30 Things ONLY OG ARK Players Will Remember!

[@whyismynametaken123]

Taming used to take for literal ever. To tame a 120 bronto (was max level at the time) it took 16 hours to tame it. I remember taking 8 hours to tame a level 58 mammoth when level 60 was the wild dino cap. If you died, there was an 80% chance that your backpack either fell through the map or was just "gone" forever. Tamed dino stats used to be absolutely OP and you could tame a mid level raptor and after a few levels you could easily kill max level brontos. Offline tribemates used to gain "shared xp", so I would go crazy making narcotics and everyone would log in the next day wondering why they gained 5 levels over night. I moved our base when everyone was offline and I dragged their offline bodies onto my quetzal platform (when it was the "new" tame) .. as soon as I started flying their bodies ragdolled halfway across the map never to be found again. Eggs used to fall through the map unless they were laid on the sand close to water level. There was a bug where if someone was at 50.0/50.0 no one else on the map could harvest (metal atleast) .. took a while for me to realize my new base location wasn't the best idea. Ocean creatures used to jump out of the water and die instantly. Rafts were able to be put on "follow" for a short period of time. It actually took a very long time to level up ... like a very VERY long time compared to now. Stone used to be extremely hard to mass gather until the doed was put in the game. Pteranodons were so fast that people's large bases would load in around you and you became stuck inside their base.

[@JasesAce]

@@whyismynametaken123 I remember a time when I was taming a theri and it cost me I think 1300 narcotics and 10 hours of time when it was released, and soon after the theri release is when they made everything easier. Also yeah a wide variety of items falling through the map is common even now on some maps, but yes it was extremely bad back then. Lots of bugs but the game was so peak that people like us just played through all the obvious flaws. Hope you enjoyed as much as I did making this!

[@fenner1986]

​@@JasesAce the pteras used to be so fast you could strap c4 on to them and glitch them into people's bases before their turrets shot and blew giant holes open. You used to be able to make battle quetzs as well, with full turret builds on them. We also used to strap c4 on top turtles and drop them on the top of bases and blow them inside. When the tek Rex came out, it didn't have a distance limit and could hit anything within view, we used to sit outside the turret range and specifically shoot out the generator to capture a base lol

[@nickbrauher4986]

Ocean creatures still jump outta the water sometimes and still die 😂 There's a new 50/50 glitch. If your tames or character gets Arked, your stuff might pop up there. Still, though, those were the great times. When you needed a tribe to get high lvl tames. The real grind! Now we can tame a Giga within 1-2 hours. It's definitely fun still, and if you get a chance, try the Mods out. I play on Xbox, and use mods when I like what I see.

[@nickbrauher4986]

Ocean creatures still jump outta the water sometimes and still die 😂 There's a new 50/50 glitch. If your tames or character gets Arked, your stuff might pop up there. Still, though, those were the great times. When you needed a tribe to get high lvl tames. The real grind! Now we can tame a Giga within 1-2 hours. It's definitely fun still, and if you get a chance, try the Mods out. I play on Xbox, and use mods when I like what I see.

[@stargazer3759]

God, I don't miss the taming times, it was horrible

[@Speddythefish]

Tide pod throwback is a wild way to start the comeback but I’m here for it

[@JasesAce]

haha yeah I looked up memes from that year for the intro that one was a funny memory for sure

[@OfficialPixelRealms]

The comeback is here! LETS GOOOO

[@JasesAce]

@ glad to have you back mate 😂

[@Whenindoubtthottleout]

The fact ppl did that is just amazingly dumb

[@JasesAce]

@@Whenindoubtthottleout yeah that exceedingly stupid even for the 2010s when everyone was doing stupid things religiously

[@sammohler6757]

2015 player here. Ark was the coolest thing to me, and I was only able to watch it on KZbin. One day, during a snowy December day, I was browsing the Xbox store, and I saw it... the free game demo for 30 minutes of ark! It was on Xbox!! It became the only game I played, over 16k hours logged since late 2015. Sounds like a lot, but I'm not kidding.... it was the only game I played. I have made friends that are so special to me from ark, memories that I will never forget, and countless nights of fun. Thank you, Ark, for everything you have done for me.

[@luck3yp0rk93]

My best friend from my childhood who I knew for 9 years grew up with me playing ark. We would never get past plant species on a 3x3 stone base and maybe a Rex or a spino but man. Best time of my life. Combined across all platforms and ascended I would have likely in the 10k hours range To add a crazy sentence to the end of that story he became a pedophile

[@michaelwallner6657]

I thought it came way later to console, how your mind can trike you 😅🤷‍♀️

[@Irshmc]

December 16 2015 if I remember right launched on Xbox early access. When they nerfed the flyers I was mad.

