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This game is starting to sizzle from day one:
In America - they have already released it - we have to wait until about 8pm tonight for it to unlock on steam.
Anyway - you can watch people streaming it already:
http://www.twitch.tv/reverbgames
or try
http://www.twitch.tv/mrmoonshouse
or even
http://www.twitch.tv/fairlight_excalibur
hhmmm... Ark....
Think Noms was the first to mention it... good man!!
It is early access so don't expect a finished product.
It does look quite interesting though and its good that we're moving away from zombies in the survival genre.
Going to watch this one closely as I can't buy MP games to play alone anymore ....
Looks good !!!
face it Phats, you can't by any games until you beat your DOTA addiction...Quote:
Originally Posted by Phatso
Its because I have invested too much time in it now and enjoy WAY too much. And hate it.
But seriously, there is TI5 coming too...
/excuses
Waiting to see if it lasts past the initial buzz. From there, I'll decide accordingly.
Here is the latest update from them today
[ EL WALL OF TEXT O ]
Well, i can tell you it is a whole lot of fun so far.
There is a ZA community server - had about 70 people online last night at one point.
First off, it is not optimized yet....What that boils down to is that on high and extreme setting you need GTX980 cards - General masses need to set to Medium and Medium doesnt look great - but they have acknowledged this from the outset, where optimization is high on their list.
I played in Windowed mode 1600x900 and still managed to enjoy it a lot, but this is because of the mechanics of the game itself.
Im sure it will start looking better and better as they develop it more, remember this has moved out of Alpha and is now in Early Access - so a lot to improve over time.
However there is so much to do, so much more than any regular Survival game I've seen so far.
The basic startout game goes as follows:
1. You start the game, setup the look of your character - you can get quite outlandish here with them - chunky, over done, weird looking are all completely go-mode - the look doesnt affect your gameplay so people go bonkers with it....arms the size of elephants with stick legs - check - chest like a Truck and tiny head, massive hand and long arms dragging nuckles on the ground - check - all part of the fun.
2. Now you Choose where to spawn on the map seaside - North/South/East or West. it's 40Km square - so its massive - I chose West coast
[**You DIE A LOT if you are not careful – dying loses your inventory, current tools, so keep this in mind.]
[**Everything you were carrying(inventory) will drop where you die as a backpack – you can potentially go pick it all back up]
3. You wake up in the world, look at your arm that has this CHIP in it and then look around; you have nothing but underpants and are stranded on a beach.
4. The world is fairly hostile, you generally can't cope for very long without water and food, but those are in abundance - to start stay near the waterline at your low level as you will need to dive in to the lake/sea to drink and replenish your thirst/water stat.
5. Pressing Q is to swop between tool and hands – you need to use hands without a tool in them, to pick up berries from bushes and stones on the ground etc. So to start run around and press E frantically on bushes and the ground – you will collect Berries for food and Stone to make some tools
6. For your very first tool you need to make a stone pickaxe – Stone, thatch and wood. Stones you have picked up off the surrounding areas, but you need to punch trees to get wood and thatch – bare handed, you will take damage from doing this so, once the tool is made, you will use these instead to get resources. – Go ahead and bash trees until you have enough to make a stone Pick (1xstone, 1xwood, 10xthatch)
7. To actually make things you need to know how to, recipes if you will are called Engrams in Ark. The Stone pick is default, but as you level you will unlock Engram points to learn other things along the way. HIT “I” on your keyboard to go in to your inventory and you should see Craft Stone Pick there, or you can swop to the craft panel which looks the same with “V” or by clicking on the craft menu item just above the inventory of all your items. To actually craft the item, you can see what resources are needed by hovering over the craft item and a pop-up appears showing how much stone/thatch/wood/hide/fiber etc. is required to craft the item and how much you actually have.
