Easter Event Disappointment - Very few colors or spawns and constant drops!!

[Duckett]

I have to say that the Easter Event has always been my favorite time of year with Ark as it has all of my favorite colors and I really look forward to it.

OK.. let me get to the point.. has anyone else noticed that there has been hardly any colored dinos? I have seen a few on AB, Island, and GEN. I have heard the same about the Center and I will check out SE today but feel I will find the same thing.. very few Easter colors. We assumed it is because they have to have time to spawn (although in past, it was not like that) On the island, we have noticed the dodo's are not spawning in their normal places like past events and when you do find them, they are far and few in between.

The biggest thing we have noticed. The spawns on Genesis have really been terrible and some of the missions are broken. Last night, a tribe member was out looking for event colored Feroxes in the white out blizzard area and said.. wow, all the sudden, every single dino in the area just despawned for no reason. For a few hours, there were ZERO dinos.. He later went back and said they are spawning again, but nothing with color.

Feroxes..Has anyone been taming them and when you are about finished as they are reducing in size again that all the sudden, they mesh into the underworld and are gone? We hear it has become a very common occurrence. Must explain what happened to my tamed 192 that I had put into the base to let it shapeshift back to regular size after showing someone it and then went back later and it was gone, no where to be found.

Lag.. Let's not forget that.. I have heard it time and again.. OH..its just because of all the big bases .. how come it gets worse when events start thru til it ends (yes, it doesn't go away but is more manageable) although it is the same amount of people playing? Day 2 of the event, my tribemates and I ware randomly dropping the game about every 20 to 30 minutes, but never at the same time. Nothing like taming or trying to knock something out only to randomly drop in the middle of it or having dinos being born and .. dropped.. Luckily, we were able to log right back in..we never did it at the same time like what normally happens when the servers drop everyone at once.. Lets not forget the island.. drops all the time then takes 15 minutes to get back on.

So.. yes,you can say it is normal WC.. but.. it is a real disappointment that the one main event I look forward to each year is pretty much broken, hardly any colored dinos, unplayable lag, tames despawning, missions not working or are broken, etc. I am making this discussion to see how many others are experiencing the same issues.

And before some of the replies get Toxic, I know I can quit playing and I should be used to it being this way, but I shouldn't have to. I have played continuous since Dec 2015 and don't plan on quitting now! I just want to know how many people are experiencing this on their servers.

[killashandrasings]

The thing with the Ferox disappearing under the mesh after shrinking - YES - happened to me twice today. I found the answer seemed to me to KEEP IT IN SIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Easier said than done, I know, so the answer to that seemed to me to be to not tame them in the underwater lake area, where they can disappear easily. I tamed the ones in the front cave, or I tried to lead it into the tunnel. That being said, I wasted 20 element anyway. I had heard the thing about them disappearing when you log out, so I cryoed them and put them in the fridge before I did.

[Duckett]

smart!! Will remember.. my tribemate is taming and as soon as they tame, they drop in the mesh. I will advise to try to lead to the tunnel.. he has also been in blizzard area taming and they do same thing.. appreciate the feed back..

[Pepperpotty]

I play on Genesis and also noticed that there are hardly any coloured dinos compared to previous events. Maybe 10% of what there would normally be? If that tbh. I flew around for ages and saw probably 1 or 2 coloured dinos.

[Duckett]

Yup.. what now is happening.. we find them.. had a high level bear and megatherium.. 1/2 way to knocking them out, the despawned right bfore our eyes :-( they were easter colors to and both 145's.. this happend 10 min apart from each try

[necaradan666]

Originally posted by Pepperpotty:

I play on Genesis and also noticed that there are hardly any coloured dinos compared to previous events. Maybe 10% of what there would normally be? If that tbh. I flew around for ages and saw probably 1 or 2 coloured dinos.

You might notice the current patch notes say that X-dinos will now take on event colours, so we can assume they didn't previously, which would explain why the number seemed low on Genesis. They also increased the chance of event colours from 10% to 25%.. So you should see them everywhere now.

[Mutare]

We have noticed the lag with this event is much worse. Everyone on the server cluster I play on was reminded to destroy items they do not want, not to drop them to the ground, especially eggs. The Candy seems pointless as it is not a permanent colour change.

[123]

could be worse.... some of us can no longer get the client to run due to the update... so... we get to wait a week or so for the next one and hope things survive that long....

[PraisedWolf]

Dinos that are currently in the map wont have colours you need to do a dino wipe for new dinos and colours to come in, i play on unofficial gen and rag and they do wipes when new events come active and ive seen plently of colourful dinos around.

[SolitaryJerk]

Originally posted by PraisedWolf:

Dinos that are currently in the map wont have colours you need to do a dino wipe for new dinos and colours to come in, i play on unofficial gen and rag and they do wipes when new events come active and ive seen plently of colourful dinos around.

This is what my tribe does and now there are event colored dinos everywhere.

[Duckett]

Originally posted by SolitaryJerk:

Originally posted by PraisedWolf:

Dinos that are currently in the map wont have colours you need to do a dino wipe for new dinos and colours to come in, i play on unofficial gen and rag and they do wipes when new events come active and ive seen plently of colourful dinos around.

This is what my tribe does and now there are event colored dinos everywhere.

Well, on our Genesis server, you have to have dinos spawn in order to kill them to get the colored ones to spawn..

we are seeing a teeny tiny more since up date but not much.. although.. tbh.. I am seeing a LOT more tek dinos today.. whereas there were 10 or so in a biome, there was probaby 30 or 40 earlier