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Doom Rooster posted:Oh snap. Is Split All an option on right click now? Yessir! 
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About time, awesome! I don't have nearly as much time to play as I used to, so I am running solo with XP and harvest cranked way up, and tame time turned wayyy down. I'm fine dicking around on my own, but are any of the end game options soloable at all? I saw there are easy versions of bosses but assume those are still intended for groups, yeah?
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Nov 28, 2017 22:34
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Siets posted:What do you mean by mass spoiling meat? Yeah there are mod solutions for spoiling meat faster, but in the base game that's still probably the best option. It sucks because that's a lot of micro, and a lot of inventory spaces. The best (laziest) option is still just letting meat accumulate on your carnivores. But yeah if you need a ton of narcs in a short amount of time it's a bit of a pain.
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Nov 29, 2017 03:43
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The Turret/Plant X Limit has caused some head scratching with my tribe, trying to work out how to get our bases down to the required limit.
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Nov 29, 2017 04:35
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Siets posted:I'm brand new to the game and still just getting a handle on how things work past stone tier, but I have to imagine there are going to be other solutions to the Steggo + C4 problem than just turrets? Just spitballing but: I've seen the layered and honeycombed/maze designs before. You're absolutely right about the alpha tribes though. The only problem with the system is that its very realistic in that respect. On the other hand the hammer space of resources means that its nigh impossible for smaller tribes to band together and truly wipe anyone once they get to that point. Spent 6 hours in some last alliance of beach bobs of demolishing a wall? Oh its ok, that dude has half a city's worth of guns ammo and materials stuffed in his pet otter's arsehole, he just has to put them all back down instantly and its like nothing happened. I can't think of any fun way of balancing out cost and reward. There are too many moving parts within the scope of the game that tries to let you do everything to plug all the holes that determined min maxers poke in it.
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Nov 29, 2017 07:07
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So my ocean surface water is opaque and I see that’s a known issue with Macs. All I’ve found are posts complaining about it, nothing about a fix. Any ideas?
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Nov 29, 2017 19:04
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Siets posted:-Powerful tamed dinos roaming the perimeter on aggressive 1: The AI is stupid and if your primary defense is tamed dinosaurs I'm just going to scoop them all up in a bird and drown them. 2: People do this already but once you get to the point where you can farm C4 effectively and quickly "A few extra walls" don't really matter. I've seen goon groups completely demolish structures "Just because we could" and not caring about costs at all. 3: Turrets being easy to mitigate is already a problem, it doesn't really matter how you place them. There's a reason turret spam became prevalent, because you needed enough turrets to zot out a soak bronto quickly, which is silly as poo poo.
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Nov 29, 2017 23:53
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HelloSailorSign posted:So my ocean surface water is opaque and I see that’s a known issue with Macs. All I’ve found are posts complaining about it, nothing about a fix. Any ideas? I managed to fix it, but good luck fixing performance in general being utter shite on Macs period. I've got a 2016 top spec Macbook with the best possible video card and it was an absolutely slideshow even on medium. It's really honestly meant to be played in a Windows environment. At the very least consider bootcamp if it is your only option. All that aside... The fix I found was to go into the game's install directory and locate this specific file: code:If you have TheCenter mod/DLC downloaded and installed, then simply copy and place it's water file with the same name from it's directory over the top of the PrimalEarth directory's water file to achieve normal looking water: code:
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Nov 29, 2017 23:58
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Yeah I’ve got it set to low - 2014 iMac. Thanks for the tips, I’ll see if that works!
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Nov 30, 2017 05:10
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That did it! I have The Center, so it looks like it's supposed to now. Thanks.
