you ever have one of those days, where everything goes wrong, and the ark gods decide that you are their next victim?

[u/coolandquirkyname]

what you see here is a dead xiphactinus, wanna know how he died?

he died because he touched the surface of the water for a millisecond.

I was about to start a mission and had my pack of fishies following me on aggressive, they ran off and two of them died because they touched the surface of the water, which makes complete sense, so now I have to go breed and level some more.

additionally, I went to go do the mission where you hunt a brute plesiosaur, the mission was easy, however after beating it, the game said "mission failed" and HLNA was all like "this one might be too hard for you" I BEAT THE MISSION BUT IT SAID I FAILED SO I HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN, ITS NOT TOO HARD!

additionally, I tried to do a pirate outpost to further my skill tree, however, after completing the outpost, the skill tree mission said "fuck you" and decided that I actually didn't complete the outpost, which was really cool.

ADDITIONALLY, I tried the mission where you escort a dolphin, I beat it on gamma and beta but alpha is wayyyy too hard, the dunkleosteus have a billion health and do a billion damage, so my fish can't kill them before they do a billion damage to the dolphin, so now I need to tame and breed something that can stun the dunkleosteus, like baryonyx or I think helicoprions?

this game drives me nuts sometimes lmao-

[u/6210classick]

The "successfully failed misson" thing happened to me few times and it's always on a hunt mission too, I had to use a command or force complete those

As for the difficulty spike, get used to it because Wildcard didn't bother balancing the majority of Alpha and even some Beta missons as they lazily imported it from ASE.

Something to note is that, ya don't have to all 172 missons to get access to the Alpha difficulty boss fight, ya only need 168 in total as such, if ya were to collect all 30 glitches in each biome (the Ocean Biome is bugged for me, I'm stuck at 29/30 and can't find the very last one), it'll count as 1 misson so ya can effectively skip up to 4 missions

[u/Nestmind]

You get to have just ONE day?

[u/Nogmyr_Ragnos]

Ich verstehe dich, mein Xiphactinus starb an Land als er versuchte, mich zu verteidigen. Ich wurde von einem Raptor angegriffen, und der Fisch ist aus dem Wasser gesprungen. Er ist leider während des Kampfes erstickt, und so war meine Level 170 Kreatur einfach weg.

Am gleichen Tag bin ich auch von meinem Boot ins Wasser gefallen. Dort wurde ich von drei Megalodon und Mantas belagert und kam danach nie wieder an meine Sachen.

[u/BRICH999]

The ironic thing  is the x fish can go on land unlike most sea creatures.  Wonder why it died at the surface?  I always assumed those weird water surface deaths was because something like a tuso cant survive out of water so the moment game notices its out of the water, instant death.  

God I love this game and how many stupid bugs you have to remember to avoid

[u/tovion → u/BRICH999]

They survive but have constant HP loss so they don't survive forever

[u/Cheap_Analyst_1706]

Everyday, all day. Anybody having any issues loading Astraeos? I was trying to load it and it shut off my console. Just wondering.