Appreciate the shoutout Rass! The community support shown towards myself and my insane lore ramblings has brought me great happiness- I can't thank you enough!
nah screw a hardcore experience theres to much that can go wrong from internet connection, crashing, meshing and more. wildcard are too incompetent to make a hardcore map
Yeah was about to say they better fix the bugs if they do that. Countless time me and my mounts have clipped the map. Ark is the only game I’ve played where you have to cheat to fix what the game messed up.
It's not *necessarily* a Wildcard thing tho, Mojang has only recently added hardcore to Minecraft Bedrock Edition because of all the random bugs that can kill you
0:00 intro 0:23 lost colony 1:05 maps removed from base game and turned into free dlc (very important to note if this is talking about also including the map assets than alot of mods and maps will break if you dont have all maps installed and because maps sometimes reuse assets (every map after rag) the storage will only increase due to duplicate assets) 1:50 unreal engine upgrade 3:59 ark lore inconsistencies 7:43 wild baby flyers 10:15 outro
It's not production ready yet. It's amazing in slow moving scenes, but there's still quite a few scenarios where it just completely breaks. From what I understand though it's pretty much a performance gain in every scenario even with old hardware. Hope they iron it out soon because it will be an absolute game changer once it's ready.
@@yoyoyogames9527 Lighting in games has always been a major technical hurdle filled with technical limitations. Making sure lights don't overlap other lights, lights turning off at a certain distance, casting or not casting shadows, casting correct lighting from multi-colored sources (like a tv screen), light sources on one side of a wall lightings up things on the other side of the wall, etc.. are all optimizations and thus limitations to traditional real-time lighting. MegaLights overcomes those limitations. The only way WC can mess this one up is by turning it on before it's production ready which it is not currently.
A hardcore map would be terrible, especially for those of us who use "forever survivors" to get to the max level by beating every Alpha boss, getting every note, chibi levels, and eventually Fjordur runes etc. as you know they'll still require people to beat the alpha ascension on this new map to get the maximum survivor level. Besides, that excludes the fact this game already is pretty bad with the exploits and whatnot, PVPers would make that map far worse to play on than any other just because of the lack of a respawn. I'd say just make have a normal respawn and make it so that Helena sets up a new one in order to prevent the protagonist survivor from dying before being beamed up to the genesis ship.
I think they could explain respawning by saying that we are a new survivor that came down with the aberration ark and explains why we still have an implant. Also since this ark is damaged, its not able to do the reseed protocol and leaving respawning working within range of the crash site. But still hope we are still the same survivor. And a hardcore designed map would be cool.
I just hope the engine update reduces the lag issues/crashing on official servers. They should focus more on the performance first than throw out more content. Even the most current setups can't run this badly optimized game smoothly without turning off settings.
Ase was full of the same bugs in Asa. They are NEVER fixing them. I play single player so can’t comment on the server stuff. Besides dumb glitches they should’ve fixed already it runs and looks great on my pc. 4070 ti s and ryzen 5. It runs on epic settings. Pre made pc for 1600 I’m sure it could be done cheaper if you build it yourself.
I'm one of the people for whom ASA actually runs more stable than ASE. ASE is crashing more often for me than ASA and the load times are much longer to get back in after a crash, which is why I'm sticking to ASA now. So any performance improvements there will be much appreciated
It's the same for me, ASA is working a lot better for me than ASE. I'm not crashing a lot, if ever. It loads faster, runs more smoothly, and I've only had render and texture issues with the Extinction map so far.
Same here, ASE would crash literally only ten seconds after spawning while on ASA I can play as long as I want and only lag a bit when loading in massive bases and things like that. I’m on ps5 btw.
Hey Raas. Looking super tired, probably putting in alot of hours into Extinction😂 Yet you're still pumping out the videos! Just want to say thank you for all the content and dedication you show the community. Big Love 💙💙💙
i love the transparency between jeremy and the player base, he's always offering helpful info for what WC intends to do in the future and he clearly listens to what people want
I've been having an absolute blast on ASA. Not a single crash in like 3 months. That's a huge W for me. Playing in 4k in basically max settings with around 60-90fps constant. The mods and crossplay has been incredible as well. Now I got 8 of my buddies on my server who I wasnt able to play with on ASE.
unfortunately there is no version of the engine that they could migrate to that would magically fix the problems with the game that are purely down to design choice/ignorance, eg lack of anti cheat, balancing of graphics quality and performance, lack of optimisations, maps being full of holes, endless exploits... list goes on and on
Skipping 5.4 and going straight to 5.5 seems bizarre when they cant even get the current engine to work properly. It looks better-ish but ASA still has the same issues, some even worse, that ASE had
There are atleast 2 reasons why about half of the community is still on ASE. One would be lack of content although that is getting better and the other is definetly performance. Problem with performance isnt just optimization but old hardware aswell although people can get proud and dont want to admit that they are running on 14 years old hardware and updating gpu to 4090 is not enough, you got to upgrade cpu aswell. My pc was about 6 years old but i decided to upgrade so im running it on AMD RX6700 XT 12GB GPU, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8 core CPU and 64GB of DDR4 RAM. While it wasnt too expensive to upgrade as i have only upgraded GPU, CPU and added 32GB of RAM it doesnt run ASA the way i would have wanted but it does 1080p to 1440p upscale with medium settings with about 60-80 fps depending on the map. Tested native 1440p with epic settings and everything on max and it does 20fps which is not that bad as i would have expected it to be xD Definetly waiting for the Engine upgrade to see if it actually improves the performance and im able to run it on higher settings but for now medium with 60-80 fps is pretty good for me.
