ARK's New Switch Version is a Game Changer - New Footage and Details 

Something like that must be honored! 👍 It's great that the developers have worked through every single point of criticism from the reviewers and that they're offering the game to owners of the 2018 version completely free.

I didnt even know this was gonna be supported anymore... that's pretty awesome.

Even if the framerate is still not the greatest in the new version, its still miles above what the old version was able to put out - in total!

Very impressive and a lot of respect for them that they are redoing it.

I am actually interested in ark for switch now. Will wait for your final review.

Also, people say the Switch can’t handle this, Switch can’t handle that but if the studio puts the effort in ports can be great.

Wait wait wait wait…there’s an HD version of “The Conduit”? I used to love that game! I need it now

Some of the old footage is hysterical. Looking like JP Trespasser 2.0.

Long as they fix that frame rate I'm super excited. I bought this back in the day and have held out hope so long

My only Ark survival experience has been on the switch it was one of the first games I ever bought for my switch and I would really like to have an up to Snuff version

As a server owner and dedicated player for years! I'm absolutely impressed on what wild card has done for their fans! They keep to their word no matter how long it takes! Ark is a phenomenal survival games, with absolutely great mechanics

Seriously impressive. Thanks for your coverage!

Well i'll be damned, this sure is a redemption ark for Grovestreat games after their work on GTA: The Trillogy: Definitive Edition

Ark switch pve community right now is better than the PS4 ever was! Strangers doing bosses together, trading and making friends! Way to go grove street games 💪🔥

I sure hope the ship hasnt already sailed for this. They're putting in effort and spending money, I hope they at least make it back 🤞

We’ve got this on PS4 and tablet but I’ve been waiting for switch. Boyo doesn’t like me playing without him but that leaves me very restricted. Would really like Switch as I can play on my lunch break 😂 without getting caught out.

I just hope they can fix the crashing. I never took on any of the bosses or tried breeding for mutations (though I got a blue turtle by accident) because the game would crash randomly if they were too many creatures in a general area. Still looking forward to this. Hope they release Cryopods and the Ragnarok map at some point.

YOOOO! I can’t wait! It’s gonna be FREE for owners of the game already... but it’s a whole new game? Wow. That’s insane... here I was expecting to pay again - and I would. That’s how much I love Ark. Let’s get it! I cannot WAIT! 🔥🔥🔥

Night time is broken, pitch black impossible to se anything... even with this new version... graphycal artifacts and water textures behave awkward... still what a massive improvement

I just learned about this 4 months late., I was SO disappointed when I got ark on the switch as at the time it was my only console. I can't explain how please I am about this and I'm gonna redownload the game ASAP!!!!!

It's $10 right now

Base ARK is on sale rn for $10.

I bought the game last weekend and was sooo disappointed. Glad to see there's an update.

There will be a new physical with the new ark version on switch called ultimate one

Should run and look great on a fully overclocked switch

Is this out now? I noticed a 2gb update on Ark Switch. Edit: October 25th is the update release. No idea what the 2gb update was then.

I WISH IT WAS FIXED LONG WHILE AGO. Now i have a steam deck... hopefully it gets more support

Wait a sec, Grove Street Games?? Is this the same developer who worked on the GTA trilogy definitive edition?! 😂

Oh my gods I’m going to download the update as soon as I get off

I hope Ark Mobile will get new contect soon too

I'm really excited for this! I hope with this new version they also keep your settings. I noticed that the Switch would always reset all my settings back to default whenever I turned it off. Trying to change all my rates again every time I turn it on was a major turn away for me (among the other issues mentioned)

But will they upgrade the old one or no?

I'll grab it if its as improved as suggested. Always wanted to try this game out.

Very impressive, it runs better than my gaming laptop

Ofcourse the other settings are lower but the resolution in docked mode is litherly higher than base ps4 which in the higher graphics mode is only 720p

Need daily updates on this game I hope they fix this game it doesn't have to look like it's from pc just needs to be playable

ok, 10 days left before 25 of October. Where is any official announcement in the store or anywhere else?

Hype is real, Ark is amazing.

I did a test and mouse and keyboard work but the jump button doesn't work otherwise it's almost exactly like PC controls

Will players be able to make their own severs with custom settings?

Has anyone else noticed the Zelda nuggets placed in Ark Island?

Ps4 is yesterday. Nintendo switch is today 💪

I play ark on switch and had to deal with all the bad things about the game for awhile now

I have 2,6k hours on Ark (pc) and i remember of the jokes we used to make like "do you imagine Ark on Switch" *silence* "AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA" and when they announced i was like "WHAAAAT?!?!" And then I saw how it used to run and how it looked and i was "i would never buy it" but I have to admit this "remaster" is awesome! I still won't buy it because for me it's a pc game (joycon could never replace mouse and keyboard for this kind of games)

My comment failed to post so, here it goes again. WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE For switch patch according to a post i just saw on their twitter page is NOV 1ST for atleast north America😄 🎉 thats all i care about.. Other countries will be on the 9th, & Japan the begining of next year. Ult survivor is releasing later, idk i wasnt paying attention..

I seen online that it says they are coming soon so praying and figures cross

See my thing is gen 1 and 2 back let even ran on ps4, the 5 is better but the point stands, how is this going to work?

There's an HD version of the Conduit. I would buy that day 1 if it came to Switch

Definitely gonna check it out now, but I'll wait for the physical edition.

Pull up 50

This game can’t even run PlayStation 5 without crashing nonstop in single player and they want to release the rest of the maps for switch? My god Wildcard is beyond help. Ark is such a good concept soiled by these donkey developers.

