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does anyone else think with all the ark ascended stuff still scheduled to becoming out all the way in 2026 means that we're going to be waiting even longer for ark 2? at this rate it would appear to be coming out in 2027. I'm waiting heavily on it and the more i look the more its pushed back. ive been waiting for it since the first released info on the game, and its been years of waiting and even more to come.

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1 hour ago, DarkDraken17 said:

does anyone else think with all the ark ascended stuff still scheduled to becoming out all the way in 2026 means that we're going to be waiting even longer for ark 2? at this rate it would appear to be coming out in 2027. I'm waiting heavily on it and the more i look the more its pushed back. ive been waiting for it since the first released info on the game, and its been years of waiting and even more to come.

Nobody knows if it is anything more than a concept. WC being very silent about it is not helping against pessimistic speculation. To be honest it would be strange to divert resources to ARK2 when they are strugling to keep the ASA delays limited.

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18 minutes ago, MMaas said:

Nobody knows if it is anything more than a concept. WC being very silent about it is not helping against pessimistic speculation. To be honest it would be strange to divert resources to ARK2 when they are strugling to keep the ASA delays limited.

I do agree that they have there hands full with ASA, the only thing I'm frustrated about is that they showed they were going to make ark 2, and then they stop that and go to ASA. If they just told us they were making ASA and then ark 2 later then it would have been taking much better. Now that they are doing ASA i do agree that they have to finish it now befor beginning a new game.

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8 minutes ago, DarkDraken17 said:

I do agree that they have there hands full with ASA, the only thing I'm frustrated about is that they showed they were going to make ark 2, and then they stop that and go to ASA. If they just told us they were making ASA and then ark 2 later then it would have been taking much better. Now that they are doing ASA i do agree that they have to finish it now befor beginning a new game.

Intialy the UE5 patch for ASE was needed as training for ARK2, then they changed the plan to doing ASA before ARK2. At least this was how things were communicated about 2 years ago, a few months prior to the date you joined this forum so it might be that you missed how things were inteded to go initialy. What started with good intentions to create a better experience turned in to the impossible scedule they are dealing with now.

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6 hours ago, KingOfAshes said:

If the schedule looks as light it does, then at least take the time to fix some of the half backed content/creatures/mechanics released so far and deliver a much needed Dino TLC.

Right ? What is Early Access for, if not improving the content ?

There are so many creatures that have been rendered obsolete over the years ! In huge part because of the kibble rework, but also because they've been "replaced" by new, shiny, yet similar creatures ; I could name the Onyc and the Desmodus, for instance (when the Onyc could simply have gotten a TLC).
While I appreciate that dinos like the Pegomastax got a slight TLC in ASA (since it can now gather Gacha crystals, which is absolutely brilliant to give the Pego some utility while still remaining somewhat accurate to its "persona"), most seem to have been plopped into the remastered maps without much of a thought. We all know this work will never be prioritized once out of the Early Access phase, so the time is now.

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On 1/11/2025 at 6:02 PM, St1ckyBandit said:

Man when you put it like that, it does sound pretty bad. 

I'm having fun in ASA, as there's still a lot of stuff I never accomplished in the old game, but I'm getting bored with each map a little faster than the last.

Cosmo being so fun was the only thing keeping me going in Ab, and I've already slowed down a ton in play time on Extinction. 

i am having fun too, if it wasnt for my wife getting into to ark with me i wouldnt be playing this anymore.

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On 1/10/2025 at 11:55 PM, ladyteruki said:

Happy new year, WildCard. Good luck for the road ahead.

You're dropping a paid full DLC while in Early Access, for a game that hasn't yet released all the content people already paid for in October of 2023 (aka 2 years before the release of Lost Colony), and now you're doing pre-orders for it. Where will the spiral of desperation end...

Hold up, no community-voted creature for the two Genesis maps ?! I hope it's omitted for brevity's sake and not because you're going back on that promise.

Also, stop trying to make the Fantastic Tames to happen. It's not going to happen.

maybe they haven't had the chance to talk about adding a new creature yet. 

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8 hours ago, aikkam said:

... trex is only capable of giving a simple bite, is its tail useful for anything? its size? why can't it hit with its tail or push with its back other animals stunning them and hold its victims in its very powerful jaws the megaallosaurus does it even if it is much smaller? ...

Rex can roar! This makes smaller dino's crap their pants so it used to be a way to collect droppings to feed your beetles. But then tek came along and made this mechanic obsolete.

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22 hours ago, DarkDraken17 said:

does anyone else think with all the ark ascended stuff still scheduled to becoming out all the way in 2026 means that we're going to be waiting even longer for ark 2? at this rate it would appear to be coming out in 2027. I'm waiting heavily on it and the more i look the more its pushed back. ive been waiting for it since the first released info on the game, and its been years of waiting and even more to come.

