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Ark State of the Game and What's to Come

Yesterday afternoon an official post about Ark's status was made on the forums. I will be going over the laymen's in this article, but I urge you to read the post yourself in depth. I will also briefly go over my thoughts, feelings, and theories of these announcements. You can read the full post on the forums here.

Anyway, to begin the retail version of the game is finished. To give you an idea of what this means, the single player version of the game is optimized enough and finished enough to be released on disc. This is the very reason Wildcard has been focusing on single player recently and not multiplayer/dedicated server optimization, it was to make the game sell-able on disc so it wouldn't get rejected. This means now the developers can focus on their multiplayer experience that most players have been longing for. So expect the balancing of boss fights, ddos protection, optimizations, and more balance changes.

Speaking of ddosing... duping! So, will the servers be wiped? No. It seems the developers stuck to their guns and will be releasing a new cluster of servers and the original, or now currents, servers will be renamed "legacy" servers. You can check my opinion and thoughts on a server wipe in my last article here. But this was the only expected option other than wiping the servers upon release, so I'm not entirely surprised. You won't be able to transfer to these new servers from the old ones, so it is a completely new start. You might be asking how they'll have the money to do this? One, Wildcard claims to already have the finances to run them and they will also be taking down underpopulated servers. So expect many hardcore and scorched earth wastelands to be replaced by the new cluster.

Furthermore, Ragnarok on console will be released on August 8th. I kind of expected this after such delays, but it is still something to take in with disappointment. However, Ragnarok is a very buggy map, even on PC, so maybe it is better we get it later.

Speaking of consoles. On release we finally get the long awaited PC ran dedicated servers. This will allow you to run, or even rent, dedicated servers on your PC. For those who spent money on a separate console, you will still be able to run your servers as normal.

Also, in short, the very long delayed PS4 update will come tomorrow, probably late evening and the new dev kit should be released shortly.

But, to end this on a sweet note, Jeremy has stated in the upcoming PC update that the TRUE ascension ending is coming. He released along side this the new EPIC credits theme, which I suggest you check out yourself on Jeremy's Soundcloud. With this, I would also expect the final boss to be released as well, but I for one am very excited for what's to come in these final couple of weeks.

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