ARK Survival Evolved is coming to switch. Bets on how low the resolution will need to be to reach 20fps?
ARK Survival Evolved is coming to switch. Bets on how low the resolution will need to be to reach 20fps?
Aiden Anderson
Dominic Thomas
dynamic resolution, average being 540p
game slows down to low 20s constantly and it makes the game run in slow motion
Alexander Sullivan
It actually looks good from a visual standpoint, but the framerate doesn't look good at all. But, it doesn't have a good framerate on anything
Cameron Torres
This game is literally the worst running game I have EVER seen
Like legit, the only games I've seen that ran even nearly as badly are Nioh PC, Seven, and Dark Souls 1 PC unmodded.
Noah Reed
It runs like shit on every console too.
Elijah Wilson
pretty much, PS4 can hit single digits while xbox one doesnt go as low but reaches resolutions below 720p.
Isaac Jackson
youtube.com
Here's the footage.
It's far more interesting from a technical standpoint for the Switch itself rather than the actual game itself
Luke Martinez
Disgusting
Evan Myers
This is proof that the Switch can do a lot if you want it to.
Lucas Reyes
Is this going about 12 fps?
Luis Jones
>but reaches resolutions below 720p.
I think you mean "always runs below 720p."
The game runs like fucking shit.
Asher Martinez
>same visuals as every other console
>even performs the same
FUCKING. HOW.
IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING TABLET
HOW!!!??
Dylan Hill
This came out of early access?
Aiden Morgan
Cinematic framerate.
Austin Smith
it's a lie of course
Brody Miller
gamesindustry.biz
They broke it down here. UE4 is really a great engine apparently
It doesn't run well on anything, but it's far more amazing they got it running at all
Noah Watson
>textures to lowest resolution
>resolution to super low
>lowest draw distance possible
>lower model quality
>most extreme LOD system possible
>lowest resolution shadow maps
it's probably scaled back to hell
Hunter Edwards
see
These are the same devs that said the game would run at 4k on the PS4 Pro.
Dylan Wilson
>this is what it actually looks like
okay yeah they're just basically gimping the shit out of it
Ian Gonzalez
Shits coming to Cell Phones, yea it'll run on Switch no prob but the console version looks like low resolution playdoh ass.
Honestly who gives a fuk about this on anything besides PC? Unless you like paying for mods that are free on PC.
Michael Bennett
tldr
>In some locations you need to downsize a bit on the distance you're able to view. But not as much as you'd think compared with Xbox One and PS4. Obviously, in terms of Xbox One X and PS4 Pro, that's a different story. But compared with the base platforms, Switch is not that bad.
>Of course, with the runtime memory footprint, there's not as much as PS4 or Xbox One, so that means you need to reduce the content that is being used at any one time. Partially that's a case of having fewer dinos here or there, and downsizing on actual content experience. But that's only a bit. The rest is just from clever compression algorithms.
Anthony Long
This will be fucking awful. The game runs at sub 20 FPS on the PS4 Pro.
Jonathan Bell
this honestly, devs are way more interested in releasing shit dlc or porting than fixing the fucking game...
Kayden Sanchez
Aiden Morris
>same visuals as every other console
>even performs the same
Max res is 720P. The onboard hardware also lacks many of the advanced features in more robust discrete GPU's. It absolutely don't produce the same "visuals." And it performs noticeably slower. I've got a Shield Tablet which has essentially the same hardware and it's got comparable power to the WiiU. With careful design, you can hide a lot of the issues, but it's not the same and it doesn't perform the same.
Landon Rivera
>youtube.com
Ok fps is not so good, but graphically is impressive.
Zachary Wright
Who asked for this? They are really porting all kinds of bullshit now for a quick buck.
Isaiah Nelson
The game file size is huge, just the latest TLC pass was 20gb.
Can't wait for the devs to do another update that fucks up the game again in one way or another, now on the Switch!
Jason Lewis
Dynamic resolution dropping to 360p with constant drops to 15 fps or lower
Christopher Harris
Doesn't look all that bad.
As long as it doesn't run at 9 fps...
Ethan Carter
Why is this piece of garbage releasing multiplat when the game isn't even finished yet?
Jaxon Robinson
ARK devs are trying to cash out on their shitty game.
Justin Scott
you're right that the switch version will look horrible and run horrible because it's literally like 1/3rd as powerful in docked mode as the base XBone
but the chip in it has full Maxwell as the GPU architecture, the same architecture, it's very modern, GTX 900 series are Maxwell
Carter Smith
Switch games sell like hotcakes because it has no games, but it's PORTABLE.
Dominic Rodriguez
Are you viewing that image on a phone screen or something? It looks fucking horrible
Brandon Taylor
The game is "finished". It's out of early access, but the devs still treat it as if it isn't.
Brandon Scott
>that
>finished
oh boy
Hunter Perez
Nioh only ran bad in the rainy stages but that was patched almost immediately.
Henry Watson
Yeah, notice I had finished in quotation marks for a reason.
Ryan Carter
There are two outcomes:
A unique version of ARK made from the ground up with the limitations of the Switch in mind.
Or
A scaled back port of the PC and console version adapted to be mostly playable on the Switch's very limited hardware.
The former would be the best case scenario, most likely to grow the brand, but it would require significantly more work. The latter is much easier and would introduce players to the IP, but poor performance would likely prevent it from catching fire.
Christian Bennett
Won't this just be the mobile version they revealed last week or so? Footage of that looked like absolute ASS.
Lincoln Cooper
They better treat it as if it isn't. Legitimately one of the most incomplete early access games out there.
Thomas Gray
Look at the thread, it's a scaled back port.
Nolan Myers
considering how badly BOTW ran and being 1st party custom engine?
if ARK even comes out it'd be unplayable. combining unreal engine, incompetent devs, and weak hardware. I'm betting 360p upscale sub 25fps all the time.
Jackson Flores
Well, compare it by yourself
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Aiden Bennett
That legitimately reminds me of PS2 games. Specifically Endor in Battlefront 2.
Jacob Hill
How long has Ark been like this? Has it actually, really finished? Why did they spend so much time on stuff other than getting it to run properly? Who puts out DLC before finishing?
Matthew Hall
If the Switch has no games how do I have 21 retail physical titles for it?
Justin Jenkins
these faggot devs don't deserve any more money than they already have
Juan Cox
>Nioh PC
Wait what?
I have a mid tier aging PC and it ran perfectly.
For a Japanese PS4 port that game is an outstanding technical achievement.
Cameron Long
ARK's performance is so bad I had to refund the game.