Ark Birthday Suit Skins Censorship?

[KazuTheOni]

So, I know the dev's probably won't ever add nudity, which kind of sucks cause it just adds to the survival aspect of the game where you literally start off naked and stranded. The birthday suit skins kind of bother me though. I know its a gag, but I feel like its either poking fun at other survival games that actually incorporate nudity into their games such as Rust or Conan, but if they're going to make a gag skin like that why don't we have the option to uncensor it or at least lower the censorship on it?

I don't care much for the nudity in-game, and even played Ark before they had the skins and thought it was fine. But since they've added the skins a while back and now that my friend and I both have the skins for console (my pc can no longer run Ark), every time he runs past me its either a heavy ball of censorship or a bright light zipping past my screen.

Would there ever be a chance they can either fix that light and lower the censorship, or make an option to uncensor it overall? Again, I don't care for the nudity, but having crippling balls of censorship zip past my screen is quite annoying.

Also, we're both over the age of 18. So its not like we're kids trying to see noods, just a few adults trying to enjoy a game to its fullest.

[heroicidiot]

The game is rated Teen, so no. It's not gonna change

[heroicidiot]

Originally posted by Evil_monkey_Behind_you:

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

The game is rated Teen, so no. It's not gonna change

You can still get past it though without any mods or anything and see it... Maybe just have it as a setting for a slightly less shiny censorship that is just blurry instead? Plus this really is the resposibility of the parents...

Well, it's nudity no matter what due to the ESRB.

[Hyena]

you can build iron man's suit tame dinosaurs and make them shoot lazers out of their eyes....yet no nudity kills the survial aspect?

[shayne.oneill]

I am genuinely and profoundly uninterested in seeing my characters hog in game.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Evil_monkey_Behind_you:

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

The game is rated Teen, so no. It's not gonna change

You can still get past it though without any mods or anything and see it... Maybe just have it as a setting for a slightly less shiny censorship that is just blurry instead? Plus this really is the resposibility of the parents...

You can get past it with mods ... so there is no need for full nudity in the vanilla game.

Peoples children play this game. If you want to make it R rated .. mod it.... otherwise ... just leave it.

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

Originally posted by Evil_monkey_Behind_you:

You can still get past it though without any mods or anything and see it... Maybe just have it as a setting for a slightly less shiny censorship that is just blurry instead? Plus this really is the resposibility of the parents...

Well, it's nudity no matter what due to the ESRB.

If I'm not mistaken Conan is on console and still contains the nudity. There just not male member slider like there is on PC. Then again, I don't know. I haven't played. My point though is it would be nice to either tone down the censorship, turn it off, or make it less annoying somehow. I don't care for the nudity, but if they're going to have it in-game, then at least give players options to either tone down or turn off the censorship.

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by The Right Thing:

you can build iron man's suit tame dinosaurs and make them shoot lazers out of their eyes....yet no nudity kills the survial aspect?

I never said it kills the aspect of the game. I said the over censorship with the birthday suit skin is annoying, especially when its zipping past my screen everytime I'm at base with my buddies since they all run around with the skin on their armor to prevent players from seeing what type of armor they wear. Which I understand, but if they're going to have a mass of censorship for a skin for armor then they might as well not have the skin in the first place, or allow for censorship options in-game.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by EcchiSamurai:

Originally posted by heroicxidiot:

Well, it's nudity no matter what due to the ESRB.

If I'm not mistaken Conan is on console and still contains the nudity. There just not male member slider like there is on PC. Then again, I don't know. I haven't played. My point though is it would be nice to either tone down the censorship, turn it off, or make it less annoying somehow. I don't care for the nudity, but if they're going to have it in-game, then at least give players options to either tone down or turn off the censorship.

Genital obsessions or prudeness aside, your wants are satisfied with modded content. Ark is a game focused on customized game play and modded content. Use such.

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by shayne.oneill:

I am genuinely and profoundly uninterested in seeing my characters hog in game.

Then don't wear the skin? Simple as that. If, and thats a very doubtful IF, they ever put censorship options in the game, you can either keep it censored or just not wear the skin in the first place?

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by EcchiSamurai:

If I'm not mistaken Conan is on console and still contains the nudity. There just not male member slider like there is on PC. Then again, I don't know. I haven't played. My point though is it would be nice to either tone down the censorship, turn it off, or make it less annoying somehow. I don't care for the nudity, but if they're going to have it in-game, then at least give players options to either tone down or turn off the censorship.

Genital obsessions or prudeness aside, your wants are satisfied with modded content. Ark is a game focused on customized game play and modded content. Use such.

As I've stated in the post, my PC can no longer handle Ark, so I play on console. You can't get such mods on console. If you were, I'd be running around catching pokemon rather than dinosaurs lol

[woodsguide]

personally i believe that any censorship should be controlled client side..

chat filters, nudity, etc... can/should be toggled off at the players option

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by woodsguide:

personally i believe that any censorship should be controlled client side..

chat filters, nudity, etc... can/should be toggled off at the players option

THANK YOU! Thats basically my argument here. The heavy censorship with the birthday suit by default is either a mass of censorship covering the entire body and leaving literally the legs below the knees, arms, and head uncensored, OR their entire body is pure white and its extremely bright. Its annoying. If I had the choice to turn off censorship I would just so I'm not blinded or chasing down whatever passed my screen trying to figure out what the heck ran passed me only to find outs my naked but heavily censored tribemate.

[woodsguide]

what was that!?

... i donno but it was wearing red tennis shooes!

[KazuTheOni]

Originally posted by woodsguide:

what was that!?

... i donno but it was wearing red tennis shooes!

XD Its something I wonder every time... especially on Aberration. Ravagers can be quick and with their ability to jump like they do, if I'm by my base and a tribemates on but I'm just outside the gates I don't know if its a ravager jumping at me and missing or my tribemate dashing passed my screen. Already had it happen a few times and when I asked them to not wear the skins they tell me its to hide their armor, which I don't blame them especially on pvp.

[Cryptix]

I think a suitable option, instead of having a pixelated mess, may to have a smooooooth undercarriage so that it doesn't look distracting while also not incorperating nudity.

Then again they could also have a literal cencored black bar there instead, making it an even more obvious gag.