8. So you Level, pretty quickly at first, now you Hit “I” to select a core attribute to upgrade followed by the Engram menu to select some new Items you can learn to craft. Crafting gives you quite a lot of XP for levelling, so it really helps to gather craft and level, rinse repeat at first. Here is a breakdown of Core attributes so you can understand/identify what you would like to upgrade:
- Health – Higher health means take more damage for longer – normal RPG stat
- Stamina – Run for longer – really important actually, Dinos chase you!
- Oxygen – under water much? – pump this up to dive for longer
- Food – can eat more and keep hunger away for longer
- Water – drink more and keep thirst away longer
- Weight – can carry more and more and more
- Melee Damage – can hit harder and harder
- Movement Speed – can run faster and faster
- Fortitude – can take the harsh environment more and more (quite important actually)
- Crafting Speed – craft tools and items quicker and quicker
- Torpor – actually can’t be upgraded. High Tarpor means you will be unconscious soon and also how long you are unconscious for, something to watch when battling.
9. So craft, collect, craft, kill some small dinos and harvest by bashing, etc etc. The rest start becoming apparent as you go along (eg. Raw meat and berries spoil over time etc.). For me the important thing for the days play was to level enough to build a thatch house and a Simple Bed. The reason for this, my House and Simple bed can become by semi-permanent spawn point(if it’s not destroyed). So I levelled a few times, learnt my recipe for building my house etc. etc. *note a sleeping bag is a temporary once-only-spawn, handy at first, just throw it down in an area where you seem to be doing well and should you die, you can spawn on your sleeping bag, it disappears and you go re-collect you bag of items if someone hasn’t looted them yet.
Having a Simple bed instead, means it is always there, so long as it doesn’t get destroyed by some rampaging Dino – so you can basically have a consistent spawn location other than the default ones – which is very nice indeed.
Anyway – So my house and simple bed are in – to be continued.
Knock knock... got space for a guest in that little abode of yours?
Foh Shoh - running around helping mates will result in fun factor multiplied by millions :)
@Duckles, I think he meant your sleeping bag, little spoon.
LOL... dirty little bastard!Quote:
Originally Posted by Musketeer
So... the game actually rewards teamwork...
Once you are part of the tribe, you can build onto or demolish anything the tribe owns.... and if you do things near each other you get shared XP.
There are some awesome glitches and animal freak outs at the moment... but there were 5 patches yesterday, so they are doing some great work on improving things.
I'm currently running my 7970... at all but 1 setting on high, full screen at 1920 x 1080.
OT: I wish our forums were more active.
Watching streams closely and waiting for the 1 week buzz to die down.
I do need another game for now as GTA5 Online also didn't have enough friends playing........ ...... ....... (my concern here too TBH)
Yea... but Ark is actually different...
Last night... it took Duck and I about 30min just to find each other, but that was just as fun as any other part of the game.
"Death is permanent, and you can even knock out, capture, and force-feed other players to use them for your own purposes, such as extracting their blood to for transfusions, harvesting their fecal matter to use as fertilizer, or using them as food for your carnivorous pets! " - HAHAHAHAHA
@All - budget allocated! Going to get this title!
Okay... it seems that we are starting to get some momentum!! :)
If you pick up the game and want to join us... make sure you have myself or Ducky as friends on Steam, as this will allow you to search what server to join by "friends"
Then you want to spawn as close to the South - Western corner as possible, as our base is just east of the green Obelix / Ark
- However this may be a little difficult as we have not pin pointed the spawn spots (there are 12 currently)
Servers should start lagging a bit less now - thank the pope
Beginner? Watch this.....simple understanding of all you need to get going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL3QrTGlmnc
After a bit of whiskey, many vids / streams and the sound of Lee and Morph playing, I have decided to pick this up.
LETS GO DINORIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://arkservers.net/banner/197.80....001/banner.png
This is our stomping ground at the moment - time-of-post server is busy updating
i want to pick this up too. how big is the download from Steam?
Think it is about 6GB now.
Apparent spawn areas.
http://i.imgur.com/vLCVPHN.png
6gb i can handle.... 60gb, not so much.
