the cryos on PvP. Cryopods back how they were on PvP would make me return or server owners learning how to not put 4 hours of mods to download just to try their server. Ps4 PvP had 100s of clusters with full lobbies ASA has 1, Elite ark. As a solo PvP player we were robbed.
I've been playing ark for years and here's what I'd say:
I would have been COMPLETELY fine with ASA being a one to one copy of ASE. If all we got was improved graphics, new items, and a few tlcs, I would be fine. But when I started playing ASA, it felt cheap, almost like a rip-off of ark. Not only did it not run well, but I personally hated the new UI. Even the player model feels lifeless, and I miss the old goofy character you could make in ASE. But even with all this, I was fine still playing ASA. The real issue was when they begun to make more paid content. Bobs tall tales and whatever the fuck the other one is called are both are frustrating to me. The old system of paying for maps had advantages, but they were mainly secluded in their own map. But with these packs, you get an unfair advantage over people in the same map who did not buy the pack. Let's not also forget how fucking expensive server hosting is. Ark is more fun with friends, and that should not be limited behind some bullshit price.
These critiques might just be nitpicks, but honestly I think the player counts between ASE and ASA show otherwise. I used to, and still believe ark is the best game of all time. It's fun with and without friends, and has a little bit of everything. But in the direction they are going, any future updates/installments aren't going to ever capture the same fun I get from ASE.
(Keep in mind my opinion is coming from someone who really only played ASA for the first few weeks, but I doubt it's gotten any better.)
Nice video mate! You really hit some good ideas here! 💪💪
Late to the party but idc, another thing I’d add along with complete overhauls is both idle animations (Such as them sitting down, looking around before probably going to sleep), and individual variation, like different patterns, eye color, and even size somewhat, maybe even sexual dimorphism in creature models!
It has regional minibosses. Lava golem, ice queen.
I mean no disrespect just informing you
Ok so what im getting at here is that in order to 'fix ark' we must first forsake the prevailing concepts behind the games initial appeal, thus reducing the only game which handled social dynamics and survival pvp well, to a derivative and forgettable game catered towards single player 👏
There is nothing good about the PvP in this game. It’s the sole reason why the game is dying and there is no “appeal” to ark anymore. The game once had an appeal that has quickly gotten so outdated and ran stale. There will always be the dedicated community of people who enjoy PvP and how janky the game is, but from a lasting perspective the game is essentially dead already. If you want to revive it you cater to the larger player base. The single player and pve community makes a majority of the player base. Not the PvP player base. Look at a game like Minecraft. They have changed the game a lot more through the last 10 years than what we have seen with ark while still remaining true to Minecraft. It’s certainly not known for its PvP either. A game like that lasts because it has the things I discussed in this video. Ark ironically hasn’t “evolved” at all since its release in 2017. I truly don’t know how some can defend such a shitty company
@GamermanJoe_ minecraft is partly renowned for pvp, minecraft manhunt pretty much revived the game in 2020. Anyways, ark never declined because pvp was flawed or got stale, it died because wildcard, being braindead, started adding broken features which established a pay to win element whilst inciting deviation from the games initial themes of primitive technology and life of antiquity. Pvp was never fundamentally flawed, the devs mismanagement simply made it perceived as such. I've been playing this game for 3 years and the only good parts were waging war on other tribes like its 1842 on other tribes with a warship on servers were the level was capped at 44 to secure gear balance. Asa delete ase official servers and never inherited the good ones. Your ignorance confounds me, I've been affected by wildcards stupidity far more than you have. Ffs, by the looks of your stance it seems like you support them since your proposed features are LITERALLY WHAT ARK 2 IS PLANNED TO BE.
I love how modders have have been making infinitely better quality stuff than wildcard has, and for free…mostly
Why do all the dinos in Ark constantly run around? Because both friendly and hostile dinos spawn randomly. If every dino spawned in a certain order, they would only run around when necessary. Seeing a Rex pack wandering slowly across the map and only reacting when needed would not only be amazing but also realistic
I agree with some of the things that you said for example when you talked about them doing new animations because I felt as though they should not have stopped TLC updates because its still a lot of dinosaurs that need one. as with the Palworld thing I understand but as far as the dinosaurs gathering resources I would want it to seem realistic like Maybe if they were to make it to where you can send out a pack of Carnaviors to get meat.