[@kmkzixi]

See, now that's wassup. I got closer with my cousins playing ark & our relationship has improved greatly since. Countless hours & hilarious moments. And don't get me started on the jumpscares. We all got things to do now but we still play when we get the chance

[@Irshmc]

@@kmkzixi I meet my girlfriend on ark been together for 5 years now

[@ikreapzz1874]

I just remembered going on some metal runs with my mates where you would put your anky on a ramp on a quetz because the weight limit on ramps didnt count :D

[@JasesAce]

Yeah the quartz was very solid for metal runs when it had that slope, definitely would’ve included that with the other quetz fact if I remembered it

[@brianalley2089]

that is crazy op

[@du4lstrik3]

This was peak Ark. We used this RIGHT when the knowledge about it started to spread. The alphas on our server were so anxious about anybody Quetz farming, they would patrol and scout bases for rapid growth. We had to do our slot-cap metal farms at night and hide our ramp quetzs inside so they wouldn't know we were doing it. But lo-and-behold, they flew over one night and saw we were rapidly catching up to their development, so they gathered the beta tribes and knocked us off the server. About six months later, I found a Reddit post talking about how the alphas on our server got completely gutted out by hackers. Couldn't have been happier. I made a new char and ran back to their base, only to find small remnants of their infrastructure.

[@Corgisaurus-Rex]

Here's 2 more facts from old Ark: 1. Tames use to have unlimited item slots. The only thing limiting how many items a tame could carry was the carry weight. 2. The devs played around with the idea of the players being able to play on procedurally generated maps. The option is still in ASE were you can create a procedural ark. However, the feature wasn't developed past its initial introduction, as far as I'm aware.

[@JasesAce]

1. I remember that, if I ever make a pt 2 I’m definitely including it 2. I never knew about this, I’ll have to do research on it that sounds like an interesting idea

[@Ninima-ql5oj]

@@JasesAce As far as I remember, the option is still on playstation. I used it back then, was buggy as hell though

[@JasesAce]

@@Ninima-ql5oj that’s funny, surprised they haven’t gotten around to fixing it after all this time

[@amidalaprin4846]

@@JasesAce they're incredibly buggy with collision sometimes on the ground/walls, especially if you disconnect mid run/fall and as far as I'm aware, don't spawn artifacts or bosses, but they're genuinely kinda fun. And going crazy with the settings could be fun for a challenge, I still play ASE since I'm on old gen so maybe I'll mess with it sometime soon :)

[@super_capybara1]

I remember the infinity items. I haven't played since like 2018 when I was 8 now I tried playing with my friend and I suggested we use a dodo for storage since it can carry infinity stuff... found out they changed that😂

[@Evilerspartan]

Any 2015 players here? Seeing the 2017 OGs made me feel old lol

[@JasesAce]

@@Evilerspartan I played in 2015, it’s in the thumbnail! I just talked in terms of 2017 to appeal to more players to be honest, a lot of the features in the beta of the game were included here

[@ukiraisic]

Here I am xD. Spent more then 16500 hours in this game and i would double them if i had a chance.

[@mrautismo420]

​@@ukiraisic see a shrink

[@LegendofKhaos]

No dino fall damage, spamming E to pickup stone. 17 hours for a high level rex tame. Turret ammo was currency.

[@valentin8127]

Wooow, turre ammo was a currency, ty for remembering that to me

[@DragonMasonHealer]

Been playing Ark Survival Evolved since Day One on steam when it had only The Island as a map. Since then, I've forgotten most of these changes since I have literally almost 10,000 hours playing the game. So it's nice to see a video detailing the changes the game has had since it's launch. I keep repeating to myself "Oh yea, I remember that" 😁 Ark is by far one of my favorite games and regardless of how people feel about the devs, I'm going to continue playing Ark many more years from now.

[@Xaphros]

I got Ark in 2015. None of us had a PC that could actually run the game comfortably, it had so many bugs and crashes it was painful, mods didn't really exist yet and all we had was The Island. BUT the game showed complexity and a depth of gameplay, a promise that it could become awesome given enough time and effort. This game is far more complex and in-depth than many modern day MMO's and that's just going to result in issues and problems other games and MMO's won't have.

[@JasesAce]

Yeah I had it back in that timeframe on both PS and PC, it was entirely unplayable on console for a year or so which is part of the reason I just started talking from 2017 onwards, I could make an entire 20 minute video on how unoptimized Ark was in 2015 (and how unoptimized it still is)!

[@mgj1890]

Only issue is it’s not an mmo

[@DanStarTheFirst]

I was that crazy guy running full epic settings at 35 fps with an overclocked to crap 980.

[@h4ckbike]

True! And I love it!

[@backstabbingpotato]

"setting the alarm for 4am to get wyvern-milk for imprints on a regular weekday" "putting spikes on every spawnpoint on the map so people couldn't join"

[@Caelum_NLD]

You forgot to mention storage having weight limits at first. Instead of amount limits. Also When you were breeding dinos, you could use whistling to keep them in place for long enough to have them complete breeding, but you had to spam whistling the whole time. Also the old kibble system went like the eggs from the last added dinosaur would be kibble for the newest released one. Which was nice as you needed Giga eggs for something like Dimetrodon or Gallimimus xD

[@JasesAce]

Very true! I forgot about this entirely thanks for the comment. If I ever make a pt 2 this will definitely be included

[@VictorVasconcelos-d9e]

Real OGs played before the official release when it was in “beta”

[@JasesAce]

@@VictorVasconcelos-d9e yeah I did too, that’s why I had the thumbnail say 2015 in it. The game was so drastically different that I just decided to list mostly things from 2017 onwards. 2015-2016 ark was a blast though

[@projectvzero]

Its still in beta 🥸

[@JasesAce]

@@projectvzero goated reply which i wish i came up with, take a heart

[@fenner1986]

Early access was the term. Wildcard set records back then on game with the longest early access ever.

