Community Crunch 361: ASA Comparison, EVO Event, and More!

All those early game structures, they look so GREAT in UE5. Makes me wonder what Thatch, wood, and stone are all going to look like

Loving the new look for the sleeping bag, smithy and mortar and pestle! I can’t wait to see what other changes will come for ASA! And I can understand it may be a hard development converting everything to UE5 and having it as a separate game. But I know it may be worth it in the end! 
 

Also I am curious, will be get some redesigns and TLC for some of ARK’s older creatures? I know a few still need a chance to shine like the Diplodocus and Gallimimus among others. 

Damn! That sleeping bag looks just as comfy as the first one,  but those are totally more nicely spruced up. ❤️

6 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

All those early game structures, they look so GREAT in UE5. Makes me wonder what Thatch, wood, and stone are all going to look like

i hope it looks like bamboo like it did in Altas

Looking just about like everything before with a little bit of sparkle

#Keeporiginalgoing #saveourdinosandourwork

#Savethememorialsofplayerspast

Was hoping for a comment on what a certain undisclosed tribe did on a certain undisclosed official server. Really hoping for some public action on that but I do love the new ASA smithy and mortar and pestle

4 minutes ago, Udam said:

i hope it looks like bamboo like it did in Altas

That would look, SO FREAKING COOL!

Looking good, keep up the good work.

Dang it, Raasclark quit streaming Zelda for this??? LoL

The old assets do look a lot better though.

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shortly before release

And you believe people to preorder/buy this game they basicly already own, and the new one havent seen a single bit?

At this point it's no longer a "community crunch"

this is just what you called "avoiding the stuffs the community wants to hear about and just say stuffs we want to say and show slightly better resources for a game you have to fully paid" crunch

Patiently awaits rhyniognatha 

Very impressive visuals there, It brings me so much joy to see you really are re-working everything from the start. I can't wait to see what ark evolves into.

Oh so beautiful, I like the revision.
I am already curious how it will continue.  
Whether the animals then also adapt to the ground and perhaps the riding/behavior becomes more realistic?

So that the animal body goes into a sloping position when the animal climbs up a steep slope, or you don't have the fastest speed right away, but that it builds up slowly and you also notice how the animal has to struggle when it runs longer.

Maybe also that it becomes more and more unwilling when the endurance is at the end.
That it overcomes even small obstacles, with a jump/climb or similar.
Not running freely against objects.

I would celebrate the game so if it was really significantly more realistic. 
Not realistic in the sense that there are rexes and humans at the same time.
But that you could think you almost have a real animal standing there.

I'm praying for that, if that were the case I'd probably do everything I could to get the Hunted rewritten for ASA and I'd get my PC ready for ASA! No matter how long that takes.

Please please please make it more realistic from everything.

I also put up with a lot of bugs since I don't know a single game without it anyway.

I am so impatient and excited to see what you will present to us. (Yes, I am aware that my wishes are very high and may never be implemented.
But you can dream!)

Rip ark

44 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

All those early game structures, they look so GREAT in UE5. Makes me wonder what Thatch, wood, and stone are all going to look like

thatch, wood and stone ... duh!

My small wish for the upgraded version would be some form of sexual dimorphism between males and females, at least for some species, and babies that actually look like babies and not some horrible deformities with proper growth cycle. But that is not gonna happen I guess.

On a more bittersweet note I'm waiting for the release of official server saves, so we can keep our lil server running (with upped rates :)). Might even give me some free time without the stress of constantly logging in to keep the timers...

Not really a surprise there is no comment on the [REDACTED] tribe/[REDACTED] incident on [REDACTED] official servers, though I was hopeful this time would be different with all the publicity from the PVP ark youtubers. You are already in hot water with your community it seems like it would be beneficial to address it or at least acknowledge that you are aware of it. 

I agree, the look of the new assets is awesome!  The smithy actually looks like a smiths work bench.  The mortar and pestle is a nice upgrade as well as the sleeping bag.  I said it last week, I’ll say it again.  Releasing gameplay footage “shortly before launch” probably not the best decision.  I (as well as many others I’m sure) do like seeing the upgrades, and I’m very excited to log into ASA on release day, but with every passing crunch with only little bites of upgrades and what was blowing up on YouTube this past week, things are not looking good in the world of Ark.

Us here in the community are here to comment, suggest and sometimes critique the game we all love.  I’m sure I speak for many of us here when I say that we stand behind YOU, Wildcard.  Cheaters and those that use connections to get their own way should not be tolerated,  NO MATTER WHO IT IS OR THEIR AFFILIATION!  Some may feel that in their part of the world that behavior is ok, but this game was founded in the US, and that behavior is not acceptable here, nor should it be.  I don’t know what (if) anything you guys can do to stop that nonsense in its tracks but it needs to be done, and BEFORE the launch of ASA.  Aight, enough of that rant.

Wildcard, ya gotta juice up the crunches.  Grab the caption of your community again, restore the trust we once had.  Be it many years ago, there was still trust once.  Restore the excitement and anticipation of playing the upgraded game.  Little bites won’t do it, you know how to hype us up.  If there was ever a time we need the hype up more than ever, IT’S NOW!!!  Up the ante, throw some high level cards on the table, get us full of excitement again.  That’s what we REALLY need, an$ you guys too.  You won’t regret it!

Can you please put a warning in stores and ingame about official shutdown? We got daily new people on official PVE not aware of the shutdown on end of august. That would be at least a sign of respect to new ARK players.
Also could you clarify the poor console users if they will be able to download their own save and if yes how will be they able to play them?
Also more details in general about saves availability: we know official clusters have thousands of servers, giving higher priority to some kind of servers vs other may be a good solution (eg: PVE, small tribes, PVP).
Any plan also to add a way to direct connect to a server through ip:port?password in EGS? Password protected servers don't work in that way with EPIC/EGS, supporting it would be a future proof solution in case EGS version ingame server browser would stop to work (steam already has its own solution).
Thank you

PS: the ASA sleeping bag looks too much "evolved" compared to the ASE sleeping bag, same for some anvil details of smithy.

I find it amusing that even though everything is on fire, and they are the ones that caused it all, they still are siting here, pretending, and telling us that "this is fine". I am especially interested in the difference in numbers of how many ASE players there ever was, and how many players in ASA there ends up being. I am guessing that ASA will be a good game, with no players, since everyone that has over 1k hours in ASE, the main, dedicated player base, are now pissed off, and will not play ASA out of outrage, anger, and justifiable protest. I am guessing about 15% of all ASE players will play ASA. Maybe 20%. And ASA will become a huge financial loss, not because of the quality of the game, but because of the quality of treatment the players, and fans have been given, and wholeheartedly received.

Anyone else have a guess at the percentage of players that will be lost between game versions, thanks to the treatment of the community/players/fans/Ex-fans?

Can you make the mortar and pestle change from berries when we put, say, stone and chitin in for cementing paste? Idk why but I think it always showing berries would bug me lol

Wildcard/ SG Your still not saying anything worth hearing. 

What are you going to do

About leaving us with a broken game.  Giving us Ark players some answers to how you will improve ArkSe. Stop ignoring.

4 minutes ago, ladymarina said:

Wildcard/ SG Your still not saying anything worth hearing. 

What are you going to do

About leaving us with a broken game.  Giving us Ark players some answers to how you will improve ArkSe. Stop ignoring.

a github push in unreal engine style to fix the game would be wonderful.

8 minutes ago, darkradeon said:

a github push in unreal engine style to fix the game would be wonderful.

I wish that was true. But they are not telling us anything. No peace of mind at all. As advertised it should be free. Or they should give it half price.