Photek wrote:Finally finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, looking forward to my second play through as well.
Ark Survival Evolved got a huge update finally bringing resolution up to HD standard, you can now bring your characters to any server once you get to one of the obelisks, (no mean feat in some areas). Currently housed up in a nice wooden shack near a cliff face that's only a small run down to the beach to kill dodo's for food and hide.
I've witnessed a few flying folk about but ran into the trees to make sure they didn't see me as you can't trust anyone. Currently about 3 massive tribes are fighting (going by chat log) but I think they''re all off on other islands as nout out here, that said, found some nice metal and crystal area's. Very hard being a lone survivor tho, like REALLY hard as your place can be torn apart by anyone who own's a dino.
I'm hoping that ill be left alone long enough to make a stone base, I've already 3 shacks dotted about, I'm gonna make a fourth one in the middle of a forest which'll mean ill have to bring the wood from elsewhere to keep it well hidden, always good to have several area's to spawn to in case you get raided. I know a couple of the tribes leave new guys (to the server) alone but one is constantly raiding any new places, he's currently being attacked by other tribes for this.
As a social experiment it really is quite something, I've had lots of encounters with real people, most of which have seen me meet a grizzly end. During one encounter out hunting, about 5 guys on raptors spotted us in a field and started after us, I managed to hide behind some rocks but they caught my mate and drugged him up, dragged him back to their base and locked him up, he'd starve to death so they kept knocking him out with sleep darts and force feeding him. If he didn't die he'd have to stay there, if he picked a new character he'd start at level 1 again.
He only got out cos they all left him alone and he woke up to an empty base, he managed to punch out of his cell and jump outside but not after looting a ton of gooseberry fool, we spent WEEKS in exhile hiding about in forests, even a house boat. They finally found us but we hadn't much to give them so our deaths meant nothing. Eventually we had a saber tooth tiger and a raptor and found one of them out on his own, we chased him down and butchered the bastard, and we kept at that for a while, killing 1 if we seen him alone.
The very odd occasion people will just be nice to you and help by giving food and stuff. We had a very nice neighbour below a mountain we had big base on, everything was fine, we agreed to 'look after' each others base if seen others checking it out. While out hunting I noticed a flying dino was in his base and a guy was in his house looting it. I shot the flying dino and killed it, leaving the guy stuck in the base.
We got a warning of several guys gonna f*** us up on the text chat and sure enough 4 guys on raptors and another on a big dino arrived, in our base we had 2 houses, we ran into one an they started to knock it down, we also had a big wooden structure with 5 raptors in it, 3 of them very high levels. In Ark when you tame a raptor and someone attacks you it goes mental and kills the person who attacked you. Being only 2 of us, my mate took off all his gear and ran outside getting killed. they didn't know we had a bed in with the raptors so he spawned in there and broke down a wall, it was amazing, the big dino was taken down, 4 of the 5 were killed and although we lost most of our things, it was exhilarating. We packed up our stuff (as much as we could and headed north on 2 raptors making a make quck gaf before logging off. The next day we headed back to our base to find it completely destroyed but it was worth it. This game.