Obviously it's a night and day difference with the increased geometry and foliage on the cliffsides, but I'd also point out the extensive work on the tree billboards. I also particularly like the luminescence of the snow.
I think that taking these shots is the only time I've actually seen that part of the Megapithecus arena, always ended up fighting it down the hill :D The Dragon doesn't look too different, but the lighting isn't as good - of course it's possible the storm is random but I've no idea. Some areas you can barely tell they're the same place, others the changes are more subtle, but damn it looks pretty.
Yea with nanite you dont need tree billboards. its just trees that don't despawn with range. they just get less detailed the further away you move from them
1:08, that little mini island out there to the corner in where I first started playing when I was maybe 9 with my older brother. Right there on that tiny island in the right corner I has a thatch hut with a carno and so many dilos. I really miss playing with my brother and hearing the beginning of the ark song makes me think of those good days. Ark will always be held close to me as one of those special memories. I just wish I could play 1 more time on that world with him. My favorite memory was going into the cave not to far from him and seeing the lizards on the tip of cave walls and getting rabies.
Yeah agreed. New colour fits jungle bits really well but in the mountains and redwoods etc it would have been nice to keep some greystone. Especially since the ruins are greystone still it seems.
@@juiy222 Thats what I was thinking. Mountains specifically, definitely the volcano, redwoods, the river just north of the redwoods, and carni island. Glad they kept grey in the snow though.
I get what everyone is saying about the rocks going from grey to a more sandstone colour. I think the sandstone looks good for beaches and stuff, but all they really need to do is change the colour of rocks the higher they are in the world. Not a hard thing to do with the power of UE5. Other than that and a few other very minor colour and contrast issues. This looks amazing and is genuinely a well done remaster/remake. Especially when compared to other “remasters” that have come out in past few years…
This is a great comparison. I still love the old water, they really did water well in the original release. The new water in Ascended is amazing though, and the underwater flora is supurb. I hope they add some dramatic thunder and lightning to the rain and make some real storms.
Nanite Foliage doing such a stellar job. You can really see the difference when you no longer have Trees LOD'ing all over the place and changing into billboards. The atmospheric fog really sells the whole "Youre on a jungle island" vibe. All of the extra Foliage and LUMEN lighting really make the dense jungles feel so much more dangerous. And the ocean is flippin terrifying holy shit!
My only issues so far are Lumen related sadly, shadows will often flicker or there'll be some artifacting around the character, and the brightness overall is a bit too much. I know many aren't a fan of the fog but I agree that it really sells it, especially at a distance, turning the volumetric clouds/fog off leaves everything a bit too pristine for my liking
@@freynlives I can see how the volumetric atmosphere options are an issue with competitive play in particular. Id expect PVP mains to not like it cuz it restricts long range vision. Idk if the lumen GI artifacts depend on driver support or hardware. Id imagine with less RT capable hardware you probably have much worse shadows and more artifacting
@@Bitt3rh0lz @freynlives Lumen uses something called Virtual Shadow Maps (VSM), which is a purely rasterized technique to achieve high-res (non-flickering) shadows without LOD popin (just like Nanite is a virtualized geometry system) but ASA to me doesn't seem to be using VSM. VSM can use RT for stuff like realistic sharpness scaling based on proximity to the shadow casting object but doesn't absolutely require RT-capable hardware. E.g. Fortnite uses software Lumen on the consoles. Also Lumen artifacts are due to SSR/SSAO and can NOT realistically be fixed without straight up replacing Lumen with pure raytracing effects/pathtracing (or ugly, non-dynamic, inaccurate and low res last gen tech). tl,dr: Studio Wildcard might not be done with their UE5 feature integration... or polish for the game in general.
the environment had a huge upgrade, but I feel like it highlighted the low quality models and animations of older creatures like the wooly rhino and carno which can be seen sliding around
Looks astonishing!!!! They changed the entire Island and made it look like an Island you can come across in the real world!! Can’t wait to play this game!!! And the Arenas look amazing!!!!
I just don't like how its all sandstone like on the old map the grey stone and not everything being oversaturated was really pleasing to the eye although in a lot of other shots it works great and looks great but I wish they keept the grey stone in some areas especially because in some shots you can't make out the river because of everything being yellow
I mean, each their preferences i guess. I really dislike the grey rocks, so i quite like the new, more vibrant look they gave it. Especially the water being more subtle is a huge improvement.
