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Aberation, hands down. I love going back to an ark before flying with some extra added difficulty from the zone itself. And the feeling of getting first rock drake was just beautiful
I wish someone would make a video discussing the history of ark and every controversy they ever did. There was so much bs, including the banning of GtJack3d and Hod gaming. The flyer nerf to balance flyers, which they then backtracked on with the introduction of griffins which could 1 shot anything at the time. Also the weird situation with selling the same game over and over as reskins such as Dark and Light, Ark Park, PixArk... They constantly did things to hurt their player base, but because it's such a niche community NOBODY exposed them for their behaviour. Some of it was absolutely insane. 7 years later and people are still complaining about meshing, but the devs don't do a thing.
PixArk was made by Snail Games which bought out Wildcard in like 2015. Even though the devs did help make it, the game was the idea of Snail Games and its unfair to blame the Wildcard devs for it.
The flyer nerf was about the servers and people computers not be able to load fast enough. If you had a half decent speed wyvern or pt you could fly into someone base before it all loaded properly causing major problem. Every new map and dino was constantly busted OP strong assuming it was functional. When abberation first released you didn't have to feed or watch any babies. Stick them next to a map plant Z and it would feed and heal you baby. You're also missed how much the smart the community is and devs refused to acknowledge it. Like how the meshing fixes they tried to implement weren't even their fixes it was a community mod they stole.
you could totally make an ark iceberg, there really is so much shit on it. Its really too bad wildcard is the one who made ark, they fucking suck at making videogames and any other studio would have done a better job.
The reason SE doesn't have an ending is pretty simple; SE was released before even the Island had an ending, and they just never went back and added one to SE. If I remember correctly, Abberration was the first map to have an official ending and then they added the Overseer to the island to complement the release of Extinction.
Been here since the beginning and i'll be here till the end :) Love or hate this game it has been an amazing journey and i can't wait for what is next 👍
It's my fav map becouse of the introduction to the rock Drake and also the insane depth it added into the lore with Rockwell also the ark itself looks so beautiful
It’s the most unique map, due its verticality, exclusion of flying creatures and the unique ways of traversing the map. Less is more sometimes. Aberration and Scorched Earth (especially Aberration) do it really well.
Scorched was rushed, but it’s one of my favourite maps. Scorched Earth and Aberration both have the same principle: Less is more. Fewer biomes, fewer creatures, fewer options. You have to work with what little the map grants you. It’s amazing. Wyverns, egg stealing and desert biomes were a new thing back then. It was refreshing. Aberration’s map was the most unique one and it’s play style without flyers and with the verticality was incredible. There are aberration and scorched biomes in other maps, but like I said, less is more. They work better if you’re stuck with them and you have to work with what little you’ve been given, instead of avoiding deserts or aberration biomes unless you need something.
I ended up having issues with both Scorched Earth and Aberration. My issues with Scorched Earth: Progression is near non-existent. If you transfer in from The Island, there's not a lot for you to do on this map. Your main goal will be to gather the 3 artifacts and Wyvern Eggs. Both of which can be done fairly easily once you've obtained flyers of any kind and have access to guns. The hardest enemies to kill are the Golems. The Wyverns themselves are massively overpowered and hauling a bunch to take out the final boss on the hardest difficulty isn't really that hard. But, you're "in limbo" for all of that time. Your goals and avenues for obtaining those goals are incredibly limited. Likewise, this map is one of the glitchiest there is with frequent crashes that can literally kill you if it happens while flying. Water, itself is "rare", but not really a problem as it only has the two uses: Cooking Medical Brews and staving off your own thirst. The rare spawn rate of Death Worms is also a problem. Couple this with the weather effects that also just "stop gameplay for a while". It's a map that could've benefitted from the existing formula of "The Island". Namely, 10 Artifacts, 3 bosses, one overboss. Unfortunately, the map suffers a lot from "pass through" syndrome. You're just passing through, nothing to see here, get your Wyverns and move on. The other new creatures aren't really worth obtaining... and there's only one Phoenix on the map, so if you want more, prepare to server hop or map reset. Not a lot of good places to build on the map either. Aberration is incredibly linear. I had fun for the initial hours of the map. Exploring the map was a massive priority since specific resources needed to be acquired to even TRAVERSE the map. But, in actuality, there are only two routes on the map. One is a long trek down to the boss room and the Rock Drakes. The other is a long trek into basically... nowhere. The "nowhere" is at least a nest so you can get infected and get your own Reaper if you want one. Oh, and I guess it has one of the artifacts you'll need as well. But, once you know the layout of the map, it's really quite simplistic and... boring? Again, there's not a lot to do here. Not a lot to explore. The sheer amount of "rare resources" you need to even fight the boss here mirrors that of The Island, but they spawn less frequently. Likewise, the "mushrooms" only serve as a minor temporary roadblock to anywhere. The earthquakes also become fairly annoying over time. So, it's a linear map you'll spend a ton of time on just from low spawn rates. It's another "Pass through" map. You're here only long enough to collect your Rock Drakes and the materials it takes to get to Rockwell. The boss fight of Rockwell itself was also... not fun. It's built more for a "group" to take on. But, at the same time, they limit what that group can bring so it becomes more of a "slog" than "interesting". It is literally "go in a circle around the arena, constantly moving, and then go to the center to deal damage, rinse and repeat until dead". It's also a massive hassle to even get your dinos down to the arena at all. Or through any actual point you could "teleport" your group of dinosaurs. This is the first map I ever actually needed "Tek Transporters" and I built a fair few for traversal and spent an exceptionally long time to get the element required to build them. For me, they were "okay" maps. I quickly grew tired of their particular "gimmicks" and "Lack of anywhere interesting to build or go". Then, when I wanted to leave them, it was exhausting to just gather the materials I needed to defeat the boss so I could move along. I'm having considerably more fun with Extinction, but I'm seeing some of the same issues as with previous maps... the materials you need to gather to even fight the bosses is insane. I actually miss the days of "The Island" when the materials were decently easy to come by if you knew what you were doing and all you REALLY needed was the artifacts. I dunno, I really liked "The Island". Lots of interesting places to build, a clear path of progression, that path of progression would often net you the resources you needed to fight the bosses, and then you could win. It took a really long time to leave The Island, but it was a clearly gated "open world" to an extent. Other maps don't follow that formula and the gameplay on those maps suffers as a result. Maybe those maps play differently as a "fresh" character. But, as someone who is "following the storyline" like myself, and transferring between Arks... they're not that great. Especially with no decent places to "set up a base".
