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yup AI in Ue4 can be hard to code if you dont know how to use it correctly. Like i struggle with it all the dam time. what they need to do is add a hunger system to the animals like for instance if it not threaten or hungry then they will not aggro you... but if hunger drops to 25% then find nearest animal kill eat and restore hunger.... hunger bar shouldnt drop below 25% for like 12 hrs at a time. I swear i never seen hungry animals and Rattlesnakes prey should be chickens and rabbit not humans.... rather to flee from humans. Like they need to go to a zoo and LEARN a FUCKING CLUE in how animal properly behaves.

Just go to a freeport. I swear there is little thought that goes into anything around here lol. 4x times the amount of trade ships!! Unfortunately 4x1 = 4 so good luck

I think you're right, I've sailed through multiple storms and my character got damaged but the ship was unscathed. If ships can get damaged now this is not a change I support. There is a literal crap ton of balance issues, exploits, and bugs that need to be addressed long before they start coming up with new ways to damage/destroy your ship. I swear some of their decisions are like they are trying to piss off their player base on purpose. That's not a good business model if you're keeping score at home, kids.

Not unheard of, the Op said they play at an internet cafe, could very well be a program on there that Atlas doesn't like. Swear they just introduced anti cheat? could be a false positive. Or i could be wrong lol

When in settings for gpu it shows Low=gtx 660, medium=I dont recall, high=gtx 970. Before I swear it said high settings required a gtx 1070. Hopefully it was an optimization update. Gtx 970 is slightly more powerful than a gtx 1050 ti. Only reason to go with a gtx 1050 it is to get one that doesn't require 6 pin power connector for a desktop. Gtx 1060 is equivalent to a gtx 980. Get the most powerful card you can for the right price. Rtx 2060 is coming out for 350ish and is equivalent to a GTX 1070 ti. Rumor of a GTX 2060 but that may never come or be months away.

Hello. First One: Sorry for my English. I try my best So....i think i gonna fix my UE4 Error. I got sometimes every 5mins Crashes and i swear i wanna throw out my PC outta window. whatever. Check: Harddrive - Steam - steamapps - common - Atlas There is 1 Text Document called "version". In my Document ( Now we have Patch V11.0) was 4.0 the Current Version. So i change it and typed "11.0" it can not get worse than now And finally it works. What I do not understand was the following: The version changes automatically to 10.0 in the Text Document. i dont know why. but i can play at the moment. Last 4 Hours without 0 Crashes ----------------- just now I have downloaded the current msvcr120.dll files. Which always occur in the error message. I hope it continues to work. I will keep you up to date

Why would you have to pay someone to play on their server? I didn't know private servers were charging players to play, but if so, there are plenty of free ones to choose from. As for the dynamic map... I could swear I saw another thread derailed by this conversation, but I could be wrong. Either way, the map *could* be more clearly labelled, but at the same time, it's pretty easy to determine it's not showing all the claims. At first glance, though, no it wouldn't be evident really to anyone. And the dynamic map (clearly labelled or not) would hardly be any influence on my satisfaction with my purchase and/or determine if I'm happy with the direction the game seems to be taking. Also, not sure how visiting Canada, Asia or Australia is relevant. Are they supposed to be biomes? Because I'm pretty sure all three (especially Canada and Asia) are large enough to include an extremely vast variety of biomes. That's like saying "the American biome" or "French biome". I play on a 3x3 with 4-5 islands per zone, and there is still LOTS left to explore. We reset and rebuilt our map around NYE to get a better variety of islands (and thus resources, biomes, scenery, creatures, etc), so it's definitely possible to still have a very interesting and diverse game on a smaller grid. And the diversity is definitely sufficient to enable crafting with multiples of different types of resources. I've played pretty frequently (embarrassingly so), and have only one island (the one I am building my main base on) even close to being thoroughly explored. But I've seen cities of fire elementals, ruined temples, little shanty towns, and a bazillion beautiful locales! Still lots to see and do, even on a small server. Aren't wikis usually updated by the users? So in this example, wouldn't it be the users providing that information because the company didn't do it thoroughly enough? I could be wrong, maybe the wiki is updated and run by Mojang/Microsoft, but my limited understanding of wikis leaves me inclined to think this was an odd choice of an example. Even more so when you consider the level of polish one might expect from a game that is stated to be in a year development cycle for Early Access, and especially so when it's within the first few weeks of launch. That being said, I don't entirely disagree with your idea that the game could be more transparent and provide more information. Still, it's Early Access, and those things often come with the extra polish. It seems to me like there is little point in writing out full descriptions for things when some/a lot of them may change at some point, but some information would be nice. All about finding that balance, I suppose?

