The game cheats too much.

[Lexe]

Game over I guess.

At first I was blown away by the sheer size of the game.
It plays like a survival game with a very nice "out there in nature" kind of feeling.

The reason I bought it however was to host my own dedicated server to play among it a few
Steam contacts. I also like the idea of tuning my own game without depending on other people
to behave and not mess with my progress. Also known as being a carebear. I'm more worried
about reading about people who have put 100 hours into the game without having something
to show for it.
Anyway, so I went out and found the official wiki which explains what ports to use
and how to host your dedicated server. This didn't appear to work so I found the
"unofficial" guide how to do this. Again, no luck.
The next 10 days I kept going over these guides to find what I did wrong, with no success.
What I'm saying is I've hosted countless other games.
The Steam ports are open, the Ark ports are open, still my game remains invisible to outside players.
So the purpose why I bought it is completely missed.

Renting a server for 30€ a month is a little too steep to play among friends. It's twice the rate
of a common MMO sub, so that's no option. Which brings me to the ingame issues.

Since customizing my own game is no longer an option as described above, I'm stuck to
the utterly ridiculous data models this game is based on.
You are litteraly spending dozens of hours picking berries or carving stones until you get your
first dinosaur.

Ok so me and my friend have been drinking water from the sea and eating stacks of berries for ages until we managed to tame a Parasour. This took us at least an hour.
Because the AI in Ark is dafter than 25 year old DOS's games AI the dino's manage to get themselves killed all the time. It took one Diloposaurus and one insect to lose this Parasour.

Then again we did have a lvl 30 Trike even though we were only lvl 25. What can go wrong right ?
A Carno jumped and killed me from behind. The Trike was 10 km away from my spawnpoint, so by the time
I got there I was just in time to watch it die. The trike took us over 2 hours to feed and tame.
A huge strong animal like that just sits there until its destroyed, without even blinking once.
You work for 6 hours preparing and lose it all in less than a minute.

Ok so yesterday we went out to get a new Trike. After a couple hours of preperation and scouting,
we found a nice lvl 30 Trike sitting there. In the distance I spotted a Carno.
I said to my friend, "get the heck out of there now !" and threw a large beartrap on the floor.
Before I knew it the Carno was charging me. It ran straight into the trap.
Ofcourse after a few seconds, the trap release/disappeared, which I was kind of expecting to happen.
By then I shot a few arrows in its head to tranq it. Still it charged me and bit me about
4 or 5 times to within an inch of my life until unexpectedly it did went down. I literally had 1 pixel
of health left and I was dehydrated and had no fluids.
But yeah we lived and started to tame the thing !
After at least 2 hours of feeding it narcotics and meat, we did tame it.
We went back to the base while fighting some toothless parasaurs, everything was fine.
Then 30 minutes later we were walking and suddenly a swarm of insects showed up, 3 or 4 times more than
the standard swarm of insects. And there it was, we lost the bloody Carno to an insect.
First of all, you cant hit it because it flies through the carno, not around it.
Secondly it didn't listen to me to run away. Yeah running away with a Carno from a single bee, that's
how dumb Ark gets.
Another awesome night of time wasting by spending the entire evening preparing and taming to lose
everything to a bee.
I'm starting to understand how you can spend a 100 hours in this game without ever getting anything done,
and I'm talking PVE not even PVP.

Then I tamed 2 Raptors and saddled them. (they have 3x as much power if your tamed dino is ridden).
I also tamed a flock of Dimorphodons. A flesheating pack of birds. I swear you will die from a single one if you hit it by mistake. (To get this group, it took HOURS of taming)
So I can finally go explore. I jump on my Rapor and head out, the bieds following closely behind me.
I go up a hill and find some nice iron ore. Then all of a sudden, I get a red message that my whole group of birds and raptors was killed by an alpha T-Rex.
The effort of the whole day was erased in half a second, all the gear lost.

As if that wasn't enough. I started to tame the group again and got about 1 Raptor and 3 birds. When suddenly, I run into a bright red alpha Raptor. Boom, crew erased again ! This is when I had enough.