Realistically, there was no chance of finishing or releasing Ark2 while ASA was still in full development and unfinished and it was pretty obvious from the start that ASA would take at least 4yrs to complete. ASA was the necessity and priority for them for financial as well as technical reasons, but it also quickly ballooned into a larger project of added paid content given the relative financial security it provides from ASE's original player base.

If you recall, WC stated ASA will keep running for 9yrs. Given WC's usual, inevitable and guaranteed delays to their set deliverables, 2027 will be fully occupied with ASA content only. And they will need a minimum of 3yrs full development on Ark 2 (or 1 yr to release Ark2 in early access like ASE) before a full release.

So in conclusion, you are looking at a 2029 Ark2 early access release with at least two years extra development before a full initial release whilst keeping ASA supported. ..bringing us neatly to the end of that 9yr plan announced in 2022 with a 2031-ish full release of Ark2

Of course the above excludes variables like companies being sold, dissolving or canning the stated Ark2 project altogether and going down a different direction altogether. 

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On 1/11/2025 at 5:19 PM, MMaas said:

Nope they did not, just closed official support. PS5 still crashes systematicly at closing the game or transfering for starters. List of unsolved issues is endless and what was supposed to be the ultimate fix was transformed to a new paid game, namely ASA.

Sweet dreams.

By your definition then, no game is complete

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Nobody really cares about them constantly delaying the promised UE 5.4 (now rebadged 5.5 update)??? 

Was promised for September/October 2024.. Then it was said it would arrive January 2025 (NOW!) and that they could bring it out earlier if they wanted but they wanted to allocate more resources to poop nobody every asked for or cares about (paid DLCs of course). While the game still can't be reasonably played at even a 4090 here with 9800X3D without stutters and all sorts of horribleness. 

UE 5.4 is supposed to resolve some of the massive CPU overhead and streamline the render pipeline.. In the meantime Wildcard is pushing more poop nobody asked for! Rebadging the promised update to UE 5.5 for March instead is what we are getting with zero to show for in the mean time. 

DISGUSTING!

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Me gustó el hecho de que mencionaron las fechas de salida de los dlc's ya que tengo un pequeño proyecto que seguro a alguien de la comunidad le gustará pero leí los comentarios y estoy totalmente de acuerdo en que no mencionaron nada de crystal isles y lost island, en crystal isles aparte de ser unos de mis mapas de la comunidad favoritos trae a los wyverns de cristal y aun más cosas las cuales me gustaría que fueran implementadas de vuelta al juego, con lost island aun que tenga al dino con el tameo más difícil del juego (Amargasaurio) es algo bueno, el dinopitecus y el sinomacrops en especial que es como una mochila voladora siendo mi favorito de este dlc, no mencionaron nada sobre estos 2 dlc's a la gente de la comunidad que no está al tanto del community crunch les dará dudas y harían teorías sin sentido dando información falsa a otros.

Y hablando de los fantástic tames deberían hacer algo con ellos ya que la mayoría de la gente, no solo yo no tenemos las posibilidades de hacer las micro transacciones  haciendo que algunos tengan problemas con esto, sabemos que se lo merecen por la salida de extintion, el anuncio de lost colony y retrasos que han tenido, la comunidad sabe que se merecen el dinero para poder hacer y financiar todo pero a la mayoria de la gente de la comunidad latina tiene dificultades para esto o directamente no pueden, por favor leer esto y las reseñas de los demás para encontrar una solución.

Gracias

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On 1/12/2025 at 5:55 PM, TyranntX said:

First. They did not pay for ASA, they paid for ASE. ASA is a Remaster of ASE. and is therefore a completely different game. So why the hell would you expect to NOT have to pay for ASA? That's like expecting to get Skyrim Special Edition for free just for owning the Original. Which is the definition of... Entitlement.

Second. DLC's are not microtransactions, no matter how cheap they are. Especially since you don't even have to buy them to play the game. Unless of course, you're a PvP try hard who is responsible for making the PVP servers a toxic wasteland to begin with. Also, need I remind you that the people complaining about imaginary microtransactions are the same people who would pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to mega tribes for top tier tames without so much as batting an eye. Yet a $5 fire cat is enough to send them into a tirade.

Third, Games, even Early access ones, take time to develop. The Original ASE took YEARS to get all the content it has now. If players can wait that long for one game, they can do it again for ASA, because again games take time to develop. We literally just got Extinction not too long ago, and you have the audacity to demand more, when you don't even play (or likely even OWN) ASA? How is that NOT Entitlement?

