They have announced and released 'Ragnarok', a new officially supported huge map created under their 'Sponsored Mods' program. Check out the trailer for this free new content:
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Going back to the release date news, the developers are promising some surprise release content and content beyond the full launch. The claim to have massive amounts still coming to the game, like new features, creatures, story and more.
See the full news here.
My problem with ARK, is that the developers clearly put very little attention into the Linux version. It's still incredibly buggy, parts of it are completely broken (hello Caves), yet it's still such an engrossing game that I really want to play. I really hope one day they spend a bit of time polishing up the Linux version. They certainly aren't alone in needing to do that though!
Also, as a reminder, we do actually have an ARK server that recently had a refresh. See a list of our servers here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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lucifertdark 13 Jun 2017
I was given the game as a Christmas present & I'm still waiting 6 months later to be able to actually get any real play time out of it, the performance on the Linux port sucks so badly I'm almost tempted to fire up Windows to play it. Even after doubling my Ram & getting the fastest Quad Core processor my motherboard can handle it still sucks.
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I assume graphical glitches will be fixed when they are going to implement the vulkan renderer. I think a lot of these glitches will already be gone with an upgrade of UE4, which they might do, but that's an immense amount of work, so they will postpone that as long as possible.
Another bug is that since v257 the music doesn't work, especially the war music.
If you hear yourself saying oeh ah uh and you see red flashes, chances are something is biting your behind without you noticing it.
Another bug is that since v257 the music doesn't work, especially the war music.
If you hear yourself saying oeh ah uh and you see red flashes, chances are something is biting your behind without you noticing it.
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The ragnarok map problems are a steam (client) issue, I guess... The steam store says I have it installed (4/4), the steam library says I have all dlc's installed 3/3 ... The directory structure says it is installed in Mods/Ragnarok, next to Mods/thecenter...
This happens to windows users too.
This happens to windows users too.
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It would be cool if there were some linux-specific news about this game, as it has lots of linux specific problems. As it is, judging from previous evolutions, I have small hope of the devs rewriting their engine or stuff like that.
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lucifertdark 13 Jun 2017
It looks like I was a bit premature with my last comment, I just fired it up & it plays better for me now. Oh & with the most recent patch 258 I think the music is working for me.
Last edited by lucifertdark on 13 Jun 2017 at 4:16 pm UTC
Last edited by lucifertdark on 13 Jun 2017 at 4:16 pm UTC
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If I turn down some graphics stuff, then a 3GB 1060 GTX has acceptable performance. Still some graphical glitches though.
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I love this game, but when you compare dx graphic and performance with opengl... hope to see vulkan soon.
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performance is fine with GTX 1070, but it was really bad with 1050Ti. Yeah graphical glitches are still there and i doubt they will fix them in time for the official release. i just cannot see that. they havent updated the UE4 engine and writing vulkan renderer from scratch doesn't seem like task for ark devs who just add new models and content all the time without much of a optimizations.. i hope im wrong though
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About ragnarok again: the forgot to set the platforms for the dlc... So it only works on legacy windows, not all windows/mac/linux
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If I turn down some graphics stuff, then a 3GB 1060 GTX has acceptable performance. Still some graphical glitches though.
Same here. I can live with the actual performances (gtx 970), but the graphical glitches are really annoying : it's almost impossible to explore the caves right now because of the "rainbow glitch" and the black textures...
It's a shame because this game is really great, without any doubt the best survival game on Linux...
Last edited by Narvarth on 13 Jun 2017 at 9:13 pm UTC
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Haven't played it in a long time, but what worked for me at an early state of the game was: max. out graphics (epic or something like that it was called), then restart the game and it ran smoothly with a i7-3770k & gtx970@3840x2160 ... it even ran better at that setting than lower graphics details (but I don't know if that still works with the current version)... so they seem to do weird things with the engine (at least in the past)...
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GustyGhost 14 Jun 2017
That R9 285 in my PC info is only there because of this damn game. I'm normally an APU guy. The 285 only helped recover performance until it became unplayable again in mid-2016. There's no doubt that studio Wildcard are wrecking performance with each update.
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Unfinished games are the only ones that make me feel like I need 16 GB of RAM, so I stick with my 8 GB.
Once ARK is released, I'll install it again and give it a try. I had a little fun in it before. If it performs terribly and upgrading stuff is a major grind, I won't waste my time.
Once ARK is released, I'll install it again and give it a try. I had a little fun in it before. If it performs terribly and upgrading stuff is a major grind, I won't waste my time.
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This games eat all my ram...
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Somehow I do not have any performance issue, but texture glitches is there, and ARK devs ignore them, as much as they can:
https://twitter.com/gabrielWildcard/status/867181876737265664
For me only playable map is SE, because there is small amount of water and it is main glich reason (rivers, waterfalls, rain) in any other map. Even caves is playable there. They has some glitches in entrance, but only there.
https://twitter.com/gabrielWildcard/status/867181876737265664
For me only playable map is SE, because there is small amount of water and it is main glich reason (rivers, waterfalls, rain) in any other map. Even caves is playable there. They has some glitches in entrance, but only there.
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Somehow I do not have any performance issue, but texture glitches is there, and ARK devs ignore them, as much as they can:I've tweeted to them from the GOL account: https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/874938331125231617
https://twitter.com/gabrielWildcard/status/867181876737265664
For me only playable map is SE, because there is small amount of water and it is main glich reason (rivers, waterfalls, rain) in any other map. Even caves is playable there. They has some glitches in entrance, but only there.
I tweeted Jat and the official twitter to, no reply from either.
Edit: I've also emailed them now too.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 14 Jun 2017 at 10:39 am UTC
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Ragnarok map is broken for linux client, all textures are missing, I see only water and dinos. But... no glitches.
Last edited by evergreen on 14 Jun 2017 at 5:48 pm UTC
Last edited by evergreen on 14 Jun 2017 at 5:48 pm UTC
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WC has fixed the oslist property on ragnarok, so we can now install and run it:
https://steamdb.info/app/642250/history/
Fixed 11 hours ago.
Now I still need to work before I can test it :-(
https://steamdb.info/app/642250/history/
Fixed 11 hours ago.
Now I still need to work before I can test it :-(
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lucifertdark 19 Jun 2017
That would go a long way to explaining why when I tried the map the other day it took me straight back to the main menu.
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