I am waiting in hopes that a 4 pack goes up. I am not buying if I can't get my friends in. They (and I) don't want to pay more than 20 for a game like this =S.
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I am waiting in hopes that a 4 pack goes up. I am not buying if I can't get my friends in. They (and I) don't want to pay more than 20 for a game like this =S.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
In the FAQ:
Consider me intrigued!
"Technology - How far do you guys plan to go?
There will be a sci-fi tech tier with some pretty crazy stuff, and that aspect of the game becomes ever more prevalent towards the end-game, but we'll leave revealing more about that 'till a little down the road
Consider me intrigued!
makes sense. it seems like we are basically abducted Humans who are being tested. Tech tree goes upto things like mini gun turrets and rocket launchers. likely eventually start experiencing the jerks who stole us away from Earth
Jawmuncher
Member
Shame it wasn't in a better optimization state for Early Access. Which seems to be the biggest problem.
lol i have a 660m
That's what awaits you with a 650m, and even that ^ is 15 fps. Hopefully the Steam refund comes through. Haha.
fluffydelusions
Member
That's what awaits you with a 650m, and even that ^ is 15 fps. Hopefully the Steam refund comes through. Haha.
I don't think refund applies to EA games?
SirMossyBloke
Member
Apparently single player servers will be up tonight. If they're not up before I got to bed I'm going to just get a refund until what they advertised as being there day 1 is actually there.
Jawmuncher
Member
They said they were up right now, and to restart steam for the update.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Drake [developer] Just now
Sadly apparently at the moment we can not do 4-packs... It's not our decision -- that is unfortunately all I can say about it -- believe me, we tried
Sadness. Ah well.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
I bet steam going back on 4 packs has to do with the refund system they put in place.
piratepwnsninja
Member
It's possible. Essentially, someone could get a discounted four pack, return three of them, and then have purchased the game at a cheaper price than the single purchase one. Or something like that.
They could also just not let people do that.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
I was thinking the same thing about returning gift copies.
At this point it isn't the devs fault for not having 4 packs. Steam is the ones blocking them and not allowing them to say the reason.
I get a solid 50 fps with settings on high with a few things turned down to medium on a 970. The biggest killers of performance are the sky density and ground clutter settings. Turn those down and you can get a pretty significant boost.
As far as impressions go, I'm liking it a lot more than most survival games already. Just having the dinosaurs in the game and working correctly is a pretty good start but they are already far ahead of most EA games when they first launch. The leveling system is good, the crafting system makes sense and is easy to understand, plus VOIP is basically flawless which most games can't get right for a while. It also controls pretty well with a gamepad too. They have radial menus you can use to select stuff that you would normally need a M+KB for and once you figure out how it works with a controller you don't really need M+KB for anything except for scrolling through things in the inventory. Gamepad doesn't work very well for that bit.
The fact that you can join a tribe fairly easily and then gain xp for what your tribe members do is also a good touch. The only real issues I have with it so far are that sometimes the servers are laggy (to be expected) and that when you are swimming and you can run out of stamina you are basically dead if you aren't close to shore since you can't swim upwards if you are out. It makes sense in a way, but it still sucks to drown to death because of it.
As far as impressions go, I'm liking it a lot more than most survival games already. Just having the dinosaurs in the game and working correctly is a pretty good start but they are already far ahead of most EA games when they first launch. The leveling system is good, the crafting system makes sense and is easy to understand, plus VOIP is basically flawless which most games can't get right for a while. It also controls pretty well with a gamepad too. They have radial menus you can use to select stuff that you would normally need a M+KB for and once you figure out how it works with a controller you don't really need M+KB for anything except for scrolling through things in the inventory. Gamepad doesn't work very well for that bit.
The fact that you can join a tribe fairly easily and then gain xp for what your tribe members do is also a good touch. The only real issues I have with it so far are that sometimes the servers are laggy (to be expected) and that when you are swimming and you can run out of stamina you are basically dead if you aren't close to shore since you can't swim upwards if you are out. It makes sense in a way, but it still sucks to drown to death because of it.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Do you mind posting your exact video settings? I have a 970 with an i5 4690k and all my stuff has to be at medium to get 30-34fps.
Apparently the game uses a lot of CPU, so you may have a better one than me.
Oh, I guess this answers it for me. Sounds like it's not worth it with my 3570k and 670.
Cave Johnson
Member
No no no no no no no no. We already have the game right in front of you, why the heck do you want to diverge into Ubi-design territory?
DarKshodaN
Member
Runs like Garbage on my PC (i5-3470,GTX 970,16gb ram)
On High Settings i get a average of 22 FPS,even on low Settinge i get only 30fps
Hope we see some performance Patches this Week.
