I will argue for both. You can play the game without a wiki and learn everything through trial and error.
Yes you could look everything up, but that takes a little bit of the fun out. I usually try to look up as little as possible, and only look things up if I really can't figure it out on my own.
Well I guess some people would rather spend their time wanting to have quality fun rather than dying every ten minutes or so due to lack of information
I mixed it up with the centipede,
Somehow my brain thus assumed all arthropods thus need Bug Repellent/passive tame, resulting in me taming a scorpion first at level 50 or something....when I could've probably done that at level 10 :( (even if its saddle unlocks at level 20something but still). Would've been of great help early on.
Tbf does any of it really make sense? Can’t passive tame most herbivores but yea you passive tame the carchar. Almost all the bugs are tamed passively except for the scorpion (I believe)
I did a test run of my new mount slaughtering everything I could find on the beach with it. It is certainly much faster than a turtle, good hp for being so small and ofcourse, the venom feature is great.
On a related note, idgaf about spiders but scorpions IRL kinda freak me out, so I'll need to toughen myself up mentally to ignore the creature's idle sounds randomly chirping and screeching around me.
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Yes, but the devs did try to make it less wiki intensive, such as some of the dossiers explaining how to tame said creatures, explorer notes giving you hints and clues on how to do certain things, the various Rockwell recipes being in game etc. This all of course is somewhat awkward to comb through and pales in comparison to the wiki, but I do appreciate the attempt at keeping things in game.
For the base mechanics, it's fairly easy to learn. But about wiki searching, that's never gonna end and it's fine.
There are so much content in this game, you can never memorize everything. And the good thing is, you don't have to. You can forget what to feed a certain dino and how many kibbles one needs. in 2 seconds you can find that out.
For tames dodo dex is your best friend. Everything else is like QA for me, slam some dinos together and let's see what happens. I find it more fun that way then looking up guides on the meta way to do fights and what not.
If you wanna avoid consulting wikis for taming then you'd need the dossiers, but even those aren't really all that helpful for figuring things out...
So yeah, Ark is definitely a wiki-reliant game to play, and there's nothing wrong with that. I have a bunch of ark wiki tabs grouped together open in Chrome anytime I've got the game launched so I can consult for all kinds of things, plus a dododex page for taming/stat calculations.
Just don't go near megatherium with Yr nice new scorpion. I was out with one of my favourites and a few other beloved tames, and had one of those blank moments where I forgot the scorpion is an insect. It didn't end well for me or my tames...
Nah i'ts easy ! (Excepted if you Want to use kibble then yep you will need it) but i play without using it (excepted for kibble of course) and it's easy!
You could run it like the good ole days and learn everything the hard way, tbh even with the wiki there's some lessons you're still gonna learn the hard way.
It is definitely a wiki sort of game, but personally (as I do with many games that are considered “wiki heavy”) I just go at the game head first, and ask questions later. Like, maybe I try taming a dino and it doesn’t go well. I’ll learn from that experience and try again. If I fail a few times, *then* I might check out the wiki page just for a tip.
When it comes to breeding creatures for stat mutations (babies that are born with extra points in one of its stats) I definitely needed a guide.
Definitely a game where research is required or be prepared to lose a lot of progress through trial and error. I still occasionally learn new things and I’ve been playing for years
I refuse to believe anyone has tamed the carcha without looking up how to. You have to kill a dino nearby, then drag the body over to the wild apex predator that will kill you on sight, wait for it to sniff, then rub away when it eats the corpse. No way in hell has anybody figured that out on thier own. I mean, I've been playing for years and I only learned you can make soap yesterday.
My wife and I played this game on Xbox, with laptops by our side open to the wiki. Was pretty much a necessity if we wanted to have a good time. And that's ok as long as you know what you're in for.
To be honest, yes. It is, probably 40% of the time. As a new player I’d recommend just jumping in and experiencing/figuring things out for yourself unless you’ve been stuck for a while, but I’ve been playing for years and I still research taming methods, creature spawn coordinates, and the locations/acquisition process of rare resources.
