Learn the essential gathering and crafting mechanics in ARK: Survival Ascended. Discover new features, gameplay changes, and tips to enhance your survival experience in this Unreal Engine 5 remaster.
ARK: Survival Ascended is a visually stunning remaster of the original ARK: Survival Evolved, built on Unreal Engine 5. This guide focuses on the core gathering and crafting mechanics, highlighting new features and gameplay changes that enhance the survival experience.
Features
- Unreal Engine 5 overhaul with Nanite, Lumen, and NVIDIA's RTXDI
- Cross-platform multiplayer and modding
- New content and dynamic water effects
- Interactive foliage and cutscenes
- Improved performance through instanced rendering and custom physics engine
- Dynamic navigation mesh and creature path-finding overhaul
- Cross-platform anti-cheat and updated mini-map with ping system
- Queueing system, new third-person camera, and directional sprinting
- Ping system, gamepad cursor, and Chibi slot with skins tab
- Nvidia DLSS Support and Photo Mode
- Dino/baby management quality-of-life improvements, including wild babies and creature traits
- Snap point improvements and character creation enhancements
- Tek Binoculars rework and updated controller scheme
- Numerous bug fixes
Gameplay Changes from Survival Evolved
General
- New gameplay balance.
- Movement Speed status removed from official servers.
- Mutations have a separate meter from level points.
- Supply Crates loot table reworked.
- Carcharodontosaurus and Rhyniognatha dossiers are now on The Island map.
Inventory/UI
- Overall menu rework.
- New Ping System, similar to Survival of the Fittest.
- New menu icons.
- New photo mode.
- Improved map with coordinates and zoom functionality.
- Better dino tracker to locate tamed creatures on the map.
- Configurable third-person camera distance.
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