The big CRYO NERF in ARK Survival ASCENDED 

The cryo mod we are currently using has configs to not allow uncryoing in caves, so I don't know why vanilla cryopods cannot be like that. Just allow us to uncryo anywhere but caves, then fridge spam will be a non issue.

As a PvE player I was looking forward to using cryopods to transport tames to the obelisks for boss fights. Now, I am going to have to drop down a mini base, probably on a racer at each ob if that works. I worry about base spam on my server around the obelisks and caves.

As a single player, this doesn't affect me too much. I've been enjoying the change in playstyle with not being able to pop out a pocket dino anywhere I want. Still wish there was a vanilla option for single player to turn off cryo cooldown that wasn't PvE mode

I think they should remove the range limitation and the cryo timer after damage for PVE, or we will have a lot of cryofridge outposts all around the servers, especialy on official.

I 100% agree with you and I'm a PVP player I honestly don't think you should be able to throw out a hundred gigs at the front door of someone's base you should have to March them across the map true survival

I was kind of hoping that cryopods wouldn't be useable in caves, and this accomplishes that.

As a PvE player I was looking forward to being able to take dinos to a friends base for a breeding session.. We used to do this on PvE and whoevers base it was had to organise a sort of gift pack for each player after the breeding was done.. This brought everyone together, but now it's not a thing and we'll remain distanced.. Should at least allow us to set our cryofridges to allow allies or others to uncryo by using them

That hive background gives me big Mindustry vibes, coincidence?

i gotta admit i AM a little sad that we cannot uncryo anywhere easily anymore because it was just very convenient and im lazy, but i do understand why these changes were made and in the grand scheme of things i dont think over long that itll be that big of an impediment to me or anyone else

Okay, but these were released during Extinction, where you had to travel to OSD's for loot. It is going to be so much more painful to transport creatures when that drops.

Big reason why im staying on evolved as a solo player, but there is some ini settings to turn these back so well wait and see.

question. can i place a cryofridge on a quetzal to make it easier to bring dinos to a boss fight?

The bigger problem I see here is when transfering (when available) to other servers that aren't the ones you normaly play, you wont be able to use throw your creatures out unless you bring a generator and a cryofridge to be able to unpod them, and not just that, is the possibility of being able to even put it down to be able to use it, for me is non sense the releasing creatures restrictions, caves I understand for difficulty propuses, but for transporting your creatures Somewhere for a special task doesnt make sense

Wildcard are the undisputed kings of how to piss off your community

The way I see it, other tribes progression in PvE does not effect your gameplay at all, so who cares if caves might be abit easier, if you don’t like it don’t use cryos, people are so worried about everyone else’s gameplay and for what

Hopefully they come in as originally for pve. Pve official will suck.... its already hard to find land to build... now everyone's and they momas will be making cryo fobs everywhere

Agree with you. Caves for that have smaller entrances to challenge the player. But some dudes go to caves and deploy T-Rex for example and the cave was easy... really?!

I completely agree with you, the changes make them better and aren't game-breaking. Cryopods shouldn't be used in cheesy ways and this prevents that. All round good 👏

Btw, you don't need foundations to place cryo fridges

Any testing on if being near an Ally's activated fridge will work?

I really do enjoy the changes. I can see a lot of people thinking that this will allow them to take tames into caves on pve and it's not going to. I don't think people realize how small the Circle actually is considering most caves have a no build range On PVE. So at the end of the day they are strictly just for storage And transport.

the question is , can it by carry by a quetzal

Its shocking how short sighted the developers are. I cannot believe that they are implementing these changes knowing that they will get changed after people exploit and spam and cause problems that are obvious within seconds of learning about the new mechanics. Amazing how a development team can't understand how their game is played at all.

All material spawns will have 1x1 boxes with a fridge inside so people can unpod ankys, all beaches or anywhere with ocean access will be claimed in order to unpod water dinos, platform saddle and raft spam will be through the roof causing more server lag and with the range being so damn small I’m just not gonna cryo any of my dinos Because it’s so annoying to get them back out, the range needs to be like 4-5x bigger, it causes so many issues that I would rather people just have an easier time inside caves than make the pillaring issues so much worse

I am playing right now on PvE and my dinos are still getting cryosickness

pvp didn't want cryos???????? what are you talking about lol caves are literally unraidable without cryos

Agreed, the changes improve the PVE mode too.

