ARK: Survival Evolved Reviews

I'll most probably will also play on international servers, if all else fails... :D
 
So we've set up a server. Not here to openly advertise, so I'm not going to just post info. If anyone (like Andre) is interested they can just pop me a msg.
Personally I get a 176ms ping and it runs as smooth as a baby's but.

Stronger/Higher level Dino's atm to make it more interesting, specially late game & set pvp rules.
 
I'll pop you a PM Monday! ;)
My components came earlier, I received it this morning, but unfortunately I will only be able to play Monday, but me and a friend is building it today. *AMPED*
 
Great news!

Our server is up and running.
It's pretty empty right now but people seem to be shifting from the more popular servers do to random raiding and dino killing.

Its called SiC ARK Server.

Feel free to come down. 100 people cap PVP.
 
I see this game has started to take a beating on the Steam reviews.
People are not happy about the PvE and PvP setups.
Too many hours spent just to have it all reset at night as someone raids you.
 
That's why carefully moderated servers will help.
There have been 10+ people transferred to our server because admins are abusing their powers. As well as people just base griefing.
 
I downloaded it yesterday, so excited to play it when I got this error:

ARK Error.jpg

Any advice?

EDIT: It keeps crashing at Obeliks?
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MDKza said:
Great news!

Our server is up and running.
It's pretty empty right now but people seem to be shifting from the more popular servers do to random raiding and dino killing.

Its called SiC ARK Server.

Feel free to come down. 100 people cap PVP.
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MDKza said:
That's why carefully moderated servers will help.
There have been 10+ people transferred to our server because admins are abusing their powers. As well as people just base griefing.
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That is correct. My friends moved over there and so the regular playerbase started and more people are now joining.
Had a good chat with the admin(s). Very helpful and open to constructive input.

Basically the server itself and the people that play there seems to be there because of admin and player abuse on other local servers that just runs rampant.
The server has rules, so you can enjoy the PVE & PVP aspect in the right environment and if that can be enforced in the long run things will go great.

Here is to hoping for the best. Great work so far.
 
acidrain said:
@MDKza is your server running on a dedi or a VM?
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We are running a VM. We over spec'd the machine just to make sure there wouldn't be any issues.

Andrew_Smith said:
I downloaded it yesterday, so excited to play it when I got this error:

ARK Error.jpg

Any advice?

EDIT: It keeps crashing at Obeliks?
For a bigger image, click here!
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The only fix I have found for this is a complete reinstall. Please verify the local game cache.

SnowWar said:
That is correct. My friends moved over there and so the regular playerbase started and more people are now joining.
Had a good chat with the admin(s). Very helpful and open to constructive input.

Basically the server itself and the people that play there seems to be there because of admin and player abuse on other local servers that just runs rampant.
The server has rules, so you can enjoy the PVE & PVP aspect in the right environment and if that can be enforced in the long run things will go great.

Here is to hoping for the best. Great work so far.
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Thanks for the feedback. Hope you and your friends have fun!
 
MDKza said:
We are running a VM. We over spec'd the machine just to make sure there wouldn't be any issues.
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Has there been any noticeable rubber banding yet? The server I'm currently on is also a VM and it is seriously bad ( more than 20 players ). The admins say it's the host but I'm pretty sure it's the VM ( apparently a Xeon E3, 32GB Ram ). ARK right now is a serious cpu hog and with CPU queuing on VM's it does not bode well for server performance.
 
acidrain said:
Has there been any noticeable rubber banding yet? The server I'm currently on is also a VM and it is seriously bad ( more than 20 players ). The admins say it's the host but I'm pretty sure it's the VM ( apparently a Xeon E3, 32GB Ram ). ARK right now is a serious cpu hog and with CPU queuing on VM's it does not bode well for server performance.
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I don't think that is a server setup issue. I think that is the game. Have seen lots of support cases with that.
 
Surv0 said:
Some people have said thats just the name of the game when it comes to survival titles such as this.

if thats the case, I wont be playing for too long. I reckon those guys will grief until somebody does it back to them, and then thats the last time they will play it. Players getting bored basically.

Which is why im thinking maybe a PVE experience would be a little better for me right now.
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I know there was a tribe on Mweb JHB, called SSD, who this happened to. They kept raiding and killing others, and when it finally happened to them they just abandoned the server.
 
MDKza said:
I don't think that is a server setup issue. I think that is the game. Have seen lots of support cases with that.
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No, for sure it is the game but because the game is so badly optimized it is not, currently, suitable for a VM unless you are putting serious money into renting a high end server.

NAG which everyone is saying is one of the smoothest servers to play on is a full dedi server and I'm sure it's because ARK has all the cpu to itself.
 
