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Registrace 1. 01. 2023
On this channel I will be mainly doing first time playing play through and game reviews. Occasionally I will re-visit some of my favorites. Most games will be streamed in twitch and edited for CZcams!
Ark Survival Ascended - Will the Magic or Passion come back?
Its been a bit, but that is because I have seemingly lost the passion for the game! Not sure what exactly happened or when it did, but in this video we explore how the passion disappeared.
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Fallout 76 - First Impressions - 2024
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I finally played Fallout 76! After about 30 hours of game time this is my first impressions of my time in Fallout76! Want to see some great camp builds I would recommend checking out www.youtube.com/@UCuFoE9Mw-ozRuah1Ue5LIhw for some amazing builds!
Subnautica - Final Review - 2024
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I did it!!!! I finally finished Subnautica! This is my review of the 45 hours I spent in the game! Note - If you haven't already you should check out ButchX3 time in Subnautica. I really like his content and was not in anyway calling him out! www.youtube.com/@UCdXt3vQYovsryCpFPLuNpTQ If you want to see the full playthrough, let me know in the comments and I will edit that down into a couple vid...
Ark Survival Ascended - The Center - First Impression
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They did it!!! They finally did it!!! A new map launched mostly on time! I spent a few hours on my xbox series X getting my first impression of the new Map for ASA! My new channel that I have been working on: www.youtube.com/@UCCFRze2zT2T8XtLNVQfjF6g Check out Hopps new series: Thanks for the Video clip! www.youtube.com/@UC1FLcJtwtvryF kzdoN7pg
Ark Survival Ascended - State of Ark March 2024 + First Impressions of Scorched Earth
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ITS HERE!!! Scorched Earth on ASA! This is my first impression of ASA - SE and the state of Ark March edition! Here is a link to my new channel: youtube.com/@vintagemovienights?si=OVli3JmxZvQQElyh Thanks for all the support!
Current State of Ark - February 2024
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Its the end of February and its time for another state of the Ark review....With major delays and ongoing issues, how are things looking for Ark and Ark survival ascended.
Ark Survival Evolved - Scorched Earth - First time playing - ep 6 - Search for Crystal
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The attack of Micro Raptors!!!! Its a fight as we search for Crystal! If its not one thing it is another!! Can we survive?
Ark Survival Evolved - Scorched Earth - First time playing - Ep5 - Loosing my mind!
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I swear this game makes you loose your mind!!!! I know I have lost mine! We kind of finish construction on the adobe home and begin the search for Cyrstal.
Ark Survival Evolved - Scorched Earth - First Time Playing Ep 4 Flying Gator
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We got our gator a saddle, now how to ride the thing!!! Plus we continue to improve our home and make new friends along the way!
These are my all time Favorite games - Top 10!
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Check out my all time favorite games, that have made the top 10. Along with some honorable mentions! These games have defined gaming for me and had the biggest impact on me as a gamer! These are the games I love! These are the types of games I like to play and will be playing more of in the future! Check out my Friend Hopp and his first time playing No Mans Sky! czcams.com/video/MKzyrrlsmuw/vid...
The Current State of Ark - January 2024
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Welcome to my new series. At the end of each month, I am going to review the current state of Ark. Is are in trouble? Can they recover?
Ark Survival Evolved - First Time Playing - Scorched Earth - Ep 3 - My First Tame
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After a string of deaths; we were able to recover our stuff and make a new friend in the process!
Xbox Direct 2024 Game review and Impressions
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The Xbox Direct 2024 has happened. What games make the list and which ones fall short?
Ark Survival Evolved - First Time Playing - Scorched Earth - Ep2 - Unforgiving
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The desert wastelands are an unforgiving place to try and survive in Ark Survival evolved. Krug continues to try his best to survive in the unforgiving desert!
Light No Fire - Will Exploration be good?
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As an open world game, it is so important that Light no fires exploration be better then no mans sk...Can Hello Games pull it off?
Ark Survival Evolved - First Time Playing - Scorched Earth - Ep 1
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Ark Survival Evolved - First Time Playing - Scorched Earth - Ep 1
Ark Survival Ascended - Should you buy?
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Ark Survival Ascended - Should you buy?
Light No Fire - Should we Trust in Hello Games?
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Light No Fire - Should we Trust in Hello Games?
