how does everyone feel about genesis?

[Yogi]

personally i dont mind it but...i think i want someone to make a mod to put genesis monsters on rag or something XD the teleporting to zones is a big killer for the "surviving" mood for me

[M.R. Smith]

I feel pretty good about it so far, but I've only played an hour and a half and have yet to experience really any of what it has to offer.

[liberator65853]

So far I really love. I don't mind the small enclosed biomes or having to teleport between them. My only complaints were not being able to build in mission zones and not being able to use fliers but they have added options to fix that. So far I've mostly being playing in the ocean biome and I've completed around 25 of the missions there.

[Isho]

Cool concept, but i think ill just get the cool colored dinos and move back to the other maps. Bog is an absolute troll level.

[BirdiAU075]

I'll feel better when it's Free

[L3wt]

Yup great so far. Can't start my server at all and I didn't buy any DLC but I'm still Mc.Luvin it...

Okay did I sell it? can I go sit down now?

[Night]

It is amazing!
I disliked Scorched Earth and gave that one a negative review, Aberration was ok sort of, but the map sucked to build on and most of it was wasted. Extinction was cool, just not well implemented. The same can be pretty much said here, but here is the thing, we get so much for modders to work with! The biomes are so beautiful, specially the snow biome, new trees and fauna everywhere, new looks for old dinos (lava versions rexes look sick!) and new dinos that are actually fun, specially the turtle.

Most other games charge you like 20 euros for a mount, here you get all this for 15 and if you don't want to pay, fine, you still get it all for free. Soon modders will create new maps like Valguero but with all these new assets. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, can you imagine something like Valguero with all these new trees, updated lava and fire, swamps, oceans, it is going to be amazing.

Also they are focusing on solo players and pve players this time, not all just about pvp. Quests are really nice idea and a good way to be forced to adventure beyond your base area and see more of the map.

It is just, great ideas but bad implementation and buggines, poor optimiziation like always, but this time we get sooo many cool and new assets! Don't forget, it was all basically free, you only bought the maps if you bought the dlc, you can spawn everything in with codes or mods for free on any other map. So basically, thumbs up from me!

[L3wt]

Originally posted by Night:

It is amazing!
I disliked Scorched Earth and gave that one a negative review, Aberration was ok sort of, but the map sucked to build on and most of it was wasted. Extinction was cool, just not well implemented. The same can be pretty much said here, but here is the thing, we get so much for modders to work with! The biomes are so beautiful, specially the snow biome, new trees and fauna everywhere, new looks for old dinos (lava versions rexes look sick!) and new dinos that are actually fun, specially the turtle.

Most other games charge you like 20 euros for a mount, here you get all this for 15 and if you don't want to pay, fine, you still get it all for free. Soon modders will create new maps like Valguero but with all these new assets. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, can you imagine something like Valguero with all these new trees, updated lava and fire, swamps, oceans, it is going to be amazing.

Also they are focusing on solo players and pve players this time, not all just about pvp. Quests are really nice idea and a good way to be forced to adventure beyond your base area and see more of the map.

It is just, great ideas but bad implementation and buggines, poor optimiziation like always, but this time we get sooo many cool and new assets! Don't forget, it was all basically free, you only bought the maps if you bought the dlc, you can spawn everything in with codes or mods for free on any other map. So basically, thumbs up from me!

What about the ppl that didn't want anything new but still got the deepthroat? I don't really think they're caring about how much the shafting cost at this point. They just want their ♥♥♥♥ back to normal.

[HALO_run]

Originally posted by Birdi Num Nums:

I'll feel better when it's Free

why should it be for free?

[Dark Star Raven]

Just messing around with the Ferox, you can tell a lot of work was put into this DLC, its definitely one of the better ones
Unfortunately, it didn't escape being a buggy mess and issues are everywhere, once their fixed though, i can easily rate it 9/10

[RoboKop]

There are a number of things that make me really disappointed this dlc. No flyers is a big one. The giant turtle is supposed to be a passive tame but i cant feed it. Cryo pods dont seem to work on x megalodons or maybe all the creatures (further testing required). The limited building space is another one. It feels was like ive started playing a different, worse game. Some of the missions Ive tried just feel dumb and gta style sort of missions. I did the manta ray racing and firstly its impossible on alpha, and secondly it takes me totally to out of the game of survival.

[liberator65853]

Originally posted by RoboKop:

There are a number of things that make me really disappointed this dlc. No flyers is a big one. The giant turtle is supposed to be a passive tame but i cant feed it. Cryo pods dont seem to work on x megalodons or maybe all the creatures (further testing required). The limited building space is another one. It feels was like ive started playing a different, worse game. Some of the missions Ive tried just feel dumb and gta style sort of missions. I did the manta ray racing and firstly its impossible on alpha, and secondly it takes me totally to out of the game of survival.

You can enable fliers, The turtle worked fine for me, it prefers giant bee honey. Cryopods have worked on everything I've tried them on. For single player and unofficial building can be done in mission areas now. The manta racing is extremely extremely difficult on alpha but it is doable, barely

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Mayhem:

What about the ppl that didn't want anything new but still got the deepthroat? I don't really think they're caring about how much the shafting cost at this point. They just want their ♥♥♥♥ back to normal.

"Normal" has always been that each update/dlc release/ has been an increase in the game size.

Look we get it, you're ranting on almost any thread you can about the game size. Guess what? Its going to only get bigger over tine. Period.

So either roll with it or shelve the game until it matches your delicate sensibilities but table flipping over it just will more than likely not have the results you would want.

[retsam1]

As for genesis so far, it strongly reminds me of the mini worlds of Mario 64 or similar and the different objectives one has to do. I dont mind that so much as long as its limited to just this dlc due to it being a "testing simulation" for survivors as marketed.

I play mostly on small community servers as well so the mini maps really strike me as being something rather tough/challenging for base building on larger pop servers since space is even more limited than normally (since smaller spots and lots of no building in mission spaces etc.

I like the aesthetics thus far though and some of the creatures. The Megaturtle for example is a bronto of the sea and I really like it. Hate the whirlpools though.

[Palicai]

Worst DLC for Ark, pretty much. Its not Ark, its trying to be something else. Tiny biomes and cant build where u want, big nono. Refunded, and i got my money back too.

[Boomer]

Not my favourite but Eh, bought it for 8 dollars. Giving it a shot, the missus and I have managed to progress to a stone base in the arctic.