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Ark: Survival Ascended is the worst optimised Unreal Engine 5 game we've seen on console

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-ark-survival-ascended-worst-optimised-ue5-game-weve-seen

DF investigates Ark: Survival Ascended. Is this the worst optimised Unreal Engine 5 game we've ever seen? PS5, Series X, Series S and PC tested.

Ark: Survival Ascended is the worst optimised Unreal Engine 5 game we've seen on console

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Epic provides an engine with a lot of features including a wide swath of performance optimizing tools, but it's still up to the developers to implement the concepts and workflows correctly to keep their project bloat free at runtime. The 'crazy visuals' you're used to seeing from Unreal are always going to be big studios with a team dedicated to working on optimization, or for projects that aren't realtime or aren't interactive.