I think the Pyromane is an entirely Snail-based decision, I believe since Snail is struggling they’re giving WC VERY little wiggle room for paid dlc. They already agreed to having all story maps come with the game and making the Oasisaur not P2W, I think WC simply cannot do anything else
@@1110jessehow exactly is it pay to win? The only “OP” thing it does is revive creatures. And even then, they get brought back as babies. Say what you want about it being scummy that you can’t use any of the dlc without paying for it, but complain about the right things at the very least
@@Rat_King1001 The fact that it roams around the map but is untameable without paying makes it pay2win. This is not an argument about how good the Oasisaur is, it's just a fact that as Oasisaur is not just a skin, but a thing that has functions, and it is unaccessable to players without spending more money makes it pay2win.
No, they should have charged for all these free dlcs and wall out people that want free everything. It’s not a charity, it’s a company. When they get people to pay up, they win, not lose.
As a PvE only player, seeing these creatures in the world really does bother me. The oasisoar was rare enough it really wasnt much of a bother. With the pyromane, theres a large section of the map where I cant visit without having this $5 mtx dangled in my face. It takes me so far out of the experience. I too want to support the developers, thats why I paid for an unfinished game not once but twice. Thats why I play they're unfinished game despite the amount of debilitating bugs and glitches. If that level of support isn't enough, it's their responsibility to position their company to better bridge that gap, not leave the responsibility to the consumers.
It is basically just a unobtainable creature sitting there on your world, i mean if i cant tame whys it there??? Its honestly just a tease to get more people to buy it, truly messed up.
Completely agree man, this creature is one of the most common spawns in the entire volcano biome, and is still a common spawn with the entire surrounding area. It’s ridiculous like your gonna find it everywhere, and now we know that these things are gonna be on all the free dlc maps!!! So while the center is annoying you can get over it because it’s the center and not loved by a lot of the community but think about Ragnarok, Lost Island, Fjordur, Valguero, all of these will all have at least one creature on the map that you have to pay for to interact with. And maybe we should be thankful that this one is a fire based creature so is generally limited to the lava areas. Imagine a creature maybe even 2 that spawn all around the map that you just can’t interact with until you buy it. I can already see where this road is leading to. Who’s to say they can’t do more things like this like instead of fantasy creatures it’s new tek creatures and they do it to even more maps. Think when the free maps came out they came with a or several new free creatures, now we are getting those same free maps, but now instead of adding free creatures, their adding priced ones all even more op than before. It’s baffling how obvious this is, like it’s simple, before they released the creatures on these maps free, now their releasing them for $5 dollars each, no new map content included so what used to be free updates to ark now are slowly turning into paid updates
there are ways in ASE to disable certain dinos from spawning entirely in singleplayer worlds entirely, probably the same case. Hopefiully you can disable the paid dinos too? Though i think you can only access the config on pc or if you are hosting a server :/
I did caved in and bought it since its pretty cheap but i think that Pyromane spawns too much. Tames 2 of them and learned that most damage high lvl one deals is when it dies and explodes xD I think Pyromane's spawn needs to be reduced and other creatures on volcano island should get increase in spawns. When i go there its about 30 Pyromanes, 1 Giga and about 5 other creatures on whole island. Maybe it would have been better if it was a pack as Bob Tall Tales including more than just one creature. The Center and now Pyromane needs fixes and adjustments. Btw since release i havent seen single Equus on the Center so i think that spawns on the whole map are broken and needs fixing.
Even just from a pve perspective, I don't want creatures in the game that are objectively unbalanced, if something like that is put behind a paywall then the devs have an incentive to add creatures that completely destroy the meta with every new map they release. I was glad when we got a fresh start from ASA because the shadowmane doesn't exist anymore, and here they are adding the shadowmane in the very first unofficial map! It doesn't even matter if I don't buy it, the fact that it exists means that I am intentionally restricting myself by breeding rexes for boss fights, I didn't want this for ASA
Personally I like the idea of more creatures being added I think from the creature votes it should be the top 3 new Dinos from the vote per map then they can add 1 paid Dino for $5 not too bad but this Dino is wayyyy too strong honestly they need to chill out I’ve been playing with just tamed ones and they are cracked once breeder stats are OP this will be the best tame in the game no need to cryo to get it in caves and such and no cryofridge is needed to throw it out because it’s a shoulder mount that’s a hands free flame thrower like idk what they were thinking
@@DemonTime08yeah man everyone’s mad that it’s pay to win since it had skills no other mount has it’s op and game breaking if you don’t pay are you gonna be behind that’s why people are mad it’s literally a shadowmane, people aren’t mad that it’s new and you have to pay but rather it’s so fucking strong
I think aside from the whole P2W controversy, the thing people don't realize is that right now its $5, but over time those $5 will go up as more "Fantastic" Tames keep getting added. Just imagine by the time we get to Fjordur, lets say there are 10 Fantastic Tames, that $50 for just 10 Creatures, way more costly then any of ARK's previous DLCs.
Fantastic tames are most likely only for modded maps, maps like genesis will have a second round of Bob's tales, so that's 6 creatures over 2+ years. And unlike bob's tales, you can choose what you want and what you don't.
You guys are the same people who cried bobs tall tails cost $30 instead $10 per map. But then you are probably the same people who think it should be free.
@@zachfreedom644 actualy this guy did buy Bobs Tale that was a better value, it was not $5 a dino i will not be spending that per dino a pack of dinos ok, per dino not a chance
@@ikheetdaan that's usually not how business works.... it may appear that way because the ceo makes more than their employees but they are in business to make money not to provide free entertainment. You spend 7 bucks for some burnt coffee at Starbucks.... what's 5 bucks for a creature in a game?
Thanks for covering it from a balanced perspective. you've said it very well especially considering that we have bobs dlc already. We want to support but not pay to win. It's just so concerning considering the impact it has for PvP. It just feels like they don't care about its impact.
Lol you just called the pyromane pay to win. Lawl what?? All wildcard does is cater to the pvp demographic. Look at the mana, shadowmane in recent ark memory. The pyromane is far from broken. 😂 it is easy to kill even with player rider. Idk why everyone is shocked it can easily do tek cave and boss shadowmanes could also do this. While I understand the reservation about the bs of pay to play content all the time. It is concerning big time.
@@Edsel1134atleast play PvP before you comment about it because there is no way you play it and your saying that. The mana was added and they did not think about PvP at all, reason the ice breath could reach out of turret range also the shadow mane isn’t as bad but 1 shock and every single rider gets thrown off, deff pretty broken and I’m sure not much thought went into that.
@user-mm7og4gg4p I have over 16k hours into case on pvp and have been splitting my asa time between both. I do play pvp and still don't see an issue with it.
Thank you Raasclark for calling it out, I think your assessment is very fair and reasonable. Getting into micro-transaction territory is a very slippery slope. I've asked the players on my cluster how they'd feel about me disabling DLC spawns, and so far nobody has complained about the idea.
Between the 3 maps we currently have I’m really starting to get tired of that same color of rock. I totally thought they got rid of volcano island when I first looked in that direction.
Same. I hate OP creatures and I hate the bad map design where palm trees show up in the cold biome on the island and I hate how all the rocks look the same.
Funny story, I downloaded the Center day one. I immediately wanted to see the ice castle to see what they did with it :D Mind you it was very underwhelming. But I traveled over the water, admiring the sights, went down the waterfall and tried to find the cave entrance. I shit you not, I went into a giant mesh hole thinking it was the ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE. It was THAT big D8 How does that even pass testing? XD I understand small ones or maybe underwater but this one was CAVE ENTRANCE SIZED ;;
There is one negative for pve with the pyromane, it spawns on the map, and due to being aggressive, it makes wanting to do anything on lava island really frustrating, as you could be taming something and then the next moment you get jumped and burned alive. I feel if these creatures are going to spawn regardless of if you own the pack. Either have them be passive, or have an option to turn off the spawns of the non owned creatures. (Also to be clear I also do not hate wildcard, the game is something I care about and would like to see improves, but that can’t happen if wild card keeps ignoring the community, and ignores options that satisfy both sides, in terms of satisfying shareholders and the community.) (An example of the ignoring of the community is the drama surrounding the pyromane and how the first patch announced, specifically mentions a bug preventing it from breeding, which does make people question wildcards priorities, either the players or investors.)
@@thortalina What i've been thinking since this shit released, let us have a damn option to turn off creatures we don't even fucking own in singleplayer.
