Remember how I talked about Ark's Scorched Earth being nothing but a death festival? I've been watching various pro-level players play Ark and there's a certain strategy they use:
1. Die often and forget your stuff.
2. Level up movement speed to out run dinos.
It does work.
1. Die often and forget your stuff.
2. Level up movement speed to out run dinos.
It does work.
Scorched Earth for those who don't know is basically a desert world with unrealistic heat properties. You die in about 4 minutes when the temp is 38c (LOL) but live if you get in a tent and make it 37c. Given that 1/2 of the team is from Egypt I find this doubly hilarious.
Unlike other maps you spawn in places and die almost instantly because of the heat, or cold at night, or millions of deadly dinos. You also can't really escape the heat inside a basic thatch structure--the first kind you can build. You just die over and over with no progression.
I started watching Pterifier cover Ark:
His videos are good, but he is mostly just repeating information without a lot of strategy. This is something you see *a lot* in the Gaming Education genre of videos. Useful demos of the wiki content.
His videos are good, but he is mostly just repeating information without a lot of strategy. This is something you see *a lot* in the Gaming Education genre of videos. Useful demos of the wiki content.
I idly watched him play on Aberration with another player named BitMoreDave:
And in one *those* videos he lays out his real strategy:
Level up movement speed right away so you can outrun dinos.
The next clue game from a live stream.
And in one *those* videos he lays out his real strategy:
Level up movement speed right away so you can outrun dinos.
The next clue game from a live stream.
In this live stream:
He's just running around the Genesis map dying and collecting XP to apply to his character with next to zero equipment. People keep asking what he's doing and he just says "leveling up?" like that's normal.
He's just running around the Genesis map dying and collecting XP to apply to his character with next to zero equipment. People keep asking what he's doing and he just says "leveling up?" like that's normal.
A word on an Ark game mechanic though:
Dying has zero penalty other than having to corpse run for your stuff and it teleports you to a new random location.
There's also these things called "explorer notes". Little boxes with old journals that give you tons of XP.
Hmmm.
Dying has zero penalty other than having to corpse run for your stuff and it teleports you to a new random location.
There's also these things called "explorer notes". Little boxes with old journals that give you tons of XP.
Hmmm.
That means you can go on the Ark Wiki and find the map, say Scorched Earth:
ark.fandom.com/wiki/Explorer_…
Turn on only the explorer notes, then just run around buck nekked hitting explorer notes until you level up enough to stop dying.
With high movement speed this totally works.
ark.fandom.com/wiki/Explorer_…
Turn on only the explorer notes, then just run around buck nekked hitting explorer notes until you level up enough to stop dying.
With high movement speed this totally works.
So I tried on Scorched Earth, which is easily the toughest map to handle, and it worked like crazy. I did die repeatedly, but then I'd just take my free teleport to a new spot and run around crafting some clothes or a quick hut for XP, or just grabbing explorer notes.
By the end of the morning--about 1.5 hours of IRL time--I had a 2x6 adobe house with all the early game crafting stations with a character that outruns all dinos and has 16 fortitude to survive the elements. Now I just run around buck nekked grabbing resources or dying.
The moral of the story is in nearly every game I've played there's always been some secret clue about how people *actually* play that they don't mention which is the main reason they're good at the game. Some trick, strategy, or external resource they use (like maps).
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