[@legendaryjimbob7685]

@@fenner1986 And that was for reason. Early access means they got to release updates easier, as in Steam/Sony/Microsoft process to get your updates in are less strict for Early access stuff vs full released, so trying to add quick hotfix would require them to go trough the process if they were full released meaning they would have to try server side fix/disable the thing causing it, but with ARK having so many community servers and lets say it was rexes causing server crashes when bred, yeah the community aint gonna be happy if they cant breed rexes for potentially days, while in early access they could drop that basically within hour of them figuring it out and thus being less of problem. Many games do the same, they extend early access to make it easier to update/fix stuff

[@RobbieFitzgerald]

Primitive+ wouldve been a good mention too. Its absolutely astouding that they let it die.

[@JasesAce]

oh my god i forgot about that getting murdered i used to LOVE that

[@devonb6578]

Thank you for this video! I didn’t start playing until about 2-3 weeks ago and I can’t imagine how much more trouble I’d be having without half these changes

[@JasesAce]

Glad you enjoyed! Yeah ark has become a lot more QoL over the years for sure!

[@timeshark8727]

its funny how quickly gigas went from "instant win tame" to 'utterly useless outside of pvp and 2 maps'.

[@JasesAce]

Yeah it was a ridiculously fast fall from glory but the giga will at least always have a spot in the meta somewhere

[@MythicAce218]

Because gigas are so strong that they can't be used in boss arenas now. Gigas are absolutely useless(still an absolute menace if you encounter one in the wild)

[@JasesAce]

@ they are good for the extinction fights and can be brought in on valguero through glitches, but outside of these 2 maps gigas are definitely not very useful for PVE

[@MythicAce218]

@@JasesAce those are the 2 maps I don't play.....i still play evolved for the time being. Now that deinoychas are on fjordur ion need to play on val. May end up buying it on pc again for aro edition mods tho

[@JasesAce]

@@MythicAce218 ah that makes sense then, in that case the gigas are definitely not very helpful haha. I’d recommend getting it on pc, the modding community is strong!

[@neuralspider9998]

Kairukus spawning on the beach in winter wonderland was so peak

[@JasesAce]

@@neuralspider9998 og winter wonderland was so peak

[@XReflexian]

I still remember an update where people had a set amount of time to move all their stuff or lose it because they were going to rework parts of the map ... Whole areas were covered with borders that would be green on one side showing you were on the safe side and red on the other telling you to move your stuff asap. Also, not missing the 4 fps bases 😅

[@CyPhaSaRin]

1:40, what i would suggest/watch is; a full video on the evolution, came into the video just wanting to refresh my memory about where the game came from, but as the intro progressed it became clear i want a full rundown, sounds like you avoided the lengthy vid this time, but i think a lot of us would welcome it in the future :)

[@WallhackYT]

My most hated nerf was when they fixed the circle glitch on tames. You used to be able to walk off a high ledge with a flyer and spam open/close the menu and every time you did it would boost you forward going faster each time until you reached max velocity lol you could travel across the map on a fully weighted Quetz in like 10 seconds it was so OP

[@truthhurtts]

It’s actually funny for me to watch this. I played like 2015-2017/2018ish and stopped playing. I now play occasionally in 2024 and the game is entirely different now in how things work. I feel like an old man with new electronics or something despite still being pretty young now.

[@JasesAce]

Im 21 and felt old when looking back at how the game was when I played it as a 12-13 year old. Game is still great but it definitely is way different now!

[@Baked-Potayto]

Shout out to the early days of Ark when the compy was broken AF. The bonus per compy wasn't calculated right so it ended up being multiplicative. A compy army was capable of melting literally everything in the game. Compy army > everything.

[@JasesAce]

Is THAT why I died to those F'ers whenever I messed with them and let them group up? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Thanks for the comment, hope you enjoyed!

[@zMoeCp]

Damn dude. It seems like you were a 100 subs not to long ago but then again I hadnt been on yt inna bit. Congrats for going over 1k.

[@JasesAce]

Thank you, been working hard glad it’s been paying off. I appreciate the continued support, more to come soon!

[@scottsnelling5610]

Pre-Cryopods, I definitely still remember forming up an entire caravan of dinos and crossing the map, because you didn't like where you'd made your base, and needed to relocate. Massive follow-chains, one player at the back to make sure nothing happened there, and 2-3 players up front. 1 to lead the caravan, and the other 1-2 in charge of killing stuff. Moving the base itself was easier, since you could just max an argent's weight out, and then fly back and forth slowly. It took time, but wasn't the level of complexity that moving your dinos was.

[@Asperyti]

I remember moving from the west peninsula to the beaver oasis thing on the island and following the river with my convoy. Got me remembering core memories lmao

[@Gh3ttoboy]

Also way before cryopods and before the volcano had lava our group of 8 people would ride 2 ankys and some more tames and walk up the path of the volcano to bring over a community smelter base just to build up there on the volcano for metal, we could have used argents but we wanted to try it out without flyers it was allot of fun, we hosted our own server and it was open to the public in PVE at the time, so a few people that also played thought we cheated but we had a big caravan of dinos mostly rexes and carnos and 2 ankys, after the base was established we would fly the metal back to our main base by argents and anyone else on the server was free to use the smelter base for their metal runs if they wanted to, it was open to everyone since we didnt want to monopolize it all, it isnt like our group was playing 24/7 on it some of us still had to work and be responsible adults.

