you ever have one of those days, where everything goes wrong, and the ark gods decide that you are their next victim?
▲ 19 r/ARK

you ever have one of those days, where everything goes wrong, and the ark gods decide that you are their next victim?

what you see here is a dead xiphactinus, wanna know how he died?

he died because he touched the surface of the water for a millisecond.

I was about to start a mission and had my pack of fishies following me on aggressive, they ran off and two of them died because they touched the surface of the water, which makes complete sense, so now I have to go breed and level some more.

additionally, I went to go do the mission where you hunt a brute plesiosaur, the mission was easy, however after beating it, the game said "mission failed" and HLNA was all like "this one might be too hard for you" I BEAT THE MISSION BUT IT SAID I FAILED SO I HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN, ITS NOT TOO HARD!

additionally, I tried to do a pirate outpost to further my skill tree, however, after completing the outpost, the skill tree mission said "fuck you" and decided that I actually didn't complete the outpost, which was really cool.

ADDITIONALLY, I tried the mission where you escort a dolphin, I beat it on gamma and beta but alpha is wayyyy too hard, the dunkleosteus have a billion health and do a billion damage, so my fish can't kill them before they do a billion damage to the dolphin, so now I need to tame and breed something that can stun the dunkleosteus, like baryonyx or I think helicoprions?

this game drives me nuts sometimes lmao-

u/coolandquirkyname — 1 day ago

I set up all the decorations in my safari zone, can I now just turn off my DS for 210 days, come back and then all the pokemon are available?

i can't find a straight answer to this question online.

I'm really confused about how the safari zone works, I watched a video that explained the exact amount of each decoration that was required to get every pokemon in every area, so I set up 6 areas in heart gold and then the other 6 in soul silver.

so what I need to know now, is that do I have to leave the game open for 210 days, or can I turn the game off for 210 days and come back to a complete safari zone?

I really don't want to have to open the game every day lmao-

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u/coolandquirkyname — 6 days ago
▲ 208 r/ARK

this distinguished gentleman would like to know what missions can drop xiphactinus saddles, as he cannot use the internet, as he is a fish, thanks.

(don't tell him, but I also want to know what missions drop his saddles, and I can't find info online about it)

I made an army of mutated fishies, they have 20 health and 20 melee mutations and I made them red and yellow because I wanted them to look like a hot dog covered in mustard, but now they need saddles, help would be appreciated.

u/coolandquirkyname — 7 days ago
▲ 130 r/ARK

the forbidden spaghetti.

that's 30 female bloodstalkers.

yes I am mutating bloodstalkers.

u/coolandquirkyname — 14 days ago
▲ 28 r/ARK

can wildcard please fix my hair? 😭🙏

basically, picture 1 and 3 are what my hair looks like 24/7, it's been like this for as long as I can remember...

I play on ps5 if that's anything to do with it.

picture 2 is what my hair looks like when in my inventory, this also applies to the character creation screen or any other screen that shows your character.

picture 4 is odd, because whenever I open my inventory, my hair goes back to normal for a split second.

I really want to play in third person, but if I play in third person I have to look at my characters shitty hair lmao-

is there a known fix for this, or do I just have to hope wildcard fixes it?

u/coolandquirkyname — 16 days ago
▲ 8 r/ARK

palaeoctopus is still completely untamable on console...

since the release of genesis part 1, the palaeoctopus has been untamable on console.

after you get the prompt to feed the octopus, it simply doesn't work, no matter how many times you press the feed button, it will not work.

the only way to tame one without admin commands is to plug in a keyboard, according to other console players.

the fact that a keyboard is required to tame this creature is absolutely ridiculous, I tried to tame an octopus a week ago, and I couldn't due to the bug, so I gave it some time and tried again today only to find that it's still bugged.

how has this not been fixed? it's been present since the maps release!

I understand that I could use admin commands because I play single player, but I simply don't want to, it's a new creature, I want to tame it in the intended way, I may resort to cheating if it's not fixed soon, but I really don't want to man...

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u/coolandquirkyname — 23 days ago

they're like a hive mind I swear...

mega knight moment.

