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PC Gamer
Rich Stanton

That new version of Ark's just had its crossplay yanked out of the PC version because you're a big old bunch of cheaters

A dinosaur.

Studio Wildcard has yoinked PvP crossplay from the PC version of Ark: Survival Ascended, its recently released remaster of Ark: Survival Evolved. The reason is that a whole lot of PC gamers have been put on the naughty list for cheating, with hacks letting them do everything from move like The Flash to blowing away console players through walls.

The game's players have been in open revolt about this since the November 21 launch, and Studio Wildcard says it's disabled the Windows client while it works to "implement robust anti-cheat measures." Ark: Survival Ascended uses the popular anti-cheat BattlEye software but it's clearly not doing the job, with the developer saying it'll be collaborating with both BattlEye and Microsoft on the fix, and expects to restore crossplay to the Windows version by "early next week."

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