[@SlowRunChris]

You really forgot the most important one It was basicly 0.25x compared to now Taming a lvl 70ish Stego or something like that could cost up to 13 hours

[@DanStarTheFirst]

18 hour movie marathons taming a lvl 120 rex

[@jonone24]

Thank you for this! This takes me back! I actually liked a lot about old ark better than current ark, but I’m still playing cause it’s still super fun!

[@Kacper.P]

It's so great to hear about the 300k hp gigas. I was sure that it was like that. After a long ark break, I was very confused as I saw that gigas had somewhat around 80k hp now and was not sure if I remembered it correctly 😂

[@JasesAce]

Haha yeah you definitely weren’t imagining things 😂 glad this could help

[@picklerickbob6287]

Good thing is almost half of these 2017 features are still available on ARK mobile 😂 anyone that wants nostalgia can go play it ong

[@JasesAce]

Haha as I’ve heard in these comments, ark mobile sounds like a mess I might have to make a video about it some time 😂

[@OgnjenRadojcic-bk7jx]

I play ark mobile it makes you fil lika an OG even dough your not an we have dungeons instead of boses

[@dtradkie]

Anyone remember how we did the hard Ice Cave on the Island. You had to Crawl into a tiny hole and fight through an ice cave. But before you could still bring Argies into caves but couldnt fit even a wolf through the tiny crawl space. So we had to bring an Argy egg, carry it into the crawl space, build a warm hatching environment inside the cave and hatch a baby Argy and grow it up to be used in the cave. Then it lived in the cave permanently. Same with wolves. You had a pregnant wolf give birth out front the crawl space, get the newborn to follow crawl into the cave and raise it up inside to be a fighting animal. Good times.

[@JasesAce]

Yeah i remember this, the cave mechanics were super buggy in early ark

[@lisamurphy4990]

@@dtradkie yup

[@ErpReportsNow]

Only OG if you remember turrets on the querz.

[@JasesAce]

@@ErpReportsNow wow I cannot believe I forgot that, what a throwback. Hope you enjoyed!

[@jerad4659]

Shit I remember the very first nerf on the giga. Way before people even thought about a turret quetz.

[@xInsAnExAc3]

Planet X on quetzal with other turrets was insane. Quetzals were dominate

[@PoisonedSkittle]

Whatever a querz is.

[@mrautismo420]

Only og if you remember ptera + grappling hook and whistle to tame quetzals

[@nickguerrero9154]

I believe the titanoboa eggs were for taming gigantopithecus 😂, also having to walk rex's 10 deep to a obelisk was definitely a great bonding experience to say the least. Great video, I forgot about being able to still throw a giga right before you teleported into the fight to glitch it in

[@JasesAce]

I think they were for the Thyla or Gigantopithecus (maybe both?) haha, thanks for the compliment, glad you enjoyed! And yeah giga from a cryo was super easy to do for a while, and was super easy on Valguero forever

[@doehrli]

We flew out rexs and gigas on quetz

[@doehrli]

Thyla, gigaman, and golem

[@pvtghost95]

Good old days .. this was the first game I eould go all nighter trynna learn it . I recall getting my wood base raided 😢

[@JasesAce]

haha yeah those were the good old days of ark, glad you enjoyed reminiscing as much as I did! more ark content soon

[@Jacobussythegamer]

I've been playing Ark for 5 years but I have been watching Ark videos since 2017. I have NEVER used a cryo pod. And like 80% of these changes made me think: THEY CHANGED THAT???

[@JasesAce]

Haha yeah a lot of stuff that gets changed is overlooked bc it seems like common sense and feels like it’s been there forever. Hope you enjoyed!

[@hypercarno4535]

Been playing this game since the day it released (2015 not 2017) and half of these I was saying the same thing haha. Other things I would be like "it was THAT long ago?!" I swear the first round of tlcs wasn't that long ago. Time flies

[@JasesAce]

@ yeah time seriously has been moving too fast. I’ve also been playing since 2015 (that’s the number in the thumbnail) I just said 2017 because that is when it full released for the video sake. Let’s hope there’s more awesome updates to come!

[@Sutton1231]

Me and my best friend put more hours into this game then we did our highschool career 😂😂😂 I remember us hopping on maybe day 3 of it being on the Xbox store back in the day and just the instant fun. Even the bugs and brokenness of eaaarrrrlllyyyyy gameplay just made it so much more memorable for us. I remember waiting for the door to the tech cave finally being able to be opened we’d check it so damn annually after each update. Miss these days man

[@galaxyheart5555]

Man I remember the pre cryo pod and single dino kibble days. It was so ridiculous needing to set up a scorpion egg farm for rexes. And the taming took forever so kibble was like the best (only) way to tame some of those high level high tiered creatures and have it be worth it. Now I love cryopods, and there was no experience like walking your gigas and your rexes all the way from your base to do meat runs or boss fights. It's a pain that only the OG's will ever understand.

[@JasesAce]

Well said, cryopods just make the game so much easier and removes a lot of inconvenience that made the game harder in a non fun way

[@4ReelZy]

Made me think back to the good old days lol, great video man! Had so many og memories pop into my mind 🤟🏻 edit- also I still play the old ark mobile which is old ark so it’s nice to still experience some of those old things! (Like mushrooms being fully edible!)

