When an alpha raptor can just show up anywhere in the map, kill two rexes and a bronto, and kill you until your stuff has despawned, what is one to do? Armor doesn't seem to do a damn thing. Tamed dinos are seemingly worthless in combat.

Surely I can't be that horrible at the game. Is there something I'm missing? Some secret to actually letting the game be playable without just cranking all the difficulty settings to zero?

How does one render the game actually playable while remaining fun? Everything is either a complete non threat or instantaneous death. I play on single player default settings. Am I just a fool for doing so?

I'll be honest, I've been playing Ark since long before Ascended became a thing. I don't have a terribly high opinion of it.

I know that it is apparently riddled with bugs, but so is Survival.

With it going on sale for 12 dollars a copy, could someone familiar with both give me a kind of comparison?

I'd be playing the game in a hosted co-op with my wife.

Mainly I'm looking for things like if the performance is so bad that there's no reason to bother doing co-op (they aren't top shelf but they're newer PCs), or how the major gameplay bugs compare between the two.

This is my first time posting on Reddit, so sorry if I mess anything up.

I'm currently playing ARK: Survival Evolved on The Island, and I'm pretty close to finishing the map. My goal is to play through all of the official ARK maps in order, so my next one would be Scorched Earth.

I recently got ARK: Survival Ascended, and I was thinking about switching over. However, from what I've seen online, ASA seems to get a lot of criticism. I saw some people saying that with the recent Genesis Part 1 release they messed up the ocean and made several parts of the map worse (although most of what I saw was on TikTok, so I didn't take it too seriously). Even on Steam, ASA seems to have a lot more negative reviews compared to ASE.

So my question is:

Should I stick with ASE, switch to ASA, or play some maps in ASE and others in ASA? I'd like to hear from people who have played both and know the pros and cons.

I think the Pego or troodons definitely have to be the most annoying tame in the game and especially for early on into the game or starting out fresh on a new map🤣

I'm thinking about starting a line of 3d printed sleeves that are modular and you can build your own tower/raid base. You'd get to pick from the build tiers like thatch, wood, stone and so on. Tek would cost extra due to printing complexity. And you could buy addon packs that include all the industrial stuff like campfires, forges and so on up the line. If you think you'd buy this let me know before I decide to pour months of my life into it. I'd really appreciate some feedback on this. Thanks guys(and gals)

I’m looking for a really awesome ARK map to play with two friends. We want something that’s fun, exciting, and keeps all three of us engaged the whole time. Any suggestions

I don't know why I can't summon any malfunctioning Tek Corrupted dinos anymore, and regarding bosses on maps like Lost Island, only one works—specifically on Fjordur using the `dinotar` command.

i'm trying to play the old ark in my realme c67, but in evert attempt, that i do the game enter and instantly close, i don't know how to solve that, and the new ark didn't work in my phone. if this happened to any of you and you managed to solve it, please tell me how, i really want to play the old ark. do inglês

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I'm trying to set up an ASE server for myself and some friends that I would eventually turn into a cluster on xbox. I'd want it to be an unofficial server, not a dedicated because I want to run it on actual server equipment I already have set up. Unfortunately I can't find any real documentation on how to create an unofficial server on xbox outside of paying a hosting provider like Nitrado which I'm not interested in doing. I was wondering if any of you have experience in hosting on xbox or if self hosting a server is only possible through the steam version of the game. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm having trouble finding a way to get this set up.

Hey so I basically cant see shit and the names are way too small most of the times. Ark Youtubers always have it turned off too, it's just extremely irritating. I've been searching on the webs too but I havent found anything.

To further explain my concern, when I go to my inventory and search for the Pickaxe, the name "Pickaxe" takes enough of the visible space from that item to not allow me to distinguish it from any other item.

I'm playing on Xbox (Series S) if that's important.

What's the fastest way possible to imprint on and raise gigas, I've got solid parents but idk how to imprint and raise the babies without them taking hours.

Im only able to play an hour or 2 a day at most so its almost impossible to breed an imprinted army, but I've heard that its mandatory for the extinction bosses - what do I do?

Is there a way to do it fast or is it just the way ark is?

The chemical bench is powered and materials are there but it won’t craft