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Biggest timesink ever.

Is this game just muh survival or is it actually engaging? Does it still run like shit? is PVE a good way to play or is it lacking without PVP?

It's really exciting.

>cross servers
>multiple maps
>player stats for diverse characters

>lots of playstyles
>tameables with various abilities / capabilities
>bases
>blueprints / items

>PvEing
>PvPing

I'm getting really gross performance on 8GB memory.

PvE's are collectathons …

How is it exciting when you spend hours to build some shitty thatch building and some bored russian 12 year old comes by and trashes your house because he thinks its funny? also why the fuck is the game 142 gb? I played the forest and that game is like 6 gb or some reason.

Actual metal, after getting an argy or two, an anky, and an indy, only takes an hour or two.

On Small Tribes (3x), it's possible pulling some 4k ingots worth within maybe 15mins.

Even SSDs are cheap now.

>Even SSDs are cheap now.
I'd rather install 6-10 bad games for that space than one terrible one.

Post actual critiques.

This game is an example of feature bloat and no overall structure to developing a game. The devs just make individual assests and systems then duct tape it all together and only fix critical leaks while the rest of the boat struggles to hold it back. Nothing actually fun, just more tedious work.

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Weird, I was just thinking why this game is such a failure and then this thread popped up.

It's so disappointing, this game had heaps of potential but the Devs sold out to the chinks.

>4k ingots worth within maybe 15mins
It takes an hour and a half with an industrial forge just to smelt it, so you're full of shit. The game is a grindy pile of dog vomit.

me and my gf have a private server. just started up valguero after being on the island for a year or so
it's fun, but I feel like I'm missing out on the shenanigans that happen on a public server

Oh ok then
>Runs like shit
>Full of bugs
>Full of cheaters
>Completely unbalanced in every aspect with alpha-tier gameplay never being addressed or improved
>Huge powercreep with paid expansions (one of which was released before the game left early access)
>Pointless stats which shouldn't be used but remain in the game anyway
>Progress lost easily while you sleep meaning people have to be awake 24/7
>Large tribes dominate and cannot be beaten except by other large tribes
>Adventuristic atmosphere ruined by trash buildings left behind by people who no longer play and take too long to demolish
>Absurdly simple creature ai means they are easily cheesed and provide no challenge and suspension of disbelief wears off quickly
>Nonsensical and absurdly time consuming taming of creatures (why would you knock an animal unconscious to tame it and how does it eat while unconscious)
>Pointless single player

This.
>People in early access wait ages for gameplay updates and big fixes
>All they add is more dinosaurs

>join official server 6 months after release
>get my shit pushed in by dilos
>literally can't find anybody but giant castles on the resource areas
>realize that literally all the resources on the map are gone, even the berries are sparse
>spend 36 hours building a 4x2 RP wooden house with water watering one small plant plot with a berry bush
>log on one day to see it all destroyed
>didn't have a single dinosaur
>never play official again

Doesn't matter how fast you can farm when it takes two hours for it to smelt. 4k metal is nothing when you want at least 10 turrets on your base, and if you fill each turret full of ammo that's going to be 50,000 metal. That's 20 hours of continuous smelting and farming just to make sure your base is somewhat defended.

If you want spmething that isn't as an autistic timewaster as ARK go play Rust instead.

This. Who has time to play this fucking game?

Rust is just as bad, only it has no late game

probbaly someone unemployed like OP lmao

Rust is nowhere near as bad as Ark in terms of grind and tedium. And there is late game it's called Oil Rig or Cargo ship. Then you blast into other faggots bases with Sachel Charges, Rockets and C4. Unlike Ark it's possible to drain turrets without a dinosaur and all fights are fair and depend on skill instead of who has the three hour long dinosaur tame

I've played a shit load of ARK, but once you get to the point where you're just breeding dinos to get ones with the best stats and killing bosses, there's nothing else to do.

>Join random server for first time
>Wandering about gathering garbage barely surviving
>Find canyon with water source
>Set up a small house
>Wait around for day to show up so I can stop freezing to death
>House is destroyed by man riding t-rex
>He says I can't build there as it messes with spawn rates
>"ok"
>Proceed to go outside of canyon, set up a fire and stave off freezing to death
>T-rex approaches guy from before invites me to his tribe
>Join, walk to their massive fortress and they teach me the basics of ARK
>Nothing too crazy
>At one point someone drops off a knocked out dino and says, "All right, someone's gonna need to keep it asleep for 12 hours. Who can stay up?"
>Someone begrudgingly agrees
>My face
>Quit immediately

FUCK that.

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>Rust is nowhere near as bad as Ark in terms of grind and tedium
My dying ass. It's just as soul sucking
>all fights are fair and depend on skill
No all fights are depend on who has a job or not

>defend base from raid, 1v2
>alpha tribe is impressed, they invite me
>they show me round
>massive fucking complex with above and below water pens
>every dino is the game, even the squids
>So what do you do all say?
>Well he breeds all day, and we alternated farming on the squids and making metal runs
>That's all you do, all day every day?
>Yes