ARK: Lost Colony Expansion Pass DLC

I only got this because it FINALLY introduced thralls. Only to find out you cant transfer them to other maps... What a nerf and waste of my money.

worst ark map ever made buggs still in game from release, actually added nothing to the game and costs $50. map might make my tribe quit which sucks

Runs great on my PC, zero issues, and boss fight is nuts

whole game including DLC is a complete waste of money, if you enjoy you character getting deleted and servers crashing and going down for hours at a time then this would be a game for you. if not save your time, effort and money. devs are bots with fragile egos who protect cheaters and people who exploit the game.

I played a bit of it and the idea is okay but sadly this was kinda not worth the price for it, due to some missions/raid zones in LC are either stuck in the same building and take no damage, or some under the map making it nearly impossible to finish so honestly just stick with the OG maps that still work.

I sadly only can give this DLC a recommendation when you use a mod to fix the issues with the core gameplay loop of this map, which always is an option now, luckily. If you're playing vanilla, you'll encounter severe issues with outposts and resource caches, leaving them impossible to complete and wasting a lot of your time. Wildcard addressed some of those issues over time, but i still found myself in the DevKit yet again to fix things myself. You'll want the mod "BetterOutposts" or one of its community forks to actually make this map playable.

Honestly, when it works it is one of the best maps ark has ever had, with a few caviats. 1. When it works: it is unstable and crashes often. i personally had little problem with lag, but i also exclusively play Singleplayer (i had 16gb of ram at the time) 2. Grind. Ark was always grindy, but THIS is a new ridiculous high. gen1/2 felt grindy with there mission, but those were constantly available and could EASILY be retried. not so here. even in sp, with no Alpha tribe bs and full control of everything. its absolute bs. the alpha outposts spawn rarely and only in very specific places. AND YOU HAVE TO DO 20 EACH! i did 5 each and it took HOURS of dedicated grinding, with being able to repsawn all on the map by relogging, as they are THAT rare. 3. story: should you care at all about arks story, IGNORE LCs EXISTANCE. it is THAT bad. it retcons everything, goes against established cannon and invents plot points that make no sense. it tries to use the animated series cannon, and that DOES NOT WORK. Had they changed the explorer notes of asa in general to align with the animated series, it might have worked. MIGHT. It sill has a UNESSESARY 1000 YEAR time skip. 1000 YEARS! 4. balance: while i am spared most balance problems, playing singleplayer and all, even i heard the HELL some of the things here have brought. 5. Afton: Or Rockwell, i suppose. he isnt he PRIMARY antagonist this time, but HE IS STILL HERE. HE ALWAYS COMES BACK 6. Bridge (Story segment nr. 2): LC was supposed to be a bride between extinction and Gen1/2. While i was always fine with these storys being parallels, but fusing them would have been easier for Ark 2. BUT THEY DIDNT. IT CONECTS EXTINCTION AND ARK 2, AND IT DEOESNT EVEN MAKE SENSE THAT IT DOES! HOW THE F***K DID ROCKWELL GET TO THE GENESIS SHIP? IS IT THE 1000 YEAR TIME SKIP? WHY IS THAT EVEN A THING? 7.dinospawns: MANY are in the mesh. i can ghost to circumvent the bs of ♥♥♥♥ map design, but most people cant. 8. caches: After MANY "balance patches" they are almost worth to be acknowledged. Almost, ignore them. usless game mechanic imo. Otherwise, i like the Skilltree, i like ,some, of the new creatures and the map look pretty good imo. the bossfight is also quite fun, though i would guess that is VERY MUCH the opposite if you are dependent on arks legendarily sh*t servers and the fear of loosing all that grinding because a tame got stuck where you cant cryo it anymore. Backups help and i am not ashamed of using them, if the game doesnt properly work, i will do everything i can to counteract that. TLdr: in Single player the gamplay is good, But ungodly grindy, ludicrously so, the map crashes often and is generally buggy, more then normal for ark. the story is so bad, that if you care at all, it is alone enough to kill all enjoyment of this map. multi player is Hell as the grind is worse and the boss is unreliable. Dont buy, unless you SPESIFICALY play sp and it is AT LEAST 80% off. not worth otherwise.

Pay 30 dollars to not even be able to use Thralls on any other map, or even the option to toggle them on, being forced to use admin commands or install mods to use them on another map is genuinely terrible.

I waited 6 months to play this, and it's still buggy, poor performing, and unbalanced. I understand early access games are not finished, but this is pretty bad. I wouldn't recommend until they actually fix it.

One of the worst DLCs ark ever released, the map is beautiful and the concept is great, but the implementation is terrible Bugs that have being there since day 1 not getting fix, along with extremely bad performance, playing on official servers and aiming for the boss fight is almost impossible Some missions are impossible to complete due to meshed structures The alpha ossidons that are part of the tributes required simply do not spawn enough A fight that takes close to 1 hour to do, and if you manage to get everything required, you can still get a random server crash, game crash, disconnection, servers restart or dino mesh mid way to the fight that will ruin your months of grind and dont even think about putting on a ticket because wildcard wont do anything about it Wildcard should focus on making their DLCs enjoyable instead of artificially hard and stupidly annoying