ARK: Survival Evolved now on Nintendo Switch!

Is this in lieu of the crunch?   Just wondering if we get a bonus weekend

So.....2x weekend?  ?

2 minutes ago, auntflo1 said:

So.....2x weekend?  ?

Just saw the tweet. Yes, it is a 2x weekend. 

Loving it so far! Can we expect the dlc/tek stuff in the future?

The link they have posted on here doesn't even work. It just takes you to a nintendo eshop page that doesn't exist. Why are they trying to push it out when it's not even accessible unless you buy it physically?

So it'll be available in Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Romania and Russia but not in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova?

What a total (...), how can you charge people like 60$ on a game with such awful textures? That even hurts my feelings omg, it looks even worse than the mobile version.  Really bad game, it will be a huge fail if the graphics still the same as now. 

So there is no local co-op...?

Welcome to the ARK switchers. Welcome to the family. Now, first you shou-ohcrapthatsacarnorunrunrunrunrundontlookbackrunohgodnorunitsstillcomingrunRUNRUNRUN!

So... anyone else remember when Studio Wildcard did that interview and said that they couldn't make multiple versions of the game and that's why xbox can't play with steam? 

 None of that was captured on the Switch.  So stop lying to us.  Game looks much worse than all of that media.  Awful Switch graphics It looks like watercolors for crepes sake!

Is there plan to upgrade  graphics on Nintendo switch? They are very ugly!!!

Wow makes Atlas feel like a great game compared to it.

DO NOT BUY!!

ark is still very buggy!

1 hour ago, ArthurSataine said:

None of that was captured on the Switch.  So stop lying to us.  Game looks much worse than all of that media.  

I... I really really want this to be wrong, but I have the switch version, and there are no moments on the game where the graphical fidelity stays that good for the draw distance you guys display in the trailer. The game looks decent within a foot of the character's face, but drops off sharply over the next two yards, and is pure impressionism beyond that. Not to say that has made it unplayable, but after playing the majority of today on Switch, I've had to take two dramamine to curb the nausea the hyperblur effect has induced. I've really tried to keep positive all day, but this game actually looks to have been deliberately designed to run and look just like this. The game simulates the degree of shortsightedness that would prevent any normal person from driving a vehicle in any circumstances, and we planned on riding wyverns in this mode one day... Please tell us what went wrong? I bought cartridge form due to the claims made by the team in the teaser ages before launch. I wanted to be able to plug this cart into a refurbished switch 10 years down the road and be able to play the island in full for a nostalgia trip. As it is, I want to forget today even happened. I watched servers fill up as soon as I had the game in my posession at home, and when I logged off to take something for the headaches and nausea, I returned, determined to play more ark, only to find most servers had already emptied. Your day one audience burnt out in the span of 4 hours... The game isn't a buggy mess this time around... it's just a really really terrible compromise on the Switch. I've bought this game now on three platforms and season passes on the two that offered them. I don't regret the other two purchases at all. This one... this one scares me. Who decided to make the Switch release a version where you get to play through Lord of the Flies as Piggy?

I'm starting to realize the ARK team never replies, posts or mentions anything unless it directly relates to them making more money.

Disgusting company with the worst customer service of any gaming company I've ever played, and I've been playing games since the 90s. You guys are nothing but money grubbing, incompetent programmers.

We've asked so many questions on these forums and you guys don't answer a single one, yet you push these new posts when you have something to sell.

Wheres the updates on the bugs? On new servers for consoles? What's going on? You guys are really lame and that's why I haven't bought extinction. I won't be buying it because you guys are a joke and I know there will be absolutely zero customer service for any problems I'm bound to encounter. You guys haven't even finished fixing the bugs from the OLD maps.

Great game ruined by the developers who are only out to make as much money as possible with putting in as little effort as possible and it's clear as day. 

All your posts in the past couple weeks are flooded with unanswered questions. But you guys don't care unless it effects your bottom line and the amount of money you guys are gonna make.

Ever consider the value public opinion can have in regard to your company? No, you haven't.

Sad.

Anyone here complaining about the switch deserved to get their money stolen. This company has done nothing but prove their not worth jack poope and you still bought it. Shame on you.

Yes release on more systems before fixing major bugs on pre-existing releases.  I still can't save maps on my play anywhere version on PC but Wildcard thought it would be a great idea to flood the market with a switch version sporting inferior graphics for full price.

What a joke. Just brutal. Imagine how bad the lack of support and fixes will be? I once defended WC, but releasing this garbage along with a terrible expansion that doesn't render on Xbox single player - let alone split screen lag and blobs for graphics. 

You should be ashamed at the complete lack of quality control. 

5 hours ago, HiImZech said:

DO NOT BUY!!

ark is still very buggy!

I already have a gamestop employee approve my return.  Taking this extremely bad port back as soon as possible. 

I read comments about graphical quality of Switch port. So you say, Wildcard used false advertisment to promote Switch port using prettier screenshots from other game's versions? If that's the case, it was illegal to promote the game that way. Bait-And-Switch to be precise. 

If it can't run on pc or console how does it run on a hand held

First of all, ark has bugs and will always have them. But the game runs everywhere with +/- 30fps. I‘m fine with that, thats just ark.

Switch version has good (not great, obviously worse than ps4/xone) graphics in docked mode and performance is fine.

But handheld is really, really blurry. It is nothing compared to the GDC footage. I just hope that this gets solved as soon as possible. Otherwise the switch version will brutally tank.

Why is there no possibility to choose between less performance / better graphics and less graphics / better performance as the ps4 pro / xbox one x has? 

Pls for the sake of the switch version, take the feedback and improve it!

edit: wasn‘t it supposed to get everything from the original game? Shouldn‘t the center / ragnarok be included then?

i am loving this game so far LVL 13 how ever my 2 tames got killed by a carno that came out of no where.

the dinos were used as my chest but the carno took one of a cliff and well i cant find the body.....

also any one planning any tribes in a server i am looking for one.

The link they have posted on here doesn't even work. It just takes you to a nintendo eshop page that doesn't exist. Why are they trying to push it out when it's not even accessible unless you buy it physically?

I'm on server NA-PVP-SwitchOfficial-TheIsland6 if you want to play with me. It'd be nice to have a teammate as I've been all alone on this server.

This game looks nothing like the screenshots and I gotta say I feel a little lied to. I didn't expect it to look even on par with the Xbox and Ps4 versions but its honestly like looking through a grimy pair of glasses that aren't my prescription when its in handheld and isn't the point of this so that I can take it anywhere? In docked mode it looks slightly better but the draw distance is still deplorable, an entire forest can appear in front of you within a few feet without any warning and dinos are no exception to that. I've had a Spino kill me because it popped up out of nowhere 10 feet away from me.

There is also DLC for this game that has been out for YEARS. Why can't I play Scorched Earth on my Switch from the get go? I feel like other companies would have just included it with the game at this point. Or at the very least made available to buy? The lack of DLC AND Ark Sponsored mods makes the game feel emptier, less fun, and in my opinion almost unplayable. I don't even like being able to store only 15 things in a chest on PC where I don't really mind walking back and forth between boxes because everything runs so smoothly and looks so pretty. But when it looks like the devil himself vomited onto my Switch's screen I really would appreciate being able to pull resources to my character from the surrounding containers. 

Just some Food for thought WildCard but until I start to see some improvements I'll be trading mine in for a copy of Diablo.

P.s: And btw no motion controls? on a Switch title? Please don't pull a Fortnite and remove one of the Switch's most enjoyable features.