Ark Survival Ascended - Krug Reborn - Episode 1 - The Memories!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Krug Reborn - Episode 1 - The Memories!
Light No Fire - What do we know - Trailer review
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Light No Fire - What do we know - Trailer review
Ark 2 - Is this still happening or has it been cancelled?
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Ark 2 - Is this still happening or has it been cancelled?
Ark Survival Ascended - PlayStation Release date, Turkey Trials delayed and Cheating!
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Ark Survival Ascended - PlayStation Release date, Turkey Trials delayed and Cheating!
Ark Survival Ascended - Xbox Series X - First Impressions!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Xbox Series X - First Impressions!
Ark Survival Ascended - Xbox Series X - First time playing - UNCUT
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Ark Survival Ascended - Xbox Series X - First time playing - UNCUT
Ark Survival Ascended - Is It Actually Happening?!?!?!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Is It Actually Happening?!?!?!
Ark Survival Ascended - Beach Bobs Ascended - S1EP4 - I can Fly!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Beach Bobs Ascended - S1EP4 - I can Fly!
Is the Series S to Blame for ASA Delay?
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Is the Series S to Blame for ASA Delay?
Ark Survival Ascended - Will Console Launch in November?
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Ark Survival Ascended - Will Console Launch in November?
Ark Survival Ascended - Don't be fooled by Misinformation!!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Don't be fooled by Misinformation!!
Ark Survival Ascended - Console Delays and Death Threats!?!?!
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Ark Survival Ascended - Console Delays and Death Threats!?!?!
I also took a break from ARK, been playing Dragons Dogma, Monster Hunter World and The Front, The Front is like ARK Omega but with zombies instead of Dinos, yes you can tame the zombies ...😁
One hundred hours in and already fighting bosses? Sounds like it's playstyle that's causing burnout. Rushing through skipping the content tends to kill fun.
That could be part of it....I believe it was I got stuck in the vortex of ASE becoming ASA and not being thrilled with the ASA outcome....but maybe I am just crazy! LOL
Ase is finished, asa is not even 10% done. Why people complaining
I tried not to complain...I still have hope for it, just the magic got lost recently...I have a plan to try and get back into this game!
@Nerdboy81 to be fair I think you made the mistake of putting your channel views ahead of your personal gaming experience. I have about 1,300 hours in ASA and I'm very hooked on it. So if the magic is gone for you after just a couple hundred hours I'd say either the game isn't for you or you simply jumped around to much and don't have a real playthrough.
There is probably some truth in this as well.
I uninstalled ascended and play modded ASE, a much better game even looks better inho.If Aberration is not great I'll be done with ASE, the immersion just isn't there so far.
I hope the game gets better with the new maps...fingers crossed!
bro how u get bored after 100h only people like me have thousands of hours on island only
I think I got sucked into the vortex of the updates hitting when I started and thus causing me get lost. LOL.
I mean, consider ASE never got fully fixed why place any faith at all into ASA? I refuse to even buy it. ARK 2 will release and it will be only borderline playable but they will have 10 paid DLCs ready before you can enjoy the main game.... WildCard stinks! Play some Conan Exiles or Palworld! 😂 Heck, even go back to Minecraft! 🤣
Spoiler alert....I have been playing Minecraft recently...working on a video for that soon. I dabbled for like a few hours in Palworld....Still want to put in more hours...
@@Nerdboy81 Good stuff! I love all these games. They are good fun with high replay value. I still live Ark also. I just refuse to support ASA since I invested so much into ASE and they never fully fixed it...
Stfu.. your negative ass talking shit cuz u a bob… skill issue
I feel exactly the same
Hopefully it turns the corner soon and the magic comes back!
Personally I haven’t felt the magic in a while but I’m hopeful
Me too!!! I have hope....
It's becoming too monetized for my liking.. Really premium dinos that require extra purchase to tame?? Really ARK? I get paying expensions but... paying to tame certain dinos????
Yeah I am not a huge fan of the micro transactions either....
game is just a money making system for the cheaters an devs
Makes me bummed but I worry there is truth to this.
@@Nerdboy81 it's been true since the early days of ASE .I was in some big mega tribes an we had dinos with stats that just were not possible to have on official .some 1 in tribe was buying them for real money .
Rex's with like a million melle
I hate to hear it...I have not played any online really...just solo.
ark ascended is beautiful but the i can never get used to the spawn rates being so low, I'm always traveling way too far to get good lvl tames :/
It has moments for sure!!!
