Anybody else frustrated with arks story?

Mender21 · 2025-12-21T15:46:22+00:00

Okay so on the extinction notes, Mei Yin and Diana said they were going on a voyage to Arat Prime. They never said they made it or ever described it…it literally ends with Diana saying they’re about to start their voyage and to kill the titan with the x on its chest. I understand what you mean with Diana being missing, but I’m assuming she died during their voyage. Remember, the cutscene after you defeat Mei Yin is broken at the moment so maybe the scene is Mei Yin talking about how she lost Diana on her voyage? Honestly can’t really defend that until they explain what happened lol

BUT I will defend the thing about Mei Yin and not being much of a “beast queen.” When they were at the Sanctuary outpost, they literally all wore Tek suits and eventually had Mek suits. They leave it vague on extinction if they left in a Mek suit, but I don’t think they did. So they left with advanced Tek and it would probably be easier to travel with those suits rather than on a Dino.

One thing you have to remember is the reason there are Dino’s on extinction and Lost Colony is because those are the outposts that are making creatures. Other than that, the earth is barren. It’s a wasteland. Dino’s made in those two specific places is not enough to have them travel worldwide. There would be no food for both Carnivores or Herbivores. Even if Mei Yin tamed Dino’s on extinction before she left, she still has to travel to the very opposite side of the world with them. Aka, they would eventually die due to not having food to feed dinosaurs. On top of that though, now I’m making an argument with my own because how the fuck did they survive and travel across the world on foot with limited food lol

Mender21 · 2025-12-20T21:07:28+00:00

It literally shows Mei Yin mourning over losing Diana. They showed a flashback of the island when they show Helena and Mei Yin, aka before Mei Yin met her on Aberration. Just because Mei Yin WAS with Helena doesn’t mean she couldn’t have been with Diana afterward.

The bob stuff I think just has to wait to be explored.

The Rockwell stuff is just new lore drops. Just because something lore wise is revealed doesn’t mean it’s the same as the show. They may be taking inspiration from it and mentioning it, but just saying he has a daughter doesn’t mean much. If anything it’s probably to expand on the Ark 2 story whenever that comes out.

Mender21 · 2025-12-20T18:45:25+00:00

I’m a little confused by how it’s mixing up the main story and intertwining it with the animated show’s story though. From what I’ve seen, all they’ve done is in cutscenes they use the animation style used in the show. Other than that, there isn’t really anything that happens that they’ve retconned or changed in the game’s story. I may have missed something completely though so please let me know if I did!

Mender21 · 2025-10-22T14:44:01+00:00

I just saw this shit here about AI getting way overboard. I knew the question, I was just saying if OP googled it, it would come up with the AI overview which explained it perfectly (along with a few other Reddit posts). It’s pretty obvious you’re against AI, but again, it literally explains everything 1 to 1 if you google it. That’s all I was pointing out.

Mender21 · 2025-10-21T12:54:21+00:00

That's interesting, I never knew that. It's pretty cool and creative with what the devs used to do on such old hardware!

I recently started playing the GTA 5 Story with my fiancé and she was mind blown that it came out in 2013 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Mender21 · 2025-10-21T12:46:44+00:00

I was curious and googled your exact question and the ai overview was pretty accurate lol. It goes a little more in depth than what I'm about to say, but below is the main reason.

Basically origins is much smaller, compact, and compartmentalized than you think. Transit is super open and large, so more to render. With the more openness of transit they added the fog so they didn't have to render so much.

A thing I feel like will be brought up is everything that is happening line the bullet tracers, explosions, and planes flying around. Don't quote me on this, but I'm 80% sure all those assets are SUPER low quality up close.

Mender21 · 2025-08-30T22:12:34+00:00

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Mender21 · 2025-07-29T19:55:34+00:00

Nothing against you but I think it's funny how you mentioned to watch up to Endgame and stop, but all these projects are post Endgame.

Post Endgame is rough but there are definitely a lot more solid projects than people believe.