Also I do think they should make more to do as I have been playing ark for years and it gets boring pretty much doing the same thing on every map
No hate but the game isnt "exactly the same" pathing is similar but different improved for tames and its wild dinos try to avoid being trapped. Also the music in the game is great and theres closer to 50 tracks not the 2 you mentioned the songs are biome dependent or some unique to boss fights
Even if that is true it’s still god awful and not an improvement worth 45 dollars. I don’t necessarily think the music in ark is bad and I actually cut out a part where I mention the music is pretty good, there’s just no variety to it and I’ve only ever heard combat music and main menu music. I’m not sure how your hearing new music but I only ever hear the same track on repeat in combat
@@GamermanJoe_ Like I said its just specific combat themes you can use the piano ingame to check out all the tracks if you're curious.
Hope someone at wildcard sees this.
Mate the music in the game is so good and there are world boss on rag and there are dinos that can farm for you so that dose not need fixing.
ASA is about the modders ngl. I feel like the mod community does a better job of revamping their game than Ark Devs have been doing.
I've been playing ARK for ages and your point on music/ambience really resonates. What's weird is that I KNOW ARK has a bunch of different, great-sounding songs (the composer, Gareth Coker, has done good work and I'd suggest listening to the OSTs to hear what I mean)... but they just go unused in the actual game. Sure, boss-fights, combat, etc. all gets used. But if I'm walking through the redwoods? Or caravaning across the desert? Or diving for pearls in the deep ocean? Silence. I agree fully and strongly with needing ambience music to actually be USED. It exists... it just goes unused. I think it's a developer-side issue, not a lack-of-music issue.
There was some stuff i mentioned in the music portion of the video that I unfortunately it out of the video but I wish I would have kept it in. One thing I mentioned was that of the little bit of music I heard it was actually good music it wasn’t bad at all. A bit generic but It wasn’t really bad. You just never hear it and yeah ambience is definitely missing. Gives it a bit more tension that’s definitely needed for both new players and experienced players
2:07 you know whats weird it's in the gamepass and like completely free in microsoft store on xbox
Great point. It’s very likely many honestly either don’t know about it (as the marketing for the game leading up to its release was atrocious) or they do know about it but simply can’t run the game after trying it. Either way not a good look
Very intresting ideas but if were doing palworld i say we add hybrids
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I agree with most of the points but I still think some people would like to keep the old classic models and Sounds,idk tho
Also they could add Animations and sounds when a creature dies,to make it feel like you’re actually killing an Animal ,not a model,feel bad even.
All that needs to be fixed is pathfinding and the game will be amazing! Mods can fix everything else, and it makes it optional
Your oppinion is right, everything you said to fix ark should be done, we should do some fuckin petition before wild card ruins it even more
3:30 dont you mean rework then not reprogram?
Ark is what got you as a youtuber on my radar ngl. But you are genuinely fun to watch with other games too and I enjoy your content. Keep doing what your doing man, idk how you haven't blown up like the girlfriend my primo toootally doesn't have in his closet. But you def have that potential and are def deserving of it.
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Unhinged rant with the hopes that hopefully snail games will see my comment cuz I distain them and they should feel bad but also some ADHD induced ideas are thrown in there Lol. Don't mind mi 😅
Ark would be so much better if a lot of things changed. Music is a huge pathological way to get people to think about your game, and your music choice ngl was perfect for all of those environments. "Different music? Giga?... It's ramping up.. field boss? ... Lyrics in Latin???... SEPHIROTH?!?!?"
Some changes could be, DLC packs for both Evolved and Ascended. Like you said, it's the same fuckin' script so there's no reason not to make minor adjustments to allow players who prefer the better graphics to enjoy it all in Ascended, and those of us with shit eyesight and are colorblind who don't care about the quality as much to enjoy it in Evolved. New creatures, events, etc. Ya it seems like a cash grab, but as long as it isn't expensive, I could see it working in all of our favors.