[@Speddythefish]

Full video for dinos needing TLC would be awesome!

[@JasesAce]

I plan to make this in the future, hope you enjoyed!

[@teodortodorov4712]

I wasn't playing it, but i have watched a group of KZbinrs back in the day.. remember how one of them got his base destroyed, because of the swamp update :') good old times. They also killed a boss really fast woth just a giga, a quetzal and 2-3 rexes.. was a good time to be alive

[@JasesAce]

good times man, good times.

[@BigBucked]

Thanks for this it gave me a crap ton of nostalgia while making my own new vid

[@ninjak0835]

Finally someone remembers the map being covered in snow

[@JasesAce]

Haha yeah that was one of my favorite features to look back on

[@pri2256]

This happened before Extinction was launched. I remember taming a red Bronto near the Green Obelisk on Ragnarok during the Valentine's event., but I left it there after saddling it, seeing no way to take it to my base, which was in the desert. My friend walked it all the way from the Green Obelisk to the base. It took him so long, and that was the only thing he did during his playtime that day.

[@Gaahlinator]

taming dinos pre kibble introduction and taming bonus level were a thing back then. You needed to tame the same dino species over and over again to gain more proficiency and +lvl after taming. loved that so much

[@MicheEfur]

nice vid, just one thing: If I remember correctly u could constantly whistle the command not follow and the dinos wouldn't move whilst breeding

[@JasesAce]

yeah but you had to always manually turn on breeding for breeders which was the main issue for larger tribes at least. Now you can just leave breeders on enable mating and let them automatically breed constantly

[@JasesAce]

and thanks, im glad you enjoyed it!

[@DragonMasonHealer]

There were tons of people that didn't want cryopods back. Mainly because they ruined cave exploration. I remember back when you could go through a cave and had to leave your dinos outside. Our tribe actually prepared in advance for cave exploration. We all had to make sure we had enough ammo, sleeping bags, water, food, etc etc. It was fun when our entire tribe ran through a cave, laughing as we dodged dangerous foes. Nowadays, people just cryo a dino and speed run a cave solo. It's not fun anymore. I get that cryopods are useful for certain reasons. That said, I wish they were never allowed to deploy dinos within caves.

[@brantsonbloom4497]

Man the memories are flooding back

[@funnyanimalworld7579]

Who remembers hunting quetzel with parashute? Thats how i caught one. Also nice base are on the iland map where now is giant tree forest.

[@unnamme]

The caves are so different now nicer before all looks the same with black crystal walls... thanks for the memories 🥲

[@JasesAce]

yeah the caves and the rest of the game was updated appearance wise, glad you enjoyed it!

[@adamantfaker7858]

I remember when Genesis 1 first dropped and Ferroxes were the new tame. When they would go from rage mode to just normal, they would glitch through the floor and you could maybe get them back, but most likely they would die. Man... I love Ark map launches, so many bugs.

[@BradDraws]

Some things I remember from the OG days Ascendant rarity used to be a red colour Bolas used to not require hide to make which resulted in a lot of bobs having 100s of them lol And the electric eels dealing a lot of torpor damage 💀

[@molevalence1584]

Back in the very early ARK days, the trees woukd blow like grass in the wind. Also, large dinos when killed, would blow away like a deflated balloon. They still do to a small degree, but was entertaining to watch.

[@RealPapaScorchPizza]

This video was actually a massive throwback, for better or worse though lol.

[@JasesAce]

haha yeah it was super fun to make, sad to see how the game didn't build off its early success as it couldve tho

[@CyPhaSaRin]

yeah the map change on island with the snow! i remember where my first ever base was, its now the snow biome, on the far left down south where the snow extends to, i was just inside the snow, right near the cave entrance, and i don't know if that cave was even there back then, i think so. But i remember not sticking around once the change came in, what felt a little bit like the rolling green hills of Ragna soon became a whitewash hell. I'm back there these days tho, fave spot is on the far west coast right as the snow/ice starts, always seemed like a good place for Crystal, Metal, Pearls, Oil, Args/Rexes and if you pick right, about 3 different temps in one close vicinity, makes good for building wings for natural egg incubation.

[@alfiehaywood4667]

I hadn't even thought about how they changed the obelisks. You know how everyone talks about doing mini parkours whilst zoning out having deep covos on Minecraft. That was me on ark, just hopping from each branch of the Ob.

[@LW-yv7wj]

A lot of changes to quetzals too, The fact you used to be able to make turret quetzals (that goes for all that have platform saddles) and having to make a box on a quetzal to trap anothere one to tame it. Also being able to force feed unlimited speeds so you could literally outlast turret damage by just force feeding your dino.

[@JasesAce]

The quetzal stuff was a huge thing I forgot to mention, the forcefeeding I remember too, good points!