I upgraded CPU and GPU recently aswell; 'cause that damn game literally fried my old graphics card. Sad thing is it barely runs better now, except for stable 75 fps on high instead of about 30 fps on low/mid. It still has occasional freezes and crashes for no reason. Still need to upgrade Ram though but I doubt there will be much change. The most annoying thing right now is the constant flickering of shadows on trees, which I can only get rid off with a couple of commands. Stuff like that shouldn't be a thing, it wasn't in the beginning. no clue what the hell they did within the last couple months. edit: fun thing with most of the settings is they don't do anything, or nothing that would be noticeable except eating fps. some stuff is literally wrong labeled/programmed. like low/mid equals off while high/epic equals on. They really should start working on stuff like that instead of fiddeling with a newer engine.
You pc guys just ask for too much. A 500$ xbox x or ps5 is just as efficient now. With console commands and mods available. There's no excuse to still run outdated pcs or consoles
@@Ryo11129 At one point flickering was caused by FreeSync/GSync enabled on the display but i cant say if that is your case or not. You can definetly try. I have not seen any flickering for a long time pretty much since Aberration release. It could also be related to Lumen which apparently doesnt work that well on old maps that are being remastered but it is yet to be seen what will happen when that new DLC is out.
i am prayinggggg they fix the stability in the upcoming update, and maybe the upgrade to 5.5 will make it good enough. i’m having such a problem with my game crashing over and over again, even with minimal small mods
Normally im not for this kind of division but Nvidia users have deen crapping on AMD users so hard for so long I acutally laughed at this having a 7800xt and no problems playing ASA on high and epic settings 🤣 @bushi1147
Performance will be way more stable as the more up to date engine will have better optimisation. The reason ascended runs so bad is because it’s using a pre development version of ue5 ( a simplified less supported version)
Yes, and if you look into what developers are saying about UE5.5, it's just going to become even more unoptimised, demanding and laggy-er. Epic is going down the wrong path.
Wildcard can realse how many difrent arks or content they want but they will never be available to replace ark survival evolved no mater if they do asa ark 2 or anything else ase will always be the one.
This game will be borderline unplayable after the engine upgrade. This company cuts so many corners they probably meant unreal engine 3 not 5. Can’t wait to not play official for multiple days!
What if somehow the Survivor as a Homo Deus finds a way to just make body as a vessel and every time you die, you as a Homo Deus just makes a new vessel, thus giving the illusion of a respawn.
They need to allow us to turn off the frame gen again. It's effecting performance pretty terribly and it's on by default. It boosts the frames by a bit, but it adds hitching and stuttering.
I love ARK, but the massive performance issues that comes with the game that haven't been resolved, but continue to release controversial content (P2W etc.) really puts me off investing time into this game. Pessimistically, I can't see this upgrade to UE 5.5 actually improving performance.
my idea, is that like Extinction they are going to introduce a new gameplay mechanic similar to the OSD raid fights. Except this time, the raids will come for you instead at certain times of day, like 7 Days to Die. They've already been somewhat testing this feature, with the implementation of a wandering King Titan on extinction, so I hardly doubt they would go through the effort of making a mechanic for that, to only just use it once. My guess, is that there will be a new type of enemy, either human or dino, that will actively spawn and hunt the player during the night period, giving players only the early hours of dawn to prepare and ready themselves. And included in the new Bobs True tales DLC pack, will be handy survival equipment and structures to help you survive further on the intense map. There are many people who wouldnt want to play with a 1 life only play style, so I personally dont think they would make that a thing. Instead, like I suggested above, I think Wildcard will make different changes to the npc's, to make it more difficult for us to survive. Besides the changes to the way npc's target players, I believe there will also be added weather conditions, harsher punishments for being out in the cold and harder to obtain loots and resources (since aberration changed to allow people to download from any supply drop, this new map will reintroduce obelisk only downloads again).
I'm not a fan of that format of survival game, but I don't think it's really possible to implement without focusing the raids on a certain structure. Reason being I play in a group where we always progress at different paces, but in those types of survival games the raids always screw over everyone except the most active players by throwing mobs at you that are scaled to whoever is highest level.
I am still an avid ASE player and I think the only thing making me want to jump to ASA so far is the fact that they're is going to be a new map. But once that's played through i doubt I'll keep playing and I'll jump back until all the maps are fully released.
I really hope they do bring back official hardcore servers. It was my preferred way to play ase after prim+ stopped working properly. I found hardcore servers to be the least toxic and most relaxed official servers, and I'm dying to get away from smalls.
