WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER PLAY ON OFFICIAL SERVERS in Ark Survival Ascended! ASA Tips and Tricks!
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10 NEW THINGS IN ARK SURVIVAL ASCENDED, ASA Things you didn't notice! - Hry
Official feels like a job more then a game it’s bad
So true
Well formulated
I don't mind official rates what I truly mind is that damn taming and breeding time bro
It brings actual meaning to the game otherwise why would you play a survival game if you legit can’t not survive
@Motivational.mindset69 I'm not wasting 12hrs of my life raising a giga bro that's just for it to eat alone call it what you want I'm not "surviving" by watching a bar go up over 7 days and taking shifts like it's a job
You're not wrong about anything you said! However as an Official PVE player, i cant speak for everyone, but I get gratification of accomplishment if i can tame, breed, and beat bosses the hardest way possible. I feel like it makes your base/dinosaurs feel so much more meaningful :)
Ya same I usually dont play hard mode on other games but something about playing boosted rates on ark feels like cheating and its not nearly as satisfying to tame, build, breed, etc. compared to official rates
Official PVE is my preference as well. It just requires some etiquette and patience with toxic players. But trading and grouping up with complete strangers for boss fights has been my favorite thing in ark.
I think this video is more about pvp. I also prefer official pve as you get the satisfaction of reaching end game instead of having the option to spawn in anything in single player/ boosters for unofficial
Right pve official for life
I have the same.
I quit official a long time ago. It was way too toxic and filled with people that play 24/7 all year. Better off just playing unofficial or single player. It's still sad to see people think official is the only way to play the game.
Thank you for your honest input lol
Not the only way, just the better way.
there is no worng way to play.. Official is just the hardway and alot of fun to many.
If you're talking about pvp yes. If it's pve then official is the only way to go
@@MoIds0official pve is the worst, ppl block caves and notes and drops and ypu can't do anything about it because pve
9/10 times it’s the player base that kills the game. Main reason I stick to single player games nowadays, not wasting my time with toxic trash
When ASE came out and server transfers were not implemented yet, playing on official was great. Everybody knew each other, it was a microcosmos of its own and although PvP was possible, all the tribes stuck together and only went against the (back then) rare griefers. This totally changed once servertransfers were added - the toxicity swept over The Island like a wave of phiomiapoop... since then I never played official again and spent thousands of hours happily on different private servers.
This is exactly how it happened
so glad to hear this from someone else, i played on 683 center back in the day and the community was amazing, then they added transfers and every big tribe that was keeping our server protected from griefs got raided, they had the upper hand before because they ran things, it was official but they owned it cuz nobody could raid. Ark was never the same after transfers
So I agree with most of what you stated. However, as another person who has other real life requirements that limit my play time, I enjoy the official PVE side of the game and here’s why
1. With it being official I have the rest of the official community to trade with. Whether it be stats, color regions, or boss fights, some of the good friends I have made have been from the trading aspect you have on official.
2. You did mention finding a “good unofficial server”. That to me is the biggest hurdle. Putting weeks or months into a server for personality issues that can reset you at 0, or the server not receiving enough funding from players causing the server to shut down is just something I have dealt with and don’t feel like dealing with again.
This is the best and most accurate
well said
That’s 100%
I love unofficial PVE. It's more like a community. Most have certain settings turned up so the game is not such a grind and you can be having more fun, whether your into breeding, fighting or building. A good unofficial also have great admins as arguments, trolls, pillering etc still happen, but they can be dealt with quickly. It's fun doing stuff together, sometimes with total strangers from all around the world. Us older long termers helping newbies to the game so they enjoy ark instead of quitting and never playing again.
Just 3 days ago we got the locals to take down a 135 alpha Rex together. We all had Argys and we all attacked it together and defeated it. That 15 mins of fighting was so fun that we agreed to do brood mother together and megapithacus together in the future.
Pve bob 🤡
@@user-pp6fk6dj1twhy even comment? Get a life 😂🤓
Alright, Let me clarify something as well. If Ark somehow finds a way to get rid of some of the toxic stuff like ini, spawn camping, and other crap.... I think Ark Official COULD make a massive comback.... Thoughts?!? (Also, this video is 11:11 on accident.... Thats kinda cool!!!! )
Thanks man, I always wondered.
aye whats that dino transformation mod?
Hands down meshing is the worst issue with Ark pvp official. Insiding is the next worst issue, but there isn't a punishment incentive for that kind of behavior in Ark. If they could 100% fix meshing and everyone had to raid fairly. Would be so much better.
As a 31000 hour player official will not make a come back the coding is all the same and cheats will live forever right now you can reserve your spot for ark 2 aimbot
Also on top of that there’s meshing they system in play does not stop anything just the people who know how to do it haven’t released it yet and prob won’t same with duping you can still show right now and you could say oh the devs will catch you that’s also false I will not explain how it’s done just know they will not fix it
I totally agree with you. I have been playing ARK the first day ASE came out and when single player came out I left and never looked back. I still remember looking for an Official server and spawned in inside a metal box that I could not get out of. There was even a sign inside the box telling me, and anyone else who spawned in the box to get the F off their server. I never played on offical again.
