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ARK: Survival Evolved: Friday's Big Update Detailed in New Steam Hub Post
SBFord
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The ARK: Survival Evolved team has updated its Steam portal page with the contents of this Friday's big patch.
Along with the emphasis on bug fixes and performance optimizations, players can expect to see these new features added:
Tribe Governance features: do you want to be full utopian Communist where everything is shared, rapacious Capitalists with absolute private property, or something in between? Now Tribe founders can choose!
New Structures: The Metallic Spike Blockade for stopping incoming Dinosaur attacks, and the Food Storage Bin for preserving your food over extended periods of time and turning beef into jerky... mmmm beef jerky!
Flyers can now carry other dinosaurs, not just humans. C4-Packing Dodo Air Drop anyone?
Read the full post on the ARK: Survival Evolved Steam page.
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Keybindings will not stay where you put them nor work most of the time.
I use arrows to move (Fine) and Num0 to Jump. Settings say Num0 as I set it and save but does not work in game. Any other way to get the controls to work the way I want and not dictated for me? Thanks
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One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
Flavor of the week?
I'm wondering the same too. Suddenly articles about this game pop up here and there. Considering 400k early access has been sold, generating a revenue of $10m while costing $1.5m, this game is a major success. The fact they are doing it with little or no advertising/hype is a wonder.
Kudos to them.
It released a trailer like a month and a half ago that appeared to be amazing. Went on steam store (early access) with a release date of June 2, 2015. It was kind of out of nowhere, but hype generated real quick among sandbox and survival genre enthusiasts.
It did not live up to the hype in my opinion.
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
Did 7 days to die dig into their wallets? Advertising doesn't come cheap.
Got to pay the piper.
Well i guess it is a combo of not paying for advertising and the fact that nobody really cares about 7 days to die.
Lost with dinos otoh is the new hot commodity. Rideable dinos i might add.... And not a freaking zombie in sight...
Arc is the new hot and will be so for about 5 days...
This have been a good conversation
some nice changes coming.. have not really been able to put this game down since it released the devs are doing a great job so far
Yes they do. Bought this on a whim and so glad I did, Devs are amazing with their feedback and updates. Let's hope they pull off the performance gains suggested in tomorrows patch.
Flavor of the week? It's bigger than that.. play it and find out for yourself! 800 years of gameplay already from 500000 users...
so say we all
It blew up because its not just the same played out survival game. Theres actually more to it. Imagine if someone took that sort of idea and made an MMO out of it. Oh wait, that realism in an MMO is just considered grindy and bad.
I have a pack of 12 dodos, ranging from level 33 to 59. I would've never thought to strap C4 to them....but now that you mention it, I could rule the world
I love this game. I haven't really spent my time playing anything else. It's very fun with friends and especially if you can get on a private, reliable server
Look I appreciate mmorpg picking a survival game and really writing it up, but what about a real MMO like "tree of life" nothing what so ever? dino's are nice but a real mmo is nicer
I've literally never bought an EA game on Steam, as I've leaned towards disgust with how a lot of devs take advantage of EA to get a quick injection of cash and do little to nothing to improve their game. That said, I bought this game and have enjoyed what I've played so far. It's a beautiful game if your computer can have it maxed out like mine, and the survival aspect is satisfying as you learn to gear up and create faster and faster with each death.
tdlr: Get this game if a survival game with dinosaurs that you tame, and diverse enemies that make you constantly look not just around, but look to the sky as well, sounds at all interesting to you. The devs seems to actually care about the future of this title and are actually willing to listen to the community.
Smile
Everyone, please remember that this game just came out on Steam as an Early Access which means it's in pre-alpha or beta. It just came out on Steam on June 2nd, 2015. For how long it has been going and for being early access, this game shows a huge amount of potential and of course there are going to be plenty of bugs, it isn't a full release yet so cut it some slack!
From what I have seen from other pre-alpha/beta/early release games, this game is a hundred miles ahead of the game! GREAT GAME, GREAT DEVELOPERS, AND ALMOST DAILY UPDATES! I've never seen a game that has been this on the ball!
Just because a game isnt hyped here doesnt mean much. This site doesnt hype games you can actually play (early release or otherwise) they hype ponzi scheme kickstarters that never start but certainly like to have money kicked to them. I play two games right now that dont even have their own section here...This one, ARK, and Ascent. Both playable games that you can buy on steam for peanuts. Both with sand boxey feel to them.
But there isnt really any mention of them here at all. I think the huge number of people who bought ARK basically 'forced' this place to at least start talking about it. Ascent is a long way from being 'modern' but it serves a purpose and its only one guy doing it so that has to be considered. Ark looks like (better than some) Triple A MMO that used to get hyped to high heaven and then crash and burn, the fact this game (ARK) isnt getting hyped here or anywhere else is probably a blessing.
Two major patches the past two days (today patch bigger than one in this article) shows theyre heading in right direction. Once they get it optimized so mid level machines can play it then they should really take off with other fixes and additions.
I have played for 5 or 6 days had only a couple bugs here or there, no more than some fully released games have actually. Only had one, maybe two crashes and that was day one with a memory leak which seems to have been fixed in one of the first patches I saw.
I also dont label it a survival game. Its sort of a sand box without quests but you have decay on everything. Which is what a lot more MMOs should do. Right now the main focus is to level up, learn stuff and if youre on a PvP server go and kill other people. 70 people pop caps makes having organized stuff difficult and the mega guilds certainly will balk at it, but 10-15 guys (assuming they can get on together) can do some damage. Some talk of raising limits but even with that the most I saw bandied about was maybe 200. Which for some is still small.
I stay away from PvP servers anyway, griefer heaven, but thats another beauty, you can level up on a PvE server then transfer ro any server you want (at any time). Although that feature is a little buggy still.
So they seem to take what the players say and give it to them, within reason anyway.