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Title: ARK: Survival Evolved
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Release Date: 2 Jun, 2015
Curse &Best In Show& PAX Prime 2015
GameStar &Best Early Access Game& GameStars 2015
What the developers have to say:
Why Early Access?
&ARK is a huge game, in terms of geographical space, scope of content, features, technology, and just about every other metric. We're a veteran team with some major hits behind our leads, and much of the core challenge is already met, but this is still an ambitious one for us. We want the player community's help to 'evolve' ARK into the dinosaur world game that we've been dreaming about since the days we played with plastic green T-Rex toys during elementary school recess, since we shed a tear to 'The Land Before Time', since we wistfully imagined the towering cities of 'Dinotopia', and since we nearly choked on our popcorn to the thrills of 'Jurassic Park'. We love games, and holy smokes do we ever love dinos (along with all sorts of other extinct creatures/natural sciences), and through interaction and iteration with the ARK's community, we think we have the best shot at creating the be-all, end-all long-term prehistoric universe that we want to live and thrive in. We have a great start, and with your valued input and contributions, we will take it all the way together!&
Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
&Approximately 1 year, with a full release planned for June 2016 coinciding with the console versions.&
How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
&While we have the foundation of our game at Early Access launch, there are many currently-planned features and content additions we will be adding over the year from EA to full release. Beyond such planned features, will be adding TONS of aspects suggested or iterated on by the community, hence the point of Early Access!
Planned Core Features include, among many other things:
- Mac and Linux versions
- Procedurally Generated ARK's
- 40+ more creatures to reach well over 100, with essentially every major category of extinct animal represented in some way
- More saddle types including saddle armor tiers and saddles with powerful weapons mounted on them
- Gas-powered Vehicles
- Human/Dino Body-Paints
- Enhanced building mechanics to evolve ARK into one of the best straight-up builder games out there
- More underwater biome/ecosystem complexity, including support for vacuum-sealed underwater bases
- Lots more items, weapons, armors and further advanced tech tiers
- More item skins, limited run event skins
- More bosses and the end-game cycle including the Ultimate Life Form & Ascension
- More biome types, including deserts, snow regions, swamps, and more.
- Steam Economy Support for Statistical Items (Need some Steam API functionality for this from Valve!)
- Way more plants and more detailed plant biology systems/farming systems
- More statistical modelling of status illnesses/diseases (both player and creature)
- Better SFX, more Music, Better UI's, Better Gamepad support (i.e. UI button shortcut callouts), Better VR support (i.e. HMD gun-aim option)
In addition to zillions of bug fixes, intensive performance improvements, mega iterative polishing, and what have you. The game will sparkle like a shiny diamond before it is considered ready for Full Release, and even then we plan on a long-term post-Release content lifecycle, with specialized ARK's on the drawing board.&
What is the current state of the Early Access version?
&Everything described on the full Features List is in the Early Access version right now -- not all 100% polished, but designed to be fun. Over the next year, the game will be rapidly iterated on with updates usually coming 3 times per week, almost always including new features, balance and polish improvements, and bug fixes. We are extremely fast at development, and will continue to push forward with maximum energy to make the game ever-greater on a daily basis. We live and breath game development, this is what we do.&
Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?
&Yes, the game will be lower priced through Early Access, relative to its final full-version retail price.&
How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?
&We will have a Trello roadmap at Early Access launch, as well as massive & intense Forum interaction by the development team to gather ideas, feedback, and issues, along with a bi-weekly Q&A / Reddit AMA to involve everyone under the sun who wants to give us their 2 cents on how to make this game everything it can be! Essentially we view ARK's Early Access player community as our primary benefactors -- we're making this game to serve you. Join us on the ARK :)&
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About This Game
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
The following features are in the game on its Day-1 Early Access release. We have many more aspects and refinements planned for the long-term development roadmap, and here's what you get to experience right now in ARK:
Dinosaurs, Creatures, & Breeding! -- over 60+ currently at Early Access and 100+ planned for final release -- can be tamed using a challenging capture-&-affinity process, involving weakening a feral creature to knock it unconscious, and then nursing it back to health with appropriate food. Once tamed, you can issue commands to your Pet, which it may follow depending on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Pets, which can continue to level-up and consume food, can also carry Inventory and Equipment such as Armor, carry prey back to your settlement depending on their strength, and larger pets can be ridden and directly controlled! Fly a Pterodactyl over the snow-capped mountains, lift allies over enemy walls, race through the jungle with a pack of Raptors, tromp through an enemy base along a gigantic brontosaurus, or chase down prey on the back of a raging T-Rex! Take part in a dynamic ecosystem life-cycle with its own predator & prey hierarchies, where you are just one creature among many species struggling for dominance and survival. Pets can also be mated with the opposite gender, to selectively breed successive generations using a trait system based on recombinant genetic inheritance. This process includes both egg-based incubation and mammalian gestation lifecycles! Or put more simply, breed & raise Dino Babies!
