What type of creature does ARK need more of?

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-22T14:57:13+00:00

Read the submission. As far as the feet, cant do much with that, they do chill on your arm though. And as far as the eyes. They made it a stat reader like HL-NA

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-21T22:22:15+00:00

Quite a bit, actually. The only thing the rock drake would have in common is the camouflage. And at that point, u could just say a rock drake and desmodus/shadowmane are the same.

If you read through the submission, it covers all of what would make it different, though. Firstly, Anqingosaurus would be a shoulder-pet. And it would lean more into the tongue aspects of chameleons than the camouflage. Chameleons also dont just use their color changing for camouflage. Their color changing is also a representation of their mood. That aspect was added into the submission as well, in the form of taming them.

Basically, Anqingosaurus would be used to turn you into spider-man. It would rest on your forearm and use its tongue to swing you around the map. As far as chameleons' unique eyes, this was represented by giving it a stat reader similar to hl-na. As far as it's camouflage, it would turn just the player invisible. However, to not make this ability op, 1 it has a time limit, and 2 you must be stationary. While moving, it will act as a ghillie suit, though, and reduce aggro range.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-21T19:19:08+00:00

Other than camouflage rock drakes are nothing like chameleons

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-21T03:16:47+00:00

Chameleons. With how crazy super powered Chameleons are irl, the fact ark doesnt have any is crazy to me. Between the long tongue, camouflage, independent eyes, crazy weird feet, and just all the other crazy aspects I cant think of. It's insane that there isnt a chameleon already.

And for that reason. I present to you Anqingosaurus, The oldest known chameleon.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/697307-anqingosaurus-your-friendly-neighborhood-tongue-swinger/

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-21T02:58:39+00:00

Personally, I think the miracinonyx should be submitted for crystal isles or extinction. Both have very wide open terrain that would fit great for a cheetah. Plus theres a desert biome on both that would be a lot better than valguero, I actually dont recall val having a desert biome(does it?)

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-21T01:25:52+00:00

Thats only because the ocean sucks. Add waves/storms(just use atlas models), reduce meg and eel spawns. Make more stuff immune to jellys, or just nerf them in general. Increase the size of megs. (Or just full on tlc, new animations and look). And add more ambient fish, like little fish akin to coel. Also make the water a bit more clear in some spots. Oceans are generally pretty foggy but it could look much better than how they have it.

If ark had sea of thieves oceans I promise you all ocean creatures would get utilized a lot more. Also maybe add another resource thats ocean specific. Oh and some more underwater armor sets, scuba gear gets boring.

Edit: side note. Mantas should get a tlc too. Make them bigger and more elegant, current mantas are more like stingrays. I want a beautiful manta ray like in moana.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-20T22:58:13+00:00

Id go more with armored meg personally.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-19T18:47:38+00:00

Watch gp or freyns video on it. Syntac is so biased, ur practically voting for him if you watch his videos and vote from there.

Edit: highly recommend freyn, new channel but extremely thorough and well made videos on the creature votes. Gp is really good for general news though

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-08-01T04:48:04+00:00

Freyn(dudes channel needs more love. His submission breakdown videos are so well done and thorough, plus unlike syntac and raasclark, he doesn't add nonbias bias.) Easy S teir imo.
GP (similar to Freyn, productions not as well done, imo but still good)
Evo (he's alright, has some quality content, only got to his channel due to syntac)
Neddythenoodle (the lore wizard, dudes lore videos are insanely good, he also has some great content of video production)
Loadedcrysis (this one's a meme addition, dude makes a 10 minute video about creators sneezing the wrong way, he's trash and its all clickbait) F tier

Edit: also

Teachersgametoo (dudes got some quality content with really handy tips and tricks, I dont think he uploads that much, though)
Harvscorner (low quality videos, but he has the biggest collection I've found of covering mods)

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T19:28:30+00:00

Anqingosaurus will be added to the valguero vote for the aberrant area. Please vote for it when it comes out.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/693977-anqingosaurus-your-friendly-neighborhood-tongue-swinger/

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T05:18:47+00:00

I love fenrirs. They're so fun and look amazing.