These kind of games are for people with no life. Who wants to spend an entire day just taming a big dino?
LOL!!!! I just told my sister who plays Ark, that it takes too long to tame some creatures...she said adjust the rates and you can play faster.....hmmm...
You've been playing for less than a year, and have less hours on the game than I have on my least played map. Yet you feel that you have the knowledge to comment on the game as a whole? Goddam, that's a bold move. ASA is a better game, by leagues. The problems that ASA face are usually related to people with subpar hardware. It's an absolute pig to run. If you had decent hardware, and cranked ASA to the top quality, you'd understand why. Breeding is better. Building is better. Graphics are better. Dinos are better (the ones we have). Maps are expansive and lush. It genuinely feels prehistoric. (hence the part you claim you feel small. You ARE small) Here's the meat and potatoes and my feelings on the state of the game. The community is faced with 2 choices. Play content they've already played (Island, Scorched and soon, Aberration) and were notoriously the least played maps. Gen2, Fjordur, Extinction, Ragnarok ... all hold a chokehold for many of us. Or, 2, stay on ASE on a map you like, with your progress over the last 10 years and wait. I didn't WANT to start over, but I'm glad I did. The map cycle could be a little faster, yes ... but this is fine. Mod maps make it even better! People that love the later maps, when ARK really reached the pinnacle ... they'll port over when the maps drop. PAY2WIN isn't real. There's nothing about ARK that's Pay2Win. The Pyromane isn't that good of a tame and the Oasisaur is probably the worst thing ever created. You do not miss out on anything and you do not get locked behind a wall if you don't spend $5 on a Pyromane. This argument comes from people that have nothin to offer by way of opinion and just resort to bandwagon comments. Keep playing. Actually learn the maps. Experience the game. A few hours isn't nearly enough. IMO ... upgrade your PC. You'll see just how insane the graphics can be. UE5.4 apparently brings frame gen for those of you with low tier specs. That may be enough to get you into the game more.
I should mention that I am a private map player. I play on a cluster with people that I've grown to enjoy. The game is a dinosaur breeding game with sub par boss battles and boring grind loops. The whole point of the game is different to every one of us.
I am a pleb....I play on....Console....LOL!!! I will play more though, the update just didn't hold me like I hoped. But making this video and reading comments, I have a plan!
@Nerdboy81 that makes more sense. I was not a fan of how limited and installed console was. I'm hoping that you guys will see an improvement with the new engine update. Half of my server plays on console and it's BRUTAL for them. I have few issues.
@@CDuff86 fingers crossed it gets better.
do you know why console player can't use mods in the first game
I don't.....I assume it had to do with technology capabilities...but I don't actually know.
When you have a group of good friends you trust the magic will always be there with any Game
In my experience, nothing will ever beat that first time starting up a new game you have been excited for. Experiencing and learning the game for the first time. We are all always looking for that next game to bring back those feelings. I played ASE for 3000 hours (singleplayer only) and im gonna do the same for ASE. Sure both games have their flaws and sometimes ill play ASA for hours, where i cant stop playing. Sometimes i get bored after 20 minutes. I think to keep yourself from burn out from a game you like, is to have a pool of different game you like to play. Stop playing a game if you dont feel like it, and come back recharged when you do. Some of my most favourite games i dont even play, if i dont do it with someone else. To me its about finding that niche, that you enjoy doing in that game.
There is something special about playing a game for the first time!!
I can't stand ASA and I have buyers regret! I will continue to play ASE.
It seems to be a common feeling.
Sigh... another pve player. "The stress of retaming an argie" - lol
Yeah I am a nerd. LOL.
My take on the issues… Sadly, Wild Card is under investor pressure to make deadlines whether the map is ready or not. That causes premature releases and glitches. And then if they don’t make the deadlines, people are mad they didn’t meet them. As for “the love for ark”…. Think of this game as a Pokémon game. You are trying to collect the best. The thrill is in the hunt. You have barely scratched the surface of the island. You haven’t gone to the underwater caves. You haven’t beat all three obelisk bosses. You haven’t opened the Tek Cave. You haven’t fought the final boss and truly ascended. The true story of ark is still waiting for you. Personally, I have enjoyed ASA. I enjoy the story maps more than the other ones. But all of it is enjoyable. I’m a completionist.
