#lore-nerdz

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hybrid ice
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I'm like that too

teal kelp
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Rockwell is like "quit your porn addiction, we have a ship to corrupt" except he even corrupts you

gusty turret
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Actually in the background of gen 2 one is mentioned in Santiago's notes i believe!

merry cipher
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oh yeah, I forgot about them

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It's unfortunate though, I wish it was more prominent.

gusty turret
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I replied to the wrong thing but you know what i was replying to i think

merry cipher
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yeah!

tender wasp
gusty turret
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No the mlm couple

tender wasp
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darn how I hate that I need to use homosexual all the time cause some idiots use the other word as insult -.-

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No real m/m couple only one homosexual guy

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His husband is not cloned at that moment and sadly the guy is portrait as unstable and as someone that can't handle the whole sitiation and even kills himself as suicide bomber with boring Gen 2 Vindiago..

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Feel like a slap in the face IMO.

gusty turret
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Yeah lmao series tend to do that

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The characters with representation exist for like 5 minutes then die or just dont appear again overall

tender wasp
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Feels like "look homosexual men are weak and can't handle it and killed our new super manly, testosterone, super straight family man that will come back as even more manly, more straight and with blunt super cool quotes in Ark 2 !!!"

gusty turret
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Ngl i don't see Ark 2 surpassing Ark

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The name Ark doesn't even fit anymore

teal kelp
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You ain't wrong by saying the name ark doesn't fit anymore

tender wasp
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Yep, cause there are no Arks anymore.

teal kelp
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I mean, if we visit earth the name would make more sense because that's where the arks are now

tender wasp
gusty turret
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Makes sense

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It wouldn't be much of a loss in my opinion if people left from it 😕

tender wasp
tender wasp
merry cipher
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and then WC was like "SHIT" and revived her in Extinction, which is pretty funny. I'm glad she's back though

tender wasp
merry cipher
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"SHIT we buried the LGBTQ+ rep, fuck, bring her back oh god"

gusty turret
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They had to come up with some way to make respawning canon and Meis girlfriend was available

tender wasp
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But they also wasted the chance to have a male homosexual main-char in Ark/Ark 2

tender wasp
lyric tendon
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If WC is a Japansese/Asian company M/M is no issue

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TBF homosexual + lesbian relationships do exist and they need a rep as well

merry cipher
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and again I'd love some trans rep.

tender wasp
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Yeah but as we say here : „the child allready fell into the well.“

gusty turret
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If they do it at this point its gonna feel forced like Disney making the new star wars movies

lyric tendon
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depends if they made it well executed or not

i am worry of the amount of the botch jobs at the lore just "to make it entertaining"

i mean you don't need to alter an already existing lore just to be entertaining

tender wasp
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Now they wasted that chance. The allready have now the super straight, super manly Vinnie as main.

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And any other char now will be a sidekick.

lyric tendon
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the kid

tender wasp
teal kelp
lyric tendon
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like it matters at this point, it's gonna go down with F&F anyways

the first 3 is all about the modern street racing culture, now it's a generic action film

tender wasp
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And I doubt they would go with transgender (so the girl would be a transman later) and otherwise there would be only w/w left again if they don't go with bi, etc.

teal kelp
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I personally don't care much about rep, but if you are gonna do it, do it good like you did with Helena, Mei Yin and Diana

lyric tendon
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there is no Ace rep in games without making them a villain

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the only Ace rep protag is Spongebob apparently lmao

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but hey better than nothing

ornate hull
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What's a ace rep

tender wasp
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I am only a bit annoyed that f/f is allways the cheap way out to represent the Lgtbq+ community. You rarely see any other, especially as main chars (and often pretty awkwardly presented).

lyric tendon
teal kelp
ornate hull
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That's when you reproduce through buding right

merry cipher
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Rockwell would be perfect asexual rep.

merry cipher
tender wasp
lyric tendon
teal kelp
merry cipher
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Oh shit, ,my bad.

lyric tendon
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most aces are villains in all medias anyways

merry cipher
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not really

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but yeah some ace protagonists would also be nice

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can't deny that rockwell would be ace though like. that thing is sexless, what else can i say

lyric tendon
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it's actually sucks being looked as a "villain"

merry cipher
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i'm ace as well

tender wasp
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Sadly a lot of LGTBQ+ are sidekicks, badly represented or fall in to the super clichee.

lyric tendon
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token black guy

merry cipher
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I'm glad the main protagonist of ARK is a mixed race POC.

teal kelp
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Sigma grindset, everything that lives is an asset, be asexual

lyric tendon
merry cipher
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yep

teal kelp
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-drive forever plays-

merry cipher
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AND she's voiced by an indigenous VA tmk

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yeah, mixed race but closely indigenous

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people who dislike the new Helena VA are weak, change my mind.

lyric tendon
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i dont mind helena's change as long as she's the peppy zoologist/paleontologist that we all love/annoyed

merry cipher
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the old VA was too sidekick squeaky

teal kelp
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Who even was the old VA

merry cipher
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sounded more british than aussie, like I respect the VA but Madeleine is so much better

merry cipher
teal kelp
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Ah

lyric tendon
tender wasp
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I liked the old one more but that is a simple thing of taste.

merry cipher
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HLN-A tells you to git gud asmr

latent fractal
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Yeah I went back to gen 1 a while back and I actually enjoy the new VA better, don't mind both of them but prefer the new one

merry cipher
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Me, bleeding out:
HLN-A: git gud survivor

lyric tendon
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i like the old one for missions, she is more energetic

the new one is good for casual stuff

latent fractal
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Yeah

merry cipher
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Although they should've changed the Master Controller's lines to David Tennant. Like... why does he have David's voice for the notes but not the battle?

teal kelp
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Fun fact: if you have ark on italian settings HLNA on gen1 will speak italian but on gen2 she will speak english

latent fractal
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lol

tender wasp
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Lol

teal kelp
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Luckily as an italian I know both well

lyric tendon
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master controller is an AI but i do wonder what the alterations sounds like

merry cipher
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i'd love if it was David's voice but VERY distorted

teal kelp
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Same

tender wasp
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In german she speaks german on both but it is horrible. I play in english so.

lyric tendon
teal kelp
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The thing with hlna's italian voice is how high the pitch is

merry cipher
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multiple voices isn't really distortion

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also we'll get to hear his raw performance in TAS

tender wasp
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Not me so lol

merry cipher
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i'll be watching it out of fear

lyric tendon
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TAS is gonna be the proving point if Rockwell is really worthy of that ending or not

merry cipher
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TAS isn't 100% canon. Keep that in mind.

lyric tendon
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i know but i want to believe

merry cipher
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I want them to make his character actually enjoyable and not opt-out with just making him a bigot to make him a hatable villain

tender wasp
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If I watch it (depending on some things) I‘ll watch it in German.. so other voicecast

lyric tendon
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i'm looking forward on how he treats his assitants

merry cipher
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he probably dislikes most of them LOL

tender wasp
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Dollie confirmed they took liberties with chars and lore

merry cipher
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The only assistant he truly trusts is Isabelle.

lyric tendon
merry cipher
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I hope they don't do anything gross with him and Isabelle. He literally calls her a "young woman"

lyric tendon
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plz no

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a non-toxic work enviroment would be nice

teal kelp
lyric tendon
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no no no

merry cipher
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Rockwell: "i am old man"
Rockwell at Isabelle: "this is young woman"
ARK fans every single fucking time: "OH??? they are in LOVE??? straight romance??!?!?!?"

lyric tendon
merry cipher
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Every time people try to make romance out of an old and young character I'm over here like
HAMMER AngryPunch

tender wasp
merry cipher
teal kelp
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Sigmawell

merry cipher
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like you cannot deny that Rockwell is a shady ass motherfucker

tender wasp
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Lol not only literally

merry cipher
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senile grandpa (venomous!)

tender wasp
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Instill can see him as this old grumpy man sitting on the window, writing you down when you don’t park your car correctly

merry cipher
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while he ALSO doesn't park his own car correctly

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He would probably report himself.

tender wasp
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Lol he parks on two spaces so others can’t use them !

teal kelp
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I will put a car behind his car so that he can't move his own and when he asks me to move it I say "ok boomer" and he dies 😈

merry cipher
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he wouldnt drive with a license

mental basin
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Ohhhh yeah

red mist
merry cipher
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rockwell stole a car from the cops

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i write the lore now x

fossil willow
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Rockwell but in his evil monster form waiting at the dmv

