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Episode: 3268
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Title: HPR3268: Video Game Review - Ark Survival Evolved
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3268/hpr3268.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 19:56:11
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This is Haka Public Radio Episode 3268 for Wednesday, 10th of February 2021, today's show
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is entitled Video Game Review Achse of Ivali Marveled.
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It is hosted by Anigma and is about 9 minutes long and can remain an explicit flag.
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The summary is Anigma Review Achse of Ivali Marveled.
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Welcome to another episode of HPR, I'm your host Anigma and today we're going to be
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doing a quick video game review of a game I've been playing for several years now but
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it's still a very valuable game with the pretty rodbrost community.
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It's called Arc Survival Evolved.
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This game is from Wildcard Studios and it was released in 2017.
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Actually there was a beta that was a little further back so I've been playing since
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I think the 2016 timeframe and it's for, well it was released originally for the PC but
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it also has ports for both the Xbox and the PS4.
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You can also play it on the newer consoles, the Xbox X and the PS5.
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It is the, it uses the Unreal Engine 4 and it's also included on the Xbox One with
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Game Pass and that's how I'm playing it currently.
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So this game is an open world survival game.
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Players contain ride, dinosaurs and other creatures.
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There are 176 different creatures than Habit the Arc.
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So there's a lot of variety on what you can do on the Arc and it's pretty open and
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there's no real story that drives you.
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There's some objectives, quest objectives, things like that but you're pretty much left
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to your server or your own choices as to what you do.
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Some players like to build a lot.
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I'm more of a Pokemon catcher, you know, got to catch them all thing and I have a vast
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on my server I have a vast array of different dinos that are used for different things.
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And the dinos have special abilities so some are our gatherer, some are meant for combat
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and some are meant for just like harvesting resources and such like that.
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Also there's some non-taimable creatures like boss creatures and things like that.
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So if you get toward the end game objective, you'll get into the non-taimable creatures
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that are meant there to give you items and or experience.
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And it's an experience-based game so you basically start at level one and there's 105 levels
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in the current game.
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I believe it expands out to 115 if you do the ascension-based end game which is available
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on the island map.
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Players can wield weapons, craft armor and structures.
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You basically start with caveman type weapons, stone weapons and you can move into more advanced
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weapons, metal and then ultimately a tech tier which is futuristic weapons and that's
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basically killing the bosses and doing the boss fights.
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You unlock that.
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There's also two types of gameplay, PvE or player vs environment and PvP.
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There's a whole large community of PvP players and that's a different type of game.
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I've primarily been playing PvE or player vs environment where I'm doing objectives
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in the world and trying to get to that tech tier, ultimate end goal.
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There's also unofficial and official servers.
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The official servers are hosted by a wild card and they are base stats meaning there's
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no modifiers.
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They sometimes have world events where they'll change the modifiers like it'll be 2x taming
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where it's twice as fast to tame a certain thing or 5x harvesting or so and so forth.
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So they'll do events like that but it's pretty grindy on official servers.
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Most of the players that I know that still play on the unofficial maps or servers and you
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can basically rent servers from various hosting.
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All the Xbox hosting is through Nitrido and I have actually two servers and you can cluster
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servers so basically you can have multiple maps and players can jump between the different
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maps.
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There's 5 or 6 maps available that you can use and they just have basically different
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looks and feels and different objectives and things like that so you can try them out.
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Right now I'm running two servers in a cluster.
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One's running the Ragnarok map which has three basically mini bosses and then your boss
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fights for your tech tier and then I'm running a newer map called Crystal Isles that gives
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you newer dinos.
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You actually can tame some dragons or wyverns and I have a player base that likes to do
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that so there's some folks that are on that server but I'm primarily on the Ragnarok
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map moving through to that tech tier objectives.
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Also the ability when you're talking about the unofficial servers is changing those
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modifiers so you make the game a little more useful for the casual player.
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It is super difficult to be a casual player on an official server either PV or PVP and
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get anywhere.
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So my server stats for my cluster are basically modified to where it's 12 times as fast
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to tame something 8 times to basically hatch up a baby dyno and 8 times for that dyno
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to grow up and then 6 times harvesting so for every pick of your axe or basically swing
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of your hatch you get 6 times the resources that you would normal on an official server
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which comes in handy when you're trying to build something massive or your casual player
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like me that maybe gets on 3 or 4 times a week or less and plays like an hour a night
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or something like that.
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I'm not a 40 hour a week game player so I have my stats accordingly.
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So I give these this overview and I invite anybody that's interested and has a game
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pass or wants to purchase the game to come out to irc3no.net hashtag hacker exchange.
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If you're interested in playing I'll give you the info for my personal server so you
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can try it out give it a give it a whirl.
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I'm also going to be doing more of these game reviews maybe on some older games make
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some newer ones I've got I've got a couple of new ones that I'm playing as well again
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I'm very casual gamer so those might come out infrequently but this also is a chance
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for me to say the there is a call for shows for HBR so we are low on shows for this January
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in 2021 so if you're interested in recording anything whether that be technical related
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or something that's interest to hackers feel free to submit a show and you can be an
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HBR correspondent and if you want to come talk to some folks hashtag Agcast Planet on free
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note is another good place to go or hashtag hacker exchange I'll be there as well and
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this is a short episode but have a great day guys and I'll talk to you next time.
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