New update for Ark v254.51 or something is up.. I haven't played since version 251.. or back in November. But I'm sure it has been much longer than that.
I launched in and found my little adobe hut in the valley in the middle of the Scorched Earth desert. I didn't even get that far into Scorched earth before getting back to Destiny's Rise of Iron Wrath of the Machine campaign. Having gotten the Nanophoenix ship from the hard raid on Xbox.. I figure I'm done with Destiny at least for now. I could keep trying to get the ship on PS4.. but there's little point in trying. I mean I took some time off from the raid simply because it had become stupid to keep running the raid for that damned ship.. somehow the minute I decide to try the raid again.. poof.. I get the ship on at least 1 profile. Tried the raid several more times on PS4 but no team seems to be able to run the raid in challenge mode. Life FFS people there's no other reason to play the raid. Learn the challenge mode and run it in challenge mode even though there's no challenge on that boss because you obviously need practice.
Of course.. can't even blame people.. it's still Destiny and no matter what you do, people will get kicked, people will get frustrated and quit.. but Because it is Destiny you have idiots. People that scream, people that are silent (either on purpose or because they decide they can raid without a mic), or because they are young and for the most part people automatically discriminate against them and boot them from a chat party without even bothering to see if they know what they are doing. I quit because of most of those issues.. and simply don't want to play anymore or deal with Bungie's bullshit.
Did you know? There's going to be such a thing as DestinyCon. Why? There's little story or lore to merit a con. Do they plan to change that in Destiny2?
Same can be said of Ark but thankfully the community builds their own worlds and stories. I'd sooner go to an Ark con just to see all the community members meeting each other having met online and worked together for so long (assuming they haven't already set up IRL meetups).
But like Destiny, I don't like PvP in Ark and really hate that the game and most of the content in the game is geared towards tribal play and not solo. Sure the devs claim the game self-nerfs for solo players but The time investment for beating the bosses on vanilla without cheating is tough. Do solo players even go to cons? I'd end up going to neither.
After a few minutes thought I remembered one other reason I stopped playing Ark. I couldn't hover over anything when I had something like an inventory box or workbench open. Meaning I either had to guess what materials an item needed to be crafted or I would have to look it up.
I can't figure out why I allowed myself to get stuck like that but still played anyway. Other than just exploring the DLC by myself as far as I could do so alone.
Updated the game and got off of the experimental servers and the issue seems to be fixed. But noticed a few other things.. like for some reason the game lags like crazy when it is in fullscreen mode but works at least 2x faster in WindowFullscreen? :/ idk
Doesn't make much of a difference and until I upgrade again to a 1080 or dual 1080 setup I doubt I'll be able to play at 4K with a reasonable frame rate. And that's fine. I'm left hoping that Mass Effect 4 Andromeda does work at 4K though but still not holding my breath. Mostly also because I'm still doubting that ME4 is going to be any good after Ark and No Man's Sky ruined the exploration and sand box gameplay that BioWare thinks will be really great in ME4 but haven't shown in their teaser trailers to be even as interesting as it was in the first two games.
Going to see how much further I can get in Scorched Earth. If it doesn't go well I might have to try finding a PvE server tribe to join to at least see how the Tek tier stuff works. Or cheat in single player because it is impossible to get.
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And five minutes later.. can't hover over anything. Makes the game unplayable.
Then I also remembered that the game menu doesn't remain paused when you go into options. :/
You can't hide engrams you never use. (instead of leaving just the searchable folders) When am I ever going to need to build a chair? Sure you can use one for fishing but I still don't see the point in fishing in Scorched Earth since there aren't really that many fish :/
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Only another 10 minutes and I'm questioning all of my life choices. Like I should have made some.
Feels like I ought to be tearing my hair out but remember that this is one reason I keep switching between PC and console. I get on PC to play a game.. and it turns out to be no Man's Sky.. utter garbage. I get on console and end up wasting time with bullshit. Get back on PC and realize all games are inherently broken and so is Windows.. due to having an advanced configuration (multiple screens).