@@londonraptor-859 Yeah, the map likely feels a lot different if you're playing as a "fresh character" instead of a "transfer in" like I had been. The initial raptors in the game posed more of a threat to my friend and I than the Ravagers ever did. But, when you have nothing except some bows, they are pretty terrifying. Until we found an item box spawn and pulled our equipment out of it from the transfer. The Ravagers never posed a threat to us as a result and we quickly tamed them for usage. We also never had issues with Rock Drakes or Basilisks. Rock Drakes are easily spotted and have crap AI (though they do take several dozen shotgun shells to put down! Always bring a mount to kill them in a few hits!). We didn't have issues with Basilisks because they were such a rare spawn that we barely ever saw them and had trouble collecting them before we could "move on". Most of our Tames ended up murdering them fairly quickly when we did see them too. The two threats we DID have were: Reapers. We had to fight these to get their drops to even fight the boss. Otherwise, easily avoided for most of your time on the map since they don't "guard anything" of use or note. Radiation: Figuring out which dinos could stand it and getting the materials for the hazard suits was a pain. The mushrooms were an "interesting threat" until we figured out that nomming one of the gatherable mushrooms before encountering the mushrooms on the ground (or once you had been spored by them) meant they were basically zero threat at all. We ended up just building next to the river in the green zone because it was the only place with "enough flat land" to work with in terms of a base. After all, we needed a place to breed dinos, for all of our structures to refine metal and craft, and a dozen other things. Nowhere else offered near enough space for that. Aberration was also the map in which I learned "you need to shove some of the endgame crafting facilities into the obelisks to transfer to the next map, otherwise getting those materials to build them is going to be a slog". For us, the "fun" of the map quickly ran out as it was just two linear paths and there wasn't much to actually explore or do beyond "grind resources", of which we did a lot of... because the resource distribution on the map isn't "great". Maybe if we had come in on fresh characters, it would've been more fun. But, we came in as max level characters with stuff waiting for us to be "battle ready" and so there wasn't much to do other than "breed tames, gather resources, get the new creatures, and fight the boss". Oh, yeah, the light was an "interesting" mechanic for a bit, but after a while we just stopped caring about the light pets because you got more xp from killing all the Nameless than making sure they "stayed away". On top of which, the flying guys attracted to the light posed too many problems for us and so having our pets either not be "on" or leaving them at home ended up just being the smarter option for us. Which... rendered light in the game absolutely worthless to us.
@@XxTaiMTxX Read the whole thing. 2 things: 1: Aberration is my favorite map simply because of the way it's designed and the challenge it poses 2: 50% of your comment is just these " "
Broooo a fellow aberration enjoyer! I will die on this hill saying it’s the best map ever created for one simple, overlooked reason: no fliers. It makes it so you have to actually traverse and explore the entire map while prone to dangers constantly instead of flying above everything and only knowing 2% of the map. Also introduced crabby bois so yeah 12/10 🦀
If the devs freaking move their asses, then maybe! Extremely sad how my favorite and most played game went to sh**! But also some dlc broke the gameplay for me after extinction it started to crumble ... i wish they would have released lost island and fjordur before Genesis and extinction!
The nostalgia man! Anyone that's managed to get the hang of this game despite the learning curve, understands how amazing it is and the feeling of taming your first creature or placing your first metal foundation. An absolute gem. Your video will inspire more people to give it a shot. Amazing video!
I remember all those feelings man. Dinos were my thing as a kid and when I discovered this game I was all in. Absorbed every bit of information I could from people already playing with huge tribes amd and on YT.
Aberration is probably my favorite map too. I really liked the progression into the other zones and rock drakes are awesome on it. And as a solo player the end boss on alpha is very doable without spending huge amounts of time on breeding dino's.
I played first year when it was released and since then it's still my favourite game. Sadly, I don't have the time to play or any friends to play with anymore.
