ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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29 May, 2016 @ 3:58am
23 Jun, 2017 @ 10:55am
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Balance Evolved

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This mod is no longer being updated.

Tired of gigas and quetzals making every other mount obsolete? Wish you had a reason to actually use that raptor you’ve been so fond of since you started playing? Well then this might be the mod for you!

Balance Evolved is a mod that aims to create a more varied and versatile gameplay experience by completely rebalancing the game and giving each creature its own niche. This is done by strongly emphasizing on each creatures intended strengths and weaknesses. For example; a raptor is meant to be fast and deadly, but fragile. Therefore, it can both outrun and outdamage a sabertooth. However, due to the sabertooths almost as high damage and much higher health pool, if pitched against each other the sabertooth will win almost every time.

The main goal of Balance Evolved is to create a richer and overall more enjoyable PvP experience, however it does affect PvE as well. For example; creatures no longer have different speeds depending on if they are tamed or not, so early levels might be a bit more challenging as you can no longer simply outrun most predators. On the other hand though, early game tames like Dilos and Parasaurs are now much more useful than they were previously, simultaneously giving you more powerful tools to deal with these new threats in the wild.

These changes are applied to everything as soon as the mod is activated, including already tamed creatures, so there's no need for a server wipe or something similar in order for the mod to work! If you install the mod and then change your mind later about using it, simply uninstalling it will cause all tamed creatures (and other things) to go back to their default values.

To cheatspawn dinos with this mod, simply use the normal "summon DinoTag_character_bp_c" command, or if you want a specific level, the following:

SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/BalanceEvolved/Creatures/DinoTag/DinoTag_Character_BP.DinoTag_Character_BP'" 500 1 1 1

So for example, to spawn a level 9001 spino, you use;

SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/BalanceEvolved/Creatures/Spino/Spino_Character_BP.Spino_Character_BP'" 500 1 1 9001

Cheatspawning a dino with its regular full-path command will cause it to spawn with its base-game values, and then switch to Balance Evolved values once the server/session is restarted.

My goal is to eventually cover the entire game, from items to crafting costs and taming timers. Feedback and suggestions are always appreciated, as this mod is very much a work-in-progress!

If you have a server that runs this mod in particular, I would very much appreciate if you could private message me so I can get your contact info. Being able to check with server admins now and then on how the mod is playing out would help a lot with improvements in the future!

Full list of changes from the base game[docs.google.com]

Mod ID = 693233873
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Destinum
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GalacticViper 13 Apr, 2023 @ 8:40am 
Ik this isnt being updated anymore, but just an FYI for anyone trying to use this on Valguero, it was causing my game to crash when I entered a specific area (north east of the small islands)
Crab 22 Jun, 2021 @ 12:10am 
and when the world needed him the most (shadowmane).... he vanished.
xXHeavymainXx 28 Apr, 2021 @ 1:50am 
Please, nerf the longneck rifle's shooting distance, and improve the revolvers and the fabricated pistols!
Speed 1 Jan, 2021 @ 10:22am 
ded
Metal 29 Aug, 2019 @ 8:56pm 
I would like contributor rights and the mod files.
Meraxes 26 Aug, 2018 @ 5:06pm 
@Destinum Sad to see you go but it's understandable. Would you be willing to release the mod and it's contents to someone else to continue the balance?
Destinum  [author] 26 Aug, 2018 @ 1:14pm 
Okay so, I should really have wrote this sooner. Kind of a dick move from my part.

Anyways, as I'm pretty sure is obvious by now, I currently don't have any plans on continuing to update this mod. I don't play Ark anymore (I haven't even been logged into Steam for months as I'm writing this), and have in general lost interest in the game due to how Wildcard has treated it. My initial goal with this mod was to fix the problems I had with the game, but by now the game is just too fundementally flawed in my opinion for it to be worth it.

So yeah, sorry to those who spent time and effort with things related to Balance Evolved. I really enjoyed working on it while I did, and I had a lot of fun discussing with everyone.
BlazingShadows 23 Aug, 2018 @ 2:46pm 
I think this guy quit steam
Lakeee 8 May, 2018 @ 11:57am 
Hey,does anyone know how to reduce baby dino spawns in this mod as I don't like baby dinos runing around as they are untameable and is it possible to swap some of spawns with base ones (spino for example,as i like reworked one :P )
Lycanshifter 1 Feb, 2018 @ 9:25pm 
Abt least it's getting updated
This mod is dead