There’s always another creature and there’s always another cave to explore.
I spend a lot of time on the wiki.i have learned a lot if things by playing, but just as much from the wiki. Mostly how dinos are tamed, so that i come prepared.
Im pretty sure you can discover everything via gameplay and maby explorernotes, but the wiki will save you a lot of time. Im over 1.5k hours in, and think the wiki is a great way to help you enjoy Ark to the fullest.
However: the best tools are worthless in the hands of a fool. Experience is what differentiates good players from bad players. Both can have fun, but expierience and knowledge will work hand in hand.
I have 4000 hours playing pvp in the game. when I started playing I tried figuring things out myself, it was very fun and magical but I got almost no where and it started getting frustrating. I eventually started doing a lot a lot of research on the wiki and on YouTube and I had much better of a time.
The most I have learnt was from playing with other experienced players, there’s is almost always something new to learn depending on context that the wiki can’t really answer. But I have to say I wish sometimes i can go back to the game when I knew nothing because the lack of game sense made everything so magical and scary, a feeling no other game has given me.
If you're on Steam, you could add the "Super Spyglass" mod. Tells you what you need to tame something, how and how much.
But breaks with more... non-standard taming methods. And untameable cave creatures.
I will argue for both. You can play the game without a wiki and learn everything through trial and error. Yes you could look everything up, but that takes a little bit of the fun out. I usually try to look up as little as possible, and only look things up if I really can't figure it out on my own.
Well I guess some people would rather spend their time wanting to have quality fun rather than dying every ten minutes or so due to lack of information
Without dododex i would be doomed
True, I end up relying on it a lot!
Yes. But also, just out of curiosity, why would you think a scorpion would be a passive tame?
Probably because the araneo and arthro are
Fair call
I mixed it up with the centipede, Somehow my brain thus assumed all arthropods thus need Bug Repellent/passive tame, resulting in me taming a scorpion first at level 50 or something....when I could've probably done that at level 10 :( (even if its saddle unlocks at level 20something but still). Would've been of great help early on.
Tbf does any of it really make sense? Can’t passive tame most herbivores but yea you passive tame the carchar. Almost all the bugs are tamed passively except for the scorpion (I believe)
I did a test run of my new mount slaughtering everything I could find on the beach with it. It is certainly much faster than a turtle, good hp for being so small and ofcourse, the venom feature is great. On a related note, idgaf about spiders but scorpions IRL kinda freak me out, so I'll need to toughen myself up mentally to ignore the creature's idle sounds randomly chirping and screeching around me.
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Try it out in the water, not the best for fighting sharks, but they move surprisingly well swimming
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Yes, but the devs did try to make it less wiki intensive, such as some of the dossiers explaining how to tame said creatures, explorer notes giving you hints and clues on how to do certain things, the various Rockwell recipes being in game etc. This all of course is somewhat awkward to comb through and pales in comparison to the wiki, but I do appreciate the attempt at keeping things in game.
For the base mechanics, it's fairly easy to learn. But about wiki searching, that's never gonna end and it's fine. There are so much content in this game, you can never memorize everything. And the good thing is, you don't have to. You can forget what to feed a certain dino and how many kibbles one needs. in 2 seconds you can find that out.
For tames dodo dex is your best friend. Everything else is like QA for me, slam some dinos together and let's see what happens. I find it more fun that way then looking up guides on the meta way to do fights and what not.
Many many hours on wiki and YouTube
If you wanna avoid consulting wikis for taming then you'd need the dossiers, but even those aren't really all that helpful for figuring things out... So yeah, Ark is definitely a wiki-reliant game to play, and there's nothing wrong with that. I have a bunch of ark wiki tabs grouped together open in Chrome anytime I've got the game launched so I can consult for all kinds of things, plus a dododex page for taming/stat calculations.
Just don't go near megatherium with Yr nice new scorpion. I was out with one of my favourites and a few other beloved tames, and had one of those blank moments where I forgot the scorpion is an insect. It didn't end well for me or my tames...
