So Ark has always had this one moment.. After you understand how to play and you're on your way to being able survive but aren't quite there yet.
The moment when you know you're going to die.
Sadly in Scorched Earth that moment is guaranteed when you get 'on fire'. It isn't a good thing like in Overwatch.. it's an oh god not again fuck this fucking game moment.
It seems to happen in the morning when the temperature hits stupid. 70+ Celsius. Sure when it gets above 150+ degrees will probably kill you.. and maybe it'll even kill you in a few minutes and not the relative few in game hours it would take to last the morning until the air cools down to a sensible 50+ something degrees.. It's just an oh fuck I'm going to die and there's nothing I can do about it thing.
Trying to play around it though is hard. I figured since I'm going to die I might as well drop all my valuables at my base.
Easier said than done.. because this is Ark.
I'd stupidly died the night before hell on earth started and couldn't find my body.
Luckily I found my Tamed Anky that I named Lulu after LuluSoccer from Twitch.. but couldn't find my body.
You know one of those things that makes this game really hard is dying and not being able to find your body.
One of those things like maybe it is a bad idea to try to take down a Morellatops even if you have the backup of a trusty tame.. because apparently they are herding dinosaurs that will defend their own.
Temperment passive my ass. These assholes are fast and furious as fuck.
We took down a couple of them but then a few more came out of nowhere and fucked us up.
Couldn't find that body bag either.
It was shitty because we'd collected all kinds of meat and narco berries and could have started up some serious narco production.
I recovered most of it from Lulu's corpse but now need to tame a few more Ankylosaurus.. or at the very least a breeding pair.
And even that plan would have been easy.. except that by the time I got back to my shelter I found a dead Morellatops.
I'm thinking Score.. finally some good luck and a few more scraps of meat for narco production. Except what killed them wasn't far away.
By then hell on earth had been unleashed anyway so I was facing a few unavoidable deaths.. But seeing my shelter getting smashed to shit by another set of Raptors almost made my rage quit.
I mean seriously!?
My not even a day old tame is dead.. the air is like a blow torch.. and these assholes are smashing my nearly useless shelter to shit.
Why am I playing this game again?
After 3 or 4 revives I finally, since starting Ark.. was able to recover 2 body bags at once. I've never had it happen because after a while you just don't die and for whatever reason body bags only appear where your body lands. Due to the games interesting physics.. that could be just about anywhere.
And the assholes left.
Narco production underway I figure I might only have to collect narco berries for about another few stacks to get two more tamed Ankys.
Maybe even a Morellatops. If I can find one that isn't in a herd and is dumb enough to try running into a wall. Because that's about the only way to kill one.
Maybe it'll be easier now that I have Boomerangs.