Do you like ARK: Survival Evolved? This game allows 2-player local co-op. Therefore, if your friend visits you, you can play this game with him/her while sitting in couch. In this post, MiniTool Partition Wizard shows you how to enable ARK split screen on PS4 and Xbox One.
About ARK
Ark, whose full name is ARK: Survival Evolved, is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard, in collaboration with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement.
This game was released in August 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux, with versions for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch in 2018. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
Played from either a third-person or first-person perspective, this game offers an open world for users, and users can establish a base equipped with a fire and weapons, tame and feed dinosaurs, build structures throughout the world, etc.
This game has both single-player and multiplayer options. In multiplayer mode, users can form tribes of members in a server. The max number of tribe mates varies from each server. In this mode all tamed dinosaurs and building structures are usually shared between the members. In addition, if you choose PvE mode, players cannot fight each other.
Some people may want to play ARK in split screen mode.
Hey guys, I can’t find the answer to this anywhere. But on the xbox one, how is the splitscreen now? Can you play online with splitscreen? My wife and I are talking about buying this to play with a few friends of mine and none of us have purchased it yet because we can’t figure out if we can play splitscreen online together. — reddit.com
How to Enable ARK Split Screen On PS4/Xbox One
ARK supports 2-player local co-op and 4-player online co-op. If your friend visits you, you can play ARK with him/her with just one device. In this part, I mainly show you how to enable ARK split screen on PS4 and Xbox One consoles.
How to enable the ARK split screen mode on PS4:
- Connect all controllers to your console.
- Start the first controller and launch the game with the first controller.
- Choose Host/Local > Play Single Player and create the character for Player 1.
- Click Create New Survivor if you have set name and other parameters about the first character.
- Hit the options button on the second controller and the split screen will be enable automatically. Then, you need to create the second character.
How to enable the ARK split screen mode on Xbox One:
- Connect all controllers to your console.
- Start the first controller and launch the game with the first controller.
- Choose Host/Local > Host Non-Dedicated Multiplayer Session to enter game.
- Turn on the second controller and sig in with Player 2’s Xbox account. The split screen will be enable automatically and then you need to create the character of Player 2.
If your friend has something to do and he/she has to leave for a while, you can press the options/menu button his/her console and choose Leave Game. Then, when your friend comes back, he/she can continue to play the game without creating a new character.
So far, there is no detailed guide on ARK split screen on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch, and smart phones. The above methods are offered by common users and many people report these methods work. Therefore, you can try them.