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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 the end of October, 2023 as an early access title[2], with DLC content released over time.
Summary
| “ | 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! | „ |
| ~ Steam Description |
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 using FluidNinja
- 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:
Spotlight
Notes
- Nitrado has been chosen as an exclusive commercial server host[4].
- Self-hosting will still be possible.
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In-Game screenshot (Photo Mode)
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