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  • ARK: Survival Ascended is Live on Steam!!

     

    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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    • ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and redesigned the artwork and worlds of ARK to take advantage of the latest in videogame technology, Unreal Engine 5, using high-end graphics features such as fully dynamic Global Illumination (“Lumen”), so that light bounces realistically of off surfaces and provides realistic reflections, and advanced mesh streaming (“Nanite”) of hundreds of millions of triangles for extreme detail.
       
    • Advanced new physics systems such as dynamic water so that every creature creates waves, ripples, splashes, and bubbles as they move through fluids, and fully interactive physical foliage where every blade of grass, bush, and tree reacts to characters, explosions, projectiles, and physics objects. Knock down a tree, and see it crash into other trees and disturb all the foliage on its way down to smacking into the grass below! Detect an enemy moving sneakily through the grass as it shifts and sways in response to their presence. Demolish a building and watch the pieces break apart realistically, interacting with the grass and water as they fall.

     

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    • ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all of ARK’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The Island is released now, with the subsequent expansion worlds to be added at no additional cost on a regular basis.
       
    • The definitive survival experience returns better than ever: design your Survivor, form a tribe, and tame, train, breed & ride dinosaurs within a living ecosystem. Watch your food, water, temperature, and weather patterns. Slowly expand outwards as you harvest, build structures, farm crops, customize your visual designs, and proceed to explore to uncover the true nature of The Island and the worlds beyond. 
       
    • Thorough Quality of Life revamps in every area: redesigned User Interfaces, dynamic navigation for intelligent creature pathfinding, Wild Babies, Photo Mode, new Camera systems, new Map system, Tracking System, new Structures and Items, new Creatures, and much more.

     

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    • Cross-Platform Modding: Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-bowser directly within the game! Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time ever across gaming platforms!
       
    • Cross-Platform Multiplayer: form your online tribe across different gaming platforms as you work together to survive and thrive on the ARK!
       
    • Supports public online multiplayer for up to 70 players, private-session multiplayer for up to 8 players, and local split-screen for 4 players (Steam PC) and 2 players (PS5, XBOX and Windows Store).

     

    Available on PC now!

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    Console Survivors,

    Last night, while continuing our internal quality assurance process for ASA, our team identified some critical issues in the multiplayer version of the game that would have had major implications for the console versions of the game. Unfortunately, due to these issues, we’ve decided to delay the launch of the Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game until November. 

    We understand that this news is disappointing, and trust us, we’re disappointed too. The team really did aim to get everything out for all platforms in October, but we fell short just at the finish line. We’re sorry about that, as we know a lot of you have been very excited about this launch and made plans around it.

    Next steps?

    As of now, we’re working on two tracks. One track is managing the launch of PC, and the other track is preparing a patch for the game's console version with the latest content/gameplay updates and fixes.

    The additional time lets us resolve those specific multiplayer issues and bring the game up to the PC specification, which received a number of critical improvements as the console versions were going through certification. 

    We’re still planning to keep crossplay between Steam and Consoles disabled until we’ve entered the quicker certification process, but that decision could change based on how things are looking with PC at the time.

    The added benefit of this change is that it also enables us to ensure a smoother console launch as we’ll have fought many of the initial fires with PC and have a more content-rich and stable modding experience that has been battle-tested when the game becomes available on consoles. 

    Finally, when the console is ready to be released, a fresh set of Official Servers will go online with bonus rates (for a period of time) to allow you to catch yourself up in preparation for Crossark.

    We know that this news is far from ideal, however we’ll be doing our best to make the game as good as it can be when it launches in November. We are really grateful for the support and cannot wait to get ASA with cross-platform mods into your hands!

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    Lol, the drama in this topic. 
     

    i am also a console player and i also have to wait. But it’s not like we haven’t seen this a million times before. 
     

    people acting like the world is ending 😂

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    On 10/26/2023 at 9:53 PM, LordRathalos said:

    As someone who plays on console and has paid for all dlcs and ect. Also more than 2000+ hours on Ark, this is the most disappointment I had for a long time.

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    I feel you, with close to 5k hours. 😔

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    On 10/27/2023 at 5:17 PM, Joebl0w13 said:

    Won't be any room by the time console folks get access. 

    There will be new servers plus we ain't cross play with pc till around December. 😉

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    Naja wie ich es vermutete,Server haben Priorität,die Konsolen können also länger wie November warten 

     

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    3 hours ago, NextGen1 said:

    There will be new servers plus we ain't cross play with pc till around December. 😉

    You won’t have to cross play with PC if you don’t want to. There will be a console only cluster. 

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    Wenn es eigene Konsolen Cluster geben wird warum ist es für die Konsole immer noch nicht veröffentlicht 😭

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    3 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    You won’t have to cross play with PC if you don’t want to. There will be a console only cluster. 