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all these normal people around him and then this monstrosity

lyric tendon
fallow sapphire
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you work for the impossible

tired ospreyBOT
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check Case #13641 @torpid idol has been muted for 2 hours.
Reason: Mass Tagging

lyric tendon
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Ha

mental basin
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🤡

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Just gonna do that anytime someone does something stupid lmfao

fallow sapphire
flat sundial
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I just had a good idea
So at the end of gen 2
<spoilers>

We kill Rockwell and we see survivors leave in pods
What if a mind stored in one of those pods was the island Rockwell or even better yet Rockwell prime backing himself up

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I doubt it cause it feels like there ending Rockwell for good and if he did upload his concise into a pod (unlikely due to him thinking he wont die) it would have to be in the Rockwell ring

fallow sapphire
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Technically speaking yes it could happen, but i doubt it would, Rockwell’s story is finished, I’d rather they don’t bring back anyone else

steady citrus
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Hm how did helena just disappear off the ark after making hnla

fallow sapphire
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First of all she wasnt on an ark when she made HLN-A, and she is a homo deus so they can kinda do that kinda of stuff

bold dove
pure cipher
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Gen 2 space bridge note repeating every time you cross it cough cough

fallow sapphire
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Hln-a is making sure you know, most survivors are very forgetful

pure cipher
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“They must have ran out of time to pick a destination before launching this starship. We seem to be jumping from star system to star system across the galaxy, probably scanning for habitable worlds.”
(I might be a little off on some words as I’m going off of memory lol)

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If I get it wrong hln-a didn’t say it enough I guess

gusty turret
# steady citrus Hm how did helena just disappear off the ark after making hnla

Yeah already been said multiple times, but she put a weird thing in her implant on Extinction, Mei took her to the hall of ascension, she became homodeus, she created the respawn system, she waited for us to come along, she made the megamek solo pilot compatible, and helped us bring the Arks home after we kill the King Titan

gusty turret
gusty turret
gusty turret
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I reproduce through Buddhism

gusty turret
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They need to tlc the bosses 90% of them can be done on foot or with fresh tamed rexes with decent saddles

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King titan and master controller are legit the only harder ones

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You can do all the little titans with crystal wyvs or shotguns, overseer on foot with shotguns, monkey and brood on center on foot with shotguns, Manticore on foot with shotgun, rockwell on foot with shotgun and cactus broth, Rockwell prime on foot with shotguns 🤨

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You don't necessarily need the dragon for any of the other tekgrams because you'd get like everything you need from the ones you can do on foot with shotgun

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Hope and pray the next tlc makes boss fights more fear inducing

lyric tendon
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i for once agree with this... Tek is easy now because of it

"Alpha" difficulty is a joke

gusty turret
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I mean the alpha bosses one shot you on foot normally but they're so easy to cheese

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At least remaster the arenas or something

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I don't even wanna talk about how all you need is a stego with decent health and saddle and maybe a few veggie cakes and you could just melt all the alpha guardians with the phase pistol

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And now that theyve added shadowmanes you can do any of the bosses with max level wild tames of them

lyric tendon
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not even with shadowmanes, Alpha rag can be beat by fresh tames with prim saddles

gusty turret
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Im never farming alpha rag again i hate that damn labyrinth

lyric tendon
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map transfer go brrr

gusty turret
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Wait

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Damnit

plain plover
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Wooly rhino gaming

lyric tendon
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theri slapping

gusty turret
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Rhinos is how you beat master controller ez

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Rhinos and 2 or 3 reapers

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Only fight I've ever struggled with was master controller because my tribe wouldn't listen and instead of using rhinos and reapers they insisted we needed to use 2 feroxes and 18 rexes

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We failed at least 5 times 😒

lyric tendon
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change tirbe

mental basin
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🐒

errant stream
gusty turret
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Its easy but harder than the rest

errant stream
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I brought in 20 tamed rexs and ran around on foot the rexs just were bullet shields/avatar killers

gusty turret
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Couldn't have been on multiplayer we had bred lines with capped saddles abd the gigas paved us

errant stream
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Oh no it was on official

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But before they start to diethey killed enough avatars to just pick up and cycle damage till he dies

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Every1 had tek rifles ez damage then instantly could damage again because every one had keys

left vortex
gusty turret
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Wild tamed shadowmanes barely get dented by alpha dragon

flint hill
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Anyway, I think we need to careful about how we ask for the boss fights to be improved. There was a time when the Alpha Broodmother was almost unkillable and could enrage a giga. The key I think is in the mechanics. Most boss fights consist of simply whistling a bunch of rexes and sitting back to buff with a yuty. Boss fights like Rockwell, Master Controller, King Titan, and Rockwell prime all have key mechanics that force people to play more strategically. Simply giving them more health and damage is pretty cheap and doesn't solve the underlying issue. Hopefully in Ark 2 Wildcard will apply what they've learned to making epic boss fights.

bold dove
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But that was also the time where the only boss 'was' the broodmother.

severe sundial
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I think fart kill big man

obsidian vigil
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rockwell is bri'ish 🤮 meaning that there will be bri'ish people in genesis part 2 when it comes out(not out yet) i hate cannon lore, stewpid brits ruin everything

bold dove
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You do know this is a troll, right?

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Genesis 2 has been out for 2 months.

tender wasp
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Fun fact, the person that ruins Ark 2 is not a Brit XD

bitter barn
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Family DodoWithIt

digital flower
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I dont know why but I feel targeted by that guy

digital flower
lyric tendon
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I hope not but the game needs NPCs so people don't just murder helpless bobs

tender wasp
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They still will murder bobs, even with NPCs

gusty turret
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Npcs with unraidable mega bases that you can hire for bounties and stuff using metal 🙏

lyric tendon
mental basin
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ARK 2 has been split into several communities at this point.

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  • This looks like crap I'm never buying it. (Same people who line up for it on launch day.)
  • Dunno until I try it.
  • This looks cool I'll have to try it out.
  • This looks awesome, can't wait.
  • Wait until after release to decide
  • ARK 2 release date when??
  • Wait, there's an ARK 2?
  • Waah Vin Diesel he's bald and nasty ragewell
  • Haha Vin Diesel funni family game haha ragewell
  • Players who have sold their soul to the Lore and need it to fuel their unhealthy addiction.
  • TEK bad TEK bad angry
  • No Dinosaurs and I'm not paying
lyric tendon
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and there is me.... "summer sale when?"

tender wasp
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You also forgot the "I only play if this and this kind of creatures are in the game.."

mental basin
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Oh yeah

tender wasp
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And the "No Tek, will not buy it with no Tek."

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And you forgot the "Will wait and see how the game will be and probably buy it after release with enough info if it is good"

mental basin
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My God there's so many

lyric tendon
south osprey
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"Vin Diesel is a curse upon humanity."

red mist
lyric tendon
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this

plain plover
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I have an idea to perform a minisicule amount of tomfoolery to make the no tek people lose it

mental basin
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Oh boy

digital flower
lyric tendon
digital flower
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Must've missed it :P

left vortex
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wonder if dino #3 for lost island will be revealed today

digital flower
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Hoping its a water creature

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Don't have many of those

left vortex
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im honestly hoping for some news on TLC 4 soon

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a lot of oldies need some serious work

gusty turret
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Atlas genuinely should've been Ark's second game in the series

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That'd be so cool having a huge pirate ship based combat map

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At least it actually has a different name instead of naming it Ark when it no longer has anything to do with Arks

left vortex
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im glad its not. that game just didnt appeal to me and just didnt work as well as Ark did.

