‘ARK: Survival Evolved’ Update 1.67 PS4 Is a Big Bug Fix - Patch Notes
ARK: Survival Evolved update 1.67 just landed on PS4, and it weighs a whopping 28GB. You might think the hefty file size equates to significant changes, but you’d be wrong. A tweet from the official ARK account confirms it’s a simple bug fix.
Hey Survivors
— ARK (@survivetheark) April 3, 2018
The PS4 patch that just went out is to resolve the problem with structures not placing properly, and the advanced workbench structure.
“The PS4 patch that just went out is to resolve the problem with structures not placing properly, and the advanced workbench structure,” the message reads. So, if you were having problems building bases in Primitive+ after the last PS4 patch, those issues should be fully resolved. It may take a while for the fix to get there, but it should get the job done.
Community management staff at Studio Wildcard have also acknowledged the patch’s massive size, admitting it’s caused by an error that does not have an immediate solution. “It won't go down, once it's started it'll continue so you'll have to let it finish,” a developer representative confirmed via Twitter. “Abstraction are going to investigate to see why it occurred and make sure we can avoid this in the future.”
So, fans of ARK: Survival Evolved will essentially be forced to download the bulk of the entire game before they can hop into the vast and harsh wilderness once again. Although, especially for those who supported Survival Evolved during its early access period, large updates were hardly an uncommon occurrence. Wildcard routinely added and upgraded textures across all platforms, so it wasn’t that strange for updates to swell to several dozen gigabytes in size. If the studio hadn't made an official announcement of error, many survivors may have viewed update 1.67 as a fairly typical download.
It won't go down, once it's started it'll continue so you'll have to let it finish. Abstraction are going to investigate to see why it occurred and make sure we can avoid this in the future.
— Jat (@Jatheish) April 3, 2018
Today’s update arrives just after the the conclusion of ARK’s Eggcellent Adventure Easter celebration. We hope you were able to scoop up all the seasonal cosmetics and bright-colored Dinos before everything went offline.
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ARK: Survival Evolved is available now on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Mac and Linux. The 1.67 update is exclusive to PS4.
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