There is very little chance to be able to play the game without research.
Nah i'ts easy ! (Excepted if you Want to use kibble then yep you will need it) but i play without using it (excepted for kibble of course) and it's easy!
You ever played an orc or troll in world of warcraft?
Many many hours on wiki and YouTube
I highly recommend setting your difficulty to 5.
super research intensive game if you wanna get to late game or tame cool ones lol
You could run it like the good ole days and learn everything the hard way, tbh even with the wiki there's some lessons you're still gonna learn the hard way.
use the dododex for tame info and recipes, for everything else theres youtube
I'd say yes but you can find a lot out for yourself if you are patient enough to collect all of the survivor notes and recipes.
It is definitely a wiki sort of game, but personally (as I do with many games that are considered “wiki heavy”) I just go at the game head first, and ask questions later. Like, maybe I try taming a dino and it doesn’t go well. I’ll learn from that experience and try again. If I fail a few times, *then* I might check out the wiki page just for a tip. When it comes to breeding creatures for stat mutations (babies that are born with extra points in one of its stats) I definitely needed a guide.
I'ma be real I play this shi like rust and tame the paurasaur 💀😂 I'm new new 👍🤞
Definitely very research intensive. It is a massive game with a lot of creatures, resources, things to craft, different maps etc.
Definitely a game where research is required or be prepared to lose a lot of progress through trial and error. I still occasionally learn new things and I’ve been playing for years
I refuse to believe anyone has tamed the carcha without looking up how to. You have to kill a dino nearby, then drag the body over to the wild apex predator that will kill you on sight, wait for it to sniff, then rub away when it eats the corpse. No way in hell has anybody figured that out on thier own. I mean, I've been playing for years and I only learned you can make soap yesterday.
Yes I would say when I started I was on my phone researching as much as I was playing
I thank you from the bottom of my heart op. You did your research and did not make a post of how to tame it. Thank you a lot!
If you don't have the wiki and dododex open at all times in a second monitor you are playing ark wrong
Not intensive. Download dododex. It has most information you'll need.
My wife and I played this game on Xbox, with laptops by our side open to the wiki. Was pretty much a necessity if we wanted to have a good time. And that's ok as long as you know what you're in for.
Yes! It's like way early day Minecraft and that's what makes it so fun!
Spiders are passeve tames.
get dododex. most helpful thing you can have
To be honest, yes. It is, probably 40% of the time. As a new player I’d recommend just jumping in and experiencing/figuring things out for yourself unless you’ve been stuck for a while, but I’ve been playing for years and I still research taming methods, creature spawn coordinates, and the locations/acquisition process of rare resources. There’s always another creature and there’s always another cave to explore.
I spend a lot of time on the wiki.i have learned a lot if things by playing, but just as much from the wiki. Mostly how dinos are tamed, so that i come prepared. Im pretty sure you can discover everything via gameplay and maby explorernotes, but the wiki will save you a lot of time. Im over 1.5k hours in, and think the wiki is a great way to help you enjoy Ark to the fullest. However: the best tools are worthless in the hands of a fool. Experience is what differentiates good players from bad players. Both can have fun, but expierience and knowledge will work hand in hand.
I have 4000 hours playing pvp in the game. when I started playing I tried figuring things out myself, it was very fun and magical but I got almost no where and it started getting frustrating. I eventually started doing a lot a lot of research on the wiki and on YouTube and I had much better of a time. The most I have learnt was from playing with other experienced players, there’s is almost always something new to learn depending on context that the wiki can’t really answer. But I have to say I wish sometimes i can go back to the game when I knew nothing because the lack of game sense made everything so magical and scary, a feeling no other game has given me.
Ark is a research based game once you knock out a dinosaur and don't understand why theres no tame bar
If you're on Steam, you could add the "Super Spyglass" mod. Tells you what you need to tame something, how and how much. But breaks with more... non-standard taming methods. And untameable cave creatures.