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besides with the direction that Ark II is going, i think its gonna be a huge improvement from Ark I

gusty turret
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Atlas could've been so good if they actually worked on it any and didn't just let it die in like the week of release

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It would've probably topped Sea of Thieves if they put effort in it

latent fractal
left vortex
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thats for another mod map coming later

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after lost island

gusty turret
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^^

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So, we have Center, but when are we gonna get the edge

digital flower
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I mean we kind of did get our water ark at least

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Called the ocean biome in gen 2

left vortex
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Gen1

digital flower
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Yeah gen 1 my bad

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I easily forget gen 1 because... it sucks

left vortex
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though Gen2 does have an underwater biome too

gusty turret
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The water is so lackluster on all maps

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The scariest thing there is are alpha tusos

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They need to make more minibosses like they had on rag that was such good content

left vortex
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more water bosses would be nice

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moeder was fun, but pretty easy

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she was pretty much an ocean broodmother

digital flower
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Nah more like ocean megapithecus

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Broodmother is harder than moeder

left vortex
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true

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hardest boss in my opinion is still King Titan. CMC is hard but its really just more mob control while king titan can literally obliterate gigas in one punch

rigid palm
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King titan is pretty easy with ice and forest titan

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Especially alpha with the megamek

left vortex
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Rockwell Prime was a little difficult but not as hard as i thought it would be since it was more story oriented

plain plover
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It’s weird, even Gen 1 has a mini-boss that gives you the replicator before the final boss, and not the map where literally THE ENTIRE THEME IS TEK AND HALF THE NEW THINGS ARE TEK ITEMS

left vortex
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i like to challenge myself and try without the titans otherwise its too easy

rigid palm
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Well that just means its easy when youre saying its hard, which isnt exactly true

left vortex
plain plover
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Aberration also had one boss, but it made sense there Becuase the entire map becomes insurmountably easier after obtaining a tek suit

rigid palm
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Then you can at least make the tek stuff without having to ascend

plain plover
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I guess the current excuse for the devs is that you can get the new tek items in drops

rigid palm
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The drops are better tho

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Youre much more likely to get an ascendant tek bow than a primitive/ramshackle one

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And you dont need to unlock stuff to get them

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But itd still be nice to have a way to make them without having to ascend

latent fractal
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You need to be the correct lvl though which requires you to ascend

rigid palm
plain plover
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I’m glad that the server I played on had a max level of 150, and also gave you the rep engram at level 101

rigid palm
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(Not including the exo mek of course)

plain plover
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The mek is technically a direct upgrade of the replicator

latent fractal
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Yeah true but probably easier to just beat rockwell at that point as he's pretty easy lol

digital flower
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You don't get big robit for beta kt

rigid palm
digital flower
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Aberration rockwell is pretty difficult as well

latent fractal
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Abb rockwell is the easiest boss in the game imo

rigid palm
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Although you could just do gamma then use the exo mek to craft stuff

plain plover
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Pro tip: always tame all the Titans, it’s imparrative

digital flower
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^

rigid palm
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Youd still have to be a high level tho, so nothing above 115

digital flower
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He means gen 1 missions Perry

latent fractal
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All you need for abb rockwell is flak, cactus broth, shotgun and shotgun shells

digital flower
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Gen 1 mission's are the difficult part of master controller

rigid palm
latent fractal
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never doing that one again

rigid palm
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As solo, theyre really hard

latent fractal
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Yeah I did all the missions solo as well

rigid palm
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Specifically survive the ark and downriver team

latent fractal
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just used a reaper for it which made it alot easier

digital flower
latent fractal
rigid palm
latent fractal
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Yep I was able to start it without doing that mission

plain plover
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Cyoa macro summoner, corrupt giga, master space controller, Dodorex gauntlet. They’re all mini bosses that could have given small rewards in tekgrams but when all of them are done a lot of stuff are unlocked

latent fractal
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For the experimental giga I used a tek pistol while riding a shadowmane which killed it within like 10-20 seconds

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shadow mane tanked the damage while I used the pistol on top of it

rigid palm
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For people only on gen 2 tho they cant do that, unless they beat beta and are going for alpha

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Cause pistol is 118 iirc

plain plover
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Even though they dropped the ball on the whole story mission thing I liked what they did with the missions and made them more skill based instead of grind level based

rigid palm
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Yep, gen 1 was just the exact same mission in 5 different biomes

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Youd do an hunt mission on alpha and feel really good… and then remember you have 4 more to do

latent fractal
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Yeah the missions are wayyy better

rigid palm
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Except the tranq ones and the canoe ones

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The tranqs are just horribly balanced for solo and the canoe… dont get me started on the canoe

fallow sapphire
plain plover
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They made the tranq ones way easier

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And you don’t require a team of 6 to do the higher difficulty ones

fallow sapphire
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Still near impossible on alpha solo

plain plover
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Not with my 320% tek bow I pulled out of a purple drop one night gigachad

fallow sapphire
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I barely managed paracer roundup, maewing poach thanks to a bug, and i could not do bulbdog fetch

plain plover
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I did maewing poach a while back when someone on my sever blew the conch and requested mighty men for a hunt

rigid palm
plain plover
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I’m solo, but I bet I have the highest one on the server

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And there are probably people who will come after me if they find out I also have a 270% bp

red mist
rigid palm
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Remember when 200+ damage weapons were good?

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Then gen 2 came

fallow sapphire
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Tek bow was my favorite item added to gen 2, I have always been a fan of the bow but it made me love them so much more

rigid palm
plain plover
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My favorite has always been the tek sword and shield. Tek sword is fine the way it is, but I feel it should require the gauntlets to perform the power attack. Tek shield I feel could use a little reworking, my idea is that it can have different modes like the Tek pistol and has the regular bullet ricochet, a smaller directional shield like the stryder, and a small dome mode that only goes around the player (both those ones would consume element while active and take dura damage)

rigid palm
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I havent used the sword or the shield, just never got around to rag

fallow sapphire
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Both are unlockable via story maps

plain plover
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They’re like requirements when I’m going for a legit play through

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Tek sword you can get from ice Titan, and shield you can now get from Rockwell prime beta

rigid palm
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Oh they are?

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I did not know that, i thought they were the only tekgrams that were free dlc exclusive

plain plover
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They were once

fallow sapphire
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I also got the shield from the manticore, but I’m not sure if that was a bug or something

plain plover
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Rag manticore alpha gives it

fallow sapphire
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Got it from scorched manticore

plain plover
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Strange…

fallow sapphire
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Might have been a bug and patched, that was like a year ago

plain plover
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I have an idea of how to kind of fix the progression meta of stuff in ARK 2

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My idea is, that unlike a bunch of things being unlocked in mass depending on a boss, singular items are rewarded depending on difficulty of a challenge or task. These cannot be crafted but can be obtained again by doing the specific action or task. An aspect of these items are that they can only be picked up by people who have done those tasks. This would make it so that some bob who knocked out the afk dude on the beach can’t loot his tek spear and rule over the beaches, and players will have to actually do earn things instead of farming 2 vaults full of 500% fab snipers

gusty turret
rigid palm
rigid palm
gusty turret
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Hint shadowmanes and jump pad kiting op

rigid palm
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Idk, shadowmanes dont work well for me, allos are better in my experience

plain plover
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While I admit this system would make it harder for players with not much experience to rise up against tyrannical ogs, the weird meta is one of the things I hear cited a lot in complaints about ark and I think that would fix it

gusty turret
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I have a better solution, wipe official

latent fractal
gusty turret
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That also works but they get shredded really quickly and can lead to things flying up to the top snd getting stuck where you cant kill it

lyric tendon
plain plover
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I’m talking about Ark 2, but wiping official would definitely fix some problems

lyric tendon
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*most problems

gusty turret
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They need to make a mode with realistic damage but also makes things a good bit more expensive

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Like how a stego should not be able to tank bullets on its side when the plates are on its back

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And manas of course should never be able to do 10k damage in 5 seconds

digital flower
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you mean like a hardcore mode?

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I mean pretty sure ark used to have hardcore servers where if you die you lose everything and your character resets to level 1

mental basin
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Or at least ARK still has the Settings.

gusty turret
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Yeah the settings exist but one life and new character is dumb i just want realistic bullet damage and damage points on dinos mainly

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And making the bullets more expensive so it isn't stupid op/less op depending on the dino

mental basin
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If everything in ARK was realistic we'd be getting one-shot by Dilophosaurus.

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We wouldn't be able to carry nearly as much. Let alone construct massive Industrial Forges around The Island.

bold dove
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Which as a separate gamemode, i 100% agree on.

bold dove
mental basin
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I suppose I suppose.

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Add a new Primitive Plus to the roster and all.

gusty turret
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I wish the hyenas were useful

mental basin
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Hyenadons, Kentros, Seagulls, Diplocaulus, Kaprosuchus, etc.