@@yoo7289 I really like the trees, and ocean because they are more life like but the rest look really movie like and unrealistic and kinda hurts my eyes, to a point when i saw the gameplay, I wasnt sure which map it was on
Don’t get me wrong the game looks incredible and I definitely think it’s an improvement, BUT, everything kinda looks the same everywhere aside from the snow biome and red woods and maybe the beaches and I don’t really like the additions that were unnecessary like the massive rock at south 1 that basically gets rid of the whole beach there. My first words while playing this game were “I can’t even recognize where I am”. Which can be a good thing that means the map wasn’t reskined and wasn’t just a (ctrl c, ctrl v) scenario but being able to see some landmarks would have been fine with me, but now I can’t see anything in the jungle and there’s no open areas like there were before. But I’m just nitpicking a little but it is a real criticism I have against it but it’s not a dealbreaker I’m gonna play this game all the way through and do every dlc.
Tough balance to find really, it needs to be recognisable but not identical, I think they've done a decent job of it. The overall shape of the land is the same just not necessarily the same trees/rocks, the caves would've been the best places to restructure I think - either new locations or new layouts.
i know that there are alot of people who really like the change of the more rocky areas going from grey to more sandstone colours but honestly im not a fan, they couldve kept the more inland areas more grey and stoney and the outer areas more sandstoney, also not a fan of the vibrancy of the leaves and just how bright they are, i feel sons of the forest did a great job of getting the colours just right, for a higher quality feel.
Ya I'm getting similar vibes. It feels like they dove headfirst into realism and sacrificed alot on ase's artistic style Edit: don't get me wrong visually it's super pretty. I just feel like it looks a bit off ark wise
I agree. Everything looks samey in the new version. Stand in one spot and you've seen it all. Not enough contrast. Too bright. I feel like some of the mystery and fear is lost.
It's bright to almost resembling a fortnite map.. I feel like with a high tier GPU and optimized settings, even the original looked good. Users will have to tweak the visuals.
I disagree, I think this is a perfect upgrade. I just hope they can optimized it a bit more. I mean day 1 I was getting like 30 -40 fps then a major update happened now i can get 670 - 80 with a 3060ti and I7
It's barely recognizable from the old. It's amazing. Imagine if all maps get a rework like this. Unlikely to be all but at least a few. Also what the hell is that Carch doing in front of the lava. Thinking about life?
@@Masterofhammersbelieve it or not the ai is significantly better than it used to be. A lot of dinos can get you if you run onto rocks. My guess is that the lava is just a glitch for now loll
why are the trees and leaves so static now? looks like im looking at a still model in ASA. the only thing thats moving are the flickery shadows but i dont know why when nothings moving.
It's kind of overdone. Many spots lost their significance, so it all looks kind of the same. While the graphics are better, but how? Seems like they added a lot of fog, bloom, clutter and made everything brown. Hm...
Great work as always! I love how some places are completely unrecognizable. However, with most of that due to foliage or weather effects like fog/mist/etc. I'm curious how much scorched earth will change, not exactly a lot of foliage they can add to a desert map. Also I'm beyond hyped for Ab, Rag, and LI. They are going to be gorgeous. Imagine the marshlands on Ab? The highlands on Rag? or that jungle with about 3 or 4 waterfalls in the middle on lost island?(it always reminded me of a scene in Tarzan) Those are going to look sooo good.
Beamstalk! Not seen you for a bit :) General terrain shape is the same but there's been some serious changes to the detailing, one of the mountains has a whole set of ruins and stairs running up the side (didn't notice until afterwards or I'd have included it!) Extinction is the only map I'm not really expecting to be wowed by, due to the wasteland, but perhaps they'll surprise us!
@@freynlives Been watching all your videos, just haven't really felt the need to comment at times, thanks for always replying. Im sure the sunken forest, biome domes and city will still be a huge wow. I actually expect quite a bit for extinction. but with scorched earth assumedly being the next map to release, I'm curious how they are really going to wow the community with anything other than the fasolasuchus. Just doesn't seem like you can do much with a desert map. I guess time will tell though, I'm sure they've got something up their sleeve.
@@FireOccator in real life you can see at night though, I'm not saying ascended is perfect, but it's not realistic for it to be pitch black at night.. the lighting is definitely way better!
