Vehicles.

[Faucon.]

I was wondering if WILDCARD is going to release any vehicles to Ark Survival Evolved, by vehicles, I mean cars, motorcycles, trains, planes, trucks. I mean it's Survival Evolved, shouldn't we have better ways of travelling across or around the map ?
I don't know if anyone will ever read this but this idea is soo freaking cool, I can only imagine it.
So guys please take this seriously, this game can be a hundred times better with vehicles.

[Anubis]

At one time they had plans for it, they even had one prototype on the dev kit, bit they abandon it, and there are no plans for them that im aware of it.

[Charcharodonto]

The closest thing will be the enforcer, and the tek buggy.

Vehicles won't work for ARK.

Either they outperform animals with similar tasks, making the animals pointless. Or they will be worse at it, making the vehicles pointless.

Animals can be bred and leveled up. so even if they are initially weaker they can surpass the vehicles. Making it pretty worthless to invest in vehicles when you can breed animals that are better.

However i would enjoy the prospect over overturning people in a buggy/truck and then rip their vehicle apart with a rex or giga.

[Nokim]

sounds like you just want vehicles. there is already several options for traveling pretty fast.
most of the terrain is too rocky for something like cars or offroaders thats why nobody uses the tekbuggy.

wyverns, griffons, mana go across a map pretty darn fast.

itchys and mosas can travel the water quite fast.itchy with speed stat is basically a water rocket.

frogs, prodoptocons, and a few others can travel land quite fast too.

[Jesi]

I mean the only vehicle I would want is the motorcycle so I could re create the scene in Jurassic World with the raptors. :)

[Serangel]

There's like 200 tames and most can be ridden, we have vehicles, sorta.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

We have the tek buggy that was mentioned earlier but it's not very good. The raft and motorboat are both vehicles but they have to be built up manually.
I don't think we'll ever see many traditional vehicles like motorcycles, trains, planes, or anything. They're adding at least one new vehicle in the next dlc, no idea how exactly it'll work though.
The atv doesn't work well and is unlikely to be changed considering how long it's been in the game.

Originally posted by Charcharodonto:

The closest thing will be the enforcer, and the tek buggy.

And the mek

Originally posted by Charcharodonto:

Vehicles won't work for ARK.

Either they outperform animals with similar tasks, making the animals pointless. Or they will be worse at it, making the vehicles pointless.

The same can be said about literally anything they add to the game. It can be better or worse than other things, or it can serve a different purpose than other things. Further, it's ok for something to be better or worse than something else, so long as the barrier to get that thing is proportionally easier or harder. A tek hovercraft platform would outclass a quetzal, and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that so long as the requirements to get the theoretical hovercraft are higher than the requirements to get a quetzal.

Originally posted by Charcharodonto:

Animals can be bred and leveled up. so even if they are initially weaker they can surpass the vehicles. Making it pretty worthless to invest in vehicles when you can breed animals that are better.

However i would enjoy the prospect over overturning people in a buggy/truck and then rip their vehicle apart with a rex or giga.

Both of these are good points. They could take the Extinction approach and let you get stronger blueprints for higher levels of the vehicle though.