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ARK: NPC Thrall Update and Lost Colony DLC!
This video analyzes the upcoming NPC Thrall update for ARK: Survival Ascended, which will be released with the Lost Colony DLC on December 16th. The video highlights an interview with the developers who reveal that NPC Thralls will allow players to gather armies and experiment with new game mechanics that will also be explored in Ark 2.
1. 🚀 Introduction to the NPC Thrall Update and the Lost Colony DLC
- ✅ The Lost Colony DLC will be released in 17 days.
- ✅ The video will focus on the NPC Thrall update.
- ✅ This is the first story DLC since Genesis Part 2 in 2021.
00:00 - 00:38
1. 🚀 Introduction to the NPC Thrall Update and the Lost Colony DLC
- ✅ The Lost Colony DLC will be released in 17 days.
- ✅ The video will focus on the NPC Thrall update.
- ✅ This is the first story DLC since Genesis Part 2 in 2021.
00:39 - 02:33
2. 🤔 What are Thralls? Connection with Conan Exiles
- ✅ Thralls are an NPC version of the NPC raiding bases in the Lost Colony DLC.
- ✅ The developers have implemented many Ark 2 features into Ark Survival Ascended as a test.
- ✅ Thralls are a form of NPC in Conan Exiles.
02:34 - 03:33
3. 📰 Interview with the Developers about NPC Thralls
- ✅ The developers talked about NPC Thralls in an interview with PC Games End.
- ✅ The interviewer initially thought Thrall was a new creature.
- ✅ In addition to Thralls, there will also be a new vampire-like creature.
03:34 - 05:40
4. 🗣️ Interview Details with Jesse and Jeremy from Studio Wildcard
- ✅ The interview was with Jesse and Jeremy from Studio Wildcard.
- ✅ The Lost Colony DLC is based on new features like NPC Thralls.
- ✅ The developers are celebrating the franchise's 10th birthday.
- ✅ Lost Colony will be the first completely new expansion for ASA.
- ✅ The developers want to give players a reason to reinvest their time in the game.
05:41 - 07:01
5. 🗺️ New Content and Storytelling in Lost Colony
- ✅ The Lost Colony expansion pass adds some game mechanics and creatures to the game that will appear in the full release of the expansion.
- ✅ The new map and all the new content will drive the story of Ark and tie it in with what they plan to do later with these characters in Ark 2 and beyond.
- ✅ The developers are expanding the way they tell stories in the game.
07:02 - 09:29
6. 🤔 Reflections on Ark Survival Ascended and Ark 2
- ✅ The interviewer reflects on whether it was the right decision to remaster Ark Survival Evolved from scratch instead of simply making Ark Survival Ascended the new Ark 2.
- ✅ The developers are expanding the way they tell stories in the game.
- ✅ They recently installed a new motion capture facility in their Seattle office.
- ✅ They have been delving into Unreal's new metahuman toolsets for some of their characters in the game.
09:30 - 11:37
7. ⚔️ Game Mechanics and NPC Thralls in Lost Colony
- ✅ Lost Colony adds a skill tree, which is a completely new concept in Ark.
- ✅ One of the ideas in Lost Colony is NPC Thralls that you can influence to come to your side.
- ✅ The idea of being able to gather an army in that way is something they haven't really experimented with in Ark.
- ✅ They are trying to deal with antagonistic human MPCs in that space as well.
- ✅ Lost Colony gives them a slightly less transcendental way to experiment with some of those types of mechanics.
11:38 - 12:47
8. 🎮 New Game Types and the Importance of Creatures
- ✅ The world of Arat Prime is also built around new game types that they are implementing in Lost Colony that have not existed before in Ark.
- ✅ There have to be some really cool tames.
- ✅ They must be important to how the map works and how to traverse the map and to survive the map.
- ✅ The Lost Colony DLC will be released on December 16th and is possibly the most important time for Studio Wild Card since ASA was released.
12:48 - 13:36
9. ✅ Confirmation of NPC Thralls and Excitement for the Release
- ✅ The interviewer is impressed that he forgot this interview.
- ✅ NPC Thralls appear to be pretty much confirmed to be coming to Ark Survival Ascended.
- ✅ The interviewer says he is 100% sure that NPC Thralls will come to the game.
- ✅ The interviewer is excited about the DLC release.