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7c Nickel posted:Bleh... anyone know how long the sale is going to last? Even with the discount it's like 60 bucks with the DLCs. I'm wavering. I recently picked it up with this sale and decided to pass on the DLC bundle, figuring by the time I’ve gotten my fill of the base game the DLC might be on sale later. I think the sale lasts through tomorrow only though.
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That scenario literally just happened to my friend and I’s humble little thatch hut last night at around 4am.  The game is great fun in a bizarre and endearing way. It is quite unique. e: live transcript that woke me up last night 
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I do actually have a question about the game. I've noticed that a majority of servers I have tried have severe rubber band lag issues. The one server I found that did not have this problem was an Extinction server that apparently resets fairly often. Are there servers out there that do not have rubber band lag issues in combat that aren't Extinction? I am wondering if after a long enough time has elapsed there are just too many player buildings and the servers start to implode with lag?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:3 years after release, they finally got actual tracing and performance testing tools, and learned that no poo poo, having 500+ autoturrets and another 500 species X turrets all in render and running the AI logic every tick causes the server to completely poo poo itself. Like 500-700+ms per tick, just on that code. So yeah, server running at a generous 1-2 FPS would cause the server to lag like a son of a bitch. 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: -Powerful tamed dinos roaming the perimeter on aggressive -Extra wall layers / maze structures to increase the C4 requirement -Strategic placement of rocket turrets At a certain point, I don't really think a base should be able to automatically defend itself at all hours of the day with zero player interaction either. Unkillable alpha tribes indicate to me that once a server has become established, that's it - the game is over for that server. It discourages new players from wanting to join and try their luck. I don't see that as good gameplay design overall, but I've also never partaken in an end game raid so I don't really have a grasp on how realistic it is to truly overtake an existing alpha tribe. These giant clusterfuck bases are clearly killing performance too. It's cool that goons have an insane empire, but it melts my GTX 1080 system down to an 8FPS slideshow of an experience. It's the only game where I can hear my GPU's fans while wearing my noise canceling headphones. Even outside the base there is constant rubber-banding with everything else on the map. Not saying turret nerfing is the only solution to this, far from it, but I am glad they are at least taking steps to address it. Siets fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 16:26
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Hah wow. For all the things the AI gets right in this game, that sure is lovely that dinos can’t be used for base defense. So wandering really only works if you entirely pen your area. At first I thought “ok, just make a pen around the island” but then a determined enemy player could just knock down a part of the outer wall and the dinos would proceed to own themselves shortly thereafter. 
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What do you mean by mass spoiling meat? I learned last night you can do Split All on a stack of meat to speed up that process greatly if you want spoiled meat for narcos. The flip side is also true where you can keep everything in stacks to greatly reduce spoilage.
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Doom Rooster posted:Oh snap. Is Split All an option on right click now? Yessir! 
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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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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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Watching a literal CRAB BATTLE with nearly a hundred goons pelting one with arrows was a lot of fun today. 
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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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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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Our tribe built a small chair on the surface of Aberration. The plan is to abduct an annoying beach bob and handcuff him to the chair, while he slowly waits to be crucified by the sun. Ark is a good game. 
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Colapops posted:Gonna have to work fast. The sun destroys all structures, so you'd have to build it at night in a spot where the sun will be. You probably already knew that but I witnessed someone building a stone base up on the surface and you can guess how that ended. We tested and for some reason our chair survived multiple day night cycles. 
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Is the company gonna ban me for daring to play with goons again? This is an important question.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Anyone still play this? It was $19 on Steam Sale and I've been watching a YouTube channel of people playing on a casual server. I've never done a survival game before so I'm pretty excited! Game is fun and worth that price for entry if you’re a kid at heart who grew up with Jurassic Park. The game is super malleable to suit a lot of individual tastes. It just all comes down to finding your favorite map + server setting combo and then boom before you know it Ark is at 500+ hours played on your Steam account. PVP can be fun but doubly depends on the server settings and the people that play there. As a rule of thumb (this is coming from a vet), stay far the gently caress away from official server PVP. It might be fun at first, but eventually you will lose all your poo poo to either A.) a bunch of racist 4-Chan 14 year olds, or B.) a bunch of poopsocking Elite Chinese Invaders that attack your base at 4am while you’re sleeping just like Alex Jones warned you about. Oh, and don’t clan up with goons, ever. The developers way of dealing with hackers is to ban everyone in the tribe and who is allied with the tribe. So yeah, unless you’re for some reason a fan of losing your account due to guilt by association, I’d steer clear of that and just do PVP with real life friends or on private servers.
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twistedmentat posted:I do like the stories of people loving around by putting them in prisons and stuff, but not actively trying to wreck their experience. My fondest memory in this game is imprisoning some angry Russian guy for over a week on an official server I used to play on. Every time I checked the cage, he was always logged on and would start angrily swearing in broken English at anyone who would come near him. Eventually most of the players on the server learned about the cage with the swearing Russian and were all so entertained by it that we all made a sort of gentleman’s agreement not to break down the structure so that we could keep him there indefinitely. For almost two weeks the Russian would log in every day for several hours and just sit there, handcuffed and naked, swearing incoherently at anyone who came by before ultimately giving up on the character and moving servers or quitting the game.
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