Some other points
Nitrato; are just shit people as a whole. Maybe at one point they weren't back in the day, but from what I've seen/heard.. ya no, I play single player with just my husband and I cuz we don't have the time to play often, are preferring to go hiking or just out, and don't know anyone else that would play it so it works. BUT I know I'd be fucked if I wanted to play with other people without starting my own server cuz their shit's too expensive for what it offers.
Snail Games; everyone knows they are a bunch of greedy self absorbed cucks who are ran by a racist and misogynistic volatile man child with the ego of a frat boy who thinks he knows what women want cuz "mom said I'm handsome". If Wild Card was sold to a better company, or like you said, to a collective in the community, it would get soooo much better. Snail Games have blatantly refused improvements proposed by wild card for bullshit or no reasons at all in the past. Even Tencent would be a better choice. And that's saying something.
But in my experience, that also touches on the other issue, the community. Toxic af with people that wanna feel like they have some semblance of power cuz they don't and never will in real life. *cough cough* snail games tribe *cough*
Don't get mi wrong, I know there are people that are amazing and helpful and just wanna enjoy the dinos with their friends and make new dino/survival loving friends. They all play on private servers or solo non-dedicated servers. Lol. This game has so much potential I hope it gets to meet it one day.
It’s just like you said ark is what’s given me a platform to this community and opened up lots of possibilities for me so I’m forever grateful for it. But it pains me every now and then knowing how good this franchise can be and how good it once was with evolved. They literally had everything and now I wouldn’t even consider Ark a “mainstream” game anymore lol
thats why there are mods however ascended is starting to get better mods and sadly the premium ones are rising
there's no point recommending points to Ark so they could improve it since they're not even worried about the path the game is over
or they are, since the game is being keep by the modding community again.
I definitely agree with a lot of the points made here and im so glad people are starting to realize that ascended is literally just a port with some fancy UE5 graphics
And an empty PvP player base with cryos set up to stop Solos playing
As a ark player that started in 2018. I will tell you now that there is no way any of these things would ever be added when the game is 117 gigs.
This has nothing to do with ark😂
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Im loving ASA, for me the only thing that needed ark was graphics, and I now that graphics mean nothing to a game but ark is awesome gameplay wise (for me) the map remakes are far better, and as a ps4-5 user ASA is a HUGE upgrade, same fps than ASE and little to no crashes. but I agree with most, things especially music.
Ark lacks of direction, there's nothing that makes you do the bosses, yeah the tek stuff's nice but what do I need it for when I can easily beat the Bosses without it anyways?
I've never completed an ark map EVER. In minecraft you are obligated to go to the nether for special ressources or to the end for better stuff and other boss fights which are also rewarding. Ark doesn't have that and that makes it kinda dull
Is that is why the ark mods are better than the normal ark game lol .. bc with the mods you can make the game a lil bit better ..
Nice changes... I im very sad that a lot of ark's dinos and stuff is just... Get out of the way, yknow what i mean? Just bound to be forgotten. Thats why i absolutely LOVE the ark mod community, and that probally is the only reason for me to play ark these days. Sunken wolrd, garuga, the paleo ark team, moronada brings SO MUCH to the game! I personally will prefer a far less "beautyfull" graphics for some fun shit.
So, thinkin on wise, i got some ideas to make ark feels fresh too.
For example, the overall weapons and characters. Like... A stab mechanic for swords. Or maybe you can launch your axe? Make a shield bash? Take more stuff to make the game fells not so mechanical...
Trinkets and things to equip. Like... The drops of dinos like argy claws and rexes cranium, i think they can be equiped, like some rpg mechanics gives more speed? Do more damage? Swim faster? Or more, put some special items for the characters of ark series. Like the japanese (or chinese, idk) have an especial sword, that are some regional weapon. Or the roman one, that can have an armor set that improves something. Some ideas.
Some animation improvement for all dinos too, like making the raptor stop... Look around... Make some random idle animations that can be not only the stiff and walk...