I have had that happen in early ark lol
Sorry but I did the same thing. Sorry 😔
I had that happen on PvE and I went scorched earth on that Tribe.
Reported them and then blasted them in the chat.
Got karma a while later when, due to their poor choices and getting Ark’d they needed help getting back on their feet.
Reminded them of their spawn locking box and told them to pound sand.
@@Skydron Wow, even on PvE where you would think it might be "safer" lol nope still the same toxic players their too
@@Wolfcub23 Those were the good old days. They didn't last long but they were glorious.
%100 luckily I have a group who can deal with all the toxicity. Been on officials for years. But everything he said is facts and officials is not a good idea for casual players.
Thank you for your honest input lol
foundation spam is so easy solveable.....
1. if you dont stick together enough building parts (lets say 48 at minimum -> 4x4 house with walls and ceilings) you simply will get a 24 hour decaytimer
2. timer only refreshes if you add something to the building - reloggin is not enough
3. with increasing pieces, the landclaim bubble and decay timeer increases from super tiny to mediocre and finaly to the maximum.
So, if pillars dont give you the bubble you want and the convenience is gone to keep that stuff up, it will not happen any longer or at least become way less common.
GCM was on for a couple hours and they wiped the servers and reset them all. But there were numerous dupe bugs, one where crafting stations didnt consume resources and one where you could dupe with a bee hive. Dont get me wrong it was a clusterfuck launch but get it right.
When I first started playing ASE about 2 years ago I immediately saw how toxic official servers are. I was just trying to play on a PVE server, but as you described players had planted pillars all over the map so nobody else could build. This was on a fairly new server too but players had already done this.
We had something similar happen to us.
Found us a little spot to build up and then proceeded as normal.
Then all of his stuff despawned and our group swooped in and claimed their main base area.
The reason you saw so many pillars was because it was a "fairly" new server. You will see this even today as, more so on Pve cause people want to build really big and need the land to do so.. but it takes time so you plot out the land you need using pillars.. Now, if someone did this and didn't start on building then it can be reported and wildcard will give the tribe owner 24 hours to fix it or they will wipe it all.
@GAHJIE I understand what you are saying, but this wasn't someone just planning ahead. I literally could not find a single spot on the map where I could build. I didn't check the entire map but I did spend a good amount of time and covered a lot of ground but just couldn't find anyplace where I was able to build. After that experience I just decided I would either just play solo or on a private aerver.
@@jgrdgon like i said, if you know the person isn't building in the area that is pillared, then you can summit a ticket to wildcard and they will wipe all of the tribes structures.. So if you find a map that has a area you want to build in that's just pillars.. start building in a different area close by and report them. When wildcard comes to remove the spam you can take it over for yourself. Takes time but I rather that then a private server that the owner could shut down at any time.
@@GAHJIEyeah let's submit a ticket to wild card, only gunna take then half a year to respond and probably not even help you at all😂
The thing I felt on the offical PVE servers was a stong sense of commuity amongst most of the players on there, we made some really good friends over the years we played and it was always nice that most players on our servers stuck together and helped each other. When we joined unofficial servers we mostly felt like outcasts just because we were more experienced and more used to "the grind". It seemed like you always needed permission to build somewhere or do something. When we achieved something, there was always someone who was friends with/payed an admin just to get something better (dinos,bps,element, etc).
For the foundation part I understand that 100% but we also used to pillar an area around our base just to have some space to the next base and we used to pillar important resources because many people would build a farming base on top of them therefor blocking most of the resources. On PVP I have to totally agree. When we started ark we joined a friends offical PVP tribe and it was a toxic experience.
You are the pve d-bags lol
Totally agree although i still play official pve in my spare time. Mainly because my friends do. But yes you can’t go down a beach that isn’t pillared. People get god complex and don’t want anyone to build anywhere near them (which i get because of rendering issues) but some people totally pillar off huge areas because they have think they own areas of the map or control the resources of the map 🙄
That's the biggest frustration for me. Every server I've had to try, is pillared. If I find a spot, build on it and have to log out of the game, when I return, pillars are stopping me from continuing to build. That forces me to move what I built or find another server.
