Lashtastic

For those that arent aware:

- Your characters age is based on the time you created your character to today. (Or from the time you drink from the fountain)

- There is no parental system as yet - this is all speculation

- There is no character death at 100 yet - this is all speculation

Now that's cleared up here's the problem:

- Players who can only play limited hours per day/per week are severely penalised by the fact their player has now aged considerably and every 3 weeks they will be 90. 

- Players who elect to say "screw the fountain" and yolo the debuff suffer the % stat reduction lower than the base level.

- Players who have created their character before yours and do constantly get the fountain get (currently not uncapped) bonuses every 3 weeks.

- There is NO CATCH UP MECHANIC and no way to limit your enemies from getting the fountain since its relatively hard to lock down the island. (if you could it would be an even worse advantage)

- New and Casual players which account for quite a bit of game pop according to steam charts are the ones hit the most by this.

Some easier ways to improve this system (but better to be completely removed):

- Remove the old age debuff and stay on Base statistics

- Slow down aging or at least base it on PLAYTIME.

- Cap the recurring bonus and to keep them you gotta goto the fountain. 

I dont understand why there are buffs or debuffs based on Playtime or when your created your character.

It is the dumbest mechanic ever - not only does it gives one playstyle an exponential advantage and crutch, it penalises other play styles with a debuff.

Finding a wife is a dumber mechanic than this one. The whole thing is stupid.

43 minutes ago, mndfreeze said:

The point that anyone who isn't complaining is a liar... right. 

I can see why tho that full stop was supposed to be a comma as in one of the three options. I was just fresh off a night out when typing it though

16 hours ago, mndfreeze said:

You can guess all you want but you'd be wrong, and not all temperate islands are easy peasy.  If we get over run by lions and wolves then die and they start camping your corpse  you run and agro them naked and train them FAR AWAY with the expectation to die again, then get your corpse after you die that time.  You only need to train them to the nearest prey item but if there are none around like some islands then you only need to train them far enough away that when you respawn again running to your body won't be close enough to re-agro them.

I think you may have missed my point

Why are we even arguing on this post - its just not fun to be overrun by NPCs. 

Its fun when there are things you can do to actually get better, like use different items/weapons/better armour/better stats - you know like... Progression.

But that is not what we have in Ark. I stack 200 HP and time my shots. It was bad but dealable when we could head shot consistently for kills now you cant even do that. We were gathering turnips yesterday and surrounded by packs of lvl 20+ wolves. Level 19 wolves can take TWO Pistol headshots and a Pike swipe. We spent a lot of time killing them and corpse running trying to get our weapons equipped on a 15second timer EACH before another pack would roll over and bite us. 

My guess is the people that arent complaining are lying. have all the organic paste they can use and spamming fire arrows or just live on easy mode islands like temperate islands with Boars, bears and snakes. 

2 hours ago, Garfy said:

Anyone saying "just level up and kill them" obviously hasn't seen just how bad wolves are.

 

They always spawn in groups of at least 2 and have a tendency of spawning right behind players.

Have about 300 Hp at level 1.

Attack 3 times a second for about 25 damage on a naked person.

Have a larger attack range than any melee weapon.

Knock you flying 10-20ft with every hit.

Run faster than a player ever can (and for longer).

Can attack through walls/ships.

Have a massive aggro range and almost never drop aggro.

They also roam around a lot because of how their AI works (they chase and kill any animal in their aggro range, so they move around constantly).

 

There is no way to fight them fairly. Saying "just get a pike" is stupid. You'll land one hit by the time they land 6-9 hits and by then you'll be dead anyway.

 

The only way to deal with wolves right now is.

Shoot them from a safe place (up a cliff, building, trap them and so on).

Hope they attack a bear (a bear can kill 1 wolf, but 2 wolves kill a bear) or an alpha so it kills them.

Very unreliable but a blunderbuss can 1 shot kill them if you do it at point blank range and get a decent headshot. Only works vs 1 wolf (and they come in packs).

 

That  is it. Outside of this, wolves will just kill you. Your best bet is to just avoid them, but if you can see their health bar you're probably already dead.

This 100000% percent. In claimed lands due to predators not eating each other it is amplified because they pretty much bundle in packs PLUS get the mate bonus for more damage because they are in a pack. 

Wild wolves are completely fucked. They got hp buffed around the time of the 2.5x resource event for new years - the only difference was you could rely on pistol head shots to deal with packs. Now you rely on a head shot and a pike shot to kill one so you cannot really deal with them in packs any more.

PvE is pretty much busted in general. There are so many contributing factors:

- PvP changes impacting day to day survival such as gathering

- Aggro range being incredibly high

- Respawn rate being incredibly high and dense

- Predators do not fight other predators (except yetis)

- Melee damage incredibly weak

- Regular arrows incredibly weak now (they seem to get nerfed more and more mainly because of fire arrows.... see first cause)

- Armour incredibly weak to NPC (again see first cause)

- Alphas being very common and take next to no damage from anything other than fire arrows and fire traps (putting loads of campfires in your taming trap)

PS. If you think wolves are bad - dont forget lions and tigers. Lions roll in the same packs with wolves except they jump and grab u and hold you. They will also nicely rip you off your mount and continue to eat both of you.

All of this wouldnt be so bad if a player had a reasonable amount of tools to at least deal with two of these without being guaranteed death. This could be:

- Reducing wild hp

- Reducing wild armour pen

- Increasing player base hp

- Buffing melee damage and allowing two handers to be used when you are caught (only works for 1 handers)

57 minutes ago, Lolifister said:

That's just the frame.... the plank costs were reduced. All (fully built) ships should be cheaper except for Galleon.

Check again buddy the plank costs are there it was only slightly reduced.

Just now, Willard said:

Ships cost the same amount of everything but planks cost is reduced.

Incorrect:

The only real reduction was a schooner.

2x is fine - if you havent realised how many resources it takes to keep things alive then you would not be against it. 

There is nothing fun about hitting nodes constantly and having to run back and forth all the time. Its not about being lazy its 100% about being not fun.

Wow I thought breeding was terrible in ARK seems to continues to be worse in ATLAS

There are a lot of ways to make it so you are able to handle them with out the frustration we get now. 

Also for those that havent tamed one - your wolf is slightly less viable than the wild ones except it can level. While saddled it doesnt do as much damage and does still get stuck on the wolfs head. It also doesnt have the hp to be able to take on multiple just like your own player. Tames are not like ark where once  you get tames you can be quite confident in PvE, more often than not they going to die if you are using them for anything except travel.

I agree with the OP mostly because of the high spawn rate and the fact that predators do not prey on each other like they did in ark. So when you "go into water and kill them easy" u get smashed by speedy crocs and snakes who are also chasing you. 

Also Strong arm is now bugged and I havent seen piercing shot do damage since it was originally changed. 

It is incredibly hard to corpse run and wolves are pretty glitchy when you get stuck in there head like you've been bitten by a lion. 

Here's a tip tho - learn to glide and avoid getting those trains

Getting to level 20 doesnt mean shit unless you're just putting points into hp. Maybe you are? 

They only hit for 40 a tick which u can do the same with a hatchet.