ARK Survival Evolved PS4, Xbox One and PC players need to prepare for some Dino nerfing

Jeremy Stieglitz, Lead Designer, Lead Programmer and Co-Founder of Studio Wildcard spoke to Express Online in 2016 about where the highly successful survival game is heading in 2017.

Since its launch, ARK has moved into a few different areas, tinkering with spin-offs like Survival of the Fittest, while also opening the game up to player-supported mods and expansions.

Stieglitz revealed that ARK Survival Evolved didn’t set out to support modding but ended up opening it up to help sate the thirst of players, who wanted to see new content created quicker.

It’s become Stieglitz favourite feature added to the game on PC, the other was allowing players to build bases on dinosaurs.

“It’s kind of silly, but in the game it’s really neat looking and it adds a lot of new tactical and strategic possibilities for players to have mobile bases, you can live like a nomad and roam around the Island in style.

“That to me was one of the bigger changes that added another layer of mechanical depth to the game and it was fairly complex to do because we had to get all the math and physics right.”

“There are others but that stands out as a particularly proud moment when we saw what players were doing with those systems.

It seems that a lot of features that have become popular and often appear a little zany to those just starting the game have been put together because of strong fan feedback.

“If we have a neat idea, as long as it's not impossible, we will seriously consider it even if it is a little ridiculous.

“I definitely remember hearing from players on the forum that they wished they could do that, and I think we took that general feeling and idea and fleshed it out.

“I would say half the things we do in the game come from the players themselves, they don’t think we read their comments but we do."