Allosaurus' Hidden Ability

[Fatality]

hello to whoever decides to read this, before you embark on this short story i will warn you - it is a pretty long read. i seldom post on the forums of any game i play, but this soul crushing experience has invoked a mixture of the worst possible human emotions within me. After weeks to months of hard work farming up rare recipes, high end materials and more importantly enough kibble to tame a max level rex+some rex kibble (majority of this was done solo) i thought i would leave the game for a few hours to do some stuff irl then come back and tame a max level rex. But no - ark had other plans for me... Upon returning from the gym and logging in i came back to see my character on 60 or so hp remaining "that's strange", i thought, "am i being attacked by someone else?" I looked around frantically searching for the perpetrator, but instead all i saw was the empty spaces where my structures once were, at this point in time i thought "things are probably still loading..." but then i see an Allosaurus attacking me THROUGH my metal base. That's correct, while i was gone for few hours this awesome new dinosaur was destroying everything inside my base... from the outside. What a spectacular ability to have. Is this working as intended? Is the Allosaurus granted a special ability where it can destroy a player's structures through their walls which will subsequently cause a steady stream of tears to flow from said player? I know new content is usually op (refer to maple story) but damn... At this rate, i may as well tame a quetzal and pick up Allosaurus' from around the map and drop them in the top tribe's bases and let the Allosaurus do the work. Oh wait, that's right I can't tame a quetzal anymore, seeing as all of my kibble was destroyed by the Allosaurus' special ability... Months of hard work, down the drain in a matter of a minutes. I would understand if a player had raided me - that would give me a drive for vengeance but being cheesed by an Allosaurus in this fashion has all but left me to quit this game. I know this game is in alpha, but an experience that painful shouldn't have to be endured by anyone, this cuts even deeper seeing as a lot of those lost supplies was obtained solo. Please for future reference, anyone who's planning to implement new features into a game they design - please ensure nothing of this caliber occurs. For anyone else playing the game, better watch out for those Allosaurus'!

[Lilkinsly]

First, in the future please use paragraphs. On a long post it makes reading and getting your point across much easier.

This is not a special ability of the Allosaurus. Any creature with an AOE attack can damage stuff through walls. This is why you want outer walls, inner walls, then your base ideally.

[RazzaQ]

Please dont defend ark devs for a bug that they not fixed since the beginning, those in charge needs to be criticized, not admired.

[Fatality]

You're right lilkinsly, in my current state of emotions thinking about paragraphs was pretty low on my priority list - i apologise. But i did indeed have several layers of walls blocking off entrances to my main base, how it even got there in the first place is a question of it's own.

In regards to your second paragraph - Is this working as intended then? I read a post over a year ago about how brontos were able to smack players through their base even. I figured if this was a bug, any shenanigans resembling this would have surely been fixed by now.

[penfold0101]

The Allos did quite the number on us too.
We had 2 inside our closed store room that just ripped through all our chests and about 8 more that glitched into the base through the metal walls.
We haven't had a problem since the patch to fix this.

If we were on an official server i would of put a match to it all and walked away and played something else!
But we pay for an unofficial private server. so we did a roll back.
As admin i spawned in the resources my players lost.
Was annoying but not the end of the world.
Private server rocks. be the master of your own destiny!

[Spyrho]

spam wall to lazy to read

[Fatality]

i am no master of my destiny i'm afraid, thus i must go with the other option - putting a match to it all and walking away