Same we were here at the beginning then once we finished fordjor we just said we're done with the game and not going to 100% this game cause it'll take to long
The reason why scorched earth doesn't have a cinematic ending/ ascension is because of some controversial money problems wildcard had with thier parent company known as snail games. They forced wildcard to release Scorched earth as a Dlc as fast as possible to make more money. Wc wasn't able to do certain things with SE thanks to that. Also WC kinda hates SE and thats also why we have sooo much content from that map on free Dlcs.
after all these years WC finally committed to making an scorched earth ending though It was announced to come with the switch rework and then onto the other platforms later in the year iirc
@@theonlyginger3882 Pretty sure that everyone who played scorched earth on its release loves the map. It's just been ruined by all of its content being on the free maps with easier methods to obtain the same things
I've spent most of my time on the first map. Had to start again so many times due to losing save data. Never fought any of the bosses and don't care to either. I just want to build, tame and explore.
Ark will always be in my top 5 of all-time favorite games. So much fun, so much frustration, so many dinos. From dodo armies to bronto tanks, armorless foot races around death island and punch k.o.-ing a t-rex, every moment was so much fun and at times so terrifying. I cannot wait for Ark 2 to come out in 2067.
My guy, your not alone. Aberration will always be my favourite, from its top-tier music to its alien flora and fauna. The best bit will always be the ending. That ascension song hits different
I remember playing this in 2018 when I was 9-10, some of my best memories, it introduced me to the wider gaming community (discord and other stuff). Ark will forever hold a special spot in my heart... I would do anything to play with my old friends on there again. I would stay up late (12pm - 1 pm) taming dinos and building bases with my friends on there aswell as doing other stuff. I remember the communities and all the base raiding we would do and how you would have to talk to different tribes to organize shit... it was memorable.
I have to say the ability to tech up and get to guns and even future technology (tek) is a good idea but I hate that the game went from a hard survival game with dinosaurs in about surviving and thriving from the bottom of the food chain to becoming whatever it is now with the nonsensical additions (I like wyverns but why am I being eaten by a metal velociraptor in my dinosaur survival game) and path of the 'story' of the game. Ragnarok is probably still THE BEST map to this day for being so good at just being a fun survival map with a huge map and plenty of dinos. The center is not a terrible map now looking back at what they release nowadays...
Great job on the video my dude! I was entertained from beginning to end (which says a lot because I'm ADHD and the slightest boredom makes me leave lmao)! Keep up the good work brother!🤜🤛
Ark is definitely my favourite game of all time. I’ve been playing for 6 years and haven’t regretted a single moment. I’ve played PvP, PvE and have just messed around for hours.
Oh trust me, Aberration is my favorite map by FAR. I just absolutely love the drastic change in atmosphere and the switch up in the way to play the map
I personally LOVE aberration. Its so pretty, and the concept of it is just amazing to me. Still refuse to play it cause it terrifies me to no extent, but its by far one of my favorite maps.
I got Ark the week it dropped on steam. 8k hrs later on every type of game mode and im hella over it. bloody top game all around and i will remember the good and bad times forever. Great video bud keep it up
Quite interesting how much went over this games lifespan. Also I love how they recently added a cinematic ending to SE, like 6 years or so after it released. Also ALSO, the part about how aberration isn’t spelt “Abb” really got me as I do the same thing
The difference between the normal Dino’s and the X/R Dino’s, is the fact that the x and r ones do more damage and have less heath then the normal ones. ( and the aberration variant has more damage and less heath as well). Hope this helps!
At first I hated Aberration because of the no flying, making it very hard to map out the whole map (which I still don't know fully) but I really like it now. It's such a cool concept with some really cool biomes and locations!
Scorched Earth has a really inspiring landscape. It's easy to copy and translate into different medias. I made a desert biome in Minecraft using modded blocks I made and it was based off of Scorched Earth. It has the same orange-y appearance with the dark grey mountains and sharp cliff things. Also, Aberration is a goated map. Such an interesting and awesome design. It was the one DLC my buddy got excited for because of the "Xenomorphs" and Roll Rats. We played it a little too much.
i feel like Wild Card should take as long as they need for ark 2 since their also making a series and i think if heard that there's gonna be a live action movie as well.
@@WildRexy What are you on about lmfao, Survival Ascended recommended requierments are: 38gb of ram, rtx 3080, like if it's not ark 2 what is it lmfao. Like if you want better than Survival Ascended you will need a fucking 4090 to run that shit
@@tarikccix1954 Bro ark ascended isnt ark 2 my guy, its literally a remastered version of evolved and upgraded into unreal engine 5 which evolved was in engine 4. thats why it has 38 gb and rtx 3080. also ark 2 will be made in unreal engine 5 aswell just like ascended so no you will not need "4090 to run that shit"
I’ve been playing Ark since 2017 and have never even once attempted a boss battle. I am here to build cool shit and befriend cool dinos - I am not tryna watch all my pals die like 15x in a row. More power to everyone who kicks the bosses’ asses - throw em a solid punch for me
I downloaded ark on my phone about a year ago and knew nothing about it. I thought you just survived long enough to the point where you are unstoppable I had no idea all this existed
Honestly I don't think you could have explained this game any better, this was perfect, it can be the most fun, rage inducing, and and depressing game ever and it can all happen within a time span of a day
I spent hours with my buddy building a single boat base. After fighting off several raiders we finally set sail and were immediately destroyed by a whale. I won’t ever have enough time to scratch the surface of this game.