It's a joke and pay to win and unless you ark players exercise some self control and stop playing the game until they change it this will destroy ark as a game and franchise and hell mend you for it
I already knew the bobs tales was just the start. Once you give them an inch, they take a mile, and now that they know they can get away with it, they’ll just keeping doing it.
@@Grumpbeardtv It’s your choice if you buy it. Ain’t really pay to win when if you want to play with others on server you can just go in and disable the spawn. If your on official server you are on your own.(don’t know why you would since they be joke).
If the Fantastic Beasts was a pack like Bob's Tall Tales and it would guarantee a new creature each DLC map, rather than just buying one creature, it wouldn't be too bad. It's getting a very EA feel about it, pay walls are not a good thing, ever
@@husklo Who wants to prepay to a company that can't even put out a finished game that you've already paid for? Paying for promises is bad business and the attitude of 'meh it's only 5 bones' is what will kill the game.
EA indeed, nearly as bad as Dead By Daylight with a new character every 2 weeks for purchase complete with outfits to buy and passes to pay for. Expansion packs, stuff packs, kits, blah blah blahblahblah....greedygreedygreedy, who wants to hang out with someone like that?!
I would love this. It would be 6 creature minimum fo around the same price as bobs tales (maybe a tiny bit less because no skins/structures etc). They will probably add more mod maps to official because it's easy for them to do so it would add more value
With the silence about this dino before center drop, and the noise leak who works with snail and not necessarily wildcard, whats the chances the pyromane is very much just straight from snail games as a cash grab? And wildcard werent alowed to say anything.
Pyromanes can apparently be found on SE in the wyvern trench, but the ONLY way to tame them would be on pvp where you can carry them out (or single player), or to wait for rain. If they add it to every map with lava (rag and gen1), then it feels less like an exclusive dino and more like a paywall trying to tempt people.
@@cragzukhardly a "whale" to be able to afford £5..... Cmon now lol Just go without your "prime" energy drink a couple of times and you can afford it lolol
this time its 5 dollars next time 10 dollars. next time 15 dollars. They'll just keep adding them until half the creatures in the game you'll have to pay for individually or they will start selling them in bundles. That is the fear.
I understand the fear but I really don't think that's the direction. I mean with how OP this stupid cat is, it could have easily been marketed at $10 and have REALLY been pay to win, but they made it a price that I do think is reasonable in this economy. I don't see them making another creature like this just to double it's price on top of the amount of backlash that would be received if they tried. I really believe that this is just an idea they wanted to try out and that's where it's staying for right now but extra work for ideas isn't free so it's a $5 idea basically. It was only dumb of them to add the creature to a highly active part of the map and make it the one of the most common spawns, only behind like carnos and raptors. If they massively lessened the amount that spawned or better yet, give the underworld a really good purpose of them being an exclusive tame in that area, and BAM you actually have a good DLC creature that isn't stupidly easy to tame and takes time, planning and prep to hunt down and the main areas of the map are still totally accessible to everyone without getting flame ganked.
my biggest gripe with the pyromane is that it puts a middle finger to the phoenix which i felt needed more love. It has a lot of traits that I feel like the phoenix should have like the insulation. as for making old creatures redundent? That's been an issue since ASE IMO, with the most recent one being the Gigantoraptor making the terror bird even less worth taming (though, except for taming wild babies it's not as good as the maewing for the raising job imo).
@abominablesnowman64 I'm not. I'm content with Monster Hunter World, and Wilds once it comes out. Sure, you can't tame the monsters, but it's just as, if not better environment wise. That's likely just me though 😅
In Official PVE there is also controversy with this creature. A lot of ppl payed for the creature without even trying to join an official center server to tame it, to find that during all day the few center servers are 70/70 slot capped.
Honestly, if they just KEEP UP with engine upgrades, it won't be that problematic. It won't be as much work jumping from a REALLY old version of the engine, to a REALLY new version - they're just going to a slightly-newer one, meaning less work, maybe even saving a lot of work for them on the back-end.
I started playing ASA, but then decided to wait until everything cools down, just to see if various things get fixed. I went back to ASE and am having just as much fun playing it as I always have. When I do pick up ASA again... far in the future, (apart from some special events with friends), I will not be purchasing anything above the basic game and any trick dino that spawns and I can't tame it without paying for it will be wiped from my single player or server and replaced with dodos using .ini if they don't block that ability. I play PvE for the most part and never on Official, but even for me it is all too much. Wild Card needs to do better.
I want more sea creatures, better map design with all mesh spots fixed and no palm trees in cold biome, a completely ocean world map that is enormous in scale, OP creatures removed or nerfed, more rock variations, and more dodo/sheep like creatures. How about some crabs and shrimps and octopus for example? Or raccoons and possums?
I do genuinely hope these power ranger skins are just skins and not actual dinos. But even then I think it is a really odd thing for Ark to do. I really don't want Ark going into a direction where the game starts to feel nothing like it used to, similar to the direction fortnite went into.
... We already went through this with every paid DLC. Abberation, Extinction, Genesis, etc... The game immediately steered away from dinosaurs with the first DLC Scorched Earth adding mythical Wyverns, Rock Golems, and a Phoenix.
@@FnLizardKing Yes but ARK has never solely been a dinosaur game. From the day it released it was set on a futuristic space station with giant floating obelisks. ARK was a game about encountering and taming cool and majestic creatures, fantasy or reality. Even the actual dinosaurs feel more like fantasy creatures then their irl counterparts. I do agree with you tho that there is a point where it becomes too far and different from how ARK should be and I'm hoping that Wildcard doesn't go there.
@alucard4860 Extinction lore already used the "Power Ranger" like Mech's merging into a super mech to fight the final big bad, so they could easily make more lore based Power Ranger stuff
Another iconic thing they for whatever reason decided needed to be cut is skull island, like no interior at all, and more or less changing it to a useless rock bar two small patches on top is baffling, same thing with how few and sparse some dino spawns are
There is one negative for pve with the pyromane, it spawns on the map whether you own the pyromane or not, and due to being aggressive, it makes wanting to do anything on lava island really frustrating, as you could be taming something and then the next moment you get jumped and burned alive. I feel if these creatures are going to spawn regardless of if you own the pack. Either have them be passive, or have an option to turn off the spawns of the non owned creatures.
They do yes. Same with Oasisaur. even if none on the server owns the DLC they exist. It is in the base game for all so that there isnt issues with people who have the DLCs and dont. Only issue is just you cant interact with them other than kill them.
There already is an option to turn them off. Add this to your Game.ini NPCReplacements=((FromClassName="Oasisaur_Character_BP_C", ToClassName="Mantis_Character_BP_C"), (FromClassName="Firelion_Character_BP_C", ToClassName="Saber_Character_BP_C")) Replaces Oasisaur with Mantis and Pyromanes with Sabers
yep, a tribe is griefing me leaving dinos on my base, a hour ago I logged and they put pyromanes on a boat very close to my base, if they realesed the pyros when I loggout all my tames are dead...
If Pyromane was more unique and not a blatant shadowmane reskin, also he has extreme feature creep, is very easy to tame. I mean Pyromane renders a lot of early-mid tames completely useless, and some stronger earlier dinos are usually kept behind saddle level or harder taming see carcha/ferox/astrocestus etc
I do feel that if you don’t purchase the op pyromania, it shouldn’t target you. Any of the new add ons / ins should not agro on you. It’s not fair and almost forces you to purchase
I think that is is concerning that ther are ALREADY releasing an second pass for what is just one dino... I mean where are we going after this? "Oh also we've made the new free element pack you can get it at an price of 10.99" Also remember caratosaurus? :The pyromane does completly overshadow it
They lost me with the last paid DLC. This was all supposed to be a free UR5 update to Ark. Now it's extra cost on top of extra cost. I'm out. I could afford it and all that, it's just that this reeks of greed.
This isn’t super related to the video, but I’m working very closely with some very very talented modders to actually give the Pyromane its own visual TLC, to give it the model it *deserved* !
Any possibility of the Pyromane looking more "Prehistoric"? It looks completely wrong being in the center, any chance of it being more "Dinosaurian" shape? Perhaps a Pyroraptor?
