PS4 Version Comparison

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

[MiltoNova]

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

if you have a gaming pc already, go for it, if you dont, you can buy emulators that allow you to use a mouse and keyboard with your console

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by {LEO}MiltonPlayzGames:

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

if you have a gaming pc already, go for it, if you dont, you can buy emulators that allow you to use a mouse and keyboard with your console

Thanks but I certainly would not buy a mouse and keyboard for PS4. The game was sold on the PSN store as a full price retail copy and in relaity it was a half finished mess and if it said I needed a KB&M I would not have got it anyway. I do not feel I should have to pay such a price to enjoy it anyway.

I would love to play it on PC if it is not garbage though. I hear really mixed reviews is al and I strongly hated the console version and consider it a real rip off.

I just know much like the 7 Days To Die port, the PS4 version is a real mess that is so hard to navigate lol

Thanks for your response.

[NGCaliber]

PS4 is equivalent to a poor mans gaming machine that was purchased at a Wal-Mart. If you have a computer that has a nice graphics card($300+ value), a good quad core processor, 16GB of ram, and a SSD then yes it will run circles around the PS4.

[Boosted Panda]

One night I tried playing this game with a controller, as I just wanted to relax on a couch so I ran my PC to my TV. That was probably the most annoying things I ever did. The controlls just felt horrible and for some reason certain buttons were not working. (tried both XB1 and PS4 controllers).

So story here is yes KBM is so much better than controller ARK.

PC ARK still has its issues though. There will be plenty of bugs and yes dont expect a locked 60fps in ARK. Large bases will still kill fps even with a monster PC even on medium DX11. ARK is a fun game its just you have to get past the performance.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by NGCaliber:

PS4 is equivalent to a poor mans gaming machine that was purchased at a Wal-Mart. If you have a computer that has a nice graphics card($300+ value), a good quad core processor, 16GB of ram, and a SSD then yes it will run circles around the PS4.

I wouldn't say that. I'd say a console serves a casual purpose though, where a PC handles more high tech application. I don't think it is relevant however, because Minecraft on console runs amazingly well with its user interface with a moveable mouse and cross hair. I just have no idea how the developers of Ark, (and the aforementioned 7DTD messed up so bad as to have really dodgy interface which is what you'll be using half the time anyway; Arks interface on PS4 at least acts line a button option system and sometimes it just skips to stupid places on the screens and its just not a good experience at all mixed in with glitches and incredibly poor optimization and ability to change visual settings, (I can't even get it to fit on my screen haha)

I have watched people play on YouTube let's play and it does look way more smoother on PC though and it just seems so promising conpared to the PS4 version I wasted 2x as much money on.

Thanks for responses

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by Irony:

One night I tried playing this game with a controller, as I just wanted to relax on a couch so I ran my PC to my TV. That was probably the most annoying things I ever did. The controlls just felt horrible and for some reason certain buttons were not working. (tried both XB1 and PS4 controllers).

So story here is yes KBM is so much better than controller ARK.

PC ARK still has its issues though. There will be plenty of bugs and yes dont expect a locked 60fps in ARK. Large bases will still kill fps even with a monster PC even on medium DX11. ARK is a fun game its just you have to get past the performance.

It is really unresponsive at times, sadly and you end up button mashing. The menus are the worst because you have to actually chase the current selected button and find where it randomly went on the screen. It takes a good 30 seocnds sometimes to build a simple thing because switching through the menus is a tedious nightmare.

[NGCaliber]

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Originally posted by NGCaliber:

PS4 is equivalent to a poor mans gaming machine that was purchased at a Wal-Mart. If you have a computer that has a nice graphics card($300+ value), a good quad core processor, 16GB of ram, and a SSD then yes it will run circles around the PS4.

I wouldn't say that. I'd say a console serves a casual purpose though, where a PC handles more high tech application. I don't think it is relevant however, because Minecraft on console runs amazingly well with its user interface with a moveable mouse and cross hair. I just have no idea how the developers of Ark, (and the aforementioned 7DTD messed up so bad as to have really dodgy interface which is what you'll be using half the time anyway; Arks interface on PS4 at least acts line a button option system and sometimes it just skips to stupid places on the screens and its just not a good experience at all mixed in with glitches and incredibly poor optimization and ability to change visual settings, (I can't even get it to fit on my screen haha)

I have watched people play on YouTube let's play and it does look way more smoother on PC though and it just seems so promising conpared to the PS4 version I wasted 2x as much money on.