I will still have all the maps downloaded, i have almost an entire 2TB for ark. as for the lore there is already a hardcore mode where you reset to level 1 when you die
I don't hate the idea of a hardcore map. It likely wouldn't be well received, but that's nothing new. I do believe the launches are getting better though desite the delays and other issues ive been seeing. That said, while i enjoy the lore (when i bother to read/listen to it) its pretty good and id like to see it become more fluid with less contradictions, plot holes, and mistakes. As for bringing ase players to ASA. It probably won't be baby fliers. It'll likely require a massive improvement to performance and the game to be finished at least up to Genesis maybe gen 2. If the performance and most of the bugs are fixed at that point. People will likely be more willing to migrate over.
They did the same thing with ASE. They periodically updated the engine to take advantage of new features and performance gains. Nearly every game does this, they just don't state it openly.
Once we get to gen 2 I hope they decide to get rid of the missions. Gen 1 makes sense to have them but gen 2 is on a real ship. Hope they get rid of em all together but 1 is ight. Also about the hardcore bit that sounds awesome. But if we die, would we just straight up lose all the map specific engrams we’ve gotten so far like the tek sleeping pod?
1. I don't understand why it's taking so long for flyer babies when we literally just had featherlights and their babies flying around on abb 2. i'm not playing any version of hardcore with a game that literally has you fall through the map while driving a car
That happened to me last night lost a 145 deino sucbus and 100 ele 😂 they should just have the mesh trigger a teleport to a recent coordinate on the map
Anyone else experiencing a memory leak with Ark, my usage goes from 7gb to 28gb when playing and ark is saying it's only using 11gb, nothing else shows a usage that could explain the other 10gb
The creep of animated series into the game is confusing. What or who is Bob? What's up with the mention of Rockwell trying to 'revive a loved one' which isn't (and shouldn't be, his char is fine already) in the game? Confused AF on those fronts
They can add as much as they want to ASA, if people can't run the game, the ASE playerbase will not move over. Great video though Raas, thanks as always
@Alecup06 actually not every other game i play is 160 to 220 ping worst case don't know why I'm hitting 360 average on ark (south africa connecting to europe)
the people who actually cant run the game are just people who are really stubborn, they either A. have low end hardware from 7+ years ago, B. expect to run the game on high settings with anything that isnt from this generation of hardware or C. dont want to use upscaling and framegen. basically any pc from the past 5 years can get 60 fps at 1080p mediumish settings with a bit of upscaling and framegen and when it comes to consoles its just people too stubborn to upgrade their console from 2012
this is getting ridiculous i play on ps5 every time i try to play now it crashes immediately after hitting start game. I've updated every mod deactiveted a few it worked for a day now wont work again i'm so tired of them constantly breaking everything, any suggestions?
Lol, didn't I tell you a few videos back that they wouldn't do the 5.4 and instead they'll push it back and say it's because they want to do 5.5 for megalights because...WC is so predictable when you wake up and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt given their track record. Hell, this might be another PS5 next gen upgrade story all over again which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Most sml/med creatures in my game have low res textures but the bigger creatures are great looking. Do you think this UE upgrade will fix them? The new doggo looks mush 😢 hoping but not expecting much really
I don't think Hardcore is viable for ARK. Like what if you bring your character that you played with from Island to extinction, do you lose EVERYTHING on all maps if you die ONCE?
I hope the update will actually be for a good reason and not just to make it look better because I have limited space and I would rather delete ark then delete anything else
I say this with every fraction of respect: but if Wildcard has any sense they should Disown the Animated Series from their games as much as physically possible. it has absolutely no respect for its source material and reeks of a DEI quota mess. and if you haven't seen the numbers those do not sell well. retcon your show to match your game, not the other way around. the ark notes had a Nuance to them that the show could not or refused to capture yes the other tribes saw Nerva as a Conquering warlord but New Legion and Rockwell to an extent saw him as a Visionary trying to bring order and civilization to an untamed land and in Rockwell's case, he was an 1800's scientist, human testing was part of the process back then, and also giving the time period him being a little bit sexist also makes sense. as for Helena, she mentioned the fact that she worked at Kakadu national park in one of her notes, so my guess is that she Lived in Darwin, either way make her Caucasian as she was, if you wanted an aboriginal character you should have made her girlfriend aboriginal. Race swapping is creatively bankrupt and lazy.
so, basically it going be March for the new UE update and its now 5.5. ugh, guess I'm sticking with ASE then. I prob need to upgrade PC anyway but that ain't happening anytime soon. Also, sorry Raas, I'm someone on ASE and think its better, but wild babies isn't something that excites me. I'm not a fan of wild babies as it makes taming way to easy.
Content alone won't magically draw players from ASE to ASA. The disparity in player numbers between the two games can be attributed to several factors. ASA is an extremely demanding game, and as a result, thousands of players struggle to run it at a playable level due to its lack of optimization. While the upcoming 5.5 update may improve this and provide a more stable experience, only time will tell if it’s enough to attract people from ASE To ASA. Let's hope it makes a difference.