I remember sitting, waiting for the last minute of ASE. I stayed on my server, 1290 LDL, the last person from a once buzzing hive of pvp. Then the message appeared...............it was over. The end. I sat thinking, now what? No more all nighters, imprinting, breeding. I felt alone. I watched your epic video of the sunsetting with tears in my eyes. I had just lost an old friend, ASE. R.I.P Ark, it was a fucking blast :) . Adios my old friend :-( xxx
i feel like, the price makes it not worthy, like theres premium mods that for the same price add a lot more content than just ONE creature that, even tho has its own ups and downs, it appears to just be a reskin of a preexisting dino
Honestly though. As a pve player, i do like that they are giving our side a bit of attention since Evolved's whole life span was primarily pvp catering with dinos that r way usless in pve. Like dinos that specifically unlock enemy bases, dinos that steal stuff, dinos that r surprise attackers. So many dinos we end up having to tame with no practial use that does nothing. So we do appreciate the attempt. But maybe if they make more Fantastic Beasts creatures, make them less pvp oriented so they stop bitching.
You know, being someone who has recently got into Ark and am happy with my $15 purchase (What a deal for ASE). Looking at ASA for $60 then needing to spend more for the ability to tame new creatures does not entice me into buying it at all.
I've noticed no one is really talking about this but i think they have been planning the fantastical dlc dinos for a long time. The community votes we stressed that the new dinos were supposed to be based only on real world dinos. That left them open to make and sell fantasy creatures
I don't agree with you. The Pyromane completely destroys PVE as well. You could live without an Oasisaur. Having used the Pyromane, to see what it is like. This thing is OP as can be. Caves are not longer a challenge, goodbye need to tame anything else. This thing even cooks meat in its inventory, smelts Metal. Early game, if you can tame one up, you have a massive advantage over anybody else. The center itself has lost its soul with the upgrade, and in all honestly, I hate the look of the map now more than ever.
I mean the overhaul they are doing on ASA is almost like making ASE and all its dlcs again. Considering you needed to pay ALOT for each DLC for ASE with all new OP creatures, this makes sense aswell, because now you get all the remastered maps for free plus some new dinos, but they still need to sell something for each map released to generate money, everyone bitched about bobs tall tales and now they are trying this because they know people want creatures or maps, they cant make more maps cus they are already making new maps (aka reworking) so whats left is creatures. Not many people would pay for skins, thats a minority of players.
To be fair a paid Dino is less pay to win than having to pay for an entire map with all its creatures and engrams now I’m not saying we should have to pay for the maps but this is less pay to win than ASE
Can I be honest. The Pyromane looks amazing with the fire but I think PvP will be too easy to whoever has even just one. It would be best on PvE and singleplayer but it would be used way too much on PvP servers because of the major advantages that Pyromanes give.
@@CrusherCallen That is the % of the tamable ones. BUT: All creatures in ASE+the new ones in ASA is: 195 (species, not includes subvariants like alpha, aberrant etc) of that 32 is a dinosaur and 10 is a bird(birds are considered a lineage of dinosaurs by science), combined: 42 dinos, which is 21.5% of the 195. Off the 195 creatures, 157 is tamable, 42 are dinosaurs of that, which is 26.75% of the 157. OK, I was wrong ~27%. 😅
100%. They still have genesis 1 and 2 as well as the new story DLC(s). No shot they just add to it to existing BTT pass. We'll probably have at least 3 BTT's by the end of ASA. Man, just the thought of potentially paying for BTT pass AND a corresponding story DLC/DLC pass... Crazy.
what bothers me the most about it is that this thing can kill you or your brand new hunted for an hour to find tame and you cant even tame the damn thing if you didn't buy the dlc
It's a turbulent time in ark for sure, I know some of the higher pop Non Official PvP servers have simply disabled the new dinos as they are all so out of balance with the cherry on top the Pyromane being the worst one and behind a paywall! I think as a community we all wanted the revamp unreal5 of ASE but I seriously wonder if we would have been better off without Ascended and let them work on ARK2... But financial mismanagement prevailed and we get the hot mess that is Ascended! and a probable longer delay in Ark2.
@@TGC1775 makes you wonder in ase if they blocked all dlc maps and just played island vanilla with no cross ark. since that was more paywalling of things like dinos and engrams. if the pyrocat erks them ase dlcs must blown their heads away
@@silaswalter4702 you mean the side content locked behind that you specifically had to have someone get for you and give to minus the engrams often weapons you could not access period. yes. nice try. but it just the same thing only this is 1 thing instead of many things. lets be adults and not try to paint diff pictures of things
@@empressjessica5020 ~80-90% of the DLC content excluding maps in ASE was accessible with exaclty 0 DLC via free maps. None of my friends owned a single dlc and yet we were all able to enjoy the dlc content together on great maps. You could also just install mods to enjoy the dlc content on vanilla maps. If you walked up to a rockdrake egg on fjordur in ASE and it asked you to spend 15€ on the DLC for it there would have been the same outrage. It's not the same and if you think it is you don't know a single thing about ASE.
I can't see it not surviving. There are a lot of terrible games out there that lived through their darkest days with criminally low player rates and sometimes die hards really do keep games and companies afloat buying into monetization tactics.
Love you speaking up for the community and telling it how it is. And unfortunately you should be worried, if this doesn’t preform well I’m guessing Ark is going to have a very difficult time.
yeah this has been bullshit. i've been in early access for my whole ark life. Been promised ark 2, free upgrades etc. I refuse to pay for this obvious p2w. People like me will just stop playing if this swings any further
if it's then atleast something really unique, something we don't already have in some form. (or will have, somewhen in the future) Not saying 10€ is ok; but at least it's not leaving such a sour taste. I mean, a Shadowmane, an OP create made even more OP but locked behind a paywall. That god damn thing is one of the reasons many ppl were so happy to start fresh from a point where it doesn't exist; and now they toss it right back in.
i really appreciate you saying all this when ark is your job. furthermore, because its your job its so important to talk about this before ark starts dying even more. people need to be able to critique things they love, and this mess wildcard is doing is a very slippery slope. i pray that they listen to the community.
@@MitchasaurausYeah but you could only use it in the King Titan Boss Fight. It’s not like you could pull it out of your ass in a cryopod and decimate someone’s base with it.
I just recently got back into Ark and of course I'm staying away from every single PVP server except for the one that my buddy opened up and it's not really full PVP. Like we could choose to kill each other if we want but mainly everybody's been just kind of chilling. But I see him running around on this thing a lot and I find it absolutely overpowered because this thing can easily jump over Behemoth walls and has the ability to pretty much spit fire all over the place and runs faster than any other Dino I can get my hands on that don't already have points into movement speed. This thing is utterly ridiculous and I feel sorry for all the people that are actually playing on official PVP servers having to deal with this thing. Wild card please do better don't be selling us overpowered paywall creatures that are already in the game for prevent us from taming them because you guys want money. There's other ways like the whole tak skins and other stuff like that devil used to pay back in the day when it came to Old Ark.
After 900 hours of Ascended, I'm going back to Evolved. The game looks fantastic but it's starting to feel very different from the Ark I knew and loved.
Well my computer can't even run ASA without crashing every time I open ANY inventory and as I don't have the money for upgrades I was a bit disappointed. Now, seeing the direction Ark is going, I'm no longer even disappointed 🤷♂️
This cat is OP as hell, cooks meat and makes jerky! Lights my forge! Shrinks down to pet! It’s so damn good. It’s a reskin but the abilities are just to damn good!! Oh also metal weight is reduced by half. Can be your first tame, kite to water pike under belly and deeper water. Become op. Who cares about pvp’ers they didn’t care when we got there debuffs while on pve or pvp focused only tames. I’m happy eat it!
Something I noticed is at least on console in the center Some rocks and trees and stuff breaks like back in ase Some rocks they just banish and tress fall like ark ase
There is one and only one answer to this GAME.INI add NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="") then go into console and type "AdminCheat DestroyWildDinos". No more Pyromanes. Well you will also have to block transfers of them. Wish blocking out BTT was as easy. This is what you get when you let them get away with the BTT stuff.
