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Hi guys, long Story short we all know theres not a tsunami of Information about Ark on Nintendo Switch. But i reached out to Abstraction Games, and heres what they said. At least they answered and see we are out there. But as it always was: Wildcard is asleep. Heres the Quote: “Hi Thorsten, Thanks for reaching out to us! We are working on all console versions, including ARK Switch. We do not however have any control over when new patches will be released as Studio Wildcard controls that process 100% and sends instructions our way as they see fit. Basically, we’re in the same boat as the community as far as information is concerned. That said, our idea is to vastly improve the Switch version over time. We just don’t know when we are able to put the bulk of our resources on either platform. I guess this is still just a case of waiting for Wildcard to broadcast their plans or release date commitment. DLC was planned for Switch, but honestly I don’t know where that sits right now. I’ve been trying to get a hold of Wildcard management for weeks but there has been radio silence for a while. I’m sure at some point they’ll be in touch again after a period of being overwhelmed on their end is my best guess. Cheers, Ralph Abstraction“ Bottom Line is that Wildcard does not even respond to a freaking developer that they paid for porting their game. Thats probably the most sad company I have ever seen. But there is hope because the Support is not canceled. Just wanted to share this since no one has any word on the Switch Version.

Will the Nintendo Switch console be able to play with PC,Xbox and Playstation etc...?

I run a group for Ark players on Nintendo Switch and I hate to say it but we are not satisfied with the graphics. We love Ark but the graphics are just not meeting our expectations. Quite a few have mentioned that they are returning the game. Will there be patches/updates soon to come to improve this issue? We all want Ark to work great on Nintendo Switch. The following are problems noted from players in my group: - Very, very low resolution graphics in handheld mode. The visuals are so poor that I cant play for a few minutes without developing a headache. - Rendering distances are very poor in handheld mode; many objects don’t fully render until you’re right next to them. - The entire world seems to need to re-render every time you open and close the in-game menu. - When killed by a dinosaur in handheld mode, the HD rumble seems to vibrate to its absolute maximum, so much so that it feels like it’s going to damage my console if it keeps happening. - It often takes multiple attempts to join an official server, even when said server isn’t anywhere near to being full. - Equus go through the mesh and disappear when pooping. Textures also flicker on them when they are rendered again after coming back in range. - Some single player settings are not saved the next time the game is loaded. - The ground keeps disappearing.. it's crazy and terrifying when you're getting off a mount and don't know if you're going to fall to your death or not. - Brightness/gamma needs work or maybe contrast. With gamma all the way up its still nearly impossible to see anything at dark.

PIXARK PS4? so guys i came across a twitter comment on @pixark twitter and it was about that they made a mistake and put the game on the store for one day and only a small amount of people own this game on ps4 so i would like to now who has it and what is your experience with the ps4 version?

So when will this be coming on to nintendo switch? I heard October 2019, but idk if thats true. Any info on that, and other DLC would be greatly appreciated.

...at least we don’t have to deal with messes like the vault drop “fix” and tons of people losing their characters after the rollback. Maybe being ignored is a blessing.

Dear Team Why did anyone here purchase ark switch? cause we love ark and we love to play it on the and tv, yes myself I have a ps4 pro which does a amazing job at ark but the switch version just has a magic that you guys can fix I don't know what your teams issue is with funding the fix for switch did you not forget that we paid for the game ? Please look into this and fix the game the switch version deserves fixes

I played ark on many platforms. PC, xbox, mobile and now on nintendo. I will only talk about the last mentioned, just say that they are all a disaster. But the version of nintendo? 4 months later and want to make us lose all the time invested? They know how the game is, if we move from server to server, we will have no place to build. I have a base with more than 150 defenses (distributed) many hangars, many dinosaurs, and they want me to take everything to a server where I do not know their population and they kill me everything? You are thieves! We have paid more than in the other versions and we are ignored, and not only that, now they want to take us away. It should be reported that in just 4 months they can do this to us. Nintendo should not allow this.

