ark-animated-series

[strong needle]

No

[fervent stag]

Bob ross

[strong needle]

They could be good in one aspect but bad in another

[rain pebble]

Me 😇

[dense blaze]

Wrong answer

Bob is good

[fervent stag]

Nah, it was right

[dense blaze]

Bob is all

[rain pebble]

Bob is goof

Agreed

[fervent stag]

You asked 'is anyone truly good'
And i answered 'bob ross'

[dense blaze]

Wrong bob tho

[wise epoch]

Yes

All hail bob ross

[fervent stag]

Nah, right Bob.
I don't care for a fictional character.

[strong needle]

Would someone that helps any person in need yet completely disregards the environment and abuses animals would both count as a good and bad person depending on what side of them people see

[fervent stag]

Well, he also regretted not going with Nerva's deal with having unwilling human slaves.

[strong needle]

He said he almost regrets it sometimes

[fervent stag]

I don't know man.
You shouldn't 'almost' regret human slavery.

[wise epoch]

That's just something he said

[strong needle]

Look at Europe

[fervent stag]

Yep.
And?

[rain pebble]

Agreed

[strong needle]

Well you shouldn’t almost regret any slavery

[wise epoch]

Bet He would have regretted it if he had accepted the offer

[rain pebble]

Now, indentured servitude on the other hand... /s

[fervent stag]

Yep.
And yet, they still do it over there.
Your point was?

[strong needle]

That’s a 50/50 because it’s Rockwell but it’s Rockwell

[fervent stag]

Seeing how he barely cares even about his willing subjects. I doubt it.

[strong needle]

I mean if they’re willing then yeah he wouldn’t care

[wise epoch]

Still my favorite character
Even if he's a villain

[strong needle]

Well he was

Cause he’s dead now

[wise epoch]

Was lol

[strong needle]

I think

[fervent stag]

Nah, he is

[wise epoch]

Genesis ship go boom boom

[fervent stag]

It's be fucking horrible for the story if they brought him back as yet another villain.
His arc is over, let him rest.

[strong needle]

Wasn’t there that one revival scene

[fervent stag]

Boom boom by the ships warp-drive that was as powerful as a star.

[strong needle]

Mib?

[fervent stag]

I'm surprised even some of the ship isn't just 'gone' reduced to atoms.

[rain pebble]

Wasn't a revival, it was him landing on Earth after the Arks came down to Earth as per the Reseed Protocol (including Aberration)

[strong needle]

Everything’s already atoms so just separated

[fervent stag]

If you meant Aberration, he never does die.

[fervent stag]

'You know what i meant.'

[strong needle]

Ok

[fervent stag]

[strong needle]

I still don’t know what happened to Helena

[fervent stag]

Turned into a Homo-Deus

[strong needle]

She just became light

[strong needle]

Hmm

[fervent stag]

Homo-Deus's are too powerful to last for long in our universe.

[strong needle]

What about HLN-A

I remember Rockwell said something about it

[fervent stag]

HLN-A is a robot with the personality of pre-Homo-Deus Helena.

[strong needle]

Oh

[dense blaze]

[rain pebble]

They ascend quite literally to another plane of existence, those homo deus fellers

[fervent stag]

Technically two separate entities.

[dense blaze]

They are there own

[fervent stag]

'they god ascended glitched, and now their character is deleted.'

[strong needle]

27th dimension

[fervent stag]

It's what truly happens when your character is deleted after a ascension.
You don't just 'not exist' anymore. You become a god and yeet yourself out of the universe.

[strong needle]

I feel bad for meiyin though

[fervent stag]

Why?

[dense blaze]

Definitely feels like getting yeeted when you lose your character

[strong needle]

Everyone she knew except Diana either died or disappeared

Well Diana did die

[fervent stag]

Well, that's basically everyone.

How do you think Santiago felt the moment he realized 'he' was the cause of the apocalypse?

[strong needle]

I haven’t read much of the genesis notes

[fervent stag]

That was in Extinction

[strong needle]

Then I forgot cause I don’t remember that

[fervent stag]

It was in his notes

[strong needle]

What’d he do

[surreal holly]

Make tek weapons

[fervent stag]

He's the one who invented 90% of the militaries tek weapons

[strong needle]

Oh

[fervent stag]

The same weapons to fuel the war that ended the world.

[strong needle]

Right

[rain pebble]

I think of it as they're going to The Shroud from Stellaris and element is just the zro they used lol

[strong needle]

The what from what and element is just the what?

[lyric lichen]

Anyone want to bet that bob is like Kenny in South Park, he just dies every episode

[surreal holly]

"You killed Bob you b@stard"

[lyric lichen]

Exactly

[rain pebble]

I doubt it, unless they have a small portion of each episode that jumps ahead in time (maybe a minute, or less even) where Bob does/makes something, then is killed by what he made/some random dino. Which again, I doubt. Why would they hire a voice actor for a character that has 1% of the show's screentime? Let alone such a specifically (currently) popular one...

[fervent stag]

I have a feeling Bob will be part of a sub-plot after every episode (or beginning)
Of Bob exploring the ARK's and finding a old ruin of a leftover note, and then reading it in his spare-time, starting the real part of the episode to start.

[rain pebble]

Yep, you just hit the nail on the head, I think

[lyric lichen]

He could have a lot of screen time but still die. I just said that cause that’s what I’m hoping for cause it would be kinda funny

[fervent stag]

Cause unless they're changing the respawn lore, Bob 'can't' exist yet with all of his death comedy.
Helena has to cause that event.

[lyric lichen]

Ah, I didn’t know that she caused being able to respawn

I haven’t read most the lore

[fervent stag]

Yeah.
Trying to not say too much

But yeah, unless they're changing some of the timeline. Respawn isn't a thing yet during Helena's time.

[rain pebble]

Yeah, and Bob is supposed Nvm, I concur with @fervent stag , not gonna spoil anything as having a show teach you the lore would be a great way to absorb most of it

[lyric lichen]

Fair enough

[fervent stag]

In the mean time. NeddytheNoodles Survival-Stories are great in the mean time.

[west cedar]

looking for someone who can carry me and my friends in ark survival were noobs just trying to have fun

[lyric lichen]

Facts, I’ve just started on extinction, so I should understand soon

[fervent stag]

Not the channel, friend.
#recruitment-steam

[fervent stag]

Have you watched his videos yet?

[lyric lichen]

I have, haven’t seen some of the se ones tho

[fervent stag]

Need to.
That's when it gets good

[lyric lichen]

Will do

[surreal holly]

Our character dossnt have any speech aside from occasional grunts.
If Bob is supposed to be a representation of our character... you see the semi issue now?
The poster also said "recent washaway survivor" which could be the note thing stated earlier.

[surreal holly]

Would make us nerds more happy they did thay

[surreal holly]

I haven't heard of half these actors I'm so uncultured.

[rain pebble]

I was refraining from saying this for anyone here who couldn't tell, mr spoily pants (namely Ravioli as he didn't seem to know)

[rain pebble]

I mean, you said it 🤷‍♂️

[lyric lichen]

Our character: 🗿

[surreal holly]

Ark anime would be a comedy if Bob talked like a normal human
Like he gets stunned by a purlovia and he's like: "oh God not this shit again, I'll see you after I die and get back"

[surreal holly]

🧱

[lyric lichen]

Yes

I sort of figured out that bob is supposed to be our character, I mean it would make sense because our character looks exactly like bob. now that you mention that bob is probably the one who finds the notes and reads them later it makes a lot more sense

[surreal holly]

The island: comedy
Scorched: wild west
Aberration: horror
Extinction: apocalypse
Genesis: Sci fi
Definitive genres

[pulsar vine]

standoff with a mantis hodling simple pistol

[fervent stag]

I don't know.
The Island can also be semi-horror on its own

[surreal holly]

And back in the old days the default character was called bob

[fervent stag]

Ever played The Forest?

[rain pebble]

Yessssssss love The Forest

[surreal holly]

Ab makes more sense, lots of mass murder

[lyric lichen]

Yep, when you start ark for the first time, your character is called bob

[fervent stag]

And slavery on The Island isn't?

Nerva is a Roman general.
Do you know how fucked Romans where?

[twin swan]

wonder if theres gonna be joe, anne and jane

[pulsar vine]

i hope bob can reflect the playerbase a lot. like getting harrased by ichthyornis and microraptors, falling off his ptera, etc

[surreal holly]

Yes but I think the Bob dies shtick will be mostly an island thing,

[lyric lichen]

Yes, I once an itchy stole my 705% longneck then crunch

It would be funny to see that displayed in the series

[fervent stag]

Man didn't sleep for 4 days straight.
Goes on his Ptera, and fucking passes out midair/disconnects.

[pulsar vine]

ichthies don't eat tools tho

[lyric lichen]

They used to

[pulsar vine]

or he drops his map then topples off trying to grab it

[fervent stag]

It was a bug when they where first added

[rain pebble]

Oh boy they did though and it was hell on Ark

[lyric lichen]

I never saw that longneck again

[pulsar vine]

lmao how about 30 episodes of bob grinding metal for an asc bp

[fervent stag]

And isn't even panicking his way down.
He's just screaming "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!" as the camera is now like a mile away, as we only see a speck falling

[pulsar vine]

"oh COME ONNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnn.........."

[lyric lichen]

Or he flies to close to the redwoods for 1 millisecond

[fervent stag]

Dollie apparently stated it's for both teens and adults.
So i can see cursing here and there.

[pulsar vine]

and 50 thylas just tramping him

[lyric lichen]

Then he goes back on a land mount to get his stuff and then 37 microraptors just destroy him

[surreal holly]

How they gonna do the ab reaper "encounter"

[fervent stag]

Off-screen, or embrace it.

[rain pebble]

Very carefully

[lyric lichen]

“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-“ gets eaten

[pulsar vine]

aberration being super gory, like Primal gory, would be sick ngl

[surreal holly]

If it's for teens I question them

[fervent stag]

'AND' adults, you dummy

[pulsar vine]

primal is basically an ark show tbh.

[surreal holly]

And not or

[fervent stag]

There's a genre called 'young-adult' which is exactly that.