A few days went past until i came back to the game. This time I managed to tame a Carno. Some hours after that
I tamed an even bigger lvl 40 Carno. Then tamed a lvl 41 Raptor. My big lvl 35 Trike was also with us because
I lost a Carno to a single bee in the past. Trikes are excellent to kill bugs.
So FINALLY we decided to get the flying mount, we went to the beach. The beach is the place where you start out, there is absoluty no danger on the beach.
Suddenly the ALPHA Raptor showed up and ANNIHILATED all my big dinosaurs yet again !
Endless hours of taming, lost yet again.

This is where I had enough and decided to give it a thumb down.
You literally spend 110 hours and accomplish absolutely nothing. You begin naked on the beach, no matter how many hours you put in, the game cheats.

The stronger you are, the harder Ark will rip your limbs from your body.

But yeah I know what your argements are, this is alpha and what are you gonna do. Somehow I don't think the final release will be anything different than spending 6 hours an night to end up homeless and naked on a beach somewhere owning less than before you logged on.

Spino on the beach, really ? Another 2 hours of watching a taming bar, gone.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=495890213

AAAnd there goes a few hours of sorting and boxing stuff.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=495890431


I got 108 hours out of it, I guess it will have to do.

[MadMek]

I have had none of these problems. The game is easy. Your post makes no senes.

[Chuc]

Try this

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468312476

If you are using this refresh your public ip

[Vay]

lol. Damn. That sounds like a stir of bad luck my friend.

Never had any of these problems.
Only advice I can offer is set your tamed dinos to nuteral or attacking your target, that way they at least have a chance. lol

[Sistermatic™]

Messaggio originale di Chuc:

Try this

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468312476

If you are using this refresh your public ip

+1 on this.

Also, OP, I read your entire post - game is good yeah? :)

[Babylonian]

Messaggio originale di sayerglasgow:

I have had none of these problems. The game is easy. Your post makes no senes.

when the dino is outside your base, keep it on neutral, it will not attack but it will defend itself.

when the dino is in the base, keep it on passive, it will not agro and glitch through the pen walls.

when taking the dino out, keep the dino on follow, even if it fights it will return to you.

Survival involves planning, keep a water source, or at least berries to stay hydrated and full.

Map awareness, you can use the selfie cam to check behind you quickly

good luck and maybe watch a video or 2 on youtube

[Jyandalf]

I have had my own share of BS moments, and it certainly does feel like the game stacks the odds against me on the official PVPVE server I play on at times, however there is always a solution:
For the dragonflies, you need to walk backwards while attacking. When I'm on my saber those bugs are always just out of my own reach, and I have to wait for them to attack me for me to land a hit.

Also even if you had kept your Parasaur, you probably would have grown to not use it at all, it's not even that great a pack mule. I've purposefully sent groups of them to their deaths just because they are using valuable berries that could go to my turtles(I'm trying to get the kibble for a level 120 bronto)

I personally hate flying to every red drop only to find a water jar blueprint, and that everyone else killing alphas are getting mastercraft level items, yet the best I get is ramshackle leather

[Sistermatic™]

OP. Your story doesn't even add up, and 90% of readers, who bother to read it, would spot the flaws all the way through it.

To whit....

- You had "a flock of dimos" but lost a carno to "a single" insect (which you also said was 3 or 4 times more than normal).

- You had bear traps (level 25) but somehow you and your mates were not armored and prepared to tranq the carno when the trap sprung and nearly got killed by it? If you can't do, don't do. Simple. (I solo tranq, w/o traps, in hide armor. Easy when you know how.)

- You were dehydrated? So you didn't/can't carry water? Use water tanks, forward bases?

- You can fly but walked to get metal and got alpha'd?

- Your trike was "10km away from your spawnpoint". Where's your bed? If you had one why were you 10km away from it?

That's just a couple of examples of why your story is utterly absurd. There are many more that show you simply have NFI.

Yes, game has faults, mostly minor. YOUR problems are entirely your fault.

[Zing]

The game is still in early access, the way you detailed your experience is very helpful. I hope developers will be able to appreciate it and learn from it. I had no problem opening ports and setting up my own dedicated server, configured the way I wanted it to be.