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Scorpions, Spiders, Megalania..

bold dove
left vortex
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if you get a pack of those they will do some pretty decent damage.

left vortex
mental basin
gusty turret
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Baby kentros are a meta to counter gigas last time i checked

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Kapros are also op if you get people in water to pvp

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Diplocaulus are also early teir scuba tanks

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I could see megalanias being good in tight caves if someone was raiding you to hurt their health and stam

left vortex
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personally i think scorpions when they sting you should paralyze you for a few seconds. giving them an edge for PVP

gusty turret
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Mmm maybe

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Or just have them give you a different disease that it permanent till death

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Maybe like 75% reduced melee damage, 50% reduced speed 0% stamina regen

left vortex
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oof they'd be rough in the wild haha

gusty turret
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Sadly i doubt we'll see anything else with bugs touched now that they're breedable

left vortex
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you never know. Wildcard could be taking notes with these discords

gusty turret
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I wish

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Spiders are actually so useless do they even drop silk on death?

left vortex
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no

gusty turret
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Bruh

left vortex
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only moths

gusty turret
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I hate that, arthro is like the only bug that shouldn't get a tlc

left vortex
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Bronto is numero uno on my list for TLC

gusty turret
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Ants are #1 on my list

left vortex
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oh god, they're already annoying enough haha

gusty turret
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I want them to actually have a use like domesticateable queens that will build a hive that when placed deploys drones that will harvest minuscule amounts of resources and protect the area

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They could even make it an egg stealing method from a big underground ant hill area

left vortex
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that would actually be nice. both reasource gatherer and a defense against raiders.

gusty turret
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I mean they're still just the ants they'll hardly be defense but itd just be a cool addition

left vortex
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yeah but just for like a real life QOL style. since thats how ants and termites work IRL

gusty turret
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And for the resource gathering not much at all like maybe 5 (insert material here per trip)

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Pathfinding would be aids tho

left vortex
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yeahhhhhhh

bold dove
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Actually, been thinking about this. And don't think ant's really 'need' a tlc.
That, and it'll break Myrme's mod, and any other mod that has to do with ants.

gusty turret
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Which is a pc restriced thing

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Maybe if they added mod support to console for bought servers itd be fine but having ants be useless without mods isn't very optimal legit all they do is crawl around and bite your ankles and can be kept out of range with a spear or torch

left vortex
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im an xbox player so i dont have any mods.

gusty turret
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They could also do the same for bees, have them be able to harvest their own rare flowers and stuff since that is what theyd literally have to do in the wild

left vortex
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Beelzabuffo is one of my favorite creature to tame and them too should get a TLC

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Gen1 was just endless cementing paste with them in the bog biome

gusty turret
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I love them so much

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I normally just bought paste and ran the kangaroo mission in artic

left vortex
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any map that has frogs i get one no matter what

gusty turret
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Moths are one of my favorite but they're kinda bad

left vortex
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im currently doing the Island-Gen2 challenge now and am breeding rexes on the island

gusty turret
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Except for they can stop owl dive rushes so easily 🤞

left vortex
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cementing paste on scorched im gonna have to tame snails

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snails are actually really good. you get like 100 cementing paste every 5 minutes or so

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and slowly get organic polymer

gusty turret
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But you have to craft loads of veggie cakes for upkeep

left vortex
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that is true

gusty turret
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I wanna say beaver dams spawn on the little area river but i could and probably am completely wrong

left vortex
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wonder what the community crunch has in store tonight? could be nothing much but could get creature #3 for lost island, TLC 4 news or maybe even more sneak peaks of the animated series

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beavers are kind of all over the east side of the island

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near green obelisk

gusty turret
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I just get paste on rag ngl

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Stock up on way more than I'll ever need because there's a good 5 or 6 dam spawn points on there

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Pearls on gen 1, paste on rag, metal crystal and poly on Abb then thats like the main grindy stuff you need

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You can also just skip pearls and do electronics on lunar

left vortex
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i never do angler and pear;s anymore. i just hunt for tek dinos

lyric tendon
mental basin
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Maybe so, but my point still stands

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If you, in real life were cornered by a Dilophosaurus and bitten, you'd have a decent chunk get torn out of ya.

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Nobody's surviving that.

lyric tendon
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not just a chunk... half of you will be gone

gusty turret
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Me learning on official spinos and gigas are actually on the same level and spinos do win those fights a lot of the time

gusty turret
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So much for hoping about any news in the community crunch

shell zinc
fallow sapphire
bold dove
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pog

lyric tendon
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i have reject ascendance and returned to bob

chilly hornet
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congratulations

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sometimes ascendance isn't worth sacrificing the bob within

astral cedar
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i hope ARK 2 has Tek or a equivalent

gusty turret
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No wtf

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The whole point of it is to be more primitive

bold dove
lyric tendon
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Gen2 proves that too much Tek is too much

tender wasp
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To much Tek is no good but only primitive and no Tek or similar at all is also not really the way to go.. some solution with some Tek equivalent super hard to get andnot as powerfull would have been a nice solution.. instead of going full caveman

bold dove
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Tek also could've used used a more early game way of taking people with tek out. Other then just having tek as a literal untouchable tier.

hybrid ice
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Hello

bold dove
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And i know the monkey will help with this issue. But there also needs to be a item that does something similar.
Possibly a EMP grenade that's hella expensive to make. But disables tek suits for a minute, and disables tek structures for 1:30 minutes.

tender wasp
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Yeah also would have been easy to give Tek a weakness against some stuff.

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Or a counter like the grenades you suggest would also have been neat.

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Or something to hack and disable Tek structures for a short time.

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Or instead of overall armor give Tek armor a shield that loses charge when you hit it and takes some time to recharge when drained.

urban stone
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and yet, poop disables it

left vortex
# astral cedar i hope ARK 2 has Tek or a equivalent

more than likely there will be tek like structures and elements on the map like the drop ships and the eden ring. but we will not have tek in our hands anymore. Any element that was on the ship was blown to bits with Rockwell.

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a part of me hopes the story line of Ark II is for human interactions where we must stop another tribe who are finding new ways to make tek and we must destroy it before they can dominate the planet

gusty turret
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I wish the gravity grenades could've done something against tek

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Like the implosion mode disables suits for a minute and explosion mode disables structures for a minute

bronze turtle
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If you think about it, the eden ring itself is powered by element. The entire colony ship was. Also, as a survivor, assume you built a base on the eden ring. You build up, survive…do the missions to hack your way into taking control of ship. Gain access and defeat Rockwell…so now the Eden ring drops to planet. Guess what? You have dedi boxes of element. That element is now on the planet. Caveman tosses some found element in the water…boom Prometheus style. Infected planet. Cycle starts again.

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And also the ship jumps around in space…how did the element get on asteroids in deep space? What’s to say those asteroids never hit that planet with element on them?

lyric tendon
gusty turret
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The ship isn't powered by element to the best of anyones knowledge

lyric tendon
bronze turtle
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Lol ok then element in vaults…or all the tek raptors, rexes, stegos etc walking around eden. Did they vanish when Rockwell bit it?

gusty turret
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Tek creatures aren't canon hun

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And there's still only minimal element canonically on the ship in the soil

bronze turtle
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Ok, I can get that. Had forgotten about dedi and tek creatures being non canon. It just really makes ya wonder. When literally everything else humans use is powered by element, down to the structures they make like obelisks etc…it’s hard to imagine that even that trace amount in soil wouldn’t affect something. The tek Stryker and voidwyrm…those are canon. Not to mention the asteroids in space with element on them. Is it ever said if the asteroids were found with E on them or if somehow the ship visiting those star systems infected the asteroids? In either case, it makes precedent for a source of element that was left intact at the end of gen2.

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Tek stryder…not Stryker lol

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Weird how the stryders, being canon…have a function of linking to dedi boxes…when the boxes themselves aren’t part of the story. They kinda blurred the lines there

gusty turret
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Tek stryders use charge

bronze turtle
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Yea but they are a tek creature…creature made of tek, that runs on charge. Charge light if you recall is a byproduct of the element infection on abberation

gusty turret
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Its just electricity Abbs old overseer just happened to allow it to be there

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Well they also nuked the poor guy so couldn't really do much even if he wanted to

bronze turtle
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Lol true. That reminds me of the abb lore. Like the portal device that’s miles long and 50 meters in diameter. I always got a laugh imagining a ragtag band of survivors erecting such a structure. Like the charge stations. Stupid IMO. If they could build all those stations and the power cable that’s hooked up to that obelisk, looks like they could have just built a ship and flown down to earth

fallow sapphire
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They couldn’t because of the dome shield around the ark

bronze turtle
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I might be wrong, but I thought all the charge animals and stations came after the abb overseer got blown up and Rockwell fell in the element water and started creating aberrant animals. The survivors created the charge stations (an overseer would never allow survivors to craft Element freely) to combat the animals Rockwell created. Namely the nameless which are just corrupted survivors thanks Rockwell

gusty turret
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Bro..... You're so off about abb lore it isn't even funny

fallow sapphire
bronze turtle
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Yes but once they blew up the overseer control room with that bomb, the shield fell and that’s why you have a on fire surface at daytime

gusty turret
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Rockwell didn't create any of the creatures on Abb

fallow sapphire
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Oh and he very much did not make nameless… sadly

bronze turtle
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The malfunctioning ark created the aberrant variations then? I had it backwards then. So WE created the nameless etc lol

gusty turret
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No they existed all along????

bronze turtle
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I know it does say the nameless used to be human, but it never says when or how

fallow sapphire
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No it doesn’t

gusty turret
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"The origins of the Nameless remain a mystery, but wherever they came from, these vicious creatures are nothing to scoff at, as they are rarely found alone"

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Helenas dossier

left vortex
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the nameless were around long before Rockwell even arrived on Aberration. they were just creatures that were forced to evolve by the intense radiation of the world

arctic bison
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it's crazy how simple the answers to the questions are if you read the notes

lyric tendon
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is titanoboas and fishes tamable?

note: no
game: yes

arctic bison
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helena never tried taming it with eggs, so she gave us wrong information

gusty turret
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She also never tried dart taming a drake like Mei did

arctic bison
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Mei is secretly in god mode when taming

lyric tendon
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Mei is server admin confirmed

latent fractal
flint hill
bold dove
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It is

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The stryders where literally made to collect the element pollution that the ship produces, and yeet it into space.

flint hill
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The lore confirms that Tek produces small amounts of element pollution which goes into the atmosphere and then down into the soil

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So theoretically speaking there could be small amounts of element contamination on this new planet.