[pulsar vine]

at least they don't seem to stray away from too much violence, helena just straight up murders a dude in the teaser

[surreal holly]

glitches out of reality after realization

[rain pebble]

I mean, it's not like anything is 100% necessary for Bob to tame, he may not even get a reaper (which would be a big mistake imo but who knows)

[lyric lichen]

I hope at least one person who dies has their body spas out then freeze in the most painful looking way

[rain pebble]

True, I loved Primal so much

[pulsar vine]

it would be good as a threat, or a 'HOLY CRAP WTF' jumpscare moment

[surreal holly]

I think the Rex is mandatory

[rain pebble]

I think the part we're mainly questioning is him getting a reaper, if you know what that entails, being acceptable to show

Not like encountering one to kill lol

[pulsar vine]

mei yin vs the megapithicus would be awesome to see animated

[pulsar vine]

it would probably be like a shadow on a cave wall showing what happens or something

[lyric lichen]

It’ll probably be off screen, or they might just go for it, because reapers don’t like, hump you

[rain pebble]

If this isn't in the show I'll eat my hat

[pulsar vine]

even if bob doesn't tame one it does happen to Trent in the lore

[surreal holly]

I mean we have a scene where several survivors get raw dogged by a reaper queen and die brutally

[pulsar vine]

but honestly the student notes are really far removed from the main story so i doubt they'll even show it

[surreal holly]

Might be an off screen scream. That's entirely possible

[rain pebble]

Probably, yeah also true it's more like being infected than, well, that thing that is illegal to commit

[rain pebble]

Fair enough, maybe we'll see them (the grad students) in the Ab part of the show, that'd be sick

[pulsar vine]

if the character does get stabbed and they actually show it it'll probably be the bloodless young-adult cartoon version of stabbing where the clothes obscure the actual wound and the character doesn't actually get that hurt

[rain pebble]

Go to sleep lmao

[pulsar vine]

or it could be like the grad students find notes that slowly uncover what happened in this place

[surreal holly]

If they show the reaper stuff they'll show everything

[lyric lichen]

They are still part of the lore tho, so they are probably going to be there

[pulsar vine]

my point is you could remove them from the lore entirely and nothing would change in the story

[lyric lichen]

Fair

[pulsar vine]

this is more so true with skye

[rain pebble]

Yeah, maybe it's like they find the old notes, and Bob finds theirs (even though they don't find them, or at least don't mention finding them iirc)

[pulsar vine]

she has one note and just dies

[lyric lichen]

Very true

I’m just very curious to see ab before Rockwell destroyed it

[surreal holly]

Now that I realized it, santiago had a poster for the anime but not diana

[fervent stag]

Rockwell didn't destroy Aberration

[pulsar vine]

he replaced the guardian is all

[lyric lichen]

True

[fervent stag]

He arrived 'after' is was destroyed.

[pulsar vine]

||santiago and the other tek survivors destroyed it||

[fervent stag]

SHH

Trying to limit spoilers.

[pulsar vine]

oh soz

[surreal holly]

Non epileptic may catch epilepsy from aberration nuke scene!

[fervent stag]

Dude....

[rain pebble]

I know what he meant to say, unless he really just didn't know but I would LOVE to see pre-||tek nuke|| Ab

[lyric lichen]

They may get epilepsy when bob walks into a spore

[surreal holly]

They will have to, and it will be considered Canon fully

[rain pebble]

Dude, fr? Spoilers for the Ravioli man, limit them

[surreal holly]

"Rated t for drug and alcohol use"

[pulsar vine]

but yeah abberration would work as a horror season imo, it's very brutal

[fervent stag]

Not just him

[surreal holly]

Gore intensity may be more deep In later seasons

[rain pebble]

Fair, who knows how many people will get their first licks of lore via the show

[fervent stag]

Imagine, someone who has NEVER even heard of ARK, goes into here to talk about 'how they're hyped for the show'
Aaaaand the ending of Extinction is ruined, which ruins the show.

[lyric lichen]

Rockwell dies in endgame

[fervent stag]

[surreal holly]

Ok fine from now on we will spoiler everything

[rain pebble]

Not everything, just major story beats and kinda obscure lore

[lyric lichen]

If it’s a spoiler, be sure to mark it as such, so no one can see it unless they click on it

[fervent stag]

With a || at the end of each side

[rain pebble]

Or you can highlight the text and use the eye in a box to turn a section of text spoilered

[pulsar vine]

|| iron man dies in ext ||

[surreal holly]

Now that I think of it, there are a LOT of scenes that could straight up give you epilepsy without any history of it ||like a titan battle/taming scene, or the king titan using 1 damn attack||

[lyric lichen]

||everyone dies in the island||

[fervent stag]

You're....not half wrong....

[lyric lichen]

Ik

[pulsar vine]

i just accidentally clicked on your profile and it says you've been playing ark for 14 days straight

[surreal pier]

[pulsar vine]

rookie numbers

[lyric lichen]

It used to say 1 month, then it reset 2 weeks ago

[fervent stag]

"ARKING"

[rain pebble]

He knows some lore, just not all of it

[fervent stag]

I know

[lyric lichen]

Ye, I know all the island lore

[rain pebble]

Ain't that the truth LMAO

[pulsar vine]

most of the lore revolves around haha funny space metal

[surreal holly]

||anyone using tek will give you an epileptic seizure||

[lyric lichen]

Very true

[pulsar vine]

||then humans use the funky space metals to nuke everything, because we're humans||

||and a bri'ish boi promtly eats funny haha space metal and becomes a tentacle man that throws his balls at you||

[lyric lichen]

||funny octopus man go burrrr||

[surreal holly]

||The show will be component based just like ark 2 crafting||

I've fallen off the deep end, I need another hit

[rain pebble]

You need to find a ||tek sleeping pod|| and go to sleep

[pulsar vine]

this sentence is....questionable out of context

[lyric lichen]

||tho I thought he injected liquid element, not ate it||

[rain pebble]

Maybe he did, who knows

[pulsar vine]

don't you mean ||funny haha space rock sleepy box||

[surreal holly]

I took a power nap like 6 hours ago, uts currently midnight

[pulsar vine]

comedic effect

[lyric lichen]

Ah

I’m so good at making things not funny

[pulsar vine]

might just be my jokes don't land

[lyric lichen]

||funny octopus man does drugs than throws his balls at you||

[lyric lichen]

Nah, it makes sense now, I’m just stupid and didn’t understand

[pulsar vine]

||you have to emphasize that he throws HIS balls at you||

[lyric lichen]

True

[surreal holly]

Æřķ

[lyric lichen]

||im looking forward to see how they animate Rockwell after he does drugs||

[surreal holly]

||Epilepsy warnings, epilepsy warnings everywhere||

[pulsar vine]

ah yes my favorite game ά𝓡𝓀: 𝕤Ǘ𝐫ᵛⒾѶＡ𝐋 ⓔᐯｏｌⓋⒺｄ

[lyric lichen]

Facts

[surreal holly]

Ąŕķ §üŕvįvæł évøľvęđ

[pulsar vine]

i think it would be awesome if mei yin finds her own way to tame her raptor, hunting with it or taking care of it instead of KO+feed. it would feel more like she actually befreinded him and it would fit her character really well imo

[fervent stag]

Jesus Christ, it's like the Loki-show's font

[surreal holly]

[lyric lichen]

Tbh, the ko doesn’t make sense

Here’s how you make friends with animals, beat them up until they fall unconscious, then feed them and then they’ll love you forever

[pulsar vine]

i wouldn't mind her KO taming the other creatures, but she shares a close personal bond with her black raptor

[lyric lichen]

ThAtS rAcIsT

[pulsar vine]

yeah its for gameplay purposes, i dont think it's neccesary for it to be in the show

[pulsar vine]

racism is so dumb. at the end of the day you all taste the same.

[surreal holly]

They gonna need a big plothole filler in order to explain KO taming a rock drake

[lyric lichen]

Facts, it’s also not racism if you hate everyone equally

[pulsar vine]

she girlbossed so hard the game mechanics broke

[surreal holly]

Where Diana poster

[pulsar vine]

why did i say that

[lyric lichen]

She is literally a hacker, she brought a giga to the megapithecus fight, and she’s also used the tek sword glitch

[surreal holly]

Better hacker than ||santiago||

[lyric lichen]

Yes

[pulsar vine]

i would say santiago is a pretty good hacker.

[lyric lichen]

But can he bring gigas into the boss arenas?

[pulsar vine]

how did you think they explained tek to mei yin

[surreal holly]

It was more of a "not even he stands a chance against them" thing

[pulsar vine]

so...it's a rock...from the sky, and we refined it...and we made it so you can- nevermind forget it it's magic

[surreal holly]

They started with skmthing like a tek bow

[pulsar vine]

so this bow makes arrows out of nothing.

so....magic?

sigh i mean-yeah? pretty much.

[lyric lichen]

Tek is basically magic

[surreal holly]

That's the point, nerdy magic

[lyric lichen]

Mhm

[pulsar vine]

its fi with added sci

[lyric lichen]

Exactly

I mean how do a pair of shoes prevent your knees from breaking

[pulsar vine]

ok that's just ark logic at this point

[lyric lichen]

Ark logic is amazing I don’t know what you’re talking about

[pulsar vine]

you can break a 700 meter fall by landing on a nice soft stegosaurus

[lyric lichen]

You can break a 3728 meter fall by having more than 500 health

[surreal holly]

You know that guy in ark 2 chat that was asking for a booty slider? He's gonna want an ark animated booty slider

[lyric lichen]

Or, you used to be able to do that

[pulsar vine]

you can eat 500 berries within 5 seconds

[lyric lichen]

You can put a single door in a double doorframe and still have the single door act like a normal door

[surreal holly]

Aighy I need sleep

[pulsar vine]

an immensely inbred fish kitty can demolish a wild raging tyrannosaurus

[lyric lichen]

Same with anything for that matter

You can literally get sent to a space station where you fight an evil diamond before you leave the space station and travel around the earth where you then go to another space station

[stray blaze]

Where diana x2

[broken vine]

Aside from Santiago, all the other characters who have posters appear to be island characters. Santiago likely won't appear on the island and only has a poster at this point cause Vin Diesel is easy marketing.

[wise epoch]

Unless there's a side story about Santiago's aberration shenanigans

[broken vine]

Potentially. If that's the case, the reason for there not being any poster for Diana or any of the other characters that would be on Aberration with Santiago at that point, may be because they are keeping that part a surprise. It still seems like they might just be revealing Santiago early for marketing purposes though - especially since he is the only character whose poster doesn't have a detailed background.

