So...did you guys make Scorched Earth unplayable on purpose?

[JaegerBombastic]

Title. Even with difficulty offset set to 0, I get spawnkilled in the so-called "easy" spawn areas.

What the ♥♥♥♥, wildcard? Hope you choke on that $20. What a waste. Shame on me for being foolish enough to throw money down on this garbage.

[EmberStar]

It's just bad luck, probably. The South (easy) area is generally just jerboas, camelsaurs, kangaroos, and parasaurs for me. I have had raptors run through (or more often, *chase* something through) and a thorny dragon once. Getting spawncamped by raptors can happen on The Island, on the little beach near Footpaw though. And that's one of the safer areas in the original game, short of Herbivore Island. Raptors are just kind of evil that way.

One thing - if you've changed the difficulty setting in the menu options, it won't clear out existing critters. You might have sort of made it even harder if you turned it down after you started, actually. The ones that spawned at normal difficulty will probably have higher level ranges than anything spawning at Difficulty 0, so any of them that are left are free to run amok until they get killed or tamed. If you're playing singleplayer or a private server, you might need to DestroyWildDinos and properly reset the local wildlife.

Most of the time, critters seem to actually be more spread out on Scorched Earth than on The Island, at least in the easy areas. I think you just had a run of really bad luck. If you decide to keep going, I hope you have a better run on a future attempt.

[JaegerBombastic]

Squish Cat, that is invariably the most helpful post I could have hoped to see on this topic. Thank you. I'll copy that down for later.

My only question would be where to find silica pearls in SE. Found silk.

Yours too, Ember. Didn't know the game worked like that. Kinda stupid if you ask me. Thanks for the advice.

[Ragnorok]

I am not happy with the dlc for various reasons but aside from the 4x grind it is just not hard

[Kaleido]

Shame on your for being so mad and not watching others play it before buying it so you didn't "waste" your money. We've had brutal starts, we've had easy starts. It's luck of the draw, it's SURVIVAL.

[Tactical Banana]

引用自 JaegerBombastic：

Title. Even with difficulty offset set to 0, I get spawnkilled in the so-called "easy" spawn areas.

What the ♥♥♥♥, wildcard? Hope you choke on that $20. What a waste. Shame on me for being foolish enough to throw money down on this garbage.

I thought it was fun trying to survive in the harsh desert with all the raptors, wolves, sabertooths and terror birds. It was rough and I died a bunch of times but it was great once I got up and running.

[Tanchyon]

引用自 Squish Cat：

How to survive in SE.

1. Start in one of the midland spawn points. All the spawn locations that say "easy" are actually not true. None of the spawn locations are easy. Dire wolves and terror birds are all over the damn place no matter where you start. Dying multiple times before setting up a base is normal.
2. Locate a water vein. You will die several times before doing this. Again, this is normal.
3. Build a thatch structure ASAP. It will prevent you from dying to heat. Standing inside of a thatch structure will vastly increase your hyperthermal stat, which is imperitive to survival.
4. Get some cloth clothes. This will also increase your hyperthermal stat.
5. Get basic engrams unlocked. Make sure you get a sleeping bag or bed made so you can easily get back to your home if you die. I suggest boomerang for taming.
6. Work your way to adobe structures and desert clothing armor. You only need to have unlocked thatch to unlock adobe. Wood structures are not needed for this.
7. Get at least 30% run speed. This is what is required to outrun the metric ton of terror birds and dire wolves that litter the map. I suggest also getting at the bare minimum of 10 points in fortitude, but 20 is a good safe number.
8. Fire arrows are OP as balls and will kill just about anything in a single arrow if you let the fire damage over time work.
9. At some point during all this, tame a Morellotops. These things are amazing pack animals and are VERY strong first defense dinos. These things are a trike on steriods and are better than trikes in every way stat wise. They also have the added benefit of storing water in them that doesn't leak. A tamed Morellotops will easily kill a terror bird or dire wolf with little effort. Make sure you try to tame them when they are ALONE. Morellotops will run from you if solo, but if they are close together, they will gang up and attack you.

Once you've done these things, its business as usual.

Things NOT to do on this map.

Under no circumstances should you ever build a wooden or stone building to live inside. Wood/stone fence/walls are ok to keep animals out, but never build your habitation buildings out of anything except thatch or adobe. Wood, stone, and metal structures all MASSIVELY REDUCE your hyperthermal stat, making you get heat stroke and die of heat exposure when standing inside of them.