I need to have 70 characters so I guess I'll say something, mega knight is one of the cards in clash royale.

u/coolandquirkyname — 24 days ago

I want to get a 100 winstreak in the tower, how would I go about making my favourite pokemon cradily work there?

so I want to get a 5 star trainer card and to do that I need to beat the tower.

however i think it'd be fun to try use my favourite pokemon in there.

does anyone have any idea what the best set for cradily would be?

most of my pokemon experience is with the newer games, and in hgss cradily doesn't even get storm drain.

Cradily @ Leftovers

Ability: Suction Cups

EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD

Calm Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Energy Ball

- Stockpile

- Toxic

- Protect

I was thinking a set like this could work, a set based around toxic stalling, what pokemon would pair well with cradily in the tower?

I really don't want to train a pokemon and regret it lmao-

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u/coolandquirkyname — 25 days ago
▲ 22 r/ARK

lost around 2 weeks of progress and I just want to rant/vent about it-

so basically, yesterday playstation went down and nobody could play online games.

no biggee, single player doesn't need internet, I'll be fine.

so I load into my genesis world only to find that all of my items and most of my tames are gone....

why?

as it turns out, because the servers were down, you can't play with mods, so I just loaded my world without any mods on.

this meant my stack mod was gone, so I lost all my stacked items....

and dino depot was gone, so I lost all my creatures that were in cryos...

and my last backup save was a little over 2 weeks ago, so I'd lose almost everything if I reset back to it...

and now I don't really know what to do, I can try get the resources back my spawning them in, but the creatures are irreplaceable.

I lost my tidepups, my frogs, my farming dinos, pretty much everything.

I might give it a few days and then ATTEMPT to respawn all my stuff, I'm really not in the mood currently.

I was having a lot of fun with genesis leading up to this, I was gonna try get an octopus soon, start doing some gamma missions in the bog, I had a lot of plans but now I'm really demotivated to play.

can you spawn in a tidepup that's already evolved? it took so long to evolve mine and I really don't wanna do it again man...

palworld is looking awfully tempting now lmao-

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u/coolandquirkyname — 27 days ago
▲ 84 r/ARK

as someone who is a bit scared of the ocean, genesis ascended has been going swimmingly...

(I know the octopus is passive, but can you blame me for being scared there?)

u/coolandquirkyname — 29 days ago
▲ 66 r/ARK

how am I supposed to do literally anything in the ocean if there are constant level 1000 megalodons chasing me? (Genesis)

I really wanted to tame a palaeoctopus, because yknow it's a new creature.

but I literally can't, because they are constantly surrounded by level 1000 megalodons that'll instantly kill me if the octopus grabs me.

I was originally defending the ocean on this map, but this is absolutely terrible design.

I can't stay still for a single second lest I get killed by a pack of unkillable sharks.

eventually a shark will de-agro and I'll think I'm safe, but then I'll notice another shark heading straight for me across the fucking map.

why do they agro from fucking narnia????

they literally implemented these over leveled megalodons to keep you out of the empty ocean, but then also proceeded to put them in the actual genesis ocean?

the ocean feels borderline unplayable like this.

is there a mod or anything that'll remove them?

I have the spawn blockers mod, could I use that to remove the over leveled spawns?

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u/coolandquirkyname — 1 month ago
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call me crazy, but maybe wildcard should remove the level 1000 megalodons that constantly spawn around you?

I'm having a great time with genesis so far, there's been a few annoying bugs but nothing substantial.

this bug however, is ridiculous, the ocean is pretty much impossible to be in due to the constant megalodons....they aren't even the X ones-

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago
▲ 179 r/ARK

as someone who has bought every dlc in this game, dragontopia is the only one I refuse to buy, it is awful in it's current state, and here's how I would attempt to fix it.

to start, I adore this game and have bought all DLCs, I want to support this game.

however, €30 for this is an absolute crime.

my issue isn't purely the designs of the dragons, I don't particularly like the cartoony HTTYD style, but that's not my main issue.

my issue is that this DLC has potential to be very cool, but wildcard did not deliver.

to start with the positives, I really like the taming method, I think it looks fun.

the horn is a cool idea, it looks fun to use, and being able to auto mount your dragon with the grapple is a very cool and unique ability.

but that's where the positives end...

the skill tree is not it...