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Plus I'm pretty sure those big brutes in the trailer were Rockwell's corrupted survivors.

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Probably worship him like a god.

bold dove
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Also, the closest Rockwell gotten to creating life where the mutated survivors in the final fight.
And they looked like nothing to what the orcs look like.

flint hill
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What description?

bold dove
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The fucking ARK 2 description. veggies

gusty turret
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The description of deez nuts

flint hill
# bold dove Also, the closest Rockwell gotten to creating life where the mutated survivors i...

Element adapts so who's to say the corrupted survivors didn't change and mutate into the orcs you see in the trailer. Or the "natives" might have been mutated by element. Who's to say that all the animals the Eden ring was carrying weren't changed in some way or another. Otherwise why would an alien planet have creatures that so closely resemble an earth chameleon and why would the rex in the trailer have feathers.

gusty turret
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Me when t rexs are supposed to have feathers🤨

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All it takes is a small google search to see that

plain plover
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Yeah, that’s the weird thing, like in my original ark 2 plot theory I said that Ark 2 takes place an impossible amount of time after Genesis 2. That’s why the dinos have evolved naturally to change. That made sense but became problematic after “The Easy part”

gusty turret
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I wonder how many people died in their pods because they couldn't escape due to debris or landslides and such

plain plover
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Something to note is that only revived life forms were sent down, only creatures that were currently alive in the rings and colonists that were revived for simulation training were sent down. There are still billions of humans in the data banks on the eden ring

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But I do wonder what the plan is to get them all down

gusty turret
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How do we know the ring even works still it could've snafud and crashed because it was meant to deploy with the other ring and not solo

plain plover
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Because one of the cave paintings in the trailer is of the eden ring in orbit

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Also we don’t actually know what the plan is if the ship survived and made it to another planet, one of the pictures in Nida’s notes show the Rockwell ring being separated in 6ths

gusty turret
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I really think the plan was originally the rings would form like a ringworld barrier to stop meteors but its impossible now that the 2nd ring is gone

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Im willing to bet 100 to 1 we won't see element play a major part in this new storyline

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And the people who are upset about it can go back to ark 1 and be tek bobs if they want

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We're gonna get a ConanxRustxTheforest reskin

tender wasp
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It is not about beeing a Tek bob but Ark without element.. element is actually something that is special to Ark and without element you take away this special trait from the game. Tek was a result of having element and a lot are actaully fine with redusing Tek a lot. A lot think it was way to much Tek but it would still be neat to have Tek or similar extremly hard to get, extremly rare and less powerfull. People are upset cause it looks like they totaly remove that from Ark and make it a pure bonga onga caveman game..

plain plover
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Tek is absolutely going to be in the game and I’m going to fabricate teasers featuring it just to watch pee pee poo 123 cry

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Fun fact: you can keep Ark’s style and unique setting without removing a fundamental part of it and still make it enjoyable

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People don’t hate tek becuase its presence in the game’s setting, people hate the way it’s implemented in the gameplay

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Ark’s tier system is possibly the worst aspect of it (besides the unfair bugs) , you start at thatch and go to tek near the end of the game, the thing is there is such a drastic difference in how the teirs work that: you are extremely underpowered in anything under metal tier and you get bored with the amount of grind it takes to maintain a tek or metal tier tribe

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This is what I hope they do in Ark 2: Remove the tier system entirely

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With the primitive theme, anything over stone wouldn’t really fit that theme would it mr. Meta?

tender wasp
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Medieval stuff would also possible but max would be Flak and crossbow.. but nothing above like industrial.

plain plover
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So, I propose a system in which while people do indeed become stronger the longer they play, the gap between them isn’t so large

tender wasp
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So Meta could be some crossbow or some bow out of some special would which you have to get from some blonga tree you only find on mount Cerosin and it will use metal tip errors...

plain plover
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What if Ark managed to have a civilization that was like that of in the notes on island be the meta and best possible way to play

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Nerva is a metaphor for power hungry meta players, he did everything as efficiently as possible and ended not being satisfied when he reached the end of the game

tender wasp
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You still can have a big gap between caveman and medieval stuff and they will need to have interessting stuff to achieve so people keep playing.

plain plover
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What if that interesting thing mg that kept people playing was: the story

tender wasp
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So a crossbow still can be super powerfull and oneshot a bob that only has their stone spear and sling.

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80% of people don't play for the story in survival games

plain plover
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Yeah of course, arks armor system is strange but I love being indestructible, though I do still think armor should be as cheap as flak and nothing more but locked behind level walls

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It should have a cap of as good as prim flak so people become durable, but not able to take 24 fab sniper shots to the face

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From what I have seen on t he subreddit, the most content players who are willing to say they actually enjoy the game are the solo players playing the way they want too

tender wasp
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Actually best would be making armors specific against certain weapons so some are good against piercing but less effective against blunt weapons for example.

gusty turret
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Its probably just gonna be some mega metal like star metal in conan

plain plover
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I was going to get to tek later about implementation of strong items in the “Overseer’s vision”

tender wasp
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Fun fact also is, that Tek armor is not the meta in PvP..

plain plover
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So, as I was saying, the way the devs want people to play ark is how the civilizations existed in the notes. Diverse spread out small-medium tribes that while occasionally tussling usually lived in harmony and left to their own devices unless they come to work together to fight a threat or perform some task

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And that is what I think a lot of people would like seeing how most who try to play like this are happy with what they do, but official is not where they are found due to the toxic players on pvp and pve essentially having no tribe-tribe interaction at all

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There should be a reason to those 70 player caps

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Alright I’m getting ahead of myself and this is a lot to type on mobile

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Anyway, tek stuff

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Tek doesn’t have to be a tier, it can be an aspect

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Certain items and structures could be sci-if things that only exist with tek, but aren’t the end game super version of something

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Like, what if you could make a directional shield generator, but you have to find parts of a destroyed stryder which are rare and have a long respawn time

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Or a spear made out of a charged shard of space glass that can only be found in the wreckage of one of the space bridges

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Or a bracelet made out of shadowmane frills that makes you invisible for a short amount of time and allows you to dash forward through creatures

hybrid ice
plain plover
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Kind of what extinction was trying to do with the gravity grenade and cryopod

hybrid ice
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also the orcs are definitely not from element or rockwell@flint hill

gusty turret
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#orcsarepeopletoo

plain plover
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Not to vinny D

teal kelp
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Vinny Dissy 🥵

plain plover
gusty turret
mental basin
mental basin
wide dune
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Answers please me and my tribe have been going crazy over this.

brittle falcon
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ask away

wide dune
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Is the robowoman

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The touchy touchy with other robowomen

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It heard rumors about it from another tribe

brittle falcon
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what do you mean by that? HLN-A?

wide dune
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Idk tbh can't remember

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I heard rumors about it and I must confirm. I will gain a higher status in my tribe should the answers be given.

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Idk if even robo woman at this point.

brittle falcon
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the strange people that float?

wide dune
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I was promised admin should I recieve answers.

brittle falcon
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I must know what you mean, I require context

wide dune
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Bro if I knew what I meant either I'd already be set 😂

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Helena or some shit? With the F + F type of stuff.

