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ARK: Survival Evolved Switch screens

Hero of Legend

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More here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ARK-Survival-Evolved-Switch-Nintendo/dp/B07G1VHBNG

Well now we see what Abstraction are actually doing to get the game to run on Switch. It's a bit rough it looks like, but everyone said it couldn't even be done so eh. :P

Still, really looking forward to seeing how it turns out and how it runs.
 
thonerayman

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It really blows my mind they can run this game at all. But this really is how the game looked when it launched on XBox in EA. It was an ugly smudge fest. Hopefully they can optimize it..but I've been saying that about the main game for 2 years. Pixark is where it's going to be at for Switch.
 
Medalion

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Yup, confirms my suspicions... the resolution may be lower but the details are higher than I expected... this thing will probably run closer to 15-20fps on average

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HylianSeven

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I think seeing this in motion is really going to be what sells it to me or not. I love this game on PC, and I'm curious how this port will turn out.
 
Medalion

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This one is the worst one I could find from those batch of screenshots... it really does have that smoothered out look that other games had to do to make their games run a certain way

I think this game uses some kind of dynamic resolution scaling
 

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Worst game I ever played. Paid full price for this on PS4, and worst mistake of my life.

Game looks AND runs like complete and utter dogshit.

I hate everything about this game. To the way everything animates. To the ugly ugly UI.

Put in 6 hours because my friend bought it. 6 grueling hours. I would fake illnesses just to get an excuse not to play this game.

Would love to see what the final game plays and looks like on the Switch. Because PS4 was unreal how piss poor it was. Switch version has gotta be something else.
 

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Medalion

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Hooray!!!

I have been looking for a reason to get back into ARK, but even my PC can barely keep up...

Let's see how this goes :)
 
ILikeFeet

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zakatana said:
The game has gone gold, so it should release soon.

https://mobile.twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1039321611030155264&ref_url=https://survivetheark.com/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=https://twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264

I'm extremely curious to see how it runs, and quite impressed already by what we've seen; I love impossible games releasing on switch.
RDR2 you're next. Book it. B-)
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gone gold and we still don't know how poorly it'll run. great sign
 
Gankzymcfly

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Im gunna bet it runs 10-15 fps if the performance of the xb1x version is any demonstration of their target.
 
Elfotografoalocado

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zakatana said:
The game has gone gold, so it should release soon.

https://mobile.twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1039321611030155264&ref_url=https://survivetheark.com/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=https://twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264

I'm extremely curious to see how it runs, and quite impressed already by what we've seen; I love impossible games releasing on switch.
RDR2 you're next. Book it. B-)
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Looks like it's at 540p or so? If it keeps the framerate of the XBOX One version, it's not too shabby for what it is :)
 
Oregano

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Considering the other game Abstraction ported(SNK Heroines) I wouldn't hold out hope for the performance.
 
Skittzo

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zakatana said:
The game has gone gold, so it should release soon.

https://mobile.twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1039321611030155264&ref_url=https://survivetheark.com/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=https://twitter.com/arkjeremy/status/1039321611030155264

I'm extremely curious to see how it runs, and quite impressed already by what we've seen; I love impossible games releasing on switch.
RDR2 you're next. Book it. B-)
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Cool, will be interesting to see.

I know you can't really compare the two but apparently Cities: Skylines which can have framerate problems on PS4 runs surprisingly well on Switch. Someone in that thread even said it felt like it was running more smoothly than on PS4.

So I really think it's just a matter of making the right cutbacks and not necessarily requiring massive downgrades across the board. It'll be very interesting to see some DF analyses of these games.
 
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kiguel182 said:
That's weird..
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That's good. Developers getting comfortable porting mobile versions of their games contribute to a dangerous trend making the switch more of a handheld and less of an hybrid console. I'm specifically taking about square and ff15 mobile here.
As long as I get the full experience in a game, I'm willing to take some heavy cutbacks on the technical aspects for any game, if that means having it on the go as well as on my big screen.
 
MrConbon210

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Sort of off topic but does the game still have that big ugly font that looks like completely out of place in the game? I've always bought about buying it but it looked so early access however it's been a while.
 

feroca

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Looks similar to the Xbox One (non X) version.
And yeah...the font is still there. :p
 
Effect

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I wonder how big this version is going to be as well. The PC install pretty damn big. Over 50gbs I think.
 
Medalion

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Yeah I am expecting sub 720p with dynamic res to keep FPS at 20+ fps on both docked and undocked
 
kiguel182

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zakatana said:
That's good. Developers getting comfortable porting mobile versions of their games contribute to a dangerous trend making the switch more of a handheld and less of an hybrid console. I'm specifically taking about square and ff15 mobile here.
As long as I get the full experience in a game, I'm willing to take some heavy cutbacks on the technical aspects for any game, if that means having it on the go as well as on my big screen.
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But if the mobile version is more suited for the platform and it's a good game then who cares?

I don't know how the mobile version of Ark is but I don't know if it will be necessarily worse than the downport they will publish.
 
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