    Im a console player and i like this because of the spam pillars everywhere..but tbh i never build near the spawn point anyways..i like to build not far from an orb for server transfers when it comes. 😊

      

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    We need the console version guys.. the hype and promises you gave us is unfair.  atleast make in the start of november. We have waited long enough sorry for the complain but you missed the deadline again again and again 

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    Wenn du die Fehler Berichte von steam siehst, kannst du dir das ausmalen das November garnicht mehr realistisch ist

     

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    21 hours ago, NextGen1 said:

    I feel you, with close to 5k hours. 😔

    Game time or waiting downloading patches time?

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    Das wird nix, die modds machen gerade das Spiel kaputt, für die Konsole erscheint es erst nach der early access Phase,vorher können die es nicht schaffen,zu viele Fehler im spiel

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    14 minutes ago, shadowmewtwo said:

    Will it be released for ps4?

    Nope. Just next gen and pc. Tho I doubt we'll get it on the next gen either at this rate

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    Sollten die Konsolen Spieler sich vielleicht darauf freuen, zur Veröffentlichung, zwei Karten zu haben, the Island und scorched earth? Oder das die PC Spieler Island schon fertig gespielt haben.

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    you guys have to understand the game was made on a computer so it will run better on one so when they are developing it they don't really know the performance on console untill they port it yes they have come a long way buy they are still significantly weaker and especially for a game like ark. so they have to downscale it a bit because of the weaker hardware you don't want a game running at 10 fps on console also games unoptimized on pc just like old ark its wildcard Afterall. 

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    3 minutes ago, Joser300 said:

    you guys have to understand the game was made on a computer so it will run better on one so when they are developing it they don't really know the performance on console untill they port it yes they have come a long way buy they are still significantly weaker and especially for a game like ark. so they have to downscale it a bit because of the weaker hardware you don't want a game running at 10 fps on console also games unoptimized on pc just like old ark its wildcard Afterall. 

    My XSX played ASE much better than many PCs. In fact, when the game was optimized for the next gen, they looked better than PC in a few ways. Wildcard pointed this out. 

    PCs were meant to do a lot of things. All consoles are meant to just do one. Play games. 

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    1 hour ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    Mein XSX spielte ASE viel besser als viele PCs. Als das Spiel für die nächste Generation optimiert wurde, sahen sie tatsächlich in mancher Hinsicht besser aus als der PC. Wildcard hat darauf hingewiesen. 

    PCs sollten viele Dinge tun. Alle Konsolen sind dafür gedacht, nur eines zu tun. Spiele spielen. 

    Genau dafür wären Konsolen da,aber ohne Spiel funktioniert das auch nicht.

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    9 minutes ago, arkgerman1975 said:

    Genau dafür wären Konsolen da,aber ohne Spiel funktioniert das auch nicht.

    Oh I can wait for the game. The PC version is a bug fest right now. I’m just jamming on some other games in the mean time.

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    15 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    Oh, ich kann auf das Spiel warten. Die PC-Version ist derzeit ein Bug-Fest. In der Zwischenzeit höre ich nur ein paar andere Spiele.

    Ja da mein Urlaub nun auch zu Ende geht,kann ich auch weiterhin warten,beim arbeiten geht die Zeit auch schneller vorbei.Nächste Urlaub ist auch erst 2024 da können sie sich nun auch Zeit genug lassen

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    I think it would be best if you gave an exact date since we are already in November and people are going to be asking you all the time.

    myself am waiting to decide whether to get the game on PC with a 3060 ti or get the PS5 version, and until you release it I still won't play something I really want

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    12 hours ago, Joser300 said:

    you guys have to understand the game was made on a computer so it will run better on one so when they are developing it they don't really know the performance on console untill they port it yes they have come a long way buy they are still significantly weaker and especially for a game like ark. so they have to downscale it a bit because of the weaker hardware you don't want a game running at 10 fps on console also games unoptimized on pc just like old ark its wildcard Afterall. 

    You have to understand this is called "development".  when "launch" comes, the development stage is supposed to be over, not in the middle somewhere.  You see, all games go through these stages, the difference is, when most other companies get to the "launch" stage, they launch the game, and its either done or requires a day one patch. They don't release it and then start really working on it.  It all boils down to pure incompetence. 

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    14 hours ago, Joser300 said:

    you guys have to understand the game was made on a computer so it will run better on one so when they are developing it they don't really know the performance on console untill they port it yes they have come a long way buy they are still significantly weaker and especially for a game like ark. so they have to downscale it a bit because of the weaker hardware you don't want a game running at 10 fps on console also games unoptimized on pc just like old ark its wildcard Afterall. 

    Ok... So that's why all huge console releases suffer of poor optimisation on the current gen.
    Oh, wait... That was PC...

    What you say was true the last generation but only top tier PC's are significant more powerfull. What you also don't realize is that servers are a bottleneck quit often, so for that there is not a big gap between PC and consoles anymore.

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    Últimadamente mejor que ni lo lanze para consola, siempre hacen lo mismo, mejor evitecen molestias con la versión en consola, y sigan con su juego en PC creo que ya es suficiente y mejor vuelvan activar los servidores oficiales para que nosotros sigamos jugando en otro Ark...

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