But well. I dont think someone gonna make the mods, or ark will ever listen the ideas. And i know theres a LOT of people that have great ideas too. Wildcard do not listen their own community. Some new dinos and mods, its great, of course! But, for 40 dollars? And half of the "new things" (aka bob tell tales, and fantastic cretures) costs more.
Thats pretty sad. Ark is my favourite game. And its decaying to this.
I feel like putting the whole games future on the shoulders of modders would be a very bad idea. maybe selling the company to Microsoft would be a better idea (Mostly because microsoft already gets good money from ark with how a significant portion of ark Xbox players play the game through gamepass)
That last point Def needs to happen funnily enough. Wilcard has been a studio for 8+ years and haven't learned anything. Same bugs and Ark bs from the last game and some new AsA specific bugs. Best outcome by far.
As a veteran player, I agree on all points, they literally sold us the same game, with mega graphics, but terrible optimization, and with some improvements, which could have easily been added to Evolved.
What bothers me the most is that they did an absolute copy and paste with the creatures, but with worse AI for their actions, you can see it by comparing models like the ankylosaurus, that its skin is deformed in some areas, like the spines on its tail , or other creatures, who have certain parts of their model, that are bugged or broken, they could have updated models and improved them, but they only made touch-ups in HD, but nothing more.
I really love this game, and for that reason alone I continue playing it, but I won't spend more on it, its Bob dlc is literally more blatant pay to win than the old dlcs with their creatures and broken items, there is so much that can be improved, but they only insist on getting the most out of the base game, but in the wrong direction.
I just wish they would of added literally anything to make single player less crushingly lonely. World just feels lifeless and empty after you build your first stone house, argie, and gun. The survival aspect becomes an annoying chore instead of a core part of the game. Then you just spend your days mindlessly farming in a big empty world so you can do the bosses and move to the next map. No need to "defend" your base because nothing can hurt your stone box of a house, no need for defenses or turrets because again, nothing at all can hurt you. You get so much room to play with but you ultimately just stick to the same 2-3 areas because there is no reason to explore. nothing to actually find outside of the boss fights and caves, nothing to do. The lack of a social aspect just turns the experience into a giant lonely borefest.
I'd want NPC humans that would grow evolve and threaten you or could potentially be friendly to trade with. Spawned in villages that I can interact with on some basic level (like minecraft villagers). Imagine having two rival NPC towns that go to war with eachother that you can side with. Or getting a mission to transport resources from one village to another for a reward. Or just some better sense of a world that existed before you and long after youre gone outside of the smattering of ancient ruins with nothing notable inside we currently have in SE.
sorry for the rant, just years of frustration after loading up my current game on Gen 1 only to sit around my house, cook some meat, then log off after hours of ideling because im too bored to bother doing anything.
Yeah they totally just copy and paste the code with some additions, but modelling is not the same as programming
I’m no developer so I’m not sure what the difference is I just put it in that category
At least all that is coming in arc two next year because I don’t think that they’ll really care
"next year"
*dies of laughter*
Nah all of this is just stuff that some will like, some will hate.
ASA will grow as more maps release and get the game optimized. Yall are just impatient
I had to stop playing ark today to many bugs
I think something cool they could do would take like what grounded did the bigger you build your base or the more creatures you kill in an area almost like a tower defense or horde mode. Waves of certain creatures will come and attack your home base and it can even happen when you're not there
i get you but theyre gonna do all of that in ark 2
I hope. At this rate ark 2 may never come out or just be put to the side indefinitely. Don’t keep your hopes up too high is what I would suggest
This video really shows that pve players are so amazing at giving the worst possible suggestions.
“PvP players when you suggest making the pve experience better.” *they are offended they can’t sprint around in circles shooting crossbows with their 3 foot character models* I warn you brother being in the PvP community may end up giving you permanent brain damage. My mindset is “make fun dinosaur survival game actually fun and feel like your surviving dinosaurs”
One of your suggestions was to add open world bosses, which would ruin immersion, and a proper pve experience.
