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Aberation, hands down. I love going back to an ark before flying with some extra added difficulty from the zone itself. And the feeling of getting first rock drake was just beautiful
The reason SE doesn't have an ending is pretty simple; SE was released before even the Island had an ending, and they just never went back and added one to SE. If I remember correctly, Abberration was the first map to have an official ending and then they added the Overseer to the island to complement the release of Extinction.
I wish someone would make a video discussing the history of ark and every controversy they ever did. There was so much bs, including the banning of GtJack3d and Hod gaming. The flyer nerf to balance flyers, which they then backtracked on with the introduction of griffins which could 1 shot anything at the time. Also the weird situation with selling the same game over and over as reskins such as Dark and Light, Ark Park, PixArk... They constantly did things to hurt their player base, but because it's such a niche community NOBODY exposed them for their behaviour. Some of it was absolutely insane. 7 years later and people are still complaining about meshing, but the devs don't do a thing.
PixArk was made by Snail Games which bought out Wildcard in like 2015. Even though the devs did help make it, the game was the idea of Snail Games and its unfair to blame the Wildcard devs for it.
The flyer nerf was about the servers and people computers not be able to load fast enough. If you had a half decent speed wyvern or pt you could fly into someone base before it all loaded properly causing major problem. Every new map and dino was constantly busted OP strong assuming it was functional. When abberation first released you didn't have to feed or watch any babies. Stick them next to a map plant Z and it would feed and heal you baby. You're also missed how much the smart the community is and devs refused to acknowledge it. Like how the meshing fixes they tried to implement weren't even their fixes it was a community mod they stole.
you could totally make an ark iceberg, there really is so much shit on it. Its really too bad wildcard is the one who made ark, they fucking suck at making videogames and any other studio would have done a better job.
Been here since the beginning and i'll be here till the end :) Love or hate this game it has been an amazing journey and i can't wait for what is next 👍
It’s the most unique map, due its verticality, exclusion of flying creatures and the unique ways of traversing the map. Less is more sometimes. Aberration and Scorched Earth (especially Aberration) do it really well.
Scorched was rushed, but it’s one of my favourite maps. Scorched Earth and Aberration both have the same principle: Less is more. Fewer biomes, fewer creatures, fewer options. You have to work with what little the map grants you. It’s amazing. Wyverns, egg stealing and desert biomes were a new thing back then. It was refreshing. Aberration’s map was the most unique one and it’s play style without flyers and with the verticality was incredible. There are aberration and scorched biomes in other maps, but like I said, less is more. They work better if you’re stuck with them and you have to work with what little you’ve been given, instead of avoiding deserts or aberration biomes unless you need something.
I ended up having issues with both Scorched Earth and Aberration. My issues with Scorched Earth: Progression is near non-existent. If you transfer in from The Island, there's not a lot for you to do on this map. Your main goal will be to gather the 3 artifacts and Wyvern Eggs. Both of which can be done fairly easily once you've obtained flyers of any kind and have access to guns. The hardest enemies to kill are the Golems. The Wyverns themselves are massively overpowered and hauling a bunch to take out the final boss on the hardest difficulty isn't really that hard. But, you're "in limbo" for all of that time. Your goals and avenues for obtaining those goals are incredibly limited. Likewise, this map is one of the glitchiest there is with frequent crashes that can literally kill you if it happens while flying. Water, itself is "rare", but not really a problem as it only has the two uses: Cooking Medical Brews and staving off your own thirst. The rare spawn rate of Death Worms is also a problem. Couple this with the weather effects that also just "stop gameplay for a while". It's a map that could've benefitted from the existing formula of "The Island". Namely, 10 Artifacts, 3 bosses, one overboss. Unfortunately, the map suffers a lot from "pass through" syndrome. You're just passing through, nothing to see here, get your Wyverns and move on. The other new creatures aren't really worth obtaining... and there's only one Phoenix on the map, so if you want more, prepare to server hop or map reset. Not a lot of good places to build on the map either. Aberration is incredibly linear. I had fun for the initial hours of the map. Exploring the map was a massive priority since specific resources needed to be acquired to even TRAVERSE the map. But, in actuality, there are only two routes on the map. One is a long trek down to the boss room and the Rock Drakes. The other is a long trek into basically... nowhere. The "nowhere" is at least a nest so you can get infected and get your own Reaper if you want one. Oh, and I guess it has one of the artifacts you'll need as well. But, once you know the layout of the map, it's really quite simplistic and... boring? Again, there's not a lot to do here. Not a lot to explore. The sheer amount of "rare resources" you need to even fight the boss here mirrors that of The Island, but they spawn less frequently. Likewise, the "mushrooms" only serve as a minor temporary roadblock to anywhere. The earthquakes also become fairly annoying over time. So, it's a linear map you'll spend a ton of time on just from low spawn rates. It's another "Pass through" map. You're here only long enough to collect your Rock Drakes and the materials it takes to get to Rockwell. The boss fight of Rockwell itself was also... not fun. It's built more for a "group" to take on. But, at the same time, they limit what that group can bring so it becomes more of a "slog" than "interesting". It is literally "go in a circle around the arena, constantly moving, and then go to the center to deal damage, rinse and repeat until dead". It's also a massive hassle to even get your dinos down to the arena at all. Or through any actual point you could "teleport" your group of dinosaurs. This is the first map I ever actually needed "Tek Transporters" and I built a fair few for traversal and spent an exceptionally long time to get the element required to build them. For me, they were "okay" maps. I quickly grew tired of their particular "gimmicks" and "Lack of anywhere interesting to build or go". Then, when I wanted to leave them, it was exhausting to just gather the materials I needed to defeat the boss so I could move along. I'm having considerably more fun with Extinction, but I'm seeing some of the same issues as with previous maps... the materials you need to gather to even fight the bosses is insane. I actually miss the days of "The Island" when the materials were decently easy to come by if you knew what you were doing and all you REALLY needed was the artifacts. I dunno, I really liked "The Island". Lots of interesting places to build, a clear path of progression, that path of progression would often net you the resources you needed to fight the bosses, and then you could win. It took a really long time to leave The Island, but it was a clearly gated "open world" to an extent. Other maps don't follow that formula and the gameplay on those maps suffers as a result. Maybe those maps play differently as a "fresh" character. But, as someone who is "following the storyline" like myself, and transferring between Arks... they're not that great. Especially with no decent places to "set up a base".
