Community Crunch 379: ASA Cross-Platform Mod Preview

1 hour ago, Arkquer said:

A screenshot of ASA

Thanks god

Its only remain the animated series 

Look at the picture again. Not only is it not an actual screenshot of ASA, but it isn't even work done by a wildcard employee. It's a mod user's generated image of their modded creature.

1 hour ago, badjuejue said:

Very simple, hopefully WC is learning... maybe next Friday we can get a solid date? Or some actual footage? I'm kind of actually speechless surprised really

If wc was learning then their crunch would be not simple and actually give us some worthwhile information. We've had a solid date for ASA release ever since we learned of sg contract with nitrado. Unlike previous releases, this time sg will pay a high price if they don't release ASA by October 31st. No-one who knows this information expects them to release ASA any earlier and this new revelation of "at the end of October" only cements this. According to their own words, I wouldn't expect to see a gameplay trailer till an hour or so before its released.

1 hour ago, One0nlypaco said:

Alright, that looks gorgeous. This is very good y'all. Exciting to finally see some beautiful screen shots from the game. YEEESSSS

This is not in any way a screenshot from the game. It's a mod user's generated image of their personal modded creature using the devkit. It doesn't even have any background imagery. 

1 hour ago, TyranntX said:

Well its not the peek at ASA I was hoping for, but DAMN does Dienotherium look GREAT in UE5! it really helps paint a picture for what official creatures will look like!

Unfortunately, nowhere on the image do we have a concrete evidence that it is indeed an image from UE5. Personally, to me it doesn't look any better than current Ark on maximum graphics. 

 

1 hour ago, Caegiganoto said:

WHERE IS SHASTASAURS INTRODUCTING?!!!!

Yes. They have broken their own rhythm now by not showing the Shasta dossier this week. So you can see in this crunch what wc/sg does. When they can't get their own material ready on time, and when the Ark community pleads for ASA reveal content, but they can't even get any of their own ASA reveal content to show, then they just steal the hard work of Ark's community members and says; "Look. We're awesome. Just see how cool this thing is that we didn't even have any part of making, but it has ARK pasted on it so if this is cool then it means we're cool." 50 Percent or more of each crunch has just been videos, screenshots, and artwork done by the community for a long time now. Ark's community members and the work they've done, mainly the modders, have been the driving force of keeping the game alive for a long time now. wc/sg takes partial credit for it and says they're doing something, when in reality they do nothing at all.

The Deinotheriam looks amazing espesaly with the new graphics

For me, this was the best crunch in connection with ASA we've had so far. First we see a screenshot of a creature in the UE5 engine and second we know that selected modders are already cooking content for ASA, also we can guess a bit about the water physics in ASA because they got the plugin Fluidninja for ASA.

Thanks Wildcard you have more than fueled my excitement for the end of October.

3 hours ago, camtyke101 said:

So cross play is going to just be a mod ? Or is it going to be on the official network ?

Where was crossplay mentioned as a mod at all

2 hours ago, Maximus1183 said:

So it’s coming out at the end of October. There I said it. 

Hey thats better than a year.

im glad we got a good crunch for once

also does anyone know  how many comments i need before i can react to things

 

1 hour ago, Anubis190 said:

... First we see a screenshot of a creature in the UE5 engine...

No, you see a screenshot of a model in a devkit.
This is not an in-engine or in-game screenshot. Also this is not representative for anything in the game, only for the work of a mod creator.

You botched this beyond belief. Haven’t played in weeks and once Starfield had an Ark Suvival Mod I’ll never need your game again ❤️ 

7 hours ago, Arkquer said:

A screenshot of ASA

Thanks god

Its only remain the animated series 

 

6 hours ago, One0nlypaco said:

Alright, that looks gorgeous. This is very good y'all. Exciting to finally see some beautiful screen shots from the game. YEEESSSS

That isn't a screenshot from the game... it's User Generated, may as well be AI generated.

Edited September 16, 2023 by Mike585x

Another useless crunch for switch players

OPEN THE OBELISKS FOR TRANSFERS OF CREATURES AND ITEMS TO LOCAL MEMORY! LET US SAVE OUR TAMES!