@@SmallSnailMarie In areas with light pollution -yes. In areas with no light pollution - not so much. In Ark Survival Evolved the devs did increase the gamma enough to see where the player is going.
@FireOccator it really depends where you are, I live in the middle of nowhere and I can see at night, it's only difficult in the trees 🤷♀️ the moon and stars are bright in areas with no light pollution and its not the same sickly glow of the city no but you can still see at least
I'm absolutely in love with Aberration, despite being directionally challenged, and I'm excited as hell that it's listed as Q4 of '23... I CANNOT wait to see what Ab looks like with this shit... And right now I'm about to get a 4090 and new monitor
You know, i kinda don't like that everything is so grassy and rocky. The game looks too green and bright. I prefer some of the greyish areas that we had.
@@Savoritas why else would they have a creature vote, if there not going to remake the map. Just read some of the community crunches and they say there remaking it
Cool video. Can you turn down the bloom without it being jarring like it was in ASE? Still looks blinding. Maybe even more so because of the mistiness.
It looks prettier in some aspects but dang, I miss the grayer rocks Dx Also is everything legit that foggy now? I remember the center being hated for so much fog!
the only thing I hate bout these visual changes is the fact that now the Island looks more désertique and it looks like a tame Scrorched Earth. Which I dislike because that's what was cool when you go to SE and see the huge climate differences. The OG Island looked like an oasis compare to SE dlc and that was the whole point but now they look alike. Also not mentioning about the terrible performances... A lot of people seem to not realise it's not even a brand new game yet it's the same story when OG ark was released in 2015. Just pathetic and incompetent from WC. So classic!
There’s a thin line drawn between a graphical update and a completely different map. I love all the changes asa has made, and despite the performance issues and problems going on with server ownership I absolutely love this game.
I've don't extensive testing on both ASE and ASA. ASA with everything set to medium manually except for global illumination and shadows set to epic or high looks better than ark ASE on Epic and ASA has better performance if comparing it visually. Ive played both in 4k with an rtx 4080 and 5800x3d cpu. They are going to optimize the game. They just need as many people as they can to get enough analytics and bugs as possible to fix. ASA will be better than ASE. But it is our duty to hold them to it.
i love so much of the new map, but i have to say im not sure i like the new stone colors. i liked the grey stone mixed with the vibrant green grass but iunderstand why it was changed
The remaster makes me happy. I started playing in 2018 so it's been a long time coming. Glad it's decent. But what sucks is you have to buy the new console to play it. But oh well still brings back the memories of official an how fun it was.
I really wish they would make the dinosaurs behaviors more historically accurate like herds attacking other Dino’s ext I’d like to see a heard of raptors in the wild or stegos fighting off a rex
@@XNoah52yeah but some of the behaivior in the old ark was trash like all kinds of carnivores ganging up attacking any herbivores on sight in the more dangerous bioms.
@@saikopsychiatry Aberration Map is like you are inside a house full of bush the Heck are you on about ? Its not even an open field , pretty sure you like boring things
@@THELIONMAN7 nah it has immersion and map design for days, not to mention being one of the only maps with a nearly fully linear layout and still working as an ark map. Not even mentioning the creatures
@@ryleelaking78826 years old GPU what did you expect ? Besides there has been updates that improve frame rate, friend on same card says it runs fine. It’s Early Access remember.
Looks great! Still not rebuying a game I already own for a graphical update, especially with how they’re handling servers. I love Ark but I just cannot stand by their most recent decisions.
I’m not saying it makes it worth buying but they also added alot of quality of life improvements like fixing the shitty building mechanics and adding wild baby Dinos that you can tame, theres more but those are the biggest ones
They recycle same objects, obv they won't be making 1000 varieties of same trees in a given area But i can agree on the fact that the trees needed heavy polishing and detail It looks so fake.
Is it well optimised? I remember playing ark when it came out and the optimisation was just so poor it genuinely just felt unenjoyable. If its improved significantly I might check it out
I dont know where I will set up my base in this new gorgeous version.. Every places look so good. I know a lot of you will set up your base in my previous location I mentioned but I won't because I need something new. 1:08 I remember this place being so ugly, like.. ugly, and now it looks like a little heaven's place. I might set up my base here, or not. We'll see
My specs are in the description, but I've got a 4070/ryzen 5600x/32gb RAM and this is high settings, it still needs a bit of juice but it's not too impossible thankfully.