@@londonraptor-859 Yeah, the map likely feels a lot different if you're playing as a "fresh character" instead of a "transfer in" like I had been. The initial raptors in the game posed more of a threat to my friend and I than the Ravagers ever did. But, when you have nothing except some bows, they are pretty terrifying. Until we found an item box spawn and pulled our equipment out of it from the transfer. The Ravagers never posed a threat to us as a result and we quickly tamed them for usage. We also never had issues with Rock Drakes or Basilisks. Rock Drakes are easily spotted and have crap AI (though they do take several dozen shotgun shells to put down! Always bring a mount to kill them in a few hits!). We didn't have issues with Basilisks because they were such a rare spawn that we barely ever saw them and had trouble collecting them before we could "move on". Most of our Tames ended up murdering them fairly quickly when we did see them too. The two threats we DID have were: Reapers. We had to fight these to get their drops to even fight the boss. Otherwise, easily avoided for most of your time on the map since they don't "guard anything" of use or note. Radiation: Figuring out which dinos could stand it and getting the materials for the hazard suits was a pain. The mushrooms were an "interesting threat" until we figured out that nomming one of the gatherable mushrooms before encountering the mushrooms on the ground (or once you had been spored by them) meant they were basically zero threat at all. We ended up just building next to the river in the green zone because it was the only place with "enough flat land" to work with in terms of a base. After all, we needed a place to breed dinos, for all of our structures to refine metal and craft, and a dozen other things. Nowhere else offered near enough space for that. Aberration was also the map in which I learned "you need to shove some of the endgame crafting facilities into the obelisks to transfer to the next map, otherwise getting those materials to build them is going to be a slog". For us, the "fun" of the map quickly ran out as it was just two linear paths and there wasn't much to actually explore or do beyond "grind resources", of which we did a lot of... because the resource distribution on the map isn't "great". Maybe if we had come in on fresh characters, it would've been more fun. But, we came in as max level characters with stuff waiting for us to be "battle ready" and so there wasn't much to do other than "breed tames, gather resources, get the new creatures, and fight the boss". Oh, yeah, the light was an "interesting" mechanic for a bit, but after a while we just stopped caring about the light pets because you got more xp from killing all the Nameless than making sure they "stayed away". On top of which, the flying guys attracted to the light posed too many problems for us and so having our pets either not be "on" or leaving them at home ended up just being the smarter option for us. Which... rendered light in the game absolutely worthless to us.
@@XxTaiMTxX Read the whole thing. 2 things: 1: Aberration is my favorite map simply because of the way it's designed and the challenge it poses 2: 50% of your comment is just these " "
It's my fav map becouse of the introduction to the rock Drake and also the insane depth it added into the lore with Rockwell also the ark itself looks so beautiful
If the devs freaking move their asses, then maybe! Extremely sad how my favorite and most played game went to sh**! But also some dlc broke the gameplay for me after extinction it started to crumble ... i wish they would have released lost island and fjordur before Genesis and extinction!
The nostalgia man! Anyone that's managed to get the hang of this game despite the learning curve, understands how amazing it is and the feeling of taming your first creature or placing your first metal foundation. An absolute gem. Your video will inspire more people to give it a shot. Amazing video!
I remember all those feelings man. Dinos were my thing as a kid and when I discovered this game I was all in. Absorbed every bit of information I could from people already playing with huge tribes amd and on YT.
The reason why scorched earth doesn't have a cinematic ending/ ascension is because of some controversial money problems wildcard had with thier parent company known as snail games. They forced wildcard to release Scorched earth as a Dlc as fast as possible to make more money. Wc wasn't able to do certain things with SE thanks to that. Also WC kinda hates SE and thats also why we have sooo much content from that map on free Dlcs.
after all these years WC finally committed to making an scorched earth ending though It was announced to come with the switch rework and then onto the other platforms later in the year iirc
@@thelonlyginger3882 Pretty sure that everyone who played scorched earth on its release loves the map. It's just been ruined by all of its content being on the free maps with easier methods to obtain the same things
Broooo a fellow aberration enjoyer! I will die on this hill saying it’s the best map ever created for one simple, overlooked reason: no fliers. It makes it so you have to actually traverse and explore the entire map while prone to dangers constantly instead of flying above everything and only knowing 2% of the map. Also introduced crabby bois so yeah 12/10 🦀
I played first year when it was released and since then it's still my favourite game. Sadly, I don't have the time to play or any friends to play with anymore.
