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#Ark survival story Patch

There's generally been at least one fairly substantial patch per month, usually accompanied by regular hotfix patches for a couple days or so around it as well, and sometimes the combined totals on all of it can be like 7-10GB. Sometimes too regular I should maybe point out, as if you have a download cap for your net it could potentially be problematic. Plus the world building options menu for starting a new game let you customize most things to exactly how you're most comfortable playing, which is fantastic.Īrk is a really well done game, and it gets very regular updates.

#Ark survival story full

However, a ton of people out there actually LIKE when your food and water gauges go from full to empty every 12 seconds whilst accomplishing anything requires that you stand in the same place performing the same actions and never screwing up for 12 solid hours (I'm heavily exaggerating here in reference to the effort required to tame a dinosaur), so the things I have complaints over may be exactly what you desire. I tend to imagine that Ark is flipping amazing with a handful or more of friends all working together, but I feel like it's pretty torturous alone.

It felt like the progress made in that game can't even be rated on a human time scale, but rather on the geological time scale.

So many things are so incredibly slow and tedious without having friends around to help. I've played a bunch of survival games, and virtually all of them almost exclusively single player, and I feel like Ark is one of the best of them mechanically, but also the one that I've enjoyed playing the least. I don't do the open multiplayer stuff in any survival games after seeing nothing but harassment, abuse & trolling in the past, so I can't actually add anything from personal experience to that part at all.Īs to the game itself being good for single player only, I mostly find myself immediately tending towards no. Evidently they made it so people can freely switch servers or something, so tons of full alliances and the like have swapped around taking places over and generally harassing the community or preventing new players from even being able to enter the worlds and so on. Then I have also seen a bunch of people raging over some changes made that only effect the multiplayer aspect which would then be irrelevant to you. Personally, I got Ark from Humble Monthly, so I am far less ruffled by this, but it is of note. The one you'll probably see the most salt over being, of course, the release of a paid DLC for an unfinished game where they have clearly taken the money of the people who have been supporting it in Early Access and, rather than finishing the game, made a separate DLC and decided it was fair and proper to then also charge for it as much as they charge for the base game. I would say the game is quite good overall, but there have been a number of significant caveats to that.

#Ark survival story how to

I'm torn on how to answer this question, because I'm highly ambivalent where this game is concerned.