Vehicles....?

[Burntoast]

so i heard wild card addded a tek atv but there is no engram wouldnt it be so cool to have like seaplanes and motorbikes as well!

[DemitriX]

Can only be spawned in for testing purposes, check patch notes for commands.

[Kenny]

maybe those can have speed, nice

[Burntoast]

yeah it would be so cool

[🦊 Hermit]

Gotta be honest, I don't really get the reasoning behind the buggy. The raft makes sense because there's no real way to cross large bodies of water and underwater tames are more mid-lategame, but on land we have plenty of dinos that do the job fine, and the terrain is too mountainous and covered in rocks/trees to make a car practical. Seems it doesn't really suit the style and setting of the game, plus it detracts from Ark's main selling point of being able to ride dinos.

[Female_sniper]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Gotta be honest, I don't really get the reasoning behind the buggy. The raft makes sense because there's no real way to cross large bodies of water and underwater tames are more mid-lategame, but on land we have plenty of dinos that do the job fine, and the terrain is too mountainous and covered in rocks/trees to make a car practical. Seems it doesn't really suit the style and setting of the game, plus it detracts from Ark's main selling point of being able to ride dinos.

rafts makes sense, and then they added speedboats....

I agree that the ATV makes absolutely no sense to the game, neither does a speedboat. But tell that to everyone who has been waiting for it to be in game since the start of this whole charade and you'll be lynched.

Their argument will sound like this --> "The game is called Survival Evolved" <- keyword being "evolved".
In other words, they seem to not want dinos at all, but a car/shooting game. I wonder, why don't they just go play GTA? But alas, I wont ask, I rather keep my head on my neck and shoulders.

Soon they will most likely add a helicopter, or why not a jet.
At least one of those would make sense since they completely wrecked the speed of all fliers in the game anyway, so something needs to compensate that.

[Belnick]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Gotta be honest, I don't really get the reasoning behind the buggy. The raft makes sense because there's no real way to cross large bodies of water and underwater tames are more mid-lategame, but on land we have plenty of dinos that do the job fine, and the terrain is too mountainous and covered in rocks/trees to make a car practical. Seems it doesn't really suit the style and setting of the game, plus it detracts from Ark's main selling point of being able to ride dinos.

TEK tribe could sell ATV etc, you really think just anyone can beat a dragon on Hard ? or Alpha?
same with all TEK whine, it is for the top 1%, dont worry about it

also it is buggy as hell, no phun intended

[🦊 Hermit]

See, some kind of flying machine like a heli would actually make sense in my view. The motorboat does to me as well.

Look at accessing dense jungles in real life, such as the amazon rainforest - cars are very rarely used in such a situation because they're more trouble than they're worth, but boating up a river or flying to your destination in a chopper is logical. And it would make sense to me too, that in a situation like this with a jungle island and sufficiently advanced tech, some survivors would try to explore that route.

So long as they were kept balanced then it would be reasonable, if you ask me. And those elements would be balanced. The raft kinda does something that many underwater tames don't do - offer a bulk cargo transfer abillity across water and a mobile base which can float. The motorboat does the same, but with more defense and speed. And a heli could be balanced by offering speed and mobility, at the cost of extreme resource consumption (takes a lot to make it and uses a lot of fuel) and low weight capacity. So again each element would have it's nieche, it's role to fulfil, without treading on the toes of the other game elements (dinos). And it would be logical too.

The buggy, imo, is illogical, for reasons we've already stated. Moving a car through a dense, rocky, and mountainous jungle is more trouble than it's worth. And unlike the raft and the heli, it doesn't fill a role that dinos do not already do better. It's not as good a weight carrier as a wooly rhino or paracer, it isn't as fast as a procoptodon or a galli, it isn't a fighting mount like a rex, etc etc. It has no purpose which makes it unique and special, and it doesn't fit the game's setting either.

[123]

Idk about you but I think that would ♥♥♥♥ the game up, the game is about surviving in a dinosaur island. The fact thats u can tmae dinos and run around on them is a huge selling factor after you build a base that is literally what u spend 75% of your time doing. Adding vehicles kind of defeats the purpose of being able to ride the dinos.

[CedarTree]

If you don't like them, don't use them. Who are you to judge how others play? The buggy would be better for scorched earth though.

[blutig]

Originally posted by Hermit:

The buggy, imo, is illogical, for reasons we've already stated. Moving a car through a dense, rocky, and mountainous jungle is more trouble than it's worth. And unlike the raft and the heli, it doesn't fill a role that dinos do not already do better. It's not as good a weight carrier as a wooly rhino or paracer, it isn't as fast as a procoptodon or a galli, it isn't a fighting mount like a rex, etc etc. It has no purpose which makes it unique and special, and it doesn't fit the game's setting either.

It seems you are forgetting about the whole Scorched Earth map. The buggy is perfect for zooming around the desert (assuming the traction on the thing doesn't bug out and make you do a 360 since they 'fixed' it).

[Female_sniper]

We have been asking for something else since day one that would make more sense to me in how I thought (personally) this game would develop (and I am sadly proven wrong on this) and that is a cart. For example, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense to be able to string up a cart behind a Trike for carrying a larger amount of cargo to the base?

But no, they serve us an ATV and a speedboat.
I see no point with a speedboat, and I am one who rather stay above water than beneath so I tend to not venture anywhere even on a dolphin, coz the moment I get beneath watersurface I freak out like a baby :/ But that at least kept it interesting. Speedboat, dunno... As long as its only for speed and not carrying cargo or building on, I guess whatever floats, you know. But for me personally, it's no deal.

[Slordar]

I would love the buggy on scorch, dune jumping sounds awesome!
Maybe they will make it so manticore unlocks it.

[HighFlyer15]

Originally posted by Mariguana A_A:

maybe those can have speed, nice

Yeah, drive it enough and it'll magically learn to drive faster. Like birds.

[Leslie]

Yeah, and jets.... with napalm.
And high altitude strategic bombing.
And, and, satilites and space stations.... and an unlimited universe of billions and billions of planets.... oh, wait.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by blutig:

It seems you are forgetting about the whole Scorched Earth map. The buggy is perfect for zooming around the desert (assuming the traction on the thing doesn't bug out and make you do a 360 since they 'fixed' it).

You may be right, I don't have SE so it may suit better on there but I can't comment on it. But I do still maintain that it doesn't make much sense on the Island and the Center.

Originally posted by Female_sniper:

We have been asking for something else since day one that would make more sense to me in how I thought (personally) this game would develop (and I am sadly proven wrong on this) and that is a cart. For example, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense to be able to string up a cart behind a Trike for carrying a larger amount of cargo to the base?

Now that I'd be fully behind, yeah. It'd be a fun addition that makes sense, and could be great for earlygame resource gathering before one gets a paracer, or even midgame if they didn't want a heavy weight dino.