Same we were here at the beginning then once we finished fordjor we just said we're done with the game and not going to 100% this game cause it'll take to long
My guy, your not alone. Aberration will always be my favourite, from its top-tier music to its alien flora and fauna. The best bit will always be the ending. That ascension song hits different
@@WildRexy What are you on about lmfao, Survival Ascended recommended requierments are: 38gb of ram, rtx 3080, like if it's not ark 2 what is it lmfao. Like if you want better than Survival Ascended you will need a fucking 4090 to run that shit
@@tarikccix1954 Bro ark ascended isnt ark 2 my guy, its literally a remastered version of evolved and upgraded into unreal engine 5 which evolved was in engine 4. thats why it has 38 gb and rtx 3080. also ark 2 will be made in unreal engine 5 aswell just like ascended so no you will not need "4090 to run that shit"
Aberration is probably my favorite map too. I really liked the progression into the other zones and rock drakes are awesome on it. And as a solo player the end boss on alpha is very doable without spending huge amounts of time on breeding dino's.
Great job on the video my dude! I was entertained from beginning to end (which says a lot because I'm ADHD and the slightest boredom makes me leave lmao)! Keep up the good work brother!🤜🤛
Me describing ark when I first got it: ark is a survival game where you tame dinosaurs and survive on an island Me describing ark after buying every dlc: arks is a game that takes up almost 200gbs of space on your Xbox.
Ark is definitely my favourite game of all time. I’ve been playing for 6 years and haven’t regretted a single moment. I’ve played PvP, PvE and have just messed around for hours.
Ark will always be in my top 5 of all-time favorite games. So much fun, so much frustration, so many dinos. From dodo armies to bronto tanks, armorless foot races around death island and punch k.o.-ing a t-rex, every moment was so much fun and at times so terrifying. I cannot wait for Ark 2 to come out in 2067.
I remember playing this in 2018 when I was 9-10, some of my best memories, it introduced me to the wider gaming community (discord and other stuff). Ark will forever hold a special spot in my heart... I would do anything to play with my old friends on there again. I would stay up late (12pm - 1 pm) taming dinos and building bases with my friends on there aswell as doing other stuff. I remember the communities and all the base raiding we would do and how you would have to talk to different tribes to organize shit... it was memorable.
Oh trust me, Aberration is my favorite map by FAR. I just absolutely love the drastic change in atmosphere and the switch up in the way to play the map
I have to say the ability to tech up and get to guns and even future technology (tek) is a good idea but I hate that the game went from a hard survival game with dinosaurs in about surviving and thriving from the bottom of the food chain to becoming whatever it is now with the nonsensical additions (I like wyverns but why am I being eaten by a metal velociraptor in my dinosaur survival game) and path of the 'story' of the game. Ragnarok is probably still THE BEST map to this day for being so good at just being a fun survival map with a huge map and plenty of dinos. The center is not a terrible map now looking back at what they release nowadays...
I personally LOVE aberration. Its so pretty, and the concept of it is just amazing to me. Still refuse to play it cause it terrifies me to no extent, but its by far one of my favorite maps.
I've spent most of my time on the first map. Had to start again so many times due to losing save data. Never fought any of the bosses and don't care to either. I just want to build, tame and explore.
I’ve been playing Ark since 2017 and have never even once attempted a boss battle. I am here to build cool shit and befriend cool dinos - I am not tryna watch all my pals die like 15x in a row. More power to everyone who kicks the bosses’ asses - throw em a solid punch for me
At first I hated Aberration because of the no flying, making it very hard to map out the whole map (which I still don't know fully) but I really like it now. It's such a cool concept with some really cool biomes and locations!
The difference between the normal Dino’s and the X/R Dino’s, is the fact that the x and r ones do more damage and have less heath then the normal ones. ( and the aberration variant has more damage and less heath as well). Hope this helps!
I got Ark the week it dropped on steam. 8k hrs later on every type of game mode and im hella over it. bloody top game all around and i will remember the good and bad times forever. Great video bud keep it up
I spent hours with my buddy building a single boat base. After fighting off several raiders we finally set sail and were immediately destroyed by a whale. I won’t ever have enough time to scratch the surface of this game.
I downloaded ark on my phone about a year ago and knew nothing about it. I thought you just survived long enough to the point where you are unstoppable I had no idea all this existed
2 years since this video was made and no ark 2 still LMFAO but yeah i miss the old ark i started playing right when the center came out and i loved ark until when extention came out i stopped playing cause manas where everywhere in official servers and it was impossible to start
Honestly I don't think you could have explained this game any better, this was perfect, it can be the most fun, rage inducing, and and depressing game ever and it can all happen within a time span of a day
I’d love to play Arc again. My friend and I, despite our initial hiccups, had an amazing time learning how to survive in this weird island with Dinos. My only problems were that we didn’t know how to set up a server for ourselves that didn’t have my friend be tied to the server host like a tether, and that the game is **300 hecking gigabytes**
Scorched Earth has a really inspiring landscape. It's easy to copy and translate into different medias. I made a desert biome in Minecraft using modded blocks I made and it was based off of Scorched Earth. It has the same orange-y appearance with the dark grey mountains and sharp cliff things. Also, Aberration is a goated map. Such an interesting and awesome design. It was the one DLC my buddy got excited for because of the "Xenomorphs" and Roll Rats. We played it a little too much.
