update jan 2017 the game is a complete mess, the devs have halfway abandoned it in attempts it seems to impliment a new ark system DLC due to them loosing all there $$ creating SOTF the cash cow tournament competition, so not only did they get sidetracked with a whole diffrent game mod survival of the fittist, there now stuck polishing off & creating (even more DLC acording to there posts) while the online world server implimentation of the ark has not changed much at all, the worlds are still over extended with more mob population than they can support (a year later & so much more) .... dont get me wrong i really do love the ark, & they have reliced quite a few new creatures into the non dlc & i absolutley would not downvote the ark, its still a better game than manny finished survival games....but the reason i play, the only reason to play (online worlds) there are alott fewer official ones now, & the lag on some of them is just completley unchanged in a whole year, idunno maby its my rig...---- How the devs diddint just end earley access & promise DLC & more updates for the core game delivered in large stacks is beyond me instead turning the early access program into a dlc fest that shurley other publishers will follow in the future...... yay lots more unfinished games with pay more dlc & more & yep another DLC comming at you pay more please to play the whole game seems to be our future.. is it just me or does the future of both early access & fully finished games seem it might be a big p2play episodeic experience
Taletale games really messed things up with the whole DLC's being called episodes, people accepted that they would just be buying into more content in your game like it is a magazine subscription, a great way to sell DLC.. but really creates a shortfall for the end user who must pay up the whazoo just to play a full game..

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Posted: Nov 19, 2015 @ 9:00am
OK WE ALL KNOW THIS GAME IS BADASS & WORTH IT> now to tell you that there minimal specs are wrong!!
to all the people out there who think you can run this game on the minimal specs well, your kinda right accept one thing!! 4gb of ram will not let the app run correctley you MUST HAVE at least 8gb of RAM >>>> THE MINIMAL RAM SPECS ARE SETTING YOU UP TO FAIL TO HAVE ANY SORT OF GOOD TIME!! <<<<< other than that my old PC that i assembled back in 2006 or so amd6100FX with a Asus raideon HD4800 1gb ddr5 plays the game wonderfuly at arround 62fps med settings & 22fps high lol varrious things like server lag will always affect the overall gameplay, but in its entirity this game is quite smooth & has never crashed my computer one tme after i upgraded to 8gb of memory... On the other hand before i upgraded to 8gb of memmory this game was a nightmareish fail, my loadtimes to get into a game were arround 25-40mins 99% of the time failing to make a connection with any host at the end of the long wait, when i did get into a game the studdering from varrious aspects of the game being loaded into virtual harddrive memmory made my play experiance in mid settings arround 10-20fps so forget about this game if you cannot upgrade to at least 8gb of memmory, also ssd is nice but via testing ive found only adding more ram increases the PFS output of the game the more ram the better the run.

update jan 2017 the game is a complete mess, the devs have halfway abandoned it in attempts it seems to impliment a new ark system DLC due to them loosing all there $$ creating SOTF the cash cow tournament competition, so not only did they get sidetracked with a whole diffrent game mod survival of the fittist, there now stuck polishing off & creating (even more DLC acording to there posts) while the online world server implimentation of the ark has not changed much at all, the worlds are still over extended with more mob population than they can support (a year later & so much more) .... dont get me wrong i really do love the ark, & they have reliced quite a few new creatures into the non dlc & i absolutley would not downvote the ark, its still a better game than manny finished survival games....but the reason i play, the only reason to play (online worlds) there are alott fewer official ones now, & the lag on some of them is just completley unchanged in a whole year, idunno maby its my rig...---- How the devs diddint just end earley access & promise DLC & more updates for the core game delivered in large stacks is beyond me instead turning the early access program into a dlc fest that shurley other publishers will follow in the future...... yay lots more unfinished games with pay more dlc & more & yep another DLC comming at you pay more please to play the whole game seems to be our future.. is it just me or does the future of both early access & fully finished games seem it might be a big p2play episodeic experience Taletale games really messed things up with the whole DLC's being called episodes, people accepted that they would just be buying into more content in your game like it is a magazine subscription, a great way to sell DLC.. but really creates a shortfall for the end user who must pay up the whazoo just to play a full game.. ----- Posted: Nov 19, 2015 @ 9:00am OK WE ALL KNOW THIS GAME IS BADASS & WORTH IT> now to tell you that there minimal specs are wrong!! to all the people out there who think you can run this game on the minimal specs well, your kinda right accept one thing!! 4gb of ram will not let the app run correctley you MUST HAVE at least 8gb of RAM >>>> THE MINIMAL RAM SPECS ARE SETTING YOU UP TO FAIL TO HAVE ANY SORT OF GOOD TIME!! <<<<< other than that my old PC that i assembled back in 2006 or so amd6100FX with a Asus raideon HD4800 1gb ddr5 plays the game wonderfuly at arround 62fps med settings & 22fps high lol varrious things like server lag will always affect the overall gameplay, but in its entirity this game is quite smooth & has never crashed my computer one tme after i upgraded to 8gb of memory... On the other hand before i upgraded to 8gb of memmory this game was a nightmareish fail, my loadtimes to get into a game were arround 25-40mins 99% of the time failing to make a connection with any host at the end of the long wait, when i did get into a game the studdering from varrious aspects of the game being loaded into virtual harddrive memmory made my play experiance in mid settings arround 10-20fps so forget about this game if you cannot upgrade to at least 8gb of memmory, also ssd is nice but via testing ive found only adding more ram increases the PFS output of the game the more ram the better the run.