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I can't say the word bc of the chat

brittle falcon
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I don’t think robots can do that

wide dune
#

Man I didn't think so either

brittle falcon
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especially not these ones, they’re shaped like frisbees

wide dune
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I need info for tribe. I get to lead millions of monkies should I come back with success.

brittle falcon
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so I guess you have your answer

ornate hull
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You'd be surprised

wide dune
#

Frisbee no horny got it 👍

ornate hull
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Quote from hlna "oh.. its bigger than I thought"

brittle falcon
#

maybe frisbee is horny

wide dune
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Thank God. I get to bless my tribe with news.

ornate hull
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If your wondering she says that sometimes when you take a shit

wide dune
#

Frisbee horny?? 😦

ornate hull
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Yes frisbee horny

wide dune
#

🐒 frisbee horny

brittle falcon
#

it is confirmed, frisbee is horny

wide dune
#

That settles it then. Frisbee confirmed horny 👨‍⚖️

lyric tendon
#

i'm blue

brittle falcon
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it’d be really funny if you could use HLN-A as a frisbee

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or have it as a skin for the boomerang

lyric tendon
ornate hull
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Use the hole on hlna for something elsedevious_g

lyric tendon
#

w e w

brittle falcon
wide dune
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Do the survivors get horny when left on an ark?

ornate hull
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Probably

wide dune
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I need someone from wildcard to answer that please

brittle falcon
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seeing as they are alone, it’s very possible

ornate hull
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Unless the overseer breed out the horny from survivors

wide dune
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When do we get to breed humans in ARK?

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Make them like monkeys but have them more intelligent.

brittle falcon
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or perhaps the survivors don’t have time to be horny since dinosaurs are always trying to kill them

lyric tendon
wide dune
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But if you survive long enough you will get horny.

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My character survives long enough in the comfort of his own home.

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It takes about a few days to get horny.

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So I bet my character right now could go for some HLNA robussy

brittle falcon
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hi Rockwell, sorry I’m late, I was doing stuff

HLN-A: it’s okay, I am stuff

omg HLN-A no

Rockwell: haha survivor you are banging a robot

wide dune
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Anybody here that knows ARK lore inside out that can confirm an attraction between humans?

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Maybe there is some behinds the scenes stuff going own.

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DNA sample on a note perhaps?

brittle falcon
#

the closest thing we got towards a relationship was the friendship between Helena and Rockwell on the island

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Rockwell gave Helena a pet bird

wide dune
#

I mean Rockwell kinda just became a giant meat cave.

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Rockwussy perhaps?

brittle falcon
#

the entrance to Rockwell’s innards is actually his rectum

wide dune
#

Imagine the smell in the Rockwass

brittle falcon
#

all of those creatures don’t have noses

wide dune
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Survivors do though

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I've been in there multiple times to get reapers

brittle falcon
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we’re wearing a helmet that hopefully shields it

wide dune
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And every single time I asked my friend what he though the smell would be.

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I was the first to answer frozen fishsticks.

brittle falcon
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it likely smells like rotting meat

wide dune
#

Also what is the acid near his heart?

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Perhaps Rockwell piss?

ornate hull
brittle falcon
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they were also close friends

wide dune
#

Is this maybe the answers I were originally seeking?

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Before we got to Robussies and Rockwassholes?

brittle falcon
#

you simply wanted to know if frisbee was horny

wide dune
#

Indeed

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And maybe I got names confused.

ornate hull
#

You guys obviously haven't heard of cursed lore

wide dune
#

Hit me with it.

brittle falcon
#

here’s some cursed lore, Mei yin knock out tamed a rock drake

ornate hull
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That's not cursed

brittle falcon
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ever so slightly

ornate hull
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I'm talking about how all the water in rockwells innards is piss and hlna x rockwell

wide dune
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Maybe originally we were able to until they changed it.

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I would've loved breeding drakes.

brittle falcon
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not sure how you would ship a tiny frisbee sized robot with a British man that made his own man cave out of his insides

ornate hull
#

Easy

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Is big rock hard tenticals

wide dune
#

Looks like we're going back to the robussies and Rockwassholes.

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Also maybe Rockwell has his balls in his ass?

brittle falcon
#

I feel like we should stop

ornate hull
#

Silence

wide dune
#

It's possible. I've seen a guy shit out his own balls.

brittle falcon
#

cease

wide dune
#

I want to now.

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I don't want to remember 🙁

gusty turret
#

I-

plain plover
mental basin
bronze turtle
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How do you even do that

bold dove
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Cause Mei-Yin and Diana are literally in love for each other.

gusty turret
#

They make out

gusty turret
#

So theoretically what part of Rockwells body would the tentacles be

bold dove
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This is seen on Aberration's Rockwell, with is hand ending off in tentacles.

merry cipher
#

Rockwell has too many toes for them to be his toes. Have you SEEN the rancid feet?

bold dove
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And this isn't a joke.

merry cipher
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The dude has a toe stash.

bold dove
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You can see this if you forcetame Rockwell. Making him T-Pose.
His hands turns into tentacles, that torn into tentacles, that turn into tentacles.

merry cipher
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He is all tentacles.

bold dove
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Yes

merry cipher
#

What is a British person but meat and tentacles?

bold dove
#

What are humans, but walking lab rats?

urban stone
#

when two clones of Rockwell discuss humans

gaunt furnace
#

Yep we’re screwed XD

merry cipher
#

clones of rockwell fight to the death

tender wasp
#

You are allready dead

gaunt furnace
#

😱

merry cipher
tender wasp
#

You will live on in our memories

gusty turret
#

What about all the little tentacles in his intestines

#

Mans has parasites

mental basin
#

Worms

stiff grail
# mental basin Worms

Which worms we talking about ? Normal worms or Worms from the games with pew pew guns?

mental basin
stiff grail
#

Oh god not those worms

gusty turret
#

Next tlc they need to give deathworms miniguns

stiff grail
lyric tendon
#

I mean that's the only PVE thing that can kill a giga... But not a mutated giga

gusty turret
#

Noglin: allow me to introduce myself

urban stone
#

There is one absolute magic trick that can destroy anything alive

#

it’s called cheats

fallow sapphire
#

True

fallow sapphire
whole stirrup
fallow sapphire
#

True

urban stone
#

The truth could kill a giga

#

After all, nothing can handle the truth

gusty turret
#

How many people do you think died trying to fuck gigas

urban stone
#

I just wonder the amount of stupid shit an overseer might have seen due to the survivors.

gusty turret
#

I wonder how much of it involved bigfoot

urban stone
#

Bigfoot?

gusty turret
#

Yes

#

You know they probably had bigfoot strippers

urban stone
#

I mean, Rockwell did have some notes regarding them, did he not?

gusty turret
#

Idk did he?

left vortex
#

he did experiments of his recipes on them

fallow sapphire
#

Can’t forget good ol’ Isabelle trying to make something to deal with their smell

plain plover
#

There are a lot of smelly places in Ark, but it would be cool to get a whiff of how the element river smells or the Rockwell ring

#

The Rockwell ring is stated as smelling “sickly sweet” which I think would be fitting

#

It’s also stated as being possibly poisonous

#

ImmersionRexFingerGuns

gusty turret
#

I wonder how his piss lakes smell

lyric tendon
#

w h y

plain plover
#

Rockwell may have become a tentacle monster in Aberration, but he's still alive and filling that pool with excrement

mental basin
#

All scratchy and irritating. God, I hate insulation.

rigid palm
#

Going off of what is currently in #fanart-and-screenshots , is the end scene of ab what the sunken forest was like before it, ya know, sunk?

gusty turret
#

Basically

fallow sapphire
#

its the city... you can literally go to that spot in the sanctuary on extinction

rigid palm
#

Is there a powered down obelisk in the city?

fallow sapphire
#

there are certain details not the same but you literally have the same camera angle

#

i mean if you look at the picture there is a lot around that is very different from extinctions structuring, like there are structures around the implant structure, but on extinction there very much is not

rigid palm
#

Implant structure?

fallow sapphire
#

the diamond shaped structure on the west side of the sanctuary which you see in ab's ending

gusty turret
#

The end of the Abb cutscene is so clearly the sunken forest before it sank

#

Notice the Sunken Forest has no barrier yet it has an obelisk, we witness the barrier fail at the end there

#

We can see the obelisk of sanctuary behind the implant structure, if it was in sanctuary facing the implant structure that means it still would display sunked forest before it sank because you can see the obelisk floating

fallow sapphire
#

Yea but the metal structuring around the obelisk that shuts off is on the west side of the sanctuary

#

Even if it wasnt the sanctuary the angle isnt right for it to be the sunken forest

left vortex
#

it's not the sunken forest. it sunk long before we even got there.