Bruh... I'm recording my 100 days video for Scorched Earth right now.. When you said, "your lvl 7 Jerboa... THAT YOU NAMED RADAR BECAUSE YOUR BASIC" my heart literally dropped... Needless to say I will be changing my Jerboa name tonight lmao.
You forgot the "mysterious" pre-release history in which we knew nothing about the game apart from one secretive dev interview. Good times, and great video.
Quite interesting how much went over this games lifespan. Also I love how they recently added a cinematic ending to SE, like 6 years or so after it released. Also ALSO, the part about how aberration isn’t spelt “Abb” really got me as I do the same thing
I'm sure since you're still in school you have other things but just want you to know you could do this for a living if you wanted, you're hilarious, editing is solid if not great. You got my sub for sure.
nice delve into the maps' histories. the only history of ark i remember well is when people used to build on the volcano in island map during beta, then wildcard announced the "eruption" of the volcano which basically destroyed all bases built on said volcano some time after full release.
What’s your favorite map?
Fjordur has taken the top spot for me, before that it was Ab
ab bb
Aberation, hands down. I love going back to an ark before flying with some extra added difficulty from the zone itself. And the feeling of getting first rock drake was just beautiful
Fjordur
Extinction😎
My brain before this: ark,ark is a game where you beat everything and get severe depression from you fav dinos dying and repeat
This is very true.
MY brain before this: run from big dino, beat small dino to death, tame friendly dino
@@ΔΣΘ-ξ6τ beat Dino to near death then become friends
And you lag like hell on online servers
Bro i swear this game did make me depressed i had to quit
My guy out here becoming a historian, only been around for the past few years but loved it.
Excited for Ark 2 to see where the story goes next!
Very excited and can't wait for ark 2 SO EXCITEDDDDDD
100 days 0.5x when?
@@tylerdavisson8495 sorry to say but wild card is rockstars twin with realece
3rd person only is not a good start though.
@@guitarsandcars2586 i completely agree! how is it going to feel immersive with no 1st person view? 3rd person is only good when riding
The reason SE doesn't have an ending is pretty simple; SE was released before even the Island had an ending, and they just never went back and added one to SE. If I remember correctly, Abberration was the first map to have an official ending and then they added the Overseer to the island to complement the release of Extinction.
no. overseeer was added way before ab
@@WizardBrandon I think he meant the overseer cinematic?
Bro did you just edit this?
I wish someone would make a video discussing the history of ark and every controversy they ever did. There was so much bs, including the banning of GtJack3d and Hod gaming. The flyer nerf to balance flyers, which they then backtracked on with the introduction of griffins which could 1 shot anything at the time. Also the weird situation with selling the same game over and over as reskins such as Dark and Light, Ark Park, PixArk...
They constantly did things to hurt their player base, but because it's such a niche community NOBODY exposed them for their behaviour. Some of it was absolutely insane. 7 years later and people are still complaining about meshing, but the devs don't do a thing.
You forgot that they defended a Chinese hacking tribe named TEA.
so like a Ark survival Ice berg? i’m pretty sure there’s a video out for that
PixArk was made by Snail Games which bought out Wildcard in like 2015. Even though the devs did help make it, the game was the idea of Snail Games and its unfair to blame the Wildcard devs for it.
The flyer nerf was about the servers and people computers not be able to load fast enough. If you had a half decent speed wyvern or pt you could fly into someone base before it all loaded properly causing major problem.
Every new map and dino was constantly busted OP strong assuming it was functional.
When abberation first released you didn't have to feed or watch any babies. Stick them next to a map plant Z and it would feed and heal you baby.
You're also missed how much the smart the community is and devs refused to acknowledge it.
Like how the meshing fixes they tried to implement weren't even their fixes it was a community mod they stole.
you could totally make an ark iceberg, there really is so much shit on it.
Its really too bad wildcard is the one who made ark, they fucking suck at making videogames and any other studio would have done a better job.
Cool vid! Might check this game out.
Might?
U post every day
On ark
@@NotKnox00 LMAO its a joke
Hell- o
Been here since the beginning and i'll be here till the end :) Love or hate this game it has been an amazing journey and i can't wait for what is next 👍
ye me to
Blur can I get a shout-out for being lazy?
@@olliesalmons5703 shout out
Same
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I love aberration, it’s my favourite map. Can be annoying to get started, but overall quite fun
It’s the most unique map, due its verticality, exclusion of flying creatures and the unique ways of traversing the map.
Less is more sometimes. Aberration and Scorched Earth (especially Aberration) do it really well.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 ark without suits and flyers is actually a way better game
@@atomlurch1 Hard agree
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It’s more of a challenge without them.
Too bad the maps an easy mesh
Scorched was rushed, but it’s one of my favourite maps.
Scorched Earth and Aberration both have the same principle:
Less is more. Fewer biomes, fewer creatures, fewer options. You have to work with what little the map grants you. It’s amazing. Wyverns, egg stealing and desert biomes were a new thing back then. It was refreshing. Aberration’s map was the most unique one and it’s play style without flyers and with the verticality was incredible. There are aberration and scorched biomes in other maps, but like I said, less is more. They work better if you’re stuck with them and you have to work with what little you’ve been given, instead of avoiding deserts or aberration biomes unless you need something.
