After we first checked out Ark Survival of the Fittest again in 2016, battle royale video games had been nonetheless pretty area of interest – they had been the province of modded sport modes and customized Arma servers. That’s all modified rather a lot since then, and Studio Wildcard’s entry within the style now has a prototype model out there on Steam with a great deal of high quality of life and different updates, six years later.
The essential thought in Survival of the Fittest is identical as ever: be the final survivor(s) on a contracting play space that is filled with crafting supplies and wild dinosaurs. It’s distinctive amongst battle royales, although, in that you just’re truly capable of assemble a military of dinosaurs to struggle alongside you in your quest for the Jurassic model of a hen dinner.
The trailer right here runs by among the new options you’ll discover within the Steam prototype:
Looting, dinosaur taming, and armour have been overhauled; there’s a brand new dynamic minimap; the UI/UX have been improved and now features a fashionable sensible ‘ping’ system; and you may even enter an RTS mode for controlling your dino military after you have sufficient of them cruising with you throughout the island.
Dinosaurs you tame might be transformed into tokens, which you’ll in flip use to quick-heal different dinosaurs in the event that they get right into a nasty scrape – and let’s be trustworthy with ourselves right here, ‘nasty scrapes’ are type of the complete level of dinosaurs.
It seems like quite a lot of goofy, toothy enjoyable, and you may leap in now – or try any of the opposite nice dinosaur video games out there on PC in these waning days of 2022.