I'm never going to progress. It's not possible. The toxicity is beyond ridiculous.
depends... if you are looking for a fun chill experience then yeah, stay away from offi.
but if you want a challenge like no other then hop on offi.
its no different from a competitive fps, theres the tryhard offi/ranked and the chill pve, singleplayer/casual.
personally i play ark for that excitement, for the grueling pvp, the week long raids, the camaraderie, etc etc. i have made friends through ark pvp that im closer to than some of my irl friends
saying one is bad and you should NEVER TOUCH IT N BLAA BLAA is just being simple minded. you prefer single player and a chill experience, and others prefer the grueling difficulty.
ngl this video just seems like ragebait, the argument you are making is essentially "board games are better then console games"... PvP, PvE n Singleplayer are all their own games and cant really be compared with each other, sure they use the same building blocks but everything else is different
Official isn't for everyone, probably not even most people but it does offer more of a challenge which can especially be welcome for PVE players, and it draws out the journey of building up (best part about the game imo) so that you don't just rush to the end game in a few hours. In PVP its different because its more of a race to the endgame and so the disadvantage of falling behind is a lot more detrimental. Toxic players can also be a lot more of a problem on officials too because WC doesn't just ban them like a server admin can, but usually the majority of the server will be against them until they eventually leave.
Yeah because pvping in a pvp game is bannable? Lmfao get banned by clowns because I kill someone's dinosaur? No thx. Official I cn do anything if I get wiped oh well I get to build up again
There is nothing that is more challenging on official pve as opposed to single player with official settings or an unofficial server with official settings EXCEPT the behaviour of other players who have no moderation ...and the lag.
@@p3wp3wCthulhu the bosses on official have higher hp than bosses on single player with official settings turned on lmfao, official settings isn't actually official settings
@@p3wp3wCthulhu dinos do not spawn properly with lvl 5 10 15 so on so fourth, official settings is legit not near the same as official official
@@bigbrisk8423 I have never heard of anyone getting a ban for killing someone's tame, I call bs.
I’ve been watching your videos for some time now and have been subscribed for awhile. But I haven’t commented until now.
I could not agree with you more. Every word from your mouth is truth. Thank you for your videos teach, love them all. Good luck on your 100k, you deserve it!
i agree one of the biggest reasons i stopped playing official is because of ridiculous amount of pillars that prevent you from building or even accessing places. They need to give an allotted amount of build space and thats it. I 100% agree you in this video.
I like to enjoy the pvp aspect of the game as without it I feel the game has a short endgame ceiling, unofficial has it's fair share of issues too with admin abuse and uncertainty of the servers staying up and retaining a healthy amount of players to interact with as I lose motivation on the game when there is little to no players to have fun with. Experience I had on unofficial was the community on a server would die off completely after 2 weeks to 1month. Starting again on a new server after just getting well setup playing casually while managing a full time job can be really tiring and demotivating.
I completely agree with everything you said but I will be playing official pve, the thing I enjoy about official is connecting with people from across multiple servers and I get more satisfaction from official, however I will also be playing unofficial and single player too. But would never play PVP official because they are indeed far too toxic
@@FATMAC2 ngl bro im one of those people who pillar lol, you literally have to or youre eventually going to be confined to some 2 by 2 foundation base on the beach. Imo official PVE is better if ur able to claim ur spot lol plus they dont wipe and ruin all ur progress like unofficial
Pve is garbage tho, ppl block note runs as well they Blick spots off like caves and you cannot even get in because pve, you can't blow ppl stuff up😂😂 maysel just pvp bri
@@jazduh1235so you wanna be a map blocker without ppl being able to fight back, pve is trash because of this lolol, Noone can wipe buildings to get at stuff artifacts n notes blocked, drops blocked what's the point
Big negative thing in unofficial server is that admin can close server anytime and you lose all your progress.
Yup. Single player has none of that.
If the raiding was like Conan and there were raid times at weekend this game would appeal to so many more people
Too hard/long to grind too quick to loose everything- and to often you won’t even be online when you get wiped
thats not true on official unless they are meshing or cheating in some other way. If you are built up it can take days or longer to complete a big raid
@@FATMAC2How long to build a base like than and that also means many hours/days to defend
thats what dedi servers are for tho... look for purge servers, generally they have weekend PvP and weekdays PvE
I'm not sure if they have them for ASA but on ASE they had official servers with ORP (offline Raid Protection). I think you would enjoy these types of servers.
@@FATMAC2 only bases that take days or longer to raid are mostly alpha tribe or mega tribe bases on official pvp.
Last time i played official I found a house that actually lasted about 3 months with no turrets just a stone house, but it had a sign that said "i have a job and kids i cant play much please dont raid" and it actually got him surviving for ages
Problem is there's not really good options for unofficial PvP. All the unofficial PvP servers die in one month, always have a big risk of admin abuse, all get tempted into making the rates 20x or something ridiculous, etc. MTS is the only option but that's even sweatier than official servers. Less cheats at least to be fair though.
This is partly true, but finding a good server that has good pop for over a week isnt that hard. The rates are often high but that is probably because people actually like that and lower rates are not a necessity for a good experience.
Completely agree, thanks for summing it up so clearly. I played on Unofficial for most of my Ark time and it was great because if anyone ever did pillar spam or harassing, they were gone. It was there for us all to enjoy. We all shared the server with respect. That's the way it should be.
The anonymity of the internet has highlighted the depravity and wickedness in games. If a street address were tied to every IP address there would be a lot less toxic digital community.
