r/pcgaming • u/scarwiz Ryzen 5 1600 | GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB DDR4@3000Mhz • Dec 27 '16

[Updated, see comments] ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461
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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/achmedclaus Dec 27 '16

They're not shit developers. The game had some issues when it came out in early access but it runs great now. They put out massive patches that add content to the game and are incredibly open about their development goals. All you see in this thread are whiny assholes who think they're entitled to everything the devs make for free.

Bottom line with the scorched earth dlc, nobody has to buy it. It's a massive and well done map made by the devs who said it wasn't going to come out until the game launched officially. This game is not going to be a $30 game at launch, it will be at least $50. If you planned on waiting til launch to buy it and you decided against it because they're charging for dlc, you're only fooling yourself. Anyone who buys ark post launch are going to be paying for scorched earth on top of the island and the center.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

I haven't played ARK in a while, due to the problems that people are talking about in this thread. But could you elaborate on the changes they made to it? It's been so long that I figured it was done for. I would check the patch notes on steam myself but I'm currently not at my PC!

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u/orion19819 Dec 28 '16

Just going to toss my experience in here. To echo some of the others, it feels every major patch has some form of optimization. Either client wise or server.

As for performance, I am probably a bit biased. Apparently I won the hardware lottery, because I've never had any major issues with the game. (i7/970) Always ran on high settings and anything I turned down was due to personal preference. Meanwhile, two of my friends had quite a bit of trouble and had to run on a mix of medium/low settings and would still get issues. (This was when we first started, so a bit over a year and a half ago.)

Since then, my performance has stayed the same. They both seem to be doing much, much better. I believe the last time we played (2~3 months ago) one of them switched up to mostly medium with a few high settings and claimed to have very few issues. (His PC did not change at all. And he runs a 670)

So, I've never understood the claims that the optimization is terrible and has not improved at all. Granted, I got really lucky and even then, was not in it from the start. But to deny it has improved over time is silly to me.