@@Alecup06 Yes, a new map release brings back players who stopped playing we see that with every map release. I don't believe the majority of people switch from ASE to ASA just because of a new map release.
Personal hopes and guesses, January/Febuary: release of a new Ark Additions creature, UE 5.5 and flyer babies, start of Valguero votes March/April: release of Ragnarok, Giant Bison, bug fixes and potentially a fantastic tame like on The Center, Genesis Part 1 Votes May/June: release of Ark Additions creature June/July: release of Valguero, release of community voted creature for Val, possible 3rd/4th Fantastic Tame ~August: release of Ark Additions creature ~September: release of Lost Colony along with new creatures, start of Genesis Part 2 Votes ~October: release of Ark Additions creature November/December: release of Genesis Part 1, Bobs True Tales with 1 new creature associated with it, community voted creature for Gen 1 ~January 2026: release of Ark Additions creature Febuary/March 2026: release of Genesis Part 2, Bobs Tall Tales’ 2nd DLC, community voted creature for Gen 2 ~April 2026: release of Ark Additions creature May/June 2026: release of Crystal Isles, community voted creature, potential new fantastic tame July/August 2026: release of Lost Island with a new community voted creature and a potential new fantastic tame aswell November/December: release of Fjordur, community voted creature, potential new fantastic tame and the full release of ASA, possible price change, extra fixes, new advertisemt/trailer etc
Ase is defintly still more playable then Asa, Asa is still beyond broken in singleplayer and host-nonededicated and ofcourse officals does work so well its rlly annoying. but i don't play on offical i can't take offical seriously at all
Appreciate the shoutout Rass! The community support shown towards myself and my insane lore ramblings has brought me great happiness- I can't thank you enough!
nah screw a hardcore experience theres to much that can go wrong from internet connection, crashing, meshing and more. wildcard are too incompetent to make a hardcore map
Yeah was about to say they better fix the bugs if they do that. Countless time me and my mounts have clipped the map. Ark is the only game I’ve played where you have to cheat to fix what the game messed up.
I feel like the best they could do is have a hardcore setting that they recommend but don’t force on the player
It's not *necessarily* a Wildcard thing tho, Mojang has only recently added hardcore to Minecraft Bedrock Edition because of all the random bugs that can kill you
@@-viscosityNice whataboutism
adding hardcore to ark is dumber than hardcore to bedrock its crazy
0:00 intro
0:23 lost colony
1:05 maps removed from base game and turned into free dlc (very important to note if this is talking about also including the map assets than alot of mods and maps will break if you dont have all maps installed and because maps sometimes reuse assets (every map after rag) the storage will only increase due to duplicate assets)
1:50 unreal engine upgrade
3:59 ark lore inconsistencies
7:43 wild baby flyers
10:15 outro
Appreciate you
I can’t wait for the new creatures to ask for my credit card when my buddy transfers some over!!!!!
The main game coming up to 200gb is insane but then the devkit is now just under 900gb lmfao
Yeah wanted to make a mod but that file size said no thanks lol
"Wardrobe" mod to swap out kit layouts basically like 5 mannequins in one.
Ark in vr would be legit scary😂
Be interesting to see if they take advantage of the Megalight tech that UE 5.5 has to offer. It could further boost performance if done correctly.
It's not production ready yet. It's amazing in slow moving scenes, but there's still quite a few scenarios where it just completely breaks. From what I understand though it's pretty much a performance gain in every scenario even with old hardware. Hope they iron it out soon because it will be an absolute game changer once it's ready.
"done correctly" is this something wildcard are capable of? lol
@@yoyoyogames9527 Lighting in games has always been a major technical hurdle filled with technical limitations. Making sure lights don't overlap other lights, lights turning off at a certain distance, casting or not casting shadows, casting correct lighting from multi-colored sources (like a tv screen), light sources on one side of a wall lightings up things on the other side of the wall, etc.. are all optimizations and thus limitations to traditional real-time lighting. MegaLights overcomes those limitations. The only way WC can mess this one up is by turning it on before it's production ready which it is not currently.
A hardcore map would be terrible, especially for those of us who use "forever survivors" to get to the max level by beating every Alpha boss, getting every note, chibi levels, and eventually Fjordur runes etc. as you know they'll still require people to beat the alpha ascension on this new map to get the maximum survivor level.
Besides, that excludes the fact this game already is pretty bad with the exploits and whatnot, PVPers would make that map far worse to play on than any other just because of the lack of a respawn. I'd say just make have a normal respawn and make it so that Helena sets up a new one in order to prevent the protagonist survivor from dying before being beamed up to the genesis ship.
I think they could explain respawning by saying that we are a new survivor that came down with the aberration ark and explains why we still have an implant. Also since this ark is damaged, its not able to do the reseed protocol and leaving respawning working within range of the crash site. But still hope we are still the same survivor. And a hardcore designed map would be cool.