They have options in the game to play in an environment for people who want to do what you want. They also have options for people who want to PVP and fight with all the little shithead trolls. Don’t play PVP and then whine that it’s PVP... I swear man this generation is so fucking lost and entitled. Some of the shot I read I can’t even comprehend what goes through peoples heads

They do as off the latest patch And yes what ever pet you had with you will be eaten by any animal that kills you some swear by melee boosted monkeys to help you flee an animal the poo throwing slows down your foe.

Hello Guys, This is gonna be quite a long post, so if you want a summary, go down to the bottom of the post. I started playing this game because a friend showed me the trailer. It was epic, grand and something I really wanted to start playing! So I bought the game, tried to log on onto a server.. It didnt work, we could not enter any server. anyway, everyone knows how bad the launch was, no need to go over it again. Later, after quitting the game because of the insane lag and not being able to do anything and just rubberbanding all over the freeport, I decided to try it again a few days later. Every server seemed full so I picked a server I could actually join. I Spawned on an island with an insane amount of animals, most of them unfriendly and unkillable. I actually farmed a bit, made some tools and such. I didnt actually know what i was supposed to do except for making a base to store my stuff. I never played ARK. I found out that tools do no damage whatsoever to crocodiles and that was about it, I lost all my stuff again. The same thing repeated for quite some time until one of my friends suggested we play together because he just bought the game aswell. Great idea, but how do we do that? we tried to spawn in the same zone.. we gave up on that idea after both spawning in the water 20 times in a row at the same spot. judging by the amount of dead players in the water, we were not the only ones who had the same problem. we were trying to get together for an hour and all we were doing was drowning ourselves just to spawn on the same exact spot again, which was great fun. Why would we not spawn on land? why would this game make us spawn somewhere that only wastes our time, because we cant swim to the shore because its too far? Another friend joined our discord, he had a raft and was going to pick us up. my god we were so happy, finally an actual plan. We tried to spawn on land somewhere, my friend ragequit after another hour of trying to spawn somewhere that wasnt ocean, so i was at it alone again, waiting for the raft. after spending 2 hours losing my mind and doubting the very meaning of life, I finally spawned on a spot that would not instantly kill me. I only wasted about 5 to 6 hours, not doing anything and just getting frustrated so I could finally set sail with my friend. This was going to be good I thought. Finally our adventure was about to start. He explained to me that I could spawn on the bed on his raft now that we were in the same company.. I asked the turd why he wouldnt just invite me to the company before so I could spawn on his raft, he answered that he had to touch me with e to actually invite me to the company. Now I know what you are thinking, why didnt you spawn at the freeport, invite eachother to the company, then spawn back on the raft. We thought of that too you know, was it not that the freeports were actually full all the time and you couldnt never spawn there. What's the point actually anyway, of having people to physically (ingame) having to invite people to a company? you can just both spawn at the freeport, get invited, then spawn on a bed somewhere. its just a waste of time, because thats the only thing you have to do to get in a company. spend a bit of time on something shitty. We noticed the raft was very slow and that it would take us some time to reach land on the next zone on the map. At first we were both amazed at how good the sea looked. Compared to most objects in this game, that actually look sluggish, dark, sloppy and rough, it looked pretty amazing and realistic. We laughed when we saw a dolphin like the roleplayers we are. after like 25 minutes we were bored out of our minds. We realised it was gonna take hours to reach land. my god. we spent a day and we actually didnt accomplish anything. we reached land in a lawless region and we went ashore. so to sum things up, we spend hours just respawning in the water, trying to reach other and when we finally did, we spent hours sailing a friggin raft to some land where we could actually play the game. is this shit worth it? really? We started farming the island on the lawless region, only to quickly notice it was full of life. Unfriendly animals, and alot of them. I died after being knocked out in a fight with 3 giant snakes who followed me all over the island. My friend died aswell from the tiger that attacked him while he was running from the same snakes that killed me. 