Just pay the 20 bucks keep supporting a great game and great community and have fun and quit b.tching XD. People complain about games that don't update enough but with this game everyone b.tchez how they update like the update warnings. To me it's an opportunity to support a great dev team that actually works on their game and they are always updating. Do you think money and development just comes out thin air? This logic is way off base. Also I'm happy to shell out 20 bucks since i haven't paid anything since the game first came out and i've got over 2000 hours to me it's fine I like the chance to support my favorite game. Best battles are when people are striving for alpha and they haven't had a lot of time to get to know each other so it's a bit more fun from a pvp aspect. For those interested in picking it up, the add-on has a price point. Nintendo’s cartridges are super expensive and they would’ve ported the entire game and it’s DLCs but a 32gb SD card is super expensive so they did not port it on that, instead they did it on a cheaper 16gb SD card and we’re going to port the DLCs soon after the game launches.I like that it's a new map that means everyone has to start from ground zero and it gives a chance for up and comers to have a shot at alpha rather than living under the thumb of tyrannical alphas XD. Studio Wildcard describes ARK: Survival Evolved's Scorched Earth expansion as a 'completely finished and polished' DLC pack. You may ask “why did they remove the models and keep all of the assets in the game?”. You see, the maps are actually in the game but the models are removed. I know its been a while, and there have been many rants on this topic, i still feel that The Scorched earth DLC, that early access buyers like me who bought into ark WAY in the beginning of their dev, as well as any other early access buyers, still have to pay for, is still bloody atrocious.

The game will freeze and lead you back into the Island map.

I attempted to see if you can go into the DLC maps in Ark on Switch and the result is you cannot. What Studio Abstraction Games did was they minimized all of the meshes and even removed a ton of models but not the assets or coding that makes it function.

If let’s say Scorched Earth is removed out of the files, the game won’t function properly because there was many patches for Scorched Earth that affected also too other maps in the game. Basically Ragnarok, the Center, Aberration, and Scorched Earth are basically what make Ark work on Switch. Here’s the thing, when they were porting Ark: Survival Evolved to Switch, they had to keep all of the DLCs in or the game would not function properly.

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