Recente recensies door ClayGoddessSari

Yes, it's early access. So it's not perfect and they're changing things. But they ARE listening to the community and tweaking things. Some of the changes are large, reworking entire systems that weren't working right.

So if you're not ok with a game that's still in flux, wait.

But still consider getting it. Despite being only a small portion of the full game, what is out now feels like a full smaller game with an open end. The realms system is a wonderful way to allow people to choose who they want to play with without requiring one of the members to host the session or buy a private server. The aesthetics are lovely. The combat is fun. And they just keep adding more content.

It's a buggy mess, but it's playable and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that it will improve. Basically, if you were willing to put up with the previous, you'll still have fun here. (I wish there was a "recommend" option other than yes and no because it's an "eeehhhh?"). There are some really nice little quality of life improvements.

Some issues I've had: (My computer meets their recommended specs)
-Crashing and data loss
-Drop beacons inside of terrain
-Difficulty navigating terrain (some rocks let you zoom straight up, while other similar terrain is an impenetrable barrier). Small irregularities in terrain block movement.
-Issues with dino follow pathfinding, much the same as previous ARK. Getting stuck walking straight into a rock, trying to walk between trees it cannot fit through, etc.
-Floating pebbles everywhere. There's a pebble texture that got lifted above the ground. I don't know if it's just me or if there's pebbles floating on all Island maps.
-Getting stuck inside terrain (flew into a cliff with my pteronadon and couldn't leave until my bird managed to get out and I was able to ride him)
-Finding some river that acted like I was on land, to the degree that my pteronodon could walk on the riverbed.

It's a good game. The only issues I have are the somewhat convoluted control system, and the fact that it seems somewhat poorly optimized.

The ministers system is wacked. I had religious people and conservatives loving me, yet a minister that was labeled as religious and conservative with loyalty as low as it could go. And when I look at possible ministers there are people who should hate me that have very high loyalty. How exactly am I supposed to have ministers stay and be productive if the people who should love me hate me and the people who should hate me love me? I had to disable the political capital system to be able to get anything done because I /couldn't/ increase the maximum enough to be able to do the policies I needed to!

If you're able to work with the political capital system off [from what I can tell it slows you down so you don't piss off people too fast and get yourself killed] it's a pretty good game. There are some other wacky things, though. Like when you ban guns, it's the /liberals/ who are upset. Where I come from, it's conservatives that want everyone to have guns. They've got the liberals hating any government intervention. I think they confused liberals and libertarians.