 

Also es wäre interessant wen die mal mitteilen würde wann ASA eigentlich den Starttermin hat im Oktober, ob es dieses Jahr ist oder der Oktober nächstes Jahr? Vielleicht auch mal ein paar Bilder aus dem Spiel zeigen einfach und ein Video? Bilder versteh ich drunter also kein Werkzeug oder Gebäude sondern von der Landschaft Allgemein. Des würde ich mal feiern das man da mehr Infos bekommen, weil was Interessiert mich eine Kreatur in einer Karte wo erst Mitte 2024 Online geht? Ich finde das das einfach nur zeit und Ressourcen Verschwendung ist, mit den Tieren von Karten wo nicht mal gleich Online kommen. 

Well pretty much confirmed. ASA end of October.  You are going to hurt yourself here Wildcard. Cut off your own product and have a month gap in there and a lot people will get bored and move on when already have a extremely frustrated community.

8 hours ago, Arkquer said:

A screenshot of ASA

Thanks god

Its only remain the animated series 

where????

Instead of showing off mods how about you show us game play of the ACTUAL GAME? 

Also, mod photos are nice and all, but if you think people will PAY to use mods, I think you are deluded. It's one thing to choose to support a mod creator privately through Patreon, it's another to be forced to pay for a mod if you want to use it.

Ark is one of my all time favorite games, but I will be waiting until after EA release to see what a mess/cash grab it's going to be. I'm happy to keep playing ASE on single player and my own Nitrado server, which I have done since I've owned the game. Official has always been a cesspool of toxicity and cheaters, no thank you.

Also 15 days left for the official servers and NO notification on steam that you are killing them ... yes unofficial, yes single player but come on only reason i play SP is to test stuff before i waste the mats on official .... and even then sometimes the two completely differ.....

 

Milking it to the very end ... thank goodness the community that you have burned is informing people .....

 

PS nice mod - shame ZERO info about the actual game AGAIN

I made this an hour ago as a rough comparison to the community crunch image. The lighting and cloud differences are amazing. (screenshot on The Island UE4, 10am lighting, Max settings on a 4090.) I am hyped for ASA.

ps. I put a slightly better image, both angle and size, on the official Discord in #fanart-and-screenshots.

Edited September 16, 2023 by Wildeheart

9 hours ago, FlorianWind9 said:

Look at the picture again. Not only is it not an actual screenshot of ASA, but it isn't even work done by a wildcard employee. It's a mod user's generated image of their modded creature.

If wc was learning then their crunch would be not simple and actually give us some worthwhile information. We've had a solid date for ASA release ever since we learned of sg contract with nitrado. Unlike previous releases, this time sg will pay a high price if they don't release ASA by October 31st. No-one who knows this information expects them to release ASA any earlier and this new revelation of "at the end of October" only cements this. According to their own words, I wouldn't expect to see a gameplay trailer till an hour or so before its released.

This is not in any way a screenshot from the game. It's a mod user's generated image of their personal modded creature using the devkit. It doesn't even have any background imagery. 

Unfortunately, nowhere on the image do we have a concrete evidence that it is indeed an image from UE5. Personally, to me it doesn't look any better than current Ark on maximum graphics. 

Yes. They have broken their own rhythm now by not showing the Shasta dossier this week. So you can see in this crunch what wc/sg does. When they can't get their own material ready on time, and when the Ark community pleads for ASA reveal content, but they can't even get any of their own ASA reveal content to show, then they just steal the hard work of Ark's community members and says; "Look. We're awesome. Just see how cool this thing is that we didn't even have any part of making, but it has ARK pasted on it so if this is cool then it means we're cool." 50 Percent or more of each crunch has just been videos, screenshots, and artwork done by the community for a long time now. Ark's community members and the work they've done, mainly the modders, have been the driving force of keeping the game alive for a long time now. wc/sg takes partial credit for it and says they're doing something, when in reality they do nothing at all.

Oh stfu. Anyone who has modded on the UE4 Ark devkit knows that the representation in the devkit is using in-game models, textures and lighting. I've taken plenty of screenshots in the devkit for in-game raffles and it's the same? Even if it is just a modded creature, it's still utilizing UE5 ASA assets? Are you saying that the whole devkit image is a generated concept and not real? What makes this Deinotherium really pop is the improved UE5 lighting which should be common across ASA on release and guess what? It'll probably look even better in-game on ultra settings @ 4k.