Honestly I miss, the old days of ark when people would get along and not being toxic, from h itting there heads with a stone pick to taming a rex and destroying people even though I havent had ark till like 2019 or so I would wonder what it was like when it first came out!
After playing them all I loved ragnarok buuut then fjordur came out and it is my favorite by far. I've got the most hours and such on it and it was such a beutiful map. Also the music on it was amazing
I'm sure since you're still in school you have other things but just want you to know you could do this for a living if you wanted, you're hilarious, editing is solid if not great. You got my sub for sure.
Aberration by far my favourite map. It has that unique alien Flora with all that bioluminiscence stuff like the Blue Zone, which is in my eyes the most beautiful area in the entire game. I also really like the progression between each zone and the cool looking but highly dangerous creatures like Reaper, Rock Drake and Basilisks. Even the new mechanics with the Light Pets, Toxic Mushrooms and Radiation are fun because you have to really understand the map and biomes with their unique dangers. Abb feels really like a hard Survival Game because everything wants to kill you
I’d love to play Arc again. My friend and I, despite our initial hiccups, had an amazing time learning how to survive in this weird island with Dinos. My only problems were that we didn’t know how to set up a server for ourselves that didn’t have my friend be tied to the server host like a tether, and that the game is **300 hecking gigabytes**
Aberration was for me the best extension, evertyhing was new (even if not all dino). It was like another game, you arrived in a place where you know nothing need to learn everything. This feeling was amazing and learned me once more how to be scared when you were going down
What’s your favorite map?
Fjordur has taken the top spot for me, before that it was Ab
ab bb
Aberation, hands down. I love going back to an ark before flying with some extra added difficulty from the zone itself. And the feeling of getting first rock drake was just beautiful
Fjordur
Extinction😎
My brain before this: ark,ark is a game where you beat everything and get severe depression from you fav dinos dying and repeat
This is very true.
MY brain before this: run from big dino, beat small dino to death, tame friendly dino
@@user-cp1qr2kf6m beat Dino to near death then become friends
And you lag like hell on online servers
Bro i swear this game did make me depressed i had to quit
I wish someone would make a video discussing the history of ark and every controversy they ever did. There was so much bs, including the banning of GtJack3d and Hod gaming. The flyer nerf to balance flyers, which they then backtracked on with the introduction of griffins which could 1 shot anything at the time. Also the weird situation with selling the same game over and over as reskins such as Dark and Light, Ark Park, PixArk...
They constantly did things to hurt their player base, but because it's such a niche community NOBODY exposed them for their behaviour. Some of it was absolutely insane. 7 years later and people are still complaining about meshing, but the devs don't do a thing.
You forgot that they defended a Chinese hacking tribe named TEA.
so like a Ark survival Ice berg? i’m pretty sure there’s a video out for that
PixArk was made by Snail Games which bought out Wildcard in like 2015. Even though the devs did help make it, the game was the idea of Snail Games and its unfair to blame the Wildcard devs for it.
The flyer nerf was about the servers and people computers not be able to load fast enough. If you had a half decent speed wyvern or pt you could fly into someone base before it all loaded properly causing major problem.
Every new map and dino was constantly busted OP strong assuming it was functional.
When abberation first released you didn't have to feed or watch any babies. Stick them next to a map plant Z and it would feed and heal you baby.
You're also missed how much the smart the community is and devs refused to acknowledge it.
Like how the meshing fixes they tried to implement weren't even their fixes it was a community mod they stole.
you could totally make an ark iceberg, there really is so much shit on it.
Its really too bad wildcard is the one who made ark, they fucking suck at making videogames and any other studio would have done a better job.
The reason SE doesn't have an ending is pretty simple; SE was released before even the Island had an ending, and they just never went back and added one to SE. If I remember correctly, Abberration was the first map to have an official ending and then they added the Overseer to the island to complement the release of Extinction.
no. overseeer was added way before ab
@@wizardbrandon3544 I think he meant the overseer cinematic?
Bro did you just edit this?
Cool vid! Might check this game out.
Might?
U post every day
On ark
@@NotKnox00 LMAO its a joke
Hell- o
My guy out here becoming a historian, only been around for the past few years but loved it.
Excited for Ark 2 to see where the story goes next!
Very excited and can't wait for ark 2 SO EXCITEDDDDDD
100 days 0.5x when?
@@tylerdavisson8495 sorry to say but wild card is rockstars twin with realece
3rd person only is not a good start though.
@@guitarsandcars2586 i completely agree! how is it going to feel immersive with no 1st person view? 3rd person is only good when riding
Been here since the beginning and i'll be here till the end :) Love or hate this game it has been an amazing journey and i can't wait for what is next 👍
ye me to
Blur can I get a shout-out for being lazy?
@@olliesalmons5703 shout out
Same
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Aberration is honestly an awesome concept that was executed somewhat well and although not many people like it it’s def my favorite
It's my fav map becouse of the introduction to the rock Drake and also the insane depth it added into the lore with Rockwell also the ark itself looks so beautiful
As 2023 comes to a close I can see his prediction coming true
I love aberration, it’s my favourite map. Can be annoying to get started, but overall quite fun
It’s the most unique map, due its verticality, exclusion of flying creatures and the unique ways of traversing the map.
