Experience a new dinosaur survival experience that transcends your wildest dreams... while ARK is transformed from scratch into the next generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awaken on a mysterious island, your senses will be overwhelmed by the dazzling sunlight and bright colors reflected from every surface around you as the azure waters of a green island wash around your bare feet. A deep roar echoes from the misty jungle, tears you to action, and you get up - not fearful, but fascinated. Are you ready to start a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food chain? Your new world awaits you...Step through the mirror and join it!
Features:
- ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and redesigned ARK's artwork and worlds to leverage the latest video game technology, Unreal Engine 5, and utilize high-end graphics features such as fully dynamic Global Illumination ("Lumens") for this light reflects realistically off surfaces and provides realistic reflections as well as advanced mesh streaming ("Nanite") of hundreds of millions of triangles for extreme Details
- Advanced new physical systems such as dynamic water, allowing each living being to create waves, splashes and bubbles as it moves through liquids, and fully interactive physical foliage where each blade of grass, bush and tree reacts to characters, explosions and projectiles and physical objects. Cut down a tree and see it collide with other trees and swirl up all the foliage on its way down until it hits the bottom of the grass! Recognize an enemy secretly moving through the grass as it moves and sways in response to its presence. Tear off a building and watch the pieces realistically break apart and interact with the grass and water when falling.
- ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all worlds of ARK, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The island is now being released, and subsequent expansion worlds are added regularly at no additional cost.
- The ultimate survival experience returns better than ever: design your survivor, form a tribe, and tame, train, breed and ride dinosaurs in a living ecosystem. Observe your food, water, temperature and weather patterns. Slowly expand outward as you harvest, build structures, grow plants, customize your visual designs, and continue exploration to discover the true nature of the island and the worlds beyond.
- Thoroughly revise quality of life in all areas: redesigned user interfaces, dynamic navigation for intelligent path finding of creatures, wild babies, photo mode, new camera systems, new map system, tracking system, new structures and items, new creatures and much more.
- Cross-platform modding: Download and replay new player-created custom content, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a special new mod bowser right in the game! Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community fully unfolds for the first time on all gaming platforms!
- Cross-platform multiplayer: Build your online tribe across different gaming platforms as you work together to survive and grow on ARK!
- Supports public online multiplayer mode for up to 70 players, private multiplayer mode for up to 8 players and local split screen for 2 players.
