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ARK: Survival Ascended - Genesis Part 1 Creature Vote Finalists Analysis
This video analyzes the 10 finalists for the Genesis Part 1 creature vote in Ark: Survival Ascended. An overview of each creature, their proposed abilities, and how they might fit into the game is provided. The video emphasizes the importance of voting for the concept of the creature itself, rather than the author's specific suggestions, as Wildcard may modify the final designs. Viewers are encouraged to rank the entire list when voting.
1. 🗳️ Introduction to the Genesis Part 1 Creature Vote
- ✅ A new vote is announced to add a creature to Genesis Part 1, although it could appear on other maps.
- ✅ Most of the finalists are aquatic creatures, which is appropriate considering Genesis has an aquatic boss.
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to vote for the prehistoric creature itself, rather than the specific suggestions, as Wildcard may change the designs.
00:00 - 01:12
1. 🗳️ Introduction to the Genesis Part 1 Creature Vote
- ✅ A new vote is announced to add a creature to Genesis Part 1, although it could appear on other maps.
- ✅ Most of the finalists are aquatic creatures, which is appropriate considering Genesis has an aquatic boss.
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to vote for the prehistoric creature itself, rather than the specific suggestions, as Wildcard may change the designs.
01:13 - 02:40
2. Atopodentatus: Aquatic Hammer with Support Abilities
- ✅ Semi-aquatic herbivore from the Triassic with a hammer-shaped jaw.
- ✅ Can use its jaw to stun enemies with a charge attack.
- ✅ Its tail serves to repel enemies or as a whip to help allies.
- ✅ Can create healing puddles on land or healing pulses underwater, which also remove negative effects.
- ✅ Inspired by the basilisk lizard and the marine iguana, it can run on water, climb, and produce a saline substance to hide unconscious creatures from predators.
- ✅ Its taming is similar to that of the Moschops, passively feeding on random food groups, but flees if not fed correctly.
02:41 - 03:35
3. 🌪️ Romaleosaurus: The Pliosaurid that Controls Whirlwinds
- ✅ Pliosaurid that hunts in packs and can generate whirlwinds.
- ✅ Can enter the whirlwinds to gain a speed boost and launch itself at enemies.
- ✅ Can produce mini-whirlwinds to immobilize enemies or bursts of bubbles to repel them.
- ✅ Its taming is a quick feed and ride process in the rodeo style.
- ✅ The saddle is designed to hold small oxygen tanks, which can be refilled on the surface or emptied to provide quick breathing for riders or an escape boost.
- ✅ Comes from Yorkshire.
03:36 - 04:48
4. 🦈 Saivodus: Shark with Fish Swarm and Damage Buffs
- ✅ Can grab and throw small targets or tear chunks from larger targets, providing a damage boost for nearby tamed creatures.
- ✅ Upon killing, it gains a stackable 'chum' buff, similar to the Carcharodontosaurus, which increases its capabilities.
- ✅ Accompanied by two small swarms of flying fish, similar to the herds of the Desert Titan.
- ✅ In turret mode, these swarms can be directed at targets, damaging and slowing enemies, or healing allies.
- ✅ The fish benefit from the damage buff from the grab attack and the 'chum' stacks.
- ✅ With maximum 'chum' stacks, it can expend them to create a protective ball of fish around the Saivodus, rapidly healing it and damaging nearby enemies.
04:49 - 06:00
5. 🧲 Tullimonstrum: The Magnetic Tully Monster with Utility Functions
- ✅ Ancient creature with a magnetic personality.
- ✅ Can use its camera-like eyes to reveal creature stats, similar to HLNA.
- ✅ Manipulates magnetic fields to float, collect, and distribute dropped items into local storage.
- ✅ Its magnetic jaws can pull itself towards opponents, grab and throw players, or perform a rescue extraction if its owner's health drops too low.
- ✅ Found in the lunar biome, feeding on gas that it can expel as a sticky bomb or to temporarily increase its travel height.
- ✅ Is tamed similarly to the Andrewsarchus, luring it with amber and holding on until it gets used to your presence.
06:01 - 07:15
6. 🌳 Giant Stick Insect: Master of Symbiotic Camouflage
- ✅ Effectively unchanged from its Valguero suggestion, it is found in the swamp biome.
- ✅ Refuses to reveal itself while a survivor is looking at it.
- ✅ Must be lured out of its disguise with honey, becoming too sticky to close again, at which point it can be given food directly.
- ✅ Can team up with a tamed beehive for defense or with an Archaeopteryx to provide a healing buff to nearby invertebrates and increase their natural generation of sap and woody chitin.
- ✅ Its natural disguises change depending on the biome: a burnt tree for the volcano, one covered in snow for the snow, and a floating log in the ocean.
07:16 - 08:51
7. 🧪 Palaeoctopus: The Apothecary Octopus with Biome Potions
- ✅ Redesigned to adapt to different biomes, it has turned its suckers into potion crafting.
