>>5948443Ark is the game i hate to love and love to hate. I spent like 1.5k hours on it across all DLC's and it's an amazing game content wise, but the community is the most toxic and vile backstabbing exploiting bastards. Also if you fuck up you can lose 300 hours of progress in like 20 seconds.
Example A: You spent 8 hours taming a max level dinosaur, this required you to grind narcotics for 2 hours, the rare meat collection prob an hour, searching for a good saddle to ride it could take weeks, and then, once tamed, you gotta level it to the max (after taming you can level you dino 60 times before it hits max, which is why going for higher levels is crucial), this process can take about 2 weeks of hard grinding for XP. Then, suddenly, an alpha dinosaur spawns (an incredibly strong variant), your dino cannot outrun them because they are much faster too, your choices are:
ditch your dino and run for your life
Try to fight it and hope it's a low level
Accept death
In all 3 cases, completely by something out of your control (a rare spawn appearing out of nowhere) you can lose all those weeks of progress in under a minute.
Example B (much worse): grinding to make a base, taming many dinos, exploring for rare items, then you log off, and wake up to all your stuff completely wiped off the map because someone beat up a boss and once you beat up a boss you can use it in battle for 24 hours. It's literally impossible to defend against one if you're offline, so hundreds of hours of many people can be instantly erased just like that.
The game is fun in situations like the chuubas played, just a bunch of friends having fun together, no drama, working towards killing the final bosses, otherwise, Ark is gonna tear you down. Trust me... You don't want to get into Ark if you're gonna play on official servers.