It’s great but one thing I’ll say is the overseer room shouldn’t have had plants added to the floor. It makes the room look too full of nature, when it should be cold and lifeless.
With the exception of Final Fantasy 7, this has easily been the best remaster of a game ive seen in near 20 years. They outdid themselves with it, its just such a massive shame that Dino textures didnt get the same level of care, the water physic make it look more like a thick viscous slime than actual water, that its so hardware demanding that even systems with 3080s are struggling and most people dont have those systems, and then theres the server exclusivity and private server hosting being forbidden as well.
So, instead of, I don't know, fixing the many, many, MANY bugs and issues with the game, they just did a visual update? Sure, the game did look quite atrocious before, but I think visuals were one of the last things this game needed updates too. Now, the game is just a bloom-riddled nightmare that also has major gameplay issues.
There's a timestamp for some ocean clips for a sense of the darkness, but I also cut one extra comparison out because I literally couldn't see a single thing, on the one hand it really shows the extreme difference.. on the other it just looked like I forgot to actually put a clip in it was so dark
@@freynlives yeah I see it. That's actually scary. You can't see beyond like 3 meters. If an alpha mosa or tuso was lurking in there then my heart would literally jump out of me
It's so hard to see anything, way too cluttered. Good luck spotting spotting raptors or protecting a tame in those bushes. Everything is unrealistically foggy too, but I assume the fog can be turned down. The water doesn't look realistic either, just kinda prettier. The only thing that truly looks better imo is the human characters. And is it even guaranteed that every map will end up updated to Ascended? How much support will this game even get with Ark 2 coming out in a few years?
so is there actually a Gig/Carch stood waiting in the volcano all the time? i saw someone mention one was there in their playthrough, then its here in the pic too.
What a world of difference. People bitching about the $40 price for “graphics only” yet these people don’t understand the cost involved in remaking a game in a new engine this isn’t a drag and drop and export in 1 minute situation. When demons souls was remade for PS5 nobody was complaining about it costing $60 for “the same game but better graphics”.
Big fan of how instead of everything being grey and black it's actually vivid and saturated with color like an actual jungle island
Aye I'm happy with it! It's very reminiscent of Lost Island to me, and with that being my favourite map I have no complaints hehe
Imagine Genesis Part 1 and Aberration or the Lost Island and Fjordur when they come out!!!!
@@OVER-RANNUSlight will be bouncing off everything in ab
@@magic_manl2572I would hope there's a LARGE divide in what soaks light and what reflects it, as there kind of was in ASE
Well, yes that's reality
Love how it actually looks like a jungle island now
Right??
Yeah, it used to be like a rock with little trees
Obviously it's a night and day difference with the increased geometry and foliage on the cliffsides, but I'd also point out the extensive work on the tree billboards. I also particularly like the luminescence of the snow.
Not at all the fan of the changes to the megapithecus and dragon arenas.
I think that taking these shots is the only time I've actually seen that part of the Megapithecus arena, always ended up fighting it down the hill :D The Dragon doesn't look too different, but the lighting isn't as good - of course it's possible the storm is random but I've no idea.
Some areas you can barely tell they're the same place, others the changes are more subtle, but damn it looks pretty.
There actually aren't really any tree billboards. It's all nanite.
Yea with nanite you dont need tree billboards. its just trees that don't despawn with range. they just get less detailed the further away you move from them
@@HallyVee why not, I feel like they look better
1:08, that little mini island out there to the corner in where I first started playing when I was maybe 9 with my older brother. Right there on that tiny island in the right corner I has a thatch hut with a carno and so many dilos. I really miss playing with my brother and hearing the beginning of the ark song makes me think of those good days. Ark will always be held close to me as one of those special memories. I just wish I could play 1 more time on that world with him. My favorite memory was going into the cave not to far from him and seeing the lizards on the tip of cave walls and getting rabies.
I like the new rock colour but wish they kept it grey in certain areas.
Finally someone said exactly what my issue is
Yeah agreed. New colour fits jungle bits really well but in the mountains and redwoods etc it would have been nice to keep some greystone. Especially since the ruins are greystone still it seems.
@@juiy222 Thats what I was thinking. Mountains specifically, definitely the volcano, redwoods, the river just north of the redwoods, and carni island. Glad they kept grey in the snow though.
