![]() No matter what platform you start playing on, you can access your account, character, dinos, and items on a different platform for the ultimate cross-platform experience. This includes cross-platform accounts and cross-progression, cross-voice chat & friends, etc.Unreal Engine 5 performance gains: instanced-rendering (large-bases etc.), threaded server networking, and native physics engine. ![]() Unreal Engine 5 Overhaul with Nanite, Lumen and RTXDI.In addition to many other new features, ARK: Survival Ascended will feature the following improvements and enhancements: The initial changes do appear to be somewhat extensive on paper here, for whatever that's worth. If you are interested in purchasing Ark: Survival Ascended, the paid upgrade to Ark: Survival Evolved, here are some of the improvements and changes the devs say you will experience. More often than not in these cases, it's the publisher that dictates these changes, including the decision to charge for what was previously said to be a free upgrade. While Studio Wildcard is the developer of Ark and the now delayed Ark 2, the series is published by Snail Games. It's not clear who is to blame here for this absolute mess of planning, pricing, and communication. Obviously this planned changed, but to be told that the upgrade would be free and believe it for several months without a retraction only to be told you need to spend at least another $40 is, what the kids like to say, kinda shitty. We havent officially announced the ARK UE5 upgrade yet 'cause there's other major things we wanna show then as well To clarify: the UE5 tease a couple weeks back is referring to in-the-works complete free upgrade/remaster of ARK Survival Evolved in UnrealEngine5. Oh, and the expansion packs are going to be sold separately again for Ark: Survival Ascended. PlayStation 5 owners are the only ones who will be able to pay just $39.99 right out of the gate, but this only includes access to Ark: Survival Ascended and does not include Ark 2. This bundle also includes 1-month closed beta access to Ark 2 prior to release. This bundle is only going to be available to purchase for up to 1 year after its release this August, at which point Studio Wildcard will then sell each game separately. This bundle includes both Ark: Survival Ascended and Ark 2. If you are on Xbox and PC specifically, the only way you can get Ark: Survival Ascended is to spend $49.99 to get the Ark Respawned Bundle. This release will include the original map, The Island, along with Survival of the Fittest, and "all the 'Non-Canon' DLC maps (which will be added to ASA over time)." Ark: Survival Ascended will be released by the end of August 2023 for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. If you want this remaster/upgrade, you will have to pay at least $39.99 (USD) for the privilege to keep playing a game you already bought once. This remaster of the original game will move the game to Unreal Engine 5 and will be titled Ark: Survival Ascended. You can always just purchase a current-gen upgrade for the original game! There will be no free upgrade path here, regardless of platform. If you wanted to know how this could possibly be any worse, Studio Wildcard says that there is yet another option for fans of the original Ark to keep playing online after that August server shutdown. ![]() Offline single player should remain functional. In order to keep playing this game online, you will need to host your own server or pay someone to host an Ark server for you. These official servers are being taken offline on all platforms: Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. If that wasn't already bad enough, the studio says that they are taking the official Ark: Survival Evolved servers offline in August. The development studio put out a blog update that says Ark 2 is now being pushed to a 2024 release instead of its originally planned 2023 release. Late in the day on Friday of last week, Studio Wildcard announced some unfortunate news bundled with some even worse news.
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