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[schild]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110

i want this

[Malakili]

Needs Dr. Ian Malcom.

[Lantyssa]

Animal taming?  Dinosaurs?

I'm there.

[Kail]

There's a bunch of these kinds of games coming through Greenlight trying to pick up the ball Stomping Lands choked on. 
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=252900000
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=447132882

I dunno, it doesn't look BAD, I'm just not able to get super worked up about another early access game with survival elements and crafting and bleeeeargh.  At least there's no zombies in this one I guess.  Wake me if it ever gets a full release.

[Falconeer]

Rust with dinosaurs?

Anyway, consider me interested, although the problem with ALL these games is simply how deep in Early Access they are, or the opposite: how close to be a real game they actually are. That makes it or break it more than anything else to me at this point.


EDIT: This one seems interesting too. And so far has very good feedback. Savage Lands: http://store.steampowered.com/app/307880/

[Samwise]

Can I fling dinosaur eggs from catapults?

[Lantyssa]

What about dinosaur egg yolks?

[Amarr HM]

I was watching Planet of the Apes last night (the bad one with Mark Wahlberg) and I was thinking to myself - why doesn't a game like this exist? (stranded on a mysterious island survival game). It's uncanny how often that happens to me. Carry on..

[Margalis]

I thought this looked really cool until it turned into shooting shotguns at dinosaurs. If it was just arrows / spears and such I'd be a lot more interested. I don't really need another game where you run backwards filling things with lead, even if those things are dinosaurs.

[schild]

I thought this looked really cool until it turned into shooting shotguns at dinosaurs. If it was just arrows / spears and such I'd be a lot more interested. I don't really need another game where you run backwards fill things with lead, even if those things are dinosaurs.

That's cool, the guns are in there so you wouldn't play.

[Lantyssa]

I don't think you can use Dirty Harry as your avatar anymore after that post.

[Margalis]

My problem is that in games where you strafe backwards and shoot what you are shooting at rarely matters, especially if it's a melee enemy. It kind of defeats the purpose of them being dinosaurs.

If you just have a spear you have to get up close and jab at them then the fact that they have tails and claws and such really matters. If you just backpedal and shoot they might as well be dogs or robots or Nazis or anything else.

I'm not against guns. They just seem weird for this game. It doesn't really strike me as survival gameplay unless the bullets are very limited.

[Kail]

Guns could still work if you were actually hunting them.  Like, you had to track them and listen for calls and set bait and know their behavior and so on, that could be kind of fun.  Instead of just randomly spawning bullet sinks for players to stumble across, which is what generally happens in these games.

[schild]

or i can just build a house and fend off dinosaurs instead of creepers like god intended

[Malakili]

or i can just build a house and fend off dinosaurs instead of creepers like god intended

If this is how the game actually is, I'll buy it.

[Surlyboi]

Starlord, man.

[Trippy]

Who?

[Sky]

That's Shirley Bob's porn name.

[Falconeer]

What about this? Just released, and it's not Early Access (unbelievable!).

http://store.steampowered.com/app/293520/

[Margalis]

A lot of these humans vs dinos games (and there are a lot) look like someone just threw some assets in UE4 and called it a day. At least ARK looks like a lot more effort went into it.

[Surlyboi]

That's Shirley Bob's porn name.

True story.

[Margalis]

So some alpha / beta / EA / whatever version is coming out tomorrow and some people are streaming it tonight.

It's basically H1Z1 with dinosaurs. You run around and collect berries, explore, and strafe around punching other people. Everything I said about that game seems true here - the actual threat is just other humans being dicks to you, after 5 minutes the survival aspect doesn't seem relevant. H1Z1 is basically a PvP game with zombie trappings, and this is the same with dino trapping from what I can tell.

I guess if you liked that you'll like this? But if you didn't I can't see anyone liking this either unless they really love dinosaurs.

[palmer_eldritch]

You can shoot a dinosaur in the head with a catapult, and then when it's lying on the floor feeling sorry for itself you can feed it berries and it becomes your friend. Then you can put a saddle on it and ride it around (according to the streams at least). That looks like it might be fun for a bit.

[Sky]

That's how I got my cat.

[schild]

hmmmm watching this on twitch right now

[Flood]

I bought it.  It's...rough around the edges.  Probably the biggest thing is the optimization.  It takes quite a while to load up and execute.  The combat is herky jerky and the dinos warp around (so do their corpses).  The servers are full more often than not, or they just...aren't there.  Which makes it difficult to re-play guys you may have levelled up.  I have a level 9 guy with a house built and all sorts of resources and I can't seem to find the server anymore.  It's really buggy and rough but - it is pretty fun when you can get on and get going.
       

[palmer_eldritch]

I'm enjoying this a lot.

Supposedly the dinosaurs being a bit warpy/laggy is making them easier to kill (or strictly speaking making them less capable of killing you) which I am glad about because I am bad at games.

Here's some tips:

Don't build a thatch hut as anyone can break into it. Go for wood buildings as soon as you can. People can still break into them, but it's harder.

Don't build right by the ocean or river shore, as that's where everyone hangs out and walks around. Build in a remote place where people passing by won't see it (sounds obvious but I've stolen lots of stuff from people who don't do this mwaahahah)

Dinosaurs have levels and they matter a lot. If you can kill a level 1 dinosaur then it's still possible a level 20 dino of the same species will wreck you. What's cool is the higher level ones actually look different.

To tame a dinosaur, knock it out by using a slingshot on it (shooting rocks at it) or just punching it in the head if it's a weak one. Then you give it food, to make it like you, but this takes time. So you also give it narcoberries, to keep it unconscious while you feed it. You need to open up the dinosaur's inventory, place the berries there and "remote use" the berries to force-feed the dinosaur.

You don't log out when you log off - you're just unconscious. Animals can kill you, people can steal from you, they can drag your body into the ocean, they can drag you into a prison they have made and extract your blood and force feed you narcoberries. Log off in a secure house, or somewhere remote.

Those bright lights usually indicate the presence of supply packages which contain some useful items for the first person to get to them. But sometimes there is a level limit to open the package.

You can store your stuff in boxes but be aware that anyone can open your deposit box unless you set a PIN code on it, and even then they can still smash it open. So put these in a house etc... And don't forget to close the door of your house!

[Paelos]

To tame a dinosaur, knock it out by using a slingshot on it (shooting rocks at it) or just punching it in the head if it's a weak one. Then you give it food, to make it like you, but this takes time. So you also give it narcoberries, to keep it unconscious while you feed it. You need to open up the dinosaur's inventory, place the berries there and "remote use" the berries to force-feed the dinosaur.

Soooooooo, it's a dino date-raping simulator?

[palmer_eldritch]

By the way, the same trick works on humans (you can extract their blood while they are unconscious if you like)

[Torinak]

You don't log out when you log off - you're just unconscious. Animals can kill you, people can steal from you, they can drag your body into the ocean, they can drag you into a prison they have made and extract your blood and force feed you narcoberries. Log off in a secure house, or somewhere remote.

Why do these kinds of lord-of-the-flies games get so much traction? Is humanity just that broken?

[HaemishM]

Have you seen the Internet? 

[Samwise]

Being able to drug people and extract their blood while they're unconscious seems like an oddly specific fetish for a game about dinosaurs.

[HaemishM]

Those pixels were asking for it. 

[jakonovski]

Dinosaur Date Rape Vampirism

[taolurker]

I always wanted my own roofie-saur.