AGREE!!!! The missteps are probably because of the financial pressure..I think I have a plan that includes playing ASE the Island....More to come. LOL.
No, because it has nothing to do with ASA. It is boredom with the overall game, both ASE and ASA. Too much time has made the dopamine level for play become just stagnation. Perfectly normal after so many years playing the same game. Everyone goes through this, when the passion is gone. Games, relationships. Time to find something else that triggers that dopamine feel goods again.
Agreed and even making this video, playing other games, I have had that urge to play again....so that is good. LOL.
@@Nerdboy81 chuckles. Wish it was that easy for me. Reason I used the word "dopamine" moderate autism, severe ADHD. Plus, yada yada yada. Just kickstarting the brain to do anything is a major challenge.
I am partly trying to fool myself LOL. Games can be both great and a chore at the same time....especially trying to be a content creator.
@@Nerdboy81 When you make your pleasure your job, sometimes it becomes a work of love, other times your pleasure is gets lost in the translation.
the game is broken,,, I have graphic cards from last year with other compatible components from year 2022, but they are better than what the game recommendations are but the game looks like shit and the performance is awful.
What are the specs?
Hopefully they can get it working and turn it around!!!
well we also have to remember wildcard made some deals with devils, first with snail, then with nitrado, they were put on a massive time constraint to release ASA by last october, and as a result it's a buggy unoptimized mess, which standard for wildcard, but it could have been better. personally hoping for the update to UE5.4 alongside the release of ASE's most popular map to do the job of bringing back the people. The biggest thing is most can't play ASA due to system requirements right now, something the update is expected to help with, and the lack of content, leave us as a community divided, but if they can hash out the performance issues so that NORMAL rigs can run it, and the playerbase consolidates on ASA, I see no reason why it should continue to struggle as it is. If people treat it like shit, no matter what you do, it will seem like shit. outlook speaks volumes.
I have my fingers crossed with the update to Unreal engine hopefully we will get some some optimization and it will make it more accessible and cleaner for us plebs on console and low level PCS.
True words
THANKS!
If you play games to enjoy them you going to enjoy in the games but when you play to get money on game then game is boring
Well as much as I would like to make money playing games....I have not made much LOL.....But I get what you are saying!
Got sick of playing Ark so went back to playing one of my old favourites The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall free on steam
NICE!!!! Yeah I have played a few other games lately....been fun! I will be making a few videos on these.
Kurtis is performing fine, maybe try PvP or other styles
I have a plan after making this video....more to come.
I mean if you play alone its gonna be a challenge, Ive enjoyed my 300+ hrs as a solo player on official PVE The Island you can laugh if you get arked with the server and they might even hook you up with what you need for free. Hell last weekend we spent all day perfecting a public Rhynio trap and looking for bugs to get prego. Not saying there’s no issues but having people to play with makes everything more enjoyable.
Being Solo definitely probably more challenging....but I tend to play real slow anyway. LOL.
One huge problem in generating negativity.... Is videos like this.... You have low number of followers your trying to boost ... And negative draws more views and activity than positive. Multiply that by all the others on your shoes and boom bobs your uncle negative tarpit
Now I gotta go watch Peter Pan!!!!! 😂😂😂
YES!!! Finally!!! I was so proud of my cut away! I do believe in fairies...I do I do! LOL!!
Stick with ASE. Ive got 5k hours in ASE and 1.2k in ASA all official servers and can confirm they will never make the game as good as ASE was. ASE was a treat, Im almost jealous of the journey youll have if you do the full ASE story. The first time is a trip. ASA is a shameless attempt to cash in on the success of the IP.
After making this video and reading comments....I have a plan to do that exact thing....I am going to go back to ASE and finish the Island story.
I've certainly learned that Ark is best played in moderation. If you only play it you can get burnt out fast. I'm currently taking a break until Ragnarok when, and if, it comes out
I did play it almost entirely for a year....So that could be some of it.
2023😂😂. Man I have many multiple thousands of hours and i still go back
What do you mean, he's clearly an Ark veteran XD
LOL!!!! 100 hours!! Killing it.....thats a lot for me. LOL.... I am coming at this a noob. LOL.
I was with you until you said fallout 76 was a good game. You lost all credibility at that point... ASA has lots of issues, won't argue that, and will likely tank before 1.0 but it sounds like your main problem is starting over, if that's the case the game was never for you, starting over is the best part of about Ark. Its about the climb not the summit. Its why everyone always wants more maps. I think even a 100% perfect ASA release wouldn't have appealed to you.
