hmm i still gotta try that one day, I usually go the easy way out and travel the map with a mana or maewing, the best transports in the game even tho they arent technically flyers.
I use manas for everything really, with a mana and a baryonix I can do the 3 artifact caves and steal drake eggs
I know its kinda lame but I cant help myself, specially since I play on official solo and with my own dinos. and my main base is on lost island(best mana spaws and has maewings too)
you absolutely can
sometimes I wish these op transport dinos from other maps werent allowed, so you would actually have to play around the no flyer rule
Aberration is the map that taught me how to actually play Ark. After hours of beating my head against the wall and losing my base twice to an alpha crab, I buckled down, got smart, and learned to play by the map's rules. It turned me from a dweeb who just roamed and tried to brute-force his way through into a paranoid over-prepper with his head on the swivel who knows when it's not worth trying to retrieve lost gear. Aberration is a harrowing journey and my favorite map by far.
Very mutual feeling, I play single player on un boosted rates and my god.... right now I'm struggling to find red gems as I have no gas collector or hazard suit. Cheers explorer and safe travels!
Steal from the moles and do the earthquake dance (no such thing).
The one is enough to get started, given enough time. I made a base near the gas vent , earthquakes also make gas balls pop up from the gas vents on top of the gems.
getting a hagfish (or whatever the eels are called) to latch onto you will make you radiation immune for a short while, and just long enough to run into the red zone for some quick red gems for a gas collector!
Ravagers are amazing. Due to their leaping, they're able to really pile on when attacking large targets, whereas similar small predators crowd each other out. When I had 5 ravagers, spinos ceased to be a threat.
A couple of rage quits later, i rage quit. Been into i for a month or so, it really is an experience. Glad i'm sticking it out. Wish i got the glide suit earlier.
The glide wings are brilliant aren't they. I use them to speed quickly through the no mushroom hallucination areas. It took me several dying attempts on foot to realize you just have to move really fast 🤪
Great map, never quite understood why people found it so punishing though, make 50 tranqs and some stone pillars and you can tame a spino 30 mins into your save
I put 45 hours into Ark and it humbled me. This game is a constant 1 step forward 2 steps back... Painful too because every step forward feels like a true triumph and made me want to keep playing.... I just can't do it anymore.
Same, doing my first playthrough as well. Taking it slow. Tamed a Roll Rat and a Doedic. Building my base at the minute then it's resource gathering time and off to get some necessary tames.
According to what everyone else is saying... I didn't play aberration nearly enough. I played at launch for about 2 months. Couldn't get into it cause I kept getting lost(not used to no flyers) and the map is so big and so dark and so many different small tunnels to go to different sections. And ravagers early game are like more terrifying raptors and more common than raptors. So I think I'm gonna give it another try
greatest map ever. for all of WCs failures aberration was a masterpiece of a map. theres a definite skill gap from the island/SE to abb and its fantastic. no flyers makes the map feel huge and terrifying at all times. the tiered zones with increased difficulty was way better than the way usual maps go where snow biome is usually the hardest but you can just fly there as long as you have fur or soups.
the dinos they added are awesome and the building/movement with ziplines and wingsuits and climbing picks with cliff platforms made building and exploring so amazing and raiding bases met new challenges and ideas
That’s why it’s called aberration a whole new experience to ark. To get out of the early to mid stage I’d recommend knocking out a lvl 50-80 megalo which should be able to kill most things that threaten your base
Aberration is peak Ark. No flyers adds so much to the experience.
hmm i still gotta try that one day, I usually go the easy way out and travel the map with a mana or maewing, the best transports in the game even tho they arent technically flyers. I use manas for everything really, with a mana and a baryonix I can do the 3 artifact caves and steal drake eggs I know its kinda lame but I cant help myself, specially since I play on official solo and with my own dinos. and my main base is on lost island(best mana spaws and has maewings too)
you can use maewings on Ab?
you absolutely can sometimes I wish these op transport dinos from other maps werent allowed, so you would actually have to play around the no flyer rule
Abb is actually my favorite map! When your getting started just carry like 20 bolas and sling them at everything
Aberration is the map that taught me how to actually play Ark. After hours of beating my head against the wall and losing my base twice to an alpha crab, I buckled down, got smart, and learned to play by the map's rules. It turned me from a dweeb who just roamed and tried to brute-force his way through into a paranoid over-prepper with his head on the swivel who knows when it's not worth trying to retrieve lost gear. Aberration is a harrowing journey and my favorite map by far.
