Ark: Survival Evolved - Dinosaur MMO/Survival PVP funz!

digitalx said:
It's alright, a 6/10 at best in my book. Plenty of items to craft and lots of engrams to unlock as you level. The health, stamina etc systems are great. If you're out of stamina in the middle of the ocean you drown as you would expect.

Edit: For giggles I tried 4K thinking my system would lolnope. But.. 35fps on Medium. Res scaling middle, sky and ground clutter 1/3rd of the bar up. Pic: http://i.imgur.com/9fh94C1.jpg
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lol, for a moment i thought you were just like those annoying Reddit ppl who've posted nighttime screenshots where you cant see nothing - then i checked and you WERE one of the annoying reddit people posting night time pics :D:D
Show us the daytime gloriousness!!!! I can see these night time screenshots just by turning off my monitors :p:D

Strange that you were getting those weird cursor alignment issues on a 4K screen, i'd have thought it might have issues with irregular ratios but not something like 4K. Im sure it'll get fixed though, they're commonplace enough for it to be causing issues for plenty of ppl, and i'd imagine plenty are having to dial down to 1080p.


Theres some really beautiful looking screenshots in this album, its on 'Epic' setting, 4690K & 970 - "I get 15-25 FPS, but it's more than playable". The devs have said DX12 is already seeing improvements around 40-50% in framerate, with some optimisation it shouldnt be beyond reason to be able to run Epic @ 1080p on reasonable hardware, certainly by next year. Im loving the density of forests though, they feel like forests rather than just a bunch of trees.

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It was either I post on Reddit and get semi nice comments, or post it on /v/ and get verbally slaughtered, so.. I took the right option :D

I only took two shots recently, been in game for a good hour.

It was a busy server, hence the FPS, or something..

http://i.imgur.com/FuDEPld.jpg (A nope moment, it followed me)

http://i.imgur.com/oDkhIH0.jpg (I found a mirror)

I can take a 4K, max setting day time pic if you want?
 
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Yeah, i'd love to see some high quality pics.
That map/mirror picture though :D:D

While watching the Lirik stream earlier, they started climbing up one of the huge mountains in the middle of the map (slightly left of center) and he turned around and looked back, and i quickly managed to grab a screendump of it, it was rather impressive the viewing distance is spot on. Obviously you cant see dino's miles away, and theres a noticeable lack of trees beyond the streams but still, better than the magic fog many games would apply to cover up weak viewing distances.

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edit - added spoilers cos its 1080p. why havent we got image resizing on here, seriously??

That, coupled with the 2 pic above which was posted on Reddit hours ago, it looks really impressive. One of the few things ive yet to see is some proper base building. More than just a 3x2 wooden box. Lirik ran past a decent box base which appeared to have pipping going for miles down to the water, cos it was built quite high up and he first noticed the weird floating pipes (looked like a game glitch initially). But i'd like to see proper fenced off areas, that sort of thing. Its only been officially out 24h, so plenty of time really, but i havent seen much effort to base build and set up home. most seem to try it then abandon it and go exploring. Understandable at this stage i suppose.
 
That looks fantastic. 8FPS though, ouch :D

Some optimisation, DX12 gains, and one of the next GPUs might actually get it there though.
Is that every setting on epic or max setting? Have you tried the settings which seem to be popular for getting the best compromise of looks & performance? 4K is probably still a stretch on any title pushing the boundaries, i suspect most still set the benchmark at 1080p and expect 4K owners to throw money at the solution :(, but im sure a compromise would get 4K looking spectacular on a card similarly priced to your 290 in a years time, which seems somewhat reasonable IMO.
 
Omaeka said:
Graphics look good for a game like this, but can you seriously potentially kill a T REX with a slingshot? :D
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Well, one person at least has done so already - solo :D
They said it took ages, and they had to kite him around, in & out of the building they'd built (why it hadnt knocked it down, dont know) but the whole process of knocking it out and taming it to become a pet took hours. 4 i think he said (accurate or not, im sure thats what he claimed).

Killing it is something different though. If you went at it with spears/stone axes, you'd probably struggle. I suspect the slingshot works because you're knocking them out, rather than killing them. You can kill them having knocked them out, but you can knock another survivor out with a headshot, and do as you please with them. It'd take much more work to stab at them with a spear.

Link to his reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/38cy72/it_took_about_4_hours_but_hes_finally_mine_d/
"Slingshot, 100+ shots, was tedious as fudge lol"


@digitalx
Thats good. Plenty of room to dial things back somewhat then. Wont make much difference just yet, but who knows come August when DX12 is let loose officially and ARK is patched up for it.
 
Yes, thats true. But then T-Rex's, Dragons and assault rifles too ;)

My theory is that in the ARK universe, the supreme overlords have technology so advanced we can hardly comprehend it - unfortunately one flaw in their tech is their dino's have the skull density of a week old baby, its early access technology - they'll fix it... maybe :D
 
Wait what, you're in some futuristic hunger games with dinosaurs? :D

I thought the game was a case of players being primitives a few hundred million years ago LOL
 
I just bought this and played for half an hour ... it seems very thin and poorly thought out. My main impression was that the HUD is the most obtrusive and ugly I've ever seen in a game. Also, the fact that you can punch out and smack down heavily armoured creatures weighing several tons feels utterly retarded. Redeeming features are the comical dysmorphic characters you can build, and the Dodos and terror birds are funny ... that seems about it.

Upon exiting, went to forums and saw they'd just announced they'd partnered with NVIDIA to integrate GameWorks .... how convenient Steam just instituted their new refund policy.
 
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Omaeka said:
Wait what, you're in some futuristic hunger games with dinosaurs? :D

I thought the game was a case of players being primitives a few hundred million years ago LOL
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No, far from it. Theres supposed to be some sort of story behind it, probably on par with that of Lost tbh. The stone/engram embedded into your characters wrist, the big obelisks over the island, along with all the prehistoric & mythological creatures being present while you eventually gain the abilities to build modern items, like assault rifles & snipers, remote triggered C4, craft buildings out of metal etc.

I havent played WoW, but it seems like some sort of Survival + Dinos + WoW type combo. The dragons dont naturally roam the land/skies, they're one of the creatures which i believe can be summoned and then you and friends would attempt to complete the challenge and be rewarded. Hunger Games (aka Battle Royale rip-off) isnt far off really.
 
Played this for a few hours last night and in that time died about 15 times... Mostly to the nasty little spitter ***** and the occasional Raptor...although I did punch a raptor to death at one point.

It was also difficult playing when there was one guy in our TS who was just sitting there listening to what we were doing, Popping out of no where and killing us repeatedly (He is level 15 and been playing all day) His response was "Its a pvp survival game...tough luck" ....While I agree, killing a lvl 4 for the 10 thatch he has and just "because" cannot exactly be rewarding.

There also seems to be an issue that Dinosaurs can walk through building wallls...or at least I woke up in our shared house this morning only to be eaten alive by the dinosaurs that had some how gotten inside the building without knocking the walls down or opening the doors.
 
Got an hour or so in lastnight, now level 9, kept to the beach killing high(ish) level stuff alone, couldn't resist knocking someones base wall down too :p

Game runs ok, looks great, and yes i've already been eaten by a shark.....
 
jubei said:
Ah, the universal excuse for people that are terrible at proper games and need to play at an advantage to help their ego :) You will never see that guy playing a duel in a game like quake ;)
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He is generally quite good at most games and a good laugh...Get him into a survival game and he turns into a **** and likes to go solo for the challenge. He did the same in Rust and to be honest was very good at it (frequently taking on multiple people using only the bow)
 
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