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ARK: Survival Of The Fittest, the spin off from ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on Linux & SteamOS, it's free too. Completely free that is, no pay for anything here as they are funded by the original ARK.

This appeals to me much more than the original ARK game, as there will be more focus on action and taking down other players. That just seems more interesting than generally surviving to me.

It might take you a while to get into a game, as you have to wait for everyone to either join or create a tribe before the game begins. Prepare to wait a while, as I joined a few with people just standing around doing nothing. I hope they implement a timer for people to join or create tribes so people can't spoil it for others.

It's also in Early Access, so it's not finished yet. Like ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival Of The Fittest requires a pretty decent computer to run it properly. I really hope the developers put some real effort into the performance of both games soon, as the performance is totally unsatisfactory even on my 980ti. Even so, it's still great to get both games before their official/full release.

About the game (From Steam)
Welcome to ARK: Survival of the Fittest, the first ever M.O.S.A. - a Multiplayer Online Survival Arena - that Studio Wildcard designed for the burgeoning wild west of eSports. A spin-off from the most popular open-world Early Access game on Steam ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival of the Fittest (SotF) pits up to 72 combatants in an action-packed struggle for survival where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown where only one “Tribe” will make it out alive.

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Gnurfos Apr 12, 2016
Quoting: adolson
Quoting: fagnerlnI haven't played, but look like that isn't optimized even on Windows.
Why would it be? It's still in Early Access.

The model: "piss code for months until your drown under bugs, then magically fix everything in 2 weeks" (pardon the words) does not seem to work very often in any kind software project.
adolson Apr 12, 2016
Quoting: Gnurfos
Quoting: adolson
Quoting: fagnerlnI haven't played, but look like that isn't optimized even on Windows.
Why would it be? It's still in Early Access.

The model: "piss code for months until your drown under bugs, then magically fix everything in 2 weeks" (pardon the words) does not seem to work very often in any kind software project.
Fixing bugs and optimizing performance are two different things. Are you actually a developer with any kind of understanding of game development, or are you just angry because the game chugs on your system?
Gnurfos Apr 12, 2016
Quoting: adolsonFixing bugs and optimizing performance are two different things. Are you actually a developer with any kind of understanding of game development, or are you just angry because the game chugs on your system?

I'm actually a developer. More sad than angry at how ARK evolved (there's a lot of games to be played out there). Admittedly not into games that much, but things look awfully similar to any software project. Keeping a clean code base is what allows you to both fix (or keep away) bugs, and also optimize easily. I know it's not a classic view and the "games are special" mantra is strong, but I'm still not convinced personally :)
Zelox Apr 12, 2016
Quoting: Spl-itseems the game still looks terrible on linux, will that ever get fixed ?
Ye alot of texters and colors looks really dull and not alive. Hasnt this something to do with openGL?
Over all the game runs good on linux in my opinion atleast. But it gots some wierd graphics bugs.


Last edited by Zelox on 12 April 2016 at 11:53 am UTC
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