So I Paid $5 to Join this ARK Official Server...

[@Raasclark]

If youd like to offer Kaluga any feedback on Appalachia, make sure to join his discord! discord.gg/Eq6ueG9Acq

[@agriffin6741]

You did Lucas dirty. Robbed him not only once, but twice. 😂

[@KalugaOfficial]

Hey RAAS! Lots of stuff coming and a good few fixes and things are coming! The discord server is always active so I urge anyone who wants to join and help with feedback to do so!

[@Raasclark]

Drop a link mate! 😀

[@KalugaOfficial]

@@Raasclark I don't think it let me send it here so I DM'ed you.

[@philliphopkins6268]

Map looks great, keep it up.

[@vmell1716]

Would make awesome rp map if issues get fixed. I'd make it a home map for rp

[@alistairmurray626]

they really need to fix the false anti-meshing thingy, drives me nuts. Don't even dare walk up a mountain anymore

[@BillyGreenlee]

Slopes are death. It’s the same way on Forglar and Svartalfheim. I hope people understand that it’s not the map makers fault either. This is 100% wildcard adding the antimesh to the level design. I bought the map to support Kaluga, but until Wildcard fixes the antimesh I can’t devote anymore time on official modded maps to it.

[@crazyvato2005]

Yeah this happens on Scorched Earth a lot near wyvern trench as well. Just kills you on the slopes.

[@happyjoesleafyproduction6955]

I mean the mesh is there because of cheaters. It's not wildcard fault lmfao

[@BillyGreenlee]

@@happyjoesleafyproduction6955 I said fix it, not remove it. Walking down a slope shouldn’t end in antimesh.

[@Kingkong-gy5qt]

Same thing happened to me just on the outskirts of the Tek cave volcano. I went to go farm flint and the rock was a mesh death.

[@Psilo_Sybin]

Can't get over how busted photo mode is on PvP. 😂😂

[@Kattnyp]

LMAOOOO that laugh when you took out the random human 😂😂 cracked me UP! Nice tan, BTW!!

[@strande]

That Rex was all like: Nope. You are not cheesing me so I'll just climb over these houses XD

[@nikosthanopoulos2921]

Glad to see a highlight on this map. I've been playing it on PS5 for two weeks now and it is undeniably beautiful but still rough at the same time. Yesterday's patch broke more than it fixed, alas it is a work in progress. I'd say stability and creature spawns are some of the bigger issues atm. Overall so far I see it catering more to a PvE/RP audience. It's also missing the loot& progression catering more towards a primitive basic style. If it leans more towards that, it still needs randomised loot chests and 'enemies/guardians ' for areas such as the towns and forts and hopefully mini bosses to give the map more focus, goals and reward exploration. Otherwise, it serves more as a blank canvas to run other game altering mods.

[@TDogsYard]

Jesus you can look right into someone’s base w/ photo mode on pvp, why they don’t just make enemy structures blurred out in photo mode is beyond me

[@AliZDZ]

I hope your holiday was good, awesome video as always. If you didnt know those appalachian creatures are also available as a mod.

[@drrickoftenzombies8959]

I hate playing ark pvp. But I absolutely love watching Raas do it. That poor man in the beginning of the video is me when I play pvp 😂

[@barbarakelly1456]

Right?!!! Raas was so gentlemanly with his raid. Knocked the poor fellow out, pulled a few good items, then tucked him away in his house to wake up with slightly lighter pockets.

[@drrickoftenzombies8959]

@@barbarakelly1456 that’s how the real ones do it 😂

[@OodlesOfSkiddoodles]

Haha I was waiting for the Lucas guy to go over the mic and say get off my lawn

[@EchoAntunes]

16:41 rass your facial expression got me crying rn😂😂😂😂 bro said got em we got em

[@Tupax]

Ark need to seriously tell you if a bed your placing won't work and fix their anti mesh, the fact it deletes your kit too is wild

[@Dinamo-dx1nz]

