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Panda
31st March 2017, 13:43
ARK Patch 256 ETA is now 31st of March 12PM EST.

Get ready to search for the Elusive Equus!

Have to Wait and see I guess!! Looking forward to being a cowboy though! haha

Epimetheus
1st April 2017, 11:00
I can only hope this patch is a april fool, because if this isnt a joke 60% of the player will quit. I know Flyers were op but 75% stamina nerf and ms nerf at the same time??? It will take ages to do what you did before in 5 min since you have to land every 30 seconds, and still are slower than a rex. Also its impossible to get wyvern eggs solo, i can only hope its a joke...

MikeMcG
1st April 2017, 11:53
I can only hope this patch is a april fool, because if this isnt a joke 60% of the player will quit. I know Flyers were op but 75% stamina nerf and ms nerf at the same time??? It will take ages to do what you did before in 5 min since you have to land every 30 seconds, and still are slower than a rex. Also its impossible to get wyvern eggs solo, i can only hope its a joke...

couldn't agree more, poor pteradons will get the brunt :(

dentodili
1st April 2017, 22:33
This patch better be an April fools joke... It's ridiculous

InsaneJ
2nd April 2017, 12:49
The new patch has more than a bunch of nerfs. Check it out: https://happydiggers.net/content.php?530-ARK-patch-256-comes-with-a-lot-of-new-content

joeyjojo800
2nd April 2017, 18:21
Well, this nerf actually ruined my gameplay. Since flyer dinos only have 100 MS now and their stamina is very low. each time I try to get somehwere I have to land because off my stamina. Is it possible to install a mod against this? if there is could u pls save the game:D? And how can I ever outrun wyverns :(

DocOlds
2nd April 2017, 18:34
The new leedsicthy fish is a raft wrecking machine, I suggest moving to shallow water if you have anything good floating around.

MikeMcG
3rd April 2017, 14:17
you have to hope that the devs will sort things out, I agree that some of the birds needed to be nerfed but something along the lines of capping the movement speed depending on the dino would have worked (for instance max 190% ptera movement speed, max 140% argy movement speed and max 120% quetz movement speed or something like that) The idea of nerfing the movement speed and pretty much halving the stam for all flying dinos was OTT in my opinion.

In their defence, they did say that they were going to large scale nerf the flyers and then scale it back depending on feedback and that these were never going to be the final figures. Their reasoning for this is that they didn't want people to see their birds get worse and worse progressively over the period of a month or so, so fingers crossed.

I hear there is a mod out there that can revert the game back to how it was before the nerf but I'm wondering if it's even worth it. I believe Ark will lose a lot of players during this phase but fingers crossed they will get it balanced as soon as possible so we may as well just stick with it

Epimetheus
4th April 2017, 09:33
If it would be only nerfs, but there are much bugs aswell. Like the metal house bug on Scorched Earth. It doesnt matter if its night and cold, day and hot, if you have ascendent dessert gear/ghilie gear or air conditioner in your house: you get roasted to death. I cant enter my house more than a minute before dying so the game is pretty much unplayable for me right now on this server (with my main base). I didnt had this issue before even when i was naked so its not about the metal house but a bug where you get too hot regardless of temperature.

Panda
4th April 2017, 11:01
That's the same for us on our SE base. Any Metal basically kills you within an instant. Which obviously sucks if you have metal!!! and obviously it is unplayable for you as that's your main base. Have you thought about An Adobe Base within the metal? to try and keep you cooler. I know it's a massive pain, but might be the only way to survive for now. I'm just praying some sort of rebalance is bought in soon. and this bug is fixed ASAP! :) Keep the faith mate!

Panda
4th April 2017, 11:09
The most daunting thing for me with this patch, Is new tribes joining. How an earth are they supposed to farm resources with flyers the way they are? Quetzal's are horrendous now. especially if before the patch you spammed all your points in Weight and Movement Speed. you now have minimum stamina, and one metal run requires 8 stops!!! I can understand the devs wanting to put in more of a challenge but that's just extreme. How an earth are new tribes supposed to even capture there first one with awful movement speed on Pternadons and Argys? I worry within the time they take to rebalance this. (which they have said they are going to adjust some numbers) Too many people will have had enough. (not on this server, although the majority are not happy with the extreme change)

On a positive note as its not all doom and gloom!!. 14 people were Online last night!!! I think that's a record and probably due to officials sucking right now haha. Onwards and upwards, welcome to all new peeps and hope to play with you all soon :)

Epimetheus
4th April 2017, 13:07
Well,i dont have enough space for adobe in my house, also i would have to farm all of that, replace my ENTIRE base with it and replace it as soon as the bug gets fixed. Thats way too much work for pretty much nothing since you cant do much anyway without flyers (try to kill wyverns for manticore summoning with a 500 stamina wyvern yourself i dare you). I just play on a new server without flyers right now, trying to figure out how to adapt to the nerf. Right now i can recommend frogs for scouting and gathering little things like polymer/pearls if you dont have an underwater mount yet, for metal its pretty much build near it or you cant get it at a decent work/reward ratio.

Jiro_89
4th April 2017, 23:13
Well,i dont have enough space for adobe in my house, also i would have to farm all of that, replace my ENTIRE base with it and replace it as soon as the bug gets fixed. Thats way too much work for pretty much nothing since you cant do much anyway without flyers (try to kill wyverns for manticore summoning with a 500 stamina wyvern yourself i dare you). I just play on a new server without flyers right now, trying to figure out how to adapt to the nerf. Right now i can recommend frogs for scouting and gathering little things like polymer/pearls if you dont have an underwater mount yet, for metal its pretty much build near it or you cant get it at a decent work/reward ratio.

Speaking of no flyer servers, Doc and I started playing on one of the official No Tame servers. It's worth playing, a drastically different game with great difficulty.

Epimetheus
5th April 2017, 16:37
WC announced buffs for the flyers that are upcoming soon ( i think it was this night,maybe tomorrows night) but they arent very good.... basicaly they buff the movement speed when you ride a bit and made some points in the other stats from some flyers but its still no good. Link to the forum thread and the stats that are changed (link in the tread): https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/170311-re-balancing-the-fliers-mk-2/