Thanks for responses

The issue with PS4 and even Xbox when it comes to optimization/performance of a video game, is that it's a lie. Both consoles received a lot of flak for this, mainly due to Sony releasing their VR headset and thus showing their cards. Both consoles use a custom AMD APU processor. So this means that it is essentially using integrated graphics. This mean that there is no VRAM, and that it is dealing with shared resources. Most of what you see performance wise is dependent on console filtering. This means that what you see on the screen is based on the filters built into your TV, gaming console. These filters will stretch, shrink, smooth, and insert filler frames that is a blurred combo of the previous and post frame. It's done with MPEG encoding chips that is used on almost everything now.

What you don't see is what the games you play actually run at.
http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/PS4_vs._Xbox_One_Native_Resolutions_and_Framerates

Here is a good example. You already know how ARK performs... but lets compare it to something on this list. Assassins Creed Unity, it runs at 900p @ 30fps. The game will not run at 900p at all times, it will reduce to 720p at times when there is a higher demand on the system. Remember there isn't any video ram and the console has to share those resources.

When Sony launched their VR headset consumers were stunned at the simplicity of available games. They were very limited on what they could do, and the graphics were mainly low color/resolution. Even on an Oculus Rift there has been a decline in demands for the exact same reason. With Oculus you have 2 LCD screens with 1200p resolution and a 75fps required frame rate to prevent nausea. To be quite honest, we don't have the mainstream computer systems to process the games that we like for VR. And when Sony consumers took a step back to see what their consoles were really doing they did feel a bit betrayed. Which is why Sony had to push for the PS4 Pro. Consumers were quickly upgrading to 4k TVs and a 900p image being stretched to 2160p looks horrid. You can only filter so much.

A current model $300 video card is twice as powerful than a PS4. The new PS4 Pro might have received a boost in calculations however it still doesn't have the dedicated resources so it will still be far behind a mid range desktop with a $300 graphics card.

[Spawn of Fenrir]

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

It all really depends on who you ask and how good your rig is..... many of us(myself included) are extremely happy with the PC version, it looks great, runs great, controls feel great.... and many of us insist the opposite is true...... I guess in that way, it's an extremely subjective topic and will be highly influenced by personal opinion.

A good PC build for this game IMO would look like this.

CPU - 4th Gen or newer Intel Core I5 or AMD Ryzen 5
GPU - GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 480/580
RAM - 16GB or more of DDR3 or DDR4
HDD - 240GB+ SSD, this game will greatly benefit from being installed on an SSD

You can of course make adjustments above or below these specs depending on your budget, this is what I would call the sweet spot, it allows you to run on high settings with some things tweaked up a bit higher, you could even pull off Epic settings if you don't mind 30 FPS.

[Photek]

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

i've played it on ps4 at release for a few weeks

the old menue is like the new menue, unplayable on console because everything takes 3 times more time

graphics was ok

now i have a pro

graphics are sharper 1080p but frameloss because of so many dinos and bases on any server same on pc

servers run like crap same on pc

so i would say the game is the same on every platform, but on pc you can handle the ♥♥♥♥ better

so if you play single player i suggest console or pc

if you play multiplayer i would go with pc, pvp almost unplayable, big bases are the best defense on console

i would prefer pve too

cheers

[=Sarsante=]

problem is consoles are garbage nowdays.

when they started at 80's and even at the 90's the hardware didnt advanced as fast as it advances now and it was really expensive specially up to mid 90's.

So it was viable make a produt and sell it for over 5 years, the exact same console.

Nowdays even if they put together a i7 7700k, 32gb ram and a 1080TI you cant expect that to be really good in the next 5-8 years. Because at that time the hardware available for pcs will be idk 4x times faster than that.

