ARK: Survival Ascended

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This article is about the 2023 remaster for PC, Xbox Series and PS5. For the 2015 game on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, see ARK: Survival Evolved. For the game on iOS and Android, see ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.

ARK: Survival Ascended
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Game
Authors
Studio Wildcard
Grove Street Games
Publishers
Studio Wildcard
Snail Games USA
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (PS Asia)[1]
Price (USD)
Steam: Steam.svg $44.99[2]
Xbox Series X|S: Xbox Series.svg $44.99[2]
Playstation 5: PS.svg $44.99[2]
Release
Steam Steam.svg
October 25th, 2023[3]
Xbox Series X|S Xbox Series.svg
November 21st, 2023[3]
Playstation 5 PS.svg
November 30th, 2023[3]
Spotlight

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,[4] and was released on October 25, 2023 as an early access title on Steam,[3] with DLC content to be released over time.

Summary

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!
~ 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
  • An updated control scheme on controller
  • Numerous bug fixes

Gameplay Changes From ASE

General

Inventory/UI

  • Overall menu rework.
  • New Ping System, similar to that of Survival of the Fittest.
  • New menu icons.
  • New photo mode.
  • Better map, now showing coordinates and allows to zoom in and out.
  • Better dino tracker, allowing to track tamed creatures and see its location on the map.
  • Configurable third-person camera distance by holding Left Alt.
  • Quick-inventory feature by holding Q, allowing the player to navigate around all its inventory on his hotbar, use 9 and 0 to navigate.
  • Quick-transfer between inventory and hotbar by clicking the slot number on the keyboard when selecting a valid item from the inventory, it will instantly transfer to that hotbar slot.
  • Quick access to the shoulder pet's inventory that the player is carrying on his shoulder by holding R.
  • When holding items that use ammo, such as the  Longneck Rifle and  Crossbow, R can be held down in order to display a radial wheel that allows you to change between different ammo. This also allows the player to craft ammo from this menu clicking Right on the ammo.

Structures

  • Complete construction rework.
  • Improved the process of picking up and demolishing structures, picking up or demolishing all the structures that last one had supported.
  • Decreased the number of construction engrams, allowing the player to modify, for example, a wall to be a door frame.
  •  Electrical Generator no longer require cables, instead wirelessly powering any electric or gasoline-dependent appliance within a certain radius.
  • Any Appliance that previously required  Gasoline, such as the  Fabricator, may also be powered by the generator.
  •  Tek Generator now gives power to the  Tek Replicator.
  • All crafting stations now has "Wireless" resource pulling option that uses resources from all the  Tek Dedicated Storages nearby.
  •  Chemistry Bench now only requires electricity.
  •  Tree Sap Tap now produces  Sap respecting the server stack multiplier (30 by default).
  • 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.
  •  Stone Fireplace now can cook meat.
  •  Toilet now spoils all meat inside its inventory whenever a player flushes.

Items

Creatures

  • Because  Movement Speed is no longer improvable by levelling the stat, all creatures do not increase the speed stat neither wild nor tamed.
  • Occasionally, wild babies may be found with their respective parents, and may be claimed by slaying or taming the parents.
  • Ragdoll physics rework, they are now rebalanced and more improved especially for killing, which are implemented by using low gravity state and restrained body fracture that the creature will slowly collapsed through the ground.
  • Humans can now have blood damage
  •  Basilisk and  Karkinos are now breedable.
  •  Dung Beetle rework, now it auto-collects  Feces that it has in range.
  •  Jerboa is no longer capped to spawn at level 1, spawning now as a normal creature.
  •  Morellatops adjustment, now it has a  Water stat to improve its water storage capacity, also it can water crops.
  •  Onyc has a new land mechanic and their corresponding animations.
  •  Oviraptor rework, now it auto-collects  Eggs that it has in range.
  •  Pegomastax now have a toggleable ability to automatically pick up  Gacha Crystals in a radius that scales with its level.
  •  Phoenix has a new land mechanic and their corresponding animations, also it can spawn with more color variations, including: orange, red, blue, green, and pink.
  •  Reaper King will now scale with player levels.
  • Significant Increase in natural color palette variation of different mapped areas in creatures.

New Additions

New creatures

Each remastered DLC map will be brought back with brand new creatures to be found and tamed in the landscape. a free community-chosen creature and a paid creature from the Adventure Packs or Fantastic Tames of each DLC map. Additionally, ten creatures from the mod Additions Ascended, will be added to the base game.

New items

Resources

Consumables

Structures

Saddles

Cosmetics

Data Maps

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    Exploring the map

Public Test Realm

On December 5th, 2023's experimental patch 32.4, a Public Test Realm (PTR) was launched. It allows players to try work-in-progress future updates to the game, allowing issues to be reported in advance before reaching the live game. These versions may be less stable than the live builds, and as a result it is recommended to back up any savefiles before using them with the PTR version.

Roadmap

The Roadmap of the different Maps for ASA Goes as Follows (May Change with Future Roadmaps):

Club ARK

Club ARK, is a social hub where survivors can chat, relax, and have fun in a variety of activities, mini-games, and missions to earn prizes to take back "home" with you. Club ARK can be joined from the in-game Pause Menu on the Official Network at any time. ‘Custom Cosmetic’ mods – including costumes, items, and even functional structures – will be automatically downloaded in the background while you play. This is a toggleable option.

DLC

DLC Maps

Story Maps

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    Lost Colony
    PAID

Mod Maps

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    Astraeos
    PAID

Bob's Tall Tales

Bob's Tall Tales is an optional paid season pass with optional paid "Adventure Packs" with new cosmetics, creatures, building items, weapons, and more for story maps (excluding the Island). It also has animated Explorer Notes with the voices of Karl Urban and Auliʻi Cravalho.

The first three original DLC maps, Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction each have an "Adventure Pack"

Bob's True Tales

Spotlight

History

  • On March 31st 2023, Wildcard officially announced the successive UE5 Remaster to ARK: Survival Evolved, expected to replace its predecessor upon release. Initially believed by some to be an "April Fools" reference, the original "ARK: Respawned" bundle was to be priced at $60, packaging ARK 2 along with the remaster. This was met with heavy controversy from the community. In response to this, Wildcard instead decided to release ARK: Survival Ascended as a standalone game at $60 with all existing ASE DLC included.
  • Upon the reveal of the new revised roadmap from the original as well as the confirmation of ASA being an early access title, the price of ASA was subsequently reduced to $45, as well as being delayed from the original August 2023 Date. Instead, it launched without Scorched Earth, Survival of the Fittest, or any other on-launch additions as suggested by the revised roadmap.

Notes

  • Nitrado has been chosen as an exclusive commercial server host.[14]
    • 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.
  • The game was originally scheduled to launch simultaneously on all platforms, however the console releases were delayed. The Xbox Series S and X release was delayed until November 14th, 2023. It was then delayed for a second time and released on November 21st, 2023. The Playstation 5 release came on November 30th, 2023.
  • The game launched on Steam with a limited early access price cut that was promised to also come to the console releases. However, this never happened and has not been mentioned since.
  • After the Original Delay, the game was scheduled to launch in October 2023 Without any on-launch Additions as on par with the stated roadmap, but the game’s DLC Content has since been delayed again in December 2023 with a new Roadmap With The Base Game and SOTF Being unaffected by this.

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