While this has been written a few times over the past month, the development team behind look poised to release a big ARK Survival Evolved update on PS4 today.
It’s been delayed several times over the past weeks, meaning that a large downloading is heading for fans on the Sony platform.
The new patch was meant to reach ARK players on Friday, June 21, however problems arose that led to a further delay.
“Bad news guys, unfortunately the PlayStation 4 Update will not be here until the 24th of July. We still need a bit more time with it,” an ARK community manager explains.
“It will be on par with PC & Xbox on Monday though, which is something to look forward to.”
That latter comment means that the next ARK Survival Evolved PS4 update will be massive.
Having finished up on deploying major fixes on Xbox One, and the process of creating the disc version of the game, the development team now have their sights set on the PlayStation.
There’s will be a big patch notes list for the new update, highlights of which can be found at the bottom of this article.
What it won’t include is the official launch of the ARK Survival Evolved Ragnarok mod on PS4 and Xbox One.
Wildcard has confirmed that Ragnarok will now launch when the base game is released in shops.
It means the wait continues for fans on PS4 and Xbox One, with the original launch having been planned several weeks ago.
“The new official release date for the Ragnarok Free DLC on consoles will be on the 8th of August when ARK launches for retail release,” Wildcard explain in a new statement.
“The team spent time discussing when would be the best time to release the map, for both technical reasons, as well as the experience itself, and this was the chosen date.
“We understand that some may find this news frustrating as you’ve waited a long time for the map, however after conferring for quite a while on the topic, we believe this is the best decision for the map’s arrival on console.”
As mentioned above, the new ARK Survival Evolved update should arrive later today, although there’s still the chance that the whole project will be delayed.
Not only can the console certification process push things back by days but there’s also the fact that the new update is a big one.
ARK Survival Evolved PS4 patch notes highlights:
- New Item: Tek Tapejara Saddle.
- New Skill: Crafting Skill replaces Crafting speed. Crafting Skill increases crafted blueprint quality by up to a 64% multiplier on bonus stats for 100 points into Crafting Skill. The item then displays your name and your tribe name and indicates what percent bonus you received when crafting. It still increases the rate at which you can craft items, as well as grants higher stat benefits from cooking custom recipes.
- New Feature: Corpse Locator! Upon death, a beam of light shoots into the sky to help the player locate where they died. Enabled on Official Servers by default. Add bUseCorpseLocator=true to your Game.ini for server use.
- New Host Option: Disable Structure Placement Collision! Unofficial Servers and single-players can enable this feature to allow them to place structures that clip into terrain. Add bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=true to your Game.ini for server use.
- New Host Option: Use Singleplayer Settings! When enabled, this edits all game settings to be more balanced for an individual player experience. Add bUseSingleplayerSettings=true to your Game.ini for server use. This is automatically enabled for Non Dedicated servers too, you can disable it in your host menu settings, or set the ini to false.
- New Host Option: Fast Decay! Enable this option for a fixed constant decay period for “Fast Decay” structures (such as pillars or lone foundations). Add FastDecayInterval (default is 43200) to your Game.ini for server use.
- New kill, death, speech, and talking icons added.
- Implemented hibernation from console to PC, which introduces over 500MB saved in memory for spawning dinos.
- Fixed graphical issue with crops appearing massive.
- Fixed player ragdolls becoming malformed when falling from great heights.
- Fixed player getting stuck in rocks/trees/structures when logging out in single player.
- Fixed dino spawning issues in single player that caused over-spawning of certain creatures over time and issue where spawns were becoming depopulated.
- Fixed single player settings via the slider from resetting.
- Fixed BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier setting via the host menu.
- Fixed traps not working after a game/server restart (bear traps, species Y traps, narcotic traps, alarms).
- Fixed various lighting issues on The Island and The Center.
- Fixed low landscape LODs on both the Center and the Island when using low viewing distance (certain landscape will stream in better quality from further away, e.g. skull island on the Center).
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