Then console companies at the best will release a "new" version, like ps4 pro but its not that new at all, its the same cpu, same ram and a slightly better gpu so being honest compared to pcs its pure garbage, its low end specs.

Ark is a very demanding game even for high end pcs, so its expected that it will run poorly on a low end pc aka consoles.

[Spawn of Fenrir]

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

problem is consoles are garbage nowdays.

when they started at 80's and even at the 90's the hardware didnt advanced as fast as it advances now and it was really expensive specially up to mid 90's.

So it was viable make a produt and sell it for over 5 years, the exact same console.

Nowdays even if they put together a i7 7700k, 32gb ram and a 1080TI you cant expect that to be really good in the next 5-8 years. Because at that time the hardware available for pcs will be idk 4x times faster than that.

Then console companies at the best will release a "new" version, like ps4 pro but its not that new at all, its the same cpu, same ram and a slightly better gpu so being honest compared to pcs its pure garbage, its low end specs.

Ark is a very demanding game even for high end pcs, so its expected that it will run poorly on a low end pc aka consoles.

IMO back in the 8 and 16-bit days, consoles were the best gaming experience next to arcades.... the PC gaming experience was laughable back then as PCs were more considered "business machines" and had very crappy sound and video capabilities in comparison to pretty much any console.... this improved later on, PCs eventually caught up and never stopped moving forawrd, right up until now when PCs are actually driving the gaming industry by providing the constantly elvolving horsepower to fuel the next generation consoles.
Computer gaming back in the 80s and 90s wasn't all bad though, we still had home computers such as the C64, Atari 800, Amiga, ZX Spectrum(sorry I refuse to say "zedx" lol).... and though they were far superior to the PC equivilants of the time.... except for the Amiga they still didn't quite stack up to consoles......... kinda weird how times have changed so much since then ehh?

[=Sarsante=]

Originally posted by Spawn of Fenrir:

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

problem is consoles are garbage nowdays.

when they started at 80's and even at the 90's the hardware didnt advanced as fast as it advances now and it was really expensive specially up to mid 90's.

So it was viable make a produt and sell it for over 5 years, the exact same console.

Nowdays even if they put together a i7 7700k, 32gb ram and a 1080TI you cant expect that to be really good in the next 5-8 years. Because at that time the hardware available for pcs will be idk 4x times faster than that.

Then console companies at the best will release a "new" version, like ps4 pro but its not that new at all, its the same cpu, same ram and a slightly better gpu so being honest compared to pcs its pure garbage, its low end specs.

Ark is a very demanding game even for high end pcs, so its expected that it will run poorly on a low end pc aka consoles.

IMO back in the 8 and 16-bit days, consoles were the best gaming experience next to arcades.... the PC gaming experience was laughable back then as PCs were more considered "business machines" and had very crappy sound and video capabilities in comparison to pretty much any console.... this improved later on, PCs eventually caught up and never stopped moving forawrd, right up until now when PCs are actually driving the gaming industry by providing the constantly elvolving horsepower to fuel the next generation consoles.
Computer gaming back in the 80s and 90s wasn't all bad though, we still had home computers such as the C64, Atari 800, Amiga, ZX Spectrum(sorry I refuse to say "zedx" lol).... and though they were far superior to the PC equivilants of the time.... except for the Amiga they still didn't quite stack up to consoles......... kinda weird how times have changed so much since then ehh?

Yeah indeed

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by NGCaliber:

Originally posted by level1platinum:

I wouldn't say that. I'd say a console serves a casual purpose though, where a PC handles more high tech application. I don't think it is relevant however, because Minecraft on console runs amazingly well with its user interface with a moveable mouse and cross hair. I just have no idea how the developers of Ark, (and the aforementioned 7DTD messed up so bad as to have really dodgy interface which is what you'll be using half the time anyway; Arks interface on PS4 at least acts line a button option system and sometimes it just skips to stupid places on the screens and its just not a good experience at all mixed in with glitches and incredibly poor optimization and ability to change visual settings, (I can't even get it to fit on my screen haha)

I have watched people play on YouTube let's play and it does look way more smoother on PC though and it just seems so promising conpared to the PS4 version I wasted 2x as much money on.