You must eat and drink to survive, with different kinds of plants & meat having different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of fresh water to your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical actions come at a cost of food and water, long-distance travel is fraught with subsistence peril! Inventory weight makes you move slower, and the day/night cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge by altering the temperature of the environment, causing you to hunger or thirst more quickly. Build a fire or shelter, and craft a large variety of customizable clothing & armors, to help protect yourself against locational damage & extreme temperatures using the dynamic indoor/outdoor insulation calculation system!
By chopping down forests full of trees and mining metal and other precious resources, you can craft the parts to build massive multi-leveled structures composed of complex snap-linked parts, including ramps, beams, pillars, windows, doors, gates, remote gates, trapdoors, water pipes, faucets, generators, wires and all manner of electrical devices, and ladders among many other types. Structures have a load system to fall apart if enough support has been destroyed, so reinforcing your buildings is important. All structures and items can be painted to customize the look of your home, as well as placing dynamically per-pixel paintable signs, textual billboards, and other decorative objects. Shelter reduces the extremes of weather and provides security for yourself and your stash! Weapons, clothing & armor gear can also be painted to express your own visual style.
Pick seeds from the wild vegetation around you, plant them in plots that you lay down, water them and nurture them with fertilizer (everything poops after consuming calories, which can then be composted, and some fertilizer is better than others). Tend to your crops and they will grow to produce delicious and rare fruits, which can also be used to cook a plethora of logical recipes and make useful tonics! Explore to find the rarest of plant seeds that have the most powerful properties! Vegetarians & vegans can flourish, and it will be possible to master and conquer the ARK in a non-violent manner!
By bringing sufficient rare sacrificial items to special Summon locations, you can capture the attention of the one of the ARK’s god-like mythical creatures, who will arrive for battle. These gargantuan monstrosities provide an end-game goal for the most experienced groups of players and their armies of pets, and will yield extremely valuable progression items if they are defeated.
Create a Tribe and add your friends to it, and all your Pets can be commanded by and allied to anyone in your Tribe. Your Tribe will also be able to respawn at any of your home spawn points. Promote members to Tribe Admins to reduce the burden of management. Distribute key items and pass-codes to provide access your shared village!
All items are crafted from Blueprints that have variable statistics and qualities, and require corresponding resources. More remote and harsh locales across the ARK tend to have better resources, including the tallest mountains, darkest caves, and depths of the ocean! Level-Up your player character by gaining experience through performance actions, Level-Up your Pets, and learn new &Engrams& to be able to craft Items from memory without the use of blueprints, even if you die! Customize the underlying physical look of your character with hair, eye, and skin tones, along with an array of body proportion modifiers.
Everything you craft has durability and will wear-out from extended use if not repaired, and when you leave the game, your character remains sleeping in the persistent world. Your inventory physically exists in boxes or on your character in the world. Everything can be looted & stolen, so to achieve security you must build-up, team-up, or have pets to guard your stash. Death is permanent, and you can even knock out, capture, and force-feed other players to use them for your own purposes, such as extracting their blood to for transfusions, harvesting their fecal matter to use as fertilizer, or using them as food for your carnivorous pets!
The mysterious ARK is a formidable and imposing environment, composed of many natural and unnatural structures, above-ground, below-ground, and underwater. By fully exploring its secrets, you’ll find the most exotic procedurally randomized creatures and rare blueprints. Also to be found are Explorer Notes that are dynamically updated into the game, written by previous human denizens of the ARK from across the millennia, creatively detailing the creatures and backstory of the ARK and its creatures. Fully develop your in-game ARK-map through exploration, write custom points of interest onto it, and craft a Compass or GPS coordinates to aid exploring with other players, whom you can communicate with via proximity text & voice chat, or long-distance radio. Construct & draw in-game signs for other players to help them or lead them astray...
And yet.. how do you ultimately challenge the Creators and Conquer the ARK? A definitive end-game is planned.
