Sad news for players of ARK: Survival Evolved as it now uses BattlEye for online play, but the great news is the developers of ARK have confirmed BattlEye is coming to Linux and they are throwing money to help it happen. This will also be good news for Arma 3 players.
Copied from the Steam forum (not the full forum post, emphasis mine):
I get that a fair few ARK players on Linux will be annoyed by this, but I hope they can see the bigger picture. They are a fair few people raging at the developers in that forum topic which is sad, because the developers themselves say it should be done in a few days.
Arma 3 also uses BattlEye for online play on most of their servers, and it limits are ability to play online in their experimental Linux port that should be getting updated soon. They spoke about possible BattlEye support before too, but now it looks like it will be much easier for them as well. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Copied from the Steam forum (not the full forum post, emphasis mine):
QuoteJust wanted to chime in here. You're absolutely right to feel frustrated and upset at us due to the latest patch and what it meant for our current Linux and Mac Players wanting to play on servers that have enabled BattlEye. I sincerely apologize that we weren't ready to have it deployed for Mac and Linux too.
We're still working diligently on bringing it to Mac and Linux and we will have it available as soon as we can, we're actually specifically paying the guys over at BE extra money right now to ensure that Mac and Linux are finished as soon as possible.
I get that a fair few ARK players on Linux will be annoyed by this, but I hope they can see the bigger picture. They are a fair few people raging at the developers in that forum topic which is sad, because the developers themselves say it should be done in a few days.
Arma 3 also uses BattlEye for online play on most of their servers, and it limits are ability to play online in their experimental Linux port that should be getting updated soon. They spoke about possible BattlEye support before too, but now it looks like it will be much easier for them as well. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionThose of you complaining about performance probably haven't played ARK in the last few weeks. They've begun optimizations as summer release draws near and I haven't had any performance issues. It can even run rather smoothly on integrated if you turn everything down to console peasant settings.
Really?
I just tried it on my 980ti and I still consider the performance to be pretty bad. On High at 1920x1080 it still struggles to stay at 60FPS, and utterly kills the FPS at any higher resolution on Linux.
Medium and below look terrible too.
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I must correct this post as most of the servers of ark are NOT YET affected by BattlEye. Most of the unofficial servers run without it so linux users can still play. The official servers use BattlEye though.
My dinos on the 204 server will still probably die now :( i was not there for 3 or 4 days and now i cant feed them :/
My dinos on the 204 server will still probably die now :( i was not there for 3 or 4 days and now i cant feed them :/
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GustyGhost Feb 11, 2016
Quoting: TheBossReally?
I just tried it on my 980ti and I still consider the performance to be pretty bad. On High at 1920x1080 it still struggles to stay at 60FPS, and utterly kills the FPS at any higher resolution on Linux.
Medium and below look terrible too.
Yes, boss. At first I played it on an A10-7870K w/ DDR3-2400 on fglrx-updates. I ran ARK at lowest settings, 1280x720 getting ~20 FPS.
I now upgraded that same system with an R9 285 (ASUS Strix) and latest AMD Radeon Crimson and it's perfectly smooth at medium preset, 1600x900. I could probably try turning it up to high preset but I don't want to be back down in 30 FPS territory.
That is why it baffles me whenever I go reading about ARK online and everyone is complaining about performance. I guess I just got lucky with my configuration?
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Quoting: GuestIt's still early access, as long as the intended features are working when I buy it after full release, I'm not bothered.This guy understand it, early access is early access, its anoying than many people gets mad because they expect their early-access game to works as a finished product.
Anyway, back to the topic, those devs are great, they look like they care for mac/linux users if they are wiling to spend their own money on this project.
Last edited by edo on 11 February 2016 at 5:01 am UTC
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Quoting: khalismurARK devs W.T.F?
From Steam:
Quoteand the number of active players on our official servers is really, really low from those demographics. Like orders of magnitudes less.
I'd love to play Ark, really. But the game wouldn't even play at 2fps for me, even though my rig should play the game fairly well.
You can't gimp a game for a specific platform and then complain when nobody on that platform plays your game
For comparison, on Windows, I used to get anywhere between 40 and 60 fps.. that's a shame.
Last edited by Tux1c on 11 February 2016 at 7:35 am UTC
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"Why isn't this EARLY ACCESS game working flawlessly for an OS used by less than one percent of its playerbase?!?!?". Could some of you be more entitled? Anyway - great news. I've had a good feeling about the Arma III port and this only brings it closer to actually becoming official.
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