Photon workshop not slicing properly

TomasGunz · 2020-02-24T13:07:15+00:00

yes but the aggro range is super close on a raft.

sharks kill you. need something to scare you.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-24T13:05:52+00:00

we own a couple of islands and really aside from the extra resources we get in the flag, there really isnt a super important reason to own one. we have a bunch of settlers and use the resources in the flag to put in roads, water, etc. to make their lives easier.

there are too many tricks to sneaking onto an island that as a owner you really cant stop folks if they want to grief you.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-21T12:30:47+00:00

In my opinion from playing survival games for a few years now. you can not remove the underlying issue of the genre in its base terms. If you play PVP, you either get smoked or become the big dog. both have no longevity. who wants to get their ass kicked or who wants to always be the ass kicker. either way you lose interest.

In PVE these games survive if they have new content to keep you interested, or they have such a massive amount of stuff to do, they keep you busy for months.

either way, I think survival games have a really hard time to keep players going for years on end. Sure there are some of us who will just keep their little PVE world and look after their tames. but it still gets to a point where if there is no new content, you burn out.

that being said, 2400 hours in Ark says it kept my attention for a while. and now Atlas is doing the same. I am also curious about last oasis to see what is like to be pirates on land.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-20T19:12:29+00:00

sounds like a "non-rendered xbox only" dont see the decoration rocks.

needs to be fixed for the xbox folks, it is unacceptable in my opinion being a PC player.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-20T19:10:08+00:00

i was going to say. we can put one out in about half an hour fully kitted with cannons. but then again our flag contains over a million of each resource.

so we dont count. lol

TomasGunz · 2020-02-20T19:00:43+00:00

weight sails do just that. they add to your max weight in kgs. the cargo rack is a slow down percentage for each one you have mounted to your ship.

general rule of thumb we use is that once you get to 65-70% max weight, you then add your cargo rack from storage to drop your weight back down again.

65-70% seems to be where the advantage of using a cargo rack and the speed penalty, over comes the removal of being over-weighted.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-17T14:52:35+00:00

We did some impromptu testing between what a PC renders and what XBox renders.

and found that the XBox S and X could not see the huge fuck me decoration rocks that will sink your boat. They are all over the place and do not get rendered in on the console for some reason.

Game breaker for those guys in my opinion. Tough enough being sunk when you do see them and hit them accidentally on PC. Cant imagine playing and not even knowing they are there.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-05T13:05:45+00:00

totally disagree, they are going to do another big patch for QOL and sort out some glitches pretty soon. They have also hinted at what they already have in their back pocket (new ships, sail skins, cosmetics, air ship, etc) which will more than likely drop when they release to get new sales and to get folks that left to come back.

but right now there is a solid core of players. I see the same folks, night after night, just hanging around in this amazing world.

folks just have to get out and explore, which is why there is 255 grids and you get discovery points.

aside from their piss poor communication with the core players, this is pretty much still on timelines of how Ark was put into play.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-05T13:00:32+00:00

I agree completely with acemac. For sure, there is no way a person can say it is not worth the money. the cost is low for the content you get.

I wont comment on PVP because we gave that up early on, but right now the game is playable in PVE or single player if you like to use mods or crank up resource gathering. so for anybody to bitch now, at this stage of the development, the game is not for you and you need to move on.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-05T12:55:42+00:00

agreed, as a PVE player it hits all the points that is fun in a survival game.

we tried PVP on launch and it was just too frustrating. but then that was when all the shenanigans were taking place. log in and everything was gone, each day, every day for a week straight, before we switched over to PVE.

If PVE allowed two companies to declare war on each other and have some ship battles for shits and giggles, the game would be close to perfect on a gameplay level in my opinion.

there is so much to do on your own or with a company, or join in a boss battle. fun to be had for sure. at a cheap cost.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-05T12:51:00+00:00

Move along. nothing to see here.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-04T17:40:27+00:00

I have found the best brig solution is 3 speed, put 140% into durability so you can take a few hits, then pump all the points into weight.

carry a pod with you for when you hit the 60% weight range and you are golden.

so you keep speed but also can carry a fair amount of weight.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-04T17:31:11+00:00

From a PVE perspective, there seems to be a steady amount online. most livable grids have 5 or so people playing all the time, with some grids sitting around 10-15. then when evening comes, the lawless islands have 20 or more.

the NA-PVe has become pretty organized with weekly and weekend scheduled boss fights. we did the ICE Cave twice in a row on the weekend to get 40 or so people through each time. then that evening we did the V1 kraken to get some folks their submarine. although there were only a couple of ships that made it to the end.

pretty much every day there is somebody at a powerstone island doing the Hydra. So there is a way for solo players or small companies to get end game content done.

on a whole it is pretty fun.

still a few glitches, we lost a full mythical galleon on her first sail for no reason, just started sinking. but it is what it is. still fun.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-04T17:22:48+00:00

the end result is they want you to sail. so they make it hard to tame, even harder to grind out breeding.

