I actually don't recommend this game to the majority since it's actually a relatively very boring game, but I do enjoy it somewhat, but it definitely very much is on the expensive side. The game's actually kinda shallow gameplay wise, you basically try to avoid getting eaten, fullfill your diet (evrima main branch, legacy is abandoned) and there's a lot of political drama with the game's development. It lacks coordination, is slow, and a lot of things break with updates, and with how many tools are provided with the unreal engine, they really ought to do better.

When I first bought this game a month ago, it was plagued with a lot of issues regarding the graphics - The game was forced to render at 50% scale with upscaling, resulting in a horribly blurry mess. A patch a week ago fixed that, but it's still undeniably a blurry mess to the point you still can't see flies, which look like a jpeg artifact animation mess since you still can't disable the crappy antialiasing, upscaling (even with 100% render scale) and lumen rendering technologies they enforce on you. It's incredibly difficult to spot chickens as a pteranodon and I literally have a video where I fly in circles for a long time unable to spot it while you hear the chicken's noises as if they were right in front of me.

Animations are also little wonky and unrealistic, weather patterns are excessive (mach 1 clouds, storms literally every second day etc.) eating desyncs can bug out your client, frequent crashes and server disconnects upon reconnecting... yeah this game can also be somewhat frustrating.

If you want a definitive dinosaur roleplay experience, this *could* be the game for you but my best recommnedation is wait another decade since the dev team couldn't even finish the product within one decade despite how many people actually have purchased this game with how expensive it is.

Anyway if you do end up purchasing, first thing you want to do when you download the game is check the [evrima] beta branch, increase render scale to 100% and set manual alt-attacks because they basically disable your normal attack for some strange reason which makes it very difficult to do things like harvest organs from corpses. Google "The Isle Map" because the game doesn't come with one, and press TAB to check your coordinates.

No, humans aren't part of the game (officially) yet. And yes omniraptor is a temporary fictional dinosaur based on jurassic park. Pteranodon is basically a seagull or a swan, Cerato is a trash scavenger, and deinosuchus is basically a huge alligator.

Overall, there's not really a game I've played that comes close to this, The Isle is really just a survival game, not even a sandbox game, just a wildlife survival game.

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Political drama:

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There's also a lot of disputes regarding unofficial server communities regarding admin power abuse, mix-packing (e.g. raptors and ceratos ganging up on steggosaurus) and to a lessor degree, accusation wars regarding IRL drama (don't bring that into the game please) and as a result most players seem to stick to the "rule-less" official servers.

And yes there are a lot of people of wide age groups in this game including girls (probably about 15% of the players if not more), but also do be aware that this game also has its share of controversy as a result - a certain moderator was found to be grooming underaged girls. Please, don't be this kind of person and keep those fantasies to yourself. Even if you do somehow end up being like a certain other player who found their ex-girlfriend through this game - don't bet on it, it's likely just an online friendship and nothing more.

Yes, speedhacks also exist but it's possible to track those players down using the in-game recording function (F2) to identify steam IDs after the fact. So don't do that too.
That being said, cheating doesn't seem to be as common or major of an issue in my opinion as many people claim. I've yet to encounter someone who was blatantly cheating but I've encountered situations where other aggressors were assumed to be cheating.

I actually don't recommend this game to the majority since it's actually a relatively very boring game, but I do enjoy it somewhat, but it definitely very much is on the expensive side. The game's actually kinda shallow gameplay wise, you basically try to avoid getting eaten, fullfill your diet (evrima main branch, legacy is abandoned) and there's a lot of political drama with the game's development. It lacks coordination, is slow, and a lot of things break with updates, and with how many tools are provided with the unreal engine, they really ought to do better. When I first bought this game a month ago, it was plagued with a lot of issues regarding the graphics - The game was forced to render at 50% scale with upscaling, resulting in a horribly blurry mess. A patch a week ago fixed that, but it's still undeniably a blurry mess to the point you still can't see flies, which look like a jpeg artifact animation mess since you still can't disable the crappy antialiasing, upscaling (even with 100% render scale) and lumen rendering technologies they enforce on you. It's incredibly difficult to spot chickens as a pteranodon and I literally have a video where I fly in circles for a long time unable to spot it while you hear the chicken's noises as if they were right in front of me. Animations are also little wonky and unrealistic, weather patterns are excessive (mach 1 clouds, storms literally every second day etc.) eating desyncs can bug out your client, frequent crashes and server disconnects upon reconnecting... yeah this game can also be somewhat frustrating. If you want a definitive dinosaur roleplay experience, this *could* be the game for you but my best recommnedation is wait another decade since the dev team couldn't even finish the product within one decade despite how many people actually have purchased this game with how expensive it is. Anyway if you do end up purchasing, first thing you want to do when you download the game is check the [evrima] beta branch, increase render scale to 100% and set manual alt-attacks because they basically disable your normal attack for some strange reason which makes it very difficult to do things like harvest organs from corpses. Google "The Isle Map" because the game doesn't come with one, and press TAB to check your coordinates. No, humans aren't part of the game (officially) yet. And yes omniraptor is a temporary fictional dinosaur based on jurassic park. Pteranodon is basically a seagull or a swan, Cerato is a trash scavenger, and deinosuchus is basically a huge alligator. Overall, there's not really a game I've played that comes close to this, The Isle is really just a survival game, not even a sandbox game, just a wildlife survival game. ___ Political drama: ___ There's also a lot of disputes regarding unofficial server communities regarding admin power abuse, mix-packing (e.g. raptors and ceratos ganging up on steggosaurus) and to a lessor degree, accusation wars regarding IRL drama (don't bring that into the game please) and as a result most players seem to stick to the "rule-less" official servers. And yes there are a lot of people of wide age groups in this game including girls (probably about 15% of the players if not more), but also do be aware that this game also has its share of controversy as a result - a certain moderator was found to be grooming underaged girls. Please, don't be this kind of person and keep those fantasies to yourself. Even if you do somehow end up being like a certain other player who found their ex-girlfriend through this game - don't bet on it, it's likely just an online friendship and nothing more. Yes, speedhacks also exist but it's possible to track those players down using the in-game recording function (F2) to identify steam IDs after the fact. So don't do that too. That being said, cheating doesn't seem to be as common or major of an issue in my opinion as many people claim. I've yet to encounter someone who was blatantly cheating but I've encountered situations where other aggressors were assumed to be cheating.