Ark of War: Aim for the cosmos

Name: Ark of War: Aim for the cosmos
Rating: 4.15867 (7922 reviews)

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Ark of War: Aim for the cosmos

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User Reviews for Ark of War: Aim for the cosmos

Unforgiving to New Players

Let me preface by saying I still do like the game - I really do, but I just can’t do it anymore. This game is surprisingly in-depth with its upgrades, commanders and commander gear, and different map elements.Starting off is brutal, and if you take the bait and pop your beginner shield to get the resource boosts, then have fun getting attacked every ten hours. You’re essentially constantly losing resources to Chinese/Russian attackers while trying to upgrade your units to survive against the very same players. Even when you finally do get your next upgrade, your attackers are already two upgrades ahead and they have a guild fort already AND they made an alliance with the other guild that’s been attacking you.I just can’t find the fun in pressing my nose to this grindstone anymore. New players try to ban together to take on these guilds of players that play the game twelve hours out of the day, and they still end up getting farmed. Even if you throw money at the game you’re already too late; you can only really buy speed boosts with your in game currency. Unless you’re shelling out hundreds of dollars, there is no way you’ll reach P2W status.All in all, it’s a good game, and I really like it and wish I could keep playing it, but I just don’t enjoy having a learning curve as intense as Mia Khalifa’s hips.

Cody Carlyle, Apr 06, 2018

No balance, forced to spend money

I agree with some of the other comments I’ve seen here. It is impossible to make any progress because stronger players steal everything you have. There needs to be a limit against who you can attack to make it more level and fair. Like if only level 15 players could attack that same level or higher, it would make the game more evenly balanced. Every time I get up in the morning, there are several notifications on my phone that my ark has been attacked by players that are nearly double my strength and have obviously spent hundreds of dollars on the game.That is the other downfall. You are forced to spend money to enjoy the game. Even worse is that even if you do spend money, other players can still prey on all your resources and everything you have left is not even close to enough to get back to where you used to be. I like the other aspects of the game such as daily missions and fun guild events but I am going to quit playing because I find myself more frustrated rather than having fun. It’s a shame. If they ever correct the balance then maybe I will come back. Funny part is, I wouldn’t mind spending money if it actually made a difference and there was more balance between the higher and lower power levels. But the best games are also enjoyable without having to spend money. I’d advise not playing unless you just want to be food for larger players or if you have hundreds of dollars to spend.

EMDUBSEE, Jun 06, 2018

Great game, but amazing customer service

I played the game some time ago, and for whatever reason, I stopped. I’m prone to stop and start games frequently. I picked it up again yesterday in a brand new world and joined a great guild, so I spent a few bucks to get the S commander pack and some gold for rolls which garnered another A hero and I was having a great time. Problem was, I had saved the prior game to Facebook and Game Center, so I was unable to bind this game before I blew and loaded the old one.Customer service was unbelievable. I had a 16 hour conversation with at least one agent and attempted to start fresh on two new worlds so he or she could bind my new account to the one I wanted to play from yesterday.I really thought it would end with one request and a canned response, but this is the best customer service experience I have had since IOS paid gaming started.As for the game, very unique battle system using same air beats vehicle, vehicle beats infantry, infantry beats air model, bu5 you set up your commander with 6 positions to counter your attacker/defender. The ark is complex, but similar to a castle builder, only mobile, so porting is not the only relocation option.

Foryst55, Jul 08, 2019

This game WAS good until...

I really liked this game a lot but I find myself playing it less and less now because of the addition of the unlimited crystals needed to upgrade. All you can really do is sit around and farm continuously. I sat down and figured out that just to get ONE of the LOWEST upgrades in the advanced battle section, you are looking at $1,757 worth of real money in shadow matter JUST to get to the LOWEST advanced battle tier of T10 (Genesis, Gaia or Death Angel). You MUST have at least this tier to be competitive in the game. They added these crystals AFTER many people had already reached this level so now catching up to those folks is well......pretty much impossible. I have been playing for YEARS and am still pretty far out of reach from the higher tier folks just because of the unlimited (cash-flow) crystals addition. This game will frustrate you to no end and make you mad every time you get hit and can’t do anything about it. You’re better off taking a pass on it and saving yourself a great deal of stress and money. Probably one of the greediest companies on the App Store. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention, they let people cheat with multiple accounts and boost their resource productivity also. They could stop this simply by disabling resource assistance but it profits them. If you have only one ark, you won’t stand a chance. They are also lazy about updating the game. They have Christmas themes on Easter Sunday.

Not So Anonymouss, Mar 25, 2019

The game company steals money

I have played plenty of base builder games and both free to a more pay to play style. This game runs entirely on making people purchase to grow! As I have seen and will further the point of several others. They refuse to actually balance their game and provide a feasible way to get enough rss let alone troop costs. Worse yet I purchased a $99 pack and they charged it directly to my Apple wallet somehow without a email receipt. Upon reviewing the results I found a $136 charge instead of the $108 legally it should have been. I have gotten reports from other people in game, that they have stolen about $200 from the previous owner of an account the player had taken over. Directly through the Apple wallet they stated. As they did to mine. This company should be shut down by the federal trade commission and have a class action law suit against them. As well as Apple should refund all purchases this company has accumulated. As far as base builders it’s completely imbalanced and the customer service is the worst lying pack of jackals. The fact that they repeatedly say bring things up to their devs in defense of the comments here is further proof of how they handle things in game. They try side stepping issues with no actual effort put forth to fix any issues.

