ARK:Survival Evolved

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irishmover wrote: »

The Argentavis has much better base stats and moves much faster.

doesn't move faster, moves for a **** ton longer though

irishmover

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

doesn't move faster, moves for a **** ton longer though

Sorry yeh.. A lot more stamina so dont need to start off pumping points into that can go straight for speed.

Tazzimus

TheKells wrote: »

Was round your way there now, saw a scorpion but had no spoiled meat to try tame it so might still be about when you next log in, was straight ahead and slightly to the right if you were to exit your house. Below the hill.

Some amount of supply drops round that area too. Feel ripped off in my spot!

Had a mooch around but couldn't see him, tamed a raptor though, didn't realise how stupidly easy they are to knock out.

Yeh it's central to about 5 supply drops so I have a fairly decent stock of most things now ha. Which base s ours, I took a flight south again and couldn't figure out which was yours.

jaxxx

Played it for free during the free weekend. Computer couldn't really handle it though. Low settings, low memory mode and it still bombed. Got to a stage where I could play it steady enough for a good while. Any news on when its gonna be optimised? The little bit I did play, I absolutely loved it. Never got around to taming anything though If I wanna play it again, I'll have to beef up my PC, if they're not gonna do any optimisations any time soon. My computer only has 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive.

irishmover

jaxxx wrote: »

Played it for free during the free weekend. Computer couldn't really handle it though. Low settings, low memory mode and it still bombed. Got to a stage where I could play it steady enough for a good while. Any news on when its gonna be optimised? The little bit I did play, I absolutely loved it. Never got around to taming anything though If I wanna play it again, I'll have to beef up my PC, if they're not gonna do any optimisations any time soon. My computer only has 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive.

I doubt your computer will beable to handle it even with the optimisation. Its coming to Xbox and ps4 in 2016 otherwise you'll have to buy yourself some more ram and probably a new CPU/graphics card.

TheKells

Tazzimus wrote: »

Had a mooch around but couldn't see him, tamed a raptor though, didn't realise how stupidly easy they are to knock out.

Yeh it's central to about 5 supply drops so I have a fairly decent stock of most things now ha. Which base s ours, I took a flight south again and couldn't figure out which was yours.

Raptors are a good job, really opened up travelling for me. Pity they can't carry a whole lot.

Mine is the straw hut across the lake from the big wooden fort. Starting to spread out since I don't know how to make stairs. Once I get a bird and a mammoth I'm thinking I'll move somewhere more central but until then this is a decent spot close to both the water and the jungle. Can't be bothered gathering the wood for a proper base without a mammoth.

Noxin

irishmover wrote: »

The Argentavis has much better base stats and moves much faster.

more difficult to attack with too though and takes a lot longer to tame.

Currently the Ptera is beast with roll attack if you want something simple and powerful

Tazzimus

TheKells wrote: »

Raptors are a good job, really opened up travelling for me. Pity they can't carry a whole lot.

Mine is the straw hut across the lake from the big wooden fort. Starting to spread out since I don't know how to make stairs. Once I get a bird and a mammoth I'm thinking I'll move somewhere more central but until then this is a decent spot close to both the water and the jungle. Can't be bothered gathering the wood for a proper base without a mammoth.

I'll drop you over some metal tools if you haven't got any, they should help speed up the gathering a bit. Have you any storage boxes outside?

TheKells

Tazzimus wrote: »

I'll drop you over some metal tools if you haven't got any, they should help speed up the gathering a bit. Have you any storage boxes outside?

I have metal picks, do the metal axes make that much difference? To the point that large buildings are feasible.

ondafly

I've been playing on the CCG server since I got the game with a few other mates. The times are all standard, so no speed up tame times etc. Quite tough actually. Its a pretty busy server, and we had our base raided a few times, but we are at a point now where we have a good setup and it would take a lot to cripple us (famous last words)

Tazzimus

TheKells wrote: »

I have metal picks, do the metal axes make that much difference? To the point that large buildings are feasible.

Gathers wood much handier so less effort.

I'll give you a sickle and pike as well. Sickle is great for gathering fiber and the pike is a much better spear so be handy to have them if nothing else.

TheKells

So I went out on my raptor hunting the supply drops, got a bit lost at night and ended up on a mountain with no idea how I got there(also stumbled upon a spot where you can summon a broodmother..which didn't sound like a good idea) spent a good half hour trying to find my way back to my base. Fecking apex predators everywhere. Tense times!! Especially as I had weighed my raptor down with metal so couldn't outrun anything that seen me.

Plus side, got back to base with a load of metal.

Lone Stone

tame an argevis hawk thing, they can fly and also carry a lot of crap better to get one of those if your going mining, dont take to long to tame an hour maybe. easy enough to tranq.

Noxin

One of the girls left her house open yesterday. Had a little fun



Shame I didn't record it cause it's hilarious throwing sleeping bodies around like ragdolls.

Tazzimus

Added a second story onto the gaff and got me a mammoth, they're boss level mother****ers

jaxxx

Found a phiomia saddle very early on. Was out searching for one. Was hounded by like 10 different bugs on top of a cliff, fell off the cliff and was then killed by a Rex. Bye bye saddle.