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I was thinking it was unfair that carnivore tames had a superior taming timer reduction technique by feeding them prime meat compared to herbivores which to me was always just "mejoberries, lol..." Turns out you can feed them stimberries until they are halfway or mostly starved, let them wake up, knock them down again, and then finish with mejoberries. By letting them wake up, it resets the taming efficiency rating to its default but the dino retains their starved status. Pretty neato taming trick I thought. Also I joined DEA but their base and overall setup is super overwhelming to me as a newbie. (The entire server they are based on is also a rubber-bandy-laggy-mess too unfortunately, which makes for aggravating gameplay for me personally. Not sure if this recently got any better with the turret nerf or not.) A bunch of my RL friends tagged along when I picked up Ark with the Steam sale, so our 7~9 member group is slowly progressing past stone into metal tier (hopefully) and I'm learning the game fairly well with them. I think it helps to be on the ground floor with building up new infrastructure to really learn how things work, so I'm excited to dive into Aberration with DEA goons when that launches.
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I play this on a private server i run for my little brother. I had to set him up a private server because he was logging into the pve servers. And driving me absolutely nuts with his complaints about the animal garages that keep the servers at the tame caps and all that drama. Whats amusing is there isnt a way for the pve servers to clean that up, is there? Im listening to his bitching about it, and its coming across as a microcosm of American politics. As the poor and under class (those without any tames and prevented from getting tames by server cap) get prevented from performing any actions against those that ruin it for everyone (tame capped parking accounts) and if you complain, or listen to chat, its not the fault of people at their tame cap, its the fault of new players or the chinese. blaming poor and minorities. so amusing 
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winterwerefox posted:I play this on a private server i run for my little brother. I had to set him up a private server because he was logging into the pve servers. And driving me absolutely nuts with his complaints about the animal garages that keep the servers at the tame caps and all that drama. Whats amusing is there isnt a way for the pve servers to clean that up, is there? Im listening to his bitching about it, and its coming across as a microcosm of American politics. As the poor and under class (those without any tames and prevented from getting tames by server cap) get prevented from performing any actions against those that ruin it for everyone (tame capped parking accounts) and if you complain, or listen to chat, its not the fault of people at their tame cap, its the fault of new players or the chinese. blaming poor and minorities. so amusing Yeah I've found myself laughing at the fact that the game makes me worry like some 1940's newspaper about the yellow peril facing the server, they eat you in your sleep you know! Then espousing the trump solution, asking why the alpha's haven't built a wall yet. Its a 24 hour game in a world with 24 timezones. The only problem is that there's only ever room for political intrigue and diplomacy with people who play at overlapping times. There's as many people playing on the island on the reverse timezone that aren't playing the same game as you at all. Its kind of like I am Legend or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzaVd6zl2bA.
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This game is the best survival game out. Are there any Goon PS4 groups/servers?
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Dec 10, 2017 16:04
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Aberration is just around the corner. Anyone else excited about it? I’m planning to start on a private server with friends and do a whole lot of building and exploring.
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Aberration released today. How is performance since they had all the issues (on PC)? Wondering if I should grab the xpac or not.
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Performance seems the same as it is on any other map. No better, no worse.
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Watching a literal CRAB BATTLE with nearly a hundred goons pelting one with arrows was a lot of fun today.
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I had to reinstall my Ark because it kept failing and telling me there wasn't enough space on the drive to install the update. When I uninstalled it cleared up 230gb, I have no idea where all that was because the game folder was only about half that size.
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Depends posted:When I uninstalled it cleared up 230gb, I have no idea where all that was because the game folder was only about half that size. http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ Jackard fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Dec 13, 2017 08:10
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Downloading the update is definitely hosed. I had a 12.2gb update that downloaded many times over until I caught it and killed Steam. I guess I'll validate game files or something and try again tonight, unless anyone is aware of a fix.
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Dec 13, 2017 15:50
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I'm finding it almost impossible to locate loose stones in Aberration. It's hard to get on the tech ladder when you can't even craft a pickaxe.
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Gunder posted:I'm finding it almost impossible to locate loose stones in Aberration. It's hard to get on the tech ladder when you can't even craft a pickaxe. They do seem rather sporadically placed. The weirdest/dumbest part is that there are numerous areas where you can visibly see rocks on the ground but they simply aren't there. Overall getting started on Aberration seems much more difficult. There is no "safe" area like the beaches on the Island or other maps, nor the canyon in Scorched Earth.
