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The new update has Ruined the game.
SOTF was a great BR game, it was unique with many ways to play. That was until the December 23 update. The new game is completely different from what it was, hardly even resembling the original SOTF and little to no resemblance to survival evolved. Studio Wild Card decided to take out almost all the features that made the game so great before. Such as removing the crafting and the inventory system as a whole, opting for limited and fast paced game play similar that is more consistent with fortnite than it is with the original game.
The new UI is atrocious and over the top with way to much screen clutter. The style of the new UI looks closer to that of a mobile game than it does to the game it is supposedly based on. It has large icons consisting of bright colours with no hot bar for items only armour, and a large map. If you want to look at your inventory system you only get a radial menu that has 8 slots for predetermined items. You cannot switch items for ease of use in this menu. The screen is constantly lit up with pop ups from an enemy looting nearby or losing a dino. With the constant pop ups and over the top UI your screen is blasted with way to much unnecessary information. The devs also decided to switch out the old system for finding a game (which in my opinion was better suited for a BR style gamemode) to the ARK survival evolved server list. Ironically enough the only change to the UI that resembles ark in any way was unnecessary.
The gameplay is severely worsened. There is no resource gathering, essentially rendering many of the dinosaurs useless. Which is a key element in ARK. You cannot craft weapons or any gear aside from a very limited option via a radial menu which is typically only ammo and grenades. Removing guns forces players into one play style consisting of using the most powerful dinos. there is no point in taming anything other than meta dinos since classic resource gathering dinosaurs are useless due to the devs removing the crafting mechanic. You cannot tame a anklyo and farm metal to get flak armour and guns, you HAVE to tame a damage dealing dino and level them up to fight or you just lose. The low variety of usable weapons limits this even further. The taming system has been "reworked "as well. Another element that made the game stand out removed. Instead of gathering resources, like narcoberries and prime meat to tame a rex, you simply need to kill it and have enough points to tame. which is easy and less rewarding since you take very little damage from Dinos and do a lot more damage to them compared to before. The points are easily gathered by killing trikes and anything that is not a spino or rex with a bow from a green drop. After you tame the rex you will find that the level system has also received a rework. The Dinosaurs no longer have levels and instead have to be leveled up to a certain tier (maxing out at 3) to make them stronger. You cannot chose what to level in your tame or go for a certain build, you just get overall more powerful. The update essentially stripped away anything good about ARK survival evolved, and SOTF turning the game into a fast paced simple mobile game with little depth but at the price of a full game. The Dev team should have made the game free (it was originally but for some reason changed) update the game to match the current state of ARK such as new dinos guns and biomes and reworked the map. OR they should have just left it alone, better to leave the game dead than to disgrace it like this.