![]() ![]() Fear not though, because there is single player, which is arguably the most user-friendly of the lot - Bear in mind, though, user-friendly isn't a plus or negative, just a fact. There are no instructions, even after one comb through the menus, like someone who can only speak English trying to find the cure for their ailment in an all-French document. The player will take damage, the screen vibrating until they eventually die a blurring, red death. What's more annoying are status effects, like poison, for instance. It's hard to even try to grasp the mechanics when most of the adventure time is spent getting killed over and over again. They spawn again, after a moderately annoying wait time, and they are picked off again by a nearby dino who decided this was his beach and no humans allowed. Mere seconds after spawning, one might find themselves getting one-shot by some ridiculous dinosaur trained to kill on site. Furthermore, PvE highlights other issues, which is that there is zero room for failure here. Just remember, this is dog-eat-dog world, and feelings are best left at the door. It doesn't stop the early hours of PvP from being irritating, but once a footing is found, ARK manages to be moderately fun to play with other people. It's PvP at its finest, and the unbridled chaos of it all is kind of nice when you consider this is a harsh world. ![]() One could join a tribe, and try to help out the leader, only to end up fish food next to them. Now, playing online doesn't mean a tribe has to be joined, but these are often too willing to attack the player, or even lead them to their death. There are essentially two ways to play: online or alone. ARK has no tutorial at all, and while it holds true to the standards of similar survival games, it has a lot of things going on that should be explained better than with a paltry "Survival Guide" on the main menu. This a common thread throughout this odyssey that will leave a lot of players desperately pawing for salvation. While this offers basic notifications like "You're hot, better find a place to cool off," to paraphrase one such notification, it doesn't bother telling you exactly how to do that.Īctually, this doesn't even bother hinting at it - instead, it just lets it sit on screen, almost judging you for being incapable of figuring out something that you shouldn't really know at this point. Where many products of this kind take the idea of hand holding to absurd, almost offensive lengths, ARK doesn't care to try this much at all. It's at this point that ARK chooses to take the training wheels off, if they were ever properly on to begin with. You are dropped onto a map with nothing to your name, and must quickly gather supplies to stay alive. ARK: Survival Evolved is, if the name wasn't a giveaway, a survival title. ![]()
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