‘ARK: Survival Evolved’ Xbox One X Enhancements Finalized, The Tether Is Sticking Around

INQ: The Xbox One X is due out in less than a month and ARK: Survival Evolved is on the list of games that will be enhanced. Studio Wildcard confirmed the resolution and framerate options that will be available for the open-world survival title for the new console in a community post early Saturday morning. Unfortunately, the tether is not going to go away completely as previously promised.

[freshslicepizza]

1440p and 30fps or 1080p and up to 60fps. That's quite impressive for such a terrible engine these guys made.

[Sm00thNinja]

Neither of those achievements mean the game suddenly runs stable enough to be playable

[freshslicepizza]

Good to know you already got your Xbox One X, does it run pretty quiet??

[Sm00thNinja]

Hmm well I'll assume you don't have one yet either?? Care to confirm I'm wrong seeing as how the game runs like trash on even the best gaming PCs?

Also to answer your question. Their are kiosk all over my city and it runs quiet af.

[freshslicepizza]

I would wait then until it's out before you start assuming it won't be stable on the Xbox One X.

[Sm00thNinja]

Well that's your prerogative. It has nothing to do with the Xbox One X. Don't get your panties in a bunch I habe every bit of faith in the Xbox One Xs abilities. Have you given this game a go? My question lies in the developers capability to make a playable experience across any platform.

[Bigpappy]

Moldy did not say the game will run better than on PC.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

What does it run on the Pro?

[Sm00thNinja]

@BigPappy what a stupid defense I didn't say it needed to run better than PC I just said it didn't allude to being any more stable than on any other platform

[conanlifts]

@moldy. I think you are being overly defensive for no reason. It was a fair comment for a game with performance issues on every platform.

[NoPeace_Walker]

343_Guilty_Spark,

This is your answer:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

- Detail mode on Pro offers 1080p/30 FPS (on OG "normal" mode is 680p and detailed is 720p)

- Normal mode on Pro offers a target of 60 FPS at 720p, still goes down to 30 FPS sometimes.

Both OG and Pro drop to long stretches of 20 FPS in 'detail' mode.

[Obscure_Observer]

I think Smoothninja is right. There´s nothing to do with the X. It´s the developers problems making this game run stable on any platform.

That said, Pro´s 30fps vs X´s 60fps is not a slight difference at all!

[Queasy]

It runs on Unreal Engine 4, so they didn't make it. The problem is Unreal Engine 4 wasn't made for what ARK: Survival Evolved asks it to do and they've had to make modifications. Conan Exiles and PUBG run on it too and both those games have their issues.

The good news is Epic Games is starting to modifications to Unreal Engine 4 themselves to better handle huge maps and loads of players due to the success of Fortnite: Battle Royale. Now it's just a question of how quickly those updates trickle to ARK. Conan Exiles, and PUBG.

[Gwiz]

Yeah you can tell the engine wasn't really deigned for huge games,good to see Epic Games responding in a timely manner.

[PrinceOfAnger]

Yeah the game run at 30fps/1080p on ps4 pro ,that X power!

[Enjoigamin]

Game is trash

[JackBNimble]

That is purely subjective, the game and servers are unstable.

[Enjoigamin]

Don't have good servers then you don't have a good game. All is one

[xtheblackparade]

Would be cool if they' d finally be able to make it playable.

[mokkeyrg2]

Atleast it will run semi better then the X1S i guess

[_LarZen_]

It's "shit" on PS4 and PS4Pro and will be better and beyond that on Xbox One X. That's how it will be regardless of what fanboys try to preach.

[conanlifts]

So slightly less shit then.

[_LarZen_]

Just barely..

[NotoriousWhiz]

Welp, time to cancel my one x pre order. Literally the only reason I was buying it.

[chrisoadamson]

That makes no sense. If you have the Scorpio preordered I wouldn't cancel thing. Sold out not making my more . Sell it

[NotoriousWhiz]

It's not the scorpio. It's the standard one x edition, but I'll see what the going rate is on ebay before cancelling it.

EDIT: Going rate for scorpio (only one I could find) is barely more than retail (~$600). Not worth it when you factor in ebay's fees. Hopefully, the Ark team provides more information about the increased tether distance, maybe if it's something like 2000m, I won't care too much. I was super hyped about playing with no tether. This is just disappointing.