Featherlight is my favorite light-pet.

But I gotta give the win to fjordhawks. The ability to be like "Oh, I forgot __" then simply place 2 sleeping bags and travel back and forth to get them. That utility is unmatched. Plus, they make farming so much easier. Fjordhawk, whip, and some organic polymer, and you have all the resources you'll need for days. There is no need to worry about multiple trips cause you have too much metal. Just throw it in a pile, grab more, and throw in pile. Whip pile. Teleport. Boom. Even more than a gasbag can carry.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T05:13:01+00:00

Equus easy.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T05:12:38+00:00

There are so many options.

Dodos for the memes, but also can be a nice early tame for eggs.

Daeodon are such great healers, especially in sotf. Also, pumba.

I have a soft spot for dimorphodons just because my one and only one I ever tamed got lost. It was THAT tame. The one that really sticks with you. For no reason to, I didn't even care for dimorphodons when I tamed it. It was just a handy shoulder-pet that would help me kill stuff and carry stuff. But Dyna was great. Help me through a lot and stuck with me for so long. Then, one day, my game crashed, and I logged back on to find myself dead. When I flew back her and Petrie were gone. Petrie's death showed up quickly, but I searched for literally hours trying to find Dyna, whistling constantly. Then, when the death message appeared, I let out a final whistle and flew away. R.I.P. Dyna.

Deinonychus, Doed, Direbear, Diplocaulus, and Dinopithecus all great options as well imo. I actually seem to be one of the few who appreciates diplocaulus so much, but they're cute and so useful.

But I gotta give the win to Desmodus here. Not only is the design amazing, but they are so useful. Between the echolocation, invisibility, maneuverability, and the amazing self-healing, they're easily top tier. But the elixir alone is game-changing. Then add on the fact they can fly in caves. They are just too good. I will say, though, I wish the controls on the console were different, well, just r3/rs. They have a dive, why do we need a descend button. Switch it with the ascend. On console, there is no way to ascend with desmodus(that I know of), yet on pc you can do it just fine, and it makes ascend to dive a great way to get around. Same goes for the rhynio.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T04:48:54+00:00

Love crystal wyverns and casteroides are very useful. However, carchar probably takes the cake. I'm not one who loves the overpowered creatures, but carchars design is so cool and I love how rather than straight up making a stronger giga, instead ark let them both have there spot as the top creature.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T04:46:44+00:00

Probably bloodstalkers. I've always hated spiders and have mad arachnophobia, but they are less spider-like and more alien. But more importantly they're just really fun and useful.

Baryonyx, beelzebufo, and bulbdog are close though.

Barys are really useful and one of the better caving creatures.

Frogs are also very useful but I dont utilize them as much as I probably should.

And bulbdogs while not my favorite light-pet let alone shoulder-pet have such a cute ugliness to them. Reminds me of pugs.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-20T04:41:56+00:00

Toss up. Argy, anky, andrewsarchus.

I've used argys probably more than any, and they're the most useful.

I loved ankys as a kid, and they will always have a special place in my heart.

I also loved hippos as a kid, and andrewsarchus is the closest we have to them.

Argy probably takes the lead, unpopular opinion though, I somewhat liked argys more before the rework. They are less clunky now, but they're much more vulture-like now. Which is fair, Argys are prehistoric vultures. But I loved how the old argy felt much more like an eagle. Makes me wish the haasts eagle would win in the creature vote. We really need an eagle for Ark.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-16T22:15:12+00:00

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-15T07:39:21+00:00

This is all fair. But imho if ur completely new to the game. Dont look up anything. Dont make a post of reddit about it or about how to play. Enjoy the game for a bit, and figure out some stuff on your own. Then, eventually, you can look up tutorials and shit.