I don't recall saying fallout 76 was good, I gave it a 7/10 on my last video...ITS an ok game, not fully for me.....However I think some of the problem is that I haven't gotten far enough in my original play through and so the starting over is just not alluring but that is likely because I haven't really gotten to end game.....But I do have a plan...to hopefully fix this.....More to come. LOL
@@Nerdboy81 It was a bit of hyperbole. Fallout 76 is a sore spot for me as I'm a big Bethesda fan (or was depending on how elder scrolls 6 goes) And yeah I could see if you are just getting over the death grind and starting to build momentum not wanting to stop. Curious if you've found a save game conversion or a console spawning equivalent...
when you started talking about stuff like clouds... you lost me haha. i have turn those off to even play with stable frames. even a 3060 aint enough
LOL!!!!!! Thats like one of the main issues....YOu have to turn off clouds and fog....as a console player Its supposed to be optimized for the console...supposed to be anyway. LOL
@@Nerdboy81 i started Ark when it came out on the original xbone. I know the pain. In a way at least. Thought things would be better on pc hha
the magic of ark fadded when we all found out the devs and the publisher abuse people in game, sell dinos, and ban people for no reason whatsoever
Some of them are pdfiles and pdfiles protectors as well
I have heard about this....I have not seen it first hand, but have heard abou it.....That stinks!
@@Nerdboy81 check out teachers game too.
Oh boy, you obviously didn't play ASA much at all. To say "there's nothing new", other than it being "prettier", is just crazy. There are new dinos, there are new BETTER, simpler breeding mechanics, the new building mechanics are AWESOME, there are baby dinos that helps a beach bob get a starter dino faster, the boss fights are HELLA harder.....and I'm sure there's much more I'm not remembering. You really shouldn't make statements about things you obviously have no firsthand experience with. Gotta say, you're way off base on this statement as well.
honestly I have not put enough time into ASA...Its true....It just doesn't hold me right now...but I do have a plan to see if I can turn that around...more to come.
Something that you're wrong about ASE/ASA and people "dropping off" playing ASA, it's not because the game makes them start all over. It's that ASA, in the beginning was not optimized enough for a lot of ASE player computers. Hopefully, with the Aberration update that will help a lot of people. But, saying it's because they have to start all over is so wrong. People start all over ALL THE TIME in ASE. It's a type of play through. People make series and seasons out of starting on The Island and playing all the way through to Gen 2. That's something that happens all the time. I understand, being a new player, you'd think that, because you don't want to start over on ASA Island after not even getting to finish ASE Island but for longtime players that's a totally normal thing. Another reason that player base on ASA will drop off a month or so after they release a new map is because all the seasoned players know how to play the game, they do the boss fight on the newest released map and then they have to sit around and wait for the next map to be released. Whereas with ASE, you have them all already. It's that simple.
yeah I think I was just not feeling well and being just let down a little by the remaster...but I will go on eventually. LOL.
the loot beam now became transparent, I don't know what to do now.
turn global illumination up
OH JEEEz....Thats no good. Hope you figure it out.
Ark is DEAD and DONE. The management from wildcard and Snail games has killed the game and it's too far gone now .
And now there are literally NO good pvp survival games
That is my concern....I still question if Ark 2 will ever happen!
100 hours is nothing in ark
i was gonna say. i have over 3.7k and those are considered casual hours
True story! LOL
the only enjoyable time of fo76 was the early days when it was a beautiful mess
LOL!!!
20k hours deep, I still play more ASE than ASA, but I don't really feel like playing either that much. ARK burned me out on video games in general tbh. I've been going outside.
Outside......Where the sun is ..... and grass....LOL.. COOl. LOl.
I'm with you, closing in on 10k hours on this game, it's lost its spark and I have no faith in the devs. I hope they do something that brings this game back, to me at least.
Play anything for 10k hours and it will loose its spark, asa is an engine overhaul of ase, its the same, dont like it? ase still exists
Fingers crossed for a rebound!!! I am hopeful!
Too many people expecting a engine overhaul to be a new game. What they want is Ark 2 but also they bitched for classic ark remake also and turns out maybe not really.