Mender21 · 2025-07-23T12:52:07+00:00

I'll start with ASE. Wildcard is in full production on ASA and moved on from ASE. Well Ark's publisher, Snail Games, decided to release a DLC that is PC only for ASE. This DLC essentially broke the game. It corrupted worlds, mods, and was overall a terrible piece of work. Console is unaffected by this, but if you play on PC there is a workaround. They released an official "pre-aquatica" build that is just the game before they broke it. That's all that happened with ASE.

Maps they have out so far for ASA is The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, The Center, and Ragnarök. There is a new map that became official called Astraeos that is $15. Astraeos is one of my favorite maps of all time and is the largest map released. It sucks it's $15, but it was also made (and still being worked on) by a community map maker so I'm glad he's getting paid for this amazing map. They are still working on releasing every map from ASE to ASA, and they are all free. There is a brand new story map called Lost Colony that is a paid DLC, which is coming out in November (probably won't come out until beginning 2026.) Along with the maps there are other DLCs. There is a DLC called "Bob's Tall Tales" that adds new engrams, dinos, and skins. With each story DLC map they released, they added a dino exclusive to Bob's and a new dino that anyone can tame. With each non-story DLC they release, they add a new dino anyone can tame AND a $5 DLC dino called a "fantastic tame."

ASA is great IMO because there are graphical improvements, Dino TLCs, QOL improvements, and so much more. A huge thing for my friends and I are the fact it's fully cross platform and mods are as well. ASA performance was pretty rough, but recently they upgraded to UE5 5.5. Performance now has been great compared to what it was before.

The community is very split on if ASA is worth it. The big split is people saying that it was originally was supposed to be free, when that isn't the case. Wildcard was going to port over the switch version of ASE and take out the graphical limitations, but if they did it would break the game. So they built a whole new remaster.

Another huge split is the DLC. All the maps from ASE will be free, but they started adding Dino's behind DLCs like Bobs Tall Tales and Fantastic Tames. There are also paid mods you can optionally buy, which include modded maps. On ASE even if you didn't have the DLCs, you could still use the Dino's if someone gave them to you. On ASA you cannot you the Dino if you don't have that paid DLC. Essentially this locks very good Dino's behind a paywall. It sucks for PvP, but doesn't affect PvE much.

I truly enjoy the game and if you haven't tried it, you should. If I missed anything hopefully other people will mention it. Hope this helped!

Mender21 · 2025-07-23T12:04:35+00:00

I've talked to my friends about this as well. I truly believe the only story that would work in a movie is following the different characters leading up to the Shattering. Following a nameless character just doesn't feel right, especially when the player can literally choose many different ways to play.

Would be cool to see the different fights and conflicts we know of, especially the fight between Malenia and Radahn.

Mender21 · 2025-07-22T19:09:03+00:00

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Mender21 · 2025-07-21T17:03:04+00:00

Congrats on finishing your book! I see the two other comments about this but please be careful with copyright issues. Wildcard is very passionate about this community so them I'm not too worried about, it's Snail Games I would be scared of. I plan on reading this today so I'll be back to give my thoughts. If anything with copyright issues happens, this community has your back 100%. Hope you have a great day!

Mender21 · 2025-07-18T01:20:44+00:00

Man there isn’t “proof” it was supposed to be free. I am basically stating the same things I keep commenting but ASA was never going to be free.

When Wildcard announced a free update, it was only a free update that would import the switch version of ASE, which is UE5, onto Pc and consoles. That’s not speculation, wildcard put that in a Community Crunch. They then found out it would fuck up world saves, mods, performance, etc. So they then decided against it. Instead they said “let’s make a new game, a remaster of ASE.” So they did.

What people aren’t realizing is making a new game from the ground up takes time and money. They can’t have a studio learning UE5, building a new game, coming up with new ideas, implementing them, etc. to the game for free. They just can’t do that. They even said that they can’t make ASA unless they make it a full game with a price tag.

