ARK: Survival Evolved has a major update with a needed UI refresh

People often say this game is badly optimised, I disagree with them, I say it hasn't been optimised whatsoever, the developers (not sure they deserve the title) just spend their days adding fluff & fiddling with hit points. If I hadn't been given the game I certainly wouldn't buy it as it stands right now.

Quoting: GuestI play on linux and stream it to twitch and yes whilst I agree with the cave glitches, I have never experienced a glitch with the red woods and the rain glitches is minimal.

Yes the game on linux is buggy, but its still a great game the UI has made things easier to get around. As well as a new way of taming the Equus.

ARK is the kind of game where losing visibility for even a few seconds could mean death. When an issue, however rare, has such terrible impact on gameplay I consider it to be game breaking. I love ARK but as a Linux user will not be playing it until the Vulkan fix is rolled out.

The new UI is functionally nice, but I think the old colour scheme was better suited for ark. I don't think the sci-fi theme fits ark at all. While TEK-tier is sci-fi themed, you won't get there right away, you will, however, get the UI.

Quoting: KetilThe new UI is functionally nice, but I think the old colour scheme was better suited for ark. I don't think the sci-fi theme fits ark at all. While TEK-tier is sci-fi themed, you won't get there right away, you will, however, get the UI.

The idea of a UI that evolves with your tech level would be nice.

Them adding Vulkan support would essentially fix the graphical glitches... would be nice :)

The horse wrangling reminds me of the wrangling in Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete with hearts when you pet it.

Ark will always hold a special place in my heart as my first Steam refund. I simply couldn't manage to get through the first thirty seconds or so with a frame rate crawling slower than a paraplegic iguana walking off one too many xanex.

And whilst the zoological gallimaufry expanded with each new update, problems, bugs, and glitches were only ever being halfheartedly patched or completely ignored. Nevertheless I continued to follow the game, thinking someday it would get better.

Most of the games I play are little more than atrocity simulators, where success is measured in the number of one's (sometimes socially sanctioned) murder victims. Yet, as much fun as I have in a typical shooter turning my enemies/victims into exploding meat fireworks, I remain unaffected by the virtual carnage I wreak. After all, it's only pretend ... just an adult version of playing "army men" or cowboys and politically-incorrect Indians with my boyhood pals.

Over time, as I followed ARK's progress, it dawned on me that the central conceit of the game, taming and domesticating dinosaurs (et hoc genus omne) involved nothing other than engaging in the systematic and prolonged torture of innocent animals.

No matter how gigantic, ferocious, and pretend they may be, the thought of beating an animal into unconsciousness and starving and drugging them to "tame" them simply repulses me. I'm not going to argue the ethical nuances that go into my feeling hunky-dory mowing down literally hundreds of cops in Payday 2, or driving gleefully through crowds of pedestrians in a Saint's Row game, but make me feel queasy and sad at the thought of torturing a T Rex. I'm just going to say that I stopped following ARK because of this torture feature.

Damn, this got dark. I was originally just going to make some point about how the devs idea of improving ARK is to add more creatures. I suppose I see that abundance of creatures as an abundance of victims so seamlessly that I couldn't talk about one without talking about the other.

I'm gonna go cheer myself up with some Payday 2.


Last edited by Nanobang on 1 April 2017 at 4:33 pm UTC

Quoting: natewardawgThem adding Vulkan support would essentially fix the graphical glitches... would be nice :)

It's desperately needed for all UE4 games, in my opinion (but then again, I have old hardware)

I don't know if I'm reading this right, but it does look like "Linux: Vulkan support" was set to be worked on this month in the UE4 roadmap
https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap
I'm hopeful it won't take them that long too considering that DX12 support is already in (and some developer said that DX12 and Vulkan are so similar it should be easy to port between them), and also considering that UE4 already has Vulkan support for mobile devices. All that's left to do is get it working on the desktop and up to par with DX12.

UE4 and ARK arent related really. They already said they wont upgrade their engine to newer version. its still on 4.5. SO they either have to backport the vulkan from the newer version to their old super modified version or write it from the scratch.... Wouldnt hold my breath on it though. They have said things before also, which were never fixed.

Quoting: XpanderUE4 and ARK arent related really. They already said they wont upgrade their engine to newer version. its still on 4.5. SO they either have to backport the vulkan from the newer version to their old super modified version or write it from the scratch.... Wouldnt hold my breath on it though. They have said things before also, which were never fixed.

I think I had read the same somewhere, which is why ARK sits on my steam library no longer being played. After all those graphical glitches and the fact the game bores me.. I just couldn't do it anymore. Yet for some reason I can't resist buying a Conan game... So I bought Conan Exiles, which is almost the exact same play style as ARK, and doesn't even run on Linux... I feel ashamed! Damn you Conan!