Completely agree man, this creature is one of the most common spawns in the entire volcano biome, and is still a common spawn with the entire surrounding area. It’s ridiculous like your gonna find it everywhere, and now we know that these things are gonna be on all the free dlc maps!!! So while the center is annoying you can get over it because it’s the center and not loved by a lot of the community but think about Ragnarok, Lost Island, Fjordur, Valguero, all of these will all have at least one creature on the map that you have to pay for to interact with. And maybe we should be thankful that this one is a fire based creature so is generally limited to the lava areas. Imagine a creature maybe even 2 that spawn all around the map that you just can’t interact with until you buy it. I can already see where this road is leading to. Who’s to say they can’t do more things like this like instead of fantasy creatures it’s new tek creatures and they do it to even more maps. Think when the free maps came out they came with a or several new free creatures, now we are getting those same free maps, but now instead of adding free creatures, their adding priced ones all even more op than before. It’s baffling how obvious this is, like it’s simple, before they released the creatures on these maps free, now their releasing them for $5 dollars each, no new map content included so what used to be free updates to ark now are slowly turning into paid updates
Given their overlord, I believe Wildcard are pretty much between a rock and a hard place. We know ARK is Snail's cash cow, and they expect profits. Well, this is how they get profits. I don't blame Wildcard for this one. We all know who's pulling the strings. Is it Pay-To-Win? It does offer significant abilities compared to the Oasisaur - that much is obvious. What's scary to consider is: Who's to say that the Pyromane was the least ridiculous idea that was proposed? Imagine the other insane ideas that were probably cooked up. Personally, I'd prefer that if you didn't buy the DLC either it didn't spawn for you (SP mainly) AND/OR it was invisible/you couldn't interact with it nor it with you if wild (MP). If the next "Fantastic Creature" isn't a hard counter to the Pyromane (Hydromane? Cryomane? LOL.) I'd be very surprised. Seeing as the cat (pun also intended) is very much out of the bag, they can "make this right" by adding a dedicated counter to the Pyro for the next one. From then on subsequent "Fantastic Creatures" need to essentially be reskins of dinos already in game - something that can spawn in place of 'native' dinos, nothing "OTT". People will still be able to support ASA if they're replacements/reskins, but it won't be viewed as a "P2W" - just a cash grab. Personally, I'd love to see the Jurassic Park dinos from ASE make a comeback (i.e. not skins, have them actually spawn - i.e. the Styracosaurus could spawn anywhere a Trike could, or Barchiosaurus where Brontos can spawn). I'd buy that and be okay with it. I'll also be very surprised if the Power Rangers thing isn't a paid DLC. There's no way that is coming for free. What I would love to see, however, is if they could tie it in to the Tek Mek and Enforcer-type systems - so you had to find (Rare spawn) and destroy the Zords to get their blueprints (like an Enforcer) and then build them (like a Mek/Enforcer), then had the option to combine all five into the Megazord. The suits would need to be Tek Suit-like variants - plus they'd need to develop a couple extra Tek-type melee weapons - daggers (Yellow Ranger), lance (Blue Ranger) and axe, they have a Tek Sword and Tek Bow already, just need to reskin them). We'll see what this looks like in a week, I guess...
The Power Rangers collab is 100% costumes. Even the Dev Kit tries to load up a “missing file” WITH the file path it’s supposed to have The item is: PrimalItemCostume_Zord_Rex And it gives a big “Not allowed to spawn in this map” message when you try and spawn it in
Two things. First, there should be a menu in the multiplayer server selection that lets you toggle what servers have and havent got the packs, so people who dont have the packs can feel more fair. Second thing, i hope that Wildcard did some typo and meant the fantastic beasts pack be a season pass like Bob's Tall Tales. I dont believe Wildcard is that greedy for money, and by the looks of it and if they meant it as a season pass, they would be adding creatures to the community maps, like how Bob's Tall Tales is.
0:00 intro
0:25 power rangers
1:08 asa center
2:50 unreal engine 5.4
3:48 nvidia ai
4:46 pyromane talk
13:47 outro
12:58 man of broken heart & dreams
I think the Pyromane is an entirely Snail-based decision, I believe since Snail is struggling they’re giving WC VERY little wiggle room for paid dlc. They already agreed to having all story maps come with the game and making the Oasisaur not P2W, I think WC simply cannot do anything else
But oasisaur is actually pay2win. Can't tame it without paying 30€
@@1110jesse yeah but it does like nothing other than look cool sometimes
@@1110jesse
In terms of PVP he's not really that bad he's very squishy he has no armor he's he's a big Target and he moves really slow
@@1110jessehow exactly is it pay to win? The only “OP” thing it does is revive creatures. And even then, they get brought back as babies. Say what you want about it being scummy that you can’t use any of the dlc without paying for it, but complain about the right things at the very least
@@Rat_King1001 The fact that it roams around the map but is untameable without paying makes it pay2win. This is not an argument about how good the Oasisaur is, it's just a fact that as Oasisaur is not just a skin, but a thing that has functions, and it is unaccessable to players without spending more money makes it pay2win.
Honestly, every paid creature will be another nail in ASA’s coffin
Charging for a new map where new dinos live makes sense, it's basically a full DLC. Charging for dinos found on old maps is cringe.
Naw
Should have just been skins.
@@Tinussss skins are trash
No, they should have charged for all these free dlcs and wall out people that want free everything. It’s not a charity, it’s a company. When they get people to pay up, they win, not lose.
Dear Wildcard, we want TLCs for old creatures, no more OP new creatures 🗣🗣🗣
Paleo Ark already doing this.
@@TGC1775 And nice job of those guys, but we want TLCs for the main game in order to enjoy them on official
@@TGC1775 okay we don't want a mod to do it
You don't speak for everyone we can have new creatures but tlc for old ones yes
I'd like a tlc for rexes and gigas maybe really anything that just has a bite and nothing else
As a PvE only player, seeing these creatures in the world really does bother me. The oasisoar was rare enough it really wasnt much of a bother. With the pyromane, theres a large section of the map where I cant visit without having this $5 mtx dangled in my face. It takes me so far out of the experience.
I too want to support the developers, thats why I paid for an unfinished game not once but twice. Thats why I play they're unfinished game despite the amount of debilitating bugs and glitches. If that level of support isn't enough, it's their responsibility to position their company to better bridge that gap, not leave the responsibility to the consumers.
Its 5 bucks...I will probably never use the creature, but I bought it. 😂
It is basically just a unobtainable creature sitting there on your world, i mean if i cant tame whys it there??? Its honestly just a tease to get more people to buy it, truly messed up.
Completely agree man, this creature is one of the most common spawns in the entire volcano biome, and is still a common spawn with the entire surrounding area. It’s ridiculous like your gonna find it everywhere, and now we know that these things are gonna be on all the free dlc maps!!! So while the center is annoying you can get over it because it’s the center and not loved by a lot of the community but think about Ragnarok, Lost Island, Fjordur, Valguero, all of these will all have at least one creature on the map that you have to pay for to interact with. And maybe we should be thankful that this one is a fire based creature so is generally limited to the lava areas. Imagine a creature maybe even 2 that spawn all around the map that you just can’t interact with until you buy it. I can already see where this road is leading to. Who’s to say they can’t do more things like this like instead of fantasy creatures it’s new tek creatures and they do it to even more maps. Think when the free maps came out they came with a or several new free creatures, now we are getting those same free maps, but now instead of adding free creatures, their adding priced ones all even more op than before. It’s baffling how obvious this is, like it’s simple, before they released the creatures on these maps free, now their releasing them for $5 dollars each, no new map content included so what used to be free updates to ark now are slowly turning into paid updates
there are ways in ASE to disable certain dinos from spawning entirely in singleplayer worlds entirely, probably the same case. Hopefiully you can disable the paid dinos too? Though i think you can only access the config on pc or if you are hosting a server :/
I did caved in and bought it since its pretty cheap but i think that Pyromane spawns too much. Tames 2 of them and learned that most damage high lvl one deals is when it dies and explodes xD I think Pyromane's spawn needs to be reduced and other creatures on volcano island should get increase in spawns. When i go there its about 30 Pyromanes, 1 Giga and about 5 other creatures on whole island. Maybe it would have been better if it was a pack as Bob Tall Tales including more than just one creature. The Center and now Pyromane needs fixes and adjustments. Btw since release i havent seen single Equus on the Center so i think that spawns on the whole map are broken and needs fixing.
