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ARK: Lost Colony – Is it worth the price?
This video offers a comprehensive review of the Lost Colony map from ARK: Survival Ascended, analyzing its biomes, new features, issues, and performance. The reviewer provides an honest opinion on whether the DLC is worth the $30 price tag, considering both the positive and negative aspects.
1. 🗺️ Exploring the Unique Biomes of Lost Colony
- ✅ Hot Springs: A small beginner area with unique resources like fungalwood.
- ✅ Tundra: Offers diverse snowy landscapes, friendly herbivores, and scattered resources.
- ✅ Mountainous Regions: Impressive rocky peaks with valuable resources and creatures like the Argentavis.
- ✅ Snowy Canyon: A spectacular area reminiscent of Ragnarok's Central Canyon, ideal for challenging bases.
- ✅ Twilight Forest: A majestic area with flora that reacts to the climate, similar to Aberration's bioluminescent region.
- ✅ Dark Forest: A dangerous cave with valuable resources and creatures like the Desmodus.
- ✅ Lost King's Domain: A gothic metropolis guarded by the Lost King and his armies.
- ✅ Caldera: A collapsed volcanic crater with waters infested with dangerous creatures and valuable resources.
- ✅ Irradiated Cavern: A dark tunnel leading to a cavern guarded by the Reaper Queen.
00:00 - 05:44
1. 🗺️ Exploring the Unique Biomes of Lost Colony
- ✅ Hot Springs: A small beginner area with unique resources like fungalwood.
- ✅ Tundra: Offers diverse snowy landscapes, friendly herbivores, and scattered resources.
- ✅ Mountainous Regions: Impressive rocky peaks with valuable resources and creatures like the Argentavis.
- ✅ Snowy Canyon: A spectacular area reminiscent of Ragnarok's Central Canyon, ideal for challenging bases.
- ✅ Twilight Forest: A majestic area with flora that reacts to the climate, similar to Aberration's bioluminescent region.
- ✅ Dark Forest: A dangerous cave with valuable resources and creatures like the Desmodus.
- ✅ Lost King's Domain: A gothic metropolis guarded by the Lost King and his armies.
- ✅ Caldera: A collapsed volcanic crater with waters infested with dangerous creatures and valuable resources.
- ✅ Irradiated Cavern: A dark tunnel leading to a cavern guarded by the Reaper Queen.
05:45 - 07:39
2. ✨ New Features and Engrams of the Lost Colony DLC
- ✅ More than 15 new engrams, including crafting stations for new equipment and items.
- ✅ The tech bunker allows you to build bases inside the mesh.
- ✅ New weapons like the fabricated crossbow and the tech spear.
- ✅ New gothic-themed structures, furniture skins, and lights.
- ✅ Weapon skins, armor skins, and even creature mount skins.
- ✅ The arctic armor set that acts as fur armor with its own benefits.
- ✅ The template hammer allows you to save and replicate base designs.
- ✅ The skill tree gives access to new skills and abilities.
- ✅ 10 new tameable creatures and 5 non-tameable creatures.
- ✅ Advanced missions where you can attack or defend the dark lord's forces for rewards.
- ✅ Supply caches that act like orbital supply drops.
07:40 - 08:27
3. 📢 ARK TBS Servers for Lost Colony
- ✅ TBS server clusters offer PvE and PvP experiences without wipes.
- ✅ Players will start naked and scared in Lost Colony, with the rest of the cluster opening in February.
- ✅ Increased rates, TBS quality of life mods, and PvP servers with balanced offline raid protection.
- ✅ Custom caves, large cash prizes, and many other impressive features.
08:28 - 16:36
4. 🤔 Honest Opinion and Issues of the Lost Colony Map
- ✅ Praise for the map design and snowy biomes.
- ⚠️ Criticism for the lack of biome variety and repetition.
- ✅ Enjoyment of cave exploration, but issues with the inability to build in them on official servers.
- ⚠️ Issues with the lack of beaver dams and the inability to harvest certain trees.
- ⚠️ Issues with creature spawns, such as the overabundance of Capros and the lack of other creatures.
- ⚠️ Lack of a killer snow region with extremely low temperatures.
- ⚠️ The city feels too big with limited things to do and inaccessible buildings.
- ⚠️ FPS issues and constant crashes in the city.
- ✅ Addition of advanced attack and defense missions, but issues with enemies not spawning correctly.
- ⚠️ The rewards for the advanced missions should be better.
- ⚠️ Disappointment with the factions, as there is only one enemy faction and no allied factions.
- ⚠️ Optimization issues, with difficulty reaching 60 FPS even with a powerful graphics card.
16:37 - 19:47
5. Is it Worth it? Final Evaluation of Lost Colony
- ❌ Not the best Ark map, but not one of the worst either.
- ✅ Satisfies the need for survival in Ark.
- ✅ Recommended for Ark lovers and snowy biomes.
- ✅ Rating of 7.5/10 due to performance issues.
- ✅ Adds mythical fantasy themed elements and new tameable creatures.
- ✅ Still feels like Ark, although it deviates from the original idea of dinosaur survival.
- ✅ Has replay value.
- ✅ $30 may seem expensive, but it offers a lot of new content.
- ⚠️ It is recommended to check reviews before buying it on your platform due to performance issues.
- ⚠️ It is better to wait for patches and fixes to arrive before buying it.