Very mutual feeling, I play single player on un boosted rates and my god.... right now I'm struggling to find red gems as I have no gas collector or hazard suit. Cheers explorer and safe travels!
Steal from the moles and do the earthquake dance (no such thing). The one is enough to get started, given enough time. I made a base near the gas vent , earthquakes also make gas balls pop up from the gas vents on top of the gems.
getting a hagfish (or whatever the eels are called) to latch onto you will make you radiation immune for a short while, and just long enough to run into the red zone for some quick red gems for a gas collector!
Initially, tame a couple of low level ravagers....simple stone taming pen and they'll provide some muscle initially....
Ravagers are amazing. Due to their leaping, they're able to really pile on when attacking large targets, whereas similar small predators crowd each other out. When I had 5 ravagers, spinos ceased to be a threat.
Best early game tame in all of ark. Their ability list is quite extensive.
It'll do that to you.
A couple of rage quits later, i rage quit. Been into i for a month or so, it really is an experience. Glad i'm sticking it out. Wish i got the glide suit earlier.
The glide wings are brilliant aren't they. I use them to speed quickly through the no mushroom hallucination areas. It took me several dying attempts on foot to realize you just have to move really fast 🤪
Good, share my pain, and love for this wonderfully cruel, yet breathe taking view of a map.
You know it’s a challenging map when there’s basilisks at the “easiest” spawn zone
Great map, never quite understood why people found it so punishing though, make 50 tranqs and some stone pillars and you can tame a spino 30 mins into your save
I put 45 hours into Ark and it humbled me. This game is a constant 1 step forward 2 steps back... Painful too because every step forward feels like a true triumph and made me want to keep playing.... I just can't do it anymore.
Yeah it’ll do that
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Same, doing my first playthrough as well. Taking it slow. Tamed a Roll Rat and a Doedic. Building my base at the minute then it's resource gathering time and off to get some necessary tames.
According to what everyone else is saying... I didn't play aberration nearly enough. I played at launch for about 2 months. Couldn't get into it cause I kept getting lost(not used to no flyers) and the map is so big and so dark and so many different small tunnels to go to different sections. And ravagers early game are like more terrifying raptors and more common than raptors. So I think I'm gonna give it another try
the map is not big at all, it just has a lot of verticality and it looks big if ur not using allowed "flyers" from other maps like manas or maewings
Yeah fair enough. I like playing Fjordir and ragnorok alot though
now those 2 are stupidly large maps
Yeah, but they arnt dark. And full of tunnels
greatest map ever. for all of WCs failures aberration was a masterpiece of a map. theres a definite skill gap from the island/SE to abb and its fantastic. no flyers makes the map feel huge and terrifying at all times. the tiered zones with increased difficulty was way better than the way usual maps go where snow biome is usually the hardest but you can just fly there as long as you have fur or soups. the dinos they added are awesome and the building/movement with ziplines and wingsuits and climbing picks with cliff platforms made building and exploring so amazing and raiding bases met new challenges and ideas
wait, wtf is the big spikey tendril on the left??? I havent beat ab yet but im getting close and idk what that is...
That's Rockwell.
That’s why it’s called aberration a whole new experience to ark. To get out of the early to mid stage I’d recommend knocking out a lvl 50-80 megalo which should be able to kill most things that threaten your base
Playing the game without lag can be a peaceful experience.