Even just from a pve perspective, I don't want creatures in the game that are objectively unbalanced, if something like that is put behind a paywall then the devs have an incentive to add creatures that completely destroy the meta with every new map they release. I was glad when we got a fresh start from ASA because the shadowmane doesn't exist anymore, and here they are adding the shadowmane in the very first unofficial map! It doesn't even matter if I don't buy it, the fact that it exists means that I am intentionally restricting myself by breeding rexes for boss fights, I didn't want this for ASA
Personally I like the idea of more creatures being added I think from the creature votes it should be the top 3 new Dinos from the vote per map then they can add 1 paid Dino for $5 not too bad but this Dino is wayyyy too strong honestly they need to chill out I’ve been playing with just tamed ones and they are cracked once breeder stats are OP this will be the best tame in the game no need to cryo to get it in caves and such and no cryofridge is needed to throw it out because it’s a shoulder mount that’s a hands free flame thrower like idk what they were thinking
@@DemonTime08yeah man everyone’s mad that it’s pay to win since it had skills no other mount has it’s op and game breaking if you don’t pay are you gonna be behind that’s why people are mad it’s literally a shadowmane, people aren’t mad that it’s new and you have to pay but rather it’s so fucking strong
The wild ones can still kill you even if you don't pay for them lol
Indeed, and anyone on pvp is restricting themselves as well.
pve "meta" lmao
god forbid anyone use a tame other than a rex, argentavis, thyla or bary
I think aside from the whole P2W controversy, the thing people don't realize is that right now its $5, but over time those $5 will go up as more "Fantastic" Tames keep getting added. Just imagine by the time we get to Fjordur, lets say there are 10 Fantastic Tames, that $50 for just 10 Creatures, way more costly then any of ARK's previous DLCs.
Fantastic tames are most likely only for modded maps, maps like genesis will have a second round of Bob's tales, so that's 6 creatures over 2+ years. And unlike bob's tales, you can choose what you want and what you don't.
Agreed 1 $5 payment for a "pack" i can live with but per dino not going to happen.
You guys are the same people who cried bobs tall tails cost $30 instead $10 per map. But then you are probably the same people who think it should be free.
@@zachfreedom644 actualy this guy did buy Bobs Tale that was a better value, it was not $5 a dino i will not be spending that per dino a pack of dinos ok, per dino not a chance
I totally thought that the 5$ was for “Fantastic Tames” not just the pyromane. Damn. That really sucks then
Remember guys, if you have a great game: NEVER sell out to a publisher. They will *always* leech you and your customers dry without remorse
I have loved ark for years and years now, but this corporate greed is starting to get way to fucking stupid for a game my computer cant even run!
I'm sure you applied to work for wild card for free correct?
@@joshyingling they have enough money, the higher ups just put that money in their own pockets
@@ikheetdaan that's usually not how business works.... it may appear that way because the ceo makes more than their employees but they are in business to make money not to provide free entertainment. You spend 7 bucks for some burnt coffee at Starbucks.... what's 5 bucks for a creature in a game?
@@joshyingling no one goes to Starbucks anymore. Shits incredibly overpriced now
It's just $5. What if they actually need the money?
Thanks for covering it from a balanced perspective. you've said it very well especially considering that we have bobs dlc already. We want to support but not pay to win. It's just so concerning considering the impact it has for PvP. It just feels like they don't care about its impact.
Cheers dude. Appreciate it! Here's hoping feedback is listened to for the future.
Lol you just called the pyromane pay to win. Lawl what?? All wildcard does is cater to the pvp demographic. Look at the mana, shadowmane in recent ark memory. The pyromane is far from broken. 😂 it is easy to kill even with player rider. Idk why everyone is shocked it can easily do tek cave and boss shadowmanes could also do this. While I understand the reservation about the bs of pay to play content all the time. It is concerning big time.
@@Edsel1134atleast play PvP before you comment about it because there is no way you play it and your saying that. The mana was added and they did not think about PvP at all, reason the ice breath could reach out of turret range also the shadow mane isn’t as bad but 1 shock and every single rider gets thrown off, deff pretty broken and I’m sure not much thought went into that.
@user-mm7og4gg4p I have over 16k hours into case on pvp and have been splitting my asa time between both. I do play pvp and still don't see an issue with it.
@@Edsel1134 time wasted ig
Thank you Raasclark for calling it out, I think your assessment is very fair and reasonable.
Getting into micro-transaction territory is a very slippery slope.
I've asked the players on my cluster how they'd feel about me disabling DLC spawns, and so far nobody has complained about the idea.
Between the 3 maps we currently have I’m really starting to get tired of that same color of rock.
I totally thought they got rid of volcano island when I first looked in that direction.
Same. I hate OP creatures and I hate the bad map design where palm trees show up in the cold biome on the island and I hate how all the rocks look the same.
Funny story, I downloaded the Center day one. I immediately wanted to see the ice castle to see what they did with it :D Mind you it was very underwhelming. But I traveled over the water, admiring the sights, went down the waterfall and tried to find the cave entrance. I shit you not, I went into a giant mesh hole thinking it was the ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE. It was THAT big D8 How does that even pass testing? XD I understand small ones or maybe underwater but this one was CAVE ENTRANCE SIZED ;;
Really I would have preferred if the Pyromane was a premium mod rather than something that will spawn in your world even if you don't buy it
I think syntac summarized it perfectly with the wolf "it screams im out of money please buy more"
There is one negative for pve with the pyromane, it spawns on the map, and due to being aggressive, it makes wanting to do anything on lava island really frustrating, as you could be taming something and then the next moment you get jumped and burned alive.
I feel if these creatures are going to spawn regardless of if you own the pack. Either have them be passive, or have an option to turn off the spawns of the non owned creatures.
(Also to be clear I also do not hate wildcard, the game is something I care about and would like to see improves, but that can’t happen if wild card keeps ignoring the community, and ignores options that satisfy both sides, in terms of satisfying shareholders and the community.)
(An example of the ignoring of the community is the drama surrounding the pyromane and how the first patch announced, specifically mentions a bug preventing it from breeding, which does make people question wildcards priorities, either the players or investors.)
Wait if you can see it spawn without the DLC pack then what stops the Force Tame Command from working on it?
This. The option to turn it off. I play single player. I do not own the dlc. They're definitely in game and aggressive.
@@thortalina What i've been thinking since this shit released, let us have a damn option to turn off creatures we don't even fucking own in singleplayer.
@@paselitoruim pretty sure you cant do it anymore but on release you could force tame oasisaurs but im pretty sure the same will happen with pyromanes
As a pve player I love it’s unpredictability It’s hilarious when I’m taking a giga and a bunch of npc humans attack me 😂
I’ve been saying this since I saw the price tag, it’s not a huge number at all but it sets a precedent
It's a joke and pay to win and unless you ark players exercise some self control and stop playing the game until they change it this will destroy ark as a game and franchise and hell mend you for it
I already knew the bobs tales was just the start. Once you give them an inch, they take a mile, and now that they know they can get away with it, they’ll just keeping doing it.
@@Grumpbeardtv It’s your choice if you buy it. Ain’t really pay to win when if you want to play with others on server you can just go in and disable the spawn. If your on official server you are on your own.(don’t know why you would since they be joke).
Ark has always been pay to win, ever since scorched first dropped@@Grumpbeardtv
Let’s not make it a precedent. Don’t buy it. Withhold, make them change their strategy. Same as the community did with rebuying the dlc maps for ASA
If the Fantastic Beasts was a pack like Bob's Tall Tales and it would guarantee a new creature each DLC map, rather than just buying one creature, it wouldn't be too bad.
It's getting a very EA feel about it, pay walls are not a good thing, ever
Well people complained about prepaid purchases because they felt scammed or unsafe so they dropped a solo dino
@@husklo Who wants to prepay to a company that can't even put out a finished game that you've already paid for? Paying for promises is bad business and the attitude of 'meh it's only 5 bones' is what will kill the game.
EA indeed, nearly as bad as Dead By Daylight with a new character every 2 weeks for purchase complete with outfits to buy and passes to pay for. Expansion packs, stuff packs, kits, blah blah blahblahblah....greedygreedygreedy, who wants to hang out with someone like that?!
Like a pack of creatures would be so amazing if you would get all the creatures right away and not paying for promises
I would love this. It would be 6 creature minimum fo around the same price as bobs tales (maybe a tiny bit less because no skins/structures etc). They will probably add more mod maps to official because it's easy for them to do so it would add more value
With the silence about this dino before center drop, and the noise leak who works with snail and not necessarily wildcard, whats the chances the pyromane is very much just straight from snail games as a cash grab? And wildcard werent alowed to say anything.
Stop defending WC. They will keep doing and getting away with shit like this because of people like you.
Also the Pyromane doesnt even fit well into The Center, it is so much powerful than the rest of the creatures
Pyromanes can apparently be found on SE in the wyvern trench, but the ONLY way to tame them would be on pvp where you can carry them out (or single player), or to wait for rain. If they add it to every map with lava (rag and gen1), then it feels less like an exclusive dino and more like a paywall trying to tempt people.
