Dinosaurs continue to be a popular thing for gamers, and moviegoers considering the success of Jurassic World, and that is good news for Ark: Survival Evolved. The action-adventure survival game had sold 200,000 copies within 48 hours of its release on Steam Early Access and the momentum has yet to die down. Studio Wildcard has announced that Ark: Survival Evolved has now sold 750,000 copies on Steam Early Access within its first two weeks.
Studio Wildcard has launched a 'major' update for ARK: Survival Evolved's modding software, ARK Development Kit, available now.
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Jordan from The Nerd Stash, an Ark enthusiast, shares the differences and changes that players can see between Evolved and the newly released Ascended.
I just had to come by and say that most of these dont work or havent changed from Evolved.
10. Tames still getting stuck on rocks. Dilos are so frustrating to make sure they havent been left behind
9. The interface is still exactly the same, and slower too
8 & 7. are the same thing. Dont care about camera modes
6. Building is slightly tweaked. There are Pros and Cons. Some things are merged to 1 engram, which is good but can be annoying trying to find Railings every time because the image is a square wall :P
5. Tracking is great. Except that you get a marker in the distance for every friend who is taming something, until you manually turn it off per tame. I used to use a mod for a really good tracking device.
4. The new map is visually way better, tho they seem to have removed being able to add waypoints to the map. There is also a shroud over the map which takes a lot of work to open up. At least we can finally see our clan mates (something that never worked in the old game. These guys dont fix faults. They just recreate the same ones)
3. There are no new creatures yet. I dont know how long itll take to get any new content. But the patches are coming in fast, and it already runs way better than it did at launch last friday.
2. Loving the baby dinos
1. The graphics are different. It used to be beautiful already. So I dont care. I just want new stuff.
After all this, they didnt fix any issues and problems that have existed since day one. This new version is pointless. But its too late. I own Ascended now. ill still play it to death. I love Ark either way. Just cant wait for new content. I havent found Vin Diesel in game yet either :)
I think they should have charged more so they can use more resources for the best possible experience, maybe better animations, more assets, etc. The game deserved all of the money it's made and I hope it sparks the need for more dino games in the industry.
Awesome. Just awesome. Great to see early access UE4 game so successful! Going to grab this and join in asap.
Can I get a framerate higher than 30?
Seems like all you have to do to sell games nowadays is make an open terrain in Unity/UE4, package it, and sell it as a "Open world multiplayer survival game with crafting"
Try looking at the "survival" tag on steam. Truly sad
I think all future efforts should be on optimizations because getting 15fps on a 7950 and 8350 is horrible and also no dual gpu support is laughabl and ram usage can hit 5GB.