[rain pebble]

Besides, he's wearing Fed armor, don't they wear the URE version in Aberration? Or was it never shown/specified? I could've sworn I saw the more angular configuration in an explorer note

[dense blaze]

Bob

[stray blaze]

It looks like rockwells background is abberation tbh

[broken vine]

I thought that as well when the blurry version of the posters showed up online, but the high resolution one makes it clear that Rockwell is just in his laboratory on the island

[bitter wren]

sorry

[velvet temple]

I mean it would make sense for him to discover element on the island instead of scorched although making a tek rifle without someone from the time where element is known seems unlikely

[broken vine]

Yeah the tek rifle being there doesn't make much sense, but they could just have put it in the poster as a little tease for Rockwell's obsession with element.

[velvet temple]

Well Santiago art is obviously from ab as he has a bulb dog but it would make more sense for all of the island characters to have their art from the island

[broken vine]

It just doesn't seem like the background of the poster is on Aberration, considering the lab on Aberration was made by the tek tribe and would be way more advanced.

[broken vine]

Santiago is the only non-island character whose been revealed so far and his poster kind of just has a blank void as a background, unlike the other posters which have full detailed scenes as backgrounds. So it seems that Santiago may just be being teased early for marketing purposes, cause Vin Diesel = money lmao

Either that or they'll have cut aways that show what Santiago is doing on Aberration idk

[rain pebble]

I think the teasers are just teaser art thrown together to give a general idea of the characters and will have no bearing on the show whatsoever lmao

[fervent stag]

No, i'm pretty sure they are.

Dollie retweeted a scene a LONG time ago of Helena petting a Dodo while dripping with water.

[rain pebble]

Well yeah, that's different though

This art is literally called teaser art as opposed to a (probable) frame from the show

[fervent stag]

Helena and the Dodo looked the same in the shot

[rain pebble]

Re-use of the shot purely for the sake of them not having to make a teaser art piece

All I'm getting at is, there's no way in hell that Santiago art will be in the show, so it automatically makes me question how many more of the teaser arts are just mock-ups as well

[west cedar]

Its going to fun when we all get to watch it and find out 🙂

[surreal holly]

Animated ||aberration nuke|| scene

[little jetty]

is the animated one out already?

[copper kelp]

no, all known info in pins, no date or platform at this time

[fervent stag]

Kind of sad they probably wont allow us to stream it in chat with everyone.

[arctic haven]

why does the rex behind nerva have 3 fingers

[broken vine]

I hadn't noticed that and now I am very confused about how in the hell they missed that

Like I can understand how I didn't notice it when glancing at the picture, but someone spent ages drawing that and didn't notice

Hopefully it's just a mistake on the poster

[main smelt]

So everyone we got Meiyin theme

[surreal holly]

Wdym

[fervent stag]

Twitter

[surreal holly]

Oh so now we actually are getting info on the anime, release date better be soon, end of next week minimum

[fresh blade]

"Family"

[surreal holly]

I was expecting that one Chinese rap music meme song for her theme

[velvet temple]

well its in post production so it can't be too long at this point

[surreal holly]

How long even is post pruduction

[cinder lintel]

I dunno like a month or 2

[twin swan]

red sun in the sky

[surreal holly]

||nerva death scene||

[valid surge]

Crispy

[rain pebble]

Was just reading the article, update from the founders, and saw this... don't know if it was talked about yet? Or even mentioned? Anyways, here it is:

"The show features an extraordinary voice cast, including Gerard Butler (300), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time), Devery Jacobs (American Gods), Deborah Mailman (Total Control), Zahn McClarnon (Doctor Sleep), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy), Ragga Ragnars (Vikings), David Tennant (Good Omens), Alan Tudyk (Rogue One), Karl Urban (The Boys), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Ron Yuan (Mulan), with Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Vin Diesel reprising his role as franchise hero, Santiago."

So yeah, Malcolm McDowell, wonder who he voices?

[surreal pier]

Check the pinned messages

[rain pebble]

Ah, ok, weird that I missed that...

[arctic haven]

bob is so hot

[worldly urchin]

im so hyped that we may see abberation creatures

the bulbdog alludes to it and thats so cool

[dense pendant]

Would be cool if they did a season for each DLC

[valid surge]

Would make sense

[fringe bolt]

Yeah that's where the lore goes, so I wouldn't be surprised

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[wise epoch]

All hail bob

[wise epoch]

Wut

[vocal torrent]

What

[rough prairie]

[west cedar]

[twin swan]

joe>bob

[vocal torrent]

Joe is nonexistent, only Bob

[surreal holly]

Bob

[proud scaffold]

is there a release date for the animated series yet?

[surreal holly]

No

[waxen flicker]

Where Rockwell beard

[fervent stag]

Probably will appear during his Nomad phase on Scorched.

[waxen flicker]

I hope it does

Or at maybe later on in the Island after he starts becoming interested in Element

[fervent stag]

He had a beard on The Island, yes.
But it wasn't till Scorched and Aberration that it got basically a foot long.

[fervent stag]

Wasn't till Scorched that he got interested in element.

You meant artifacts?

[waxen flicker]

Yeah

How did Rockwell end up on Scorched? I don’t remember if he made it to the tek cave but I don’t think he did

[fervent stag]

He did

[waxen flicker]

Ah

[fervent stag]

He went with Nerva when they went through it.

Last note even states it.

[surreal holly]

5$ foot long at subway now comes in British hair

[surreal holly]

I wanna see how they do the "mutation stacking"

[waxen flicker]

Do you think the Para and Raptor are the only animated skins we’re gonna get?

[rain pebble]

For Ark 1? Probably. Ark 2? I hope they put in skins along side the show's episodes releasing, that'd be cool (I particularly want like a toon yuty or bronto)

[waxen flicker]

Shame

The Yuty is the main one I’d want added to Ark 1

Dope design

[rain pebble]

I mean we can hope

[void radish]

he did, he was with Nerva, when he fight overseer, then got transfer to SE like Helena.

[river bane]

Do we know if this will be on some streaming services like Netflix or something

[dense blaze]

Unknown
Everything we know is in the pins

[languid goblet]

when will this thing comes out

im too lazy to read the explorer notes

[thorny crown]

Any in small can help me with boss pls
Write in priv

[broken vine]

There are plenty of YouTube videos that you can watch in the meantime if you want to know the story but don't want to read the notes.

[broken vine]

Wrong channel.

[languid goblet]

but video boring series cool

[broken vine]

Some are actually pretty good, but I agree that a lot of the videos out there are boring. My point is that there is an alternative if you can't wait for the show but don't want to read the notes. The show itself though hopefully shouldn't be too much longer since they have said it is in post production.

[vocal torrent]

Also the show will not be accurate to the notes as the show will lean towards more action-packed than accuracy

Especially on a possible biggest retcon on the original once they added "voiceovers" and "cutscenes" to the game

[grave flame]

Will it just be the Island or will it include other dlcs?

[waxen flicker]

It’s the story of Helena Walker, so I’d imagine the DLCs too

Especially since Santiago doesn’t appear til Abberation or Extinction

[grave flame]

So no Genesis

Since Helena isn't in them - excluding HLN-A

[waxen flicker]

I don’t believe so

[shadow plank]

[dapper atlas]

Jesus y’all speakin another language or sum

[vocal torrent]

we read the manga before the anime has made

[fervent tinsel]

Sauce?

[vocal torrent]

the explorer notes

[worldly urchin]

we see santiago holding a bulbdog, so abberation is definetely on the list!

[vocal torrent]

If Santiago doesn't exist then Ab will not be in the list

It felt strange when John has a actor VA when in SE notes, John will die first

[worldly urchin]

He does! He was in the posters

[vocal torrent]

I am not hyped anymore until someone made a YouTube compilation of "ARK: Anime but just Bob"

[velvet temple]

By just bob you mean so zoomed in so that bob is literally the only thing you can see or hear

[vocal torrent]

Any bob moments

[dense blaze]

Bob

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[dense blaze]

Praise the untameable god that is Bob

[fervent stag]

'Untamable'
Tell that to forcetaming Mei.

[velvet temple]

bob is server owner

[rain pebble]

John Dahkeya does not have a voice actor, what do you mean?

[twin swan]

joe gang

[west cedar]

This John?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nHrB9UqFHGd0QZomzQ6VJ3cdkO0TdI2o/view?usp=sharing

[rain pebble]

Bob gang

[rain pebble]

I think that is the one @vocal torrent was referring to, yeah

[fervent stag]

That's the John from that trailer iirr

Which, he talks about his family as a native.
Soooooooo, i doubt it's 'THE' John

Cause the was John acted and drew in the notes, he more acted like a person from a Western village then a native.

[rain pebble]

Yeah, Dahkeya is a revolver slingin outlaw cowboy from the time when he gets put into Scorched

[broken vine]

It doesn't seem to be the same John. The background behind him is green and lush like the Island rather than Scorched Earth and he is riding a pteranodon (which don't spawn on Scorched). They don't mention his last name so it doesn't have to be John Dahkeya and he dresses far differently than what you'd expect from the notes.

[gloomy parcel]

Anyone have any clue on when the series could possibly drop?

We know this year

[heavy finch]

prob winter time

november-december

most likely its gonna be delayed till next spring

[fringe kite]

uwu

i like beans

[surreal holly]

[dense pendant]

26th is Santiago's birthday, maybe we could get a trailer then

[vocal torrent]

Santiago (in game lore) hates birthdays

[dense pendant]

Still his birthday tho

[vocal torrent]

if you are talking about Vin Diesel, yes but not Santiago

[maiden narwhal]

Santiago, More like Vin gasoline

[wise epoch]

[rain pebble]

[twin swan]

jjoe

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[dense blaze]

Why?

[vocal torrent]

He just doesn't like parties and gatherings

Like a real introvert

[dense blaze]

Lol

[vocal torrent]

Even though he is into American Idol.... I can see why he is so introverted

[heavy finch]

Who is the one who knocks?

[mortal lark]

Walter White?

[forest geyser]

You're godamn right

[dense pendant]

Can't wait for better call saul

[fervent stag]

I don't know.
Who is the one who knocks?

[heavy finch]

Ark x Walter white crossover

I am the danger

[twin swan]

joe anne jane > bob

[surreal holly]

Lol what?