@@piratekit3941 Interesting
It's not ment to fit in. It's called Milking the whales... before they nerf it hard.
@@cragzukhardly a "whale" to be able to afford £5..... Cmon now lol
Just go without your "prime" energy drink a couple of times and you can afford it lolol
this time its 5 dollars next time 10 dollars. next time 15 dollars. They'll just keep adding them until half the creatures in the game you'll have to pay for individually or they will start selling them in bundles. That is the fear.
It went from 30 to 10 to 5.
@@nightnight9164pay to win dino
I understand the fear but I really don't think that's the direction. I mean with how OP this stupid cat is, it could have easily been marketed at $10 and have REALLY been pay to win, but they made it a price that I do think is reasonable in this economy. I don't see them making another creature like this just to double it's price on top of the amount of backlash that would be received if they tried. I really believe that this is just an idea they wanted to try out and that's where it's staying for right now but extra work for ideas isn't free so it's a $5 idea basically. It was only dumb of them to add the creature to a highly active part of the map and make it the one of the most common spawns, only behind like carnos and raptors. If they massively lessened the amount that spawned or better yet, give the underworld a really good purpose of them being an exclusive tame in that area, and BAM you actually have a good DLC creature that isn't stupidly easy to tame and takes time, planning and prep to hunt down and the main areas of the map are still totally accessible to everyone without getting flame ganked.
my biggest gripe with the pyromane is that it puts a middle finger to the phoenix which i felt needed more love. It has a lot of traits that I feel like the phoenix should have like the insulation.
as for making old creatures redundent? That's been an issue since ASE IMO, with the most recent one being the Gigantoraptor making the terror bird even less worth taming (though, except for taming wild babies it's not as good as the maewing for the raising job imo).
I remember them delaying The Center because its not up to their standards 😂 Look at it now! parts of it are clearly rushed! 💀
and again whats gonna happen? You're all gonna buy it and love it anyways.
@abominablesnowman64 I'm not. I'm content with Monster Hunter World, and Wilds once it comes out. Sure, you can't tame the monsters, but it's just as, if not better environment wise. That's likely just me though 😅
@@foxpatternedferret476 same
@@abominablesnowman64buy it and hate it you mean also I haven't played for a few months now
And ratholes are ruined, most good pvp locations are also nerfed. Goodbye bear caves.
Hopefully someone develops a mod that simply allows unofficials to disable all the DLCs, so that players are not pressured into buying the DLCs
In Official PVE there is also controversy with this creature. A lot of ppl payed for the creature without even trying to join an official center server to tame it, to find that during all day the few center servers are 70/70 slot capped.
So we are getting another "free" engine upgrade....Ark Double Ascended with a $40 price tag announcement incoming
Wouldn't put it passed them 😂 WC and Snail Games are money hungry.
No snail games r no wc@@chadantonio
Honestly, if they just KEEP UP with engine upgrades, it won't be that problematic. It won't be as much work jumping from a REALLY old version of the engine, to a REALLY new version - they're just going to a slightly-newer one, meaning less work, maybe even saving a lot of work for them on the back-end.
Ark ascended Remastered
@@iplayvideogames4399I hate to say it, but until Snail doesn't own Wild Card, it's a moot point.
Interesting to note: the bobs tall tales season pass only lasts until the extinction dlc. So you bet your arses they'll do a genesis season pass too
I started playing ASA, but then decided to wait until everything cools down, just to see if various things get fixed. I went back to ASE and am having just as much fun playing it as I always have. When I do pick up ASA again... far in the future, (apart from some special events with friends), I will not be purchasing anything above the basic game and any trick dino that spawns and I can't tame it without paying for it will be wiped from my single player or server and replaced with dodos using .ini if they don't block that ability. I play PvE for the most part and never on Official, but even for me it is all too much. Wild Card needs to do better.
I want more sea creatures, better map design with all mesh spots fixed and no palm trees in cold biome, a completely ocean world map that is enormous in scale, OP creatures removed or nerfed, more rock variations, and more dodo/sheep like creatures. How about some crabs and shrimps and octopus for example? Or raccoons and possums?
I do genuinely hope these power ranger skins are just skins and not actual dinos. But even then I think it is a really odd thing for Ark to do. I really don't want Ark going into a direction where the game starts to feel nothing like it used to, similar to the direction fortnite went into.
... We already went through this with every paid DLC. Abberation, Extinction, Genesis, etc... The game immediately steered away from dinosaurs with the first DLC Scorched Earth adding mythical Wyverns, Rock Golems, and a Phoenix.
@@FnLizardKingbut the Dino’s you mentioned are cannon due to backstory of ark itself.
@@FnLizardKing Yes but ARK has never solely been a dinosaur game. From the day it released it was set on a futuristic space station with giant floating obelisks. ARK was a game about encountering and taming cool and majestic creatures, fantasy or reality. Even the actual dinosaurs feel more like fantasy creatures then their irl counterparts. I do agree with you tho that there is a point where it becomes too far and different from how ARK should be and I'm hoping that Wildcard doesn't go there.
This is exactly what is happening. It would seem that they want to turn it into a platform like Roblox and now Fortnite.
@alucard4860 Extinction lore already used the "Power Ranger" like Mech's merging into a super mech to fight the final big bad, so they could easily make more lore based Power Ranger stuff
Another iconic thing they for whatever reason decided needed to be cut is skull island, like no interior at all, and more or less changing it to a useless rock bar two small patches on top is baffling, same thing with how few and sparse some dino spawns are
There is one negative for pve with the pyromane, it spawns on the map whether you own the pyromane or not, and due to being aggressive, it makes wanting to do anything on lava island really frustrating, as you could be taming something and then the next moment you get jumped and burned alive.
I feel if these creatures are going to spawn regardless of if you own the pack. Either have them be passive, or have an option to turn off the spawns of the non owned creatures.
They do yes. Same with Oasisaur. even if none on the server owns the DLC they exist. It is in the base game for all so that there isnt issues with people who have the DLCs and dont. Only issue is just you cant interact with them other than kill them.
There already is an option to turn them off.
Add this to your Game.ini
NPCReplacements=((FromClassName="Oasisaur_Character_BP_C", ToClassName="Mantis_Character_BP_C"), (FromClassName="Firelion_Character_BP_C", ToClassName="Saber_Character_BP_C"))
Replaces Oasisaur with Mantis and Pyromanes with Sabers
@@_Ryanodoes that work on console?, and still that’s way to obscure for most players to reasonably find and use.
yep, a tribe is griefing me leaving dinos on my base, a hour ago I logged and they put pyromanes on a boat very close to my base, if they realesed the pyros when I loggout all my tames are dead...
@@snakemaster254 use spawnblock mod then on console. its a hand holding mode for hand holdin versions of computers aka consoles
But taking the shadowmane and removing its color/hair and adding fire lol yea that’s bs asking 5$ for it. It shouldn’t be a reskin Dino
DLCs and other microtransactions bullshit hitting wildcard is the absolute worst.
if the price was $1 or less they would still make a decent profit. But $5 in crazy.
Prices can't be reasonable anymore
@@FoogleBoogleit's reasonable lol yall are literally stupid you don't have to get these new creatures so quit bitching
Absolutely buckling game balance on maps with vanilla tames for a quick buck is honestly tragic. What a way to stain the release of a popular map
i think im gonna go back to ASE
Want company?
Cool no one cares
I mean its better in every way so i dont blame ya 😂
@@badcerealcat4047 have fun burning out your wallet and being a slave to snailgames then 👍
@soulsurvivor32 Not that deep. Just play the game, don't buy the random dlcs and just play ark brother.
If Pyromane was more unique and not a blatant shadowmane reskin, also he has extreme feature creep, is very easy to tame. I mean
Pyromane renders a lot of early-mid tames completely useless, and some stronger earlier dinos are usually kept behind saddle level or harder taming see carcha/ferox/astrocestus etc
I do feel that if you don’t purchase the op pyromania, it shouldn’t target you. Any of the new add ons / ins should not agro on you. It’s not fair and almost forces you to purchase
I’m ready for my regular Ark community news
Me 2 🤔
Pve player we don't want to pay for new dinos no matter how cool it is we just want the game to work
I think that is is concerning that ther are ALREADY releasing an second pass for what is just one dino...
I mean where are we going after this? "Oh also we've made the new free element pack you can get it at an price of 10.99"
Also remember caratosaurus?
