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.
Authors
Studio Wildcard Grove Street Games
Publisher
Studio Wildcard
Price (USD)
Steam: $44.99 Xbox Series X|S: $44.99 Playstation 5: $44.99
Release
Steam October 25th, 2023 Xbox Series X|S November 21st, 2023 Playstation 5 December 2023
Summary
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Respawn into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams… as ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awake on a mysterious island, your senses overwhelmed by the blinding sunlight and brilliant colors bouncing off every surface around you, the azure waters of a verdant Island lapping at your bare feet. A deep roar echoes from the misty jungle, jolting you into action, and you stand up – not afraid, but intrigued. Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain? Your new world awaits… step through the looking-glass and join it!
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~ Steam Description
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.