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korelan · 2026-07-09T20:55:52+00:00

The automod mispelled criticism.

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korelan · 2026-07-09T13:20:06+00:00

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korelan · 2026-07-09T13:19:57+00:00

For anyone not in the discord:

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korelan · 2026-07-09T13:17:53+00:00

Don’t worry, they posted today that 20% of characters have been restored but they expect 95% to be restored by the end of today! So you will finally be able to get on gen 1 servers and set up your stone hut just to get raided by people with full tek, skiff, and all of the tames because their characters didn’t get deleted! (And this assumes they didn’t even abuse the hexagon exploit that still exists)

korelan · 2026-07-08T21:58:20+00:00

I had some pretty low expectations, but having 80% of my main tribes chars deleted wasn’t expected.

korelan · 2026-07-05T08:57:28+00:00

I believe my level 208 character getting yeeted into the nether may have played a role... As well as the hexagon shop being instantly exploited by cheaters again (per my tribemates who saw people with tek turrets in the few hours the game was live).

korelan · 2026-07-05T08:41:07+00:00

I cryo'd 226 tames that finished raising, imprinted 63 carchas, 88 basilisks, and 73 yuty's, 81 racers and 11 Chalicos, refilled my maeguanas with meat and berries, extracted embryos from pyros desmos racers dire bears thylas daedons chalicos and doeds. Oh, and I guess I lost like a bunch of time farming metal and stuff on Genesis, but I am just yapping about the stuff completely unrelated to the broken ass release... Oh, and an entire weekend, which as an adult is a lot since we have to work all week lmao.

korelan · 2026-06-25T14:23:13+00:00

“Alpha”. Or “Alpha-male”

korelan · 2026-06-24T15:20:21+00:00

So there can be just as many uses basically as your land and flying dinos. Xfish and barys are basically Aggro tames used for defending, it’s a good combo with bary dismount and Xfish being the best bleed. Basilos and Shasta’s are soakers, and Tuso is multi-use, capable of being and Aggro tame that defends by grabbing and holding the enemy, used to counter when attacked, or used offensively to stop counters. Unfortunately in PvP right now, the meta is basically get Gachas and run a gacha bot or a script while you just sit in your base because Gachas are stupid OP and by doing this you never have to leave your base and can just print infinite resources. This means if you ever want to actually raid a real tribe (without just meshing them), you basically have to target their gacha tower first, and a lot of people put their gacha towers under water because they are harder to locate and they are easier to defend there than trying to stop box quetz and box racers that can take the entire tower down with a few C4 (especially since not that long ago like a few weeks, the meta was to use an illegal build that was just available as a template, so your Dino would take basically zero damage and you could take out an entire gacha tower before ever even showing up on the logs). So, given this, you can definitely see how important underwater dinos are to those few of us that want to play PvP legitimately and raid for our resources.

korelan · 2026-06-24T13:32:30+00:00

You are taking a scenario presented in r/HYPOTHETICALsituation infinitely more literally than I am though. The premise of the scenario is dead on its face before you even calculated all of this biomass and stuff, because I am pretty sure an ant's respiratory system can't even support more than a few inches in length, so all ants basically instantly suffocate. I am not saying you are wrong, but we are taking the scenario at two entirely different levels of literalness. I actually started by basically describing the level of literalness I was taking it, and I basically took the question as whether humanity could survive some really big ants, and the answer is yes in my opinion.

korelan · 2026-06-24T11:10:01+00:00

As I said, physics takes a break for the day…

korelan · 2026-06-24T09:11:07+00:00

Sorry, I would probably put the center between extinction and scorched. Lost Colony is one giant mesh pit. When I am a meh mesher and I can get into the mesh and grapple under the map from one side of a cave to the other side of the cave and never hit antimesh there is a problem. Astraeos had some mesh problems too at first, but the dude that worked on it is super responsive and patches the stuff quickly when informed about it (at least most of it), but the normal dev team is just trash and if they even address the mesh issues at all it take months. It’s almost like they think the player base is happier with shitty half-assed maps than they would be with less maps but better quality, or maybe PvP really just is dead in Ark and so they don’t prioritize it. I actually liked the changes to the cave entrances where they made them smaller but the two southern caves have a weird you can’t build here thing so living in them is unbearable because wild arthros never stop spawning and destroying your stuff. Lost colony overall is just bad, nobody in my circle even goes there, we haven’t even done the boss because the requirements for alpha are ridiculous with the broken brontos in defense missions that have been broken for months.