I just hope the engine update reduces the lag issues/crashing on official servers. They should focus more on the performance first than throw out more content. Even the most current setups can't run this badly optimized game smoothly without turning off settings.
Nope! 5.5 is just going to make things even worse. Have a look into it. It's eye-opening
@DaKiffster will do
Ase was full of the same bugs in Asa. They are NEVER fixing them. I play single player so can’t comment on the server stuff. Besides dumb glitches they should’ve fixed already it runs and looks great on my pc. 4070 ti s and ryzen 5. It runs on epic settings. Pre made pc for 1600 I’m sure it could be done cheaper if you build it yourself.
Lag is on your shitty wifi am on my official server with no high ping
No it won't. 5.5 simply adds new tools for devs to use@DaKiffster
Ark crashes way too much to make a hardcore map
By the time Ark Acended is complete UE 6 will be out
I'm one of the people for whom ASA actually runs more stable than ASE. ASE is crashing more often for me than ASA and the load times are much longer to get back in after a crash, which is why I'm sticking to ASA now. So any performance improvements there will be much appreciated
what specs do you have
It's the same for me, ASA is working a lot better for me than ASE. I'm not crashing a lot, if ever. It loads faster, runs more smoothly, and I've only had render and texture issues with the Extinction map so far.
I play on PS5 and ASE crashes way more than ASA. That’s the reason I switched to ASA.
@@golden_sniper384 Intel Core i7-10700F, 32 GB RAM, NVidia RTX 4070.
Same here, ASE would crash literally only ten seconds after spawning while on ASA I can play as long as I want and only lag a bit when loading in massive bases and things like that. I’m on ps5 btw.
Not sure if you are having this bug too but the new vehicles are disappearing after about 10 minutes if I’m not using them , any fix for this?
They need to tlc the old designs
Hey Raas. Looking super tired, probably putting in alot of hours into Extinction😂 Yet you're still pumping out the videos! Just want to say thank you for all the content and dedication you show the community. Big Love 💙💙💙
i love the transparency between jeremy and the player base, he's always offering helpful info for what WC intends to do in the future and he clearly listens to what people want
I've been having an absolute blast on ASA. Not a single crash in like 3 months. That's a huge W for me. Playing in 4k in basically max settings with around 60-90fps constant. The mods and crossplay has been incredible as well. Now I got 8 of my buddies on my server who I wasnt able to play with on ASE.
Only way I'll fully drop ASE is when Nitrado drops the exclusivity nonsense for server hosting
What’s wrong with it been hosting servers for years nvr had an issues
@notquitelikebro definitely trolling
@@ChrisSmith-ew9fp he isn't i never had issue with nitrado either
unfortunately there is no version of the engine that they could migrate to that would magically fix the problems with the game that are purely down to design choice/ignorance, eg lack of anti cheat, balancing of graphics quality and performance, lack of optimisations, maps being full of holes, endless exploits... list goes on and on
Thats what I said back from ase😢
Dont forget poor balancing and gameplay change decisions on the devs part
It's not to fix but improve and upgrade by the sounds
Skipping 5.4 and going straight to 5.5 seems bizarre when they cant even get the current engine to work properly. It looks better-ish but ASA still has the same issues, some even worse, that ASE had
Worse !!!!
There are atleast 2 reasons why about half of the community is still on ASE. One would be lack of content although that is getting better and the other is definetly performance. Problem with performance isnt just optimization but old hardware aswell although people can get proud and dont want to admit that they are running on 14 years old hardware and updating gpu to 4090 is not enough, you got to upgrade cpu aswell. My pc was about 6 years old but i decided to upgrade so im running it on AMD RX6700 XT 12GB GPU, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8 core CPU and 64GB of DDR4 RAM. While it wasnt too expensive to upgrade as i have only upgraded GPU, CPU and added 32GB of RAM it doesnt run ASA the way i would have wanted but it does 1080p to 1440p upscale with medium settings with about 60-80 fps depending on the map. Tested native 1440p with epic settings and everything on max and it does 20fps which is not that bad as i would have expected it to be xD Definetly waiting for the Engine upgrade to see if it actually improves the performance and im able to run it on higher settings but for now medium with 60-80 fps is pretty good for me.
I have a 4070 ti s and ryzen 5. Ark runs great on my pc and I run ark on epic settings. Zero reason to over spend on the items you mentioned.
I upgraded CPU and GPU recently aswell; 'cause that damn game literally fried my old graphics card. Sad thing is it barely runs better now, except for stable 75 fps on high instead of about 30 fps on low/mid. It still has occasional freezes and crashes for no reason. Still need to upgrade Ram though but I doubt there will be much change.
The most annoying thing right now is the constant flickering of shadows on trees, which I can only get rid off with a couple of commands. Stuff like that shouldn't be a thing, it wasn't in the beginning. no clue what the hell they did within the last couple months.
edit: fun thing with most of the settings is they don't do anything, or nothing that would be noticeable except eating fps. some stuff is literally wrong labeled/programmed. like low/mid equals off while high/epic equals on.
They really should start working on stuff like that instead of fiddeling with a newer engine.