I ended up having issues with both Scorched Earth and Aberration.
My issues with Scorched Earth: Progression is near non-existent. If you transfer in from The Island, there's not a lot for you to do on this map. Your main goal will be to gather the 3 artifacts and Wyvern Eggs. Both of which can be done fairly easily once you've obtained flyers of any kind and have access to guns. The hardest enemies to kill are the Golems. The Wyverns themselves are massively overpowered and hauling a bunch to take out the final boss on the hardest difficulty isn't really that hard. But, you're "in limbo" for all of that time. Your goals and avenues for obtaining those goals are incredibly limited. Likewise, this map is one of the glitchiest there is with frequent crashes that can literally kill you if it happens while flying. Water, itself is "rare", but not really a problem as it only has the two uses: Cooking Medical Brews and staving off your own thirst. The rare spawn rate of Death Worms is also a problem. Couple this with the weather effects that also just "stop gameplay for a while". It's a map that could've benefitted from the existing formula of "The Island". Namely, 10 Artifacts, 3 bosses, one overboss. Unfortunately, the map suffers a lot from "pass through" syndrome. You're just passing through, nothing to see here, get your Wyverns and move on. The other new creatures aren't really worth obtaining... and there's only one Phoenix on the map, so if you want more, prepare to server hop or map reset. Not a lot of good places to build on the map either.
Aberration is incredibly linear. I had fun for the initial hours of the map. Exploring the map was a massive priority since specific resources needed to be acquired to even TRAVERSE the map. But, in actuality, there are only two routes on the map. One is a long trek down to the boss room and the Rock Drakes. The other is a long trek into basically... nowhere. The "nowhere" is at least a nest so you can get infected and get your own Reaper if you want one. Oh, and I guess it has one of the artifacts you'll need as well. But, once you know the layout of the map, it's really quite simplistic and... boring? Again, there's not a lot to do here. Not a lot to explore. The sheer amount of "rare resources" you need to even fight the boss here mirrors that of The Island, but they spawn less frequently. Likewise, the "mushrooms" only serve as a minor temporary roadblock to anywhere. The earthquakes also become fairly annoying over time. So, it's a linear map you'll spend a ton of time on just from low spawn rates. It's another "Pass through" map. You're here only long enough to collect your Rock Drakes and the materials it takes to get to Rockwell. The boss fight of Rockwell itself was also... not fun. It's built more for a "group" to take on. But, at the same time, they limit what that group can bring so it becomes more of a "slog" than "interesting". It is literally "go in a circle around the arena, constantly moving, and then go to the center to deal damage, rinse and repeat until dead". It's also a massive hassle to even get your dinos down to the arena at all. Or through any actual point you could "teleport" your group of dinosaurs. This is the first map I ever actually needed "Tek Transporters" and I built a fair few for traversal and spent an exceptionally long time to get the element required to build them.
For me, they were "okay" maps. I quickly grew tired of their particular "gimmicks" and "Lack of anywhere interesting to build or go". Then, when I wanted to leave them, it was exhausting to just gather the materials I needed to defeat the boss so I could move along. I'm having considerably more fun with Extinction, but I'm seeing some of the same issues as with previous maps... the materials you need to gather to even fight the bosses is insane. I actually miss the days of "The Island" when the materials were decently easy to come by if you knew what you were doing and all you REALLY needed was the artifacts.
I dunno, I really liked "The Island". Lots of interesting places to build, a clear path of progression, that path of progression would often net you the resources you needed to fight the bosses, and then you could win. It took a really long time to leave The Island, but it was a clearly gated "open world" to an extent. Other maps don't follow that formula and the gameplay on those maps suffers as a result. Maybe those maps play differently as a "fresh" character. But, as someone who is "following the storyline" like myself, and transferring between Arks... they're not that great. Especially with no decent places to "set up a base".
@@londonraptor-859 Yeah, the map likely feels a lot different if you're playing as a "fresh character" instead of a "transfer in" like I had been.
The initial raptors in the game posed more of a threat to my friend and I than the Ravagers ever did. But, when you have nothing except some bows, they are pretty terrifying. Until we found an item box spawn and pulled our equipment out of it from the transfer.
The Ravagers never posed a threat to us as a result and we quickly tamed them for usage.
We also never had issues with Rock Drakes or Basilisks. Rock Drakes are easily spotted and have crap AI (though they do take several dozen shotgun shells to put down! Always bring a mount to kill them in a few hits!). We didn't have issues with Basilisks because they were such a rare spawn that we barely ever saw them and had trouble collecting them before we could "move on". Most of our Tames ended up murdering them fairly quickly when we did see them too.
The two threats we DID have were:
Reapers. We had to fight these to get their drops to even fight the boss. Otherwise, easily avoided for most of your time on the map since they don't "guard anything" of use or note.
Radiation: Figuring out which dinos could stand it and getting the materials for the hazard suits was a pain.
The mushrooms were an "interesting threat" until we figured out that nomming one of the gatherable mushrooms before encountering the mushrooms on the ground (or once you had been spored by them) meant they were basically zero threat at all.
