Following on almost 7 months from its announcement, Ark: Survival Evolved has finally got some details on its release date and content.
Studio Wildcard announced in a press release on the 30th of November that their dinosaur-hunting, anachronistic survival game, Ark: Survival Evolved, will be launching on the PS4 on December 6th as a ‘Survivor’s Pack’ edition set to include the base game as well as the extensive Scorched Earth expansion.
The game initially launched into Early Access on Steam in June of 2015, and has since received regular and extensive updates to the core game, leading to a completely overhauled game. The game is expected to reach full, 1.0, release in Spring of 2017.
Here’s a features list for the core game from the press release:
- TAME, TRAIN, RIDE, and BREED DINOSAURS: Command the most amazing creatures from throughout Earth’s biological history, with more than 100 dinosaurs and creatures planned for full launch. Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground.
- CRAFT AND BUILD: Using any means necessary to survive, players will craft weapons, clothes, and items, and build shelters. Plant, harvest, build, level-up, and customize everything visually and functionally, including procedurally-generated RPG statistics for creatures, characters, resources, clothing, gear, and weapons both primitive and modern.
- DISCOVER: Explore a massive living ecosystem and find the means to survive, thrive, and possibly escape the ARK Island.
- TEAM UP TO SURVIVE: Start a tribe with dozens of other players in a large-scale multiplayer online first person environment to survive and dominate competing tribes…and to ultimately discover ARK’s true purpose.
- JOIN A TRIBE: The ‘Tribe’ system encourages cooperation, by supporting dynamic parties to share resources, XP, and re-spawn points. Other players are organizing rebel tribes to accumulate resources, experience, re-spawn points, and to construct sprawling villages and cities, with technology spanning the primitive stone-age to the modern electric-powered era and beyond. And they will fight to destroy anything they see as a threat.
- A LARGER UNIVERSE: Travel between Online ARKs to meet new players, face new threats, and discover new civilizations!
And, for those curious, you can find the announcement trailer for the PS4 version (from back in May) below.