Everyone needs to know , and game journalists the original ARK switch wasnt supposed to be released in the form it was , & WC screwed over the original co developers, Abtraction. This was a very early Alpha Build built by Abtraction, WC asked them to make one , but then WC forced it to be released by anouncing it too early once they saw the Early build. ..but anyways im glad its being able to be fully developed this time & i don't want to take away the talent this took & i don't it is..🤔, heck they basically worked on this from scratch! so thats a big deal still but i wish it wasnt presented in a way as if this was a full intended game and what happens in order to get it on switch, yeah , this is only what happens when a game thats on switch is prevented from being properly worked on right from the start, and maybe oneday, we'll get the whole story about what exactly happened, maybe Wildcard will fess up, cuz they threw Abraction under the bus and just didnt want to pay them so they could fix it, Abrtaction said they wanted to fix it, and also if it was upto them, they would have held the game back. Wish i knew the reasoning behind why exactly WC didnt want to pay them to fix the game, did they not have the funds? all it would mean was more sales..idk.. They also kicked them off the team & also banned them from talking about the game, which is probably why a lot of people's questions on the game went unanswered by them since then. I want to think WildCard learned from their mistakes now tho, and let these other guys do what they need to do cuz man it looks GREAT .

Gives me slight hopes for GTA: DE Mobile which probably won't happen

Can you play local wireless on this now? There's so much that say yes and no and even nintendo says no but others say you still can...so just figured I'd ask someone who had the game. Thanks

Question will they fix meshing and all that other stuff that makes ark un playable

You know, maybe cdpr should re-port cyberpunk for the last gen consoles.

I can’t wait and now the update is not until November

A Game don't run well, because your System is strong enough. It run well, if it's programmed well

Got so hyped i started doing monkey noises

Considering the new developer made the GTA Definitive edition I’m surprised this is doing so well.

Grove Street Games, eh? They’re known for their great port work…

Wow am excited for this!

This is great!

If it actually looks that good you will have sale.

Hope they also fix GTA Definitive Trilogy with Stable 30fps On Switch

Solo que estoy feliz después de tantos años ya me tenía harto the aislad quería otra cosa

what the this looks fucking good.

🎉

Question; You really can't host sessions anymore?

Is it just for the OLED switch because my graphics have not been updated

I've always wanted ark on switch but after seeing what it was in 2018 I switched my minded and now since they are updating it.. I want it badly

Damn this new sequel looks nice!!!

Anyone know why my game is still blurry? I downloaded it after the update and have checked and my game is up to date… do I need to play around with settings?

For replicating the graphics settings for pc of the switch version what settings would you say it would be for pc to repmicate the look? Would of you can play pretty decent as well on sane settings?

Somehow still looks better than mobile

so anyone that already bought this does not have to repurchase or pay anything to update?

i already knew when they said october 25 i was like "BRO THIS IS GONNA BE SO MUCH BETTERRR" now i just feel like i've been pranked 💀

That's a huge surprise. Now to see if it doesn't run at 20fps, lol

What I wanna know is are there plans to release some of unofficial maps that you can enjoy on consoles, such as Valguero, Ragnarok, Lost Island and the Fjordur? I don’t car eif it takes a while, I just hope we can get those maps on handheld, even if not every single one of them!

may i ask i have the old version how wil i get the new version for free ?

Im not sure why youtube flagged my comment or whatever they did lol, i didnt swear or anything in it & no touchy subjects argh. I really do not like re writing my comments over and over again. Anyways ... i rebought this game after yrs of holding onto it, and it was just out of nowhere i saw that they were giong to fix this finally, but i thought they just gave up on it & oneday just out of the blue i was thinking about it, wondering if it had any update by now, this was in 2022, even thinking about buying it again for the hell of it.., i dont know why lol. Anyways, so happy theyre going to fix it, and i was so worried i couldnt find it again but i managed to find it at the another local place that sells retro and hard to find games, it was sold out at my usual store. Anyways, better late than never thats my opinion! & 45 bucks Canadian nothing to me to spend again after so long.. I am anticipating this long awaited and welcomed update!😍. It looks really good, but frankly im still skeptical lol🤔. I want to see it for myself ..

Does this update include crossplay to playststion though?

Anyone please answer- is this fix added in normal edition as well?

I really hope they do something about ark mobile too

I will never understand wtf went wrong with the switch version

pls give us the old ark back

i actually cannot fathom how they managed to port ark to the switch like looking like that. How did that shit happen lmfao.

Can you cross play with other people?

Before the whole new update. I was annoyed how the game crashes in some instances. The graphics were shaudy and terrible, because the Unreal Engine, used in that game, wasn’t compatible with the switch. I rated that thing 1.0/5.0 before the update. I get how it had such a low rating before because of that

Wait did you say GROVE STREET GAMES?! the guys behind the disastrous gta definitive? Lol wow I'll wait and see what happens

Aaaand switch has their official servers up.

Guys don’t get excited grove street games made mobile hackers took over and they did nothing about it all I think there going to do is make a slightly better island map

Can we still play ark survival evolved on nintendo switch in 2024?

Is it just me or does it make me more annoyed that they didn’t just do this in the first place?

Please tell me we are getting a new map and the dinos finally I seen where it supposed to be released late November but don't trust it

So is this an update on the game or a new one all together i was on last night looking at sales and it was not showing purchased

Keen, me an the missus playing switch 2018 versions, and it's playable but yeah, pretty shit

Shadow/Lightmaps instead of alpha based lighting Texture severely dropped in resolution Red Lighting Atrophy No lighting model Color was better in original version

They also made terrible gta ports for mobile and console

Anyone wanna play with me