Arkfalls and Hellbugs show/game versions

[BlindMuze]

Instead of thinking of a lore answer ill just give the answer that matters, its about what is easiest for a game, these arkfalls are easy to do developer side and can be frequent, ones like on the tv would take a lot of work to get them to work seamlessly with the world around and make them fun for a giant group of people. I would like some form of raid environment in the future with giant crashed spaceships but i doubt we will see that.

I would love for that to happen, and yeah, I get why they do the arkfalls they way they do, the raider and mutant ones, and sometimes the hellbug and scrapper ones do have debris scattered around that looks like it could have come from a spaceship, I was just pointing out the fact that the arks themselves are manufactured machines, not spacerocks, though you gotta wonder how the hellbugs got here...

[epic beast]

I know this funny video clip was posted before but if you look on the right side of the hulker you wil see what looks like the volge. So there definitely coming in game soon. And I heard there the hardest race to fight in game. Its going tobe epic!!!

Sorry it wont let me post link. If you wanna see it its defiance harlem shake beta. Sorry again

[Garu]

I would love for that to happen, and yeah, I get why they do the arkfalls they way they do, the raider and mutant ones, and sometimes the hellbug and scrapper ones do have debris scattered around that looks like it could have come from a spaceship, I was just pointing out the fact that the arks themselves are manufactured machines, not spacerocks, though you gotta wonder how the hellbugs got here...

I agree with you i wish they were different, i don't really do a lot of arkfalls because there kind of boring. My friend who stopped playing said to me the first day "How could you fail at that" its pretty much right i have never been to a failed arkfall unless its a little one and its just me thats got there with 2 mins left to go. Only reason i do them now is for the pursuit.

[BlindMuze]

I basically just do them for keycodes and ark salvage, well, and pursuits. And yeah, it's pretty hard to fail at the arkfalls, unless someone decides to be a **** at the hellbug crystal ones and kill all the skitterlings at all them, ugh.

[MortalWare]

I wondered the same thing as the OP which is why I posted this:

http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...supposed-to-be

[H2O]

Were the ships not destroyed by the terraformers?

So could the crystals not have formed around fragments of the ships during the blast? That would explain where the loot comes from.. Shields & grenades don't normally grow inside rocks, even in syfy :P

[Arramakaian]

The woman irath that was with them is coming to the game, Rynn i think her name was.

Next time put up a SPOILER ALERT please. Thank you.

[Garu]

Next time put up a SPOILER ALERT please. Thank you.

Didnt really ruin it for you lol i kind of guess it was a spoiler but its been mentioned a lot on these forums. So we have to put spoiler on everything when mentioning tv and game cross overs?

[Blackwolfe]

They did mention (not sure, think it was in the raptr q&a) that there are alot of new arkfall types coming. As for when? Who knows.. except for the devs ofc.

[sandarovich]

blackwolfe could u plz provide a link to that? i would very much like to read up on that.
but yeah, like i said, as soon as i saw the 14 minute preview i sent in loads of comments and feedback saying wtf. all the arkfalls should be these massive dungeons or even mini dungeons that we go thru and open things and find loot. like one person said, grenades and shields dont normally fall out of crystals. so even if the ship falling thru space and becoming crystallized debris (which is scientifically logical) the goodies coming out of them isnt. at all. my biggest problem is how freaking long it takes to destroy the crystals. if u end up with a wave type arkfall u could do a major one by urself. itd be tough but u could. where as the destruction type arkfalls are impossible without at least 4 more players. i think the game should take a few pointers from other games like fallout and all these boxes and chests we find we should be able to open and take loot from them. rather than a hell bug dropping a rocket launcher... a skitterling at that. or a mongrel dropping an infector.... the arkfalls are fine i guess. i try not to do too many cuz they take too long and the rewards usually suck. its hard to tell right away if its gna be ended or not and u dont get rewards if ur like 2 seconds shy of beating it. so u could waste all ur time on all the arkfalls before the major boss and be just a little short and 'oh well, no prize for u'. so i tend to avoid them. if they made them like a sub instance or an actual ship we go thru and loot then yeah. id do them all the time. but itd have to be like in the show for the loot too. only let a few ppl get the best stuff and then like every 5 ranks drop the prize value or lootables. i hate that u end up in an arkfall with 40 other ppl and an item drops and u have to wait for 40 ppl to grab it before u can. so either fix that or make it so theres just a few and if u arent in the ship in time u miss out on some stuff. of course ud get a consilation prize like a few hundred scrip or arksalvage but nothing special. i can drive thru an arkfall and hit one skitterling and then go back to my missions and still get the xp and scrip. im cool with that. i like that. but its far less than if i predicted the thing and killed everything.

so yeah, they should be so much more involved.



as for the hell bugs in the show, if u went thru ark hunter training or followed the tumblr u saw the sign about hellbugs bothering ur family. that pic, altho only a silhouette, was one of the furry spiders in the woods in episode 1. until they showed the little snippet of the hell bug for episode 3, i believed that was the shows version. if u played beta then u know that the hellbugs changed again for the launch. i wasnt happy about the difference between show and game but it was fine. someone said the episode mobs were saber wolves. thats fine and dandy but wtf is a saber wolf? where are they and why havent we seen or heard of them yet? also, wolf? saber spider maybe but wolf? how bout saber wolf spider? thatd make more sense but definitely not wolves. so, looking at the arkcode sign, the furballs in the woods of episode 1 ARE hellbugs. looking at episode 3 they ARENT. looking at the game they ARENT. what they are is a mystery unless this saber wolf thing is proven, BY one of the people working on the show/game. not a fan/player reading something from someone posted somewhere. i say they are a form of hellbugs. or they were the first intention of hellbugs but they were too tough to program so they modified them and this is what we ended up with.