@@pawnzrtasty True.
You pc guys just ask for too much. A 500$ xbox x or ps5 is just as efficient now. With console commands and mods available. There's no excuse to still run outdated pcs or consoles
@@Ryo11129 At one point flickering was caused by FreeSync/GSync enabled on the display but i cant say if that is your case or not. You can definetly try. I have not seen any flickering for a long time pretty much since Aberration release. It could also be related to Lumen which apparently doesnt work that well on old maps that are being remastered but it is yet to be seen what will happen when that new DLC is out.
I wonder if the new map is a lava volcano in a winter biome surrounded by water with normal islands
UE 5.6 expected in april
i am prayinggggg they fix the stability in the upcoming update, and maybe the upgrade to 5.5 will make it good enough. i’m having such a problem with my game crashing over and over again, even with minimal small mods
By the time they are ready to release the upgrade, there will be a new upgrade lol.
So it’s going from a gas powered whipper motor, to a 500w generator. What an upgrade .
Still no NVIDIA FG😔... not giving up on this...
I have frame Gen.
O You can't turn that on independently all so sad😢
Go team red😂✌️
Normally im not for this kind of division but Nvidia users have deen crapping on AMD users so hard for so long I acutally laughed at this having a 7800xt and no problems playing ASA on high and epic settings 🤣 @bushi1147
Fuck nvidia AMD is better
My Xbox is crying lol
Performance will be way more stable as the more up to date engine will have better optimisation. The reason ascended runs so bad is because it’s using a pre development version of ue5 ( a simplified less supported version)
The engine upgrade will make it run much better on Xbox than it currently does, this is a saving grace for us console folks
@@marklaidler2783 yup. We can probably expect a playable 60fps and no more of that blurring at distance when this launches
@@apxpremium1047Yep, just takes time for WC to get things straight before they optimize their game. ASE was just like this in the first year.
@@apxpremium1047 i'm not sure i would go that far, this is still Wildcard XD
So we gonna have an Upgrade for asa? Asb?
Yes, and if you look into what developers are saying about UE5.5, it's just going to become even more unoptimised, demanding and laggy-er. Epic is going down the wrong path.
Wildcard can realse how many difrent arks or content they want but they will never be available to replace ark survival evolved no mater if they do asa ark 2 or anything else ase will always be the one.
Welcome back Raas!
I have question,is Velonosaur bugged cuz I have feeling like game doesnt count a lot of shots
I would genuinely be surprised if WC have put any thought into the reseed protocol for Lost Colony. You'll respawn as normal with no explanation
This game will be borderline unplayable after the engine upgrade. This company cuts so many corners they probably meant unreal engine 3 not 5. Can’t wait to not play official for multiple days!
What if somehow the Survivor as a Homo Deus finds a way to just make body as a vessel and every time you die, you as a Homo Deus just makes a new vessel, thus giving the illusion of a respawn.
They need to allow us to turn off the frame gen again. It's effecting performance pretty terribly and it's on by default. It boosts the frames by a bit, but it adds hitching and stuttering.
There is a way to turn it off someone found out but I don't know how they did it
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that disables it
I love ARK, but the massive performance issues that comes with the game that haven't been resolved, but continue to release controversial content (P2W etc.) really puts me off investing time into this game. Pessimistically, I can't see this upgrade to UE 5.5 actually improving performance.
Seems unlike Wildcard to skip any performance update 😉
my idea, is that like Extinction they are going to introduce a new gameplay mechanic similar to the OSD raid fights. Except this time, the raids will come for you instead at certain times of day, like 7 Days to Die. They've already been somewhat testing this feature, with the implementation of a wandering King Titan on extinction, so I hardly doubt they would go through the effort of making a mechanic for that, to only just use it once. My guess, is that there will be a new type of enemy, either human or dino, that will actively spawn and hunt the player during the night period, giving players only the early hours of dawn to prepare and ready themselves. And included in the new Bobs True tales DLC pack, will be handy survival equipment and structures to help you survive further on the intense map. There are many people who wouldnt want to play with a 1 life only play style, so I personally dont think they would make that a thing. Instead, like I suggested above, I think Wildcard will make different changes to the npc's, to make it more difficult for us to survive. Besides the changes to the way npc's target players, I believe there will also be added weather conditions, harsher punishments for being out in the cold and harder to obtain loots and resources (since aberration changed to allow people to download from any supply drop, this new map will reintroduce obelisk only downloads again).
I'm not a fan of that format of survival game, but I don't think it's really possible to implement without focusing the raids on a certain structure.
Reason being I play in a group where we always progress at different paces, but in those types of survival games the raids always screw over everyone except the most active players by throwing mobs at you that are scaled to whoever is highest level.
I am still an avid ASE player and I think the only thing making me want to jump to ASA so far is the fact that they're is going to be a new map. But once that's played through i doubt I'll keep playing and I'll jump back until all the maps are fully released.
Didn’t its start at 5.3 the. 5.4 now 5.5. Will be 6 by release
I still haven't been able to play this game since release. Constant freeze/crashes keep me from playing and I tried everything but can't fix it.