As a PvE player, I enjoy Official. I still have my "day 1" tames and base location(s) from release. It is satisfying to be able to see all of my tribes progression, literally from day 1, no wipes or server deaths. For PvP I 100% agree that unofficial is the best route though.
I never actually tried official PvE but I would love to because singleplayer gets lonely sometimes and I wanna see people and other stuff but what I've heard is that even in PvE people can drown you or destroy your stuff. Is it like that?
@@jacfruit3843 I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, I’ve never seen it or experienced it on any of my servers.
It’s possible to kite a wild giga to anyone’s base if you wanted to, you can also drag bodies so the drowning thing is possible but like I said I’ve never experienced it.
@@HillbillySnake Thank you for the answer. Maybe I give it a shot and try not to grind the shit out of me so I wouldn't get sad if someone destroys it 😂 ty
@@jacfruit3843just sleep on the bed you won’t have to worry about getting drowned lol it’s lesson people teach to those who don’t use the bed as intended lol
@@notquitelikebro Ty for that tip! I tried to play on officials yesterday but after a few servers and 5 hours not finding any place to put down anything because of pillars/foundations everywhere (even in the snow biome), I gave up playing on officials. :/ That was insane.
PvE spam is mainly to block people from killing dino and resource spawns. Nothing worse than going to a resource location just to see someone has built there and killed the spawn. Granted some people go ott with it.
He's blatantly ignoring fact, using a few personal experiences as examples, demonizing a huge park of ark community for his own goal of views, it's wild, and he refuses to elaborate or actually debate this topic.
Yeah because he had a neck beard
Most people who spam aren't doing it for the spawns. Don't kid yourself.
Trust me, that's not why they are doing it.
pros of official
-free
-many people to meet/trade with
-default ark experience of pain and suffering
-very rewarding for enduring said "pain and suffering"
cons
-42/70 players "session full"
-crashes every 2 hours with a 30min-1hour roll back
-some players are bungholes
-my god getting 2 berries a bush or only 1 prime meat from 30 baby penguins
I remember on ASE, we were on an official server, I had never played on it, my friend had for 3 days. There were only 10 people online rn, and one was like: Ey, where do you live, I can help u. I was questioning it, but my Teammate trusted the guy, so we told him our coords. Then he came with a like lvl 1k giga and destroyed our entire base. My friend asked him why he did it and he said: You have to give my tribe 33% of your resources each week, or I'll raid you! It was our "first" day. That is when I stopped playing official.
I agree with what you're saying but I still prefer officials. It's not for everyone. I like the thrill of pvp and politics involved in surviving. It's like a zombie apocalypse where zombies aren't the real threat, people are. Dinos aren't the threat, people are. You have to out smart them in pvp or politically through trading/alliances etc. It's a super toxic environment but something about it is also thrilling and you can't get that in pve or single player.
Also while there is a lot of toxicity in official pvp there are a lot of people that are nice.
You won't find it as much on regular official cause mega tribes.
But pre mega tribes and on small tribes there are plenty of nice people and tribes you can interact with.
On my server on ASE we would actively supply noobs and bobs with tames and structures.
Most unofficial servers also aren't as welcoming as they seem. You get a fair amount of favorites or pay to win or admins just banning you attacked them.
its the challenge if extreme revenge... the adrenaline of losing your best raised tames when your fighting. the sentimental loss the game can provide make official pvp the most intense wins and losses ive ever experienced in a game. its not for everyone but I would never take the year and half I have on ark back! and im exited to do it all again on asa!
I tried over years to run solo on official server. I was able to run some bosses but i couldnt run them all over the past 6years. Sounds crazy to not complete a game after all these years. But i love to have this goal
Official PvP just isn't designed to be played as a solo though it can be done but this is why they came out with small tribes.
Same, all because of the community.
I always enjoyed getting around the unconventional warfare official brings to the table its like a challenge
Official is the way to go for pve cause of the trading scene and where all the real dino breeding goes down. Another thing about unofficial is all the mods and boosted rates are easy mode and the game get boring pretty fast cause you can have and do everything to fast. Also your problem is you look at it from a pvp pov. Pvp is always where the most toxic people will be. Imo ark pvp kinda sucks, why would you want to spend so much time breeding dinos for certain stats and colors, building a base and all the other grindy stuff ark offers only to have it killed/wiped and all the time out the window and have to watch your back 24/7 then after all of that you just get raided while your offline. No thanks on that.
The best official experience, IMO, were on the 'beginner' servers, where the level was capped at 44 and if you wanted to get to 49, you had to chibi your way there. The servers wiped every couple of months. You had a mix of noobs just starting and experienced players looking for a different experience. Sure, there was some pillar spamming but you could work around it and find actual helpful people to play around and play with. There were plenty of other official PVE servers where the community was actually welcoming and helpful, but that was possible because there were so many maps, so much space and auto-decay as people found other games to play. ASA is a looooong way from that experience!
I’ve been playing this game for years and never once have I fought a boss. Always played as a survival/building game with the boys. I love it.