I like the idea of being able to build a dragon through the skill tree, however the skill tree feels more like upgrading rather than building.

why the hell do you have to unlock SPRINTING through the skill tree?

hypothetically, imagine if it worked like this...

you're only allowed to have 1 dragon, if you try to ride a new dragon, you get a prompt saying "hey, you have to reset the skill tree of your current dragon, before using a new one"

when you first open the skill tree, you get to pick an element for the dragon, either ice, fire, poison or lightning.

then you can spec your dragon in whichever way you want.

maybe I have a more mobility focused ice dragon, while you have a more combat focused fire dragon.

wouldn't it be cool if the dragons were sort of personalised like this?

imagine if they worked like ossidons, in a sense that they get visual updates depending on the paths you take.

maybe mine would have bigger wings than yours, and yours would have bigger claws than mine.

I'm just throwing ideas around, there's definitely so much more they could do.

I have so many ideas for these dragons, I can see a world where these dragons are extremely cool and fun.

also, the dragons should be exclusive to dragontopia when the map actually releases, you shouldn't be able to transfer them to other maps.

I hate the current state of this DLC, I refuse to buy it.

in the future, it could end up being good, but for now it is 100% not worth the price.

thank you for reading this if you did, I really wanted to rant about this DLC after watching some videos on it.

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago

new player here, need help identifying a monster I found, but died to-

so, some background, this is my first monster hunter game, I was interested in stories 3, but the demo ran pretty poorly on switch 2, so I tried the stories 2 demo instead and I really enjoyed it, so now I'm playing the full game.

so, I'm at the volcano area and I found this one monster who was extremely cool looking, but I died to them.

since that I died to them, they didn't register in my monsterpedia.

I also can't remember the monsters name.

I spent a lot of time in the volcano trying to find this guy, but I just can't find him.

it feels like I've gotten every monster in the area, except this one that I really want.

so let me describe him, he looked a bit like Lagiacrus, but red.

he made this constant snapping noise with his big ass jaws, he had fire attacks, and he burrowed underground a few times.

that's all I can remember.

I have spent so much time trying to find this guy, he's so cool, I want him so badly, I really need help finding him again 😭

(also I haven't finished the game yet, so if there's anything spoiler related, I don't want to know about it, thanks)

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u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago
▲ 383 r/OWConsole

has anyone else been lagging really badly all week?

like, every other game I play is completely fine, it's just overwatch that is borderline unplayable for me.

my internet is completely fine, every other game and every other device is perfect.

I just lag in overwatch all the time and I don't understand how to fix it.

I always close and reopen my game hoping it'll magically fix something, but it never does.

I deleted and redownloaded the game too, which did nothing.

I'm so sick of it, I just wanna play the game :<

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago

I KNOW THE PICTURE QUALITY IS AWFUL, BUT I WAS LOOKING FOR THE 1% YANMA AND I GOT SOMETHING BETTER!

it only took me around an hour to get my shiny cyndaquil, and now I've gotten another full odds shiny-

I'm so good at pokemon.

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago

junkrat feels absolutely awful to play in stadium with his new changes in season 3...

why the fuck did they make zip grease only have 1 shot rather than 2???

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there's so many moments where I need a second shot to secure a kill but I can't due to the BUFF to zip grease.

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why is slapnel an 8 second cooldown now rather than 6???

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yeah sure, slapnel now does more damage and charges zip grease, but it being on a longer cooldown makes your mobility worse.

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it's baffling to me how blizzard is hell-bent on keeping heroes like cass, soldier and especially freja, top tier in stadium, while giving junkrat this absolutely fucking awful nerf...

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago
▲ 259 r/ARK

after around 1100 hours between ase and asa, I have only now defeated the overseer! (it was an absolute mess and I had to cheat a little but I'm still happy!)

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago

the most intelligent hero wizard ability-

(yes I know I mistimed by knight I'm embarrassed about it, don't bring it up)

this dude had level 16 wizard and evo witch, yet I three crowned them....the people who spend money on this game dude-

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago

looks like we aren't getting a skin this season :C

I know there are other heroes who have went longer without skins, but our last skin was if I recall, season 20.

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pretty sure our last skin was the christmas one, which didn't even have a sledding emote, highlight intro, icon, namecard ect, while every other hero in the bundle did.

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blizzard hates us so much, they CAN do omnic skins, we literally got 3 ramattra skins last season, they're just choosing to not do bastion skins :<

u/coolandquirkyname — 2 months ago