Some dude sir bro, Dec 27, 2020

Annoyed

The game is very in depth. Lots going on which is amazing! But here’s the problem. The developers don’t listen. I’ve seen a bunch of reviews well over a year old of people telling them to level the playing field and the developer saying they will forward it to their game dev department to several of those reviews. which clearly they didn’t seeing as over a year has gone by and it’s still happening. It’s unfair when you are a level 8 trying to gather resources and work up only to have a level 12 come and take your resources over, and over, and over. Alllll night and day. While writing this review I’ve gotten 3 notifications I’m being attacked...... where’s the incentive? Spend money? Not gonna happen on my end. I’ll spend money on games I enjoy. You wanna make it enjoyable, make it so only same level players can attack same level players. We can deal with loosing to a same level player. Not some crap when you lose constantly to players 1-9 levels higher than you. You provide a free game so I understand you need to make money somehow. But turning people away isn’t how. Cuz I’m contemplating deleting the game. I’m wasting my time gathering stuff for other people, cuz that’s what I’m doing essentially.

Vpsap1, Jul 17, 2020

Shoddy player balance

The game is unique but hold many flaws. One of the most prominent of them being the level balance. As it stands now, players can attack anyone of any level, and they will typically always attack lower level players. If you do not have a shield, you'll typically find yourself attacked constantly by people much stronger than you are. Because the servers you're in involve people from all over the world, these raids will continue relentlessly for 24 hours a day.This wouldn't be so bad if progression wasn't so slow. Upgrades are massive and take a lot of resources. It can take up to two days to upgrade important buildings, if you're committed to it, however because of the level imbalance, you'll typically be persistently starved of resources because the same three people who are double your level keep attacking you. Their higher level and superior commanders will take all your resources with a single attack, resetting all your progress to upgrade a building.I would not advise playing this game as it stands now. Not because it's bad, but because it is nearly impossible to make progress when all you are is helpless prey for bigger players.

Warlock Raccoon, Sep 13, 2017

How you play matters more than how much you spend

I found a guild that helps members upgrade based on a strategy of sending rss to 1 player to hold until a certain player is ready to shield and accept rss to upgrade. There is a method of keeping track of who is next and a very active leadership who is in constant communication to notify members of events and how to best win based on various factors. Once you upgrade your ship to level 12, you will have unlocked all but 1 investment option. Save or buy enough gold to fill them all up, train only tier 1 infantry and upgrade your commanders and skills as often as possible (commander level upgrades are easiest as they don’t require any special troops or rss). The only people who complain that games are lopsided to the strongest players are those who never bother to understand the dynamics of a game and how to play effectively without spending money (preferably)or at least, not spend a lot of money to keep up with players who do spend a lot of money.I have multiple accts in many games where people complain about the same thing yet I always end up managing to stay competitive without spending over a paycheck worth of money to be the largest player around.That being said, my biggest issue is the drop rates of event items/the time it takes to collect them.Other than that, this game is fairly innovative and very unique with regards to all of the different things that can be done in it.

x Blakat x, Jun 01, 2018

Be informed

This can be a really fun game...at first. But if you do not intend to spend real money at some point you will realize that it is a waste of time. And if you do intend to spend money it will be a waste also. But of course the choice is yours. When someone attacks you in this game your medical centre only holds a few of the injured and everyone else get lost. You have to rebuild again. Rebuilding means lots of resources, but you are unable to accumulate as mush as you need because as soon as you log off you are under attack and resources (rss) plundered. I feel like some of these attackers are in cahoots with the developers. If you want a steady upgrade with spending then you must purchase a shield which prevents invaders from attacking you. These shields are not cheap. Then they give you a chance to earn a nice powerful commander which they say is free. It’s laughable because the tasks they want you to perform can take so long that if feels like you’re being forced to spend gold for the so called “free” commander. You can skip the task that seems impossible for the time frame, but for thousands of gold. Gold costs real money. Like I said the choice is yours, but sometimes it pays to be informed. There’s no balance in the games. You either spend a lot to get ahead or just be a farming target for those who do spend.

Zaxto, Jun 10, 2018

Don’t bother. It’s pay to survive.

Players above your level will attack you and you can’t protect your resources enough to upgrade anything. Big guilds will destroy you, deeper wallets will destroy you, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it, except spend more money. I give it one star because I can’t give it negative stars. Supports in app purchases. First package, $5. Then you can’t buy that one again. Then you have to buy the $10 package, and then the $20 package, and from there the price goes to $99. Got deep pockets? Help this developer retire. This game is garbage. Nice interface, lots of stuff to do to keep yourself busy while players higher level than you kill all your troops that cost you excessive resources and time, which you can’t protect because to have enough units to protect yourself, you might as well take the money out of your pocket and set it on fire. Doesn’t matter what level your medbay is, once it reaches capacity, all the rest of your troops are killed. One player with a higher level than you, can wipe out all of your troops in minutes. Your cargo bay is severely undersized. The only way to level up your ship when higher level players are killing you every time you turn around, is to break out your wallet. Seriously. Just light your money on fire. Enjoy the pretty colors, because this isn’t a game, it’s a developer retirement plan. I wish I’d never played it.

ZenJones, Jun 16, 2019

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