'Wow, this game is intense' i thought, I'm starting to like it. I tried to respawn on the bed but it did not work. what the F? We found out we actually sailed the raft to close to the shore and you cant respawn on a bed on a unclaimed island. wow, bad flashbacks to a few hours ago when we were trying to respawn on actual land instead of the ocean. So yes, you guessed it right. I ragequit and my friend spent 2 hours trying to spawn somewhere near our raft on the lawless island. The next day, we parked the raft somewhere not so close to the shore so we could actually spawn there. great, we could get things done finally. We soon noticed that a bed is destroyed in a matter of seconds when we watched another guy sail by in a raft, only to jump on ours and destroy our bed. It literally took him less time then it took us to swim to our raft. He hopped back on his raft and sailed away into the sunset. Luckily we could make another bed from the materials we had stored away in a box. We started to wonder how to protect our bed.. we simply made more rafts, with more beds. We made a base to store our stuff and we actually had a bit of fun. After building a shipyard, we noticed this game is gonna take alot of grinding and doing the same thing over and over again. The whole game is a big grind, but we dont mind the grind. We played other games, we played rust, we knew sometimes its about farming. We made a sloop only to have it destroyed at the free port. We found out that people can put rocks in your smithy, so the weight goes up. While we were out farming, somebody sank our boat by filling the smithy with stones. joy. Other friends started to play the game and the lag was finally getting better, we got together and started playing on a island where we could actually claim land so we could spawn on a bed. Hooray! no more constant fear of someone destroying your beds, we can actually make a base and spawn in there. They had built a schooner and were coming over to our island to pick us up. Why they would risk the long journey i didnt understand, untill they told me their island had no fiber nor metal nodes to farm. So we started to farm fiber and metal to take with us on the ship. Then it downed on me.. why would you live on an island that has no fiber nor metal? 'Chinese' was my answer. Apperently the chinese all banded together and had claimed or killed everything in decent area's. FIne then, we will live on an island that has no fiber, no metal nodes and where it is so cold that if you don't have 50 points in fortitude you instantly freeze to death. JOY! I had been playing ATLAS for quite some time now, and we got used to our new island, without fiber. We didnt make a new boat yet, because 6 of them got sunk by the damn ghost ships. There were so friggin many demon ships everywhere that there was no point in even trying to sail again. We got used to being under constant attack by wildlife. We gained some levels from the wolf and tigers that seemed to be on infinite supply on our island. Every task was a struggle... farm some wood, you die about 6 times to a wolf. Not that we didnt kill the wolves, but if there are 3 wolves on your ass and they all attacks 3 times per second, while knocking you back? it's pretty impossible to survive that. Farm some stone, a tiger will sneak up on you while you are on your knees trying to hit the damn rock. Try to farm some hide? 15 voltures will try and steal the kill and attack you if you stand to close. When you try to kill one of them, they all attack you and you kinda just instantly die. So once in a while we aggroed some voltures, drag them back to our base and shoot them when they clip through the walls. They would disappear for a while so we could actually get some hide. We noticed that animals fall down from the mountain on our island, and because of that there are huge amounts of creatures around. You get used to it and once you actually get some levels. it becomes easier. But i don't recommend this crap when you are level 12 like I was. why only so low level you ask? well, you couldnt go beyond level 8 in lawless regions. we were forced to spend too much time there, as we couldn't sail because of the chinese shooting us down, or the demon ships. Now I've came across a few alpha's before in the time I spent in this game, but alpha wolves were new to me. Boy did I learn fast. I learned that there is no actual counterplay to an alpha wolf. You can not outplay it, you can not do a certain thing to survive. If you didn't see the wolf coming, it will kill you. In the following days we killed the alpha wolves we encountered by dragging them in our taming pen, then shooting them