Studio Wildcard has pulled the curtain back a little farther on the next round of changes it has in store for ARK: Survival Evolved‘s coming update, which is scheduled to arrive around February 10.
XBLA Fans previously reported that patch v732.0 would bring with it online and offline split-screen multiplayer. Now we’ve learned that the patch will also bring the Xbox version up to speed with version 233 of the PC release, which means adding all of the following: beer, dung beetles, Dimetrodons, Gallimimuses, shock prods, riot armor, the Greenhouse Tileset and more.
Additionally, ARK players can expect framerate improvements and a 33 percent increase to the range of non-dedicated multiplayer tethers that will allow for the max player count in non-dedicated sessions to be bumped up to eight. All PC server options will also be exposed to hosting/local sessions and all options will get direct-input text boxes to allow for arbitrary values to be entered.
Finally, several fixes will be introduced: the elimination of multi-colored Dimorphodons, the correction of a memory leak problem that caused crashes and a solution for cursors erroneously resetting to “Favorites” button after a player attempted to join a server.
Actually, that’s not necessarily the final change. Wildcard says it has even more patch notes, but it’s not sharing them just yet.
Source: @survivetheark