People learned not to play official servers for 8 years on Ark Survival Evolved to the tune of tens of thousands of unofficial servers vs the 1400 or so that existed when officials were live. Time and time again people on the forums and discord would discourage people form playing officials and even the devs recommended people play on unofficial servers (the sponsored mods program the devs made needed people to play mods to be relevant and 7-12 of the dlcs were from mods originally on ASE).
It is nice to see someone making a video that addresses this.
Official is the only way to truly enjoy the game, with all the extra boosted/modded unofficial servers, you getting bored so fast everything is too easy
I've never played unofficial never cheated one time ever I love official unofficial is for people who want everything easy
I get it for pvp no one really wants to spend hours a day building up from wood to stone just to get offline raided and do the same thing tomorrow, but for pve official is definitely the best way to go.
@@AaronJohnson-dd3opunofficial is also for people with a lot of real life responsibilities, friends, families, children, or things to do in their day to day lives.
Just play Single player and make your own rules, you can easily keep them the same as the official servers.
Official means it's a bad in life. I want to know more about what is better in Ark. Then the negative cause official is negative.🎉 There are more better things than ark Like enjoying the game for what it's made for. The game was made for PVE to enjoy life with Dinosaurs, not the opposite.🎉
i totally agree i think there should be land claim blocks to stop people putting down founds everywhere, but as far as private servers as you said nitrado are terrible so ark then becomes a single player game.
Official pve is a test of patience and mental endurance. And wildcard does wipe tribes that spam, but you just have to have like I said patience. I played official pve on my ps4 for over a year and loved it, and the community. But you definitely have to get yourself a piece of land and find a server with a good community, where the mega tribes work together to squeeze out the trolls and Pilar control building on resources and poi’s
2000H on official Ark Servrs (pve)solo or 2- 3 man some times. Boss kills, trade,kind people.and its free. So Just a simple NO. Stupid people exist everywhere. 🎉 so dont listen to this Video. 😂And no its Not true on every Server 😂😂. OMG 😂😂
Any one playing pve thinking he is talking about pve as official is lost- but just so you know pve is also toxic with areas being spammed off ect
Not really talking about PVE lol
Also makes a big difference when you're playing 6 years into the games lifespan and there's barely any players vs the launch of the new game. If you don't think most things are pillared off or "claimed" on current PVE servers you're lost.
It is nice that there are a few different ways to play ark. I work 2 jobs, so playing is definitely limited. I’ve played on official, unofficial and solo. Solo really works the best I just wish that it had running time like official when your not logged on. Even though official has its negative points, I’ve meet a number of great players. You just have to find which type of server you really want to play on. Happy gaming!!
If you host your own server on an old gaming PC you can essentially do single player but "time runs while you're not around". That's about how I do it except a couple RL friends may join and we essentially do co-op.
where do you recommend to get an unofficial server or even rent? I can't seem can't seem to find one
I’ve been playing single player for pretty much my entire time on ark besides a few times me and some buddies got our own server felt like I was always missing part of the game so decided to try some pve servers yesterday and couldn’t even find a decent place to start maybe a small base because there was foundations and pillars literally everywhere so I think I’m gonna stick with my solo where I can have all the mods I want
But what happens when someone decides to shutdown their server and your like many that collect all the event dinos?
I played official pve on ASE and you are right….. sort of. I started with the island and looked for a place to build even a small camp so I could cook and sleep. I starved to death before I found any where I could build. There were either huge bases or foundations/pillars preventing any new builds. I tried several servers and after moving to crystal isles I finally found a pve server that not only could I build, but all the players were super helpful and friendly. So good servers exist unfortunately it may take a bit of digging to find them.
Often in unofficial clusters, admins build community centers where people can gather, craft, trade, throw away unwanted stuffs for other players to get, events, minigames, etc...
what annoys me is joining a server getting enough things to start, and then not being able to build anywhere cause some dude has placed 400 pillars down so i cant build. When their base is 700 years away
@TeachersGameToo to be fair I've been told the same thing about having to be toxic, or having to join a mega tribe. On ASE official I formed a pretty wholesome tribe that only grew and grew and we became an alpha tribe on our server. We were good to everyone except for those raided off server lol. We were the most toxic to each other (in party jokes 😭). We helped many people in the game. And manage to get the platinum in official PVp. We all welcome the challenge.
Im an Ark vet that took a long break. i now want to try to teach my wife and 13 year old son. you think i can join your server? im located in USA west
@@ItsMulThaiMedia you could join me no problem, but we're at a ruff start until servers open this year. You sound wholesome. I like wholesome
@@Choutsu are you playing ASA or ASE right now? I just got ASA.
100% agree I will never loose sleep over the game ever again to much of a grind just to loose everything
I’ll be honest man the biggest issue for me wirh ark offical PVP was me having a really good base setup for the island (could compete with the alpha) and then a alpha from extinction or somewhere with insane hesr would transfer over and completely wipe us
As much as I 100% agree with you after 5 years on official- I kinda miss the ark experience- btw you can play official and not be toxic yourself but it is deffo a full time job
Appreciate the honesty
agreed 100%.
