Everyone has a fighting chance
Studio Wildcard has announced that ARK: Survival Evolved is heading to Nintendo Switch in Fall 2018. During today’s GDC, the audience got a look at the game running on Switch. Studio Wildcard worked in conjunction with Abstraction Games to bring the game to Switch.
ARK: Survival Evolved has had the first part of the Tender Loving Care update applied to servers. TLC brings the #MateBoosted where tames have a chance to drop Chocolate Cake when they mate….um….how or from where remains unknown. These can be used to heal or advance the pet’s taming affinity bar. In addition, red, white and pink critters are roaming in the world “searching for true love’s kiss”.
Studio Wildcard has sent word that ARK: Survival Evolved will be updated today with the Aberration content expansion. Players will have a new underground biome to explore that is packed with new flora and fauna. There are new creatures to tame including a “chameleon like” Rock Drake. There are 50+ new items to craft and new challenges to defeat.
Studio Wildcard is fresh off this week’s launch of ARK: Survival Evolved but it’s not resting on its laurels. Earlier today, the team introduced the game’s next expansion called “Aberration” that is set to be released in October.
Today’s a big day for ARK: Survival Evolved as it has achieved official launch status after two years in Early Access. As part of the momentous occasion, a ton of new content has been added to the game including a new soundtrack by well-known composer Gareth Coker, the Ragnarok free expansion DLC, an actual storyline including an end-game boss and two new critters (Otter today and Phoenix later this week).
Studio Wildcard has announced that the ARK: Survival Evolved retail release date has been pushed back to August 29th, three weeks later than the original August 8th release. The delay came at the hands of Gold Master certification taking longer than anticipated.
When ARK: Survival Evolved launches on August 8th, current official servers will not be wiped, but will be rebranded as “Legacy” servers. For players looking for an all new ground-up experience, new PvP Server Cluster network will be launched that will run separately from the PvP Legacy Server Cluster. At launch, new server code and infrastructure will be rolling out to address a number of critical issues on new and legacy servers over time.
Studio Wildcard has announced that ARK: Survival Evolved will officially launch across three platforms on August 8th. In addition, pre-order information has been released regarding a physical Collector’s Edition sold via GameStop for $159.99. It comes with the game, Season Pass, a leather-bound Explorer’s Notebook, an ARK necklace and cloth map, a development team poster and a special wooden box to house it all.
The ARK: Survival Evolved site has been updated with a notice that the next PC update will be delayed until May 3rd. The reason for delay is the “active remodeling” of a volcano will result in several meters in its vicinity being buried under an ocean of lava. The advanced notice is to give players a chance to move out of the “green zone” prior to the patch’s deployment.
The PlayStation 4 version of ARK: Survival Evolved has been updated to patch 255, the Tek update, bringing it in line with both PC and XBox One versions. This update brings four new dinosaurs into the game as well as the Tek Forcefield, tileset and doors.