ARK: Survival Of The Fittest Overview. Ark: Survival of the Fittest is a free-to-play battle royale-style arena battler (MOSA) that’s a spin-off of a popular mod for Ark: Survival Evolved.
ARK: Survival Evolved has spun off its Hunger-Gamesy Survival of the Fittest mod into a free standalone murderfest on Steam. And that's free in the old fashioned sense of the word—the announcement claims that there will be 'no monetisation' but with the benefits of a fully supported game and cash prizes for the top 10 players in each of its four Survivor Leagues. From this we can assume that ARK is doing very well for itself indeed.
For an Early Access game, Survival of the Fittest is making an astonishingly aggressive push into the world of esports. The trailer is patched together from casters' commentary and the free-for-all, two-player, four-player and six-player leagues will compete over a prize pool of $50,000. And fair play to it—lots of developers are toying with the Hunger Games formula but few are polished enough to have a shot at the big time. Survival of the Fittest invites anyone to have a go if they think they're hard enough.
Survival of the Fittest (and ARK at large) isn't flawless by a long way—it's notoriously taxing on your rig—but combatants will be pleased to hear that the standalone comes with 'massively boosted performance', along with the obvious additions of a ranking system, matchmaking and cosmetic rewards that carry over to ARK proper.
ARK would like us to refer to its new sibling as a 'Multiplayer Online Survival Arena'. I'm not going to do that, because there are enough meaningless acronyms in the world. How about we dub the genre 'battle royale' instead? I mean, obviously there are copyright issues, but I won't tell anyone if you won't.
The full announcement is here.
Battle other players in a survival arena and form tribes to increase your chances in this free-2-play version of the popular ARK: Survival Evolved
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There’s certainly no shortage of survival games out there, because you can have your pick from dozens of titles that feature zombies, the wilderness, mutants, or a variety of other such elements. However, it’s always nice to see something original in the genre, even if it’s just in the gameplay mechanics department. Thankfully, there are plenty of creative people out there to think of something new every now and again.
A free-to-play version of the popular survival game
ARK: Survival Of The Fittest is a multiplayer arena game focused on survival and the freedom to approach each match in a different manner. In case the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s almost the same product as ARK: Survival Evolved, except that it’s multiplayer-only and free-to-play. As the developers put it, this is to be regarded as an eSports version of the original game, although there’s a long way to go until that can become reality.
To begin with, the servers are quite large, since they can usually hold up to 72 people at once. The goal is for only one man or tribe to remain alive when the timer runs out, which can take anywhere from 30 minutes to three whole hours. There’s a whole island to explore and capture, but there’s also a death ring that shrinks periodically in order to force players toward the center as the timer begins to approach zero.
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Tame dinosaurs and powerful monsters
Dinosaurs can be both a friend and a foe, since you’ll often have to fight them in order to survive, yet you need to tame them in order to raise an army and win the game. On top of it all, there are special creatures that can be tamed as well, and they have the power to turn the tide of an entire match. Hence, huge dragons and spiders can be brought onto the battlefield to lay waste left and right.
The graphics are very nice as well, courtesy of the powerful engine used to render it all. However, while the level design and the dinosaurs are very nicely modeled and animated respectively, there are some clipping issues and awkward player animations, such as when you have to carry something around. There are also quite a few bugs you might run into, but that’s to be expected in Early Access.
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A great deal of potential waiting to be unleashed
All things considered, ARK: Survival Of The Fittest certainly has a bright future ahead, but it needs more polish to get there. Thus, if you are aching for a bit of prehistoric action and you do not mind waiting a while until a server gets full, you should certainly give this a try.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS- OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows 8
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU
- Memory: 4000 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM
- Storage: 37000 MB available space
ARK: Survival Of The Fittest 145.1 Early Access
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- 36.7 GB
- runs on:
- Windows
- main category:
- Freeware Games
- genre:
- Multiplayer
Sandbox
Survival
FPS - gamepad:
- Gamepad supported
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