I won't lie, that map looks beautiful and full of mysteries, like a place you would imagine while reading a fantasy book, although it's a shame that it has some big flaws, I had a lot of fun seeing how you sneaked into those players' houses, and how you put the first one to sleep and robbed him, to me that is what real PVP fun means, trolling your neighbors and doing crazy things like this hahaha, I hope the map gets fixed soon, because it was really hilarious and maybe you could do a series of that map and maybe it's not possible, but on that server or a similar one, i laughed a lot hahaha great job Raas, you are great dude

[@kylejwiese3456]

Bro you’re a terror on PVP servers. Lol😂 This was so funny! You KOed dude with his own stuff! Legend

[@divabae1293]

That sneak game is wild, I love it! ❤

[@SurvivorDK]

Awesome looking map! hilarious adventure pvp :)

[@Aceventura81]

Bumblebee tuna! Good to see you back fella. Ooof

[@shepherd7d458]

Hahaha that tranq to the head was priceless worth every penny and more lmao

[@gfunkpalace1252]

Wow, I've watched a LOT of Raasclark videos, but I've never laughed as hard as seeing that player drop after taking a tranq arrow to the face. And it was his own arrow that was stolen. ouch. LOL

[@WestonHunger]

Raas, I had so much fun watching your livestream last night and are looking forward for the next one😊

[@CeratoGamer]

Adorei seu vídeo! Esse mapa é muito legal e tem uma linda paisagem ❤

[@gtraven2377]

Im not buying it myself, but i hope they fix the mesh issue with randomly killing you and deleting everything you have 😂. Tons of resources and a huge ass map great for mods with larger op creatures but cmon that mesh is a deal breaker(terrible)

[@crazyvato2005]

The mesh issue is on a lot of maps even official Scorched Earth.

[@gtraven2377]

@@crazyvato2005 I've never had a problem since it came out lol

[@crazyvato2005]

@@gtraven2377 Well guess you are lucky. I have watched videos of people getting their dino and loot deleted by going over near the wyvern scar. ARK has always had issues with anti-mesh deleting stuff. It was in ASE and continues in ASA.

[@taitybhoy1888]

When you shot him in the head with that bow i nearly died laughing 🤣🤣🤣

[@razgriz1ne1ne48]

Map has tons of potential but yeah, needs that anti mesh thing worked out

[@BillyGreenlee]

Most of the modded maps need that worked out. It’s brutal on all three I have played.

[@quincyhampton3243]

bc this map has no beacons when i spawned one uploaded my character and saved it still deleted it and my base

[@RQUKOfficial]

Raas still looking tanned from his recent hols... unless he's sunbathing in the garden on his downtime... or... SUNBEDS!! :)

[@TheRiisingSun]

The premade structures are cool but they need interior. "Players fill them out." No village would just be empty and dull :| Makes it for a boring exploration. Make boxes you can break for resources, and bags of other things you can harvest. Forcing the whole "players make the world alive" is not good in a game as "dead" as ASA. Most people don't play many more people than like 5-10 on a server.

[@jerrylamb2385]

What happened to the Omega series?

[@Raasclark]

We beat the final boss mate. Awaiting more to be added to the boss

[@jonnymiller917]

I died to mesh out in open when scored earth came out

[@dannysayo4]

@ 27.00 min mark i fully agree. I tried my best not to quit but dying to nothing got really old. There are certain areas which will cause a freeze crash and u wont be able to log in, until u die at least.

[@hallzy1232]

i have never laugh so hard in my life thats to funny

[@ahmadmraish5834]

16:43 aahahahahahhaha The moment he knew, HE FUCKED UP xD !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jearNL]

Poor Lukas guy haha he just wanted to start the earlygame and didnt even get arked but got Raased 😂

[@nathanhenderson4129]

Hey Raas! I know you were on vacation, but will you have any moderator season six monarchy videos??

[@caffeinefuelled9186]

Thank ya so much Ive wasted money on a couple of these premium scam maps that just straight up look like they are randomly generated.

[@mikie1466]

I was on 1x and it took me a hour to get 60 hide XD Hopefully spawns are better now.

[@Wolf_Star_84]

Yeah i gotta agree mate, if there's anti-mesh killing on land level it should not be a paid official map

[@GaiaDanny]

It’s getting a bit unfair constantly seeing either creators or players saying “map sucks because of anti-mesh”. Map devs don’t have any control over the mesh detection system. It’s a Wildcard system. Random death boxes happen on every official map, and every mod map.

