ARK: Survival Ascended
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This article is about content that has been announced but not yet released.
ARK: Survival Ascended is an Unreal Engine 5 remake of the original ARK: Survival Evolved game. It was announced on March 31, 2023 on survivetheark.com[3]. Currently planned to be released in October, 2023 as an early access title[2], with DLC content released over time.
Features
The following features have been announced:
- Unreal Engine 5 overhaul with Nanite, Lumen, and NVIDIA's RTXDI
- Cross-platform multiplayer
- Cross-platform modding
- New content
- Dynamic water
- Interactive foliage
- Opening cutscene
- 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
New creatures
Each DLC will be brought back with a brand new, community-chosen 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
Trailer
Notes
- Nitrado has been chosen as an exclusive commercial server host[4].
- Self-hosting will still be possible.