Hi wildcard It would be amazing if after 5 months we could get some patches for the switch. Ofcourse the DLC's would even be better but im already happy with general game improvement kind regards

The Save Our Eyes Suggestion I am going to keep it simple and easy to understand. First off this suggestion is in regards to Ark on PS4, although it could extend to other console platforms. My knowledge and experience only pertains to the ps4. The Issue? The ridiculous bloom and light intensity. Specifically on Aberration where navigating the Element Zone is unbearable. There are days where my eyes are literally suffering physical symptoms such as popped blood vessels and obvious irritation due to this games bloom settings. Not to mention the fact that the ability to change this setting is a feature that has been lacking on PS4. Terminology: What is bloom for those of you who do not know? It is the extreme glowing effect seen when you look at bright lights in Ark survival evolved. It renders practically all of your screen unable to be seen as if a bright light is in your eyes. A real life example of this would be trying to look directly at the sun(which might I add is not a healthy thing to do for fun). History: The start of the problem I hope I am not the only one who remembers the early days of Ark ps4. Where there was a screen tear and blinding light so bright, and so horrifying, that everyone playing Ark survival evolved on ps4 would have a popped blood vessel in the same eye. It was almost like a badge of honor for a true survivor. The Working Solution that was found There was a solution found by players on console where you could type in commands in single player utilizing admin commands, and once successfully done you would be able to log back into any server and the settings would be maintained. This came at the inconvenience of having to re-enter the commands every time you closed the application and returned for another play session. Lets just say this solution gets a 0/10 on aberration where blue screens are a common occurrence. How did we get where we are now? At some point it was confirmed that the ability to use those commands had been altered, thus the previous solution was made ineffective at solving the problem. Now we are currently trudging through extremely saturated glow effects, blinding light shafts, and other effects that I may not even know of due to my lack of expertise in how these game effects are taking place. Current Solution? As far as I am aware, there is no slider for these effects, and there is no working solution to the problem from the player's perspective. However, there are a few things worth mentioning here: Gamma Correction Many of you may have thought changing your gamma would suffice. Unfortunately all this does is reduce the brightness of the glow and lights. This is helpful at making the experience of Ark easier on your eyes and comes with it the benefits of reducing eye irritation. Unfortunately it also makes it even harder to see where you are going by reducing the amount of "light" entering your characters "eyes" , so to speak, as well as doing nothing to change the area in your vision being obstructed by glow or light shaft mechanics. .ini settings There is a way to add .ini settings into a server and disable or reduce the quality of these settings. However, through personal experience with this issue I have found it unreliable at best. Typically this requires server restarts while characters are on the server being restarted. Sometimes the changes will take effect and the game will be completely playable. Other times nothing changes. The times when the changes occur may not even be affected by changing the .ini settings and restarted but some other mystery altogether. This solution seems fine until you consider that only a server admin could implement such a thing. A player would not have such a solution to utilize without hosting their own server or having a server admin figure out how to introduce .ini settings. THE SUGGESTION? @StudioWildcardPlease either disable the bloom quality and light shafts across the entire ps4 platform or finally make the addition of a player control option to permanently change these features. This problem is a matter of both lower quality gaming experience as well as real world health implications. Obviously there are many other solutions to reach the desired outcome of being able to see in the direction of light objects without causing physical harm to our eyes or being unable to navigate within the game. As far as utilizing glow in pvp and pve balance, which is the only argument I can see as to why the feature shouldn't be disabled or controlled by individuals, as cool as using the sun at your back during a huge battle charge sounds, I think there should come a point when the realism within the game has gone too far. Bloom and light intensity has gone too far. Special Thanks! Thanks go out to all the people out there who helped spread information on this subject! All information gathered for this suggestion was found on various Forum searches and YouTube Videos on the subject, or otherwise through personal experience playing Ark Survival Evolved since December 2016. One Final Note While the major issue that destroys our gaming experience is the blinding lights from the glow effect and the light shafts, another major concern of mine and many others is just simple ability to alter graphic settings. These, as well as many others, are some of the major graphic settings that could easily reduce massive lag spikes, blue screens, and various other issues that plague survivors on the console Arks: -Ground clutter quality -Shadow Quality -Reflection Quality -texture quality -view distance quality -Effects Quality AND MANY MORE!

