#Ark survival evolved third person view full

Worse, slight differences between inputs caused me a lot of pain. Sometimes it's hard to point at this rock instead of that tree, and Ark's jungles are very crowded. Moving around by swiping on the left side of the screen and looking up and down by swiping the right side of the screen is very smooth, but the controls lack precision. Ark replaced lots of the nuance of a mouse and keyboard with menus instead of right-clicking to craft, for example, scroll to the Crafting menu page and tap the Craft button.

#Ark survival evolved third person view full

The touchscreen translation of a full keyboard's worth of inputs came out better than I expected, but still far from great. There may be larger iPads or Android devices that can run Ark effortlessly, but here's what I can say for sure: the best iPhone on the market right now barely hangs on. There's a hotspot almost exactly behind the little Apple logo that absolutely smolders after about an hour. This may be specific to the iPhone X, but Ark also makes my phone run hot. Using the camera to pan around and check out my survivor's filthy rags works OK, but the game's performance really suffered when I tried moving around outside of the first-person perspective. A big dinosaur suddenly charging can also cause framerates to judder, making it hard to fight back.ДЄnother thing that makes the framerate freak out is the third-person camera. This ruins the view a little bit, but can also be deadly. Framerates crash for a few seconds if I suddenly turn a corner and see a magnificent vista. Even all that juice can't quite power my hardware to a seamless Ark show.

It looks good, but that power is paid for by lightning and fire: This game eats phone battery like a Stegosaurus cutting through berries. That said, Ark's wizardry only extends to far. Though the draw distance has been pulled way, way down, the sunny beaches and forbidding jungles of Ark's primary island look just like they do on PC.

For all I can see on my tiny screen, the graphics are quite nice.

On my relatively new 2017 iPhone X, Ark mobile runs shockingly well.