The anonymity of online play removes the mask of decency. People today have never been punched for their behavior...and it shows.
This videos is extremely based, after finding what unofficial servers were I never went back. And for a solo player a little multiplier (2x-5x) helps alot to try and catch up to what a large group of people would be able to get up to.
Thank you for all your input on the game. Your channel has been great for learning everything about ark. You truly are a great teacher. Morbidrain
Teach you hit the nail right on the head. That is a lot of the reasons why I have never played official after one time being on it. I stick to unofficial. I've had my own cluster and to add with nitrado yes their servers do absolutely suck. They're constant, corrupted game files and server crashes. And now that they have gotten in bed with snail games, they are now as corrupted as snail games is trying to make it so nobody else can rent service from anybody else. However, in the beginning before our consented was released, we were all told that we would have access to different server providers as well as a never before seen modded map at launch along with all platforms. Now I do understand wild card has issues getting service out on time without problems. But let's be honest, Ark has been around for how long now and they're still having issues? Something doesn't seem right
So for those of us playing solo, are we on official servers and how can we use an unofficial server to stop turning down every setting we can find to the point that it looks like ASE to make stop crashing?
I think a better way to put it is only play official if you’re in a large tribe. At least 10-15 members. If your tribe is able to take over an entire server your tribe is free to do whatever you want on that map all day everyday.
love the feedback on the server play. I can't wait to try this game!
I play official pve and yes there are lots of issues but theses are down to a small number of players
And you get to meet and play with so many nice, helpful and interesting people this way
At the end of the day Ark is a survival game its meant to have some challenges
I was an unofficial player on ase but quit the game because of official players. I got doxxed, sent rape and death threats multiple times and those people called their official friends to seige my base. It was 30 of them vs me and my friend. The server admin recently had set up his server so you could buy dinos and gear, and these 30 ppl were throwing money at the server to harass me so he wasn't incentivized to ban them for their behavior which was against his rules. It got so bad that a few tribes from my server came to help me. The official players were actually really bad at the game, but they had numbers and set up shifts so that my base was under siege 24/7, even while i was asleep and at work. After a week of this I said no more, and I haven't been able to touch Ark until ASA, I was traumatized and couldn't even see the old Ark main menu without having panic attacks. Official players are absolutely horrendous and ruin the game for the rest of us.
Teach, I couldn't agree more. I play on xbox and only pve but nitrado has doubled the price of a rental with a minimum 20 slots. I have no need for 20 slots so now Im trying to figure out how to find a good group to play with on unofficial. Do you have any suggestions on how to hookup with a good unofficial group? Thanks - love your content!
Yeah, I figured Official would be taxic. Just wait until other maps come out. They will move on. I 100% agree with you on the PVE thing. I don't understand why people can't just play together.
Just started playing again after a couple years, had some fun, got going with some tames, some pvp with other beach bobs and a few small raids. When I started scouting around for a better base location I noticed the alpha has spammed the whole island, has huge tek turret walls and bases on all the obelisk as well as near all the good resources. I might look for another server, but there’s no transfers yet right?
Join the Platinum Empire Server it’s an RP / PVP Server and it will have longevity
You are right about all of it. I got sick of offical in a hurry, and now it is unoffical or solo.
The problem with unofficial is mods add convenience, once you dip your toes in the water with convenience it's hard not to just dive in, easier stacking? Better building? Convenience and utility items? Better and new Dinos? Maybe up the server settings? Faster tame/breeding? Higher resource yield? Just command give items? Spawn in Dinos? God mode complete the tek cave without damage?
It's an easy rabbit hole, it's so much more gratifying to complete the game with no access to the above, and to see others building up around you. I'm on official now, have been for weeks, and there's a TON of claimable land still. Sure the starter areas have been BUSY, yes, and the server stability is sloooowly getting better. But at least it's a complete game, and convenience isn't threatening to ruin the experience.
I played official for about a year and when I found a legit tribe it was fun..... for a while. But then came the meshers, the god mode'rs, and the mega tribes who will raid you for days none stop and roll back servers when they lose anything.
So true with the foundations in new too this game period and I seen / peeped that I couldn’t build no where I had to go inland dangerous area
its really really hard, but sometimes u can find just the perfect server with the right people in it
I’m new to ark literally explains so much the reason why I’m watching this official is officially unplayable every server is destroyed
I love all of your good points i am going to be unofficial from now on forwards. Thank you for making me aware of these things.