To Studio WildCard, quit ignoring the Nintendo switch port and fan base. This is ridiculous for over 5 months of silence about anything of the maps. I demand for you to speak about the Switch port and I understand that you are a busy company but releasing a unfinished product is just scummy and not saying anything of new updates too. I put it over 700 hours on the Switch port of Ark and this is getting ridiculous of how there is been silence for months about the matter of maps or new patches. I know that you possibly are working on the maps since all of the dinos from the DLCs are in the games files since you can spawn a Griffin in game. If you ever wanted to do this yourself, have admin commands on in single player or non dedicated and type in the code gmsummon “Griffin_Character_BP_C” (You put here what level you want it to be) and it spawns in. It is a fully function Griffin also. WildCard, everyone in the Switch community is demanding a response back to your fans of any new updates about this switch port. You as a company not even giving updates and leaving this like if it never became a port is extremely disrespectful to the Switch community. This is. And you promising maps and not even releasing them for over five months now is ridiculous. You need to get your act together WildCard. Stop spending your time on the other consoles and fix the biggest issue you have right now and that is the Switch port. Coming from a PC player and a Console player, I honestly played the Switch version of Ark more than the PC version and this is a great idea for Ark on this platform but it is an unfinished product that you haven’t even addressed to fixing. If you ever expect your fans to buy your games or DLCs in the future, it’s best to fix this port because this port would be almost as popular as the PC port if it had its maps and the glitches and optimization issues fixed. We all want the maps already and it doesn’t take this long to optimize a few maps. Any one reading this post, please share it and repost and demand that Wildcard will respond and fix this switch port. If they don’t do it, this will show even more of a scummy company they can get if they don’t fix this.

PLS ARK STAFF I only have a switch to play ark on, and I want to play some scorched earth but I cant pls tell me when its coming

if you go in Creative mode (GCM) using console commands and type "gfi Sniper 1 1 0" you will be given the TekGram for a Tek Railgun. i play on the switch with 0 DLCs and this railgun is only on Aberration. it is currently unusable even with "learnengrams" on. try this for yourselves and see what i mean. this 100% hints to a new boss and/or new Tekgrams. Have a nice day and thanks for reading also

I waited long time for ARK on the Nintendo Switch, since it release i love it. Due lack of further DLC‘s (Scorched Earth Datas are includet in Swich version, except Models and map) and updates i bought the PCVersion on Steam this week. For me its not the same like on Switch . I still hope WC see us one day as normal ARK Players, thath worth further Updates. And please add private servers and/or noTaming would be nice.

Hi, can someone say me the online player number in official European servers for Nintendo switch? Because i think to get one and i play this game on my xbox mostly in official servers.

Hello, This is a question for the Dev’s. I own Ark and season pass on all platforms and now I bought it on the switch so I can play in my down time at work. My question is, will there be any update to the graphics quality/game performance for the Nintendo Switch version, and will any of the DLC be coming to this system. I love ark and realize that even on other play forms it had a rough start and they still have bugs, but they have come a long way, will this be the same for the Switch? I feel it has the possibility to surpass other versions just due to portability aspect but some improvements to the quality definitely need to be made before it gets there. I’ve tried searching for the answer online but I have yet to see a response from any Devlopers which I find unusual as I’ve seen responses on other platforms, so I’m asking please give us some form of information if we all bought the game and waisted $50+ on it at least have the courtesy of letting us know. Thanks, Dan