- ✅ Uses its inks to create a variety of different consumables.
- ✅ Spending time in a particular biome, or feeding it an appropriate item, allows it to attune and begin producing specific types of ink.
- ✅ Swamp potions provide insect repellent for friends and induce torpor in enemies.
- ✅ Volcanic potions grant fire resistance or can be thrown as a Molotov cocktail.
- ✅ Ocean inks are used to increase swim speed or enrage and blind opponents.
- ✅ Snow potions help resist cold or freeze enemies.
- ✅ For the lunar biome, it provides a jump height boost and radiation resistance or an immobilizing black hole.
- ✅ The inks can also be used to coat the octopus's own attacks, providing armor penetration, fire or frost damage, damage reflection, or a radioactive coating on its skin.
- ✅ Not the fastest creature on land, but adept at climbing walls, blending in, and grabbing unsuspecting players.
08:52 - 10:20
8. 🦖 Irritator: The Spinosaur with Buffs and Debuffs
- ✅ A smaller spinosaur, named after paleontologists' irritation with fossil traffickers.
- ✅ Thanks to a thick layer of mucus, it is immune to all negative status effects, a trait it can also temporarily grant to allies via an anti-irritant consumable.
- ✅ Amplifies existing negative effects on enemies and temporarily increases torpor induction, making it an aid to taming and a force multiplier when combined with other species.
- ✅ A pelican-like throat pouch allows it to easily catch monstrous celéric cats and gain a health regeneration boost or deposit them directly into fish baskets in its inventory.
- ✅ Survivors must eat rare flowers to be ignored by it, at which point it can be given whole bodies of fish.
10:21 - 11:33
9. 🌸 Crinoid: The Space Sea Lily as a Biological Exo-Suit
- ✅ A sea lily that has adapted to life in space and acts almost like a kind of biological exo-suit, wrapping around the survivor's chest when not in use.
- ✅ Can extend its feather-like fronds to provide a protective umbrella against weather and temperature effects, allow limited levitation, or use what appears to be its main strength in a photon beam attack.
- ✅ Appears to function similarly to a tech phase pistol, although this is an assumption.
- ✅ The attack requires amber to use, something it actually passively filters from the air and also allows it to store perishables for extended periods.
11:34 - 13:17
10. 🌑 Abyssosaurus: The Abyssal Predator with Hypnosis and Environmental Manipulation
- ✅ A massive predator adapted to life in the darkest depths of the ocean.
- ✅ Increases damage, resistance, speed, stamina, and health regeneration as it gets deeper, but decreases damage and resistance near the surface.
- ✅ Is immune to Cnidaria and Electrophorus stings.
- ✅ Buffs nearby Plesiosaurs, scares away Megalodons, and reduces the effectiveness of blood drain.
- ✅ Reduces the weight of items in the water and gains speed around whirlpools.
- ✅ Its bioluminescence is so hypnotic that if you get close, all other visible lights will fade until it is the only glow in the black darkness.
- ✅ That same bioluminescence can also be used actively to hypnotize creatures to completely ignore attacks, turn off completely to hide, or overload to clear fog and blind opponents.
- ✅ A sonar scan detects max-level creatures.
- ✅ Can generate whirlpools that trap enemies.
- ✅ When traveling on land, it can shoot a jet of water, causing targets to enter a blinding rage and attack everything around them.
- ✅ Comes with some new items to go with it, such as a saddle that provides oxygen, a low-level temporary dive tank, and a new plankton/environmental creature resource that can be harvested for use as a light source or to create an underwater stun grenade that is used in part of its taming process.
13:18 - 14:41
11. 🦞 Pemphix: The Healing Crab with Temporary Invulnerability
- ✅ Produces a Daeodon-style healing pulse for those around it and charges a skill bar as health increases.
- ✅ Once this special bar is maxed out, it can temporarily attach to a single tamed creature, providing overcharged healing and complete invulnerability in a manner very similar to its inspiration, the Team Fortress medic.
- ✅ Not limited to just water, as it can swim, walk, and climb across all terrain to provide those heals anywhere they are needed.
- ✅ Even has a bit of ranged support in the form of a water jet attack that heals allies or damages enemies.
- ✅ The addition of lobster meat, which acts as a seafood equivalent to lamb and a high-resistance chewable medical brew when consumed by survivors.
- ✅ If you find the rare top-level blue lobster, it's probably best to let it grab you for a Tous-style taming rather than cutting it up for dinner.
14:42 - 15:51
12. 🌊 Final Thoughts on the Finalists and the Importance of Voting Strategically
- ✅ There is a clear hope from the community that there will be more healers and oceanic tames.
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to order their entire list of 10 when voting and not just pick their favorite, as once a creature is eliminated, their vote will pass to the next on their list.
- ✅ Viewers are asked not to assume that a third-party website is manipulating votes simply because the creature that started in first place did not end up winning.