On the 100+ player servers, your character, everything you built, and your pets, stay in-game even when you leave. You can even physically travel your character and items between the network of ARK's by accessing the Obelisks and uploading (or downloading) your data from the Steam Economy! A galaxy of ARKs, each slightly different than the previous, to leave your mark on and conquer, one at a time -- special official ARKs will be unveiled on
the World-map for limited times in singular themed events with corresponding limited-run items!
You can play single-player local games, and bring your character and items between unofficial player-hosted servers, back and forth from singleplayer to multiplayer. Mod the game, with full Steam Workshop support and customized Unreal Engine 4 editor. See how we built our ARK using our maps and assets as an example. Host your own server and configure your ARK precisely to your liking. We want to see what you create!
The over-the-top hyper real imagery of the ARK its creatures is brought to expressive life using a highly-customized Unreal Engine 4, with fully dynamic lighting & global illumination, weather systems (rain, fog, snow, etc) & true-to-life volumetric cloud simulation, and the latest in advanced DirectX11 and DirectX12 rendering techniques. Music by award-winning composer of &Ori and the Blind Forest&, Gareth Coker!
System Requirements
SteamOS + Linux
Minimum:
OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows 8
Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU
Memory: 4000 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 40000 MB available space
Minimum:
OS: OSX 10.9 or Higher
Processor: 2 GHz Equivalent CPU
Memory: 4000 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3 Compatible GPU with 1GB Video RAM
Storage: 20000 MB available space
Minimum:
OS: Ubuntu Equivalent Distro
Processor: 2 GHz 64-bit CPU
Memory: 4000 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3 Compatible GPU with 1GB Video RAM
Storage: 20000 MB available space
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As you probably can tell by the few hours I've played this game, I can tell that's It's worth it. While theres still things that really needs work, theres so many good things about this lovely game that I don't really mind at all.Theres many things I hate and love about ARK, and I'm gonna adress a couple of them.Cons:1)Performance - While it's been more than grately improved from what it have been back in it's first stages. It still doesn't run like it should. I have a mid-high end PC, and I still get hiccups and FPS drops here and there.2) Building Mechanics - While the people who own this game knows the struggle with walls and pillars, other may not know how annoying it can be to get them correctly.3) Bug fixes - While ARK Devs knows how to put up awesome new updates, they forget to fix the bugs they made in the first place, all tho. I guess it's something that's not too important?!4) Loading times................. Really Ark? With 10 mods installed it can take me up to 30 mins, to join a server.
This should be worked on, no doubt.5) Raiding Mechanics. While I'm not a PVP guy, the raiding part is awefull. Once you're a higher leveled player, you gain access to C4. Which wrecks buildings apart way too easily. (Raiding stuff needs nerfing bad)Now, the things I love:1) TAMING! Yes!, this is my favorite thing. While vanilla and stock settings in very rough. Increased Multiplier can be needed for some people like me. The feeling after taming a perfect Level Dino is just awesome.2) Building! Yes, even tho it really needs to be fixed, the building part in most games is just awesome!3) Mod support! ???? yea! Awesome mods avalible on the workshop and It's something that I've been loving since they added steam workshop support :D4) Playing with ya friends, being in a Tribe and teaming up against a Rex that's trying to eat you. 5) Leveling, yes! Killing big dinos and other people for the pure XP is a lot of fun.
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I had to return the game after nearly 1 minute of gameplay.I understand this is early access/beta/alpha etc. but this game just pushes it.When compared against games such as Arma 3 in early access this game is unacceptable in its current state.When I first entered the game a T Rex Lagging at 5 second intervals (almost in a teleporting motion)chased me. Quickly after it got graphically stuck in a wall. I then proceeded to kill it with my hands.That was it for me. The lag makes it unable to play multiplayer especially for this genre, and the AI would appear to be beyond laughable.
