Thinking about dropping ARK modding and why!

Yes it did. Try to keep the on topic please and Share your Bad experiance with ADK.
Also This thread is not about the game itself. I Still think the game is great. just to ensure we dont get more oftopic :stuck_out_tongue:

If your experiance is so bad with the update schedules the ADK has and thats the reason to why youre considering dropping modding for ARK.
Thats fine, but try to share your experiance with it rather than compain with… "They said update comming, Why Me no Update yet?.

I been trying to hold out a few more days.
But seen that there are several bug with repNotify in the engine. which i have experianced. seend others experianced. seend bug reports about it for old UE versions.

This are all mostly pre 4.8.2X’ish bugs.
What i mean by this is that its bugs which where disovered somewhere between 4.5 -> 4.8 and fixed in later 4.8 released. around 4.8.2 things get sorted out.

This is a problem since the ARK engine is based around 4.5 and that leads a huge gap with lots of network bug not fixed.
Altho, Since wildcard has the source code, they could probably patch up some bugfixes. but then again it depends on the changes and how many, it might not be suted or doeble at all.
It might even be better/faster/easyer to migrate the project to some higher engine versions.
But i belive they stated somewher that they will not do this.

Whats my point here.
Well. if youre like me. one who likes to try out new things, create something new and like to play/interact with it with other players.
I’ll tell you strait away… you be annoyed/frustrated/irretated most of the time.
replication is a HUGE deal when making multiplayer mods. and the fact that replication is bugged. is a game breaker in multiplayer.
replication is not relieble at all. not matter which one you try, repnotify or replicated.
repNotify has the annoying issue of, updating itself on the server fine… but the clients has a habit of stoping to trigger the function.
Anyone with mp coding experiance can see that its a problem.

Also there is really no guides on how to workaround them… like SamsonF’s example…
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/319083/random-int-rep-notify-will-ignore-0.html
If i didnt talk to him on IRC, i never knew about that thing.

And that the Development kit is suffering from compulsive lying disorder, doesnt make life easyer when trying to create stuff.

In a way i have a feeling that can be put like this…


WildCard the new game studio: CEO Jesse, lets make a game. lets use unreal engine 4 and make it about Dinosaurus it will be epic.
Gamers: This is awesome.
WildCard: Lets toss in some mod support to the game to boots its popularity.
Gamers: This is awesome, make me mods pls...
Modders: This is awesome i make you mod,.
WildCard: Sais, Cool Guys.
Modders: Complain.. bugs, out of sync no update.
WildCard: You know what this was more than what we bargained for, lets just ditch this mod idea and toss out a few updates now and then.