[@chrisb9416]

fuck this makes me happy, welcome back @internetAjay

[@sao-1481]

One more fact from old Ark: When you land a Argentavis or pteranodon you was dismounted instantly, can even walk mounted in flyers lol

[@JasesAce]

Wow I actually forgot that one entirely till you mentioned it, thanks for commenting! Will definitely include this if there's ever a part 2

[@Spariteo]

coming back to the game when all the TLCs came out was the best, i wish they did more

[@MarcosBettega]

We used to make fun of "beach bobs", the players who logged once a month and never had anything besides thatch and stones We used to play at 8 fps because we were at the tame limit of 400, laying eggs constantly We even had to wait to tame something, because the server was so full that it capped. So you would drop a good dino, and then there was the message "server tame limit reached". I think it was the main reason for them to implement the cryopods And finally, the milk runs, and the giga breeding, before cryopods, owls, pigs and glitches. Dark times.

[@JasesAce]

Yeah I remember all these things (I played official from ~2016-2020 after playing pve for like 6 months). The Dino caps especially I should’ve mentioned in the cryopod section in much greater detail. Thanks for the throwback

[@MarcosBettega]

@@JasesAce The official server rates from 2017 were brutal 😂

[@JasesAce]

@@MarcosBettega yes. yes they were.

[@rlxrugoax5127]

i thought the video was gonna be on early official days when the homies would raid by huddling at the reinforced door stone base with metal hatchets and a large metal base with a few turrets and decent tames bein the alphas of the servers 😭 i love how current ark servers run around server politics and alliances, and bein alpha is way more advanced now, but those early pvp days were nostalgic af

[@chewebacon3346]

So many og ark things were missed. 50/50 turret glitch where it would make invisible coppies of structures on platorm saddles. Battle quetzals with turrets running down raptor clause. The good ole days. No snailes or chem bench, so all paste was made in a morter. No tek at all, heavy turrets not being a thing and auto turrets not being fast enough to track most flyers with speed pumped. If i remember right the indi forge also wasnt a thing at first and you needed massive forge rooms. No turret/plant turret cap so some bases would out right crash servers when to many people remdered them and so much more

[@Dumbassarrozz]

I remember rounding up rexes and leading them to boss fights before cyropods. The massive gaggle of rexes constantly stuck on each other, but there was always one rex that would end up a lost or stuck no matter how hard you tried to baby sit it. I miss my boy dilbert dimple🙏🦖(his ass got evaporated by the dragon)

[@JasesAce]

Rip Dilbert

[@txferretgirl]

one that made me go 'WOAH' was when they first added fur and feathers. It was a real shock the first time logging in and seeing the change

[@bobmcbob49]

I remember flying my pteranodon to the lava-free volcano for easy metal. Flyer nerf was 100% justified btw because in what world is being able to fly over half the map in 1 bar of stamina with a mid-level unimprinted pteranodon balanced.

[@preay12345]

You missed perhaps the most important change, the optimisation. When the game first came out I had to run it on the lowest settings just to make it playable and for at least a year they kept releasing new dino's with no attention to the core game, so much so that I initially gave up on it. Eventutally though I went back some time later and things had improved and I was able to up the settings that made the game look much better without updating my hardware. After this I really started to enjoy the game and have spent countless hours with it. It still not perfect, windows file compression can almost half the amount of space the game takes up with no impact on performance meaning the code is unoptimised and some things in multiplayer (I mainly play single) such as claiming vast areas by placing posts make some servers unusable after only a few players have claimed the land mass.

[@rusope1050]

oooh, i miss the old days! the QoL are nice and all, but but ah, the kibble farms! and walking a new tame back home! that was the true adventures (ngl i only played SP, i don't wanna imagine what kind of hell it was online xD)

[@JasesAce]

I loved OG Ark's kibble farms haha, thanks for watching!

[@iniquitousreads]

You just made me remember all this I thought I was crazy for half this stuff 😭 I was a crafting speed person only boss I beat the entire Ark evolved years was on ragnarok when I brought in a giga trying to beat all the maps legit now in ascended starting it on the center

[@JasesAce]

Awesome man! Im working on starting a huge series where I do challenges on every map, gonna start with extinction and work my way back through more maps get added. Stay tuned, and good luck!

[@indominus05]

Xbox player here since 2016, man ark was a very different game back than, I never was one great pvp player but I did like seeing how the story changed overtime, and the new dlcs being added and always breaking both pvp and pve lol, I remember a time before tek, playing with my little sister when I was 13 on screenshare, back then I didn't speak english well since its my secound language so i didn't read patch notes, so one day finding the vulcano metal farming spot completly changed was insane, i taught i had installed mods to console somehow, those were fun days, don't get me wrong singleplayer and pve are still fun even with tek

[@rubywlwrose8468]

the cryopod thing gave me ptsd. Nothing like needing to walk your freshly tamed giga across the map while it got stuck on the smallest of rocks and trees

[@tripppierce13]

Things that you didn’t mention that I think were insanely different back in OG Ark. Harvest, Exp and Taming rates took way longer to get anything. Turrets were hard to get because the angler didn’t harvest pearls and you had to gather them by hand The game didn’t have hit markers for a while so you didn’t know if you were sniping someone or missing Turrets Quetz was the most op thing in the game at one point Not getting shot off of Carbos and people would rocket run with them and turtle bomb with 10+ c4 per turtle Using bodies that had been logged out for (30 days I think) they had no more weight and you could black box them and use them as storage and drag them as if they had no weight. I’m sure I’m missing some crazy ones but that’s the big ones I remember

[@JasesAce]

Out of the ones you mentioned turret quetz's and the rates being way slower were ones i was shocked i didnt mention when going through comments, i remember all the other ones besides the angler being useless, but some of these i didnt mention like black boxing afk bodies and carbo changes because it was more PVE focused. Thanks for the thorough comment, there's so much that's changed over the years!