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Spent an hour babysitting a sleeping Stegosaurus waiting for it to join my dino-army, I walk 30 feet away to pick more narco berries and come back to see a T-Rex eating the Stegosaurus alive in front of me. Then it ate me. Then I ran back and it ate me again.10/10
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I have over 1000 hours on this game and I will give a completely, raw, and honest review.I hate it.If you have any kind of life, any kind of job, like to sleep, and like to have a social life, then this game is not for you.It's nothing but addicting and time consuming. This game will eat away at your life.NOW BEFORE YOU SAY PRIVATE SERVERS EXIST WITH CUSTOM SERVER SETTINGS, YES, I KNOW THOSE EXIST. I KNOW YOU CAN MODIFY SETTINGS BUT I AM REVIEWING OFFICIAL SERVERS ONLY.Material Gathering----------------------Getting materials to build takes hours, especially some of the later materials. One structure could take more than a day to make even if you have no real-life activities going on that day. It's tiring and after a while, it doesn't even feel like it's worth it.----------------------TAMING----------------------The maximum time that it takes to tame a dinosaur is past 5 hours with the best taming gear you could have. Seeing that an average person is awake for about 16 hours of the day, that consumes almost half of their day. And it's boring. Some dinosaurs you can knock out and just leave but MANY of the animals you need to check up on or even babysit for hours on end. Taming is exciting and fun when you're knocking them out. It's a project and it's certainly a challenge when it's a large animal like a Quetzal or a Mosasaurus. The adrenaline gets you pumped, but after that, it's a slow decline. It's boring having to pump narcotics into the animal to keep it from waking up every 10 minutes and if you don't starve the animal and it wakes up, you lose all of the progress you've made and any items that were on that animal. It's a long, drawn out, and boring process that is necessary to really enjoy the game. And it shouldn't be.----------------------BREEDING----------------------Breeding has become an entirely different story with the new imprinting mechanic. The longest time it takes to raise a baby is 2 WEEKS, taking over 24 HOURS to raise to the point of where you could leave it on its own. Back then, when that baby got to 10% of its maturation progress, you were done. Just fill up a feeding trough, check on it every now and then, and go on with your life. While it wasn't too bad at first (and I'm saying that with a huge grain of salt), it has become torturous now. To get better stats on that baby, the imprinting mechanic has come in. Every time you imprint on a baby, its stats will raise and it will raise every time you imprint on it until it's an adult. But imprinting for a god-like dinosaur has drawbacks in again: Time. Every 3-4 hours, a baby wants care from one player, and THAT PLAYER ALONE. It will not accept care from anyone else in your tribe. That means that the person raising that baby needs to be online to care for it every 3-4 hours and if they miss one imprint, ALL OF THE IMPRINTING PROGRESS IS GONE. The buffed stats are gone, and your time is gone. While imprinting is optional, it is desired by many players but is not accepted because of how it will mess with your sleep schedule, your days, and your life.----------------------From Game to a Chore----------------------At the start of the game, the game feels like a game. You get your first animal, get a hut, and settle in. But once you become more advanced and move up to become an established player, the game aspect fades and turns into a chore. On PvP you need to worry about raids and back then: offline raiding. On PvE you need to worry about structure and animal timers which is what this will get into. An animal has roughly 7 days of its owner or tribe's inactivity before anyone else on the server can claim it. If you do not want to lose precious animals that you have invested in, you need to log on every 7 days to refresh their timers to ensure that no one can claim them. And if you, for some reason, do not have any animals, the maximum time a structure has is dependent on the structure. Stone is the most common structure found on PvE so let's use that. It has roughly 11 days until it is demolishable. Once it is, the server will jump on it to destroy it. People will keep track of the expiration dates to ensure that they are the first to get your land and/or your animals.And not to mention that you need to do daily upkeep on your animals. Your animals can starve and will starve to death after a few days if you do not feed them or have a tribe alliance member feed them. It's a horrible and heavy life invester and turns from a fun game to a chore in daily life very quickly.----------------------OVERALL----------------------This game is fun when modified. If you play on a private server where you can bypass all of what was said above, and maybe even more, good for you.But for people who play on official servers, PvE or PvP, it is nothing but a life investment. ARK: Survival Evolved is an addicting, life consuming, investment with almost nothing to give. Developers seem to prioritize new releases over bug, glitch, and exploit fixes, and think that everyone who plays the game has no life. This game truly panders towards the anti-social gamer who spends days and nights on end in their room on the computer.If you are that person, great, buy this game. It's for you. But if you are not, do not get this game.I want to review this game positively. It's wonderful past the flaws above and has so much potential, but there is a solid brick wall preventing me from doing so.