Is it normal when u cryo a dino for it to drop everything in his inventory?

Tbh this nerf is trash, the only good thing is for base defense, specially cave defense because now your enemies can't throw stegos near your base anymore, so it's a big W for cave bases only, Aberration Shadow Cave will be invincible fr

All these decisions with cryos and lack of configuration options just fortifies why Dino Storage was so much more superior to cryos and why I always disabled cryos on my servers and opted for Dino Storage. I get they don't want you cheesing the caves, but a simple toggle of EnableCaveRelease=false would fix that along with a bunch of other options to prevent abuse if the server owners wanted. Maybe they should look at what modders have done to improve their game for them instead of reinventing the wheel....or are we on another 7 year journey of bad decisions all for the sake of PVP because they focus more on that aspect of the game and lump PVE into the same group of settings instead of making it global settings for both aspects of the game.

The biggest impact to me is being able to bring Dino's into caves. I play solo on my own one person servers. That now means doing them on foot with guns and rockets solo where a single death had a very high chance of losing everything. I think I wait for feroxes being in the game before playing again.

Why not just give all creatures cryo- sickness based off their drag weight or something? The cryo fridge radius requirement thing is a real downer for single players and PVE players.

Essentially making them base only items. Garbage. Just make them tek tier again and do the enemy foundation thing for pvp. Caves should be hard but they should not remain the same difficulty for endgame players as low level new players.

I hold to the thought that the cryopod should stay a tek item, it doesn't fit the aesthetic of its spot (why would I know how to make a pod that absorbs a dinos essence before I could make a canteen??) So you could make it unlockable after your first boss fight (with the tek replicator and such) or even after the gamma dragon, if they wanted to make it so atleast your first run through of every cave was ran without the use of cryo pods (not necessary tho)

With how Babies HP ticks can you cryo babies? I play official pve and have been bronoto spammed. I am hopping it need to be your own/ally fridge that you can unpod from.

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All these nerfs and stuff (cryopod changes, rhynio nerfs, etc) it they were meant to balance pvp, why could they make them all PVP specific? Like whats wrong with leaving PVE the way it is? Like i play on my own 100% of the time, who am I gonna run up on with a rhynio carrying stegos? What players am I uncryoing a giga around to raid? I'm just tryna progress and chill with my dino peeps

At this point. Pve is gonna be literally full of mini bases with generator and cryofridges everywhere and for pvp you are not able to raid caves, soo now with onse single change wildcard create 2 major problems, pve spam, pvp unraidble caves, very niceeeee

I'm just going to disable updates before my game is infected with that horrible set of ideas. Many of those changes are just stupid. Almost as if the devs hate the players. This sort of nonsense is exactly what destroyed WoW's popularity.

Good video.

I wonder why they didn't just disallow cryos in caves? Now on pve official servers maybe only one tribe will be able to use them in each cave, you can imagine the griefing / arguments that will arise from that. I can guarantee tribes have already pillared above and around all caves just for this purpose today. Or maybe they have removing their use in caves already in mind just haven't spelt it out yet.

Yet another reason to pillar spam...yay

They'll probably disable cryos on platforms next, ruining mobile bases

If this update to cryos are true that just confirms to me the devs don’t play their own game

I welcome these changes. 11 foundations feels like it might be bit on the short side, but we'll see how it looks live. Maybe we're able to see this range through a radial menu (like power and water). Like others have said, I'm concerned about fridge spam. I do feel that a tribe cap for fridges, and other baked in placement restrictions should take care of most of these concerns.

pvp did want cryos…. lol

These changes are just negative fun for pve players. I hope they put up a poll or something and listen to the majority, but wildcard will never do that. Thats like asking pve and pvp to be balanced seperatly. Too much work.

I don't play PvE but how in the world will PvE players play like this, there will be spam EVERYWHERE

Everyone should boycott go back to old ark lol

Don't tell me how to play the game I bought.

PVE disagree with you 100%. Your opinion is just that...YOURS. Keep in mind, we CHOOSE how to play because we CHOOSE how to play. Why put restrictions in areas where it doesn't even affect PVP? Why does your audience need to dictate gameplay? It's ridiculous.

My biggest problem with cryos is just being able to deploy them in caves. Ruins the experience as you can easily cheese your way through a cave on the back of a rex. Although these changes are in the right direction, more need to be made.

Awful change