App Store Editors’ Notes

Hungry for More Spawns

Lets just say that this is a pretty good game. I liked the original mobile version because it allowed you to find multiply ways to win the game. But this revamped version, six unique worlds are all packed into your iPad. I love being able to spawn creatures from any one of the six maps using the god console. If I need survival to be more difficult, I can just spawn the king titan, a mek, and fight him with god console off. I admire the developers for taking the time and energy to reprogram and transfer a PC worth of data inside a mobile device. It’s not an easy job to work with that much programing. It keeps me entertained though. The Island map on my mobile device has Genesis creatures roaming alongside Aberration .The only thing I wish you could improve is the Lost Island dinos and the ceratosaurs. I understand that these might not spawn naturally on the currently available mobile maps, but if you could find a way to program lost island dinos to be artificially spawned on other maps using admin commands somewhat early, it might add some more organic biodiversity to ark. I like your game, but I would also like to be able to spawn more types of creatures to make the game experience more interesting. Or if there is already a way to spawn them on the island, pre-haps reply with the summon codes Thank you for your time. I have no other complaints with this game.

Good Game, But-

Honestly probably a much better version of the on mobile than the old one. This has added a lot of stuff I never even knew existed in the older version but overall everything is top notch. Though I do want to report about Rhyniognatha problems. First of all, they cannot follow you. Whistling, fixing the distance, enabling other options. It won’t work. I can’t even let it wander. It just stays where it is. That’s the only thing that needs to be fixed, especially for players who love using these things. Another problem I started having is saving my game. It won’t let me. I signed in, added my password and as soon as I finished, the little tab screen goes black and it blinks repeatedly. I don’t know if the issues is fixed but it would be incredibly life saving if it was. Also, paying to get the other maps? Mind as well just let me pay for the whole game in general and get all that included for free. I really want to explore other places besides staying stuck in the Island. And another problem is multiplayer. It won’t work. It gets stuck then it kicks me back to the home screen. Other than that, I like this new version of the game, considering I don’t got a laptop to play it on but it’s probably worth the trouble. I just need that Rhynio to be fixed. <3

I love the game.. but major bugs

I’m sorry that I’m leaving such a bad review but this issues need to be addressed because currently it ruins the fun of transferring my character to different maps. first major issue I noticed is on single player, when I transfer Maps and returned to the previous map I lose access to my creatures and structures because I am no longer in the same tribe I was in when Left. Second after transferring maps in single player I can’t seem to save my stuff as when I leave and rejoin the game basically puts me back to the screen to make a new survivor and when I create a new survivor and go back to my base my original survivor is still standing there in the world for some reason like if there is another player (and this happens in single player). Thus this issue make playing survival and moving between maps a monstrous thing to do and ruins the fun of have access to the other map. Plus now I can’t really beat the overseer on the island because I’m afraid of losing everything once I beat him. Please developers if you see this all I ask is that you can right a small feed back to this review and let me know that you have seen this and are planning on fixing it. It would be really appreciated to know that you guys are aware of this.

Ark lover

Been playing ark ever since it came out, game looks beautiful runs better then it first was, it’s actually enjoyable. Although still some major issues on multiplayer I wish was looked at, their is a lot of Chinese hackers in game and they have built walls areas entering new zones blocking off mostly everything their is 5 different Chinese tribes doing this and blocking off areas on pve sever ropeladder blocking off areas to recourses needed. Since you need to be pretty high level to get a rock drake or kark, it’s impossible for any new player to get required items that only spawn in the blue or red zone. Most of the Chinese are toxic on here and taunt people in world chat saying haha nothing you can do, along with blocking off every way to get down. Or back up. Are the devs going to fix this hacking problem and ban people purposely blocking off areas? Out of all the different cultures of people I met and have experienced this game with it’s only the Chinese in my sever who are doing this , I wish a dev could log onto the game and see what I’m talking about and ban people for these tactics designed to ruin the game and make it not playable

