What is the purpose of Swamp Fever?

[HashBrowNy]

This is probably the most pointless and stupid aspect that they added to ARK I mean its a sickness and it has a cure, that's cool, but why the ♥♥♥♥ is it permanent unless you specifically get the cure? Like leeches and rare flowers are impossible to find in The Center map and for some stupid reason suiciding doesn't cure it. This is a real game ruiner for me like what the ♥♥♥♥. Imagine the fresh spawn noobs that spawn near a swamp and instantly catch it and get a debuff on all their default stats. This is just wow I mean its ridiculous I don't understand the logic behind this.

[Douglas Rattmann]

They get some buffs, too!

Also server side option to disable the Fever, or just make dying cure it!

[Malcador, The Sigillite]

Also, if they are new then remaking their character doesn't put them back very far. Also, if you made it to higherish (15+) then you should know to just stay away from the swamps.

[HashBrowNy]

Originally posted by Malcador, The Sigillite:

Also, if they are new then remaking their character doesn't put them back very far. Also, if you made it to higherish (15+) then you should know to just stay away from the swamps.

Oh my bad its just hard to notice when a player is infected when the green crap appears on their head after its too late and how are you supposed to know to stay away from the swamp at level 15? are you getting a tutorial guide along the way?

[HashBrowNy]

Originally posted by Synnek:

Originally posted by Malcador, The Sigillite:

Also, if they are new then remaking their character doesn't put them back very far. Also, if you made it to higherish (15+) then you should know to just stay away from the swamps.

Oh my bad its just hard to notice when a player is infected when the green crap appears on their head after its too late and how are you supposed to know to stay away from the swamp at level 15? are you getting a tutorial guide along the way?

Also, anyone else think its stupid that the cure for the swamp fever means you have to go into the swamp for the ingredients?

[Scooby Doo]

I am willing to bet it is the beginning stages of something. Also for rare Flowers raid Beaver damns. Not only do they have wood but also flower Pearls and mushrooms.

[Erathanos]

Originally posted by Synnek:

Originally posted by Synnek:

Oh my bad its just hard to notice when a player is infected when the green crap appears on their head after its too late and how are you supposed to know to stay away from the swamp at level 15? are you getting a tutorial guide along the way?

Also, anyone else think its stupid that the cure for the swamp fever means you have to go into the swamp for the ingredients?

"Hey look, its a swamp, wonder what lives th e r e ... NOPE NOPE NOPE" <- Learning

The cures for many of things in Real Life, are often found from the source, so no.. its perfect that way. ( its not like while you are infected, you are going to get "more infected" and now the affliction gives you a BONUS?!?!?!? )

No, I think it is a step in the right direction. Too many games "hand hold people". The first time you get infected, you learned something. Tought it out, earn the cure, and survive. I am looking forward to more "afflictions".

Suiciding shouldnt cure it.. ( otherwise there is no point in havig them exsist in the first place )

[Erathanos]

Originally posted by Dawg711:

I am willing to bet it is the beginning stages of something. Also for rare Flowers raid Beaver damns. Not only do they have wood but also flower Pearls and mushrooms.

you forgot the 100's of cementing paste... ( that has to be nerfed 10-30 is fine, 100-450 is just stupid )

[kampfer91]

It is easy to level up to level 20 in 1-3 days .

As for the leech itself , i don't think they rare , and easy to kill since they are super slow , or perhaps you should have a big dino to protect you at swamp .

Thee current Swamp fever do not kill you as long as you keep yourself full till you get the cure.

[DOG OF WAR]

They want to kill all the new people so the game can be filled with no life live in mom's basemeant loser's LOL a sickness that survises death even thou nothing else will. Kills low end pc fps and now the griefers new best friend and those that support it are the same losers that run around killing newbs and think they have made a skill kill. Me I am running about 10 kills of griefers for one death. Hope to see some of these losers on my server, But as for new people from other games ill tell them to play another game till its not yet another poorly thought out addition. It is a perm nerf pretty much on pvp server's and is one of the stupidt things I have seen. Been pvping griefer's since asheron's call.

[Mr Ega]

Nobody gets the fever from the swamp. They all get if from ♥♥♥♥♥ like me, since we have them and we like to run into new players and dance around them and infect them while we yell 'KISS KISS' via mic.

[Mike Rubik]

Tinfoil hat time:
They are making the game almost impossible for new players and thus with no new people the servers get quiet, stale and boring for the old players. Then they get to shut down the hundreds of almost empty official servers they are leasing.

[The King in the North]

everyone knew this was happening months and months ago and people are complaining about it as if they've never heard of it. "what do you mean dying doesn't cure it?!" read the digest, once, ever, please.

[pogotclown]

Originally posted by Erathanos:

Suiciding shouldnt cure it.. ( otherwise there is no point in havig them exsist in the first place )

Fall from the top of the world, drown in the bottom of the ocean, get eaten by a giga, eat one's own poop, die and respawn with a new health body. Catch some sort of VD from a leech and it doesn't go away until a cure is found.

Yup that really fits in the game.

[Erathanos]

Originally posted by pogotclown:

Originally posted by Erathanos:

Suiciding shouldnt cure it.. ( otherwise there is no point in havig them exsist in the first place )

Fall from the top of the world, drown in the bottom of the ocean, get eaten by a giga, eat one's own poop, die and respawn with a new health body. Catch some sort of VD from a leech and it doesn't go away until a cure is found.

Yup that really fits in the game.

In each of your situations, a normal cause and effect happened.. you tried to die.. and you died..
In none of those situations is your "character" diseased ( the engram implant itself that brings you eternal life in your arm ) and in every situation that you discribed of dying, each one of those you would still be diseased.. and would have died..
You were not suffering any affliction, you simply died. Disease and Death are completely different things.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Dawg711:

I am willing to bet it is the beginning stages of something. Also for rare Flowers raid Beaver damns. Not only do they have wood but also flower Pearls and mushrooms.

They have sharp teeth and a nasty attitude too, especially if you're low level and dare to just look inside their dam, lol.

Diseases are a neat idea, but this particular one isn't anything that adds excitement or interest in the early levels. It's just an annoyance, can't be removed by dying and doesn't expire on it's own after a few days. It's tough on lowbies, very easy to fix for high level players and people are using it for griefing purposes. Get rid of the disease and re-think it, devs. It's poorly thought out and poorly implemented.