Studio Wildcard revealed the first gameplay trailer forARK: Survival Ascendedtoday duringMicrosoft’s Xbox Partner Preview stream. They followed up the reveal with the announcement that the remake of the dino-themed survival game will be releasing today on PC via Steam.
At its core,ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA)is a next-generation remake of the originalARK: Survival Evolved. More specifically,ASAutilizes Unreal Engine 5 to boast big improvements and enhancements to the visuals and gameplay. As such, the codebase forARKhas been fully rewritten and the artwork recreated.ASAhas also utilizes UE5-specific features such as Lumen to really push the graphical fidelity.
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“ASAprovides an evergreen adventure that re-energizes the classic-ARKexperience, one that will continue to grow and leverages the latest tech advancements with UE5, as well as what we’ve been working on with theARKFranchise as a whole. WithARK 2‘s direction as a Souls-like adventure, we realize our community still wants and loves the originalARK. ASA enables that originalARKexperience to thrive in next-gen quality with continued developer support as well as the exciting growth from UGC creators.”
Wait, what? I had no clue thatARK 2was going to be a Souls-like Vin Diesel adventure. Now I’m even more curious! Also, with that knowledge, it makes more sense as to whyASAwas created. As great asArk: Survival Evolvedis, it will certainly be enhanced with a quality touch-up. When it originally launched it was quite buggy, but over time Studio Wildcard ironed out a good amount of the bugs. Unfortunately by then, it started to show its faults in its age. Hopefully the reworked codebase and graphics inASAwill allow the game to truly shine.
Also,ARK: Survival Evolvedhad a handful of DLC’s over the years.ASAincludes access to all of them includingScorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis Parts 1 and 2.ASAwill launch with access to the original map, The Island, and then add access to the others over time.
ARK: Survival Ascendedwill be available today on Steam at some point. I’ll updated this post once I see it go live!ASAwill also launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in November.