I 100% agree with u. That’s why I run my own private server and take input from my players and adjust it accordingly
I play Ark with my wife. And we did non-dedicated for the longest and the tether sucks honestly. That’s the reason why we play official. But if anyone knows a good unofficial. I just worry the people running it just may decide to shut it down tomorrow 🤷♂️
You are correct until I got into a large tribe I couldnt play now every other large tribe has started to attack us and forced us to whipe them all while ignoring small tribes
Great advice to the average player. I played officials from 2016 to 2019 and though I had some great times I lost 3 yrs of my real life. I constantly have friends ask why I dont play officials anymore and I explain to them everything that you mention right here. Sacrificing your Mental health is not worth it in a video game and 80% of supposedly Hard Core individuals that do play officials PVP are suffering from paranoia or other mental illnesses caused from the toxicity of the current games environment/community. I have friends, close friends that I would never have met If it wasn't for Ark and I love it when we get on the PSN party chat in a random Call of Duty lobby and start talking about old raid memories like we're sitting around a camp fire and other ppl in the chat would never understand. Nowadays I'm 30 yrs old have a real job and a family and I am perfectly content playing in my best friends small private server.
I like the idea of a populated map, but favor actually being able login and not having to worry about greifers leading danger to my bases- PvE official.... eventually Wildcard add things from modes like they did with the map DLCs.
On ASE I played single player, unofficial PvP with boosted everything, official PvE and official PvP. And while yes the official PvP community can be toxic, it’s also the most rewarding. Me and some buddies created Some of the best gaming memories from those servers. Raiding or defending your base with everything on the line creates a sense of exhilaration that is unmatched by ANY game. Trust, betrayal, politics, toxicity, manipulation all are required to be successful in PvP. Joined a server once where we started on a raft we’d hide in the ocean, then built a hidden base where we crafted all the parts to a bigger base off the side of The Center map (easily defendable) made friends aling the journey. We worked together to wipe the toxic alphas and then got bored and went to war with the guys we had been working with since the beginning. Yes obviously a lot of hurt people and a lot of lost stuff but absolutely worth the struggle to get there.
Bro i got to work quite often and this is my exact sentiment. Legit me and my buddy cant take the grind and stress of having our base wiped. I hate grinding just to get turrets and plants to protect my base from people who are in 5-15 man tribes. Im sick of the stress, im just gonna host my own server, enjoy the pve aspects of the game without the million pillars and foundations
I host my own server on an oldish PC and it's great, hasn't crashed once either.
Do you have a good set of rules etc... that I can use for my unofficial? I quit official for the exact reasons you've spoken of. I have one server, but going to have a cluster when transfers & more maps are available.
Join the Platinum Empire Server it’s an RP / PVP Server and it will have longevity
I've played ASE and love playing survival crafting games (Valheim, enshrouded etc) so I pretty much know how it works. I started ASA pretty late (3 weeks ago) and immediately started on official PVE scorched earth (with one friend). I'm lucky enough to play in a server that isn't as toxic as most would think. Pillar spamming is still there, but some tribes would remove them if you ask nicely. So far no caves were blocked. So eventually i found a large enough space to build my base, but still i have to build vertically which is okay. It's fun to see tribes helping each other out in there, but since I'm pretty new in the server, they didnt really help me (and not replying my chats) and me n my friend were kinda feel left out a bit lol. But shoutout to the New Alcatraz tribe for helping us on the first day😁 I just hope the others were more friendly bcs we do play the game properly and would love to be part of the (server) community.
The major issue I had with official servers is the "get off of my server mentality. I mean what does a huge tribe have to fear from a solo player in a thatch hut? I call it RPR or Rust Player Rabies. It is spread by being mauled by others that have it and it truly spreads like a disease. Otherwise nice players get infected and start lashing out at anything with a pulse. I'm lucky to have found an unofficial with a good community.
That mentality was in ASE long before Rust.
@@ravage243 Yeah but Rust Is known primarily for it's brutal toxicity. Ark is "that dinosaur game."
True, certain groups fight tooth and nail to control a server and hold it hostage, tis the law of the ark jungle.
I enjoy the suspense of early game in official pvp and being sneaky on a server until I eventually work my way to the top, but at the top is the worst, it feels like a chore to do most things end game just to maintain things, and yes toxicity is rampant and I wish it didn't exist however beating out those people is what drives me to make it to the top, every time I've ever became the top guy in a server I'd end up giving it all away to a bob because I've beat the server in my book.
Official hardcore servers are actually quite manageable for a solo player or small tribe to survive and thrive on. I've searched for but never found any unofficial hardcore servers. I also don't like the idea of some random dude as an admin who can erase thousands of hours of work at his will just by shutting down the server or kicking me for some unjustified personal reason. Official servers stay there for longer and players have to follow some general rules set by the people who made the game. Unofficial servers are usually also set to much higher rates and the game is made much easier because people are not serious about their gaming life. I'd like the hardest settings possible in the most realistic way as possible with the idea to perhaps stay alive and never die for ten years to come on a server. It's unlikely to reach that goal, but at least it's with that mindset I take on the challenges and prioritize my risk taking.