Then they egt mad they cant run unreal 5 on their 15 ueard old GPU XD
Thats partly because of the marketing...They called it a full recode when that was not 100% accurate. I believe if ASA had started with a NEW map and then started remastering it would have been a better plan for them...IMO...
the magic or passion never left from me, i play daily on a private server with a group of long time friends and its always fun and awesome! and we never have crashed or any issues people complain about online, the players ruin ark
That’s great that you’ve been lucky with your experience. For a long time I would’ve said the same. I also was a daily player of ASE and had a group of friends I’d been playing with for years. Some of them I still play with to this day. But it’s hard to love a game when you have a limited amount of time to play it, and it keeps crashing. In spite of everything that you do to fix it. You can’t get anything done because it keeps crashing. Consoles have their own issues to be sure, but the console version has been more stable I think, because the game has to go through certification, and every patch has to go through certification with Sony and Microsoft before it can go to the consoles. So there is some quality control there. But for us PC players, we may get various features or access to things first a lot of times, but it’s because we are the guinea pigs. And there have been times when, no joke, I was trying to work on a build for a video, or I was live streaming, and the game kept crashing every 10 to 20 minutes. Often with a rollback that would force me to redo a lot of work. Or I just couldn’t get on at all. And yeah, sometimes the game is more stable and it runs fine for a while. Then they drop another update or patch that breaks some stuff again and it starts crashing again. It’s kind of soul crushing to be honest. Or when game-breaking bugs come along that undo hours and hours of work. It just takes the fun out of it.
@@SongbirdGaming that realy sucks luckily me and my group dont experience any of those bad things on any console or pc
That is awesome... I play solo so my issues are really my own. LOL.
They should not have split their community. Also they never solved the problems of piller/foundation spam on pve servers.
You have to play unofficial. Official is full of greedy people that want every piece of land for themselves. Official is also too time consuming, the harvest and taming rates are terrible.
I believe they should have launched ASA with a new map.....Not a remastered map and continued support for ASE...but what do I know....LOL
Ark: Scam Ascended is a total grub fest now filled to the brim with.. - Tea running around misusing their GM Accounts & spawning in things to sell in their grey and black Chinese markets - Tea enforcing their conquest server rules on the official community - Pocket devs taking bribes to protect all the wrong people, including the cheaters & hackers - Cheaters & hackers stealing stuff to sell in their own grey and black markets - Pay to Play and Pay to Win in-game items, creatures, assets and content + Microtransactions - Gash-Grab nonsense Meanwhile.. - The Chinese crook & grub bankrupt this game when he nicked off with $1.3 Billion USD - Money he should return but can't and won't as he lost the lot on a get rich quick scam - His grubby business owes money everywhere - His grubby business + the dirty devs have constantly lied to the community and the investors - his grubby business has done shady deals resulting in low quality servers in a monopoly - His wife is on a $1 Million USD a month cash-out scam - His grubby business + his mismanagement has killed all the games and products it touches - his grubby business and his shady ways are.. if not.. have outright killed Ark as a game and a franchise - The USA Stock Market has caight on and is about to kick them off the stock market as they are a 'bad investment' for all - They have been warned to properly document their debts, costs and liabilities Ark: Scam Ascended.. - was a lie as it is not a new game on a cleaned up code base - it is Ark: SE imported into a rushed UE5 world which is The Island from UE4 imported into UE5 - they imported the UE4 bugs and issues the community wanted fixed for years - they ruined the speed options for a select few PVP players at the cost of everyone else - they ruined the cryo pod and cryo fridge system - the game DLCs make Ark: Scam Ascended look nothing like Ark: SE and it just looks awful and like an Ark: SE knockoff - requires a super computer to run and it does not run well and crashes with issues and problems constantly - they are selling DLC when it seems like they have no intentions of taking the core product and game out of early access - there is a great risk it is all a cash-grab scam and it won't be finished or completed - everything is rushed and it is low quality for the price that is being asked for it - has always been a cash-grab scam exploiting those left over in the community Where is the game we were promised that.. - runs better on our existing hardware - fixed up all the issues and bugs the community wanted fixed for 8+ years - runs better on the networks and with runs on better servers - gives people a brand new game experience - like Palworld and Path of Titans run rather well on UE5 and require less on our existing hardware to run those games All Ark has become now is a gash-grab by the desperate who are lining their pockets before it all falls apart because of their bad businesses and decisions!!