ARK Survival Evolved is a technical mess on Xbox One but this is not surprising to see since the game has been clearly marked as an early access release and it is still in “pre-alpha” stage of development. The developers are planning to release the final version of the game this year and according to them, the optimization won’t happen until last 3 months of development.
ARK Survival Evolved creator director has commented on the state of the game as an early access title for the Xbox One after the game was revealed to be a technical mess with frame rate barely averaging out at 30 fps, and hitting as low as 8 fps at times.
Don't worry about @survivetheark optimization, we haven't started yet. Game is still Pre-Alpha with significant features yet to be added.
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 22, 2016
We also learn that the game was up and running on Xbox in mid November so not a lot of time has passed in its development yet. According to Jesse, the game still requires more than 6 months of development and the last three months will be used for optimization.
@Extremewagers Yep, those enhancements will come closer to launch. We just got the game fully running on Xbox in mid-Nov. Very early days!
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 20, 2016
@DDGSoftis @survivetheark @Xbox I understand your perspective, but the game is not done. 6+ months left, the last 3 for final optimization.
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 20, 2016
If you were hoping for Ark Survival Evovled on PS4, you will have to wait until the game’s development is done as Sony hasn’t allowed any early access release on their platform.
@AshleyGodber That is up to Sony. Make sure to ask them for an early access program if you want ARK on PS4 – before it finally launches!
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 20, 2016
ARK Survival Evolved is a great success on Xbox One for the developers and we learn that the peak concurrent users was 1.7x PC on January 20th, which is the highest since August last year.
Thanks for your feedback on dino balancing! @survivetheark daily CCU is highest since August. @Xbox is 1.7x PC…!!! pic.twitter.com/8rOszIOCZc
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 20, 2016
ARK Survival Evovled will support DirectX 12 and the developers have promised to release it as soon as it is ready “inside of UE4 and across all hardware targets.”
@FoXsTeRDOTA @survivetheark We will be releasing DX12 as soon as it's ready inside of UE4 and across all hardware targets.
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 22, 2016
Lastly we learn what vision the developers have for the final version of the game.
@ClaytonPeace @survivetheark First of all it will be a lot more polished. We will continue to update the game with new content, events, etc!
— Jesse (@arkjesse) January 21, 2016
ARK Survival Evolved is currently available as an early access game for the PC and Xbox One.
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