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Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
TAME, TRAIN, BREED & RIDE DINOSAURS, IN A LIVING ECOSYSTEM Over 50 creatures can be tamed using a challenging subdue-&-protect process. Weaken a feral creature to knock it out, and then nursing it to health. Once tamed, you can issue commands to your Pet, which it may follow depending on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Pets continue to level-up and consume food, and carry Inventory and Equipment. Fly a Pteranodon over the mountains, race through the jungle with a pack of Raptors, or chase down prey on a T-Rex! Experience a dynamic ecosystem with its own predator & prey hierarchies. Breed Pets through successive generations to generate the best traits. Or put more simply, breed & raise Dino Babies!
FOOD, WATER, TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER Eat and drink to survive, with different foods having different nutritional values (including human meat!). All actions drain food and water, and long-distance travel is draining. Inventory weight slows you down, and the day/night cycle and weather alter the environment. Craft clothing, build shelter, and use fire to protect yourself against damage & the elements.
HARVEST, CRAFT, AND PAINT ITEMS Harvest trees, ore, and more to become a master crafter. Use your hands, a Smithy, or a Fabricator to craft increasingly complex and powerful gear. Build a massive base using modular pieces--ranging from Thatch, to Wood, to Stone, to Metal. Customize your base by painting it and placing signs that you can actually draw on. Weapons, clothing, & armor gear can also be painted to express your own visual style.
SUMMON THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORMS Bring rare items to special Summon locations to awaken the ARK’s mythical creatures, who arrive ready for battle. These monstrosities provide an end-game goal for the most experienced Tribes and their Pets, and yield valuable items if they are defeated.
RPG STATISTICS Level-Up your survivor by gaining experience through in-game actions to learn new crafting Engrams, or find higher level item Blueprints in the most dangerous parts of the ARK. Customize the look of your character with a complex character creation system.
HARDCORE MECHANICS Items have durability and wear out with use if not repaired. When you leave the game, your character remains “sleeping” in the persistent world. Your inventory also exists in the persistent world, vulnerable to theft. Death means permanent loss, and you can even enslave other players for your own purposes.
LARGE WORLD PERSISTENCE On the 70+ player servers, your character, everything you built, and your pets stay in-game even when you leave. Special themed events will occur in the world with corresponding limited-run items!
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For people with issues..... by Dave
Fullscreen: Win+Shift+Enter Also for those saying that you cannot create a server on xbox and play on PC they are wrong. Just create an Xbox silver account and run the server on that and then log into your gold account on PC and run the game. Version numbers are different so you cannot search for the server but if you go into the Xbox app on your PC and click join game on the silver account (the one that's running the server) it will let you join the server just fine. Developers: Please streamline the process of joining crossplay games. Make the version numbers the same.....
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It won't even start up by Speedwagon
After downloading the update (which took an absurd amount of time, despite my excellent download speed), Ark won't even start up.
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Disappointing Release for Win10 by Brad
Pros: -Crossplay -Better Performance Than Xbox -Looks Better Than Xbox Cons: -Lacks Basic Graphics Settings -Worse Performance Than Steam -Looks Worse Than Steam The graphics settings neglected to include resolution and fullscreen settings. It also lacks anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. And despite having a moderately short draw distance, the performance varies quite a bit. (7700k/1080ti) The window doesn't capture your cursor so looking up results in a loss of look control once you reach the top of the screen. Looking down too far lands you in your taskbar. This oversight can lead you to either minimize or close the game entirely or lose the ability to steer your head when fighting things above you or launching a different program when clicking while looking down. That, more than anything, needs to be fixed. I find it unfortunate that, if you own both a PC and Xbox, you cannot run a dedicated server on one and play on it from the other. I cannot recommend this port for PC.