Ark: Survival of the Fittest

ARK: Survival of the Fittest is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by Studio Wildcard. The game claimed to be the first MOSA (Multiplayer Online Survival Arena) game ever developed.

Summary
The game is played in rounds and at much faster pace compared to its predecessor, ARK: Survival Evolved. Its goal is to become the last man standing by killing all other competitors on the island. Players can also capture or hunt various prehistoric creatures as well as fictionalized monsters to gain an advantage over their adversaries.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Bad game optimization: the usual performance issues to be expected of Unreal Engine games with massive streaming-levels. The game will also occasionally freeze and crash as well.
 * 2) The game is ridden with tons of bugs and glitches, such as random creatures stuck into the ground, wall clipping, missing/low-res textures, and much more.
 * 3) The game UI, while it can be okay at times, is fairly clunky and disorganized, and can be confusing to navigate and use efficiently.
 * 4) Poor hit detection and syncing, for example;
 * 5) *Sometimes, you may score a headshot on the enemy/creatures and the game will registere that you hit the other part of their body.
 * 6) *Due to poorly-implemented host-client server netcode that "trusts the server," attacks aimed near the outer edges of an enemy creature or player mesh will often completely fail to register at all, despite appearing to hit on the client-side. This is also a fundamental Steamworks problem, but Studio Wildcard could have worked around much of it - yet failed to do so.
 * 7) Horrible long matchmaking time due to poor server connectivity, sometimes, it will took over 20 minutes just to start a single match.
 * 8) The developers don't care about improving the game at all, as several in-game problem were remain untouched and support for the server is very limited.

Good Qualities

 * 1) A good overall concept.
 * 2) Decent graphics, especially for a 2016 video game.
 * 3) A variety of weapons, though not as many as its parent game, ARK: Survival Evolved.
 * 4) The dinosaur and creature's design are overall cool looking, despite not being updated to their newer design.
 * 5) Some of the unofficial server game modes are fun.
 * 6) The music used in the opening, despite being generic is admittedly quite catchy.

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