You must have gathered a lot of fiber to build all those straw men XD

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On 1/15/2025 at 5:24 AM, HoganRyan01 said:

By your definition then, no game is complete

The collection of disks not requiering day 1 patches dissagree with you. Also: What definition?

Games can have a few glitches or minor bugs and be perfectly playable but "a few" is not "an endless list". The crash on exit means that there is no exit save, thus wasting your latest progression.
Now stop making a fool of yourself by trying to proove your right and others wrong. It is ok you are enjoying ASA but please stay objective, this is not a highschool debate club. I liked ASE for the most part but that does not mean it was flawless. To me it does not matter if ASA is better or worse than ASE, I just don't see the point in rewarding a studio that has failed so many expectations by buying their next product before I know what the end result will be.

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8 hours ago, MMaas said:

The collection of disks not requiering day 1 patches dissagree with you. Also: What definition?

Games can have a few glitches or minor bugs and be perfectly playable but "a few" is not "an endless list". The crash on exit means that there is no exit save, thus wasting your latest progression.
Now stop making a fool of yourself by trying to proove your right and others wrong. It is ok you are enjoying ASA but please stay objective, this is not a highschool debate club. I liked ASE for the most part but that does not mean it was flawless. To me it does not matter if ASA is better or worse than ASE, I just don't see the point in rewarding a studio that has failed so many expectations by buying their next product before I know what the end result will be.

Funny how this endless list seems to only exist in your head. I had about 5k hrs on ASE with little to no major bugs

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On 1/11/2025 at 3:59 PM, TyranntX said:

Who said they had to release the DLC's in order? Both Aberration and Extinction came AFTER Ragnarok in ASE but RAG is coming after both of them here in ASA, Center came before Scorched in ASE but we ended up getting it after in ASA, Hell we were meant to get gigantoraptor with Rag but instead we end ended up getting it before freaking Scorched earth came to ASA, that's a whole FOUR maps before the original plan of releasing it with RAG! so what difference does it make what order the non-canon maps come?

The Tropeognathus, that was my only question, is it coming with Fjordur, or launching "later" with Crystal Isles and THEN coming to Fjordur...

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14 hours ago, Slimer87 said:

The Tropeognathus, that was my only question, is it coming with Fjordur, or launching "later" with Crystal Isles and THEN coming to Fjordur...

Trope came with Crystal Isles so it will likely come with that map. though it will undoubtably be a while before we ever see that map. ASA Extinction is only about a month old, and as the roadmap shows the devs have a lot on their plate already.

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On 1/17/2025 at 10:56 PM, aikkam said:

all the deaths due to server crashes alone are enough to make it worthwhile, plus the bugs it was anything but a well-made game. how many times have i died because the server crashed while i was riding a wyvern how many! how many! and according to the thesis of the very few who support our idea for here if we liked Ase even with his defects therefore we should also like ASA I have only one thing to tell you, we are TIRED of playing with games that are so bad we did it once and that was enough we will not do it again we have already given enough trust and money to WC without even getting a small part of the promises made to us, no one remembers the promise that the old bugs of ASE would be fixed in ASA but they are still there, they had promised to rework the breeding system but it is identical to before, they had promised a more realistic character creation but instead there are still those deformed dwarves that make anyone with a minimum of aesthetic sense turn on and are in trouble for pvp, does anyone remember when the first map came out all those pebbles on the banks of the rivers and beaches that floated? did they never try their game before publishing it so as not to see them? the Argentavis puppies present in the trailer but not in the game? the next of the improved rendering of ASA did not have a good end. All the delays that will lead to having ASA base in 2000 never even if we have already paid for it, however they waste time with dlc, paid mods, and pay to win creatures, even the stories of bob as much as I personally do not consider bad with the release of scorched earth they wanted to get paid for a content that they would have finished publishing after a year, those who bought it did it in the dark, instead of making three packages of 10 euros for the three maps they preferred to get paid a year in advance for the extinction dlc while they still had to finish making the one for which they had already been paid (ASA base).

Why was my quote in spanish? I didn't write spanish. 

The server disconnects is not really their fault

What promises were broken? If you say ASA being free, well, it was mentioned in a tweet not an announcement. 

What bugs are the same?

The breeding system DID get reworked. Mutations are seperated from base points, stats that cant be leveled no longer can be mutated, there is no longer a 255 cap on stats (unless specified by the server config which it is on official)

They mentioned the character creation was reworked but reverted because having a messed up looking character is one of ARK's identities. 

The argentavis babies and snow owl babies in the trailer are not broken promises. Theyre in development (confirmed by dev)

I dont understand what you mean in the next bit

Wildcard dont make the paid mods... are you dumb? Players make them.

What do you mean they waste time with DLC? Don't you want fresh new stuff? 

 

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