[@JustinValenstein]

The anti-mesh part is frustrating...all under the banner of "Early Release"

[@stephenmoody1064]

Technically if you look at the ASE mod variant it says it's rumored to be an ASA official.

[@KalugaOfficial]

THis right here. I really do NOT intend on it ever becoming official though. I did all the work on the map and all they did was say if it ran or not. On the bright side, the community has been a massive help in finding issues I may have missed.

[@stephenmoody1064]

@KalugaOfficial I played it on ASE, great map, great concept. I do plan to run it on one of my servers down the road and feel the donation/ pay to play is worth it in most of these maps. You guys put a lot of time and effort in to making maps, asking for $5-$10 isn't bad especially when Wildcard had charged us $19.99 for dlc maps.

[@fasfer8280]

I love e this map and the animals (minus the horses - I don't enjoy how their faces look). I just wish the creature spawns were higher 😢

[@SplayBark]

I assume he knew you didn’t have to pay to get “destroyed”, but still, you do have somewhat of a point

[@zensinfx]

I actually wanted to write we need a series before you died on a mesh xD

[@Tupax]

In its current state the map should be free.

[@1modernsavage1]

I mean, i still die to anti mesh if i go to the vulcano in the island so... O.o Forglar sand dunes are the same.

[@deathknightrevan]

Appalachia is a cool map, I'm personally in the early stages of making a, hopefully awesome, premium map myself and Idk about this guy's reasons but I honestly don't want to charge too much, 5$ sounds fair, maybe the creator of Appalachia felt the same. That said the more time I spend on it the more I feel like 10$ is fine, map making is a lot of work, just ask veno. but even if I succeed in making an amazing map, I want it as accessible as possible, so again 5$? idk. 😆 As for the map, I'm Calling it Descendance. You spawn on one of the larger floating islands and will need to first tame a pt or make a parachute to really explore the map, the further down you go, the better the resources, and the more dangerous it gets, with lots of amazing PvP centric base locations for tribes of all sizes, some act like intended ratholes, small discreet entrances but cleanly made and decent sized inside, defensible caves, small floating islands to build on, at least 3 Alpha tier base spots, a massive underground labyrinth, with base spots and cave drops scattered throughout, a huge subterranean (no fliers) abberation zone, leading to an underground city. It's an ambitious project and I'm a long ways from launch. I'm about a month into development and at the current pace, a Hopeful ETA would be like january at the earliest, it's a big project for a team of one. 😮‍💨Still I remain hopeful, I love this game So I'm down to make my contribution, and make a little cash on the side.😅anyway, back to the grind.

[@Tupax]

Assuming you don't give up (which is very likely), considering a lot of games themselves are under $5 on Steam, charging $10 is wayyy too much to for a mod map 😂 The fact that this map ras played even has a price tag on it in its current state is nothing short of a joke.

[@deathknightrevan]

@@Tupax Nah I won't give up lol. I made a mod on ASE that was.... not popular. it WORKED THO. 🤔That took me I wanna say 8 months. so I have the drive lol. the biggest slowdown is I also have to work a fulltime job. I agree Appalachia has issues, largely the antimesh, which apparently is quite an issue on some player made maps especially on official. I think that's probably more wildcard's coding than the map makers, and from experience, the antimesh is OFF in the devkit... so. bit of a pain to test. easy to release without even knowing it's gonna be an issue. So I for one am glad to know about it ahead of time. gotta make sure that doesn't happen. As for what map creators are charging. Man. 5-10$ being too much or not is really subjective, the amount of work that goes into it is crazy. but pricing is about making maximum profit, which is more about finding a happy medium, the lower the cost the more people willing to buy it, but too low and you may run out of an audience before making as much as you could. I don't think you can adjust the price for these mods (could be wrong), so you're stuck setting the price out the gate and hoping for the best. There's this mentality that if it's a mod it should be free, that dlc should be cheap. While I agree with that as a gamer, and a spender, I'm also a Man with a 350k mortgage in a shit economy, nothing is free, and an entire map for... I wanted to say the price of a meal but honestly food is starting to outprice that. there are trading cards that go for 40$. So it's just a matter of what you choose to spend on. but I still think I'd stick to 5$. if it's successful, make a second better, bigger map. charge 10 then maybe. probably still 5.