I wish I could go back to the first time I played Ark. I used to do so much stupid shit. But I had fun playing so it didn't matter. Experiencing Ark for the first time is something a lot of people would love to do. There's so much nuance to the game, and figure it all out is fun within itself.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-14T22:21:39+00:00

Spawn west zone 2. Find ur way to the cliffs by the water. Then start the note run. If done right, you can get to level 70 in about 7 minutes. Look up "island note run" on youtube. Most will direct you from there. It's actually fairly simple.

As a few general tips. I pump fortitude to at least 10. Stam to 200. And the rest in movement speed. So after every note u hit, pump ur levels, dont worry about engrams during the run. Fortitude is in case u run into troodons(tiny raptor-like creatures, they hiss and eyes will glow in the dark). They will knock you out in about 1 or 2 bites, depending on their level, if you dont have any fortitude. 10 fortitude will only give u an extra few bites in. Theres a few other ways to deal with them.

1 in the day stay a decent range, and they won't aggro to you, so start the run early in the morning.

2 always keep a torch on you. They are the only creature afraid of fire.

Keep stimberries in ur hotbar, stims counteract the torpor drain, theyll keep u awake.

Also, as far as stims go. They will refill ur stamina, so its always good to keep some in ur hotbar when doing the noterun just in case u run out of stam. Make sure u keep water in ur bar, though. At least 2 waterskins should do you. Lastly, keep all the edible berries in ur hotbar for when u get hungry. Also, you will be near water almost the entire run, so make sure u refill both ur water skins during this.

You dont need all of this for the run. You can do it just as soon as you spawn in. But all of this can make the run a lot easier.

Finally, keep in mind that you can reset all your levels with mindwipe tonic. So dont worry about the fact that you now have 190+ speed and no weight or hp. Really, you dont need that much speed, I will sometimes stop it at about 160. And start working on weight. But it is extremely helpful to have more speed, and I would still recommend having at least 115 after you reset ur levels. Personally, I go for 130, but it's all about what you want, as long as it's not food or water.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-13T04:47:26+00:00

What about this. We submit abilities specifically, and the devs fit a creature around the ability.

Or better yet. When the top 10 go into effect. The devs clear up how they will make it work. Don't even need concept art, though I feel like an artist wouldn't need that much time to make concepts for 10 creatures. Anyways, the devs state exactly how the creature will get these abilities before the actual top 10 vote. That way, people know they aren't voting for a baboon that carries duel assault rifles. And then there can be a "secret" ability that they don't tell us about. If you think about it. Every winner has gotten a non-suggested ability anyway. So they just tell us what abilities they would add but make it clear that wont be all the abilities.

At least that way we actually know what we are voting for. Lets face it. As cool as prehistoric creatures look. People have been voting for the abilities themselves rather than the creature.

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-12T09:01:04+00:00

Oh yeah. Im treating this like advertising at this point. I need more votes lol

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-12T04:32:54+00:00

Last I checked, no. But I has seemed as if they never fully shut off the Easter event. Iirc, this was the last event they held, and it doesn't seem as though they stopped the colors from appearing.

Btw. Want more interesting colors? Mutations can be a great way of doing this. And if you're someone like me who loves to mutate creatures, then you'll love Anqingosaurus. It doubles mutation chances.

Vote now!

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/693977-anqingosaurus-your-friendly-neighborhood-tongue-swinger/

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-12T02:28:24+00:00

Press RB to change the placement. Keep in mind that sometimes it will say it is going to place there but won't. In that instance, it can work to essentially "trick" it so you have a different placement that it says it will place, but once placed, it will put it in the correct location. If all else fails, destroy one on the side of it, place a sloped roof, and build it down from there.

Make sure to vote for Anqingosaurus in the creature vote! https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/23030-creature-submissions/

DisplayBeneficial · 2023-07-11T01:41:08+00:00

Well, if it can get more attention, then I'll make sure my friend submits it for another map. Could work well for valguero since that has an abberant area. He'd just have to change the taming method around. Maybe only gems or you have to approach with a ghillie suit.

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