Will get this as soon as i get a PC for Tish
so... W3 is the best spawn point for us :)
-- That island just north of S1 looks enticing!
Okay... some information on the caves
- http://segmentnext.com/2015/06/08/ar...nd-underwater/
Phats.. you gonna need to get into a cave for those crystals you looking for.
Optimizations have made a WORLD of difference - game is starting to chug along nicely now, leaps better than it was at initial launch
Having picked this up recently a group of my Rust buddies are hopefully trying to set up around 35,70 after being wrecked by that fluttershy git.
Water and metal most needed basics it would seem - crystals and oils can be sorted later once levelled?
Awesome game
You guys are miles away from us... we are around 75, 8 (SW corner)
However we are looking to migrate... how many in your tribe?
(May be a possibility for us to move into your neighbourhood)
Seems to be 6 active, i had a quiet weekend but the rest were busy...
All high end dino's present and easy access to metal once you have tamed and ankyo etc bit of a trek to a cave but thats part of the adventure
We need to build the big dino gate for our mammoth got a spare?
picked it up to on the weekend. ran around a bit and died many times...
oh cool - must add you to the tribe!
will message you on Steam Duck. I just join a server with my friends on correct?
Yup.. add one of us on steam... and then you can join us by the "search by friends" option
Alternatively... join the Mweb JHB server. PvPvE
http://www.ark-survival.net/en/taming-calculator/ -- Nice find Phats!!
Morning fellow survivors...
I know most of you will freak out at the thought of this... but I propose a server move!
Here are my reasons:
- Our server has fallen victim to grievers who are now bored (since they used exploits and admin commands to level up) so are just running around grieving people.
(i.e The Dorf guy that killed Ducky once shot is a part of the ng tribe, who are the admins of the server)
- So we have grievers, exploiters and to sum it all up... they are the admins as well
- Server lag... over the last week, I've been sliding down hills as the games lags so badly, or suddenly appearing 10m behind where I thought I currently was.
- They have tried to arrange a server wipe, but this seems to have fallen to cheating as well as people have created multiple accounts in order to try sway the votes
(The site admin has recorded the evidence of multiple accounts on the same IP)
So... last night I took a look at the server that Kalgat is currently on...
- The game loaded in about 10secs!!
- The game play was smooth, no lag as yet
- The server is not that populated yet
- Holy Crap... they dinosaurs are evil... I died about 5 times in 30min... Level 75 Raptor, level 60 alligator, etc
So... your thoughts?
I know you guys have alot invested in the current base but at the way everyone was carrying on last night, i agree with Morph.
Rather than investing more time into it and then it gets wiped, lets just move to a nice new pretty server
I am not 100% for or against the idea. I have noticed that the admin seems dodge on our existing server but no proof.
Also lets remember, the server might get wiped. Its possible.
Lag is also a big deal on the server. Last night was literally unplayable.
Is there any way we can transfer? Isn't that what the obelisks are for?
Pros
+ Fresh start
+ Less lag
+ Less griefing
+ Equal level tribe members - everyone crafting together. Shared XP fest.
+ We know exactly whats up
Cons
- Our base
- Our dinos
- Our levels
- Our time...
- PvP on the new server. We might as well go to a PvE server maybe?
I guess its sort of up to the Duck to be honest. He has put in more time than the rest of us and would ultimately be "losing" the most.
It would suck to lose our now colossal base and walls, but I now know more about base building than before I guess.
The oblisk is designed to move chars and dinos ()you upload your chars / dinos to the oblisk... but most servers have the option to download your chars / dinos disabled.
Apparently due to people having used exploits, etc... and then taking their max level chars and dinos to a new server and owning everyone.
So the move would be a clean start.
Hey Lee, eventually saw your post about this on our forums. Keen as a bean, looks like a great game to waste time on. Will aim to buy soon, just needing to ensure I'm not unemployed after this week which might be likely.
:D