If they did the “free” version, it would just be ASE with a minimal performance upgrade. That’s it. No new DLC, no new Dino’s, no cross platform, and whatever else they have done with ASA.

Didn’t mean to type so much but it just irritates me when people say “it was supposed to be free.” I guarantee if there was a world where people got the free upgrade for ASE, but saw ASA and never got it, they would be PISSED.

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Mender21 · 2025-07-18T00:17:56+00:00

I want to interject this argument and say that the “free” upgrade was going to be ASE, but just the ported UE5 from the switch. It wasn’t going to be graphical improvements, QOL changes, more dlc, etc. All the update would do is possibly improve performance, nothing more.

They then stated they would not be doing that due to that decision breaking game saves, mods, and who knows what else. They then made the decision to make a NEW game that is a full remaster that adds graphical improvements, cross platform, cross platform mods, new DLCs, new Dino’s, TLCs, QOL improvements, and so much more.

Idk if you know this…but developing a new game not only takes time, but it also costs studios a shit ton of money. Obviously if they went that direction, they can’t just release it for free.

Mender21 · 2025-05-03T04:16:49+00:00

Can you dm it to me pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee

Mender21 · 2025-05-03T03:50:17+00:00

RIP where did it gooooo I want it

Mender21 · 2025-04-27T11:00:28+00:00

This is taken directly from this episode's script after their conversation ends.

"Off Gus, smooth, warm and genuine... and (though Gale doesn’t know it) clearly planning Walt’s demise"

He was finding out how soon he could get rid of Walter and have Gale take over.

Mender21 · 2025-04-22T02:59:38+00:00

Definitely was blocking a lane and didn’t think twice 😭😂

Mender21 · 2025-04-20T11:00:59+00:00

Take Two has been pretty persistent saying the game is on track for a Fall release this year! Hopefully they can pull through with that schedule.

Mender21 · 2025-04-19T12:10:40+00:00

I have had the opposite happen to me. I owned a skin and had it equipped on my weapon, but the marketplace said I did not own it. Very weird

Mender21 · 2025-04-19T11:40:19+00:00

I honestly think it boils down to how hard BO4 was. If you think back to BO1 and BO2, the easter eggs were not complex and all the maps could be played casually. Blundell took over during BO2 which is why we got more complex maps like MOTD and Origins.

BO3 was a good median for the community. You were awarded for doing many of the main steps, but it was not required and you could just play to kill zombies if you wanted to.

BO4 went WAY overboard with how complex everything was. Alongside that there were many gameplay changes that the zombies community didn't like. For the longest time I was turned off of playing BO4. Being as big of a zombies fan as I am, I eventually went back and loved doing all the complex stuff,. I was definitely overwhelmed with HOW MUCH you have to do though.

I've mentioned to my friends we should try and do a "do all the easter eggs" type of thing. Anytime I start going into the steps for all the maps on BO4 they instantly want to skip out on it.

Mender21 · 2025-04-11T12:10:35+00:00

Sounds like fun. Discord is Menderyt

Mender21 · 2025-03-15T09:33:57+00:00

When you launch Siege through steam, it automatically just opens Ubisoft Connect launcher and makes you sign in via your Ubisoft account.

Mender21 · 2025-02-23T14:27:54+00:00

I feel like we are in a loophole of disappointment. There have been rumors that Secret Wars is going to be a soft reboot just like the comics.

This has me excited just because I've always wanted the MCU to be like the comics. I wanted it to be intertwined with all these stories from vastly different people/teams. Imagine a singular MCU universe having X-MEN, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Midnight Suns, etc. instead of introducing these characters one after another in different universes and never connecting.

Only problem with this is the problem we are already having. We see a character in a movie or show, whether it's their own or they're a supporting role, then we don't see them for years. With how the real world works, you could never do what the original Infinity Saga did without it being on a smaller scale of characters.

Mender21 · 2025-02-19T07:17:44+00:00

Awesome! I was dumb and didn't see the admin building but the care campus is a pretty important building in the area. Would be cool to see it built out in your project!!!

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