[vocal torrent]

There is a Diana note that Santiago is into Pop Music

[surreal holly]

[surreal holly]

Mf could build a tek nuke but he likes American idol

[frosty dove]

og Santiago was better bc at least he was funny and interesting

[vocal torrent]

Basically

[rain pebble]

He didn't even say much of anything in Ab, idk why everyone likes old Santiago so much tbh. I mean yeah, he's the reason we're all here, and the reason we save Earth, but his dialogue throughout his notes ain't the best read I've had in the whole of Ark, that's for sure

[vocal torrent]

Because actions speaks louder than words

Vin doesn't do much notable compared to the real Santiago aside from just grunting

Plus the real Santiago has character development, he started up as a recluse and more focused at the task at hand because of the whole war until he opens up to Diana also he actually hated the Federation

While Vin started up as a slave to the Federation in Gen 2 despite him having severe PTSD because of the war and Uma's trying to get the memory out of him by respawning then devolved into a family focused caveman in ARK 2

.

TL:DR:

The Real Santiago's Character Development is an upgrade
While
Vin's Character Development is more of a downgrade

I really miss Ares rn

[heavy finch]

They should’ve put Saul Goodman instead of vin diesel

[fair trout]

Thank you... Otterly did beat me back... and yes wholehartly agree here

New Vindiago is caveman Fast and Furious Vin Diesel.. now with a Rex instead of a car.. actually cavemen Dominik Toretto, not Santiago anymore.

[rain pebble]

Well, that's, like, your opinion, man

(We have no idea how he'll actually act ingame, and I do agree that the grunting doesn't set a good image in the mind, but ya know, it's still just literally teaser trailers guys)

[vocal torrent]

Gen 2 notes already provided most of the info about Vin, i dont need to wait for ARK 2 for that

[rain pebble]

Those are literally just Santiago being Santiago still, wdym lmao

[vocal torrent]

there is a reason we call Vin as Vin, in Gen 2, he is just Vin Diesel as Himself

he has completely different personality than Ab/Ext Santiago

[rain pebble]

I don't see it, also he literally is a different clone that didn't have any of the experiences that Ext Santiago did, and his memories were edited by Uma (as you said), so why would his personality be the same? That would be stupid as hell if he was just the same Santiago from Ext, for multiple reasons, the first being that he (Gen 2 Santiago) literally happened when the Arks and the ship were being built. Why would you want him to be the same? That would be dumb and break so many literary and story-making rules

This argument that y'all like to have is honestly so bunk from the get-go purely because it (Gen 2's notes) happened in the past, like that right there makes y'all's points almost completely moot, save like one or two possible inconsistencies

[fair trout]

If you put in an engramic Matrix into a person, they will have the exact same personality.. cause it is a copy/paste thing. So it would make sense to have the base Santiago we learn to know in Abs to have in Gen 2 (without any experinces of the Arks so)
But he is very different and has not much of the original Santiago left. He is even to dumb to hack or really having his own will, etc. He is Umas Lapdog.. not more not less. He is not even trying to really find out more and only relies on what Uma and Jonkee tell him.. nothing the Abs Santiago would have done.
But I guess here are different opinons clashing and all would have been easily avoided if they simply would have given Vin a new character as his self insert.

[rain pebble]

Nowhere does it say that the person can't be modified at the genetic level to have them be more docile, obedient, or even violent, not to mention the fact that he was modified, pretty clearly, as stated in his notes. The Santiago from Ab was also modified (like everyone else on the Arks), to not remember his death, which was pretty shortly before his matrix was recorded (not that that last part matters, I guess).

And lastly, where in his Gen 2 notes is he not trying to find out about his modified memories? He know almost from the get-go (literally note 2) that something is wrong, when he can't remember how he got to the point where he was the team lead of the Genesis project.

[vocal torrent]

i doubt that since the case of Rockwell, Mei Yin, and Helena, they are basically the same person before they died

especially Rockwell mentioning his colleagues back at London and Mei remembering the war

[rain pebble]

Also real quick, where in the notes is he too dumb to hack/invent things? He literally invents the tek stryder...

[rain pebble]

That's post-war, after the ship is done and pulls from an unmodified data bank of engrammic matrices my dude

[vocal torrent]

the Stryder is not really mind blowing as say Nida being a plant engineer and modder that also made the Stryder in her gen Sim Modding

[rain pebble]

Well, they are modified, but only the usual "can't remember you died" thing

[rain pebble]

What does this even mean

[vocal torrent]

if you know Chekov's gun, the Mek is a perfect example of it, instead of just say "hey i made a thing" like the Stryder has, the Mek has more character involvement and more than just an achievement or a prop

[rain pebble]

The tek stryder is integral to the ship's mission being successful, it's getting rid of the element so that it (the whole big story where humanity almost dies) doesn't happen again

[vocal torrent]

tbh Nida has more character involvement than Vin has

he has no further contribution to whatever is going on in the Gen Ship, the Stryder is there and..... nothing

yet the Stryder didnt even stop Rockwell from proliferating

instead of just be involved in a drama of a "friend" and end up being Uma's Vegetable

do what the Real Santiago does and actually stop Rockwell from further infecting the ship while he is in the gen Sim or even use the Stryder to combat the prolification like what Nida and Gabriel does despite having little knowledge of the stryder

[rain pebble]

I'll give you that, he doesn't do a whole lot that can be pointed at that makes you say "hey, Santiago did that" (other than the stryder), but neither does Nida, she literally makes some faulty code for the ship to separate the rings, that HLN-A has to finish herself, not really all that impressive either tbh

[vocal torrent]

HLNA doesnt the ability to know the separation code without Nida's modding (granted its faulty but she is in a life or death situation), IIRC HLN-A only spawns from existing code (see the canoe mission)

i'd say Nida has still more impactful involvement than Vin

[rain pebble]

This is wrong in many ways, but I'm gonna touch on the part I wanna talk about. So, Santiago, when Nida's (and Gabriel's, I suppose) notes take place... has been loooooooooooooong dead, sitting in the engram storage, waiting to be reincarnated ("respawned" as he says)

There's nothing he could've possibly done without his consciousness being active/alive that would've made any sort of difference as everyone was in forced hibernation, which is clear in Nida's notes

[vocal torrent]

the whole drama with yonki turned him in to a useless popsicle in the first place, it would be a smarter move if he is a real Santiago if he actually do something in the Gen Sim while he is still in the pod in "forced hibernation"

[rain pebble]

That's my point, he couldn't do jack diddly squat, he was literally killed by Yongki at the request of Uma and put into a body in stasis

[vocal torrent]

last time i checked gabriel and the survivor were physically in "hibernation" as well while they are in the Gen Sim

[rain pebble]

Then check again, after we are uploaded to the Genesis ship (and patched into the simulation) HLN-A states that we are able to take out the Master Controller because we aren't in hibernation, we're in a body that was freshly generated specifically for our arrival on the ship, and thus not in hibernation (also, Gabriel was pulled out of stasis by Rockwell, if that wasn't clear enough in the notes)

Gabriel was Rockwell's (failed) attempt at awakening a survivor that could be his pawn and allow him to infect the rest of the ship, which doesn't happen obviously if you read their notes

I'ma go back to sleep now, I'm typing like shit and I'm a little groggy still

[gilded sparrow]

has this series started yet?

[fair trout]

nope

[surreal holly]

@fair trout yo why did u come back

[broken vine]

That doesn't necessarily mean that their memories have not been altered. We never actually get to see what they were like before they woke up on the ARKs. All we know about it is from their notes, which were written after they woke up on the ARKs, so of course they'd think those memories were accurate even if they had actually been altered. We know that their memories were altered enough for them not to remember their own deaths, but we don't if they were altered in any other ways. It seems likely though.

[vocal torrent]

Do you have any possible proof that the ARK survivors memories got altered before a clone has made?

Last time I checked, only Genesis has described memory alteration, never mentioned about ones in the ARKs

Mei Yin actually recalled her past with accuracy, I doubt that memory is "altered"

[broken vine]

The problem with that is that we never got to see the engrammic matrixes getting prepared for cloning on the ARKs, whereas we saw plenty of it for the colony ship. It still seems likely that if such processes were necessary on the colony ship, then they likely also happened on the ARKs. We also know that the fact that people don't remember their own deaths during their initial spawning in, is a result of those memories being altered / removed. Therefore it's possible it happened elsewhere.

[broken vine]

All we know is that the overall historical event wasn't altered in her memory, but we don't know how much of the more personal stuff specific to her was accurate.

[vocal torrent]

Again, that's on Genesis because there is already a direct proof that the Feds tampered the clones for person benefit unlike in the ARKs where (un)Natural Selection is the name of the game, hence no respawn before Helena become Homo Deus

None of the Authors in the ARKs ever questioned if their memories are real, only question if their land they are on is real

[broken vine]

My point is that there is still potential for some minor alterations there, especially since we know them not remembering their own deaths is an alteration to their memories.

[vocal torrent]

I don't people actually remember their death anyways

Even in Genesis where tampering is known, none of the Authors remember their deaths

[broken vine]

Also this message was in response to one from @rain pebble in which all they said was that "The Santiago from Ab was also modified (like everyone else on the Arks), to not remember his death". Again, we know that their lack of memory of their deaths is an alteration, so arguing that you doubt that Aberration Santiago had such an alteration to his memory and then listing multiple characters who were altered in the same way as your reasons for doubting it makes little sense.

[broken vine]

Diana remembers many details of her death after getting respawned by Helena. Helena didn't alter her memories in any way during that respawn, hence her remembering. Every other character had their memories altered prior to their respawn.

[vocal torrent]

The ones that I am listed didn't altered either, pay attention instead of making another text wall

The respawned by Helena is recent, I am talking about the ones before Helena became Homo Deus

[broken vine]

1. You listed characters that we don't know if their memories were altered or not, but considering we know that some of the Genesis authors had their memories altered, it seems likely. 2. You have literally ignored half of what I've said.

[vocal torrent]

Again there is no evidence in the notes where death is rememberered in any author after being cloned, just respawned

[vocal torrent]

Dude you ignoreed the fact that the ARKs have different functionality and goals than the Gen Ship

[broken vine]

Respawning is literally just their engrammic matrix being placed into a new cloned body again. It's the same exact process, so why would they remember during later respawns but not the initial one?

[vocal torrent]

Plus the Fed's clear personal agenda of sending more obedient people rather than raw and natural survivors that passed the test

[broken vine]

No, I know that they have different functions and purposes, but the colony ship had to alter memories in preparation for cloning, so it's possible the ARKs did to. An alteration such as removing someone's memory of their own death seems crucial to both since otherwise you'd have a whole lot of very traumatized clones.

