Tek Armour = useless in Aberration

[Solgath]

most advance armour ever create, out done by the Hazard suit, really? it's tek armour, best top tier gear, yet - 1) doesn't protect from poison spit, but lets you breath under water? 2) can't be used in the radiation zone in Aberration, 3) full set of normal tek gear will kill you due to severe overheating... srsly epic work there...

[Chubbdizzle]

In that case dragon the devs are even lazier as there should be a new top gear for each map.

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Solgath:

hrrmm, still seems a little shody, and lazy, best armour in the game, can't be used to protect you from things that it really should..

lazy? XD you mean instead of using an already existing armor and not bothering to do anything new, making a new armor specific to the hostile challenges of the new map is lazy?

keeping TEK armor and doing nothing would've been lazy =P you've got it backwards.

[DragAxx]

Think of it as World of warcraft. All that grinding and raiding for the Top tier gear in one expansion, just to be outdone and outclassed by the Low level green gear in the next. Wouldnt be fun if you only had to Grind on the first 50 levels in w.o.w. and kept that same gear for each and every expansion afterwards. Same goes for ARK in a way.
Heck I always start from lvl 1 on each expansion in ARK just for that reason. Kind of boring to transfer my Tek geared character to the next expansion. What is there to do? Breeding pets for end bosses is boring work.

[Eternis]

The oddest part about it not providing radiation and biohazard protection is in some of the explorer notes it kinda looks like its being worn

[drazan]

Originally posted by DragAxx:

Think of it as World of warcraft. All that grinding and raiding for the Top tier gear in one expansion, just to be outdone and outclassed by the Low level green gear in the next. Wouldnt be fun if you only had to Grind on the first 50 levels in w.o.w. and kept that same gear for each and every expansion afterwards. Same goes for ARK in a way.
Heck I always start from lvl 1 on each expansion in ARK just for that reason. Kind of boring to transfer my Tek geared character to the next expansion. What is there to do? Breeding pets for end bosses is boring work.

only that in wow the levels go up with +10
while in ark, nothing changed lol

so yes high end gear should still be high end gear

i'm aware there are other cxonditions, like environment (fur armour, ghillie armor, scuba, gas, you name it)

but tek armour is THE end game, high tech armour that should deal with most, if not all

[DragAxx]

Originally posted by drazan:

Originally posted by DragAxx:

Think of it as World of warcraft. All that grinding and raiding for the Top tier gear in one expansion, just to be outdone and outclassed by the Low level green gear in the next. Wouldnt be fun if you only had to Grind on the first 50 levels in w.o.w. and kept that same gear for each and every expansion afterwards. Same goes for ARK in a way.
Heck I always start from lvl 1 on each expansion in ARK just for that reason. Kind of boring to transfer my Tek geared character to the next expansion. What is there to do? Breeding pets for end bosses is boring work.

only that in wow the levels go up with +10
while in ark, nothing changed lol

so yes high end gear should still be high end gear

i'm aware there are other cxonditions, like environment (fur armour, ghillie armor, scuba, gas, you name it)

but tek armour is THE end game, high tech armour that should deal with most, if not all

Why would you want “end game” in expansion that was just released?

[HighFlyer15]

Originally posted by Solgath:

hrrmm, still seems a little shody, and lazy, best armour in the game, can't be used to protect you from things that it really should..

It was never the best armor. It has very poor armor and it sucks element like crazy. I would bring over Tek boots and maybe the Helmet for the night vision + scanner. The rest of the armor was never top of the line protection against everything. We might get armor which ascends it in the future with even more armor, better blueprints, and protection against elements but for now you're stuck using more than a single suit for everything in the game.

[drazan]

Originally posted by DragAxx:

Originally posted by drazan:

only that in wow the levels go up with +10
while in ark, nothing changed lol

so yes high end gear should still be high end gear

i'm aware there are other cxonditions, like environment (fur armour, ghillie armor, scuba, gas, you name it)

but tek armour is THE end game, high tech armour that should deal with most, if not all

Why would you want “end game” in expansion that was just released?

because this expansion is for advanced players, hence why they can transfer in and why it is created as such
if they want everyone to start fresh, then there would be no in-going transfers?

[Ghost]

So tek tier is no longer the easy ticket to everything? Hhmm

[Jahon]

What are the rewards for beating bosses in Aberration?

I guess the Tek transporter engram is worth beating a boss for, but if the armor is less helpful than a hazmat suit, why bother with the low level boss fights?

[drazan]

Originally posted by Jahon:

What are the rewards for beating bosses in Aberration?

I guess the Tek transporter engram is worth beating a boss for, but if the armor is less helpful than a hazmat suit, why bother with the low level boss fights?

tek railgun
tek rockdrake saddle
tek sleeping pod

[SteelFire]

The tek helmet has never protected from poison, despite having a self-contained breathing system, and that's always been a stupid flaw in the design.

That goes back to a huge flaw in the whole game design though. They've always had themselves painted into a corner as far as technological and story advancement by having complete progression on the very first Ark (The Island). If they had done things logically, each of the progressive Arks would be a progression in difficulty and technology.

That would have accomplished a few things: It would separate the player base across the maps, easing load. it wouldn't make older maps as obsolete, because that's your progression zones. it would clear population from maps, so new people could move in. It would be way better balanced, because you wouldn't have advanced tech being used against primitive tech. But, balance has never really been a concern for the devs, so, whatever.

[Gimpy]

Originally posted by drazan:

Originally posted by Jahon:

What are the rewards for beating bosses in Aberration?

I guess the Tek transporter engram is worth beating a boss for, but if the armor is less helpful than a hazmat suit, why bother with the low level boss fights?

tek railgun
tek rockdrake saddle
tek sleeping pod

all of them are rubbish.. longneck does more damage than the railgun as for the suit..it does'nt even protect from the heat and cold nevermind radiation .. much like most of the stuff they put into the game..garbage

[jacob99]

Originally posted by Gimpy_uk:

Originally posted by drazan:

tek railgun
tek rockdrake saddle
tek sleeping pod

all of them are rubbish.. longneck does more damage than the railgun as for the suit..it does'nt even protect from the heat and cold nevermind radiation .. much like most of the stuff they put into the game..garbage

Railgun can see and shot through walls and shoot through up to 5 behemoth gates. It also does about 900 damage a shot.

[Rutherford]

I think it's great that for once the Tek armor isn't a cover-all for every environment in the game. It also means that people that decide to port over Tek armor can't just completely dominate the server right away because they could have free reign in all the environments right off the bat.

It's balanced. And tek armor? Still -really- useful, especially for getting around.