Another suggestion you had was afk farming, which is arguably the most atrocious feature of any game because it doesn't promote player activity.
You also definitely haven't played enough ASE to understand ASA is an upgrade, ASA simply needs content.
Honestly i think ark with all the suggestions you made, would'nt be ark. In my opinion the things that ark would need to be a good game is:
1. No more good damn snail games. They are from what i know, the ones pushing everything to cost so much.
2. Get rid of the old bugs, such as clipping, as these are probably the worst part of ark.
3. Optimize the game.
4. Make multiplayer servers free, or make smaller servers (maybe like 3-5 player) servers free. This is what ruins the game most for me, you can't just play with your friends. Either its the annoying non dedicated hosting, with teathering, or its spending waaaayyyy too long looking for a server to match the rates, and mods you're good with.
I mean what can we really call “ark” at this point. Sure the game started off as one thing but ever since it’s been so far off and derailed from what it originally was. An all time low player count certainly speaks for itself. If they want to build a bigger player base they may need to change some things up even if it feels less like Ark. right now as I see it Ark is a niche game and no longer mainstream
Joe needs to play with mods. a lot of his comments have been seen and resolved by others
I do. But it’s not the modders job to do the developers job for them. Unfortunately the modders are better than the developers and are single handedly keeping this game from bankruptcy
First step
Fix crash and freeze
No matter how much you squeak they dont care. Plus your opinions looks like you wanna kill the game instead of make it better since is easy say it instead of make it.
Ark Mobile Revamped is the answer
istg if snail game got delisted it would be better even if microsoft buys it idc as long as it is not ea and snail games its okay
sure if microsoft buys it update will take years but they don't make everything paid this was just money grab game tbh
Thats paleoark rex on the thumbnail
Sure is. I tried to use the vanilla Rex but its eyes are fisheyed on the side so it didn’t look right lol
@ lol
Enhanced graphics I disagree I get better graphics on evolved then asceneded
Finna be honest with you if i have the money to buy studio wildcard/the ip of ark i would save it but the thing is if Microsoft could buy it snail games actually ruin the game paid mods that are very shitty
Let me save yall 16 minutes of your lives
Ehem
“Reeeeeee this game isn’t like other games I play! Reeeeee make it like other games!”
I couldn’t imagine getting this offended over a narrative concept video. Lmao why are you so mad
Animation take many fps and many dino spawns take also fps but and ark fix many issues but was take long time i think sailgames do many wrong and the people that work with wildcard idk what them do moders are the best what can happend do tge game the people that play ark know more what we need what i need in ark is faster map loading and also need stable fps but good Grafik means pfs issues but this with sounds on places im with u
would also do ark new realesed animals for free also would do Bob's tale for free or as a pay mod and after enough payers as official realesed and I would focus on TLC/dlc but only take models for it and for fps unreal engine update for sound would I take biologist/archaeologists
The Dino’s can farm for you already. You just have to have them on wandering.
It’s not the same or nearly as efficient as palworld because you still have to wait for resources to respawn. Deal with weight and tracking issues etc. items where you could just place a farming station down could be cool.
Just had to comment before I really started because I have always said Ark is one of the best/worst games ever. Glad Im not the only one who thinks that haha
"The greatest, worst game ever made." Hahaha
Heh that’s why I only play with mods
Same. I can’t imagine playing straight vanilla
No idea why they even made this game in the first place 😂 basically just killed ark 2
The idea from what I know was to build a platform for ark 2 and (as you guesssed it) make money to fund it. It seems like that severely backfired on them in the long run
This is so misleading, you don't need to pay to play with friends, there are official server for that exactly porpoise... Just gotta face the true ark's problem "Server connection" Lags... Crashing... Game simply closing... This is the only (ONLY) problem on ark... Everything else you said its just a review of big games fan boy... True ark players know what is real issue.
Ark for me is perfect, but the server connection should get more attention, besides that all criticism just mean you didn't liked the game, nor its your type of game... Go play something else, every game needs money, you think the programmers did all the coding for free? The artist, modelers, sound effects... All are free? ....
Wildcard come on out now we know this is you