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Colapops posted:They do seem rather sporadically placed. The weirdest/dumbest part is that there are numerous areas where you can visibly see rocks on the ground but they simply aren't there. It was a lot harder before they realised they had hosed up with the Aquatic Mushrooms actually decreasing hydration. Now you can actually start in the "Easiest" Portal area and survive for long enough to make it down to the water. loving Raptors everywhere though. Like regular spawns of 4-8 in a pack every 100 yards.
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My problem isn't typically raptors, but ravagers. The latest patch decreased their damage by 40% so maybe they won't one-shot people anymore.
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So the aquatic mushrooms finally give water, but I think they also decrease your food now? Seems like the way to go is to eat a bunch of aggeravic mushrooms first and then eat a bunch of aquatic. This lets me kind of sustain for awhile.
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Siets posted:So the aquatic mushrooms finally give water, but I think they also decrease your food now? Seems like the way to go is to eat a bunch of aggeravic mushrooms first and then eat a bunch of aquatic. This lets me kind of sustain for awhile. Yeah that's basically what I was doing. Eat food until full, then gorge on mushrooms (I think one restores ~8 water), then finish off with some food to top up. Food increases a lot quicker than water.
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Seems like tamed ravagers can't use the extremely damaging+useful gash attack. Am I just missing something?
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So, the Ragnarok update added the rest of the desert....and may have completely hosed the spawns in the big canyon area in the middle. It is now just Spinos on the private server I play on with friends. We don't have anything running that should really affect that, so I'm 90% sure that it's from this latest patch upping Spino spawns waaaaay too hard. It's fantastic though. Culling hordes of spinos on a wyvern is a goddamn blast. 
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The Gate posted:So, the Ragnarok update added the rest of the desert....and may have completely hosed the spawns in the big canyon area in the middle. It is now just Spinos on the private server I play on with friends. We don't have anything running that should really affect that, so I'm 90% sure that it's from this latest patch upping Spino spawns waaaaay too hard. e: assuming the rag is now tweaked to consider top and bottom different biomes.
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gently caress dealing with swarms of Nameless Ones
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wit posted:My guess is that spinos keep finding a place to go to the other level and the game keeps the top population topped up but they survive the fall because gently caress yeah spinos. Nah, it was a bug, they fixed it the next day. There were literally hundreds of Spinos for a day. Now there's 5 or so at a time, which is way more than before, but not insanity.
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You Am I posted:gently caress dealing with swarms of Nameless Ones You know about using a bulbdog/shinehorn to keep them from spawning and deal extra damage to them right? Also megalosaurus tames utterly trivialize even the largest groups of nameless. Only thing that sucks there is that they aren’t nearly as mobile as ravagers.
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It's pretty funny how insanely strong megalosaurs are in Aberration. I think they are legitimately the strongest animal on the map, since they can be bred and saddled unlike the "power" animals from Aberration.
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Not being able to breed basilisks or rock drake is lame and I look forward to when the devkit is released and mods are introduced for it. I'm an idiot baby who plays PvE and just wants to breed hundreds of dinos though
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PvE is the best way to play this game. I stayed out of the blue area in Aberration for a long time because I assumed that there would be things in there more dangerous than ravager packs. There kinda isn't, I feel like Ravager packs are far and away the most dangerous thing I've encountered on the map. If anything the blue area is easier than the regular area, as long as you have both a light and a hazmat suit. Oh and at least one high level mount, probably a ravager. If you can get two high level ravagers with a mate boost you are gravy as gently caress, you will demolish anything with ease in the blue. I spent a long time not engaging with breeding and now I regret it. Breeding is the fuckin way to go, gently caress taming each individual thing. Just never ever use vanilla rates, unless you hate yourself. Speed that poo poo up. SolidSnakesBandana fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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Two years ago is the best way to play this game
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I skipped Scorched Earth but I am loving the gently caress out of Abberation. It completely rekindled my bizarre love with this game.
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Jackard posted:Two years ago is the best way to play this game Pepperidge Farm Remembers 
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I skipped Scorched Earth but I am loving the gently caress out of Abberation. It completely rekindled my bizarre love with this game. I like Aberration, although I always get lost in the hell pit because everything looks the same and it's hard to identify landmarks for getting out
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