We ended up just building next to the river in the green zone because it was the only place with "enough flat land" to work with in terms of a base. After all, we needed a place to breed dinos, for all of our structures to refine metal and craft, and a dozen other things. Nowhere else offered near enough space for that.
Aberration was also the map in which I learned "you need to shove some of the endgame crafting facilities into the obelisks to transfer to the next map, otherwise getting those materials to build them is going to be a slog".
For us, the "fun" of the map quickly ran out as it was just two linear paths and there wasn't much to actually explore or do beyond "grind resources", of which we did a lot of... because the resource distribution on the map isn't "great".
Maybe if we had come in on fresh characters, it would've been more fun. But, we came in as max level characters with stuff waiting for us to be "battle ready" and so there wasn't much to do other than "breed tames, gather resources, get the new creatures, and fight the boss".
Oh, yeah, the light was an "interesting" mechanic for a bit, but after a while we just stopped caring about the light pets because you got more xp from killing all the Nameless than making sure they "stayed away". On top of which, the flying guys attracted to the light posed too many problems for us and so having our pets either not be "on" or leaving them at home ended up just being the smarter option for us. Which... rendered light in the game absolutely worthless to us.
@@XxTaiMTxX Read the whole thing. 2 things:
1: Aberration is my favorite map simply because of the way it's designed and the challenge it poses
2: 50% of your comment is just these " "
Man, I remember when scorched earth was still new and you were the shit if you had a wyvern cause nobody had come up with easy milk farming strata yet
@@hannialtousy6111now you just cryo pod the wyvern
Bro couldn't be more precise at the end 💀
Aberration is honestly an awesome concept that was executed somewhat well and although not many people like it it’s def my favorite
It's my fav map becouse of the introduction to the rock Drake and also the insane depth it added into the lore with Rockwell also the ark itself looks so beautiful
yeah abb is my favorite map but everyone hates it. I fucking love it 😂
Granty dropping the nostalgia banger to remind us ark was good once and can be again 👏
Legend
If the devs freaking move their asses, then maybe! Extremely sad how my favorite and most played game went to sh**!
But also some dlc broke the gameplay for me after extinction it started to crumble ... i wish they would have released lost island and fjordur before Genesis and extinction!
@@backstabbingpotato Extinction made it bad, but it was still okay. Genesis destroyed it completely
@@Rickkert2000 there so distant from the playerbase, they think everyone likes the OP, broken features!
@@markzuckerburger235 yea for real, only the real beachbobs like it
The nostalgia man! Anyone that's managed to get the hang of this game despite the learning curve, understands how amazing it is and the feeling of taming your first creature or placing your first metal foundation. An absolute gem. Your video will inspire more people to give it a shot. Amazing video!
I remember all those feelings man. Dinos were my thing as a kid and when I discovered this game I was all in. Absorbed every bit of information I could from people already playing with huge tribes amd and on YT.
I hope ark 2 has different gameplay… id do anything to bring back the feel of not knowing anything about the game
The reason why scorched earth doesn't have a cinematic ending/ ascension is because of some controversial money problems wildcard had with thier parent company known as snail games. They forced wildcard to release Scorched earth as a Dlc as fast as possible to make more money. Wc wasn't able to do certain things with SE thanks to that.
Also WC kinda hates SE and thats also why we have sooo much content from that map on free Dlcs.
after all these years WC finally committed to making an scorched earth ending though
It was announced to come with the switch rework and then onto the other platforms later in the year iirc
Wrong it’s because nobody likes scorched earth
@@thelonlyginger3882 no I like SE
@@thelonlyginger3882 Pretty sure that everyone who played scorched earth on its release loves the map. It's just been ruined by all of its content being on the free maps with easier methods to obtain the same things
bro was right about ark 2
You got that right
Broooo a fellow aberration enjoyer! I will die on this hill saying it’s the best map ever created for one simple, overlooked reason: no fliers. It makes it so you have to actually traverse and explore the entire map while prone to dangers constantly instead of flying above everything and only knowing 2% of the map. Also introduced crabby bois so yeah 12/10 🦀
I played first year when it was released and since then it's still my favourite game. Sadly, I don't have the time to play or any friends to play with anymore.
ik the feeling of not being able to play it so my condolensence
@@TheFaylier It's sad growing up and becoming responsible.
@@SVCarGallery yeah but atleast you will always have the beautiful memories
Its ok I also don't have friends to play the best game ever
Same we were here at the beginning then once we finished fordjor we just said we're done with the game and not going to 100% this game cause it'll take to long
My guy, your not alone. Aberration will always be my favourite, from its top-tier music to its alien flora and fauna. The best bit will always be the ending. That ascension song hits different
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@@djentleman8116 🤓
he was right, 2023 is almost over and no signs of ark 2 coming out any time soon
dude, ARK: Survival Ascended a.k.a ARK 2 released on 26th of October💀
@@tarikccix1954 that’s not ark 2 are you special🤦♂️ go do your research then you might actually learn a thing or two
@@WildRexy What are you on about lmfao, Survival Ascended recommended requierments are: 38gb of ram, rtx 3080, like if it's not ark 2 what is it lmfao. Like if you want better than Survival Ascended you will need a fucking 4090 to run that shit
@@tarikccix1954bro actually thinks that the remaster of evolved into ascended is ark 2💀
@@tarikccix1954 Bro ark ascended isnt ark 2 my guy, its literally a remastered version of evolved and upgraded into unreal engine 5 which evolved was in engine 4. thats why it has 38 gb and rtx 3080. also ark 2 will be made in unreal engine 5 aswell just like ascended so no you will not need "4090 to run that shit"
Aberration is probably my favorite map too. I really liked the progression into the other zones and rock drakes are awesome on it. And as a solo player the end boss on alpha is very doable without spending huge amounts of time on breeding dino's.