[@Tupax]

@@deathknightrevan best idea for maximum profit would be to do what wildcard did and make the map free but with a paid $5 exclusive dino From my knowledge antimesh is usually caused by one way walls, if a line trace is visable from the backside of a mesh wall to the player it will antimesh them

[@deathknightrevan]

@@Tupax Ah yes, put something tantalizing and powerful in front of the players then paywall it. not a fan. Either way ark's antimesh isn't well coded. most unofficial servers have it turned off. but they have admins to actually punish meshing so... the easiest workaround I can think of is running a thin layer of "cave" which is just an invisible box designating the space, right under the mesh, it doesn't need to be thick, maybe half the players hitbox in height. you can disable cave damage for that particular instance, and will give a bit of wiggle room for mesh detection, but that's a pain to try and do on uneven terrain, which is where antimeshing fucks up the most. unless as the map dev you just make a single giant box over the entire map then if it becomes an official map watch as the devs scratch their heads trying to figure out why their antimesh isn't working at all. 😏

[@shepherd7d458]

Also ive lost more to the Anti mesh "on the Center" than I have the cheaters ooof

[@hammerboycb]

Can you transfer your character from A different official server to this one?

[@rhettbutler5397]

I think the reason why they're hosting on official is so players can find these issues

[@KalugaOfficial]

Bingo. My community is also helping a lot. I'm a solo dev so it really comes in handy. Everything is coming along nicely though. Just put out another patch too. It fixes the mess from the day before yesterday.

[@rhettbutler5397]

@@KalugaOfficial Excellent! I'm happy to hear the support you've been getting and the staggering amount of progress you've made. I'm both intrigued and excited to see what comes of this beautiful map

[@Fuggered]

The map feels and looks empty with such little wildlife (part of the problem with very large maps). The anti-mesh is a game-breaking bug. I don't feel this is worth it as a premium map.

[@unknownuser2059]

I think the asa maps need more fog. Idk y they dont use more fog in asa its so beautiful. fog

[@Montani-zp5eq]

“Apple-atcha” not “apple-laycha”

[@mrc8534]

The Struggle is Real but there's nothing like starting Day 1 on the ARK.🙂👍

[@eliteviper4845]

My favorite part of the map is when I spent 5 dollars on it to play on console just to learn it crashes every 3 seconds on console single player

[@alexandrashier5216]

When I downloaded omega, my first premium purchase, for ps5 now to even open up Ark Ascended I have to go into my ps5 settings and "restore all licences" and hook it up to the internet to do that. (Only have phone hotspot) Its lame

[@eliteviper4845]

@@alexandrashier5216 yeah I think Ark ascended as a whole is a huge mess that doesn’t really work properly but it’s annoying I can’t even load into a map I spent 5 bucks on

[@KalugaOfficial]

hey, feel free to pop by the discord and see if we can get you sorted. Nobody should have their money be wasted. I want to help and though, I don't play on consoles, a lot of my community do. Come on by and let's get that fixed. The Discord is in the mod description. Please be mindful, I am a solo dev things do take some time. I'm always working on the map though. This thing ain't dying as long as I am still breathing.

[@Fredde9602]

wheres the center playthrough?: (

[@GoxBoy]

i love appalacia

[@esmeraldathepinkpoodle2481]

Ark the center has an insta death mesh area in a cave 😑 lost my best tame!

[@IchigosBestFriend]

Mod maps always have that bed problem

[@Lornda]

paying $5 for pvp map that snail games will 100% spawn in stuff and ruin it seems kinda like a trash deal.

[@lynknight21]

Looks awesome but anti mesh dying kills it

[@SpeikobraRote]

thanks for testing more maps for us so we dont have to waste our money... shame tho

[@SimplyVibesmusic]

This map is really pretty but a biiiit too flat for my liking; I like having no collision on to build into the ground so my bases can be built in wakey places.

[@grand8363]

Jacked raas!