On High Settings i get a average of 22 FPS,even on low Settinge i get only 30fps
Hope we see some performance Patches this Week.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I quit the game and now Steam says "update queued" next to the game. Retstarting Steam hasn't fixed it.
Edit: never mind, it updated again. Dunno what it was though.
Edit 2: damn, they say there's gonna be an update everyday. That's a lot to promise.
Edit 3: EVERYBODY RESTART STEAM FOR THE UPDATE. I went from 30fps to 55fps. Damn.
Edit: never mind, it updated again. Dunno what it was though.
Edit 2: damn, they say there's gonna be an update everyday. That's a lot to promise.
Edit 3: EVERYBODY RESTART STEAM FOR THE UPDATE. I went from 30fps to 55fps. Damn.
PrematureQuiche
Member
seems like the servers are region locked too so I bought to play with some American bros and can't even see the servers. Fantastic.
XChainfireX
Member
FYI:
They just deployed single player mode
They just deployed single player mode
Yeah I have a 560 and on lowest settings and 720p, I get 8fps when looking at the jungle. Refunded
king grimlock
Member
anyone have like a small area around you(10 ft) that looks decent but further out it's like low resolution? It happens even if crank everything up to max.
i5 4690k
gtx 970 ftw
i5 4690k
gtx 970 ftw
That actually kind of makes sense going forward with Valve's new refund policy. Having to revoke 2-4 copies because someone in the group doesn't like it could be a messy situation.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
Aggressive wildlife at spawn is definitely something to be weary about. Single player is really slow because it seems like the game progression is built around tribes and specializations (one guy learn how to craft armor, another guy crafts weapons, and another guy crafts structures)
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
There is certainly a lot of optimization to be done. Even Star Citizen gives better performance to visuals than this and that loves to eat PC's for breakfast.
Played for about an hour, seems pretty fun so far. Runs at 35-40fps on my 290x at 1080p/medium, which is whatever. Annoying but not enough to really distract me. I'm not really huge on survival games, but there's enough content already in the game that I felt a little bit overwhelmed at first! But after a bit it wasn't too difficult to figure out. Excited to really dive in more over the weekend.
king grimlock
Member
well I mean as far as I know star citizen started development in 2011 and became playable in 2013 so....a bit of a unfair comparison unless ARK had the same amount of dev time which i doubt because of the current state of it.
I was thinking about setting up a GAF server but the company they partnered with to host them is currently sold out of ARK servers. I'll keep an eye on it and let you guys know if I decide to get one. Also, it seems like none of the official servers are up right now? Or at least they won't come up for me.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
If anyone wants to play online I'm in the mountain dew and bud light player server which seems to be working. Steam id same as here
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Fair point. I guess what I was really trying to say was that it currently scales extremely poorly on the lower graphics settings, getting very little performance out of reasonable systems with very poor visuals. I expect it to get better over time of course though, I read or heard something where the devs stated that almost no optimization has been done so far.
king grimlock
Member
oh I agree it's pretty bad and I am 99% sure they did say that there was almost no optimization done in one of their status updates on steam but I can't seem to find it.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Restart Steam for a fairly large update (filesize), rebuilt the game with 2K textures instead of 4K for now. Should help with performance.
edit: Made it worse lmao
edit: Made it worse lmao
To tame something you need to know what kind of food it eats, so herbivore or carnivore. Then you knock it out and open up it's inventory and drag the type of food to it. The less food you use the higher the effectiveness of it will be which means it will have better stats when it wakes up. In order to keep it asleep long enough you need to balance it by force feeding it with narco berries. The less food you use the longer it takes though so be aware of that.
How do I access the animal's inventory? Those sleeping berries will work to knock it out, right?
Look at it and hold E. You should get a pop up showing it. And yeah, you need to use the sleeping berries (they're called narco berries)
I certainly hope performance is the main focus at the moment, this shit is close to unplayable. I am running everything at low (except for textures), lowered resolution scaling a little bit and running in a window at 1600x900 or something. Still can't maintain 60fps on a 970 and i7 4770k.
But I still like what I have played. Managed to build a little house with my friends before we logged off for tonight.
But I still like what I have played. Managed to build a little house with my friends before we logged off for tonight.
Thanks!
They're actively working on the performance stuff. They rebuilt the game to use 2k textures instead of 4k today to help, and they made this post about it just recently.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
With adjusted settings I got it running pretty smooth on my 970.
The game is pretty fun. I leveled up enough to make some clothes, a hut, and some rudimentary items. Never ran into a hostile. The people I did run into I whistled and dropped some cooked meat. They usually thanked me and I was on my way.
I'm excited to see how this improves over the next while.
The game is pretty fun. I leveled up enough to make some clothes, a hut, and some rudimentary items. Never ran into a hostile. The people I did run into I whistled and dropped some cooked meat. They usually thanked me and I was on my way.
I'm excited to see how this improves over the next while.