[vocal torrent]

Because not all engrammic matrix is perfect, there is a reason why they have to grave digging just to get at least a decently intact one

[broken vine]

And the fact that the engrammic matrixes are damaged is part of why I'm suggesting that they'd have to perform some alterations to fix it up enough for cloning

[vocal torrent]

The alteration is already evident in Gen as Fed's personal agenda

It would've been the same deal with the ARKs if they just leave the clones alone

[vocal torrent]

That is why in the ARKs, the authors don't remember their deaths, therefore their memories are as pure as it can get possible

While in Gen, some of the memories got altered because of the Fed's personal agenda

[broken vine]

It seems unlikely that every single engrammic matrix would just so happen to be damaged in the same way. Sure, some of them might not remember their deaths due to it being the damaged part of their memories, but others likely did have to have that part removed.

[vocal torrent]

Or the Engrammic Matrix degraded overtime after death, it is a natural thing after all like DNA, not a perfect code like Data

Makes you wonder why they can't clone Stephen Hawking or any IRL people

Some engrammic matrix are more intact than others

[broken vine]

That's literally what I just said. They are degraded. It's just unlikely that they'd all be degraded in the same way. You'd expect the damage to happen differently for each person, like one remembers their death but are forgetting a couple years of their life, or one remembers half of their life but not the rest of it.

So it can be used as an excuse for some of them to not remember their deaths, but it seems likely that many others would have had that memory and as such had to have it removed.

[vocal torrent]

Man we are still going in circles even though there is no direct proof that there is tampering in the ARKs still

Also the overseers are just too far gone to ever considered tampering anyways

[fervent stag]

You know, all of this arguing wouldn't have happen if they didn't make the Engramic matrix part of the lore. ☕

[vocal torrent]

it's lore now, cope!

[fervent stag]

I could say the same to you with Vin-Diesel.

[broken vine]

I don't mean the overseers are doing the tampering. I mean that the engrammic matrixes had to be prepared and placed into an archive for the ARKs to use later. Therefore the alteration would have occurred while the ARKs were being constructed, not when the overseers had gone kind of insane.

[vocal torrent]

We still have the OG Santiago in the ARKs anyways

That is all the copium I need (until they decided to retcon it after the switch update)

[fervent stag]

Until the Animated-series, and if they decide to rewrite the old Santiago out with the new rewrite coming this year.

[broken vine]

To be fair, Gen 2 / ARK 2 Santiago has multiple valid reasons for being a different character from Aberration / Extinction Santiago. The only annoying thing is that they could have made a far more interesting character for Vin rather than recycling Santiago.

[vocal torrent]

I can easily make the ARK Anime a easily ignorable AU just like the Halo on Paramount

I am worried about possible retconning after the Cinematics Update

[fervent stag]

Yeah, that's my issue also.
And it seems like the Animated Series is also changing him.

[fervent stag]

And if they do, i'll be laughing at you since now 'you'll' need to "cope" with Vin-Diesel being the older Santiago.

[broken vine]

We don't really know if it's changing him or not. Like appearance wise he's probably going to be changed to look more like ARK 2 Santiago, but we don't know about personality yet. His armor in the poster is Federation TEK armor, which sure he didn't have in the Aberration notes, but considering he's part of the Federation it seems logical for him to have made Federation style TEK rather than URE style TEK, so I don't mind the change.

[vocal torrent]

As long he keeps his helmet on like Master Chief then sure

[fervent stag]

'Halo-Show be like'

[broken vine]

We also don't have any direct proof that everyone's engrammic matrix just so happens to degrade in the exact same way, so both options aren't confirmed. It just makes more sense for them all to be lacking such a memory as a result of purposeful alteration, rather than random chance only degrading people's memories of their own deaths.

[broken vine]

That's fair. It'd definitely be nice if he kept the TEK helmet on. It's likely they'll have him take it off though.

[vocal torrent]

Let me re read the part about the whole Engrammic Matrix thing

[fervent stag]

My issue with how they're treating Santiago, is that it'll be another situation of what Universal did to Chief in the Halo-show.

[broken vine]

Master Chief wondering why no one has invented any kind of head protection that could possibly prevent the continuous head injuries that he keeps getting.

Also Master Chief: has a helmet right next to him.

[fervent stag]

Or sleeping with someone he just met.
Which, if i recall right. Spartans don't have a 'that' drive anymore.

[broken vine]

Yeah that was just all kinds of wrong and unnecessary

[fervent stag]

Unnecessary romance.

And cortana watched.

Like....what?

[broken vine]

Him getting voiced by Vin Diesel isn't too big of a change since we obviously aren't able to actually hear him talk in the notes. Him looking like Vin Diesel now is an understandable change to tie it into ARK 2 - though I'd prefer it if he either kept the helmet on or at least had some hair to make him look slightly more like the Aberration / Extinction Santiago (his clone in Gen 2 / ARK 2 has his memories taken from a later point in the original Santiago's life so his lack of hair makes some sense so long as it doesn't retroactively affect the Aberration / Extinction version).

The one change that would absolutely suck is if they retroactively change his personality in the Aberration / Extinction notes to match Gen 2 / ARK 2 rather than letting the memory differences and alterations explain that change.

[fervent stag]

Yeah, that's what i mean.

The Chief in the show sometimes acts nothing like the chief from the books. (going with books, cause the games have always had loose-canon with how the events actually happened.)

[broken vine]

Yeah. Chief never acted the way he does in the show in any of the books or games, so that change is jarring to say the least. Santiago on the other hand has had this new personality for a while now. It's just that there is a canonical excuse for him acting like it now, but if they go back and change the Aberration / Extinction version of him to act like that, then they'd just be rendering their own excuse useless. It'd be like how Jurassic Park / World ||has always used genetic tampering as an excuse for inaccurate dinosaurs, but ||the prologue for Dominion (not really a spoiler since it's not included in the actual movie and doesn't include any plot spoilers - you can find it on youtube - I'll censor it anyway just incase) ||shows dinosaurs back in the cretaceous and still has them be massively inaccurate, thus rendering the genetic tampering excuse entirely useless.||

[fervent stag]

Why did you tag me twice?

[broken vine]

Sorry, just didn't get any response the first time

[fervent stag]

Bruh, you already tagged me.

You don't need to add my name in it.

I did read it. Just don't know how to respond to something like that.

[broken vine]

That's fair. I just mean that hopefully they don't give us a lore excuse for the change but do something that undermines that lore excuse in the animated series (although the animated series isn't entirely canon accurate anyway)

[fervent stag]

Lore-excuses for stuff like that is single handily the most laziest thing, personally.

[broken vine]

It's better than just changing it with no excuse what so ever. Like I may not be the biggest fan of the change, but I can understand different memories resulting in a clone not matching up entirely with the personality of the original, but if Santiago just magically became Vin Diesel one day then that would be far worse.

[light whale]

is their a date for this to come out yet?

[broken vine]

No. All we know is that it is in post production at the moment. We don't know when it will come out or what platform it will be on.

[surreal holly]

As in?

[fervent stag]

Have you not seen the show?

[surreal holly]

No

I don't have paramount

[fervent stag]

Chief in the show acts basically nothing like he does in the books nor games

And he had a forced romance scene with someone he just met 30 minutes ago.

[surreal holly]

Wtf was with the romance

What does it add to the story

[fervent stag]

Nothing

Completely, fucking, nothing.

[surreal holly]

The show must suck

[fervent stag]

It was fine for the first 3 episodes.
But after that, it went downhill FAST

[broken vine]

Pretty much. It's kind of funny how in the show Chief takes off his helmet at just about every opportunity he gets and by the end of it his face is covered in bruises and scars. It's almost like he'd be fine if there was some kind of... I don't know... protective device that he could wear on his head?

[surreal holly]

Lmao Jamie I thought u left the server for good. You dmd me saying your thinking about leaving the ark community permanently

[fair trout]

Fun fact is, in the notes it is explained he stole the blueprints of the URE tek at some point and revise engeniered it and it is that knowledge he uses to make the Tek armor on abs which gave it it’s look. So fed armor design feels a bit off. But that is a minor change. The whole look and if character change will be a bigger issue if it happens.

[surreal holly]

Cheif never tool off his Hemet in the games iirc

[fair trout]

Evil otterly boolied me back ^^

[surreal holly]

Well welcome back

[broken vine]

I always interpreted it as him having designed the Federation TEK armor based off of the URE TEK armor after he stole their blueprints, which would explain why his armor in the show appears to be Federation style TEK armor.

[surreal holly]

UAE tek armor

[broken vine]

Yup, he never took his helmet off in the games, which is why him taking it off all the time in the show is so incredibly wrong. Especially since he continuously does it just before he gets into a fight. Like why would you take your helmet off before getting into a fight?

[fair trout]

To be honest these are some minor changes I am fine with, but not if they screw over the whole char in look and personality. In gen 2 I at least can tell myself the engeneered the body and altered it as well, even I find it an lazy excuse I don’t like.

Only to press an actor on an char

Same with altering the personality only to make him fit that actor.

Still think a new char would have been more beneficial.

[broken vine]

Yeah so long as they don't mess up his personality I'm fine with the minor changes. If they show his face I don't mind if they make him look slightly more Vin-like in terms of facial structure but it would be nice if they gave him the hair that he has in the notes so that he at least resembles the original version of Santiago from the explorer notes. The personality is the most important part though so that really shouldn't be changed.

It'd be extra nice if they had him look exactly like the explorer notes version of Santiago and then explain the different appearance in Gen 2 / ARK 2 as being a similar situation to what happened to Gabriel.

[fair trout]

They should at least make effort to make him look like the original one and not balantly copy-paste in 100% diesel

[broken vine]

Yeah, that's what I mean. If they're going to make him look more like Vin, then it'd be nice if they at least gave him the correct hair, since that would make him look a lot more like the note version of Santiago.

[fair trout]

I also kinda find it wierd they show all chars faces but his

[broken vine]

Yeah that might be an indication that he won't be taking the helmet off in the show. He's also the only character whose background on their poster is a blank void rather than a fully detailed scene.

[fair trout]

WC is to affraid ^^

[vocal torrent]

the funny thing is that his younger brother looked more like Santiago than vin does

[west cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-thinking-will-smith-gif-15302481

[fervent stag]

That, or they're either conflicted on what design they want Santiago to be.
Or purposely keeping it vague to rile us up more.

[broken vine]

I mean yeah, they might be afraid of the fan response, IDK. The lack of a proper background on his poster might indicate that they're just teasing him for marketing since Vin Diesel is a pretty big name. If it's in anyway accurate to the notes then Santiago is the only character that we know about in the show so far who isn't from the island (I won't count John since his background is too lush to be Scorched Earth and he is very different from John Dahkeya, so IDK if it's the same John or not). They might just be teasing him but he won't appear for a while since Aberration is way further along in the story.

