ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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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!
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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 off of 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, Scorched Earth, Aberration and The Center are released now, Extinction will be released on December 16, 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 mod collection 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.
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If you have the patience of a Saint, it's peak. Otherwise you will become mald (mad and bald).
Melhor jogo para quem gosta de fazer rp de morto nota 10/10
Играть невозможно. ВЫпуск в ранний доступ был ошибкой. Перевод на русский язык выполнен через онлайн переводчик. Ночью экран мерцает. Смена пресета графики вызывает вылет игры. Разработчик выпускает длс для игры в раннем доступе!!! Не рекомендую этот продукт игросодержащий к покупке
Best building in a survival game....period.. Game runs great on my 4080 at High settings, Theres really no other game like Ark. from building, to taming dinos and animals to ride and fly around the maps, the payoff when you finally get that tame see your base completed, the amount of content and mods will keep you playing for thousands of hours. ,Conan, Palworld,Rust, nothing compares to Ascended. too bad the devs suck but.... the game keeps me coming back just to see what else i can find on the map or new pets to snatch up.
they never sould of made this game they sould of just keep it as the update to ase this been a joke sice asa been out and tbh i hope ark 2 dont come out as of right now im done with wildcard and this trsh as game
Runs like garbage even on low settings. Takes up over 200gb lol Outdated crafting/survival mechanics. Way better games in the genre. Not worth it, even on its $15 sale.
MELHOR JOGO DE TODOS, não é muito otimizado mais eu consigo jogar no medio com 60-80fps tranquilo, claro que com fsr e frame generation
Es divertido pero arreglen los crasheos y bugs porfavor :''u
Just play the original, ascended has some many bugs man while also being so unoptimized because of.. UNREAL ENGINE 5 AGHHHHH, worst engine ever, its pretty but it sucks bad- if you really wanna get into ark survival please just play evolved, its on unreal 4 and its super smooth now for most setups while having that simple pretty ascetic, gameplay wise yeah this game has a ton more content then the original but it has pay to win mechanics which makes it hella not fun to play in pvp servers so I wouldn't recommend that- overall for the price? Get evolved. Dont get this game til they properly fix it man cuz right now? They do he focusing on content over actually making the game optimized and stable to play, ♥♥♥♥ you unreal 5. I will always hate you.
If you're on Linux, for the love of your sanity, don't touch this game. I'll freeze your screens and you'll be sitting there hoping that it will recover... because it usually does, though it might take up to 10 minutes. And sometimes it doesn't, and then you'll get to reset your PC. Given that this game is out for over 2.5 years and mostly a 1:1 copy of Ark Survival Evolved except for the visuals, I'm baffled at how unstable it is. Add to that fun OS-independent things like: - Beloved annoyances from the original game, like horrible dino hitboxes or crossbows not reloading on occasion - Randomly losing your connection to the server, very nice in mid-flight - Updates on Friday evening/night that somehow manage to prevent you from joining your self-hosted, up-to-date dedicated server with an up-to-date client for 1-2 hours. (ASA Bonus: No sensible error messages, just random failures that'll keep you guessing whether something's wrong on your end) - Pretty much all game content is in a single 188 GB file that will get completely rewritten on each small update. And for the update, you'll need another 188 GB for the temporary file. So you'll want it on a fast SSD, sacrifice 200 GB permanently and cannot use the final 200 GB if you want to keep it up-to-date. What a hot mess...
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian +4 more
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