PlayStation 4 owners received a new ARK: Survival Evolved patch Thursday that finally added Procedurally Generated Maps to the console. Studio Wildcard also aimed at fixing game crashes, also known as “Blue Screening,” with the update. Instead, it made the crashes worse for many players.
The 502.7 patch released for the PS4 version is short on features, but does introduce a “new memory allocator for much more efficient memory usage (resolves any OOM crashes) and better performance” per the official patch notes. This was meant to Cheap ARK Items solve the problems with ARK: Survival Evolved crashes, but that hasn’t been the case.
Survivors have reported more frequent crashes across Twitter and the ARK PS4 Reddit group. Studio Wildcard has acknowledged the issue and Community Manager Jat sought help from players to isolate the cause of the crashes. The most common cause of the crashes so appears to be while riding a flying tamed animal like a Pteranodon.