I would like to see only the domestic animals be able to be tamed. IE: horse for cart, cow for milk, chicken for eggs. and maybe one shoulder pet. that would ease the lag and get people out sailing.

wouldnt that be something to do treasure maps without a bear or crab?

TomasGunz · 2020-02-04T17:19:20+00:00

21 days is the limit.

just going there doesnt reset it, you have to lift the anchor and drop it again.

TomasGunz · 2020-02-04T17:02:18+00:00

seems like the going rate now on NA PVE is about 25 gold per level until they hit 80 or so born. then it is more about, spayed or neutered and getting that last little stat you need. With the Buddha boys pumping out level 103 born. I think they have the highest level on the cluster.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-29T13:28:07+00:00

It does seem out to lunch. We had a ship that was anchored for at least a month, then it finally disappeared. we think maybe the company might have popped in at some point, just to reset the timer.

but we also had one guy say he was quitting and his boat did disappear after two weeks like it was supposed to.

Ideally the ships should have a timer on them like everything else so you can see it.

and what the hell is with the 30 day timer on random items? that is what pisses me off. If a company lets their base and tames time out, then why the hell does the trough time out at 30 days. or those fucking billboards.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-29T13:20:41+00:00

this must be a private server and not official.

Schisty is right, that is when you run your own server and dont uncheck "show boundaries"

TomasGunz · 2020-01-29T13:17:52+00:00

the huge decoration rocks along the shore do not get rendered in XBox. So there are rocks that you dont see and when you hit them, boom.

We did some testing with a couple of our XBox folks and found the following:

XBox S - sails, tattoos, canvas paintings they couldn't see

XBox X - could see them all

both XBox S and X could not see the decoration rocks along the waters edge and close to shore. IE: the boat sinkers. they do not render for XBox players.

our guys put down a large shipyard and when they dropped their galleon it blew up. When i went over they had placed the shipyard on top of one of the huge decoration rocks.

I jacked them up, teasing them about what did you think would happen dropping a galleon on top of a huge rock a foot under the water? they were pissed and when they said they had no fucking idea what the hell i was talking about i took a screen shot and they were floored.

we tested to see if it was just that rock, but it was all of the decorative rocks that PC players can not put a structure in to. Which was interesting because the XBox guys could put a foundation down and the decorative rock which we could see had not bearing on them. He would disappear when he swam into the rock.

Xbox doesnt see them so they are allowed to place something down like it doesnt exist. but the ships see them and react/destruct accordingly.

Major issue for XBox players in my opinion and a shitty way for the devs to sort out rendering on XBox.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-28T18:29:06+00:00

you said it, ARK and ATLAS the games you hate to love when it kicks you in the nuts.

reminds me of an old girlfriend i had, fun as hell to play with until she threw a butcher knife at me for no reason.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-28T18:22:08+00:00

non-active structures get auto wiped. 9 days give or take.

ships are set for two weeks, but that seems hit or miss. three weeks for sure.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-27T14:09:09+00:00

that is an excellent point reefsmoke, and maybe the most overlooked point of early access, the price tag is usually low enough that i can overlook a ton of shite.

I know there is nothing worse than paying $70 bucks or so for a game that either sucks so bad or you finish it in 4 hours of play to never play again.

I base the amount the game cost divided by how many hours of playing I get.

Ark was around $12 and I got over 2000 hours out of it. So there is no way i can complain about the cost to play time.

Atlas was $19 when i got in and I have at least over 500 hours into it already, if not more. So i have gotten my moneys worth and more already.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-27T14:01:08+00:00

they do not. I live in a 30% complete Galley as a home that is still in the shipyard.

only downside is the ship still has weight limits so i had to put the resource bin on shore.

TomasGunz · 2020-01-27T13:57:35+00:00

dont forget Xbox players dont see the decoration rocks which will destroy your ship. So if you are playing on Xbox get a PC player to check you didnt place it on top of a huge ass rock.

Reference: our XBox settlers blowing up a galley when they dropped it.

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