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After 3k hours, I shall now review.I recommend this game, But I recommend you do not buy it in early access if:- You are allergic to sodium- You have an already high sodium count- You are a pregnant or lactating woman- You thought it was an energy drink- You are a casual gamer- You are opposed to wasting hundreds of hours of your life for something you can only show on a screen- You are not willing to wait through periods where your average computer struggles to run the game because of poor optimization- You are an entitled kinder who believes that anything less than 100 fps is disgusting- You have a Non-Gamer partner (He/She will never understand why Pterry and Rollie mean so damn much to you)- You think murdering innocent Dodos is socially acceptable (IT'S NOT OK!)- You are xenophobic- You are convinced the man driving the ice cream truck is a reptilian spy intent on destroying your entire lifeI do recommend buying this game in early access if:- You read the store page and thought &Wow that sounds cool&AND YOU1: Understand fully that some gamebreaking things could happen2: Understand that Beta is for large scale optimizations, and will commence as soon as the game is content complete3: Know that screaming abuse and profanity on forums isn't going to magically make the game develop faster4: Accept that, at any time, for any reason, this game could fold in on itself and remain in a DayZ like limbo where nothing gets much closer to completion.5: Have some semblence of patience and dignityThis game has been one of the greatest and most frustrating titles I have played since &Super Ghouls and Ghosts: and &Prince of Persia 4D& took hold of my hand in the mid 90's and guided me on my first steps into the gaming world.The people I've met and things I have heard and seen in the last year have been countless and memorable.Like most, I have struggled through times where I could only run the lowest settings, and times where I could run some things in high. I've lost dinosaurs and structures to ridiculous glitches, hacking foreign tribes, tribemates I thought could be trusted, and people I have been peaceful with on servers. I've murdered Noobs for fun and I've handed Noobs tools they wouldn't otherwise have access to for hours or even days, I've seen servers completely change right before me while sitting quietly in the background, and I've visited familiar server numbers to find absolutely no remnant of the civilization that once roamed it, that I was part of. The damn thing is fantastic, but will frustrate you, has terrible optimization (Which we must have faith will be fixed) and if you are pitted against folk who know a lot of tricks, it will feel unbalanced
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You need the frustration resistance of the holy Dalai Lama himself !!!Much to say, dont know where to start.Taming: Holy mother of ????The vanilla rates are insulting!!!Get ready to quit your job, your wife, your kids, and tell them to ???? OFF!!!From now on you have much more important things to do - to MURDER TIME!!!You think World of Warcraft is time consuming? Let me present to you... ARK!You will WASTE hours - literally HOURS!!! - of your life, trying to tame your dinos,just to witness getting them ????ing killed 8 out of 10 times before you could finish!!! EVERY aggressive animal within 500 meters WILL find it and KILL IT!!! Angry birds, Raptors, snakes, wolfs, NO MATTER how hard you try!!!- try to crush their skulls with your machete - they WILL run straight to your dino, ignoring all of your attacks and KILL IT!!! - Annihilate every ????ing sign of life within your line of sight to make sure no one dares to come close - hours later, almost losing the game of falling asleep, something will sprint out of nowhere and KILL IT!!!- Build a wall around your dino - they will stick their heads through and KILL IT!!! THEY ARE ????NG PROGRAMMED TO!!!That brings me to the model collision:If you managed to successfully tame some dinos, you WILL spend 90% of your time to get them unstuck.If they dont get stuck in rocks, hills, structures... they WILL on each other. The model colliders have the size of an aircraft carrier. Blocking every inch of your base. Every door, every way, every ladder! If you ride them by yourselfs its even worse! If you are fighting, prepare to merge with your enemys, forming a new biogenetic creature, and die in panic trying to rotate in every direction to free yourself.I got myself stuck in the environment several times and would have died of starvation if an admin hadnt helped me out!!!You even get stuck at knee high railings if you dont take an inrun and got enough horizontal momentum to jumb over. This could be solved by just adding the possibility to control your character in the ????ing air!!!As big as the colliders are, the tiny are the hitboxes.Sometimes you make no damage although you see blood and hear the hitting sound. Same thing with the corpses of animals. Sometimes, because of the tremendous force of my testosterone driven muscle vehicle, the models of killed animals fly around like ???? hitting the fan, but!!! the hitboxes to harvest them are still lying invisible at the very spot where they got killed and not where the actual model moved to. This leads to a lot of confusion.Let me tell you someting about the pathfinding.There is no pathfinding.Even if a tiny railing is between you and your parked Pteranodon or Argentavis, they will relentless narrow-minded try to fly to you in a line, straight as He-Man,just to get blocked, screaming for help and embarrass you in front of the whole tribe laughing at you.Leveling:As i said before. With vanilla rates, you WILL spend HOURS!!! farming experience with mindless building of crap again and again, not for the need of survival, but to advance in gameplay. It takes forever to be able to unlock the most basic metal tools!!!Resources:The need of some resources is ridiculous. You have to harvest tons of metal for ammunition, tranquilizer darts, armor. Its easier to kill enemys with your machete, or close combat in general, in comparison to time and effort crafting one magazine for your assault rifle.That makes no sense!!!Building:Oh my gawd...The building mechanic is a pain in the ???. It NEEDS to be improved!!! If you like to build just 4 walls, its fine. If your building style involves pillars or anything more geometric complex than 4 corners, you will spend most the time finding the right angle attaching ladders and avoiding every inch of the environment that will block your structures.Why cant walls, ramps and floors slightely merge and align into the environment to FILL all the small corners, holes and FULLFILL my desire of setting everything perfect like the autist i am.Apropos ladders:The interaction menus are terrible.You need to aim at the perfect spot to climb ladders and open doors. (my hint: works better if you are in panic and get chased by a vegan monster... trust me!)Crafting:The engram and crafting menus are confusing and unorganized as ????. At least you have the possibility to use a search function and create your own folders.