i remember a group of friends brought me along with some shotguns to basically burst rockwell down without needing a dino
As 2023 comes to a close I can see his prediction coming true
Fun fact: "Fjordur" is actually spelled "Fjörður" and it means "Field/Fjord" in Icelandic/old Norse
Yeah and fjord is Norwegian
cool thx for the fact
I’m pissed
n o i c e
Im not even gonna try to pronounce that
Great job on the video my dude! I was entertained from beginning to end (which says a lot because I'm ADHD and the slightest boredom makes me leave lmao)! Keep up the good work brother!🤜🤛
You're spot on, 1 year later and Ark 2 is set to released 2030.
Me describing ark when I first got it: ark is a survival game where you tame dinosaurs and survive on an island
Me describing ark after buying every dlc: arks is a game that takes up almost 200gbs of space on your Xbox.
Ark is definitely my favourite game of all time. I’ve been playing for 6 years and haven’t regretted a single moment. I’ve played PvP, PvE and have just messed around for hours.
7:04 you know what else is MASSIVE
Loooooowwww taaaappppeeeeerrrrr faaaaaaddddddeeeee
Ark will always be in my top 5 of all-time favorite games. So much fun, so much frustration, so many dinos. From dodo armies to bronto tanks, armorless foot races around death island and punch k.o.-ing a t-rex, every moment was so much fun and at times so terrifying. I cannot wait for Ark 2 to come out in 2067.
3:51
My humor is so broken that the ÆUGH sound with the roll rat absolutely killed me
I remember playing this in 2018 when I was 9-10, some of my best memories, it introduced me to the wider gaming community (discord and other stuff). Ark will forever hold a special spot in my heart... I would do anything to play with my old friends on there again. I would stay up late (12pm - 1 pm) taming dinos and building bases with my friends on there aswell as doing other stuff. I remember the communities and all the base raiding we would do and how you would have to talk to different tribes to organize shit... it was memorable.
there were people in 2018 who were 9 years old, that is the strangest thing ever to me
this was much more interesting than my history class
Sooo trieese
I really enjoyed the funny ark relatable jokes, especially the one about how ARK 2 is set to release 2023 but won't until 2030.
Oh trust me, Aberration is my favorite map by FAR. I just absolutely love the drastic change in atmosphere and the switch up in the way to play the map
What in hell? Scorched Earth in insanely good!
Fr
Ark to me is one of those games you always come back to you can never forget
I have to say the ability to tech up and get to guns and even future technology (tek) is a good idea but I hate that the game went from a hard survival game with dinosaurs in about surviving and thriving from the bottom of the food chain to becoming whatever it is now with the nonsensical additions (I like wyverns but why am I being eaten by a metal velociraptor in my dinosaur survival game) and path of the 'story' of the game. Ragnarok is probably still THE BEST map to this day for being so good at just being a fun survival map with a huge map and plenty of dinos. The center is not a terrible map now looking back at what they release nowadays...
Ragnarok is my absolute favorite map, it’s just so great and Griffins are amazing additions.
Ive started playing primitve plus for the sake of escaping whatever Ark is now@@addieeeson
I personally LOVE aberration. Its so pretty, and the concept of it is just amazing to me. Still refuse to play it cause it terrifies me to no extent, but its by far one of my favorite maps.
I've spent most of my time on the first map. Had to start again so many times due to losing save data. Never fought any of the bosses and don't care to either. I just want to build, tame and explore.
This is the best video i have ever watched...
@Granty this is amazing ur vids are worth the time, keep up the good work!
2:34 HOW DID YOU KNOW.
I have a black cat named Radar and when I tamed a black jerboa I named it after him so I was genuinely surprised at this lmao
I’ve been playing Ark since 2017 and have never even once attempted a boss battle. I am here to build cool shit and befriend cool dinos - I am not tryna watch all my pals die like 15x in a row. More power to everyone who kicks the bosses’ asses - throw em a solid punch for me
At first I hated Aberration because of the no flying, making it very hard to map out the whole map (which I still don't know fully) but I really like it now. It's such a cool concept with some really cool biomes and locations!
You forgot about the aimbotting, cheating, teaming, meshing, duping, insiding, bug abusing, no admins, base selling and much much more
100k congratulations
The difference between the normal Dino’s and the X/R Dino’s, is the fact that the x and r ones do more damage and have less heath then the normal ones. ( and the aberration variant has more damage and less heath as well). Hope this helps!
Also X/R dinos cap at 500 instead of 450
This is so good. So well done! It’s worth waiting another 2 months for more quality content like this. Keep up the good work!
