Sell me on Aberattion!

[Iriath Zhul]

I haven't bought any of the DLC since most looked too "gamey" for me, but Aberration looks the most interesting because of the verticality and "no fly" rule. I'm curious for your thoughts on it now that it's been out for a while.

[Lord Eistee]

Dafuq you mean with gamey? And yes, Aberration is a pretty decent DLC

[Dracul]

Well depends do you want to pay $20 (ish, varies by region and sale) to download a map that will make the game much harder while cranking the scifi factor to 11, but allow you to access things you probably will just take to another map?

[M.R. Smith]

Aberration is my favorite DLC, and is my second most favorite map, with my most favorite being The Island. It's great. I recommend it.

[Iriath Zhul]

Dracul님이 먼저 게시:

Well depends do you want to pay $20 (ish, varies by region and sale) to download a map that will make the game much harder while cranking the scifi factor to 11, but allow you to access things you probably will just take to another map?

Well I want the map itself because of the necessity of traveling on foot, and the darkness mechanic looks interesting. Just curious if there are other problems I don't know about because all I can find online for the most part is just complaints about bugs from several years ago.

Lord_Eistee님이 먼저 게시:

Dafuq you mean with gamey? And yes, Aberration is a pretty decent DLC

"Gamey", like, it's less about open-world sandbox and more like "go to point X, tame this thing that makes the area accessible and Less Dangerous", I dunno. That's just the impression I got from looking at Extinction, SE, and Genesis. Seemed like Ubisoft.

[carldmitch]

Aberration is a beautiful map, if you like ARK and you like the idea of 'no fly' definitely buy it. because of the lack of flyers, it almost feels like a different/new game.

[Knight Siegfried]

Abberation is honestly my most favorite DLC map for Ark. The map has an insane difficulty spike compared to any other map modded or no. It's a hardcore challenge to be honest. Even count the fact that YOU will be unable to leave this map until you reach tek gear vanilla wise. Some mods can mitigate or make it easier. While the creatures and new blueprints are great on other maps, it does not have the same feel Abberation gives which is pretty incredible.

TLDR: It's a super duper hard map but where's the fun of it if it's easy.

[margalus]

Is Abberation new character friendly? Or do you need to transfer a high level there to play?

[Knight Siegfried]

margalus님이 먼저 게시:

Is Abberation new character friendly? Or do you need to transfer a high level there to play?

You can do either but it's going to be a bit tougher for a new character

[Xymerian Monk]

Yeah man doing an Aberration playthrough right now. I picked the game back up a little while ago because friends finally got it on Epic for free. I decided to play multiplayer with a server with them, but with all the connection issues, trying cross play and just general headache of it all, they came to Steam. So long story short, even with them helping Aberration is a brutally fun, but challenging map, until you get a Rock Drake it will be a headache of getting around. DO NOT start in the Portal area, it says easiest but it is a damn lie, unless you use like A+ Accessories, you will need water, so start in the (easy) Lake start. The biggest issues you'll have early on, is just the packs of Ravagers and Raptors, once you get a few Ravagers, which I recommend bc they reduce carry weight of most common materials by 50%, and have decent Stam, Helath and Melee, plus their group buff, you'll have an easier go of it.

Just don't feel the need to rush the map, it is pretty unique compared to the others and even with oil being scarce you can craft Gasoline with gas and green gems. It changes up the play style of the other maps for sure!

[Veeshan]

Imo the later DLCs are more gamey, if you consider cash shop style interfaces and bypassing 90% of the older gameplay to be gamey. Which I do.

The early ones, SE and Ab retain the slow "grind" upward to later mechanics, the later ones skip large chunks of it for the kiddies to get to their PVP drama.

But all DLC have really cool new mechanics, which Ark has always excelled at ... having. Inventing doesnt fit and they arent always well implemented but by golly it has them ;)

[M.R. Smith]

ransomoshields님이 먼저 게시:

Yeah man doing an Aberration playthrough right now. I picked the game back up a little while ago because friends finally got it on Epic for free. I decided to play multiplayer with a server with them, but with all the connection issues, trying cross play and just general headache of it all, they came to Steam. So long story short, even with them helping Aberration is a brutally fun, but challenging map, until you get a Rock Drake it will be a headache of getting around. DO NOT start in the Portal area, it says easiest but it is a damn lie, unless you use like A+ Accessories, you will need water, so start in the (easy) Lake start. The biggest issues you'll have early on, is just the packs of Ravagers and Raptors, once you get a few Ravagers, which I recommend bc they reduce carry weight of most common materials by 50%, and have decent Stam, Helath and Melee, plus their group buff, you'll have an easier go of it.

Just don't feel the need to rush the map, it is pretty unique compared to the others and even with oil being scarce you can craft Gasoline with gas and green gems. It changes up the play style of the other maps for sure!

And the aesthetic of the map is really cool looking to boot.

[Veeshan]

margalus님이 먼저 게시:

Is Abberation new character friendly? Or do you need to transfer a high level there to play?

Everyone says it is tougher but that makes little sense to me. Makes little difference if you die to a Ravager pack's slow effect or a Theri's run speed. Frankly metal and sheep are plentiful and trees are a bit rarer so yeah it is different but I cant figure out what they mean by more difficult.

Shoot if anything SE is harder because it takes a while until the heat is conquerable.

[Cobretti]

A lot of people say Abb is the best official DLC and I wouldn't disagree. Early game was as brutal as SE launch for me. If you spawn naked and not transfer anything in, it's a really nice experience but that could be said for all the official DLC, as soon as you start transferring your OP stuff from other maps, you pretty much ruin the experience.

[Serangel]

Abberation forces a unique challenge by removing fliers and adding a variety of environmental factors all over the map.

You have 4 main biomes, the surface, the fertile zone or green zone, the bioluminescent swamp or blue zone, and the irradiated zone or red zone. There's micro biomes in each one as well.

There are new unique and dangerous creatures that will keep you on your toes till endgame.

The bossfight is less about grinding out OP tames and more about skill.

Bulbdogs are adorable ugly little bastards.

[Humpenstilzchen]

I love Aberation, though it´s very hard compared to the other maps. You need to be someone who loves challenges, especially when you play it solo.

The artdesign is simply stunning, but it is a bit more taxing on your pc. If you play sp keep in mind that this map is like a trap and it is difficult to get away from it in case you don´t have a tek transmitter, because all the obelisks are in an area that is not easy to reach alive due to the insane amounts of reapers there.

The new tools like climbing hook, zip line, wings are amazing and offer new ways to play the game and are needed, because there are no fliers allowed in Aberation.

It´s by far the best DLC in my opinion.