:The pyromane does completly overshadow it
Definitely a better tame but cerato can heal other Dinos not just itself so still has use and can get better saddle than pyromania so more tanky
never should have added tek to the game. I'm sad they are stuck with snail games
@@mooty. I personaly Like tek...
But i Unserstand Ur Point.
They lost me with the last paid DLC. This was all supposed to be a free UR5 update to Ark. Now it's extra cost on top of extra cost.
I'm out.
I could afford it and all that, it's just that this reeks of greed.
Can't wait for them to launch gen 2 in 7 years, and of the 13 dinosaurs on your screen, you have to pay to use 10 of them.
This isn’t super related to the video, but I’m working very closely with some very very talented modders to actually give the Pyromane its own visual TLC, to give it the model it *deserved* !
Look forward to seeing it
@@Raasclark ! The man himself! I was really sad when I saw it was "just a shadowmane" but I'm still super excited and happy to get to work on it
Any possibility of the Pyromane looking more "Prehistoric"? It looks completely wrong being in the center, any chance of it being more "Dinosaurian" shape? Perhaps a Pyroraptor?
@@LophoLeeVT currently what’s cooking is making it more volcanic and resembling a lion instead of a shadowmane
I remember sitting, waiting for the last minute of ASE. I stayed on my server, 1290 LDL, the last person from a once buzzing hive of pvp.
Then the message appeared...............it was over. The end.
I sat thinking, now what? No more all nighters, imprinting, breeding. I felt alone. I watched your epic video of the sunsetting with tears in my eyes. I had just lost an old friend, ASE.
R.I.P Ark, it was a fucking blast :) .
Adios my old friend :-( xxx
Time for us to return to Ark: Survival Evolved.
Not that I ever stopped there, can't say goodbye to my Jerboa Noodles, lol
i feel like, the price makes it not worthy, like theres premium mods that for the same price add a lot more content than just ONE creature that, even tho has its own ups and downs, it appears to just be a reskin of a preexisting dino
Honestly though. As a pve player, i do like that they are giving our side a bit of attention since Evolved's whole life span was primarily pvp catering with dinos that r way usless in pve. Like dinos that specifically unlock enemy bases, dinos that steal stuff, dinos that r surprise attackers. So many dinos we end up having to tame with no practial use that does nothing. So we do appreciate the attempt. But maybe if they make more Fantastic Beasts creatures, make them less pvp oriented so they stop bitching.
I would consider the pyromane if it were another season pack, as $5.00 for 1 single creature is blasphemous.
You know, being someone who has recently got into Ark and am happy with my $15 purchase (What a deal for ASE). Looking at ASA for $60 then needing to spend more for the ability to tame new creatures does not entice me into buying it at all.
the new creature people are paying for is just a reskin of the shadow main
I've noticed no one is really talking about this but i think they have been planning the fantastical dlc dinos for a long time. The community votes we stressed that the new dinos were supposed to be based only on real world dinos. That left them open to make and sell fantasy creatures
I don't agree with you. The Pyromane completely destroys PVE as well. You could live without an Oasisaur. Having used the Pyromane, to see what it is like. This thing is OP as can be. Caves are not longer a challenge, goodbye need to tame anything else. This thing even cooks meat in its inventory, smelts Metal. Early game, if you can tame one up, you have a massive advantage over anybody else. The center itself has lost its soul with the upgrade, and in all honestly, I hate the look of the map now more than ever.
yeah, not sure why P2W only applies to PVP in people's head.
pyromane IS objectively P2W all around.
it needs some major balanceing. they can start by adding auto turret water cannons
You make all the rights points without the whinging/rage tone I've seen around. Thank you.
I mean the overhaul they are doing on ASA is almost like making ASE and all its dlcs again. Considering you needed to pay ALOT for each DLC for ASE with all new OP creatures, this makes sense aswell, because now you get all the remastered maps for free plus some new dinos, but they still need to sell something for each map released to generate money, everyone bitched about bobs tall tales and now they are trying this because they know people want creatures or maps, they cant make more maps cus they are already making new maps (aka reworking) so whats left is creatures. Not many people would pay for skins, thats a minority of players.
I am convinced a bunch of 4channers working for free could do better at making this game than the current batch of overpaid and extremely lazy devs.
Well done Raas. Firmly believe most of the community, along with myself are of this same mindset.
To be fair a paid Dino is less pay to win than having to pay for an entire map with all its creatures and engrams now I’m not saying we should have to pay for the maps but this is less pay to win than ASE
Can I be honest. The Pyromane looks amazing with the fire but I think PvP will be too easy to whoever has even just one. It would be best on PvE and singleplayer but it would be used way too much on PvP servers because of the major advantages that Pyromanes give.
I'm seeing a snailtrail coming from this pyro. And that trail says we need money from this cow
It’s just as much wildcards fault.
@@HoChunk85I couldn't have said it any better
Just the thought of a dinosaur game where you have to pay for the dinosaurs is rediculous.
A "dinosaur game" where only 26% of the creatures are dinosaurs, yeah 26%, let that sink in..
@@Hellxdamage 26?!?!? How was that number figured out because that's just crazy.
@@CrusherCallen That is the % of the tamable ones. BUT: All creatures in ASE+the new ones in ASA is: 195 (species, not includes subvariants like alpha, aberrant etc) of that 32 is a dinosaur and 10 is a bird(birds are considered a lineage of dinosaurs by science), combined: 42 dinos, which is 21.5% of the 195. Off the 195 creatures, 157 is tamable, 42 are dinosaurs of that, which is 26.75% of the 157. OK, I was wrong ~27%. 😅
@@Hellxdamage wow that's just insane. shows just how far Wildcard has strayed from what they intended the game to be :P
@@CrusherCallen Yeah.. but no one really cares (just me) 😅🥲
Truly curious what the center looked like before the couple month delay
So a full map with feature for ten bucks from some random or ONE TAME for 5 dollars by the company that makes the actual game ffs
Dragging woke into arks like chugging superglue to wash down the glass bits rip ark
bob's tales is not even a season pass it is for only 3 maps, they will have another pack, just wait
100%. They still have genesis 1 and 2 as well as the new story DLC(s). No shot they just add to it to existing BTT pass. We'll probably have at least 3 BTT's by the end of ASA.
Man, just the thought of potentially paying for BTT pass AND a corresponding story DLC/DLC pass... Crazy.
what bothers me the most about it is that this thing can kill you or your brand new hunted for an hour to find tame and you cant even tame the damn thing if you didn't buy the dlc
It's a turbulent time in ark for sure, I know some of the higher pop Non Official PvP servers have simply disabled the new dinos as they are all so out of balance with the cherry on top the Pyromane being the worst one and behind a paywall! I think as a community we all wanted the revamp unreal5 of ASE but I seriously wonder if we would have been better off without Ascended and let them work on ARK2... But financial mismanagement prevailed and we get the hot mess that is Ascended! and a probable longer delay in Ark2.
If you disable Dino’s I’d leave the server. Such a big L
@@TGC1775 makes you wonder in ase if they blocked all dlc maps and just played island vanilla with no cross ark. since that was more paywalling of things like dinos and engrams. if the pyrocat erks them ase dlcs must blown their heads away
@@empressjessica5020 You mean the dlc where all the content except the actual map was accessible for everyone without the dlc?
@@silaswalter4702 you mean the side content locked behind that you specifically had to have someone get for you and give to minus the engrams often weapons you could not access period. yes. nice try. but it just the same thing only this is 1 thing instead of many things. lets be adults and not try to paint diff pictures of things
@@empressjessica5020 ~80-90% of the DLC content excluding maps in ASE was accessible with exaclty 0 DLC via free maps.
None of my friends owned a single dlc and yet we were all able to enjoy the dlc content together on great maps. You could also just install mods to enjoy the dlc content on vanilla maps.
If you walked up to a rockdrake egg on fjordur in ASE and it asked you to spend 15€ on the DLC for it there would have been the same outrage.
It's not the same and if you think it is you don't know a single thing about ASE.
Great to see that the top content creators for ARK speek freely about the bad thing's right now.
Man idk if this game will survive or die
Probably Survive cause ark survival evolved is alive still
I can't see it not surviving. There are a lot of terrible games out there that lived through their darkest days with criminally low player rates and sometimes die hards really do keep games and companies afloat buying into monetization tactics.