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acidrain said:
No, for sure it is the game but because the game is so badly optimized it is not, currently, suitable for a VM unless you are putting serious money into renting a high end server.

NAG which everyone is saying is one of the smoothest servers to play on is a full dedi server and I'm sure it's because ARK has all the cpu to itself.
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So to give you some specs on the VM we are running:

8 cores
6Gig ram
200gig hdd

The game at any given time uses 5.5gig and up of RAM.
 
Okay, I fixed my problem... My problem was corrupted files, I deleted it, and did verify local cache. I had a quick test, but did not play the game yet. Will be joining MDKza's server tonight! :p
 
Andrew_Smith said:
Okay, I fixed my problem... My problem was corrupted files, I deleted it, and did verify local cache. I had a quick test, but did not play the game yet. Will be joining MDKza's server tonight! :p
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Nice we are waiting for the patch for our next server restart.
It seems like there are a lot of nice fixes. Here is the upcoming change-log:

Upcoming Week Patch Notes:
- Massive Server Perf Improvement / PhysX Bug fix: no more super-slow servers
- Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky
- Client side GPU perf improvements: foliage batching rewrite
- Two new tripwire traps:audio alarm and gas bomb
- Stone structure tier
- Plesiosaurus
- Shastasaurus
- Competitive "Battle ARK Royale" game type

Upcoming Version: 178.0 (Status: Undergoing Release Candidate Test Checklist, ETA: Monday afternoon) :
- Reduced probability of Spinosaurus spawns by 30%
- Explosions now do +200% damage to dinos and +50% damage to players
- Sarco and Turtle now dive/climb in water at properly quick speeds (making full use of their move speed)
- Player-hosted servers can now maintain a whitelist of SteamID's who are admin cheat-authorized, and those accounts will automatically be able to use cheats without having to enter enablecheats. When utilizing this feature, no cheat password is utilized.
- Compass Engram moved to level 10, & no longer requires Smithy (is hand-crafted)
- There is now a dedicated keybind for accessing the whistle wheel, which will soon be expanded with emote animations
- Sarco now swims up and down much faster
- Dino Specs now allow painting all saddle color regions, and the specs look thicker
- Steel Vault now has 50% more storage slots
- Rex roar now has a large attenuation range
- Rocks do about 50% more damage
- Spinos no longer lay bronto eggs
- Turtles now regen stamina in water
- Fixed an exploit with accessing inventories over great distances
- Spikewalls can no longer be built nearby enemy core structures
- Fabricators, etc, now show craftable resource counts from their own Inventory even when they are not powered-on
- "Your thing killed something" messages are now in yellow to avoid scaring you
- Server perf resolved, finally! (and an overall perf benefit for everyone). Major PhysX system change. Expected gains of >33%+ on Server in some cases.
- New Structure: Metal Water Tank, stores 500 water and is metal tier.
- New Structures: Stone Walls/Fence Foundations (the first of a potential stone tier)
- Fix for Engrams not appearing on characters in some cass
- Notes can now be written at any time not just upon crafting
- "All Passive" whistle
- Vault now will drop rather than be destroyed if its floor is destroyed
- You can now hurt your own unconsciously-taming Dinos in PvE
- Compass Crafting Requirement moved to level 15
- Fixed case of invisible campfires
- Toggle key for Running
- Cosmetics now all weigh 0 KG
- Admin can now kick/ban/list players by SteamID
- Major memory reduction on dedi server (multi-GB reduced)
- Player-Hosted Server control of day-cycle length, and relative lengths of Day & Night respectively! Who wants a 24h real-time RP server? ME!!!!!!!
- Player-server options for which engrams/blueprints are available on a server, how much they cost, what their level-requirements/pre-reqs are, how much XP is earned & level XP thresholds for players and dinos, and how much damage players & dinos & structures do & their resistances respectively. Your primitive-only worlds are now possible :)
- Texture Resolution settings no longer affect Terrain geometry quality
- You can now optionally specify administrators for a server by numeric SteamID, so that only certain specific steam users can have access to the admin commands, and these users do not have to enter an admin password
- If there are multiple bed/sleeping bag points overlapping on the same area on the respawn UI, upon clicking one you will now get a popup list to choose between them more easily.
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So after patching to v180.1 our server is using 50% less RAM and instead of over 80% on core 1 to about 50% on core 1.
We are using an average of 15% of the 8 core CPU we have given the server.
 
MDKza said:
So after patching to v180.1 our server is using 50% less RAM and instead of over 80% on core 1 to about 50% on core 1.
We are using an average of 15% of the 8 core CPU we have given the server.
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Hey man, I have a level 54 ish character uploaded into limbo when another server started acting up. It's not been online in three days, will I be able to get my character transferred to you server?
 
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