I have no clue what stats you have been feeding your Raptors and Carno. However a carno and raptor with 600+ damage and 1.2k HP should stand a decent chance against Alpha Raptor.

Messaggio originale di Broken Rebels-1nc0mp3t3nc3:

I personally hate flying to every red drop only to find a water jar blueprint, and that everyone else killing alphas are getting mastercraft level items, yet the best I get is ramshackle leather

If I had a Metal Ingot for every water jar blueprint I find in supply drops... I would have saved for a vault by now.

[Spills51]

Why do people say they are basically done with the game then rant.
When Im done I just leavee, perhaps your not done yet?
Game apparently is still on?

[Lexe]

Messaggio originale di SisterMatic (aka !nullptr):

- You had "a flock of dimos" but lost a carno to "a single" insect (which you also said was 3 or 4 times more than normal).

Nope you read it wrong, that was my first Carno and it died to a single bee.
1 bee vs full hp carno, bee wins.

[Lexe]

Messaggio originale di Spills51:

Why do people say they are basically done with the game then rant.
When Im done I just leavee, perhaps your not done yet?
Game apparently is still on?

Because people who don't own the game want to know this before they jump in this steaming pile.

[Lexe]

Messaggio originale di SisterMatic (aka !nullptr):

OP. Your story doesn't even add up, and 90% of readers, who bother to read it, would spot the flaws all the way through it.

To whit....

- You had "a flock of dimos" but lost a carno to "a single" insect (which you also said was 3 or 4 times more than normal).

- You had bear traps (level 25) but somehow you and your mates were not armored and prepared to tranq the carno when the trap sprung and nearly got killed by it? If you can't do, don't do. Simple. (I solo tranq, w/o traps, in hide armor. Easy when you know how.)

- You were dehydrated? So you didn't/can't carry water? Use water tanks, forward bases?

- You can fly but walked to get metal and got alpha'd?

- Your trike was "10km away from your spawnpoint". Where's your bed? If you had one why were you 10km away from it?

That's just a couple of examples of why your story is utterly absurd. There are many more that show you simply have NFI.

Yes, game has faults, mostly minor. YOUR problems are entirely your fault.

You missed the entire essence of the rant.
This is about spending your sunday watching a progress bar fill up, just so the game can drop an ALPHA on top of your head, no matter how much you are prepared or how many dino's you've got.
I bet you can spend a week without dying if you run around naked, because then all the game will ever give you is dodo's.
That is what the rant is about. Still thanks for your reply.

[Sistermatic™]

Messaggio originale di Lexe:

Messaggio originale di SisterMatic (aka !nullptr):

- You had "a flock of dimos" but lost a carno to "a single" insect (which you also said was 3 or 4 times more than normal).

Nope you read it wrong, that was my first Carno and it died to a single bee.
1 bee vs full hp carno, bee wins.

Then it's the chronological order of things. You tamed a carno w/o being able to look after it, ie: You tried running before you could walk. ALL animals have their purposes. You wax on that trikes are good for insects too. So where were they? SUPPORT your animals and USE them for the purposes intended.

tbh, the "bees" are no more than a minor nuisance - with bonus chitin - after your first trike or dimo (or even a rapper) is tamed.

And you did not answer all the other *bad play* decisions which you blame the game on.

Spawned 10km from your trike?
No water?
Walking to get metal?

etc....

[Sistermatic™]

Messaggio originale di Lexe:

Because people who don't own the game want to know this before they jump in this steaming pile.

And that is exactly why your post needs to be shown as the BS it is because it's NOT the game.

You're just bad... REAL bad.....

[Lexe]

Messaggio originale di SisterMatic (aka !nullptr):

tbh, the "bees" are no more than a minor nuisance - with bonus chitin - after your first trike or dimo (or even a rapper) is tamed.

Wrong, i saw a wild Carno being destroyed by one bee, and my own did the same thing on a completely different day. You need Dimorphodons or Raptors at least or your Carno wont like 10 minutes walking about.