I really hope they do bring back official hardcore servers. It was my preferred way to play ase after prim+ stopped working properly. I found hardcore servers to be the least toxic and most relaxed official servers, and I'm dying to get away from smalls.
I will still have all the maps downloaded, i have almost an entire 2TB for ark. as for the lore there is already a hardcore mode where you reset to level 1 when you die
I don't hate the idea of a hardcore map. It likely wouldn't be well received, but that's nothing new. I do believe the launches are getting better though desite the delays and other issues ive been seeing. That said, while i enjoy the lore (when i bother to read/listen to it) its pretty good and id like to see it become more fluid with less contradictions, plot holes, and mistakes.
As for bringing ase players to ASA. It probably won't be baby fliers. It'll likely require a massive improvement to performance and the game to be finished at least up to Genesis maybe gen 2. If the performance and most of the bugs are fixed at that point. People will likely be more willing to migrate over.
Haven’t played ASA since launch because of the performance. Hope this 5.5 UE will help.
the idea of a hardcore experience on ark of all games terrifies me bc ark isnt exactly bug free
I mean “pretty close” and “next year” is pretty damn close when you see he posted that on Dec 20…
Well what's the point of new engine if they will do the push to next engine when it will be released so it will be endless push.
Not a new engine, update to a newer version of the current engine.
They did the same thing with ASE. They periodically updated the engine to take advantage of new features and performance gains. Nearly every game does this, they just don't state it openly.
Wildcard is blowing smoke up our asses about UE5.5
It gives them breathing room. They can push the release back when needed.
i would play ASA but cant handle it, hope they get some actual good optimization so i can play 😭😭
Once we get to gen 2 I hope they decide to get rid of the missions. Gen 1 makes sense to have them but gen 2 is on a real ship. Hope they get rid of em all together but 1 is ight.
Also about the hardcore bit that sounds awesome. But if we die, would we just straight up lose all the map specific engrams we’ve gotten so far like the tek sleeping pod?
1. I don't understand why it's taking so long for flyer babies when we literally just had featherlights and their babies flying around on abb
2. i'm not playing any version of hardcore with a game that literally has you fall through the map while driving a car
Lazy Devs
That happened to me last night lost a 145 deino sucbus and 100 ele 😂 they should just have the mesh trigger a teleport to a recent coordinate on the map
Ark has been around for 10+ years and they still haven't come up with a UI that surpasses a 90s mac
How much will this one cost?
Is the performance increase only client side? Because it's mostly the servers that suck...
Anyone else experiencing a memory leak with Ark, my usage goes from 7gb to 28gb when playing and ark is saying it's only using 11gb, nothing else shows a usage that could explain the other 10gb
What if we are going to erat after extinction and HLNA helps us respawn?
Wildcard can barely handle this current engine
The creep of animated series into the game is confusing. What or who is Bob? What's up with the mention of Rockwell trying to 'revive a loved one' which isn't (and shouldn't be, his char is fine already) in the game? Confused AF on those fronts
I was in the thread of the flyers. Asked about nests. Flyers most likely won’t have one by Jats reply. Big sad.
Scuzzy mentioned: 🤩
They can add as much as they want to ASA, if people can't run the game, the ASE playerbase will not move over.
Great video though Raas, thanks as always
I regret honestly getting asa it's permanent crashes freezing disconnects/freezing lagging I permanently run at 360 + ping on a eu server 😊
@@sandornagy3484 shitty wifi lol but the crashes are a issue but I haven't delt with a lot mostly rare AF
@Alecup06 actually not every other game i play is 160 to 220 ping worst case don't know why I'm hitting 360 average on ark (south africa connecting to europe)
the people who actually cant run the game are just people who are really stubborn, they either A. have low end hardware from 7+ years ago, B. expect to run the game on high settings with anything that isnt from this generation of hardware or C. dont want to use upscaling and framegen. basically any pc from the past 5 years can get 60 fps at 1080p mediumish settings with a bit of upscaling and framegen
and when it comes to consoles its just people too stubborn to upgrade their console from 2012
this is getting ridiculous i play on ps5 every time i try to play now it crashes immediately after hitting start game. I've updated every mod deactiveted a few it worked for a day now wont work again i'm so tired of them constantly breaking everything, any suggestions?
Dino depot caused me to crash immediately
Lol, didn't I tell you a few videos back that they wouldn't do the 5.4 and instead they'll push it back and say it's because they want to do 5.5 for megalights because...WC is so predictable when you wake up and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt given their track record. Hell, this might be another PS5 next gen upgrade story all over again which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Fully agreed
Most sml/med creatures in my game have low res textures but the bigger creatures are great looking. Do you think this UE upgrade will fix them? The new doggo looks mush 😢 hoping but not expecting much really
Cant wait for the new game called ARK Survival Transcended
I don't think Hardcore is viable for ARK. Like what if you bring your character that you played with from Island to extinction, do you lose EVERYTHING on all maps if you die ONCE?