from above. You take like 8 bows with you and a shitload of arrows, because after the nerf the bows break easier than a fat lady's resistance at the sight of cake. Or by luring them into an alpha bear, so it would kill the wolf. Or hope that it would attack some random animal it came across so we could run away and try to avoid it. -Keep in mind this is all before they nerfed the demon ships, nerfed the amount of resources it takes for boats and before the gathering boosts- I played ATLAS till late last night, because I was taming a horse. We spent hours to drive to a different zone to get sugar cane and with our second trip we actually managed to get the sugar cane home. The first trip didn't end so well. We managed to find the sugar cane, get it on board only to have our schooner "explode" without warning. We found out if was a whale that destroyed our boat`.We never saw it, it never warned us, the boat was just gone instantly. So the horse was tamed and I was so happy, we finally had a horse. I took my wolf mount out to clear the area of all the wolves and tigers so i could take the horse out for a bit and make it carry some wood while i was out farming. I was out of the gates surrounding our base for 2 minutes, hitting the trees over and over and over to get some wood, to see an alpha wolf appear out of nothing. I run for my horse as fast as I can to hop on it and run from the wolf... but I was too late, it killed the horse. There was nothing I could do, the horse was just behind me, but the alpha blocked me from pressing E to ride the horse and by the time is was on the other side of the horse it was already dead. after that the alpha oneshot me and I spent another like 30 minutes trying to get my stuff back from my dead body while the alpha killed me over and over again. All the time we spent getting the sugar cane, all that time spent taming the horse. gone in a second, by something I can not counter nor outplay. this is just retarded. and don't tell me you can kite it, because you will run away from it untill you run out of stamina, and then you still die. I managed to run from an alpha wolf once, because i was close to our gates and i could jump to the gate and the alpha clipped himself into the door and bugged so it couldnt follow. So for that to work you need to be very close to a gate and the game needs to remain very bugged. Lets not even start about the time 8 out of us got killed by one alpha while treasure hunting. all of us fully geared and armed, shooting and kiting it but it did not matter. everyone got oneshot. it simply attacks too fast, does too much damage and has too much health. I must be into self-flagellation or something because the next day, after ragequitting over the dead horse the day before, I actually started playing the game again. I took my wolf out to clear our area of wolves and voltures to actually do some grinding. I opened our gates and when I tried to shut them again by pressing E, it actually dismounts me from my wolfmount. I close the gate only to run back to my wolf to see it fighting a wolf.. you guessed it, an alpha wolf. goddamnit... the wolf dies, I die ( a little inside). Where I got the courage to actually stay playing after that I don't know, but I did. I lured the alpha wolf into our taming pen and kept it there. My thoughts were if I just keep the damn alpha wolf alive in there, the game wont spawn another alpha wolf and I would not have to deal with it for a while. So I spent about 40 minutes luring it in the pen, constantly dying, running back and trying again. But I managed to get it inside. Finally I thought, lets have some fun. I swear to god, not 5 minutes later of locking the alpha wolf in the taming pen, i find myself on the beach on my low level wolfmount. I see three wolves running towards me and for sure.. one of them is an alpha wolf level 212. I didnt try to run, I pressed escape and exit the game. Today I quit this game. I will not come back untill this alpha BS is fixed. I understand we lived on a harsh island, like it should be. I can deal with having 0 fiber on the entire island to farm, so you have to get it somewhere else by boat. I can deal with no metal nodes on our island, so we get it elsewhere. like I can deal with the cold that constantly tries to kill you, I can deal with running inside as soon as it rains so you don't die from cold. I can deal with not having any source of sugar on our island like sap, so we have to get it somewhere else. I can deal with the risk of our ship getting sunk while doing so by other players or by the ghost ships... What I can not deal with, is alpha animals that you can not outplay or battle. There is no way to counter it, no way to save yourself or your mount. and it's total BS. You can only do something after you already lost the things of value. REMOVE THE ALPHA'S