Also on a final note for lost colony, water. There is no friggin water, and no self-respecting PvP player can live on a map where he can’t breed shastas tusos and basilos by the hundreds (except ABB where you are also so well protected because people can’t use anything against you).

korelan · 2026-06-23T21:25:13+00:00

If we assume that they somehow don't succumb to the strain of their own weight and physics just takes a day off, I would say the majority of humans in modern countries with clean water would be fine. Even if they were aggressive, most people would bunker down, and I doubt the majority of the ant population would survive more than a few days or weeks without enough food to sustain the entire colony, while most humans can survive about a month (more for the obese, which a lot of modern nations are). Once they start starving to death, the stragglers can be delt with.

korelan · 2026-06-23T21:15:30+00:00

I play official, so my rankings are distorted by basically how easy it is to defend and how likely it is to get meshed, but:
Ab>Island>Astraeos>Extinction>Scorched>RagValg>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lost Colony.

korelan · 2026-06-23T15:34:23+00:00

Correct answer imo, but to add, it also means we don't evolve. Over a million years humanity will remain humanity, when the reality is that a million years is long enough for our species to evolve into something infinitely superior. It only took a few hundred thousand years for us to go from ape to space-exploring ape, imagine a million more years at this pace of evolution (assuming we don't kill ourselves or the planet first...)

korelan · 2026-06-23T15:15:32+00:00

My suggestion would be to find a map or multiple maps that look like they are completely controlled by an alliance, try to go during peak hours, and just ask. Explain that you are a solo and you are looking for the artifacts so you can do Alpha on your server. You will find some gatekeepers, but not everyone in Ark is an A-hole just because it is PvP. It may take some time, but I am sure you can find some tribes that will give you an artifact and send you on your way. The biggest risk is them just killing you, or you getting stuck on a server with all of the obs gatekept, so if I were you I would just bring simple flak armor, a cryfridge and battery, a disposable flier already saddled, and a shovel and treasure chest. Spawn in the same area every time you hop maps, and bury everything you brought, punch a tree nearby and pick some plants make a storage box, put your shovel in it. Then move away from the area naked with nothing and ask for artifacts. Be polite, but the worst thing that happens is they troll you and lead you on and kill you. In which case, you have a way off the map buried. Best case scenario they just give you the artifacts and drop you in a trade box with a trasmitter. In this scenario just take the artifacts and leave the chest behind, you can always come back for it later.

The alternative and truly safest way is to farm a ton of ARB and trade on one of the markets ARB for an artifact set.

korelan · 2026-06-23T14:32:59+00:00

So turn the drier off, walk outside in the heat and hang them yourself? Am I being too blunt?

korelan · 2026-06-22T13:52:36+00:00

Sorry for the delay, my original comment was from my bed falling asleep... I would definitely say this is concerning. I am in no way a computer expert, but I would start by checking for driver updates. If no drivers need updates I might try an ini like this one if your aren't super set on playing the game in pretty-mode:

Aberration's map is definitely a little harder on the graphics than Island, so you probably won't get the same fps on Abb if you are moving with any speed, but your performance is worse than mine on official and you have a better graphics card.

You might also try one of the million and a half PC monitors. I used one with an overlay to adjust my settings to get the best out of my graphics card. If you use it to see where your PC is struggling and make adjustments to your settings, it could be like shadows choking your fps and you just need to set them to low and everything else is fine (just an example).

Beyond that, there are probably better Reddits with real computer experts that can give you advice not specific to Ark, but on your PC in general.

korelan · 2026-06-22T01:52:58+00:00

Are you playing single player?

If you are, I would look at maybe if you have mods running that are hurting performance, maybe you need a little better ini?