@@SiouxTube same thing with ase they keep saying it’s dying or dead but never did if it did died there will be no Asa no updates no ark 2
Asa sucks ass is less content than ark survival evolved and a bunch of pay to win type of practices in mods dlcs the whole 9
Love you speaking up for the community and telling it how it is. And unfortunately you should be worried, if this doesn’t preform well I’m guessing Ark is going to have a very difficult time.
yeah this has been bullshit. i've been in early access for my whole ark life. Been promised ark 2, free upgrades etc. I refuse to pay for this obvious p2w. People like me will just stop playing if this swings any further
Awww shut up
Center is extremely blurry on my ps5. They need to get to grips with UE5 as it should be running better.
Dont forget its 5€ for A SHADOWMANE SKIN basically, what next 10 for a new creature head to toe ?
if it's then atleast something really unique, something we don't already have in some form. (or will have, somewhen in the future)
Not saying 10€ is ok; but at least it's not leaving such a sour taste.
I mean, a Shadowmane, an OP create made even more OP but locked behind a paywall.
That god damn thing is one of the reasons many ppl were so happy to start fresh from a point where it doesn't exist; and now they toss it right back in.
i really appreciate you saying all this when ark is your job. furthermore, because its your job its so important to talk about this before ark starts dying even more. people need to be able to critique things they love, and this mess wildcard is doing is a very slippery slope. i pray that they listen to the community.
Im not sure how to feel about the power rangers dino... like imagine pulling a god damn robot dino to a dino fight
Tbf we had tek Dino’s
The megamek was essentially a megazord wasn't it? It was a four meks togther to make a really big one.
@@MitchasaurausYeah but you could only use it in the King Titan Boss Fight. It’s not like you could pull it out of your ass in a cryopod and decimate someone’s base with it.
@@rexyrules7975 Yeah tell that to all the people that have gotten their bases decimated by normal meks :P
I just recently got back into Ark and of course I'm staying away from every single PVP server except for the one that my buddy opened up and it's not really full PVP. Like we could choose to kill each other if we want but mainly everybody's been just kind of chilling.
But I see him running around on this thing a lot and I find it absolutely overpowered because this thing can easily jump over Behemoth walls and has the ability to pretty much spit fire all over the place and runs faster than any other Dino I can get my hands on that don't already have points into movement speed.
This thing is utterly ridiculous and I feel sorry for all the people that are actually playing on official PVP servers having to deal with this thing.
Wild card please do better don't be selling us overpowered paywall creatures that are already in the game for prevent us from taming them because you guys want money.
There's other ways like the whole tak skins and other stuff like that devil used to pay back in the day when it came to Old Ark.
Its.not wildcard its snail game they want pvp to go nuts for it😢
skins and emotes.....this was a mod but got pulled
F wild card button 👍
After 900 hours of Ascended, I'm going back to Evolved. The game looks fantastic but it's starting to feel very different from the Ark I knew and loved.
Shoulder flame thrower is crazy
Pay to win
Mate, I know your passion here is real. Big Thanks for speaking your mind on this.
Ya'll got to stop giving this company your money.
Well my computer can't even run ASA without crashing every time I open ANY inventory and as I don't have the money for upgrades I was a bit disappointed. Now, seeing the direction Ark is going, I'm no longer even disappointed 🤷♂️
This cat is OP as hell, cooks meat and makes jerky! Lights my forge! Shrinks down to pet! It’s so damn good. It’s a reskin but the abilities are just to damn good!! Oh also metal weight is reduced by half. Can be your first tame, kite to water pike under belly and deeper water. Become op.
Who cares about pvp’ers they didn’t care when we got there debuffs while on pve or pvp focused only tames. I’m happy eat it!
Guys I have a question does the supply quality option change the loot quality of genesis missions?
A $5.00 skin. No thanx! Not on a 9 year old game that’s essentially just reskinned.
This honestly breaks my heart, ark gives me a release from my anxiety, now i'm worried about what will happen
had to be damn pride too wow.
I really appreciate you being real, Raas.
Something I noticed is at least on console in the center
Some rocks and trees and stuff breaks like back in ase
Some rocks they just banish and tress fall like ark ase
There is one and only one answer to this
GAME.INI
add
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
then go into console and type "AdminCheat DestroyWildDinos".
No more Pyromanes. Well you will also have to block transfers of them.
Wish blocking out BTT was as easy. This is what you get when you let them get away with the BTT stuff.
Completely agree man, this creature is one of the most common spawns in the entire volcano biome, and is still a common spawn with the entire surrounding area. It’s ridiculous like your gonna find it everywhere, and now we know that these things are gonna be on all the free dlc maps!!! So while the center is annoying you can get over it because it’s the center and not loved by a lot of the community but think about Ragnarok, Lost Island, Fjordur, Valguero, all of these will all have at least one creature on the map that you have to pay for to interact with. And maybe we should be thankful that this one is a fire based creature so is generally limited to the lava areas. Imagine a creature maybe even 2 that spawn all around the map that you just can’t interact with until you buy it. I can already see where this road is leading to. Who’s to say they can’t do more things like this like instead of fantasy creatures it’s new tek creatures and they do it to even more maps. Think when the free maps came out they came with a or several new free creatures, now we are getting those same free maps, but now instead of adding free creatures, their adding priced ones all even more op than before. It’s baffling how obvious this is, like it’s simple, before they released the creatures on these maps free, now their releasing them for $5 dollars each, no new map content included so what used to be free updates to ark now are slowly turning into paid updates
Given their overlord, I believe Wildcard are pretty much between a rock and a hard place. We know ARK is Snail's cash cow, and they expect profits. Well, this is how they get profits. I don't blame Wildcard for this one. We all know who's pulling the strings. Is it Pay-To-Win? It does offer significant abilities compared to the Oasisaur - that much is obvious. What's scary to consider is: Who's to say that the Pyromane was the least ridiculous idea that was proposed? Imagine the other insane ideas that were probably cooked up.
Personally, I'd prefer that if you didn't buy the DLC either it didn't spawn for you (SP mainly) AND/OR it was invisible/you couldn't interact with it nor it with you if wild (MP).
If the next "Fantastic Creature" isn't a hard counter to the Pyromane (Hydromane? Cryomane? LOL.) I'd be very surprised. Seeing as the cat (pun also intended) is very much out of the bag, they can "make this right" by adding a dedicated counter to the Pyro for the next one. From then on subsequent "Fantastic Creatures" need to essentially be reskins of dinos already in game - something that can spawn in place of 'native' dinos, nothing "OTT".
People will still be able to support ASA if they're replacements/reskins, but it won't be viewed as a "P2W" - just a cash grab. Personally, I'd love to see the Jurassic Park dinos from ASE make a comeback (i.e. not skins, have them actually spawn - i.e. the Styracosaurus could spawn anywhere a Trike could, or Barchiosaurus where Brontos can spawn). I'd buy that and be okay with it.
I'll also be very surprised if the Power Rangers thing isn't a paid DLC. There's no way that is coming for free. What I would love to see, however, is if they could tie it in to the Tek Mek and Enforcer-type systems - so you had to find (Rare spawn) and destroy the Zords to get their blueprints (like an Enforcer) and then build them (like a Mek/Enforcer), then had the option to combine all five into the Megazord. The suits would need to be Tek Suit-like variants - plus they'd need to develop a couple extra Tek-type melee weapons - daggers (Yellow Ranger), lance (Blue Ranger) and axe, they have a Tek Sword and Tek Bow already, just need to reskin them).
We'll see what this looks like in a week, I guess...
i think they should choose have paid dlc or paid tlc not both
Genuine question….can WC not leave Snail? Does snail solely own the IP orrrr?
Nope. They own WC
The Power Rangers collab is 100% costumes. Even the Dev Kit tries to load up a “missing file” WITH the file path it’s supposed to have
The item is:
PrimalItemCostume_Zord_Rex
And it gives a big “Not allowed to spawn in this map” message when you try and spawn it in
I've been wanting to upgrade my rig to be able to get this game but all the monetized things feel so against the spirit of what ASE was.
What happens if you try force taming it If you haven’t paid for it
Two things. First, there should be a menu in the multiplayer server selection that lets you toggle what servers have and havent got the packs, so people who dont have the packs can feel more fair. Second thing, i hope that Wildcard did some typo and meant the fantastic beasts pack be a season pass like Bob's Tall Tales. I dont believe Wildcard is that greedy for money, and by the looks of it and if they meant it as a season pass, they would be adding creatures to the community maps, like how Bob's Tall Tales is.
Is there an option to turn off the pyromanes in private servers? I would prefer to disable them.