Some of the Genesis missions are...Impossible?

[CCore]

The Bog Rally on alpha difficulty is literally impossible. Even if you don't mess up once due to getting stuck on every branch, rock and dino in existence, you still can't reach the end in time.

The king of swing grand prix, is another one, that I can't even do on beta difficulty, due to the bloodstalker's swinging mechanic not being fleshed out enough to justify a race like this. It gets stuck on the smallest branches, and I'm pretty sure it's only possible to finish it if you don't screw up once, or in other words, don't get stuck on things that don't look like you should be able to get stuck on.

Did the devs actually think these through before adding them??

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Many of the beta and alpha races are impossible on pc. The console versions have longer timers, and it seems that they juts forgot to tweak many timers for the races on pc.
King of Swing, actually, is possible though, but it needs a run with no mistakes and even then I finished with just 1 second left.

[KishMuntt]

True but idk why though

[xlovermanx]

welcome to wild card development where they make cool stuff and ask full price without beta testing anything or seeing if anyone can even do it without god mode or cheating

[xlovermanx]

Originally posted by Kishmunt:

True but idk why though

its wild card do you think they bother checking anything before they release it

[BloodiScari]

Yeah i think bog race alpha needs to be made easier... i have seen one person do it and i was half a second off on it one time. But i mean you need to have perfect handling, take all the possible shortcuts, not hit random generated dinos and hope to god you might survive to the end. Its not impossible but its way too hard for what it is.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Originally posted by BloodiScari:

Yeah i think bog race alpha needs to be made easier... i have seen one person do it and i was half a second off on it one time. But i mean you need to have perfect handling, take all the possible shortcuts, not hit random generated dinos and hope to god you might survive to the end. Its not impossible but its way too hard for what it is.

There are two bog races, so you have to be a bit more specific than that.
But most of the races have bad times now, the only one with proper timings was the ichthy race, which was actually too easy on alpha in my opinion.
The best you can do is submit a bug report and/or tweet at cedric or something and hope the fix it.

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by Chaser the Tiny Hippo:

The best you can do is submit a bug report and/or tweet at cedric or something and hope the fix it.

This can't be stressed enough imo, overload there official website with reports, let them know what issues you are having and potentially how unhappy you are.

The more reports they get on specific problems, the higher the priority they get to fix them (normaly speaking at least, it is indeed still wildcard), and in this case its a simple oversight that should not have happened looking at the console timers.

[BloodiScari]

Originally posted by Chaser the Tiny Hippo:

Originally posted by BloodiScari:

Yeah i think bog race alpha needs to be made easier... i have seen one person do it and i was half a second off on it one time. But i mean you need to have perfect handling, take all the possible shortcuts, not hit random generated dinos and hope to god you might survive to the end. Its not impossible but its way too hard for what it is.

There are two bog races, so you have to be a bit more specific than that.
But most of the races have bad times now, the only one with proper timings was the ichthy race, which was actually too easy on alpha in my opinion.
The best you can do is submit a bug report and/or tweet at cedric or something and hope the fix it.

Other one is called grand prix and other one is just rally/race hoped that would be enough for people to use their brains for once.
Anyhow now since i had to log in to ark to check this, i can say that they should make the beta time on Bog Rally the new alpha time = 135 Seconds as that time seemed to be way more easier to obtain after some hardships. For the record my beta time was 134.899 seconds and i fit some fails there on the racing part.

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

The alpha combat versions are not impossible just insanely difficult,
You need to treat them the same way you would a boss fight.

I managed to win the alpha one using my lvl 265 reaper king tho even then it was really close despite abusing the enemies loss of speed from the tail swing and some ground crevices.

ill admit there are alot of better designs they could take.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

The alpha combat versions are not impossible just insanely difficult,
You need to treat them the same way you would a boss fight.

I managed to win the alpha one using my lvl 265 reaper king tho even then it was really close despite abusing the enemies loss of speed from the tail swing and some ground crevices.

ill admit there are alot of better designs they could take.

The horde defense missions are supposed to cryo your tames when you start them, how did you use a reaper king for it?
Either way, it's pretty clear that you're not supposed to be using tames for it.

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

@chaser i meant the (kill these specific creatures)
Aka the level 1k raptors that hit 1k and take 1/9th damage (horrible design)
Have not tried the defence missions but from what you'v said i dont really wanna start them.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

@chaser i meant the (kill these specific creatures)
Aka the level 1k raptors that hit 1k and take 1/9th damage (horrible design)
Have not tried the defence missions but from what you'v said i dont really wanna start them.

Oh, I misunderstood then.
Those brute enemies at the end of hunt missions are pretty insane even at gamma really.
The horde defense missions are completely different than normal Ark fights. All you need to bring is armor and consumables. Weapons are provided, and tames are cryod so they can't help. You also can't use your own weapons if you wanted to.
I dunno if alpha is even possible for those if you're solo, you might the full 10 people for it.

[Nokim]

not sure which one you are talking about. but i have done 2 types..

one where a hand turns red of green and it leads you to these glowing things to collect all over the map. I beat alpha with 160% run speed, bolas for baryonix, a pike for kapros and about 2500stim berrys to never slow down.

there was another where i needed to escord a frog, i only beat gamma was easy, but then on beta the frog takes crazy amounts of damage in a second.