What Happened to ARKs Map Borders? #shorts

A lot of people have been asking me about the map borders in ARK...

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[marianogarcia]

Imagine taming an argy and your like, "I CAN ESCAPE THIS PLACE." And as you're flying, the border just stops you, and your bird breaks his neck and dies 😅

[kalos]

I wonder how big the arks are supposed to be in lore. The story of the island makes it sound a lot bigger than it is in game

[nerdthatcantfit]

I think an easy answer to this is that the borders in the game aren’t the borders to the arks themselves. It would also explain why there is more land outside the border ingame

[SillyGoober]

Fun fact: Out of ALL of the maps ( besides Extinction ), Scorched Earth is the only one to not have straight borders. Sadly, I couldn’t find a definitive answer for this, but I think it has to do with the dunes on the map.

[lilpwnige]

As a game developer of 9 years who works primarily with the engine Ark is made in (Unreal Engine). Terrains in Unreal engine are square and water volumes are boxes. Given that the world border isn't along anyone's critical path they probably just used a box because its better for performance, easier to line up and harder to exploit.

[mistypikku]

Hopefully in asa they make them circle borders and expand the ocean a bit on the island maps

[Lordgage]

My theory is the dome is the atmosphere and the border is just to keep survivors on the island

[Caelum_NLD]

ARK borders are always what blows my mind, fantasy wise, the moment I read that ARKs are floating space stations and after experiencing the proto arks on Extinction. The fact that I have always been inches from the void of space when swimming near the border of The Island, or running at the edge of the sand dunes in SE... 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[hellandruby]

That's why the maps either had no borders, hard to reach borders or were not in domes in the story after scorched earth

[Wertguzzzzzzzzzzz]

Imagine if they make a whole new remade version of ARK with high graphics and make it so that the borders are round and you can look into space when you swim there

[antonioandrade]

I like to think that there is a square inside the dome 😅

[Hazearil]

Fun thing also is that if you look at the view of The ISland from the outside (like in the Ascension), you may notice that Damien's Atoll is absent. When you have to turn a square into a circle, you sometimes may have to cut corners, literally.

[maroonedjacktar]

I think a better theory is there is still land outside of the border, the dome is just much larger and they map was just like that to make gameplay simpiler

[RealPeasantLord]

Circle borders would also be way less efficient code wise. It’s much easier and quicker to block someone from going to an X or Y value on a map higher than 20 than it would be to block them from going farther than 20 from a certain point

[Cosmic_cosmention]

Little head canon here is that this is a primary border so that survivors can’t leave the islands and main areas and that there is actually a secondary border meant just to keep everything in

[ladyteruki]

The ceiling of the world isn't curved either.
(except on Gen2 of course XD )

[Cryght_Vaskallion]

the corners is because you can reinforce a field thats sphere by placing a square in the middle. the Dome/outer barrier and the inner barrier. the maps themselves are Squared, however past the Square is alot of machinery that puts up the illusion of a full landscape, then past that is the Dome barrier itself.

[Space-Spider]

Flat earthers the minute they find out about ark: GAMES ARE COPYING REALITY

[DracoJ]

I hope the Ascended maps have dome borders.

[tradeandmagicofficial]

I am an unreal engine developer professionist, i worked for many companies and now I work on simulators on unreal engine 5. I made some videogames too. I say this so I can explain few things about Ark in a more technical way and meaby answer some of your questions: ark was pretty improvised at the start of the project, they started from a templated named " shootergame " at the start of UE4 and knowing only later that you can't rename the project without messing up many things in the game risking heavy malfunctioning, so it started as a demo and then they did not migrate the content to another properly named project, they just simply kept going forward with the bad name.
For the map: is actually squared, when you are bringed up outside the ark what you see is not the real map but a 3D model of the ark, if you land in that, you will be disappointed because most probably would not be suited for gaming.
The borders are just 4 or more planes with collision and a texture with a panner that make the dynamic exagon effect.
I professionally do not find ark very well managed in terms of organization, many best practicies were avoided by far, however is a great and funny game!

Curiosity:
Ark 2 was delayed because of problems with dedicated servers in ue5, the dedicated server solution need a modifica engine in the source code and give many problems, furthermore it need some syncro with other subsystems like steam multiplayer or epic games so they have to choose wisely wich subroutine to choose because will impact the commercial future of the product.

I hope to have been interesting for you and i wish you happiness.