I hope the update will actually be for a good reason and not just to make it look better because I have limited space and I would rather delete ark then delete anything else
I say this with every fraction of respect:
but if Wildcard has any sense they should Disown the Animated Series from their games as much as physically possible. it has absolutely no respect for its source material and reeks of a DEI quota mess. and if you haven't seen the numbers those do not sell well.
retcon your show to match your game, not the other way around. the ark notes had a Nuance to them that the show could not or refused to capture
yes the other tribes saw Nerva as a Conquering warlord but New Legion and Rockwell to an extent saw him as a Visionary trying to bring order and civilization to an untamed land
and in Rockwell's case, he was an 1800's scientist, human testing was part of the process back then, and also giving the time period him being a little bit sexist also makes sense.
as for Helena, she mentioned the fact that she worked at Kakadu national park in one of her notes, so my guess is that she Lived in Darwin, either way make her Caucasian as she was, if you wanted an aboriginal character you should have made her girlfriend aboriginal. Race swapping is creatively bankrupt and lazy.
they have not fix fps problems with base game and yet they moving to new engine with all those problems coming together
Engine Upgrade.. all i can see more Crash, Bugs, Lags, and Unending Repair Update
I'll believe it once i see it
so, basically it going be March for the new UE update and its now 5.5. ugh, guess I'm sticking with ASE then. I prob need to upgrade PC anyway but that ain't happening anytime soon.
Also, sorry Raas, I'm someone on ASE and think its better, but wild babies isn't something that excites me. I'm not a fan of wild babies as it makes taming way to easy.
My Xbox already can’t even handle anything with ASA
Scuzzy getting a raasclark shout-out. 😂
ASE stopped being better than ASA awhile ago lmao
Bro ark taking up so much space already please wildcard!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Content alone won't magically draw players from ASE to ASA. The disparity in player numbers between the two games can be attributed to several factors. ASA is an extremely demanding game, and as a result, thousands of players struggle to run it at a playable level due to its lack of optimization. While the upcoming 5.5 update may improve this and provide a more stable experience, only time will tell if it’s enough to attract people from ASE To ASA. Let's hope it makes a difference.
Also it requires an upgraded console. Many people can't or won't buy a 500$ upgrade...
Except it did lots of players on ASA
@@ChrisSmith-ew9fp its 350 on ebay used so there's a way to get and the ps4 and old xbox will get discontinued on 2025
@@Alecup06 Yes, a new map release brings back players who stopped playing we see that with every map release. I don't believe the majority of people switch from ASE to ASA just because of a new map release.
Dang saw the title and was hyped they might move away from UE :(
The one that was supposed to come out with abberation 🤣💩
what is clear is that no matter what change they make rendering on consoles will always be garbage.
Has WC ever released anything that required them to actually huddle with eachother to form a braincell? Probably not dog devs
So now that they say 5.5 is coming it will be 3 quarter of 2025..
what about every time u die u loose levels
It wouldn't be hardcore, it'll be a new system that goes into ark 2 since how are we dying on a new planet not governed by humans
"Coming 2025" *december 2025*
Are they gonna charge us for it?
At this point I believe this supposed 5.5 update won't be out till 2026 and WC Will charge us. I don't believe a single thing wc says
Not how it works 😂
It’ll be out in 2030 and we still gunna run at 30fps😂
Oh you mean they can update to 5.5 without a new game? funny how they couldnt do that before...
Personal hopes and guesses, January/Febuary: release of a new Ark Additions creature, UE 5.5 and flyer babies, start of Valguero votes
March/April: release of Ragnarok, Giant Bison, bug fixes and potentially a fantastic tame like on The Center, Genesis Part 1 Votes
May/June: release of Ark Additions creature
June/July: release of Valguero, release of community voted creature for Val, possible 3rd/4th Fantastic Tame
~August: release of Ark Additions creature
~September: release of Lost Colony along with new creatures, start of Genesis Part 2 Votes
~October: release of Ark Additions creature
November/December: release of Genesis Part 1, Bobs True Tales with 1 new creature associated with it, community voted creature for Gen 1
~January 2026: release of Ark Additions creature
Febuary/March 2026: release of Genesis Part 2, Bobs Tall Tales’ 2nd DLC, community voted creature for Gen 2
~April 2026: release of Ark Additions creature
May/June 2026: release of Crystal Isles, community voted creature, potential new fantastic tame
July/August 2026: release of Lost Island with a new community voted creature and a potential new fantastic tame aswell
November/December: release of Fjordur, community voted creature, potential new fantastic tame and the full release of ASA, possible price change, extra fixes, new advertisemt/trailer etc
Delay delay lol
Ase is defintly still more playable then Asa, Asa is still beyond broken in singleplayer and host-nonededicated and ofcourse officals does work so well its rlly annoying. but i don't play on offical i can't take offical seriously at all
Lets not buy the new dlc if there is no engine upgrade first!!! \o/
Content is indeed not everything, Fix the games crashing
I want hardcore¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another 30$ purchase for nicer graphics lmao