Less is more sometimes. Aberration and Scorched Earth (especially Aberration) do it really well.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 ark without suits and flyers is actually a way better game
@@atomlurch1 Hard agree
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It’s more of a challenge without them.
Too bad the maps an easy mesh
Scorched was rushed, but it’s one of my favourite maps.
Scorched Earth and Aberration both have the same principle:
Less is more. Fewer biomes, fewer creatures, fewer options. You have to work with what little the map grants you. It’s amazing. Wyverns, egg stealing and desert biomes were a new thing back then. It was refreshing. Aberration’s map was the most unique one and it’s play style without flyers and with the verticality was incredible. There are aberration and scorched biomes in other maps, but like I said, less is more. They work better if you’re stuck with them and you have to work with what little you’ve been given, instead of avoiding deserts or aberration biomes unless you need something.
I ended up having issues with both Scorched Earth and Aberration.
My issues with Scorched Earth: Progression is near non-existent. If you transfer in from The Island, there's not a lot for you to do on this map. Your main goal will be to gather the 3 artifacts and Wyvern Eggs. Both of which can be done fairly easily once you've obtained flyers of any kind and have access to guns. The hardest enemies to kill are the Golems. The Wyverns themselves are massively overpowered and hauling a bunch to take out the final boss on the hardest difficulty isn't really that hard. But, you're "in limbo" for all of that time. Your goals and avenues for obtaining those goals are incredibly limited. Likewise, this map is one of the glitchiest there is with frequent crashes that can literally kill you if it happens while flying. Water, itself is "rare", but not really a problem as it only has the two uses: Cooking Medical Brews and staving off your own thirst. The rare spawn rate of Death Worms is also a problem. Couple this with the weather effects that also just "stop gameplay for a while". It's a map that could've benefitted from the existing formula of "The Island". Namely, 10 Artifacts, 3 bosses, one overboss. Unfortunately, the map suffers a lot from "pass through" syndrome. You're just passing through, nothing to see here, get your Wyverns and move on. The other new creatures aren't really worth obtaining... and there's only one Phoenix on the map, so if you want more, prepare to server hop or map reset. Not a lot of good places to build on the map either.
Aberration is incredibly linear. I had fun for the initial hours of the map. Exploring the map was a massive priority since specific resources needed to be acquired to even TRAVERSE the map. But, in actuality, there are only two routes on the map. One is a long trek down to the boss room and the Rock Drakes. The other is a long trek into basically... nowhere. The "nowhere" is at least a nest so you can get infected and get your own Reaper if you want one. Oh, and I guess it has one of the artifacts you'll need as well. But, once you know the layout of the map, it's really quite simplistic and... boring? Again, there's not a lot to do here. Not a lot to explore. The sheer amount of "rare resources" you need to even fight the boss here mirrors that of The Island, but they spawn less frequently. Likewise, the "mushrooms" only serve as a minor temporary roadblock to anywhere. The earthquakes also become fairly annoying over time. So, it's a linear map you'll spend a ton of time on just from low spawn rates. It's another "Pass through" map. You're here only long enough to collect your Rock Drakes and the materials it takes to get to Rockwell. The boss fight of Rockwell itself was also... not fun. It's built more for a "group" to take on. But, at the same time, they limit what that group can bring so it becomes more of a "slog" than "interesting". It is literally "go in a circle around the arena, constantly moving, and then go to the center to deal damage, rinse and repeat until dead". It's also a massive hassle to even get your dinos down to the arena at all. Or through any actual point you could "teleport" your group of dinosaurs. This is the first map I ever actually needed "Tek Transporters" and I built a fair few for traversal and spent an exceptionally long time to get the element required to build them.
For me, they were "okay" maps. I quickly grew tired of their particular "gimmicks" and "Lack of anywhere interesting to build or go". Then, when I wanted to leave them, it was exhausting to just gather the materials I needed to defeat the boss so I could move along. I'm having considerably more fun with Extinction, but I'm seeing some of the same issues as with previous maps... the materials you need to gather to even fight the bosses is insane. I actually miss the days of "The Island" when the materials were decently easy to come by if you knew what you were doing and all you REALLY needed was the artifacts.
I dunno, I really liked "The Island". Lots of interesting places to build, a clear path of progression, that path of progression would often net you the resources you needed to fight the bosses, and then you could win. It took a really long time to leave The Island, but it was a clearly gated "open world" to an extent. Other maps don't follow that formula and the gameplay on those maps suffers as a result. Maybe those maps play differently as a "fresh" character. But, as someone who is "following the storyline" like myself, and transferring between Arks... they're not that great. Especially with no decent places to "set up a base".
@@londonraptor-859 Yeah, the map likely feels a lot different if you're playing as a "fresh character" instead of a "transfer in" like I had been.
The initial raptors in the game posed more of a threat to my friend and I than the Ravagers ever did. But, when you have nothing except some bows, they are pretty terrifying. Until we found an item box spawn and pulled our equipment out of it from the transfer.
The Ravagers never posed a threat to us as a result and we quickly tamed them for usage.
We also never had issues with Rock Drakes or Basilisks. Rock Drakes are easily spotted and have crap AI (though they do take several dozen shotgun shells to put down! Always bring a mount to kill them in a few hits!). We didn't have issues with Basilisks because they were such a rare spawn that we barely ever saw them and had trouble collecting them before we could "move on". Most of our Tames ended up murdering them fairly quickly when we did see them too.