i don't think any of the devs read these threads but on the off chance they do i'm gonna make a list of bugs/problems with the nintendo switch version i've encountered in a place they can see it. some of these have already been mentioned but have seen no replies to their posts so if you're reading this you're not alone, the game is just really buggy and the devs don't seem to care as long as they make money. i'll be underlining the bugs for tl;dr readers as well as using colored text for people with reading/comprehension difficulty like myself. so the first and most annoying one that a lot of people seem to have is the matter of engrams being unlearned or disappearing upon reentering the game, and have to be relearned with points that were taken the first (and second, third, fourth etc) time you learned them. no idea why it doesn't reset the points along with the engrams so we can just relearn them for free, or why only some engrams seem to stay learned, but it is incredibly frustrating to learn one that costs 30+ points and have the game crash before you can craft it, or needing it again and it not being available due to the weird selective erasure. another issue related to crashing is having advanced settings reset themselves whenever you close the software (or of course if it crashes), and again only some of the settings are reset: poop/egg/mating/crop intervals, and dino/player stat multipliers. i assume this selective reset was somewhat intentional but it would be extremely helpful to be able to permanently save settings instead of having to slide every bar into place upon restarting the game. also, i should point out manually exiting the game via the + button and choosing main menu keeps these settings saved, and it is only when closing the software that they revert to their original settings. things like day/night duration, some tickable boxes, and everything on the general settings menu stays the way you set it even after a crash. i can't see a reason why they can't all retain their adjusted settings if we know it's possible to do so. moving on to the game itself, the graphics are obviously very poor. personally i'm just glad to be able to play the game since i don't own an xbox/ps4/gaming computer, but i know the low quality of the forests and plants were a huge complaint among other players. my only issue is that due to the poor loading of these graphics you are basically unable to chase down dinos because the frame rate drops so low that it crashes the game 80% of the time if you run in an area like the redwoods. i have lost a few dinos because of this and knowing i have to maintain a steady jog and hope my target gets stopped by a rock or tree is pretty frustrating. and speaking of losing dinos, i've had the issue of dinos loading before structures when starting the game, so if you've trapped some in a pen, they have a chance to escape when you start the game because the walls won't load in time to keep them inside. even when the game has been on for a while the dino heads can clip through walls (yes, even walls their species is unable to damage) and bite things outside the pen, such as other dinos who then attack back and can kill the ones you have inside the pen. another major bug i've seen people have when trying to tame troodons is that unconscious dinos can attack in their sleep! if you know about troodons you know they are a pain to tame, and this bug makes it nearly impossible to use the gimmick needed to tame them. the only solution i've found for this is that's all i can think for now, though i'm sure i will remember more and update the thread. before i go, i want to say something to everyone struggling with crashes in the nintendo switch version of ark survival evolved: in advanced settings under join/host local, turn on enable admin logging (a checkbox) and once the game loads, press + to get to the pause menu, then press L R X Y at the same time to bring up the command box and type in saveworld and then click admin command. it might take a few seconds but you should see the blue saving... text at the bottom right corner of the screen. this will force save your game (without having to exit/reload) every time you hit the admin command button on the pause menu, otherwise you have no control over when the game saves and could lose your progress to a sudden crash. learning this command saved my life, and i hope it helps others who have lost their hard work be able to prevent it in the future. unfortunately it occasionally crashes the game when you try to save via this method, but those are times when it was almost certainly close to crashing on its own anyway. if you are really desperate to save and don't want to risk crashing, just save by "exit to main menu" as i have not yet experienced a crash when saving this way.

Hey guys, Played hundreds if not thousands of hrs on PS4, Made the jump to play ark on switch but cant seem to find which button cycles snap points for structures when placing. on PS4 usually the Map or R1 button cycled snap points when there were multiple but cant find what this is on switch. Anyone else had any luck in this space?? thanks!

When I logged out of single player all of my engrams disappeared and my character only learned the base skills. I also had 0 points. I tried logging out several times and my points never came back. So now I am level 17 and cannot learn any skills. This bug is game breaking and makes it unplayable.

I am absolutely stunned that Wildcard are charging £45 for a game which, in handheld mode (which many of us are purchasing this for) is utterly unplayable. Take a look at my screenshot and see for yourself. Everything is incredibly blurred, and most objects don’t render unless you’re right next to them. The visuals are so poor that I actually developed a massive headache after only 30 mins of handheld play, and 5 hours later my headache has only just passed. It’s like being unable to focus your eyes for half an hour, so you can imagine how that feels. And this is AFTER a day one patch! Dont buy this game guys. The mobile version offers far superior graphics and it’s free. The game should have never been released in this state. It looks nothing like the trailers, or the demo earlier in the year. What a mess.

Why are there no us servers? I'm not going to play on 170 ping eu or oc servers. Downloaded the patch but clearly needs the frame rate upped, running at like 20 fps or lower on dock mode.

Hey guys I play on mobile and my friend has a nintendo switch and he was planning on buying ARK. I was just wondering if we would be able to play together. I mean its classified as "ARK MOBILE" right? I mean a switch is mobile. Thanks, -Cap