Ark: Survival Evolved (Nintendo Switch)

mh:awesomegames:Ark: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure survival video game released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 4, mh:awesomegames:Xbox One, iOS, Android, and mh:awesomegames:Nintendo Switch. Developed and published by Studio Wildcard. The PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and mobile versions were released to fairly positive reviews, but the version released for the Nintendo Switch was released much later and to mostly negative reviews. This article will only focus on the Switch version ported by Dutch studio Abstraction Games.

Why This Version Devolves

 * 1) Awful visual quality, resulting in an extremely low render distance with lots of pop-in and texture quality that is on-par with a watercolor painting in both docked and handheld mode, it even can go as low as 304x170 resolution on dock mode, see the trivia for more info. One has to admit that even the mobile version offers better graphics than this.
 * 2) A noticeably low frame rate that hovers between 10-25 FPS at all times. While the other console versions suffer similar framerate issues, the Switch version is in a worse state.
 * 3) Terrible lighting system, which can result in the game being too dark to see when the game reaches night time or too bright in certain daytime situations, as well as poor shadow quality.
 * 4) A huge amount of bugs and glitches, including poor collision detection and rubberbanding with enemies and players.
 * 5) Long loading times.
 * 6) The game launched at $50, which is extremely overpriced for a game of this condition.
 * 7) The game has no DLC, meaning that Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction are nowhere to be found for fans of DLC.
 * 8) Clunky UI, made only worse by the poor use of controller support within menus.
 * 9) Lower audio quality compared to other versions.
 * 10) To add insult to injury it was incomplete, but released anyways.

Reception
While the other ports were met with a fairly positive reception, the Nintendo Switch port was met with mostly negative reviews it currently holds a 29/100 on Metacritic indicating "Generally Unfavorable" reviews, with many people critizing the ports lack in optimization and graphics.

Trivia

 * Abstraction Games (the Switch port developer) also did this other sub par Switch port.
 * The infamous Digital Foundry video on Ark: Survival Evolved Switch gave us the "We've even counted as low as 304x170 resolution which is lower than a SEGA Mega Drive game." meme.

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