The two threats we DID have were:
Reapers. We had to fight these to get their drops to even fight the boss. Otherwise, easily avoided for most of your time on the map since they don't "guard anything" of use or note.
Radiation: Figuring out which dinos could stand it and getting the materials for the hazard suits was a pain.
The mushrooms were an "interesting threat" until we figured out that nomming one of the gatherable mushrooms before encountering the mushrooms on the ground (or once you had been spored by them) meant they were basically zero threat at all.
We ended up just building next to the river in the green zone because it was the only place with "enough flat land" to work with in terms of a base. After all, we needed a place to breed dinos, for all of our structures to refine metal and craft, and a dozen other things. Nowhere else offered near enough space for that.
Aberration was also the map in which I learned "you need to shove some of the endgame crafting facilities into the obelisks to transfer to the next map, otherwise getting those materials to build them is going to be a slog".
For us, the "fun" of the map quickly ran out as it was just two linear paths and there wasn't much to actually explore or do beyond "grind resources", of which we did a lot of... because the resource distribution on the map isn't "great".
Maybe if we had come in on fresh characters, it would've been more fun. But, we came in as max level characters with stuff waiting for us to be "battle ready" and so there wasn't much to do other than "breed tames, gather resources, get the new creatures, and fight the boss".
Oh, yeah, the light was an "interesting" mechanic for a bit, but after a while we just stopped caring about the light pets because you got more xp from killing all the Nameless than making sure they "stayed away". On top of which, the flying guys attracted to the light posed too many problems for us and so having our pets either not be "on" or leaving them at home ended up just being the smarter option for us. Which... rendered light in the game absolutely worthless to us.
@@XxTaiMTxX Read the whole thing. 2 things:
1: Aberration is my favorite map simply because of the way it's designed and the challenge it poses
2: 50% of your comment is just these " "
Man, I remember when scorched earth was still new and you were the shit if you had a wyvern cause nobody had come up with easy milk farming strata yet
@@hannialtousy6111now you just cryo pod the wyvern
Broooo a fellow aberration enjoyer! I will die on this hill saying it’s the best map ever created for one simple, overlooked reason: no fliers. It makes it so you have to actually traverse and explore the entire map while prone to dangers constantly instead of flying above everything and only knowing 2% of the map. Also introduced crabby bois so yeah 12/10 🦀
bro was right about ark 2
Granty dropping the nostalgia banger to remind us ark was good once and can be again 👏
Legend
If the devs freaking move their asses, then maybe! Extremely sad how my favorite and most played game went to sh**!
But also some dlc broke the gameplay for me after extinction it started to crumble ... i wish they would have released lost island and fjordur before Genesis and extinction!
@@backstabbingpotato Extinction made it bad, but it was still okay. Genesis destroyed it completely
@@rickkerts3802 there so distant from the playerbase, they think everyone likes the OP, broken features!
@@markzuckerburger235 yea for real, only the real beachbobs like it
The nostalgia man! Anyone that's managed to get the hang of this game despite the learning curve, understands how amazing it is and the feeling of taming your first creature or placing your first metal foundation. An absolute gem. Your video will inspire more people to give it a shot. Amazing video!
I remember all those feelings man. Dinos were my thing as a kid and when I discovered this game I was all in. Absorbed every bit of information I could from people already playing with huge tribes amd and on YT.
I hope ark 2 has different gameplay… id do anything to bring back the feel of not knowing anything about the game
Aberration is probably my favorite map too. I really liked the progression into the other zones and rock drakes are awesome on it. And as a solo player the end boss on alpha is very doable without spending huge amounts of time on breeding dino's.
i remember a group of friends brought me along with some shotguns to basically burst rockwell down without needing a dino
3:51
My humor is so broken that the ÆUGH sound with the roll rat absolutely killed me
I played first year when it was released and since then it's still my favourite game. Sadly, I don't have the time to play or any friends to play with anymore.
ik the feeling of not being able to play it so my condolensence
@@Lightyie It's sad growing up and becoming responsible.
@@RosanderGrandSport yeah but atleast you will always have the beautiful memories
Its ok I also don't have friends to play the best game ever
Same we were here at the beginning then once we finished fordjor we just said we're done with the game and not going to 100% this game cause it'll take to long
The reason why scorched earth doesn't have a cinematic ending/ ascension is because of some controversial money problems wildcard had with thier parent company known as snail games. They forced wildcard to release Scorched earth as a Dlc as fast as possible to make more money. Wc wasn't able to do certain things with SE thanks to that.
Also WC kinda hates SE and thats also why we have sooo much content from that map on free Dlcs.
after all these years WC finally committed to making an scorched earth ending though
It was announced to come with the switch rework and then onto the other platforms later in the year iirc
Wrong it’s because nobody likes scorched earth
@@theonlyginger3882 no I like SE
@@theonlyginger3882 Pretty sure that everyone who played scorched earth on its release loves the map. It's just been ruined by all of its content being on the free maps with easier methods to obtain the same things
8:12 that aged well
I've spent most of my time on the first map. Had to start again so many times due to losing save data. Never fought any of the bosses and don't care to either. I just want to build, tame and explore.