Great game but lots of bugs

I have always loved ark mobile since I started playing and being able to play the console version on mobile has been a dream come true. I got the game about a week ago and it’s awesome but there are quite a few bugs still. My main one being the constant crashes that happen on single player while I’m playing and it’s very frustrating to have your progress limited so much. The Island is playable but still has lots of crashes and it’s enjoyable sort of but Aberration (the only other map I’ve gotten) is borderline unplayable with how frequent the crashes happen. Multiplayer with the over-spawning alphas and resources not re-generating I hope will get fixed as well. Otherwise I have enjoyed the game so far and hope to enjoy it more when all the bugs are hopefully fixed. Update: The crashes in the blue zone on abberation single player have gotten to the point where I quite literally cannot open the map without crashing. This is a major issue and I want to see it fixed soon. I also discovered it’s not just in the blue zone but in other select spots too. This game desperately needs more optimization to run it. I think adding a tidy save feature like the one on mobile would help because I think part of my issue is excess dinos fighting.

Don’t waste your time

This game had huge potential, but sadly the ball was dropped—and it was dropped from quite the height. Upon release, there has been more issues with this game than I can count. I started on pvp, but soon got ran off by chinese hackers. Chinese hackers are on every single server, constantly rolling back the server to duplicate items. I moved to pve to get away from hackers, but the hackers in pve force join tribes and steal everything from you. The developers have no care in the world in ensuring community happiness. Instead of fixing major issues, causing players to lose hundreds of hours of work, they fixate on hiding a community manager, pretty much just a hyped up discord mod. This game is ran by the wrong group of people, and I will not be playing until it is bought out by a more compentent gaming studio. Also, don’t bother putting in support tickets, they will hit you with the same generic response given to everyone and they won’t help you out. I had an appointment to meet with a developer to retain some of my stolen loot back, and the developer didn’t show up! How unprofessional. Also, say goodbye to being able to play on the weekends. Hackers will take down the server and gsg is too entitled to work on the weekends i. order to get your server back up and running. Truly such a terrible group of developers. Go play ark survival ascended, support wildcard, as they are so much better.

Give us the features that we pay for.

So let me get this straight ur paying 18 dollars for god console to get access for some settings that should be base in the game and paying 25 dollars or something to get all maps all that money for ultimate edition on console will get u everything unlocked all settings to tweak and play around with to suit ur taste like breeding settings and plants settings and mutation settings etc but on mobile u cant even access fov nor adjust the framerate without god console and also u have less features which is very stupid and not worth paying for even if u pay 5 dollars for a subscription thats still stupid and not worth the money u will give, its a shame that they are adding more micro transactions and not add the features of simple settings that’s ridiculous and especially if ur paying 18 bucks for god console, like really adding cryopods that do some mutation for keys and that is also a setting on the ultimate edition on console u can even do that for free and the cryopod is 500 keys which is like paying 3 bucks for a single use, do u see how much stupid that looks ? Please look at what yall doing and correct it, I don’t mind adding micro transactions like keys but when i pay for the full game I should be getting the full experience which is not really happening on here yall are just ripping the people of simple base tweaks that yall can easily add.

Highly unstable, lots of pve griefing

This game crashes more in an hour of playing on the oldest map than every other iPad app I’ve ever used, EVER, COMBINED. recently, they decided it was a good idea to shut some servers down that had been running for the better part of a year and only gave the players a little over a week to get thousands of tames and tens of thousands of items moved over to a new server with a new transfer wait timer they implemented under a month ago. Most of the legitimate players have left so the only people playing now are the ones waiting for improvements to stability and the ones that use third party versions of the app that don’t crash every 5 minutes. I lost so many blueprints, tames, structures, and trophies/element that cannot be transferred. I’ve lost good tames to anti-meshing bugs. I’ve lost hours upon hours of progress to server rollbacks and people dragging my offline body to water. This game isn’t worth paying for and it’s barely worth the “free” tag. The current team has made some marginal improvements but it wasn’t enough to justify random crashes, unplayable parts of the map, pve griefing, etc. it’s much of the same problems as their last attempt at making ark into a mobile game. I highly recommend you avoid getting invested in this game.

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