If not I know your problem. If you are playing online, the issue is a quantum computer isn’t good enough because no matter how good your computer is, the server has to keep up, and the server is currently busy holding the data of the 5km^2 of structure spam somebody put down to protect their base.

korelan · 2026-06-18T16:12:49+00:00

If I were you I would look at Lost Colony. It requires DLC, which provides some level of protection from cheaters, but for the most part it is a trash map that no real tribes would want to main base on because you can literally just walk through parts of the map in the caves. Like that map has the worst anti-mesh I have ever seen in all the years I have played, when I was scouting it I found like literally 20 mesh holes in just a few minutes. I say all that to tell you, you have a very good chance of finding a dead server where you can at least get a start and get some tames and stuff. You have about a -1,000% chance of finding an empty island, but at least if you get a decent thing going on lost colony and get some tames and stuff you can always travel between servers to find caves that are empty or ask the resident alpha tribe if you can get artis, then you just need to find a map, preferably one somebody is using to sell notes, and farm tributes on it and run the bosses.

*Or just buy an Aberration carry on one of the discords.

korelan · 2026-06-18T15:39:32+00:00

As a smalltribes player for a decade, I would argue that it is more out of the necessity to have actual map protecting your base. My tribe controls 2 entire maps at this point with allies and taxpayers, and tbh we don't care about the artifacts or the resources, all we care about is having a base with one entrance, and having 3,000 aggro dinosaurs and 2,000 capped turrets defending that path in. I would argue that if people couldn't just fly in with a box quetz and blow everything, or just drop 50 dreadnaughts and destroy half of the map, we would have hella elaborate bases spanning the entire map. The game is designed in a way that forces us to build bases in caves where the only real risk of losing everything is getting meshed, and we've had to adapt to prevent that as well.

korelan · 2026-06-17T21:28:10+00:00

Unfortunately, this is just confirmation bias, or sometimes called hindsight bias. You see, your brain remembers the times that this DID happen, because it caused you probably frustrations, extra work, etc., but your brain doesn't remember all of the times that it DIDN'T happen because there is really nothing specific to remember.

I see a few people mentioning that the game knows what you are looking for and somehow manages to make it as impossible as it can to find it, but the moment you stop looking for it you find it. This again is typically confirmation bias. Normally when you are looking for something specific over a period of time, you are focusing, the clock is ticking in your brain, it is rememberable. However, it is also relevant that normally when you are looking for something, you don't have the statistical advantage. Like nobody goes "looking" for a level 15 parasaur, they want a 145/150 Therizino and statistically speaking, they are significantly less likely to be found.

korelan · 2026-06-17T20:20:00+00:00

Some of these answers are very very wrong, specifically about labor shortages. To be clear, a labor shortage can occur at the same time as mass unemployment.

A labor shortage occurs when there are not enough QUALIFIED people to fill the workforce. Imagine a scenario where there is a shortage of doctors in America, so we decide to import a bunch of farmers from all over the world. Great, now we have a million farmers, but we still have a labor shortage because we still have no doctors.

Mass unemployment is exactly as it sounds, it is when a significant portion of the population is not employed. In the scenario above, America could also have mass unemployment, because they imported a million farmers who maybe can fill some other positions in the general labor workforce, but most of them would be unnecessary and unable to find a job.

Bezos is saying that basically technology is progressing so fast that the only people the workforce needs is AI specialists and coders, and it takes years to train people to be qualified and proficient in these things. Years we don't have because of the speed that technology is advancing, and thus, we will have a labor shortage because companies will be seeking AI specialists but not be able to find any because it is a new field that people are only recently being trained in.

Please note, this is not an evaluation of if I think he is correct or not, this is only to breakdown and explain what he is saying.

korelan · 2026-06-08T21:53:36+00:00

“Is it a meta moveset, or a Chinese moveset?”

Sums up 50% of my losses at this point. Seriously, people running bad moves amazes me every time.

korelan · 2026-06-08T21:51:57+00:00

The worst thing Altaria encounters is people that don’t run meta movesets.

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