Fun fact: "Fjordur" is actually spelled "Fjörður" and it means "Field/Fjord" in Icelandic/old Norse
Yeah and fjord is Norwegian
cool thx for the fact
I’m pissed
n o i c e
Im not even gonna try to pronounce that
2:34 HOW DID YOU KNOW.
I have a black cat named Radar and when I tamed a black jerboa I named it after him so I was genuinely surprised at this lmao
Ark will always be in my top 5 of all-time favorite games. So much fun, so much frustration, so many dinos. From dodo armies to bronto tanks, armorless foot races around death island and punch k.o.-ing a t-rex, every moment was so much fun and at times so terrifying. I cannot wait for Ark 2 to come out in 2067.
My guy, your not alone. Aberration will always be my favourite, from its top-tier music to its alien flora and fauna. The best bit will always be the ending. That ascension song hits different
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@@djentleman8116 🤓
this was much more interesting than my history class
Sooo trieese
@Granty this is amazing ur vids are worth the time, keep up the good work!
I remember playing this in 2018 when I was 9-10, some of my best memories, it introduced me to the wider gaming community (discord and other stuff). Ark will forever hold a special spot in my heart... I would do anything to play with my old friends on there again. I would stay up late (12pm - 1 pm) taming dinos and building bases with my friends on there aswell as doing other stuff. I remember the communities and all the base raiding we would do and how you would have to talk to different tribes to organize shit... it was memorable.
there were people in 2018 who were 9 years old, that is the strangest thing ever to me
I have to say the ability to tech up and get to guns and even future technology (tek) is a good idea but I hate that the game went from a hard survival game with dinosaurs in about surviving and thriving from the bottom of the food chain to becoming whatever it is now with the nonsensical additions (I like wyverns but why am I being eaten by a metal velociraptor in my dinosaur survival game) and path of the 'story' of the game. Ragnarok is probably still THE BEST map to this day for being so good at just being a fun survival map with a huge map and plenty of dinos. The center is not a terrible map now looking back at what they release nowadays...
Ragnarok is my absolute favorite map, it’s just so great and Griffins are amazing additions.
Ive started playing primitve plus for the sake of escaping whatever Ark is now@@addieeeson
Great job on the video my dude! I was entertained from beginning to end (which says a lot because I'm ADHD and the slightest boredom makes me leave lmao)! Keep up the good work brother!🤜🤛
What in hell? Scorched Earth in insanely good!
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2:23 :c
It's not true.... It's is SO big...
Ark is definitely my favourite game of all time. I’ve been playing for 6 years and haven’t regretted a single moment. I’ve played PvP, PvE and have just messed around for hours.
I really enjoyed the funny ark relatable jokes, especially the one about how ARK 2 is set to release 2023 but won't until 2030.
i genuinely love this game with all my heart, its brought me so much and i’ll forever love it
You forgot about the aimbotting, cheating, teaming, meshing, duping, insiding, bug abusing, no admins, base selling and much much more
Oh trust me, Aberration is my favorite map by FAR. I just absolutely love the drastic change in atmosphere and the switch up in the way to play the map
I personally LOVE aberration. Its so pretty, and the concept of it is just amazing to me. Still refuse to play it cause it terrifies me to no extent, but its by far one of my favorite maps.
I got Ark the week it dropped on steam. 8k hrs later on every type of game mode and im hella over it. bloody top game all around and i will remember the good and bad times forever. Great video bud keep it up
Quite interesting how much went over this games lifespan. Also I love how they recently added a cinematic ending to SE, like 6 years or so after it released. Also ALSO, the part about how aberration isn’t spelt “Abb” really got me as I do the same thing
hahahah granty you had me laughing so hard throughout this!! thank you so much for the nice little history there! magical job🦄🌈♥
The difference between the normal Dino’s and the X/R Dino’s, is the fact that the x and r ones do more damage and have less heath then the normal ones. ( and the aberration variant has more damage and less heath as well). Hope this helps!
Also X/R dinos cap at 500 instead of 450
Ark to me is one of those games you always come back to you can never forget
At first I hated Aberration because of the no flying, making it very hard to map out the whole map (which I still don't know fully) but I really like it now. It's such a cool concept with some really cool biomes and locations!
This is so good. So well done! It’s worth waiting another 2 months for more quality content like this. Keep up the good work!
PvP is hell
Scorched Earth has a really inspiring landscape. It's easy to copy and translate into different medias. I made a desert biome in Minecraft using modded blocks I made and it was based off of Scorched Earth. It has the same orange-y appearance with the dark grey mountains and sharp cliff things.
Also, Aberration is a goated map. Such an interesting and awesome design. It was the one DLC my buddy got excited for because of the "Xenomorphs" and Roll Rats. We played it a little too much.
