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!
RPG Gamers summaryARK: Survival Ascended, the new dinosaur survival game, is recreating the ARK world from scratch using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technology. Players wake up on a vibrant, enigmatic island filled with hundreds of dinosaur species and other prehistoric creatures ready to be tamed and bred. The game invites players to form tribes, explore, craft, build, and ascend the food-chain in an all-new world waiting for their discovery.
The game is leveraging Unreal Engine 5’s high-end graphics features including fully dynamic Global Illumination (“Lumen”), which offers realistic reflections and advanced mesh streaming (“Nanite”) allowing for extravagant detail. Advanced new physics systems like dynamic water and fully interactive physical foliage are introduced, with characters, explosions, projectiles, even a blade of grass reacting to the environment around them.
It also introduces access to the whole of ARK’s worlds including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1 & 2, among others, with The Island available now and subsequent expansion worlds added regularly free of charge.
ARK: Survival Ascended offers the ultimate survival experience, inviting you to design your own Survivor, tame dinosaurs, and unravel the true nature of The Island and worlds beyond. Quality of life enhancements include a refreshed user interface, intelligent creature pathfinding, wild babies, new map system, updated tracking system, new structures, creatures, and much more.
Cross-Platform Modding allows for the download and play of custom content created by players, ranging from new maps and creatures to items and game modes through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Cross-Platform Multiplayer allows tribes to form across different gaming platforms promoting an environment favouring survival and co-existence.
The game hosts up to 70 players in public online multiplayer, 8 in private-session multiplayer, with local split-screen for two players available.