I totally get you and I swear I actually read that long post. Yes it should be that way. You are not wrong. but even like the other guy said. Even if they do make it to where dying makes you age faster. They will just start mass producing kids and not even worry about the aging process. Actually I am sure that once the stats start affecting age people will start milking themselves on purpose even faster so they can get back to the young version of themselves by means of the child. once you hit 60 and have lowered stats, well times to repeatedly commit suicide so you can enter your kids body. believe me if you think the death part is being exploited. Wait till you see how bad these guys are going to exploit the aging process. a lot of ark players are on here. Even though you don’t want it to be ark, they will turn it into ark rather anyone likes it or not. Wait till the Megas start doing server wipes just like ark. They are just building their arsenal. There won’t be fair play when they start over running each server. And the devs won’t do anything about that. They even said eventually they wanted to see one huge company rule the globe. i do agree with you that death should matter. All I am saying is that death will always be preferable. Because once they make dying so difficult they will have way too many people yelling at them that they will Recert it back. look how fast you guys got 2x resources. Took over a year for that to happen in ark. Recruit difficulty has already started man. They literally just got done making the negative effects of vitamin deficiency less. They are making death even more preferable, not less preferable. once again totally with you. But I am still saying nothing is going to change

That should be fixed in pve as well. For that, the OP is on the right track. New code required. Doesn't the game stop you from picking things up after a certain point already though? i could swear i remember not being able to pick up an entire stack of stone. Too lazy to do the science atm

This is just another failed attempt to force commerce and trade, and force you to get out on the seas. It's simply not going to work. I swear, so many Devs simply do not understand MetaGaming. And, MetaGaming rules, especially in PvP games. You have to do the math, because the MetaGamers sure will, and they will find every weakness, and every exploit, and every advantage and disadvantage, and wreck the plans you had for your game in the process. So if you want there to be a thriving trade and mercantile economy in this game, YOU DEVS have to make that happen.

At first in the preliminary patch-notes it said "- Removed Sea Claims (they weren't very useful at present)" Which I thought was a great change, mostly because now you would actually see what the Top 10 largest companies are, and not just their massive sea claims. I don't know why it doesn't say that anymore in the preliminary patch-notes, but I think it would be great to show the Top 10 companies based on amount of players within the company/alliance. Not which company pressed F1 the most and waited 10 minutes. I swear that if that was any companys real intention, to just pop up on Top 10 - they could just enter an area and claim all the sea. Not the greatest system imo.

I already post it on steam forum but I don't thinks it's gonna be seen there. then I found the link to official suggestion forum so I'm gonna put it here as well. I'll post the link to my post on steam and copy-phase all my text into this post too https://steamcommunity.com/app/834910/discussions/0/1742230617607704055/ Below here is what I wrote on steam forum (sorry about the swear words)

I swear I remember them wiping once in the very beginning because of some mass exploits. I do remember the archive stuff though and that was quite a bit later. Regardless, opening a new server is effectively the same as wiping. Anyone, established or not, will consider their old stuff moot and will rush to the new server, same as a wipe basically. The few that don't want to leave will stay and eventually the old server will die off as new players won't join it.

My bad, I could swear I saw him spamming that same message in other threads but I can't see it in his history now. He's still wrong though.

My brother can also go on the server, but he lives 8 hours away... I swear it's like there's an invisible wall and it's blocking certain people for some reason. The only thing I can point to is Link11, which is the company doing DDOS protection for Grapeshot

I think that's fine, if you're group is legit big, then it i'm sure people understand, but most aren't and tend to be a people ranging from 3- 10 taking an whole island. On mine there's a group, i say group, swear it's one person, whos claimed every square foot and complains if anyone tries to lay down a claim, as it's "their island". This is the main problem and i think people assume it's large groups doing it If each person is allowed to place one flag down, as a company that should be more than enough to cover, the range is pretty big and if you place it in the water you can over a large section of sea and land with ease, it's more a case of preventing these smaller groups taking an entire island and bullying others off. "Companies should not be named the top company by how much land they've grabbed....This just promotes the wrong type of game play - trolling etc... " Agree, on PVE it makes zero sense as there's no contesting or battles to fight over dominance and who controls what as on PVP it shows your company are the strongest and you fought to get the land and control it. PVe it's who got there first and spammed claim flags. PvP it's top strongest PvE it's top scumbags xD

I've done a lot of sailing on EU PvP, 80 discoveries so far. Literally never even seen any Chinese. They are like the boogie man in this game I swear, its all anyone talks about yet they are probably localized to some small region and probably no more of an issue than any other big tribe.

Thank you both...I swear I done a search on nitrado...and never found that page...

That is really scary. According to the captain's log it was fixed, but it is obvious the changes have not been enough or they are just not working. I'd swear I remember one of the changes mentioning these ships would not approach islands. We have already lost two ships to these Damned things. At first we were sad we sailed away, but now I am kind of happy we had fun around with the ship for about 30 minutes before it was turned into nothingness.

I swear this is so stupid...

If you swear/insult a bit more it will be fixed.

We all knew what we would be getting into when we bought this ARK DLC, we just didnt think the Devs would be this incompetent. Easy fixes they refuse to do, they need to have two of every sever, PvP, PvE, stop this retarded "WE HAVE HAVE 40K players WE SWEAR", who even wants 40k players on a sever, most mmos only have like what 6k tops per sever? They literally gave us the bait and switch when they had all the streamers and youtubers play the day before launch.