[broken vine]

Potentially. We'll have to just wait and see.

[fair trout]

Yeah, cause would be a real awkward change to put him on the Island

[broken vine]

👀

[fair trout]

Blue is watching us

[fair trout]

Could be both. Or they simply love to torture us.

[broken vine]

Hopefully they wouldn't change 90% of Santiago and John Dahkeya's stories to put them on the Island lmao.

[fair trout]

That would be really lame to be honest ^^

[west cedar]

You can enjoy any version of events you prefer

[broken vine]

Gonna be interesting to see just how different the two versions are 👀

[west cedar]

I dont even know lol. But i am excited. I am also prepared to view them as seperate things if they are significantly different. But still enjoy both game and series for their own strengths.

[broken vine]

That's fair. If it ends up being largely accurate to the notes then I'll use it as a way to show my friends who don't want to read the notes just how good the story is. If it isn't accurate, then I'm hopeful it will still be an enjoyable experience and I'll fully understand why there are differences. Might even end up preferring the show's version of events, IDK. We'll just have to wait and see.

[fair trout]

That might be best if the differences are significant.

[fervent stag]

I'm ready to view them separate also.
But if they remove the love story between Raia and John if they ever go to Scorched. Then that's gonna be a turn off for me.

[west cedar]

And thats okay to not like something. I just encourage keeping speculation within reason until we see how thingswork out

[fervent stag]

Right.
I still think that suit looks tight as fuck on my boi Santiago.

[valid surge]

Ark has come so far. Never in a million years would I have expected this thing to be getting an animated show back when I found it 6 and a half years ago

[fair trout]

I think we all know there will be some changes but for me it depends on how drastic some are.

[broken vine]

Yeah, the federation tek suit is my favourite armor in the game in terms of appearance. I really hope that we get some kind of damaged, non-functional version as a skin in ARK 2 so I can keep rocking that look.

[fervent stag]

It makes the back-side of survivors pop out more. 🤌

[fair trout]

Imagine you would be able to put parts of it on your armor in Ark 2 (only for armor value and optic)

[fervent stag]

That's what i suggested yesterday to Ced

[broken vine]

I'm glad that it's getting an animated adaptation cause the story and lore is really interesting and deserves to be put into a more accessible form so that more people can appreciate it. I'm just hoping that everything that I love about the story is still there in the adaptation (or at least replaced with things that I love just as much).

[fervent stag]

Also, i know this isn't the place.
But y'all should checkout what i posted in fanarts

[broken vine]

haha nice.

[fervent stag]

You like the bra on the male survivor?

[fair trout]

Lol

[valid surge]

Exactly. Arks story is amazing and I love it. Gonna be nice to not have to spend 5 hours reading everytime I wanna refresh on the notes

[fervent stag]

Just watch the survival-stories

[valid surge]

Aswell as hopefully more insight into the character

[fair trout]

For me most important is that they stay true to the chars and don’t make to wierd story changes.

[valid surge]

Actually did that earlier today lmao

[valid surge]

Yeah

[fervent stag]

How'd you like me in it? 👀

[broken vine]

That would be really cool. We already know that the blade of Santiago's spear is made out of some TEK scraps, so having some parts of an old Federation TEK suit being incorporated into a more tribal outfit would be logical and really cool.

[fair trout]

That they will add stuff and things is expected to give the whole thing more content, etc.

[fair trout]

HZD does stuff like that pretty well.

[west cedar]

I intend to view them as complementary of each other. Where not every aspect of the notes needs to be in the show (it may not all translate to animation well) and that the show may fill in some gaps in the notes (things that werent needed in the notes).

I think this approach would allow them more freedom with adapting the story for animation.

[surreal holly]

Wait what

[fervent stag]

Just wondering.
How'd you like my screenshot?

[west cedar]

I dont know what the poses mean

[valid surge]

Every good story needs a villain and ark has a good one

[fervent stag]

Thanks, but when i mean that. I mean i'm legit in the survival-stories.
I'm Rockwell's body actor for his first video and beyond.

[surreal holly]

It's Disney quality at best

[broken vine]

The blade of Santiago's spear in ARK 2 is clearly made out of some TEK scrap metal. It doesn't appear to have any TEK functionality since it's just a random chunk of scrap, but it still means that parts of TEK items may appear as part of more primitive ARK 2 items. Therefore I'd love to see something like the Federation Tek Suit get a primitive makeover that drops all the abilities in favor of just being a kind of flak or riot armor replacement.

[surreal holly]

Ooh

Mineable tek

[valid surge]

That's actually really cool

[fervent stag]

Thanks

[fair trout]

Scrap tek

[fervent stag]

That's my idea.

[broken vine]

That's fair. I can't wait to see how the animated series turns out. :)

[fervent stag]

"Salvaged Tek™️" Thank you very much.

[twin swan]

bob needs a nerf

[fair trout]

I heard a bunch of people saying they would like that. Tie getting parts for it in missions or quests.

[surreal holly]

Could be the best component for crafting

[broken vine]

True. Bob is too OP

[broken vine]

All they'd have to do is replace element with TEK scrap and then have the items made out of it be good but not overpowered. Like no fancy abilities or anything, just good stats.

[surreal holly]

Devs will get harassed for adding tek

[fervent stag]

Fuck, i hate discord

[twin swan]

tek is the dumbest thing added to ark

[fervent stag]

That's what i was thinking.
Gives the best durability

[fervent stag]

No U

[twin swan]

u wanna fight

[fervent stag]

Yeah, i do.

[surreal holly]

A quick way to become a public enemy is to say this in #lore-nerdz or #ark-animated-series

[twin swan]

thanks

[surreal holly]

If it's a row you want I shall cleave you in twixt

[broken vine]

I mean the problem with TEK was less the aesthetic and more just how overpowered it was. If they just had some primitive items that incorporate some TEK scrap into the designs but don't have any of the fancy abilities and aren't too much better than regular items for it to be fair, then no one would really care.

[surreal holly]

(From a family guy clip)

[fervent stag]

Oh no.
There's people who are pissed that tek was even just added

[broken vine]

Well that part is dumb considering how much more interesting it made ARK's story. I can understand the hate of just how overpowered many of the TEK items in game are but TEK as a concept is good.

[fervent stag]

I know.
But people go "me dinosaurs"

[fair trout]

Yep, high tier components

[surreal holly]

From nooblets "tek needs to be removed from ark to make it better and make it a dinosaur game again"

[fervent stag]

Fuck nooblets

"Dinosaur game again"
I fucking hate this.

[brisk wraith]

whatre survival stories

[surreal holly]

Somthing needythenoodle made to show off cinematic ark lore
@fervent stag played as rockwell

[fervent stag]

A machinima series recreating the explorer notes in ARK.

[fair trout]

Which is dumb considered there was tek in Ark from the beginning and everybody with a brain coud see it was no pure dino game and more would come (obelisks, implant…)

[fervent stag]

'dimb'

Yes, it is infact pretty 'dimb'

[fair trout]

I hate typing on mobile

[surreal holly]

80% of the people who saw and voted wanted no lock on first person but nooblets acts like that represents all of ark community

[fervent stag]

To be fair, every fucking Youtuber thinks that.

[surreal holly]

We are just suckers for pain

[fervent stag]

Even Ned, with his 'who do you think is the best survivors?'
3k people voted and Helena won. So now he thinks the 'whole' ARK community likes Helena

[fair trout]

I think most people want to have the choice. I allways had first person on foot and third on dino

[broken vine]

We all know that Mei is in fact superior

[surreal holly]

Just wait til you inside him for not picking rockwell

[surreal holly]

"Admincheat dotame"

[fervent stag]

HAHAHA!
who said i haven't yet?

[broken vine]

I said Mei was superior, not that she plays fair lmao

[surreal holly]

Story wise yes

She actually has development

[fervent stag]

I'm going to be honest.
Everyone is better then Helena in the notes.

[broken vine]

Throwing shade

[fair trout]

Most people I know are suckers for Eddie lol

[surreal holly]

Even skye?

[fair trout]

The student notes are epic

[fervent stag]

Yes, i prefer Skye more then Helena.
Cause he had more persoanlity then Helena did over 3 maps.

[broken vine]

Skye singlehandedly filled the roll of comic relief for Aberration.

[fervent stag]

Even Marc seems like he distains Helena a little bit. (at least from his Reddit post.)

[fair trout]

I am also not big on Helena. Allways found her kinda boring

[broken vine]

Question is, do you guys prefer Helena (human), Helena (homo deus) or HLN-A?

[fervent stag]

HLN-A

[fair trout]

Hlna but still don’t like her much

[fervent stag]

Though, The One Who Waits also isn't bad.
Cause she actually does shit.

[surreal holly]

Hlna

[broken vine]

Interesting

[surreal holly]

Yes she's annoying but atoeast she does shit

[fervent stag]

And has personality.

[fair trout]

I am not big on homo deus in general so also not really fond@of homo deus helena ^^

[surreal holly]

Home deus is 1625392549999e6284x better than human Helena though

[broken vine]

That's fair. I find her far less annoying since the change in voice actress. I know a lot of people preferred the old one and I don't mean that the old one did a bad job, I just mean that as an Australian the old one just sounded kind of wrong since it was very clear that it was a fake accent. The newer voice actress is actually Australian but her accent still seems a little weird to me - possibly just from a different part of the country IDK.

[broken vine]

That's fair :)

[broken vine]

1625392549999e6284

oh no - they're putting letters in the numbers again

[fair trout]

Which is not really hard imo ^^

[surreal holly]

E is a part of the math

[broken vine]

oh no

[surreal holly]

anime anime anime

[jaunty jungle]

Is it out?

[broken vine]

nope

[jaunty jungle]

New trailer? what is new

[broken vine]

There hasn't been a new trailer

[jaunty jungle]

What is new about the series

[broken vine]

There are apparently 14 episodes in post production at the moment, with each being around 30 minutes long. They released a picture showing off some of the characters designs, as well as a bit of music from the series. There was also a tweet saying that almost every creature from the Island will make an appearance in those 14 episodes.