8:13 that bgm gives me memories 😢
I did not know how small extinction was like I thought it was the same size as the centre
And aberration I thought that was a small map
The first few years of Ark was so fucking good. Spent so many hours grinding solo pvp and had so much fun
Watching this gives me goosebumps... thank you Wildcard
100k! Congrats dude! 🥳🎉🎉
i feel like Wild Card should take as long as they need for ark 2 since their also making a series and i think if heard that there's gonna be a live action movie as well.
he was right, 2023 is almost over and no signs of ark 2 coming out any time soon
dude, ARK: Survival Ascended a.k.a ARK 2 released on 26th of October💀
@@tarikccix1954 that’s not ark 2 are you special🤦♂️ go do your research then you might actually learn a thing or two
@@WildRexy What are you on about lmfao, Survival Ascended recommended requierments are: 38gb of ram, rtx 3080, like if it's not ark 2 what is it lmfao. Like if you want better than Survival Ascended you will need a fucking 4090 to run that shit
@@tarikccix1954bro actually thinks that the remaster of evolved into ascended is ark 2💀
@@tarikccix1954 Bro ark ascended isnt ark 2 my guy, its literally a remastered version of evolved and upgraded into unreal engine 5 which evolved was in engine 4. thats why it has 38 gb and rtx 3080. also ark 2 will be made in unreal engine 5 aswell just like ascended so no you will not need "4090 to run that shit"
Awesome video! U nailed it
Thanks for doing this! Ark is my favorite game!
I’ve been playing Ark since 2017 and have never even once attempted a boss battle. I am here to build cool shit and befriend cool dinos - I am not tryna watch all my pals die like 15x in a row. More power to everyone who kicks the bosses’ asses - throw em a solid punch for me
ABBERRATION is the best map and not saying this as opinioon but as a fact, because of the game mechanics in this map are so unique
True
Congrats with the 100k!
I downloaded ark on my phone about a year ago and knew nothing about it. I thought you just survived long enough to the point where you are unstoppable I had no idea all this existed
Been here since 2015 ... still remember my first proper tame. Ironwing the Argy. Where did the time go
Also Ark 2 by 2030? damn man your optimistic.
Granty you don’t need to disappear just take a break you deserve it
I’ve spent more time into ark than any other game in my life I will always look back in nostalgia at the amazing memories ark gave me in my youth.
so glad you put the dancing dino meme with the dog screeches, actually got a fist pump out of me lmao
0:31 💀💀💀
Finally uploaded lol
Literally summarized the entirety of ark, well done
That whole video just blew my brain out the side with laughter bro 🤣👍
Honestly I don't think you could have explained this game any better, this was perfect, it can be the most fun, rage inducing, and and depressing game ever and it can all happen within a time span of a day
I have a question. Is that your actual face or just some random dudes face? I know it’s probably stupid but I would like to know. 0:51
Whenever I watch something about Ark, whether it be actual gameplay or lore/theories it makes my heart just- feel nice - w -
That is pretty sick, last time i played Ragnarok was new, so this was quite the experience.
I spent hours with my buddy building a single boat base. After fighting off several raiders we finally set sail and were immediately destroyed by a whale. I won’t ever have enough time to scratch the surface of this game.
Honestly I miss, the old days of ark when people would get along and not being toxic, from h itting there heads with a stone pick to taming a rex and destroying people even though I havent had ark till like 2019 or so I would wonder what it was like when it first came out!
Ark has been the game I’ve played since I was young and this was an amazing video explaining it
The music be bringing back, waking up half asleep and putting that headset on mmm mis those days
God loves you all ❤
Shut up
That was a really nice reminder of how great ark is
After playing them all I loved ragnarok buuut then fjordur came out and it is my favorite by far. I've got the most hours and such on it and it was such a beutiful map. Also the music on it was amazing
As someone who has never played, I was lost after minute 2 as I only thought it was dinosaurs mixed with rust
3:45 also my favourite map 😁
I cannot begin to express how much I love Aberration. It’s the only one I’ve played on for years
Thanks bro was fun to relive some of ARK
100k congratulations
Congrats on 100k
This is the best video i have ever watched...
Aberration was also my favourite. Had the best time starting out on that map with some friends.
I'm sure since you're still in school you have other things but just want you to know you could do this for a living if you wanted, you're hilarious, editing is solid if not great. You got my sub for sure.
You're spot on, 1 year later and Ark 2 is set to released 2030.
I loved aberration so much that I just die inside of sadness when I look at how underrated it is
Aberration by far my favourite map. It has that unique alien Flora with all that bioluminiscence stuff like the Blue Zone, which is in my eyes the most beautiful area in the entire game. I also really like the progression between each zone and the cool looking but highly dangerous creatures like Reaper, Rock Drake and Basilisks. Even the new mechanics with the Light Pets, Toxic Mushrooms and Radiation are fun because you have to really understand the map and biomes with their unique dangers. Abb feels really like a hard Survival Game because everything wants to kill you
I love it how you could ask anyone with any lengthy experience with ark when ark 2 is coming out and anyone will tell you any time other than 2023
there’s a special place in my heart for ark and sea of theives
Good video dude!
Dude I’m only just remembering how much of a banger all of the music for this game is
I didn’t see it when it happened, but huge congrats on hitting 100k subs
Dude what a vibe I love ark so much and ab is the best map by far it's said to play ark with so many people who don't even know the story
I’d love to play Arc again. My friend and I, despite our initial hiccups, had an amazing time learning how to survive in this weird island with Dinos.
My only problems were that we didn’t know how to set up a server for ourselves that didn’t have my friend be tied to the server host like a tether, and that the game is **300 hecking gigabytes**
Aberration was for me the best extension, evertyhing was new (even if not all dino). It was like another game, you arrived in a place where you know nothing need to learn everything.
This feeling was amazing and learned me once more how to be scared when you were going down
Never heard of ark but great video