In an unusually candid second, Studio Wildcard’s co-founder has stated that the servers underpinning Ark: Survival Ascended “run like ass.”
Revised survival recreation Ark: Survival Ascended has been greeted with combined opinions because it launched into Early Access in late October, and even its developer, Studio Wildcard, appears open that there’s room for enchancment.
As reported by Eurogamer, studio co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz has admitted that the sport’s servers – when it comes to their stability and velocity – are “ass.”
“The servers are ass,” Stieglitz stated throughout the Extra Life Charity Stream on Twitch. “They run like ass, and their stability is ass.”
First introduced in April, Ark: Survival Ascended is a current-gen remodeling of Studio Wildcard’s personal hit, Ark: Survival Evolved. Shifting platforms to Unreal Engine 5, Survival Ascended was delayed a number of occasions – apparently because of the challenges of working with Epic’s new engine – and likewise sparked a little bit of pre-release controversy.
Initially, Studio Wildcard solely deliberate to make Ark: Survival Ascended out there as a part of the Respawned Bundle, a $50 assortment that may have additionally included a pre-order of Ark 2 – a full-blown sequel that has itself been topic to repeated delays. It additionally emerged that Ark: Survival Evolved would have its servers taken off-line, basically forcing present followers to purchase the aforementioned bundle with the intention to preserve taking part in their favorite dinosaur-filled survival recreation.
The backlash was such that Studio Wildcard scrapped the bundle altogether, and introduced that Ark: Survival Ascended can be out there as a standalone buy as an alternative. The value? $59.99, which was greater than the bundle initially introduced. (The studio has since launched Ark: Survival Ascended on the value of $44.99, or £37.99.)
Stieglitz has stated that Ark: Survival Evolved’s “ass” server state of affairs will likely be mounted “imminently,” although when it’ll occur isn’t presently clear. Certainly, skimming by way of Steam opinions, server points appear to be a standard grievance, in addition to bugs and crashes. “I tamed a chicken,” one person reviews, “named it poopy butt, then my recreation crashed.”
Ark 2, in the meantime – which stars a digitised Vin Diesel – is presently due for launch in some unspecified time in the future in 2024.