Had a dodo farm. 2 raptors saw to that and killed me along with them. Twice. Just now tamed myself a phiomia, several days after I died to the Rex.

Getting farms up and running initially is painfully slow. Can't get near enough narco berries for narcotics. Have 2 seedlings now but gonna be forever before they start yielding. Singleplayer starting to bore me. Might join a PvE server.

I want a raptor army so bad

Out of interest, how does the game run for you all? My computer isn't a beast by any stretch of the imagination. It's a very basic and elderly gaming desktop. It takes over 5 minutes to launch into the world for me and then another minute or so to stabilise. Running on extreme low memory mode and all settings medium. Initially had all settings to low but there's no difference in performance when cranked up to medium. Once the game's loaded, it runs fairly stable. Occasional 5/10 second lag but is still very playable.

Tazzimus

Spent half an hour walking around gathering stone for a behemoth gateway and gate, made both, stuck the gateway down, went to remove some foundations that looked like they weren't being used and I knock the gateway with them....

Bollocks.

jaxxx

Tazzimus wrote: »

Spent half an hour walking around gathering stone for a behemoth gateway and gate, made both, stuck the gateway down, went to remove some foundations that looked like they weren't being used and I knock the gateway with them....

Bollocks.

Two things about the game that really irk me, which also have been expressed by other players:

1) You can't move items after placing them. For example, if you placed a chest incorrectly you can only destroy it. Mortar and pestle, chest, small items that could easily be moved.

2) Many of the recipes are far too expensive. Wood/stone structures in particular. 40 wood for a single wall. Way too expensive for a game. I usually collect 1000 wood on every lumber run but it's all gone on just a few walls. Very over the top I think. Stone is a lot worse.

irishmover

jaxxx wrote: »

Two things about the game that really irk me, which also have been expressed by other players:

1) You can't move items after placing them. For example, if you placed a chest incorrectly you can only destroy it. Mortar and pestle, chest, small items that could easily be moved.

2) Many of the recipes are far too expensive. Wood/stone structures in particular. 40 wood for a single wall. Way too expensive for a game. I usually collect 1000 wood on every lumber run but it's all gone on just a few walls. Very over the top I think. Stone is a lot worse.

In regards to the second one a mammoth can streamroll wood collection so I'm guessing they're basing the requirements around owning a mammoth. 1000 wood would be all of 10 mins if even.

Lone Stone

thats why i moved to a higher gather rate server

Tazzimus

Lone Stone wrote: »

thats why i moved to a higher gather rate server

Yeh in fairness I can get 700 ish wood in 5 minutes with the mammoth, hence building the surrounding wall.
Stone is still a chore though, especially when you have to press twice on each piece to pick it up for some reason.

Lone Stone

its fine for wood but stone was a grind probably easier now with the stone gathering dino.

Noxin

Get yourselves a low level doedicurus for stone farming. They are seriously op for it but do take a while to tame without kibble.

Saying that, they use Dilo kibble and taming a dilo army for eggs takes no time at all.

Tazzimus

Are they quicker farming stone than walking around picking it up?
I've a beach gaff so stone lying on the ground all over the place around me, just hassle having to press the button so many times to pick it up

Noxin

Much quicker. My low level piece of crap farms 20-30 stone per swing. If you are in a good area you can make thousands in no time.
Weight is an obvious problem but if you have a pack mule you are well sorted. They, like the mammoth for wood make it a complete game changer.

Tazzimus

Excellent I'll be hunting one tonight so. There was a few up where I found my mammoth.

Can redo the wall in stone then

TheKells

Stupid fcking mammoth. Out flying on my pteranadon and see a mammoth. Land on a clearing up a mountain, start taming this mammoth, all going well then it catches me with an attack despite not being near me. Sends me flying a good 20-30 metres, and I just about go over the edge of the cliff and plummet down the entire length of the mountain to my death despite my best "NOOOOOOooooooo"

Now poor Petrie is all alone up some mountain somewhere with a murderous mammoth, probably scared to death.

Tazzimus

TheKells wrote: »

Stupid fcking mammoth. Out flying on my pteranadon and see a mammoth. Land on a clearing up a mountain, start taming this mammoth, all going well then it catches me with an attack despite not being near me. Sends me flying a good 20-30 metres, and I just about go over the edge of the cliff and plummet down the entire length of the mountain to my death despite my best "NOOOOOOooooooo"

Now poor Petrie is all alone up some mountain somewhere with a murderous mammoth, probably scared to death.

How did he attack you while you were taming him, was he not knocked out?

Petrie is probably still up there waiting for you to come back. Mine was after a few weeks of me thinking he was dead til I went back trying for something else and found her sitting there looking bored waiting for me to find her again.

TheKells

Tazzimus wrote: »

How did he attack you while you were taming him, was he not knocked out?

Petrie is probably still up there waiting for you to come back. Mine was after a few weeks of me thinking he was dead til I went back trying for something else and found her sitting there looking bored waiting for me to find her again.

It was while i was shooting him with tranq arrows.

jaxxx

TheKells wrote: »

It was while i was shooting him with tranq arrows.

I don't hold much hope for when I try tame one

Was on a mountain looking for metal earlier when I came across a stego stuck in between trees. Easy tame. Going well until a raptor came and killed it