Ark: Survival Evolved: Low fps becaue of UE4 or due to no optimizations?

Truesky is not not a GI solution. It’s a sky/weather middleware that is also being used by Ubisoft if you can trust the info in their forums thread. Is everyone using a third party tool or marketplace content an amateur? You do realise that UE4 is a third party tool as well? According to your logic only amateurs are using UE4, true pros would create their own engine from scratch.