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With Ark: Survival Evolved set to leave early access and ‘fully launch’ at the end of this month, new details are emerging about changes coming to the game. Over the course of Early Access, Ark has had hundreds of official servers for players and since many of them are low-population, Studio Wildcard will be shutting a good chunk of them down.
Ark’s official servers make up around 33 percent of all servers currently active. On August 29th, these servers will be wiped and shut down. So if you have stuff you don’t want to lose, you will need to pack everything up and head to an Obelisk or Tek Transmitter in game. You will then be able to retrieve items in another server. Alternatively, you will get the chance to download save files from these servers before they are closed down.
Any existing server that is not considered low-population will be left alone and will be relisted as a ‘legacy server’. These servers will remain on a separate cluster, so you won’t be able to make transfers between legacy servers and new servers. That said, legacy servers will continue to receive the same fixes and content updates that newer servers get.
Aside from that, Studio Wildcard will also be wiping its customer service slate clean. All existing tickets to support will be wiped and any support requests from legacy servers will be rejected.
Ark: Survival Evolved was originally set to fully launch earlier this month. However, complications with getting physical copies to stores meant that the game had to be delayed on Steam too in an effort to keep physical retailers happy.
KitGuru Says: I decided to hop on to Ark earlier this week just to see if my GTX 1080 could finally run the game at a smooth frame rate at half decent settings. Unfortunately at 1440p, it is still a struggle to get to 60 frames per second. Hopefully the final update will have some proper optimisation. Do any of you still play Ark? Are you looking forward to the release, or did you get your fill of the game during early access?
Major con to successful early access sales is the game being played out before its even released.
i hate when people says its not optimizied, especially kids, now with a 1070 at 1440p i can easly run the game at constant 60fps, i turned some settings completly off because they don’t matter and take up unessecary power, then they should’ve tried playing ark back in the days where it 1st launched, you could not play it at 1080 30fps with a 980ti
This has bin on there list since Early Access started, and they have still not done thos things, no GPU or CPU rendering optimization, Random GPU Driver crash stil not fixed, DirectX12 still not there.
The game is DOA, it’s played out.
A Little Further Out
– GPU & CPU rendering optimizations
– Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky
– More Creatures, Gear, Armors, Weapons, & Structures!
– “Boss Wars”
– DirectX12 Mode for Windows 10! Approximate +20% perf
Yea I played this when it first came out in early access and it was a lot of fun. My first memory of the game was being in it for about 2 minutes and all of a sudden a T-Rex came along and had me for supper and all I was wearing was a diaper basically. There were other moments in the game that were fun but it got all played out in about 2 weeks. I am not really sure if I would want to buy it now unless a lot of things have been added to the game since I last played it.
I remember even way back then the game seemed to work and play fine on my system yes there were a few glitches but for a very early access game at the time I was impressed at just how well it worked back then. I guess throwing a huge amount of horse power at it probably helped a bit as well..lol
Ffs, this is exactly why Wildcard hasn’t bothered to fix things like performance! Because of ridiculous comments like this! They are always concentrating on putting in new things rather than optimization, because people like you would rather the game have “new cool things added”, then have a game that DOESN’T need a best of a PC to run on even medium settings.
You do realize that the graphics in ARK aren’t that great, and you shouldn’t need a super powered PC to run it right? SMH…
You’re completely wrong. Whats the point of adding new things if the game does run or perform well. Only idiots would prefer a broken game with alot of content than a working game with some content
LOLOLOL All I said was the game was fine and it worked well on my PC at high settings. The graphics were fine no not the best but they did the job they needed to do to. The game was fun to play but it did get boring after a while which is why I said I hope they added some new things to do in it.
As for optimizing the game I would have hoped that was a given because of the amount of time they had to worked on the game since I last played it. If they did very little to optimize it since it first went into early access then shame on them for not doing that.