It's unnecessary droning at this point to fuel your own confirmation bias' as you've all whined about ASA for months, typing long-winded assuming posts. Will ASA have countless bugs and lots of missing features? Yep, but the lazy reskin argument... I'm excited to see you all eat your own words when ASA ends up looking cutting-edge on UE5.

Edited September 16, 2023 by Thalana

Can we have some information about any improvements or changes to how platforms will work within ASA for the next Community Crunch please?
I'd love to see a preview about what kind of boats I'll be able to make!

Il faut faire en sorte que le préview mode ne soit plus activable

I'm incredibly excited about this edition of Community Crunch! The vote to add content to my favorite expansion, Extinction, is a fantastic idea. However, I'm facing a dilemma with so many amazing options to choose from. Can't wait to see what the community decides!

the fake screenshot of ASA is insanly hilarious, haven't laugh this hard for a long time thx u

It's nice to see that someone is doing some quality work on ASA.  Maybe if they hired Garuga123 we could see the rest of the game as well.

4 hours ago, Thalana said:

Oh stfu. Anyone who has modded on the UE4 Ark devkit knows that the representation in the devkit is using in-game models, textures and lighting. I've taken plenty of screenshots in the devkit for in-game raffles and it's the same? Even if it is just a modded creature, it's still utilizing UE5 ASA assets? Are you saying that the whole devkit image is a generated concept and not real? What makes this Deinotherium really pop is the improved UE5 lighting which should be common across ASA on release and guess what? It'll probably look even better in-game on ultra settings @ 4k.

It's unnecessary droning at this point to fuel your own confirmation bias' as you've all whined about ASA for months, typing long-winded assuming posts. Will ASA have countless bugs and lots of missing features? Yep, but the lazy reskin argument... I'm excited to see you all eat your own words when ASA ends up looking cutting-edge on UE5.

What I'm saying is that we've been asking for proper ASA comparison content for 2 1/2 months now and this is what they give us? It's nice, sure, but not only is it not an actual in-game screenshot but just a render, but it isn't even one that they themselves did. Can't they give us a cinematic screenshot of their redoing of, say, a stego in UE5 with maybe a forest in the background? To make me interested and excited for ASA? How difficult of a ask is that at this point in their development? How much of a "spoiler" would that be?

If you take a look at this crunch, there is not a single piece of it that is wc made; it's all the community's hard work. I enjoy seeing the community's hard work, but at this point in the development cycle I want to see what wc's work is.

What I'm saying is that a game development company should be building hype for the release of their "new" game; especially this close to supposed release. wc has built hype properly in the past for their new content, but this time they have practically done the opposite; and then done nothing to try and correct this marketing strategy they've been using. 

Just above your comment someone else posted an image of essentially the same picture but rendered in UE4 for comparison. Maybe it's my computer, but to me the 2 images look almost exactly the same quality. The one major difference, as you said, is the lighting in the UE5 picture makes it pop more.

I don't buy video games for the pretty graphics. I don't buy video games for slightly better lighting that makes the images look maybe 10 or 20 percent better. What I buy video games for is the game mechanics and what you can do in the game.

wc could give a sneak peak about how they've fixed the terrible way that vanilla structures in ASE snap together thus making building difficult and not as nice looking as it could be. (They fixed the building mechanics in Atlas for example and it's so much better).

They could give a sneak peak of if they've decided to add extra items in the game like new armors or weapons that aren't in ASE which might provide hype and excitement since that's something that ASE lacks. (They did this for ARK 2 and it's one of the major things people liked and got hyped about). 

But that's not the main problem. The main problem is that they as a company have done so many things lately that have built upon each other which has caused a sense of a lack of confidence. And then when we ask for reassurance, they give us nothing to reassure? The one positive I have been hoping to see in this is that they will finally leave ASE alone like they should have at the end of Extinction. Personally, I wish they would have decided to move onto ASA before adding the intro cinematics and Rhynio. If they gonna end support for ASE then it would have been nice if they had done so before ruining it just a little bit more.