I fully agree and it’s why I play official. I been playing solo on asa official pvp and so far been having lots of fun. Years of playing ase solo taught me how to hide my base properly and stay incognito around the alpha tribes.. have multiple bases so you don’t lose your progress off of one raiding- it’s stuff like that which I actually enjoy. There’s obviously the toxicity that you have to get past but it’s not too in your face on the sever I play on (2315)
I understand you as playing on non-harcore servers though. I highly dislike all the cheating and limitless toxicity you may encounter on official, but it's not that in your face on hardcore either (but on those non-hardcore servers I've played on). Good for you that you've found a decent server, but I highly recommend to try hardcore if you haven't already. I'm not so much into fighting and trying to have at least one out of many bases unraided. I'm more into making bases that last for long and try to survive as long as possible. It's also fun to do some raids occasionally, but of course without cheating and preferably when people are online.@@jackvolkwyn470
I’m so glad I searched for a video like this. Thank you
You are 100% correct on everything you said ...I play on official my mind set is as long as I don't see you messing with me I won't touch you ....granted I am in a M.T. But I enjoy the strategic chaos planning of it being from the military ..
Totally agree- I have over 7k hours of ark almost all on the Arkade cluster of servers where they focus on the fun part of the game.
Teach, I'm just going to interject by saying that Ark is one of those games that has something for everybody. Whether a large portion of the community prefers unofficial or solo, that doesn't stop every single official server from filling up and staying full to the point of queues, and people aggressively foundation spamming areas of the map so that they don't get cut off or built on top of. There's value in official, that's why you see people selling land on FB, or people selling tames. Everything on official takes work, it's exactly that. Ark official is not a casual experience, no matter how bad you may want it to be. Official is slow, it takes work. All of which creates a recipe for competition. People get mad when they join official and see that the beaches are pillared and foundation spammed, but what they don't realize is a simple counter/bypass to that is simply taming a pteranodon and flying to more central locations of the map. Literally you can leave the beach and find countless build locations. Just don't join an official server that's been active 170+ days and assume that you're going to have first pick of where you want to build. I've been playing for about 200 hours on official and while nitrado servers are dogshit, it's still the same Ark experience I've always loved. Official gives me a since of accomplishment and satisfaction that no private server ever could.
Almost at 100k teach love your ark vidz
People place pillar everywhere so others can't build.
I agree! Started my own unofficial PVE server and havent looked back :D
7:25 my response in the comments. I agree with your thoughts about pvp but not pve:
1. Once transfers open up you can transfer and trade resources anywhere. The resources you obtain on official can be compared to.... earning a degree at an official university. Whereas the resources you obtain on unofficial is like.... getting a degree from Trump University. Only a handful of people will recognize it having any intrinsic value.
2. The mods and the admins spawning in game items leads to almost like a form of "monetary inflation". When you set the rates to 4x and every beach Bob and his baby's momma has a Tek Tier mansion: it loses its, again, intrinsic value. It'd be like printing everyone in america a billion dollars.
3. Most admins are politically left. They are pro marxism, pro homosexuality, and get triggered by the slightest joke. So if you make a comment or a political opinion they don't like or agree with. They will simply just wipe your whole base and call you "toxic".
4. The server owner can simply just stop paying and you lose all your stuff.
5. Unofficial has little to no pve player base. If you want to argue with me. Simply order all unofficial servers by players. You will find dozens of official servers 70/70 in a thriving community, but the highest player count you'll ever find on unofficial pve is like 10
But I do share common ground and agree with you about PVP. it's superior on unofficial.
1. The Chinese hackers of official make the game unplayable (i would be banned for racism and wiped on a pve unofficial by some triggered admin for making that FACTUALLY CORRECT statement).
2. On pvp you need an admin or a referee to govern the fairplay of high stakes game like Ark.
3. Pvp official is too easily monopolized by mega tribes.
4. On pvp, no server transfers is good. You don't want some mega tribe spawning in and wiping everyone
I love how people keep saying pve is a great community when all I see are pillars everywhere so no base can be built
Yo Teach can you do an in-depth run down on all breeding/mating multipliers?
I can't seem to get mine where I want them. I don't have singleplayer settings on either. Does that even effect the multipliers. My days are set longer, does that effect multipliers?
Can you even change mating time? I know you can change mating interval.
I swear it's so confusing and changing the multiplier doesn't have immediate effect. You gotta wait on next round.
Also I don't even know how the care thing works. I wait 6 minutes and it doesn't let me do anything. Maybe one of my settings is too small so it instantly bypasses, maybe grace period.
I'd really love to be able to set my multipliers mathematically based on time not some slider mystics.
i agree after i tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get a game going, if it wasnt for the lag and constant crashes, server timeouts then trying to shoot someone with me banding all over the place . . . . i just went single player!
Do you ever crash on single player? I love playing solo, on max settings with my 4090. But I always crash, do/did you have this problem?
When ASA released i spend 3 days trying to play official pve, there was lag, server being full, rollbacks, not being able to conect, pillar and foudation spam, it was so horrible i nearly quit the game but thankfully i found some good unofficial private pve server and im still playing there sinc release.