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What game has the weirdest/nicest/meanest fandom? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

I think the Ark Raider community is a little weird in so far as it is an extraction shooter, but the majority of players are opposed to PvP.

Dwarf Fortress has a community like a think tank of scientists all fucking around in game to find out new and novel ways that mechanics synergize with each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Ark's developers wanted it to be an extraction shooter, they tried like hell to make it one. Ark's players had very different ideas, and to this day still refuse to participate in the extraction shooter mechanics. The two have never coexisted peacefully. Despite the developer's best attempts, Ark is not an extraction shooter. It is a survival crafting dinosaur-pokemon, and nothing the developer does will ever change that. They have even tried to use Aquatica to destroy the modding community. It didn't take. The game belongs to the players now. We will never give up. We want survival crafting dinosaur-pokemon, and we will continue along those lines whether the developer likes it or not (they do not like it, to be clear).

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I guess I did need to add the Raiders part of the game name... I meant Ark Raiders. The new game. Not Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended. I figured the extraction shooter part would be enough since one of them is an extraction shooter and the other is a survival game. 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    My bad. Obviously, I thought you meant Ark Survival. To me, the all the ascension and cosmetics mechanics they keep trying to use to monetize their playerbase are inspired by extraction shooters like Fortnite, I thought that's what you meant, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. My opinions are my own (and I have a chip on my shoulder for Ark Survival's devs) so take that for what it's worth. Sorry for the confusion, and I appreciate the clarification.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    it is an extraction shooter, but the majority of players are opposed to PvP.

    The extraction game mode uses very different mechanics than the standard game that basically try to shoehorn the game into fornite.

    Ark pvp is basically competitive minecraft griefing + dinosaurs & guns. It's not for the faint of heart.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeiniJjO1g8

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