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Ark: Survival Ascended Release Date

ARK: Survival Ascended is an Unreal Engine 5 remastered version of the original ARK: Survival Evolved game. It was announced on March 31, 2023 on survivetheark.com, and was released on October, 25, 2023 as an early access title (Steam only for now), with DLC content to be released over time.

Summary

Features

• Unreal Engine 5 overhaul with Nanite, Lumen, and NVIDIA’s RTXDI
• Cross-platform multiplayer
• Cross-platform modding
• New content
• Dynamic water using FluidNinja
• Interactive foliage
• Cutscenes
• Unreal Engine 5 performance gains: instanced rendering (higher performance when drawing large bases), threaded server networking, and UE’s custom physics engine
• Dynamic navigation mesh and creature path-finding overhaul
• Cross-platform anti-cheat
• Updated mini-map (pan, zoom, pings, etc – similar to the TSotF mini-map)
• Queueing system
• New third-person camera (with the option to opt out)
• Directional sprinting and walking
• Ping system
• Gamepad cursor
• Chibi slot and skins tab
• Nvidia DLSS Support
• Photo Mode
• Dino/baby management QoL
• Wild babies
• Snap point improvements (new snaps, logic improvements)
• Character creation & customization improvements
• Tek Binoculars rework

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Gameplay Changes From ASE

• Electrical Generators no longer require cables, instead wirelessly powering any electric or gasoline-dependent appliance within a certain radius.
• Any Appliance that previously required gas, Such as the Fabricator, may also be powered by the generator.
• Chemistry Bench now only requires electricity.
• Irrigation now only requires an intake pipe, wirelessly irrigating within a fixed radius, which can be extended to a certain area by placing a reservoir.
• Seeds now have a spoil timer equivalent to their respective berry.
• The Speed Status has been removed from official servers, but may be enabled elsewhere.
• Occasionally, wild babies may be found with their respective parents, and may be claimed by slaying or taming the parents.

New creatures

Each DLC will be brought back with a brand new, community-chosen real-world prehistoric creature to be found and tamed in the landscape:

• Dreadnoughtus on Extinction
• Fasolasuchus on Scorched Earth
• Gigantoraptor on Ragnarok
• Shastasaurus on The Center
• Yi Ling on Aberration

New items

• Cianberry
• Cianberry Seed
• Magenberry
• Magenberry Seed
• Medium Tek Teleporter
• Small Tek Teleporter
• Verdberry
• Verdberry Seed

Notes

• Nitrado has been chosen as an exclusive commercial server host.
  • At launch, the server license permitted only non-commercial, personal use, required a valid Steam game license, and allowed only one server to be hosted on a single machine at a time. This license has been replaced.
  • Current dedicated server license only permits non-commercial, personal use, with remaining clauses removed.
• As of launch, the game appears to be extremely intensive, often requiring console commands to reach playable framerates on medium end hardware.
• The game was originally scheduled to launch in August 2023 with Survival of the Fittest and Scorched Earth being available at launch, but was later delayed to October 2023.