8:12 that aged well
Yeah ark 2 aint the best
Ark is a game where you can play for 12 hours straight and still not finish what you wanted
Days*
I've come from the year 2047 using a time machine that I built using my smart refrigerator. I am hear to tell you that Ark 2 never gets released.
i knew it
Aww
@@GrantyyDid y'all just ignore ARK: Survival Ascended
hahahah granty you had me laughing so hard throughout this!! thank you so much for the nice little history there! magical job🦄🌈♥
The first few years of Ark was so fucking good. Spent so many hours grinding solo pvp and had so much fun
ABBERRATION is the best map and not saying this as opinioon but as a fact, because of the game mechanics in this map are so unique
True
I got Ark the week it dropped on steam. 8k hrs later on every type of game mode and im hella over it. bloody top game all around and i will remember the good and bad times forever. Great video bud keep it up
Omg the centre was released on my birthday, sorry I just had a moment there LOL
bro is definitely right about it coming out at 2030💀
what about ark ascended
PvP is hell
I spent hours with my buddy building a single boat base. After fighting off several raiders we finally set sail and were immediately destroyed by a whale. I won’t ever have enough time to scratch the surface of this game.
As someone who has never played, I was lost after minute 2 as I only thought it was dinosaurs mixed with rust
I downloaded ark on my phone about a year ago and knew nothing about it. I thought you just survived long enough to the point where you are unstoppable I had no idea all this existed
I did not know how small extinction was like I thought it was the same size as the centre
And aberration I thought that was a small map
Granty you don’t need to disappear just take a break you deserve it
2 years since this video was made and no ark 2 still LMFAO but yeah i miss the old ark i started playing right when the center came out and i loved ark until when extention came out i stopped playing cause manas where everywhere in official servers and it was impossible to start
But ascended
"Nevermind that fancy schmancy stuff about millions of dollars and contracts, lets get back to dinos" best line ever
0:31 is the best part of the video
3:45 also my favourite map 😁
2:23 :c
It's not true.... It's is SO big...
Honestly I don't think you could have explained this game any better, this was perfect, it can be the most fun, rage inducing, and and depressing game ever and it can all happen within a time span of a day
I’ve spent more time into ark than any other game in my life I will always look back in nostalgia at the amazing memories ark gave me in my youth.
Never heard of ark but great video
the video ends at 8:28
damn thats crazy
i know right@@Temonixs
Crazy
Wow thanks, really appreciate your help
I have a question. Is that your actual face or just some random dudes face? I know it’s probably stupid but I would like to know. 0:51
0:31 💀💀💀
Center be like you enjoying yourself? "Crashes"
I was so prepared for the public servers to get torn apart with the history of mega tribes and all the abused glitches
It 2024 and no ark2
Ark 2 is ark survival ACCENTED wich is dumb af
@@ender_6033it’s not ascended is only a pre sequel
God loves you all ❤
Shut up
I’d love to play Arc again. My friend and I, despite our initial hiccups, had an amazing time learning how to survive in this weird island with Dinos.
My only problems were that we didn’t know how to set up a server for ourselves that didn’t have my friend be tied to the server host like a tether, and that the game is **300 hecking gigabytes**
Scorched Earth has a really inspiring landscape. It's easy to copy and translate into different medias. I made a desert biome in Minecraft using modded blocks I made and it was based off of Scorched Earth. It has the same orange-y appearance with the dark grey mountains and sharp cliff things.
Also, Aberration is a goated map. Such an interesting and awesome design. It was the one DLC my buddy got excited for because of the "Xenomorphs" and Roll Rats. We played it a little too much.
I love it how you could ask anyone with any lengthy experience with ark when ark 2 is coming out and anyone will tell you any time other than 2023
i genuinely love this game with all my heart, its brought me so much and i’ll forever love it
When you start playing ark: what a silly dino game
When lore kicks in: MY LIFE WAS A LIE
7 YEARS?! WHAT?!? NO WAY DUDE
Bruh... I'm recording my 100 days video for Scorched Earth right now.. When you said, "your lvl 7 Jerboa... THAT YOU NAMED RADAR BECAUSE YOUR BASIC" my heart literally dropped... Needless to say I will be changing my Jerboa name tonight lmao.
Ark is a game that you play 18 hours a day being sleep deprived staring at babies and grinding turret ammo
2,500 hours in high school, and I haven't touched it since. What a blast from the past
Aberration is also my favorite map!
there’s a special place in my heart for ark and sea of theives
Great video!
You forgot the "mysterious" pre-release history in which we knew nothing about the game apart from one secretive dev interview. Good times, and great video.
Literally summarized the entirety of ark, well done
Quite interesting how much went over this games lifespan. Also I love how they recently added a cinematic ending to SE, like 6 years or so after it released. Also ALSO, the part about how aberration isn’t spelt “Abb” really got me as I do the same thing
Watching this in 2024 and still not got ARK 2. You were right Granty
I'm sure since you're still in school you have other things but just want you to know you could do this for a living if you wanted, you're hilarious, editing is solid if not great. You got my sub for sure.
2:49 It’s me from the future, now there is one
genesis is so big that it took 7 hours just straight up scouting for all the bases in the map
100k! Congrats dude! 🥳🎉🎉
nice delve into the maps' histories. the only history of ark i remember well is when people used to build on the volcano in island map during beta, then wildcard announced the "eruption" of the volcano which basically destroyed all bases built on said volcano some time after full release.
The music be bringing back, waking up half asleep and putting that headset on mmm mis those days
Dude I love clicking on this video and seeing a person I know that developed this game.