Thanks for responses

The issue with PS4 and even Xbox when it comes to optimization/performance of a video game, is that it's a lie. Both consoles received a lot of flak for this, mainly due to Sony releasing their VR headset and thus showing their cards. Both consoles use a custom AMD APU processor. So this means that it is essentially using integrated graphics. This mean that there is no VRAM, and that it is dealing with shared resources. Most of what you see performance wise is dependent on console filtering. This means that what you see on the screen is based on the filters built into your TV, gaming console. These filters will stretch, shrink, smooth, and insert filler frames that is a blurred combo of the previous and post frame. It's done with MPEG encoding chips that is used on almost everything now.

What you don't see is what the games you play actually run at.
http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/PS4_vs._Xbox_One_Native_Resolutions_and_Framerates

Here is a good example. You already know how ARK performs... but lets compare it to something on this list. Assassins Creed Unity, it runs at 900p @ 30fps. The game will not run at 900p at all times, it will reduce to 720p at times when there is a higher demand on the system. Remember there isn't any video ram and the console has to share those resources.

When Sony launched their VR headset consumers were stunned at the simplicity of available games. They were very limited on what they could do, and the graphics were mainly low color/resolution. Even on an Oculus Rift there has been a decline in demands for the exact same reason. With Oculus you have 2 LCD screens with 1200p resolution and a 75fps required frame rate to prevent nausea. To be quite honest, we don't have the mainstream computer systems to process the games that we like for VR. And when Sony consumers took a step back to see what their consoles were really doing they did feel a bit betrayed. Which is why Sony had to push for the PS4 Pro. Consumers were quickly upgrading to 4k TVs and a 900p image being stretched to 2160p looks horrid. You can only filter so much.

A current model $300 video card is twice as powerful than a PS4. The new PS4 Pro might have received a boost in calculations however it still doesn't have the dedicated resources so it will still be far behind a mid range desktop with a $300 graphics card.

I just would have liked the game to fit in the screen lmao

Thank you for the big decent response

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by Spawn of Fenrir:

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

It all really depends on who you ask and how good your rig is..... many of us(myself included) are extremely happy with the PC version, it looks great, runs great, controls feel great.... and many of us insist the opposite is true...... I guess in that way, it's an extremely subjective topic and will be highly influenced by personal opinion.

A good PC build for this game IMO would look like this.

CPU - 4th Gen or newer Intel Core I5 or AMD Ryzen 5
GPU - GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 480/580
RAM - 16GB or more of DDR3 or DDR4
HDD - 240GB+ SSD, this game will greatly benefit from being installed on an SSD

You can of course make adjustments above or below these specs depending on your budget, this is what I would call the sweet spot, it allows you to run on high settings with some things tweaked up a bit higher, you could even pull off Epic settings if you don't mind 30 FPS.

Yeah, I am really only interested on how smooth it runs and how well and simple its interface is to actually play/build.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by Photek:

Originally posted by level1platinum:

Anyone here played this on both PS4 and PC?
I have the PS4 version, and I deeply regret spending $50 on it and consider it garbage.
The user interface is the most awful thing to use without a mouse, the game is so choppy, has extrmeely limited settings to make it fit screen and brightness and it just generally runs awful from menus to connection to constant glitches making doing stuff maddening.

So if anyone has used both, is it worth migrating to PC version or is it as garbage as the PS4 'port' version?

Cheers.

i've played it on ps4 at release for a few weeks

the old menue is like the new menue, unplayable on console because everything takes 3 times more time

graphics was ok

now i have a pro

graphics are sharper 1080p but frameloss because of so many dinos and bases on any server same on pc

servers run like crap same on pc

so i would say the game is the same on every platform, but on pc you can handle the ♥♥♥♥ better

so if you play single player i suggest console or pc

if you play multiplayer i would go with pc, pvp almost unplayable, big bases are the best defense on console

i would prefer pve too

cheers

Yeah, just after some PVE exploring/grinding/building really.
It is so slow and unusable on PS4. I played it on release like three times and it was so bad and I deleted it and again I played it a few weeks ago and it is still absolutely awful to try play haha