![]() ![]() You aren’t given any real control over how far you jump, so you will frequently send yourself hurling from the top of a tree all the way down to the ground, towards certain injury or death. You can sometimes climb up branches easily, but if you turn around and try and go down, your character might not move unless you press a button to lower yourself, or jump to another branch. For a game that involves a lot of climbing in complex terrain, the controls are unwieldy. Unfortunately, as you venture into the jungle and start encountering predators, the first real issues with the game start to rear their head. Energy is crucial early on as your clan will start in the jungle full of predators such as snakes and large cats, and your best bet for avoiding these is clambering up the cliffs and trees that are abundant in the region. ![]() If you strain a primate too much, you risk a reduction in their overall health, that also limits the maximum amount of energy. If you fail to properly manage your basic needs, you will suffer a penalty to your energy levels, which determine how far you can climb, run or perform other actions before needing to rest. Some foods will also provide unique benefits like increasing the warmth of your character or providing resistance to injuries. Though it doesn’t take long to figure out how to accomplish this, there are still some dangers such as food that will poison you. ![]() When you first start out, your immediate priority will be meeting the basic needs of your clan eating, drinking and sleeping. Even with the tutorial turned on to provide as much help as possible, you are left to figure a lot out for yourself, in an effort to have the player experience the same thing as our distant ancestors. One thing that Ancestors does have in common with other survival games is an intentionally cryptic learning curve. As you advance through generations, you evolve your linage and see how your progress roughly aligns with how our ancestors actually evolved based on scientific estimates. Though you only directly control one ape at a time, you can switch between members of your hominid clan. The longer you keep your lineage alive, the further opportunity they will have to learn new skills and retain knowledge that can be passed down. You are tasked with ensuring the survival and evolution across multiple generations. It's best to make sure you are either clearly in the west areas or clearly in the east areas of the Great Lake biome to ensure you stay in this biome if you perform an evolution leap.In a nutshell, Ancestors sees you taking control of a clan of primates in an undisclosed jungle and savannah-covered region of Africa ten million years in the past. If you unknowingly happen to create your settlement in the "Jungle" portion of the Great Lake biome, you could possible be sent all the way back to where you started deep in the Jungle at the Hidden Waterfall Oasis. During an evolution leap, your current settlement can change to a different oasis in that biome. This doesn't really have an impact on game play but it matters if you perform an Evolution Leap. It transitions from one biome to the other biome and then back. It's not always clear in that middle Great Lake / Jungle biome area which biome you are in. The area around, and to the east of, this smaller lake will be back in the Great Lake biome. Continuing past this thin section of jungle you will encounter a "smaller" lake where you can find The Crocodiles Island in the center of the lake. If you head east from this location, you will cross back into the Jungle biome. On the western side of this biome is The Great Lake. The Great Lake biome has some interesting properties. The Great Lake biome is between the Jungle biome on one side and the Caves biome and Woodland biome on the other side.
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