In the smithy for example, the crafting menu shares the same place in the inventory like your items.WHY cant there be a seperate window/area?WHY is everyting organized in sub-folders so i have to search and spend more clicks than necessary??WHY do i have to ???? my pants everytime i sneeze???Performance: It improved noticeable over the last year, but if i play for hours, got many pets within my base and traveled alot through the world, my fps still drop into the abyss of Beelzebub himself.You ask: &If you dont like it, why did you spend more than 140+ hours playing this piece of crap?, you ????ing dumb ???!!&Look at my screenshots YOU STUPID ????!!!This game has incredible potential.The basic game mechanics satisfy the right psychological mechanisms that every good crafting game does. Progression and creativity.Taming Dinos is like playing Pokémon.Many of them have special abilities that come handy harvesting resources.You can tame, train, breed, build and fight armys with your minions. The graphics and models are great. The atmosphere and ambience is amazing!The water finally makes me want to wash myself again after days!You get XP for literally every ???? you dump on the beach!My advice:Pay some friends, get on a high rate server, form your own tribe and get frustrated altogether!!!
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&Buy game for my friend and I&Friend instantly tilted becuase his character looks like a half eaten poptart&Friend and I stumble upon 2 dodo birds about to mate&Friend and I pummel them to death and eat thir meat raw&Later friend and I encounter T-Rex& We stand still so it can't see us& It didn't work7/10 IGN Too much waterPersonal Rating - 9/10PS: Play with friends
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My experience with this game on Official servers (700+ hours) consists of very large, non english speaking tribes using aimbots, shooting your base from under the ground, shooting through walls to kill dinos that are inside your base, using dinos to push your dinos out of your base through walls, and being able to see you no matter where you are behind cover, etc. If you manage to do something that would hurt the hacking tribe, they just DDoS the server to cause a 15 minute server rollback. Oh... and the Official admins apparently don't work weekends, letting the hackers roam free. If for some ridiculous reason, you are still playing on the server after experiencing that, you have to worry about things like your prized dinosaurs just disappearing into the ground and despawning, never to be seen again. Most of my playtime has been on unofficial servers. Extreme lag and lots of bugs are almost always present after the server has been online for a few days. The game itself needs optimization, loading times are horrendous, and base render lag can become untolerable. Private servers that are properly moderated are definitely where the real fun in this game is.I had alot of fun playing on private servers, but official servers ruined my gaming experience.I will never again play on Official servers.
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Early Access Review
Definitely a great time with your friends. I don't recommend playing on official servers with vanilla stats though, it's INCREDIBLY grindy and requires SO much commitment. I play on an unofficial, modded PvE server, and it's amazing. Regarding the negative reviews about being grindy:Yes. If you play with vanilla settings, it is possibly one of the grindiest games. It DOES have chores, and it DOES require attention. BUT if you play on unofficial servers with multipliers, it's a WHOLE lot easier. If you want to give official settings a shot, go right ahead, but please understand that the game can be so much more than just some grindy old survival game. Some people may disagree and say that it's the grind that makes the game what it is- I, obviously, disagree with that, but to each their own. If it's ever on sale (like it is as I'm writing this) it is definitely worth giving it a shot. Plus, if you don't like it, Steam has their return policy* So, please, take any and all reviews (even this one) with a grain of salt. Everyone is a little biased, I'm personally biased in favor of the game. You'll never truly know if a game is good until you try it yourself.*I don't actually know all the details of the policy, please don't kill me.
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Early Access Review
Winner of the most poorly optimised game competition.
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Early Access Review
It's a parent simulator except you get kids that you actually want.
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