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ARK: Survival Evolved goes full Hunger Games with a F2P spin-off

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ARK Survival of the Fittest

Despite ARK: Survival Evolved not even being officially out yet, its creators, Studio Wildcard, have gone ahead and unveiled a spin-off title. It’s called Survival of the Fittest, and it looks like it’s taken a whole lot of inspiration from The Hunger Games franchise.

Welcome to ARK: Survival of the Fittest, the first ever M.O.S.A. – a Multiplayer Online Survival Arena – that Studio Wildcard designed for the burgeoning wild west of eSports. A spin-off from the most popular open-world Early Access game on Steam ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival of the Fittest (SotF) pits up to 72 combatants in an action-packed struggle for survival where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown where only one “Tribe” will make it out alive.

How rad? Survival of the Fittest looks chaotic, competitive, and like a whole lot of fun. I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!

How did this game come about though? Wildcard are still working on ARK: Survival Evolved, aren’t they?

ARK: Survival of the Fittest (SotF) originated as a spin-off game mode which came to be with the release of our development kit. The mode was first available as a Total Conversion game system and debuted worldwide with a 70-person slaughter fest of a tournament. The game mode consists of a large-scale battle which takes place on a modified version of the primal ARK, with the objective being to eliminate all other survivors before they can eliminate you.

Following the success of the first tournament, the game mode was made available to the community and had constant iteration right through til the end of 2015. It was clear that a vast number of survivors, not only enjoyed playing the game mode, but they also enjoyed watching it. The ARK: SotF Team wants to work alongside the community, to make this newly refactored game into an epic dinosaur survival arena.

We already have experience working with in an early-access environment, we know what it entails, and with SotF being born from early-access, it only makes sense for it to continue its growth in this program but on a much grander scale, with it’s own team, it’s own game and it’s own community. Learning from experiences in ARK: Survival Evolved, we know through constant iteration and interaction with the community we can truly develop something special, fun and competitive for all survivors out there!”

So yeah, Wildcard essentially just split themselves up. They will have an entirely separate team working on Survival of the Fittest.

Know what’s the best part? It’s entirely free-to-play, and it’s out now! Will you be downloading it?

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Last Updated: March 16, 2016

22 Comments

  1. How long until micro-transactions RUIN THE WHOLE FUCKING THING?!

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    • b1nd3r

      March 16, 2016 at 11:07

      you obviously dont have the original game. this is one company that isnt using that model at all. im not saying they wont do it in the future but its highly unlikely they are all gamers and have said in several live interviews that they wont ever do the money grabbing model of so many main companies like EA

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      • Captain JJ the Isolated

        March 16, 2016 at 11:40

        Overkill also used to be “one of those” companies. But they sold out. So I’d still be cautious, either way.

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  2. Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

    March 16, 2016 at 10:38

    If you plan to play this mode make sure you have a lot of free time. When they were testing this we had a match that lasted 12 hours.

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    • b1nd3r

      March 16, 2016 at 11:09

      yeah they have added a function to the servers that allows time limits. there are a lot of 1-3 hour max time servers as there was a huge outcry about it

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      • Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

        March 16, 2016 at 11:25

        I deleted the mode soon after because it was a bit to much for me. Will give it a try soon with the new time limits in place

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  3. Pariah

    March 16, 2016 at 10:39

    I watched one of their tournament matches last night. While interesting, it’s not much of a spectator sport, tbh. This one is far more for the players. No, that’s not a PlayStation reference.

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  4. Phasmatis75

    March 16, 2016 at 10:39

    Reminds me of another game that was recently announced.Similar mechanics but you have 20 minutes to prepare and then start killing each other. Anyone know what that game’s name was. I lost it.

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    • Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

      March 16, 2016 at 10:41

      The Culling?

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      • Phasmatis75

        March 16, 2016 at 10:41

        Yeah just found it. Looking forward to that.

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        • Ottokie vs the forces of Evil

          March 16, 2016 at 10:42

          It’s already out 😛

          Released 4 March

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          • Phasmatis75

            March 16, 2016 at 10:50

            Found that out too. 😛 I’m rather backlogged on games as it is, but I may pick it up soon.

  5. Alien Emperor Trevor

    March 16, 2016 at 10:46

    No. 😛

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  6. DragonSpirit009

    March 16, 2016 at 11:09

    This looks so cool but if I play this I’ll be that first one to bite the dust XD

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  7. Guild

    March 16, 2016 at 11:37

    Reminds me of The Culling

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  8. Captain JJ the Isolated

    March 16, 2016 at 11:39

    Well, they’re definitely not working on optimising ARK, that’s for sure.

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    • Kromas untamed

      March 16, 2016 at 12:38

      Eventually with the Launch of HL3 we will get Dx12 in Ark so we can look forward to that. 🙂

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      • Captain JJ the Isolated

        March 16, 2016 at 12:44

        XD
        Yea man. 2055 is going to be a great year.

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        • Kromas untamed

          March 16, 2016 at 12:48

          It is going to be sooo funny when I get my Vive and plug it into Ark. VR with an average framerate of 40fps ….. Let the VR sickness commence!

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  9. Mossel

    March 16, 2016 at 12:07

    Wow this looks freaking legit! Will be downloading it once I am on the grid again.

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  10. Kromas untamed

    March 16, 2016 at 12:09

    Splitting SotF and making it free ….. Hey guys at SOE …. this is how you do it you bunch of greedy pricks. I would play Ark over H1Z1 every single day of the week.

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  11. Raptor Rants

    March 16, 2016 at 12:20

    hey. This looks fun

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