Do not use leather, chitin, flak or riot armor on the surface of this map. They will kill you the same way wood/stone/metal structures will. Using these armors inside caves is ok, as the temperature there won't cause you to bake inside your armor.

You can pump water stat if you want, but I find that to be a waste of points. When you have full desert armor, you actually retain water very well and don't need any extra water stat to survive on this map. Desert clothing armor gives you a bonus per piece worn to your water retention ability. It doesn't take long to get desert armor.

Cactus sap is broken and does not give water. Berries do still give water, but its effects are very slow and gradual to raise your water. They will still prevent you from dying from dehydration. I suggest putting a stack of berries on your hotbar and holding the coresponding number to eat large quantities super fast to stay hydrated until you find a water vein. Its much more efficient this way.

Cactus works, its just that you gain the water while hitting the cactus.

[Go Canada!]

come play on our server the starter easy zone has a broken rex spawn with around 35 of them running all over the south map killing everything, honest it's safe...i died when i first started 5 times in first 15 minutes of game play, 3 from heat stroke...find water fast and build a adobe house there, then start levelling fortitude, at 100 heat doesnt bug you anymore

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

If you can slowly work your way to the green obilisk only the rare raptor/terror in that area and it has a good amount of all early supplys really close by.
Only issue you will have is when you need crystal and obsidian as the closest mountains about a km away.

[Sad Cat]

引用自 JaegerBombastic：

Squish Cat, that is invariably the most helpful post I could have hoped to see on this topic. Thank you. I'll copy that down for later.

My only question would be where to find silica pearls in SE. Found silk.

Yours too, Ember. Didn't know the game worked like that. Kinda stupid if you ask me. Thanks for the advice.

Silica pearls can be found in the water of the lake directly under the green obelisk, or inside the water filled canyon that runs through the middle of the map. In the canyon, they're not actually in the water, but rather along the ground above the water. They're very hard to spot in the day, but at night they still sparkle. They kinda look like sand colored shells, which blend into the ground itself. I suggest going to look at night so you can spot the sparkles. Once you've seen what the shells look like, they're easy to see during the day.

Heres a map of where I've found silica pearls in the canyon. This is by no means a comprehensive map though. They're kinda spread out all over the place down there. This is also a very dangerous place. That canyon is absolutely full of dire wolves, sabertooths, scorpions, and terror birds. Come prepared.

http://imgur.com/a/2x2OX

I'd also suggest looking back at my previous post. I edited a lot more information into it.

[Forger of Souls]

I'm actually going to follow squish cat's advice on my next adventure through SE.

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

True mike the only time the normal islands a challenge is when you add in a mod to super boost wild dinos.

Nothing beats fighting a level 1,000 dodo of death.

[Agead Drem]

引用自 JaegerBombastic：

Title. Even with difficulty offset set to 0, I get spawnkilled in the so-called "easy" spawn areas.

What the ♥♥♥♥, wildcard? Hope you choke on that $20. What a waste. Shame on me for being foolish enough to throw money down on this garbage.

You seem like you like things easy, too bad you didn't fully research it before paying for it. Oh, that is hard as well...

[crimsondrac]

Why is it that people who don't understand what a survival game is play survival games? Dude, you are going to die. You are going to die a lot. Honestly, I stopped counting how many times I have died on the SE map. It was intended to be a much harder experience than the normal maps. That is on purpose. If you can't handle it, go back to the easy maps. There is even a mod that will allow all the SE dinos to be on normal maps. SE is for all the people that have been complaining how easy the normal maps are. It is not for everyone. It is extreme and I like it that way.

[Ragnorok]

引用自 crimsondrac：

Why is it that people who don't understand what a survival game is play survival games? Dude, you are going to die. You are going to die a lot. Honestly, I stopped counting how many times I have died on the SE map. It was intended to be a much harder experience than the normal maps. That is on purpose. If you can't handle it, go back to the easy maps. There is even a mod that will allow all the SE dinos to be on normal maps. SE is for all the people that have been complaining how easy the normal maps are. It is not for everyone. It is extreme and I like it that way.

Well extremely grindy.. Hard would be more like if the dinos were actually a challenge or perhaps if there was a npc factor to fight

[Annethema]

Not 'Unplayable' as many people are completing the content, game being hard difficulty which the new map is meant to be doesnt mean the game is bad, it means you need better survival skills before attempting it.