#

it's the sanctuary, you can find that spot on the map itself. it may not look exactly like it does from the end of AB but it is the location

fallow sapphire
bold dove
fallow sapphire
#

As i said though, even if it was when the sunken forest was just the forest, its not the right angle to be the sunken forest

left vortex
#

and the obelisk is green not blue.

rigid palm
#

Im just confused because theres no other spot on ext that has a broken/powered down obelisk

#

And yet you can go there and there isnt an obelisk there

fallow sapphire
#

As i said, it’s not accurate to extinction’s design, but it is the sanctuary

lyric tendon
fallow sapphire
#

West, east is the snow and desert side

heady shard
gusty turret
#

Why was the an artificial display around the west part of sanctuary?

#

I think it can be up to you to decide if you really want, the environment and story behind it is off either way so just go with what you think feels better

gusty turret
#

So anyways where can i watch Dr.Who i can't find anywhere on google

fleet drum
#

extinction has no obis?

mental basin
mental basin
tired ospreyBOT
#

check Case #13796 @bronze turtle has been muted for 2 hours.
Reason: Mass Tagging

desert siren
gusty turret
#

I saw an episode earlier and i wanna see more David Tennant

rigid palm
#

David Tennant plays Scrooge McDuck in the 2017-2021 Duck Tales

tender wasp
#

He is also in Harry Potter

rigid palm
#

Really?

tender wasp
#

yep

#

as Barty Crouch jr.

gusty turret
#

I saw something about him also being in star wars but idk where

left vortex
#

he's also in the how to train your dragon series as Spitelout. and in teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 in season 4 as fugitoid

dense forge
#

Random question:did any of the survivors ever mention implants or was that only a thing after Helena became a homo-deus?

fallow sapphire
#

They are mentioned a few times here and there

dense forge
#

Okay. I’m curious what enables survivors to respawn again and again. I had assumed it had something to do with implants

fallow sapphire
#

Before Helena became a Home-Deus respawning wasnt a thing, but after it was

dense forge
#

Yeah, she was the one who enabled that. I guess I had just forgotten that the og survivors had implants

fallow sapphire
#

Off the top of my head i remember Rockwell, Dahkeye, and Diana mention them, past that i can’t remember

dense forge
#

I think I remember now some extinction notes mentioning Helena having one

fallow sapphire
#

Ah yes, she used an object on her implant, not sure how i forgot about that

gusty turret
#

Helena just happens to revive Mei's girlfriend in time to save Mei from the king titan then loses a bunch of other possible respawns experimenting then makes it for the rest of the ones who try again to die and and come back endlessly

#

Well not endlessly actually they could technically only respawn a limited number of times before the sustem runs out of resources and can't anymore

ornate hull
#

I cant wait for gen 2 to come out

#

Its been delayed so much

mental basin
fallow sapphire
#

Ikr? Can’t wait to see it

ornate hull
#

I cant wait to see how the eon spending story of ark survival evolved ends

merry cipher
#

ikr?? gen2 seems so cool from the trailers, I can't wait

#

i wonder how the ending will go, it probably won't be that sad

fallow sapphire
#

Doubt it, nothing i can think of would make it sad, or make me cry

merry cipher
#

yeah honestly, it might just be a case of killing Rockwell with subpar writing just to get his arc over with...

fallow sapphire
#

Wonder if Santiago will have a role in it, they had been doing a bunch of notes with him

merry cipher
#

i sure do hope diana and mei yin return!

fallow sapphire
#

Oh that would be sick

merry cipher
#

also i sure do hope they explain why Santiago is now Vin Diesel in a good way and certainly not a shoehorned plot point just to have Vin Diesel in there!!!!!

fallow sapphire
#

Definitely

#

And the story missions, can’t wait for those

merry cipher
#

Oh man yeah those story missions that they promised!!!!!

mental basin
#

Damn can't wait to explore the entirety of those two rings

#

Map must be gigantic

fallow sapphire
#

Gonna be sick to explore the map

merry cipher
#

can't wait to explore the massive innards biome, I'm so excited for that!!!

mental basin
#

Hope the Creatures are properly balanced

#

Definitely not gonna be pay to win

merry cipher
#

oh same I sure do hope the Shadowmane is balanced and not pay to win trash with a boring design!

fallow sapphire
#

I really hope they keep with the idea that the fed suit only has an infinite jetpack

#

Imagine getting a full suit of tek straight away

merry cipher
#

man I really hope the Voidwyrm isn't just a wyvern reskin!!!

fallow sapphire
#

Thing has so much potential

mental basin
#

Can't wait to hear ALL of the interesting and awesome things Edmund has to say

#

And these new Creature Variants are gonna be amazing

merry cipher
#

I hope that there aren't too many shoehorned religious references that wouldn't fit a Victorian Chemist!!!!

fallow sapphire
#

Wonder if they are going to introduce new characters?

mental basin
#

Hope Rockwell looks cool, and not like some sort of racist Discord Moderator Spork Witch clone

merry cipher
#

I hope the new characters are interesting and not just introduced to die!!!

fallow sapphire
#

I really hope the canoe will have an actual use on gen 2, was pretty hyped when they announced that

#

Oh man imagine a canoe mission

merry cipher
#

I'm sure the canoe will be incredibly coded with no issues at all

mental basin
#

Wildcard must have learned their lesson this time
The Map HAS to be completely stable
I doubt it'll crash every half hour

#

Can't wait to see those wandering Exo-Meks.

fallow sapphire
#

Yeah cant wait to collect drops from them

merry cipher
#

I can't wait for the TONS of eyes in the innards!!!

mental basin
#

Can't wait to Skin our high-level Armor with the Federation Exo-Suit as we were promised

#

God, and the Explorer Notes are totally gonna be working properly

#

.. right?

fallow sapphire
#

Definitely

mental basin
#

And I really hope they keep the original VA for Gen1

#

Can't imagine they'd make HLN-A post menopause and depressed

bold dove
merry cipher
#

Yeah same here!!!!

fallow sapphire
bronze turtle
#

Doesn the lore ever tell us how the federation suits work? For example, on the colony ship, they don’t require fuel. Yet same suit on any other ark needs element to fuel. Any clarification?

#

Does not doesn

fallow sapphire
#

Actually it does, Nida states to Gabriel that the ship powers everything from his armor (Fed-Exo Armor) to the stryders

#

She does also stat the ship is being powered by element which powers it, which is slightly confusing but whatever

bronze turtle
#

Makes sense. Like the ship emanates “element electricity” similar to a tek genny. That also, if ya think about it…would be a giant source of element contamination on this planet it lands on.

fallow sapphire
#

yeah thats what I'm saying, Nida is surprised by the element contamination, knows what happened to earth, and knows the ship is powered by element... something is wrong here

#

literally if one bit of that knowledge wasn't there it would be fine

ornate hull
#

Oh boy I camt water for aberration to release

#

It's kinda weird that after a desert we go to an alien cave

#

I wonder what's next

fallow sapphire
#

Probably another desert-like map

ornate hull
#

extinction ptsd insues

gusty turret
#

I got muted for 12 hours then like 30 minutes later i got banned for "lying badly"

#

Thank god they made an official ark discord and didn't leave us with that shit pit

mental basin
#

I got called cancerous over my punctuality.

gusty turret
#

He got mad at me once because i sent too many sentences too fast when there was no slow mode when i was just trying to theorize what gen 1 would be like

tender wasp
#

Yeah the promised story missions... there was so much story in them and so much got explained.. and they were so interessting... Santiagoannoyed

mental basin
#

Just not oriented around anything HUGE.

#

All of what we do inside the Genesis Simulation on Genesis: Part 2 is hindering Rockwell in one way or another.

#

And while it's skimmed over quite a bit, in the long run, yes. Most of the Missions are story-oriented.

#

They're all just small chips towards a bigger picture.

tender wasp
#

99% of the story still were in notes.. so actually the only "story" in the missions were like "Do X so we ren resume Y from Rockwell" mainly.. so you should not even really call it story missions. Maybe Missions that are slighlty tied into the story but real story missions should be different.

mental basin
#

We're going behind Edmund's back to fuck with his work, essentially.

#

So no, there's no real meat or potatoes but it's a technicality Wildcard must've taken advantage of.