[@itsbayside6802]

@4:23 hahahahahaha

[@SeanBeast109S]

Very stupid how they have done the anti-mesh especially in such rediculous places and the map costs money. Wow very loud bite at the end there lmao

[@warlordhax5995]

Plz check/recheck the reverence map

[@iliasGaming]

Please stop paying for premium mods! If you want to support modders, just donate! If content creators keep promoting premium mods, in a couple of years we won't be able to play any mod for free anymore!

[@BigAl145]

You so understand that premium mods are only made premium by Wildcard right? Not every mod creator WILL be able to make it premium unless the ark devs think it'll profit them

[@marushall263]

@@BigAl145 his point still stands

[@BigAl145]

@@marushall263 who's, the gurner or the one who called him soft

[@demetriuscarrillo1332]

It's $5 because it's official and not unofficial 😅😅

[@ascendordie7427]

fallout 76 vibes

[@hex9500]

I love your videos please make this a serie

[@hex9500]

No I am the first

[@HenryJamesWalton]

blud replyed to his own comment💀💀

[@Himbayo]

Please don't this map is absolute trash. Like he said it isn't worth a single penny and shouldn't be an official map..... Imagine how many times he would lose all his gear to just walking on a slope.....

[@gtraven2377]

He won't the maps too broken as it randomly kills you by deleting your character itself (this also happens when you go to high into the sky on any map) it deletes any items that are on your hotbar plus anything in your inventory 😕

[@BrontoBuild]

I died for anti mesh where it shouldn't be, more than I count, please stop this

[@BrontoBuild]

why I have a feeling this shitty anti meshing system gonna ruin aberration.

[@arklovinmama2736]

RAASOULS

[@MudDawgs6]

Half way through the vid and I’m already convinced not to buy this map😂😂😂

[@kathrynWeeks-kf1nv]

when i found the server it was pve

[@DrMuFFinMan]

Wow not impressed with this, anti-mess and the other issues need to be fixed asap. Also kind of tired of the whole larger map better map thing.

[@therandomrobloxguy123]

22:27 you missed like 200 metal ingots

[@jasonhyslop6736]

This map doesn’t seem like it’s worth paying for

[@Himbayo]

For a paid map the quality is abismal. Mesh issues, terrible spawns for dinos. The spino cant even get out of the river.... trash map

[@chiefrel8844]

NERF ANTI MESH😩

[@n01z3]

getting arked from time to time is just ark, we used to it, but current ark is back to the worst state it was back in its alpha days, and the same issues are here, some are worse, clearly built from the ground up, i love ark, but come on

[@sarahclapp505]

Looks good but you pay to die to nothing NO.

[@jacobcamoza9446]

Dont like the baity title and intro. You are entertaining enough to watch on your own without trying to generate angry watchers. You know you are paying for the mod map and not "an official server"

[@BigAl145]

Lil bro is angwy at nothing 💀💀

[@Youngdefiantfan88]

Soft.

[@BigAl145]

@@Youngdefiantfan88 😂😂😂

[@ethancornelius2225]

Nothing he said was a lie though…

[@Komodo9104]

It is a valid point you’re making, although I don’t think raas would have done it on purpose, a lot of people can misunderstand it

[@The_Privateer]

"I can't condone paying for a map where you're dying and losing everything to anti-mesh" But he already got your money. He wins, you lose.

[@Jibb3rs]

The point is to show other people. 5k+ people now know not to pay for this garbage

[@SnowDoggo]

i find it hard to believe people are having fun in asa

[@venous-gaming55]

I love it. I simply never encounter these issues

[@alexandrashier5216]

Asa was ruined for me when I can't even upload/ascend my charecter because when I go to download my charecter again, it throws me into a new charecter creation screen and then my previous charecter is gone. Tried alot of different things, but can't make it play normal. Can't even enjoy the tek unlocks and letting my same charecter ascend on a new map

[@KalugaOfficial]

Same honestly. THat's why I mod it.

[@venous-gaming55]

@KalugaOfficial it's designed to be played with mods. Similar to minecraft

[@SuperSavage-yo2tb]

First here

[@XaviiOMayz]

First

[@Mimsy_Crush]

trash antimesh map