Unlock all Steam Achievements in ARK: Survival Ascended! This comprehensive guide covers every achievement, offering tips and strategies to help you conquer the game and earn every badge.
This article is about the 2023 remaster for PC, Xbox Series and PS5. For the 2015 game on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, see ARK: Survival Evolved. For the game on iOS and Android, see ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.
ARK: Survival Ascended is an Unreal Engine 5 remastered version of the original ARK: Survival Evolved game. It was announced on March 31, 2023 on survivetheark.com, and was released on October 25, 2023 as an early access title on Steam, with DLC content to be released over time.
Features:
- Unreal Engine 5 overhaul with Nanite, Lumen, and NVIDIA's RTXDI
- Cross-platform multiplayer
- Cross-platform modding
- New content
- Dynamic water using FluidNinja
- Interactive foliage
- Cutscenes
- Unreal Engine 5 performance gains: instanced rendering (higher performance when drawing large bases), threaded server networking, and UE's custom physics engine
- Dynamic navigation mesh and creature path-finding overhaul
- Cross-platform anti-cheat
- Updated mini-map (pan, zoom, pings, etc – similar to the TSotF mini-map)
- Queueing system
- New third-person camera (with the option to opt out)
- Directional sprinting and walking
- Ping system
- Gamepad cursor
- Chibi slot and skins tab
- Nvidia DLSS Support
- Photo Mode
- Dino/baby management QoL
- Wild babies
- Traits for creatures
- Snap point improvements (new snaps, logic improvements)
- Character creation & customization improvements
- Tek Binoculars rework
- An updated control scheme on controller
- Numerous bug fixes
Gameplay changes from ARK: Survival Evolved:
- New gameplay balance.
- The Movement Speed Status has been removed from official servers, but may be enabled elsewhere.
- Mutations change, now have a separate meter from level points.
- Supply Crates loot table rework.
- Carcharodontosaurus and Rhyniognatha dossiers now are on The Island map.
Inventory/UI changes:
- Overall menu rework.
- New Ping System, similar to that of Survival of the Fittest.
- New menu icons.
- New photo mode.
- Better map, now showing coordinates and allowing zooming in and out.
- Better dino tracker, allowing to track tamed creatures and see their location on the map.
- Configurable third-person camera distance by holding
Left Alt.
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