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ARK: Survival Ascended
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Open-world survival RPG Ark: Survival Ascended surprise launches on PC today.
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!
FEATURES
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.
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.
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 2 players.
FEATURES
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.
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.
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 2 players.
Additional information
Provider
Studio WildcardLast Updated on
04/06/2024
What’s happening
Role-playing (Survival, part 2)
JP151725K2023-11-27
Pokemon + Guns? Not really, it’s more of a Pokemon + Ark Survival + more | Early Access - Palworld
✨Overview
Palworld, a game that boldly introduces itself as "Pokémon with guns," the features elements of creature “Pal” collecting, base building, and survival crafting mechanics. Developed by Pocket Pair, the game draws inspiration from popular open-world titles like Pokemon, Ark: Survival, Factorio, Zelda: Breath of Wild and more, creating a hybrid experience that feels both familiar but in some respect silly innovative.
lyndonguitar9K2024-01-21
It's a really nice game, thank you. I'd love to play it.
sarok112024-04-06
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Reviews
Ian Boudreau
Ark: Survival Ascended sure looks pretty, but it feels downright prehistoric
SHOULD I PLAY ARK: SURVIVAL ASCENDED?
Only play this if you’re a lapsed Ark: Survival Evolved fan eager for a fresh look for the original game. Ark: Survival Ascended is a graphically enhanced version of Ark that’s currently in early access, and it’s janky and buggy enough to make it a pretty rough experience for anyone jumping into Ark for the first time, like I was.
TIME PLAYED
I played about four hours of
ARK: Survival Ascended Reviews
16+
NekoToast
I'm Frustrated but Fascinated: My First Steps in the Wild Yet Wonky World of Ark Survival Ascended
Feel my pain and pleasure as I traverse the extraordinary realism offered by Unreal Engine 5, paired with the equally extraordinary challenge of navigating Ark Survival Ascended's janky mechanics.
Richard NATN
trying it
Trying to play ark ascended on my gaming laptop but idk if it'll work
News
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Open-world survival RPG Ark: Survival Ascended surprise launches on PC today.
It seems players can only get 30-45 FPS with an RTX 4090 and i9 13900K at 1440p for now. The game still need to fixed some optimise issues. Like one player said, Stephen Hawking runs better than this game.
ARK: Survival Ascended News
Richard NATN
ark update
Just got a update on my phone says there new dinosaurs coming to ark survival ascended
Richard NATN
ark ascended
You can't come out with scorched earth on ark ascended or whatever dlc maps that are supposed to come out this month they said that there's a dlc map going to come out later this month especially if these things I found just by watching videos you got to fix the problem issues then you can release some dlc maps
FAQ
When was this game updated?
ARK: Survival Ascended is updated at 2024-04-06.
Which studio developed this game?
The provider of ARK: Survival Ascended is Studio Wildcard.
Can I play ARK: Survival Ascended on Android/iOS?
No.
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