Pre Recorded first look of Ark Ascendant [No commentary]
0HI folks,
well, last night was a total disaster I did some gardening and diden't think I pushed myself too hard. My body disagreed and I fell asleep for hours through 2 alarms and diden't record anything so this was quickly recorded this morning. After a hospital appointment now the excuses are out of the way.
There is no commentary and you would not want me as it should be a litany of WTF's. Now don't get me wrong I love open-world crafting games are usually my bag. But here is my first issue this game is impossibly complex it is NOT complete as in it wants you to buy the DLC before you get the full game. I dislike adding all the interlinks and then saying nope you have to purchase the extra DLC to get the full game. That is annoying and insulting you want more for the game then Charge more don't try the split a bit of the main game off and call it DLC rubbish. Strike two as far as I am concerned.
My first problem was starting the game by clicking on the single-player game option nothing happened! It turns out I then had to hit space it might have been nice to tell the player that. The lack of hand-holding heck even basic information should be nice but is missing so you have screen after screen of complex interdependent choices but no clue what only the most basic ones entail.
Now the big problem it's too you can see it's already too complex and only get worse and worse for this micromanagement from hell. Why do I need a key command to defecate? That is just a very simple example of why you programmed that for a cheap joke but it gets old fast hearing your character randomly do this with of course ahem interesting sound effects. I am no prude but have to ask did you see that in SCUM and decide that was a good idea I wonder.
No one seemingly ever said to the devs maybe you're getting too complex and this complexity is getting in the way of the game. This had to go through multiple menus to first make it then put it into the hot bar then place it down and position it and then finally click on it again to interact with it with sub menus it's too much!!!!
I will give you an example of an overly complex and lack of simple tooltips that should have told me the answer. You get a list of little icons that you have to collect to make the desired item okay some are easy to work out others are stupid! For example, for animal hides you would think the little icon should be animal-shaped nope it looks like a brown leaf. I had to click on screen after screen before I found out what was wrong.
Then it slowly contracts and eventually, it gets into your inventory. Your inventory that you have 2 separate ways of accessing and both do different things. There is the usual inventory, crafting and much more screen cluttered with options. Icons and text and then you have the mini inventory screen that shows everything in your inventory but one line at a time. WHY!!!! Oh, and you use 2 different keystrokes to do both.
The final straw that broke any enjoyment I was having was the worst and most basic Gameplay and speed of the graphics. To be honest it's awfully badly optimised if it's been optimised at all I suspect it's because it's running too many checks on every condition on hundreds of different variables. on a 3070TI and a 4.5 Gzh AMD CPU with 32 gigs of DDR5 Ram, it was bad anything above medium was unplayable.
Then I died multiple times from eating berries that's correct I was eating berries?? Why No clue and I had no way of finding out what the issue was and quite frankly I stopped caring at this point.
The view is normally in 3rd person, or a choice of bad first-person view with no arms! It's way too zoomed in and angled and views so that was unplayable especially when you're meant to hit fast-moving creatures even flying creatures by clicking where you want the blow to land by that point the creature is nowhere even close throwing a spear is even worse! So you constantly click only to miss and randomly hit by pure luck.
It was at this point as I was building my first base but finding I needed a bunch of skins that would be a nightmare to get my character randomly fell over and had no clue why. I was eating berries after I had just died of both being cold and stood next to a campfire then killed by a flying creature that I just could not hit. I diden't mention some of the dinosaurs have abilities like poison of course! This was barely 5 feet from the easy starting point I found this out.
It was at this point 2 hours in and multiple deaths later, I gave up. Unless this game is amazingly changed I doubt I will ever play it again. I can say it was one of the most frustrating, annoying experiences playing OPC games for ages. it's stupidly complex to the point of What were you thinking I can see some people loving this game but not myself. If you want a stupidly complex, micromanagement game within an open-world crafting game within multiple other things then go for it!
_MasterlitchUK
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