#

Not even that, I wouldn't be surprised if this is what they meant when they said story-oriented.

sterile barn
#

The story of the Dodorex, the Dodowyvern, and the power of the Dodo:
A long, long time ago, Dodos ruled the world. They were all powerful and strong. They kept peace on the Arks, and helped the weak. But the dark lords, the Pego and the Ichthyornis, did not like the prosperity the Dodos had created. So, they assembled their armies and went to wreak havoc on the peaceful world. They split a massive trench in the highlands, and emerged from the depths of hell. The evil forces had two favorite targets, the Rex and the Wyvern. Both of these targets did not have power at this time, and so the Pegos terrorized the Rexes on the ground and the Ichthys terrorized the wyverns in the sky. The Dodos saw the chaos, and sympathized for the Wyverns and the Rexes. So, being the kind, brave, and empathetic Dodos they were, they gave all of their power to the Rexes and Wyverns, making them strong to fight the Demons. But the dodos knew it was a sacrifice, and they had no more power. They were reduced to tiny and weak beings, but it was necessary to help the Wyverns and Rexes. In this transfer of power, two animals were born, the Dodorex and the Dodowyvern. Now, every Halloween night, they both emerge, and the Zombdodos are the remains of the old powerful Dodo.

#

I spent way too long on this lol

mental basin
#

Positively inspiring

tender wasp
sterile barn
mental basin
#

I mean, personally I liked the Missions and what little they had to offer Lore-wise, but I can definitely see why it was a dissapointment to some.

#

Though, technically the Rockwell Prime bossfight is a Mission.

#

Terminus. Most story-oriented Mission in ARK.

#

And I do like what they did with the name. Terminus meaning "the end", while being in a DLC called Genesis meaning "the beginning".

#

Not to mention the fact that Terminus sounds highly intimidating.

tender wasp
#

Technically it is a mission but to be fair it is the boss fight and the end of the the whole Genesis story so there was some more content in it to end Rockwells and H-LNAs story.

#

But the missions itself don't really and for me the missions mostly are a pain. Most are boring and reminded me way to much of the Gen grind XD

rigid palm
#

They’re better than the gen 1 missions tho

ornate hull
#

Expect for star dolphin

#

Fuck that mission

lyric tendon
#

i agree

bold dove
#

What happened to Attōtekina Lietz?

tender wasp
#

I don't know.

lyric tendon
#

Who would win?

Rockwell or Abathur (SC2)

potent bone
#

Who

bold dove
#

And now Perry left.

lyric tendon
#

The purge is coming

tender wasp
bold dove
#

🤷‍♂️

lyric tendon
mental basin
#

It's a Discord bug.

#

Happening on other Servers aswell. We're fine. 👍

zenith ginkgo
#

Do we know the size of the Genesis Ship yet?

mental basin
#

Absolutely fucking massive.

zenith ginkgo
#

I mean, you’re not wrong.

#

But I’m hoping to find the exact size.

mental basin
#

Raasclark made a video on it.

#

But it may not be accurate as it was ripping stuff from the DevKit.

#

I'll send it to you, it's a shocker.

zenith ginkgo
#

I think I’ve seen that.

#

Actually, that is likely to be accurate due to the fact that the entirety of the ship in Genesis: Part 2s skybox is not actually built into the skybox.

#

Everything you can see of the ship on that map is actually physically in the game world, meaning there is a life sized model of the Genesis Ship somewhere.

mental basin
#

I wouldn't know.

#

I just play the game, I don't dig through it's technicalities.

zenith ginkgo
#

And I gotta say: it is an incredible design choice of WildCards end.

tender wasp
zenith ginkgo
#

Instead of the ship just simply being a skybox texture, having it actually physically there really immerses you in how absolutely massive the ship is.

mental basin
tender wasp
mental basin
#

Perplexing.

carmine cedar
carmine cedar
#

It’s massive compared to an ARK

#

I think Myrme has a photo showing the scale

rigid palm
#

This may be inaccurate

granite bloom
#

how many ships are there?

tender wasp
#

One

zenith ginkgo
#

I seriously doubt the Genesis Ship is that big. How could a ship of that size be built and launched from Earth?

lyric tendon
zenith ginkgo
#

Isn’t there lore somewhere in ARK that says the ship was built on Earth?

#

I mean, they wouldn’t be in such a rush to launch the ship if it was in orbit because then it would be safe from the corruption.

lyric tendon
fallow sapphire
#

Santiago states they had to go to space to reach a certain place on the ship, so i would be surprised if it was built in space

tender wasp
#

Wasn't that a farm Ark they went to which was in space ?

fallow sapphire
#

doubt it was an ark, but something like that

#

but they might have built some of the ship on earth but i highly doubt the whole thing was

tender wasp
#

Yeah somehow way to big. Would never have been able to launch from earth

wind imp
#

Mightve been built in parts

zenith ginkgo
#

Arat Prime is a barely known site located on the other side of Earth from Sanctuary.

lyric tendon
#

it's possible to build it piece by piece and send it to space, i mean ISS is an example

wind imp
#

^

fallow sapphire
#

also true, but that doesnt mean the actual ship was built in space, just the parts

tender wasp
#

Arat prime also simply could have been som controll center connected to the ship and maybe coordinating it's bulding

zenith ginkgo
#

I think I found evidence that might hint that Arat Prime was the launch site of the Genesis Ship.

lyric tendon
#

we all know that

zenith ginkgo
#

I mean, as in it was launched from earth.

fallow sapphire
#

idk something of that size doesnt seem likely to launch from earth, and basing off Arat Prime being the only way Rockwell could have reached the Gen ship it had to be on earth

lyric tendon
#

like it just said, the land mass on the rings are impossible to make on Earth because of gravity

zenith ginkgo
tender wasp
#

launch could also have been from space

#

Cause the ship might have been built in some space doc.

fallow sapphire
#

they could have been in contact with the ship, but again launch from earth aint likely

wind imp
#

But why would it not launch if it was in space

fallow sapphire
#

there is a difference between not being confirmed to launch and not launching

wind imp
#

Good point

tender wasp
#

Also it could not launch from the doc cause of malefunctions, etc.

lyric tendon
#

well i have an hunch... remember that annoying note in the middle bridge... that's probably why

#

instead of having an exact and confirmed fly path to planet b, they just launch it early and wonder for many years until they found planet b

zenith ginkgo
#

Because they didn’t have time to plot a course or work out any kinks in the ship.

lyric tendon
#

yep

zenith ginkgo
#

They were in a massive rush to get it away from Earth before the corruption could reach it.

lyric tendon
#

and that is how rockwell end up in the ship

tender wasp
#

Rockwell got to the ship centuries after the launch

fallow sapphire
#

the ship had been going for generations before Rockwell popped onboard

lyric tendon
#

his time in Abb probably figure it out the transfer from Abb to Arat to Gen

fallow sapphire
#

k but that wouldnt have happened till the ARK's returned, as you here him roar

lyric tendon
#

that is probably the element half of him...

zenith ginkgo
#

No, he was on Aberration until the end of Extinction and from there made his way to Arat Prime, where he uploaded himself and got on board the Genesis Ship.

lyric tendon
#

it's impossible because Gen was way too far to ever see or even reach earth

tender wasp
#

It is inderectly confirmed he uploaded himself in Nidas notes.

zenith ginkgo
lyric tendon
#

fair

fallow sapphire
#

there was a link from Arat Prime to the Gen ship, thats how Helena got there to make HLN-A, assumed to be how Rockwell got there, and can be how we got there if you bring your character

wind imp
tender wasp
#

WC said it is up to us but in Nidas notes it is confirmed they left an port open in Arat prime and that was most obviously how Rockwell got into the simulation.

tender wasp
lyric tendon
#

in a rush, it does makes sense lmao

tender wasp
#

Lol that one guy with the task "Darn I forgot to put it on privat.. better I tell no one.. all will be well."

lyric tendon
#

even future humans are as dumb as current humans

fallow sapphire
#

obviously, we never learn

zenith ginkgo
#

Or they just didn’t notice.

wind imp
#

Exactly, dumb

tender wasp
#

Reagrding to the PvP aspect, humans never learn and allways will be dumb.. cause they rather slap each other in the face instead working together most of the time.

lyric tendon
#

war never changes... even in the ARKs

zenith ginkgo
tender wasp
#

In it's core, not really

zenith ginkgo
#

I don’t remember war previously including wannabe flyers with ice breath that destroy beach huts for being a ‘major’ threat.

tender wasp
#

The tools have changed, war itself not

wind imp
#

^

#

But I can change that

#

Just nuke everything
No people, no war

tender wasp
#

Tha't didn't work in Fallout XD

zenith ginkgo
#

I can change that.

#

If I go to singleplayer then I am the only human in existence. Boom, no more war.

wind imp
#

War with dilos

lyric tendon
#

and gigas

sterile barn
#

And pegos

#

and ichthyornis

#

and the thlyas jumping u'

sterile barn
tender wasp
#

good old dogmeat

bold dove
#

....that...that is a Spanish name, right?

mental basin
#

Japanese.