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[Juliano Nichols]

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Every time before I have an adventure in the vast ocean of ARK's TheIsland map I always find myself over preparing for the worst, for example when I have all scuba gear and nothing in my glove slot ill put some flak gauntlets there for extra armor encase I get hit, and sometimes ill replace the scuba leggings for flak leggings, choosing armor over insulation, Also every time before I dismount my dino underwater i'm always checking around for any dinos that will attack me, and having the fear of most of the dinos down there will most likely 1 shot me, so I'm very cautious in the Ocean.

I think the scariest part of the water for me is the iceberg area. It reminds me too much of that Batman: Arkham City(?) level in the museum. But it also reminds me of numerous images and shows and such I've seen... that really colorful blue water with the blue ice under... it's just demanding something really scary to come up at you right there. Gives a really 'chilly' vibe about it, in my opinion.

But I'm petrified of the water as a whole... it's just not a place I want to be unless I have to be there. Long before eels or jellyfish... sharks aren't my thing. Mosas? Forget about it. Squids? M'no, I'm good. But even if we shrink it down to sabertooth salmon... no thanks.

A lot of it is lack of mobility in water compared to the things trying to eat me. To me, a shark is far more frightening than a T-Rex. I know my mobility limits on land and I'm not constrained like I am in water. It's all in perception, though... if you put a T-Rex-looking equivalent as a water creature, suddenly that'd be more terrifying than a shark.

Leeds, on the other hand... big as they are, aren't that scary to me... maybe it's because I know they're passive to everything but rafts, or maybe it's because they move so slowly when they're just moving to move... but they don't scare me as much as the other creatures that are a lot faster and want to eat you all the time.

Nope... Not just you! I become a nervous wreck anytime I have to go in the ocean. I want to tame myself one of the Baslios and figured it was something I could do on my own.. But swimming about the map searching for one.. The anxiety was intense!

I love swimming in the ocean. That's why I put 45 level points into oxygen. Unfortunately, swim speed for players has recently been heavily nerfed. The good news is, I think it's a bug; according to the patchnotes, the swim nerf was only intended for dinos.

I saw that too today, before my tribe decided to permanently shut down our pair of servers and I couldn't escape a cnidnaria just sitting in the water.. if we'd decided to stay and see if they'd reverse the flyer nerf I was moving into to ocean somewhat permanently outside an element run or two, but they were so frustrated with other things leading up to this like losing the cave staging bases after one particularpatch and a server setting got flipped by it.. the nasty, unreasonable crippling of flyers was all it took for them to decide to quit.

So picture this: got attacked by some jellis and shocked off my mount, then I got attacked by some anglers while my tribe mate was getting attacked by a mosa and some pleisis. Eels decided to join the party ant to top it all off a squid wanted to come and tickle my mosa.....

I'm PETRIFIED of Ark's Oceans.

One of my biggest fears in real life is large bodies of water, and Ark captures it just right that it triggers my fight or flight

response.. First time I saw the giant squid while exploring, I'll never forget it.. Me and my buddy are roaming the center's

oceans looking for sea crates.. We're having no real luck with it.. We're near half charred island when he decides to scout

ahead, but as he starts off, suddenly I see it.

My goggles are off, so the murkiness of the water adds all this atmosphere to the moment: The bell gradually comes into

view, it's undulating slowly, bobbing up and down.. My breath catches for a moment as i realize what im seeing and then

my "nopetheraptorout" kicks in, and jut in time because the thing starts coming towards us.. Even though I was on our newly

acquired Mosa, which was quite powerful, we ran like scolded dogs!

I loved it. I love horror movies, but none of them EVER put me on edge, they never make me scared, but this game can

claim that it accomplished this.. Only some of the earlier resident evil games can claim this.

I've yet taken to the ocean again since the patch dropped. I got TOO comfortable in the ocean while riding our mosa

and wound up goofing up around the jellies. 3 of them stun-locked my mosa in perhaps the WORST spot possible.

Immediately a school of anglers, easily 50 strong, swung in and attacked. They depleted 31k health in no time. I.. was

understandably a bit sad. That was the longest walk/swim of shame ever, cause I lost our 252-ish mosa and all i got

was a stupid apprentice riot shield, lol.

That being said, I love that the Leeds is causing havoc on the ocean.. I'd like for the kraken to attack boats too, maybe

some other sea monsters and boat types as well?

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