[jaunty jungle]

Nice thanks I have no twiteer

[valid surge]

I better see my beloved megalania and megalosaurus or I'm gonna flip

[broken vine]

I don't either. There's a channel on here where you can see any tweets that the devs release #766826918803800074

[jaunty jungle]

Thanks

[broken vine]

Hopefully they'll be included :)

[valid surge]

Hopefully

[rain pebble]

Like I said, Nooblets a dummy who just likes to sow chaos lol

[vocal torrent]

what he said is valid aside from the no Tek part

[rain pebble]

(Just a quick aside as I saw this while scrolling, he does take of his helmet in the games, just not nearly as much as in the show which tbh doesn't matter because it isn't canon, also it's mostly in cutscenes and very hard to get ones at that, and you still don't see his face so it's kind of just to tease until Halo like 5 iirc where they show his eyes but that's when 343 started to desecrate the franchise anyways so 🤷‍♂️ )

[surreal holly]

He also, with enthusiasm, played ark after tek was added

[rain pebble]

Which is like the whole statement, lol

[rain pebble]

Well of course he did, we all did, that's why I don't understand all the whining about tek now like you all wanted it????

[broken vine]

I meant that he doesn't take it off in a way that lets the player see his face and also doesn't take it off directly before getting into combat, unlike the show.

[surreal holly]

Ark is still his main game and he didn't play many games aside from that

[rain pebble]

Fair, you right

[surreal holly]

Iirc no one back then asked for tek lol

[rain pebble]

The tek tier was definitely asked for, you recall falsely lol

Maybe not everyone, but enough

[surreal holly]

But tek specifically?

[rain pebble]

Yes, the tek tier was asked for as a new top tier above metal because the game was getting quote "boring" apparently

Maybe not by name, but that's what they came up with/had in mind at the time

[fair trout]

Main problem allways was and still is that Tek simply is not balanced well, not Tek itself.

A reason a lot are against Tek.

[rain pebble]

Oh well yeah no one is saying it's all completely balanced, just I hate the constant whiners that are like "no I don't want any tek ever again take it alllllll out RIGHT NOW" like

[broken vine]

The implants and obelisks created a lot of intrigue into the nature of the island and this advanced technology. Tek was WildCard's way of expanding upon those elements and was partially a result of players also wanting additional building / item tiers. The thing is that while many players were intrigued enough that they wanted to see more, they didn't necessarily want to see it expanded upon in the way that WildCard did and then got upset with it being overpowered. Personally I like Tek conceptually and aesthetics wise and don't mind it gameplay wise, but I don't play on official PVP and I can see why those players would absolutely despise it.

[fair trout]

I don't like them either, cause Tek allways has been part of the game, even in EA (even only as Obelisks and implants) which did hint that there might come more later.

[rain pebble]

On PvP it is definitely more of an issue, amen to that (specifically dlc tek items, grrrr tek railgun grrrr)

But tbh I give Wildcard a pass on most of the things being broken because they are an indie studio first and foremost and a lot of people forget that

[fair trout]

The main reason is, that is is partly overpowerd, but also super bred dinos are totaly overpowered and an issue in PvP

[surreal holly]

I want to believe there's a whole floor in WC hq dedicated to figuring out TEK

[fair trout]

Less powerfull and more balanced Tek might have been way more accepted.. but people now blame it all on Tek sadly and think that primitive can not have overpowered stuff or aimbots..

[rain pebble]

That and the fact that they literally didn't have the manpower at the time to make the game as they wanted to, including having the base code eventually devolve into spaghet

[broken vine]

Half of the people on that floor are trying to figure out how to balance it in gameplay and the other half is dedicated entirely to figuring out how element and TEK work in the lore

[broken vine]

Yeah, that's true.

[rain pebble]

We had a convo on the breeding issue the other day, I think it was in #ark-2 iirc (which is where this convo should be lol, I thought that was where we were already)

[ember torrent]

[oak flare]

[whole shale]

[rain pebble]

[plucky wasp]

[unreal pulsar]

cold take: The funniest/best thing about the animated series that we have access to right now is Karl Urban's character, Bob

(Ark) naked guy with a spear and a hatchet and a Rex mouth in the background

[stuck axle]

.

[wise epoch]

Why is there no bob emoji yet?

We need bob

[vocal torrent]

Yes, we need bob

[dense blaze]

Just bob

Nothing else but bob

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[broken vine]

Yes, but not just one bob emoji. We need individual emojis which once combined form a complete bob.

[shadow robin]

Do we really still not know where this is airing?

[wispy plume]

Why did they make Rockwell younger in The series?☹️

[surreal pier]

It's more towards the beginning if im not mistaken

[fair trout]

Even in the beginning Rockwell is allready old (when Helena meets him), at least in the notes.

[rain pebble]

He isn't younger, it's an animated show and you are expecting a very particular look that you've generated in your mind of what you think he should look like, which is being challenged because he never particularly looked like anything we could be 100% certain of. It's got a name, but I can't remember it, it's some kind of phenomena or something lol

[wispy plume]

In The notes he had a completely different face, hair style, hair colour and clothes

[wispy plume]

(In The game)

[rain pebble]

You could tell his whole outfit (which could change, day by day) and his whole general look from some amateur drawings? Bravo mate lol

[fervent stag]

His face was pretty much the same.
But he was a lot more of a hairier man.

[rain pebble]

I stand by the idea that the drawings in the explorer notes are amateur at best, as I don't remember anyone saying they were a realism-style portrait artist in their notes

[fair trout]

You don't need super realistic professional drawings to give a certain look for a character. You can give a very typical look for a character with very easy and simple means. You can give typical facial features, haircut, beardstyle, eybrowstyle with some view lines to make the char his own personality and give them their own look. A professional art style has not to be a realistic one.. a lot of professional artists us a non-realistic artstyle.

[wispy plume]

Well, sorry if it ofended you, but i just said i prefer so much The drawings of Rockwell than is design for The series

[fair trout]

Which is totaly fine. I prefer the design of the "amateur" drawings as well.

[wispy plume]

😄 👌

[rain pebble]

All I'm saying is the drawings aren't accurate to what they looked like in-universe, not that they needed to be in the first place, but either way it doesn't matter as the way they look in the show is probably mostly due to artistic license anyways, which is super common and not anything people should get upset over imo. But I digress 🤷‍♂️

[fair trout]

If I write some notes and make a drawing of the person I am writing about I make them look as accurate as possible to the real person, even in a sketch.. and I asume every person does that writes notes and with some basic skills of drawing.. I bet Helena for example wanted to have the people look loke they did and not gonna draw a random old guy as Rockwell.. same for all note characters. And the art in the notes belongs to WC.. and only cause you are fine with them looking different, a bunch of people are not.

[vocal torrent]

It's like police sketches, it may not be "realistic" but it at least show the features instead of just "word it out"

Hell even court case sketches are not too realistic but at least you recognized someone just by look at it

The issue I have with ARK anime design is that it looks like the actor down to the haircut more than the ones on the canon notes

[rain pebble]

Again, creative and artistic license is not something to get upset over in a literal cartoon show, but I don't think I'm going to get that across so

[vocal torrent]

I don't see Rockwell in ARK anime, I only see David Tenant on a fancy robe or worse

I don't see Santiago, I only see Vin Diesel on a TEK suit

[rain pebble]

We literally haven't seen Santiago's face in the show lol

[vocal torrent]

Apparently you don't understand why people hate the reboots of old shows or movies of books

[delicate saddle]

Is it true that the show is airing on HBO max

[steel widget]

all the info we have is in the pinned messages

[vocal torrent]

Again the show is based on the game, it's either gonna be like in the game or people who love the game lore will be mad and people who are new to ARK lore are more confused

[rain pebble]

It's not a reboot so that doesn't apply, but if a reboot is bad it's usually due to the director not understanding the source material, which I don't think is an issue here as Jesse and Jeremy have sway over the show and how it is presented

[fair trout]

Simply imagine harry potter would look like Vin Diesel in the harry potter movies and not like Harry Potter was described in the books or shown on the book covers (at least close to that)

[rain pebble]

I love the game lore and will like the show regardless, more Ark = more to love, and I hope you feel the same some day

[vocal torrent]

Even if some do understand the source material if you are prioritize the actor's looks over accuracy, there is gonna be a big uncanny valley

[rain pebble]

Then the showrunners/movie heads would pay for it, and the movie would flop. I do not think the show will suffer this in any way

[rain pebble]

Maybe for you, not for me. Please stop generalizing your views as the views of the entire fanbase (and trying to push them on others including myself, it's kinda annoying tbh)

[vocal torrent]

Same to you as well tbh

We have a right to say why we hate the design and there is no way to change our minds

[fair trout]

Actually a big bunch of the “fanbase” that knows and understands lore is not very happy about pressing the actors looks on the chars and especially with Rockwell and Nerva.

[rain pebble]

Where have I tried to force/demand anyone to think exactly as I do, or anything similar (such as pretending that everyone thinks what I do)? lmao

[fair trout]

And they fear the same for Santiago.

[rain pebble]

Source? I haven't seen any kind of poll relating to this being true

(Or anything else, non-poll, either)

[fair trout]

[vocal torrent]

Obviously people who actually read the notes are the ones who are mad from the design change

People who dont are just fine having actors as characters

[fair trout]

A big bunch of people I have talked to on twitter, discord and in RL

But I not gonna put in hours to get all that opinions together only you want proof

[rain pebble]

Again, generalizing when the opposite is true for others, myself included (I've read every note to the last letter, and I'm fine with the show being the way it is)

[steel widget]

🍿

[vocal torrent]

The people who are disagreed your opinion is the proof you need lol

No polls needed

[rain pebble]

Yeah, the three or four people here aren't the whole fan base, y'all are naïve if you really think that lol

[grizzled sand]

I have no side to take because idk what the characters looked like in the notes compared to the show

I know the lore I just dk what anyone looks like

[rain pebble]

Well don't look at the notes in game (with the pictures), otherwise you'll automatically be on the side of the people hating the show and the way the characters are presented in it, by these two's logic

I've seen the portraits in game and still will love the show, retcons, redesigns, and all (even though those don't apply lmao)

[grizzled sand]

I’m a pretty understanding person, I would probably be inbetween on it if anything

I can see both sides

[rain pebble]

I am too, when people aren't trying to force their perspective on others that is

Otherwise I get a little belligerent, I'll admit

[grizzled sand]

Some characters it probably wouldn’t be a huge deal, but for others it could be if it’s a huge change that makes it feel like it’s not even the same character

[fervent stag]

This whole convo is fucking hilarious.

