Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

I suck at this game. Took me four years to get to this point, and even with crazy boosted rates, I was still nervous about gamma. I went in on split screen with my sister who has never played the game on anything but mobile with hopes that she could help me get the creatures into the arena (one person can only take 20 creatures). Apparently split screen makes player 2 stay within a certain radius of player 1??? That would have been nice to know before we tried loading 40 creatures into the cave, bugging out worse than any time I have literally ever touched the game. Lost 10 in the process, then some didn’t heed my whistles and fell into lava, down to 25. At this point I was fairly certain I should cut my losses and jump in a lava pool, but we kept going. I gained some confidence before my sister confessed to losing 8-10 theris in the pool just before the gate. I counted and we had around 12 left. We were literally gonna lose, 14 creatures, 2 were mounted yuties could not POSSIBLY come out alive…

Every single theri that made it out of the cave walked home today. I was ready to quit the game for a bit, and these little guys pulled a W despite some trash mechanic I knew nothing about screwing us. Losing that many theris is not ideal, but I am absolutely convinced any success I have in this game is due to sheer luck and accidental overpreparation, but I am so happy to have ascended after four years