[@tripppierce13]

@ yeah I was thinking from more of a pvp standpoint

[@JasesAce]

@ totally fair, hope you enjoyed even though I was more pve focused with this!

[@tripppierce13]

@@JasesAce I did. Was a nice nostalgic video coming from someone with 6k hours that hasn’t played since 2018

[@JasesAce]

@@tripppierce13 glad you enjoyed, more ASA and ASE content coming soon (some of which might be enjoyable even for a retired Ark player)

[@excitingspade49]

I can't believe you didnt mention the whole breeding spam whistle stop thing lol, we never made boxes except for like the very very beginning

[@JasesAce]

Mustve been the PTSD from me spamming the button so hard....... in all seriousness I did mention the wandering thing just didn't emphasize how bad it was

[@excitingspade49]

@JasesAce yea ik, but the work around everyone used was spamming whistle lol

[@hottamali8562]

Remembering having to whistle all stop over and over again to breed your dinos lol.

[@ghostsniper271]

you forgot the biggest raiding change, ascendent rocket launchers would blow half a base up with a single rocket and when paired with dive bombing no base was safe

[@sjonnoh]

I remember dodos used to make goat sounds...also the raptor sounds were actually way more fun to hear than the current ones.

[@JasesAce]

Agreed the raptor sounds used to be a lot cooler, I kind of remember the dodo making a different sound I never thought of it as a goat sound tho

[@sjonnoh]

@@JasesAce I've tried to find anything about it and can't actually find anything about it. I feel like it wasn't at the very beginning when I played but a very short period of time. Maybe it was some bug or maybe it was a mod from where I played...but apparently the dodo sounds were actually the exact same from what they are now. Luckily the raptor sounds are still accurate in my mind from what I can find though 😆

[@maverick9334]

I remember when the Redwood was added, Just an epic update !!!!!! still think back to the hype of it

[@ahmaddiansaputra1850]

When i heard all the point he said, i realized that it sound a lot like the old ark mobile. Now we are the playing ASE while the others play ASA. Here we are again, playing the previous version

[@Chill-Clouds]

I remember playing this with my uncles, dad and siblings, it was very fun just going around taming dinosaurs and making my family sacrifices for the dinosaurs 😂

[@theendmaster1178]

The first tlc was before any of the waves. It was the sabertooth when it got a model update. One of the og quetz taming strat for solo was chasing it with an army while holding a scorpion. The scythe was added because of the player to satisfy players who were asking about the theri release. Bugs weren't breedable till gen 1 with the bloodstalker. Similar case I believe with wyvern becoming breedable and had a size change when crystal wyverns were added in crystal isles.

[@JasesAce]

yeah the saber did get patched first, the megalodon also got patched which i forgot to mention, shouldve mentioned both! also yeah i remember taming a theri the first time on those old incredibly slow rates and it taking literally 13 hours, just for me to continue using a scythe

[@TheRealDeclou]

The fact that loads of creatures still need tlcs is crazy

[@Duskaria]

OG ARK Players: "I perfect imprinted Gigas on primitive troughs and no cryopods" Current ARK Players: "Can someone help me? There's a dilo in front of my base :("

[@PamperedDuchess]

A:SE is older than 2017, though. The original early access, which came only 6 months into development, was released on Steam in 2014. I'm in some videos on Captain Shack's channel from the first months of Ark's release. All that said, I REALLY miss my speedy Argie! 😭

[@JasesAce]

It dropped 2015 which I put in the title, just talked in terms of 2017 in the video because of it fully releasing them. A lot of stuff in this video was from 2015!

[@aspxnvii]

as an ark veteran who started in 2017, this is sooo nostalgic ;;

[@JasesAce]

I hope you all enjoyed! If I missed anything/got anything wrong, let me know in the comments and I'll make sure to add it to the pinned comment asap!

[@Nateditz277]

Small correction is the giga was bad versus the Dragon because carnivores are so weak vs that boss

[@JasesAce]

@@Nateditz277 true, it was better for the megapithecus and broodmother but the dragon was still pretty easy to beat because gigas killed it so quickly!

[@Davidpedashov]

Let's play ark together

[@JasesAce]

@@Davidpedashov I'll be hosting pretty large scale ark events in a couple of months so subscribe and stay tuned!

[@Davidpedashov]

@JasesAce ik ark give me a chance

[@FreddyxPlays]

Talking about cryopods, the most annoying thing ever was luring things like brontos all over the map, especially if you have built on the flying islands on the center

[@dominikperkovic3058]

You had glitch on ragnarok where you could enter unfinished half of the map as well, you could gather some cactus :D

[@FLAMINGEAGLE87]

Love this vid!

[@excitingspade49]

I miss the no cryopod pvp

[@JasesAce]

I do think no cryopod for pvp was interesting to some extent, if they were like how they are now the entire time i think cryopods would be objectively a good item for convenience, definitely a rough couple years with the pocket gigas and pocket soakers

[@JonLGJr]

Redwood Forest used to be a thick vegetative green forest. when they were changing it there was a holographic underconstruction border as a warning.