[rain pebble]

I'm glad you find it as such, glad some good came out of it lol

[grizzled sand]

Like Santiago for example, I have no clue what his character is supposed to look like but it’s probably nothing like vin diesel

[rain pebble]

According to most, apparently, yeah

I don't see it

[fervent stag]

My only gripe with TAS so far is Santiago.
Rockwell just looks like a younger version of himself. (i honestly see less of David in that version then i do with the Genesis-2 Rockwell)
And i don't know who the fuck would complain about Nerva. Motherfucker looks badass.

[rain pebble]

(particularly the part about Nerva, he looks soooooooooo damn cool)

Tell me you can find someone who don't think he's clean af

I'll wait (pro-tip, you can't)

[vocal torrent]

That is literally what we really feel and that is why we hated the new designs

[grizzled sand]

Nerva looks like a chad

[fervent stag]

I honestly can't see anything of Tennant in the animated-series Rockwell.
I've seen Tennants face for the 10 years of my 18 years of my existence on this world, and he does not look like him.
Genesis-2 Rockwell is a different story though.

[rain pebble]

Agreed

[fervent stag]

If it wasn't for his slavery and domination issues. I'd go out to a bar with him.

[grizzled sand]

Yeah it sucks but it’s nothing to hate the entire show for

[rain pebble]

He's just misguided, I can fix him, I promise 😏

[grizzled sand]

Anyone know if a really good lord video they can send me so I get caught up?

Lore* fuck

[fervent stag]

Also, most of the reboots i've seen/played where pretty good.

[fervent stag]

OwO

[fervent stag]

The Survival-Stories.

[rain pebble]

@fervent stag , send em to Neddy lol

[fervent stag]

Ned just made a video of all of The Island notes in one video.

[grizzled sand]

Mazda sent it in 0.5 seconds

[fervent stag]

Shit

Better had sent you the newest one.

[vocal torrent]

I send em the link

[fervent stag]

Of the new one?

[grizzled sand]

Mazda has it on standby

[vocal torrent]

Yep

[fervent stag]

Goood.
Gooood.

[rain pebble]

Same here, the God of War reboot was stellar

[vocal torrent]

Phone magic

[fervent stag]

That was a soft-reboot.
I was more talking about hard-reboots, like i think Mazzy was thinking.

[rain pebble]

Ah, like what? I love a good reboot (emphasis on GOOD)

[fervent stag]

The RE2make was a hard-reboot/remake of the events of RE2.

[rain pebble]

Loved it

[fervent stag]

RE3make was 'eh' to me

[rain pebble]

That one I can see some not liking, if only for the gameplay mechanics

Generally a good retelling though, story-wise

[fervent stag]

'eh'

They cut the bell-tower scene.
And that was pretty important

[rain pebble]

Fair enough, I didn't like the main fight with Nemesis either to be fair, felt too campy for current RE games

[fervent stag]

And i personally didn't like the redesigns of the second and third form of Nemesis.
We already had a 'blob' final-boss in RE2make.
Wished they remade the original version, since that 'was' the nemesis parasite reaching maturity.

[rain pebble]

I can agree with that

[fervent stag]

Basically, the first act was fucking GREAT.
After that though, it slowly goes 'meh'
But that ending was good.

[fair trout]

I know a lot of people that dislike his design but they rarely talk in this discord here, are not on that discord here or don’t talk at all here.

But I not gonna name that people here or screenshot Twitter or private discord conversations only that a person has their proof. Cause they are private conversations and not their business.

Also none of us said we have problems with all designs but with some or a possibble one (Santiago) and might not like some changes if they are to drastic in the show only to make that clear and none of us ever said we hate the show.

[fervent stag]

Yes, i know Tri is one of them.
But Tri is already Mr. Negative.

[vocal torrent]

lol

The only design is like is Bob

[velvet temple]

I think note rockwell is too young, where is 90 year old rockwell

[vocal torrent]

Because Bob is the only one that isn't looked like an actor

Bob looks like Bob

[velvet temple]

Bob is bob

[vocal torrent]

Yes Bob is Bob

Praise Bob

[surreal holly]

You know, thinks like "lol" lmao" "bruh" etc. Have zero use in a conversation and are rather said because the person in question wants to say somthing but dosent have anything important to say, these words should be dropped from all conversations henceforth.

K what? Spit it out Mazda

[vocal torrent]

I am "lol" to Bootleg.... Carry on

[velvet temple]

Lmao

[surreal holly]

I had a stroke reading this

[vocal torrent]

Then don't

[surreal holly]

Sir what did that message mean is what I'm asking

[velvet temple]

Enable bob, Disable reading

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[fervent stag]

Still don't see Tennant's face in TAS poster.

[fair trout]

Bobleg Rockwell

[grizzled sand]

See this is why I need to know the lord fully because I have no idea what you are talking about lmao

Lore* god it keeps auto correcting me 🐀

[fair trout]

lol

Bob is not in the Lore (notes).. Bob is actually the player ^^

[grizzled sand]

Oh yeah I know that I’m talking about Helena being killed lmao

[fair trout]

She must have been killed or died in the 21th century at some point ^^

[surreal holly]

That's why I will come prepared with ascendant tek armor and an ascendant tek bow to fight all the anime only watchees when they storm and ask about the contrasts between the anime and the manga

They said they are making "sligjt freedoms" with the story, which ends up turning into bonkers shit like that

Upside is helena should feel like an actual character

[grizzled sand]

I don’t know enough about the lore to say anything so imma just not say anything lol, imma observe from a distance

[surreal holly]

Also praise bob

[wise epoch]

Praise bob

[vocal torrent]

praise Bob

[rain pebble]

Praise be unto Bob, for his dumb light shall wash over us, and make us respawn when we accidentally spear the bronto of the great beyond

-Aberrations, 16:9

[silk forge]

Bob will solo the series

[vocal torrent]

Basically

[velvet temple]

I hope ark 2 default character looks somewhat different so you know who is truly devoted to carrying on the glory of Bob

[fresh flame]

If Bob is the name of the guy, what is the name of the girl character?

[grizzled sand]

Bobetta

Or something like that, back when survivors got default names the girl ones got something like that I don’t fully remember what it was tho

[surreal pier]

Jane

[velvet temple]

no its just Bob

[strong gazelle]

Wasnt there a very rare chance to be bobette if you selected a female character

[surreal pier]

I really remember Bobette too, but I cant be sure lol I do know there was Jane

[pulsar vine]

praise bob

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[valid surge]

Praise bob

[twilit mason]

Did the animated series come out already? If so where?

[copper kelp]

known info in pins, no date or platform at this time

[tired rapids]

Where can I wach the series

[fair trout]

Not out yet.. all infos in the pins

[tight edge]

in the photo bob is going to die :(

[rain pebble]

Bobs never die... they respawn.

[valid surge]

Bob is too powerful to stay dead

[undone gull]

Bob dies all the time... but i get right back up...lol

[fair trout]

The Rex will choke on Bob.

[vocal torrent]

kinky

[surreal pier]

[tight edge]

the rex will die and bob will dig out of it :)

[shy brook]

praise bob

[vocal torrent]

Praise bob

[fervent willow]

What's the point of a series

[vital frigate]

F Bob

[vocal torrent]

kinky

[surreal holly]

Money

[vocal torrent]

Also promoting ARK as a game

[rain pebble]

To show (as never seen before) the lore and characters of the Ark universe in order to give people a better look at them, the purpose of which we do not yet entirely know

[oak brook]

y'know to be quite sincere, sometimes the cynicism some have is a little deflating - at its heart we're a bunch of creative nerds just excited to make cool stuff and tell a story that we hope people will enjoy. The main reason we're making the show, is simply because we really wanted to do it, Jeremy, Jesse, Jat and I have had found so much enjoyment in it and in working with Lex and Otis and Mappa etc and the crazy talented writers and actors. Sure it's good for the overall ARK IP but that wasn't the main impetus

[grizzled sand]

Personally I’ve always wanted a ark show or movie, especially after that one live action kind of trailer for aberration with the girl, bulbdog, and rockdrake

[sour canyon]

My friends used to joke that ark would get an anime with me because they knew I hated that cringe shit. Shows not anime but we were all laughing for a good few minutes when this got announced lol.

[grizzled sand]

I think the art style is one of the best they could of gone with honestly

[grizzled sand]

I was sleeping when it was announced and I woke up to ark 2 and the animated series and I was just freaking out lol

I never expected a ark 2 to actually happen

[sour canyon]

I don't really see people being cynical over the show in here tbh. Mostly just "praise bob"

[grizzled sand]

Think she was talking about the dude saying the purpose of the show was for money or something

[sour canyon]

Ark 2 chats a different story tho

[sour canyon]

I don't think one guy would cause a whole paragraph

[grizzled sand]

“The cynicism some have” idk

Honestly tho why would they make a show for money lol

It’s more of a cool project in my eyes

[oak brook]

💫

[grizzled sand]

Bob > your favorite verse

[oak brook]

haha

[grizzled sand]

It’s a must that someone in the show gets purlovia’d and then have to sit there for 10 seconds watching their tame be ripped apart just like us players

[sour canyon]

Nah they gotta black screen and get lb'd

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

I maybe one of the hard critics in this chat (along with the #lore-nerdz)

But we all agree to Praise Bob

[charred verge]

Yes

I want to see Bob mesh raid

Perfect representation of ark

[steel widget]

bob needs a army of tamed dodos

[fair trout]

Bob will die to the first dilo we see

[vocal torrent]

bob will die to anything including a dung beetle and will respawn to die again

[velvet temple]

C4 dodopocalypse

[charred verge]

pre flyer nerf

[vocal torrent]

Bob gets picked up by any flyer that wilds in game normally can't

i would definitely turn off my brain just for that skit alone

[charred verge]

Me watching ARK AS be like: "Hehe funny ark momento"

[fair trout]

Bob will be the true hero of the animated.

Screw the rest.. long live bob

[undone gull]

hazzar.... long live Bob...lol

[vocal torrent]

Praise Bob

[unreal pulsar]

The one thing I would like to see in the Ark Animated series:

After an episode or two establishing the world, stakes, etc, we have......let's call it a "Training Montage" of Bob getting killed. Starts off with like 10 seconds per death, and slowly speeds up to 1 death every second or so

and then, at the end of the montage, we see Bob successfully coming out of hazardous situations, and has successfully tamed a Dodo or two and a Para or something.

.........only for the lot to get stomped flat by a T-Rex or Bronto's foot, and then a "He's ready" moment to bring us back into the rest of the series

[heavy finch]

They should do it at the start of every episode

like a title card but a series of bob dying