Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:11am 03/06/15 | 17 Comments
Need any more convincing you should check this out? Here's their tagline: "Fly on Pterodactyls, Create Tribes Bound in Blood, Build Jurassic Mansions, Throw Dino Dung, and More".
ARK takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. They immediately discover that going it alone is a dangerous hardship. Those who work together will quickly learn there is power in numbers. What is the secret to survival? Each person must contribute to the collective effort: hunt, harvest resources, craft tools, research technology, and build shelters to protect against scorching days, freezing dark nights, volatile weather systems, ferocious wildlife, and lurking predators.The game is available now on Steam Early Access for USD $24.99, and is planned to make a complete release in 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One with Morpheus and Oculus support.
The open-world design of ARK is so big, mysterious, and filled with revelations that gamers will constantly be adapting and learning about its seemingly endless content. This includes a deep level of customization from the very beginning in the character creation screen, enabling highly unique features, from the herculean to the intensely bizarre. Players can:
- Join a tribe, plant renewable crops and build an entirely functioning village with a sustainable economy
- Train and level up “pet” dinosaurs to carry allies, inventory and equipment
- Increase levels by experiencing the varied elements that the island has to offer
- Sneak up on unsuspecting survivors, render them unconscious, then steal their gear
- Grab a ringside seat to watch dinosaurs battle to the death
- Maintain individual health by searching out meat sources, plant types, and drinkable water, or starve
- Craft clothing to protect yourself from extreme weather conditions or freeze to death
- Build a deluxe, multi-story house that includes ramps, beams, gates, remote gates, trapdoors, water pipes and faucets, generators, wires, electrical devices and more
Dinos are back in games in a big way, let's hope this is the start of a defining trend.
Watch the launch trailer embedded below.
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Posted 11:48am 03/6/15
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Posted 09:37pm 04/6/15
This is one of the jankier early access games i've bought into. It works like 10% of the time online.
Posted 11:36pm 04/6/15
ill wait a few months to see if this becomes playable :/
Posted 11:45pm 04/6/15
Posted 11:45pm 04/6/15
Not quake brown sharp ugly.
Just plain ugly.
Posted 10:49am 05/6/15
Posted 11:17am 05/6/15
SLI isn't supported by UE4 yet, so try turning that off and playing it. I've heard that people playing with multiple cards on will get terrible frames (but I turned mine off and STILL got terrible frames :P )
To get better frames, drop everything but textures and view distance down to low (keep those two on high). Try the cell buffer thing on high as well, but not sure if it makes a diff. Also, bump the reso down, it should make a big difference in the meantime. They said "give us a few weeks" in regards to optimisation, so hopefully when you come back it should be stable and giving some nice FPS. They actually have "improve GPU performance" as one of their goals over the next 2 days (They have a goal list on the discussion forums of what they're going to achieve for that patching period of 2 days).
And even while I was running it at 15fps (I think my video card needs a clean out), I still had a f***-ton of fun. I went into the jungle (big mistake, pitch black under that canopy...) and had 2 sabre-toothed tigers kill a group of 3 raptors. Basically, they started fighting over who would get to eat me... (the tigers won...)
When this game comes out and people (hopefully) move to a more co-op mindset (come on RP PVP Aussie servers!), village VS village wars are going to be f*****g incredible. The RP potential is pretty insane and I'm getting a half chub just thinking about it.
I don't think so, though they may end up doing a beta closer to console release. *shrug* The only things they've said that I've seen (or paid attention to, IDGAF about consoles :P ) are that it will have Proj Morpheus and Oculus VR support and that it will take about a year.
Posted 01:32am 07/6/15
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Posted 12:19am 09/6/15
You can do some pretty demented things.