[@doehrli]

Tek cave was on lava island center. Had dragon boss fight on center. No upload/download timers. Use to be able to transfer tributes. What we call 1x farming rates now is what was called 2x rates on legacy times. Had no offline protection. Could tp wild dinos.

[@JasesAce]

Yeah I definitely should've mentioned the rates because I did not nearly emphasize enough how grindy old ark was. There was one time when Theris had just released that it straight up took me 13 hrs and 1000+ narcotics to tame a 150. Absolutely wild. I didn't know the stuff about the center but the dragon makes sense considering the final boss currently

[@austinstoner1988]

Well, i dont play ark anymore. But, ill l8ve vicariously through your videos. Rhysand is sleeping on the ottoman now. Poor guy is hurting bad. I have to give him another gabapentin in a couple hours. Hope you have a good night.

[@JasesAce]

@@austinstoner1988 have a good night mate, wishing all the best for the dog and hope you enjoy the videos to come!

[@austinstoner1988]

@JasesAce thank you. God bless you and yours

[@thefox7798]

I won't deny that cryopods were a much needed item, but I do miss sometimes the chaos of bringing your dinos for a raid on the back of quetzals 😂😂

[@JasesAce]

The chaos was definitely something I enjoyed too, but I would never opt to play Ark without cryopods if given the option at this point

[@thefox7798]

@JasesAce I would 100%, nothing more crazy than catching your enemies mid flight and getting defenses ready

[@stephanetbright5751]

Ark: Survival Evolved first became available to play on June 2, 2015, in early access on Steam for PC

[@thespaceman903]

I miss that crafting noise

[@theglassmailbox1428]

Tbh theres days where i miss old ark, the first winter wonderland was so fun to spawn in easy zones and can tame mammoths. The good ol days

[@JasesAce]

It was such a fun time, thanks for watching!

[@duirsage381]

One of the most significant changes that you didn't mention was getting rid of the different tiers of rocket launchers. Used to be that you could take an entire mega base out with about 20 well placed rockets and an ascendant rocket launcher.

[@JasesAce]

very true, I included an image of the rocket launcher ascendant tier but didnt explicitly talk about it when I probably shouldve

[@Stellar_Star-vw6er]

They didn’t fix the volcano that has no lava in the old mobile version, so it was a OVP abase location in the old mobile version

[@Saudi50Cal]

also i think over 90% of the players dont know this, when we die we was using troodons to find our bags after death by taken him to the death location and let him sniff, and skull icon will show up to show where is our bags/body man you brough the old good days back 😭 why you do this to me🥺

[@JasesAce]

I remember a buddy of mine doing that all the time and I always told him to tame me a troodon if he wanted me to try that out haha, I miss the old days of ark sometimes as well when it used to be a bare bones survival game with dinosaurs. Hope you enjoyed!

[@scdijkens]

Anyone remember the early days of swamp disease? People used to run around on the beaches infecting new noobs with it for fun, it would persist through death and you'd had to craft a cure that was super hard to get the materials for if you were still a noob.

[@mrmcjeff385]

me and my whole tribe got that on the center and for some reason leeches were just insanely hard to find so none of us ever got cured, we played for literally months with all of us having swamp disease. Some people who used to raid us stopped raiding us specifically because we kept giving them all swamp disease

[@RealGimpyy]

Loot stats were absolutely busted when fishing was first released. We had a Bronto with a 400 armor platform saddle and turrets on him lmao. There was also 750dmg longnecks on official that would 1 hit almost any PT

[@RealGimpyy]

Wanted to add that it took like 130 Turtle kibble to tame that Bronto back then. We had like 50 low level females lined in our base.

[@JasesAce]

Rates were absolutely horrible, very true. I definitely didn't emphasize this point enough when commenting on how everything used to be so much harder. I remember a Theri taking 13 hours to tame with super fast torpor drop as the biggest example of how hard everything was

[@paulshort1027]

3 seconds in and 2017 is mentioned. I started playing Ark in the first month on Official 404 and they had already had their first Alpha tribe war. By 2017 i had waved goodbye to official servers for good.

[@paulshort1027]

That said i would love to play on a server that could re-create that initial experience. Spawning on a beach and being insta killed by divebombing wild Pteras. Glory days.

[@JasesAce]

yeah i put 2015 in the thumbnail, said 2017 as thats when it released every officially. most stuff on here is from 2015-2016! im actually working on making a server like you mentioned currently, will keep everyone posted as i make progress on it

[@paulshort1027]

@@JasesAce That sounds great. Just try not to emulate all the bugs and glitches 😀

[@JasesAce]

@ haha i definitely will do my best

[@boffe360]

Me and my friend came back to ark this week and last time we played was like 2017. Holy shit how much did we miss

[@thedarkone7947]

He forgot the part when you use to not feed your dino and they would attack your other dinos for food

[@JasesAce]

haha I don't remember this being a thing, guess I always fed mine!

[@Dumbassarrozz]

Idk whether im just too traumatized by it all but I swear piranhas packs used to be significantly bigger, like i remember the river crossing by south 3 having enough of them to start lagging your game. You heard one bite sound, and you knew you were already cooked

[@JasesAce]

I also back up what you're saying, I don't see any specific metrics to quantify it online but I definitely feel the same way.