Yeah it doesn’t make sense that most stones are this yellowish
I get what everyone is saying about the rocks going from grey to a more sandstone colour. I think the sandstone looks good for beaches and stuff, but all they really need to do is change the colour of rocks the higher they are in the world. Not a hard thing to do with the power of UE5.
Other than that and a few other very minor colour and contrast issues. This looks amazing and is genuinely a well done remaster/remake. Especially when compared to other “remasters” that have come out in past few years…
This is a great comparison.
I still love the old water, they really did water well in the original release. The new water in Ascended is amazing though, and the underwater flora is supurb.
I hope they add some dramatic thunder and lightning to the rain and make some real storms.
You can Always dream
Nanite Foliage doing such a stellar job. You can really see the difference when you no longer have Trees LOD'ing all over the place and changing into billboards.
The atmospheric fog really sells the whole "Youre on a jungle island" vibe. All of the extra Foliage and LUMEN lighting really make the dense jungles feel so much more dangerous.
And the ocean is flippin terrifying holy shit!
My only issues so far are Lumen related sadly, shadows will often flicker or there'll be some artifacting around the character, and the brightness overall is a bit too much.
I know many aren't a fan of the fog but I agree that it really sells it, especially at a distance, turning the volumetric clouds/fog off leaves everything a bit too pristine for my liking
@@freynlives I can see how the volumetric atmosphere options are an issue with competitive play in particular. Id expect PVP mains to not like it cuz it restricts long range vision.
Idk if the lumen GI artifacts depend on driver support or hardware. Id imagine with less RT capable hardware you probably have much worse shadows and more artifacting
@@Bitt3rh0lz @freynlives Lumen uses something called Virtual Shadow Maps (VSM), which is a purely rasterized technique to achieve high-res (non-flickering) shadows without LOD popin (just like Nanite is a virtualized geometry system) but ASA to me doesn't seem to be using VSM. VSM can use RT for stuff like realistic sharpness scaling based on proximity to the shadow casting object but doesn't absolutely require RT-capable hardware. E.g. Fortnite uses software Lumen on the consoles.
Also Lumen artifacts are due to SSR/SSAO and can NOT realistically be fixed without straight up replacing Lumen with pure raytracing effects/pathtracing (or ugly, non-dynamic, inaccurate and low res last gen tech).
tl,dr: Studio Wildcard might not be done with their UE5 feature integration... or polish for the game in general.
the environment had a huge upgrade, but I feel like it highlighted the low quality models and animations of older creatures like the wooly rhino and carno which can be seen sliding around
I feel the same way, particularly about the animations.
yeah hopefully they are gona remaster some of the dinos too
They need to remodel them, and make them more in line with the 50% Accurate 50% Awesomebro that the new ones have (like Ark 2)
@@thomasfeinschliff1983thé heck you on about ? Not some but every dino i Hope
I was wondering why I didn't recognize any of it. Thought they would just recreate the exact same map, but add better graphics. This is pretty cool
Looks astonishing!!!! They changed the entire Island and made it look like an Island you can come across in the real world!! Can’t wait to play this game!!! And the Arenas look amazing!!!!
I just don't like how its all sandstone like on the old map the grey stone and not everything being oversaturated was really pleasing to the eye although in a lot of other shots it works great and looks great but I wish they keept the grey stone in some areas especially because in some shots you can't make out the river because of everything being yellow
I mean, each their preferences i guess. I really dislike the grey rocks, so i quite like the new, more vibrant look they gave it. Especially the water being more subtle is a huge improvement.
@@Houtblokje yeah I can see your point of view but for me it's just a thing of habit I'll get used to it
@@yoo7289 I really like the trees, and ocean because they are more life like but the rest look really movie like and unrealistic and kinda hurts my eyes, to a point when i saw the gameplay, I wasnt sure which map it was on
@@novablast1695 u prob just arent used to it and it also wont look like that if you have lower graphicxs
@@masterv1be815correct (potato laptop) but I still think that the saturation kinda looks weird lmao
Don’t get me wrong the game looks incredible and I definitely think it’s an improvement, BUT, everything kinda looks the same everywhere aside from the snow biome and red woods and maybe the beaches and I don’t really like the additions that were unnecessary like the massive rock at south 1 that basically gets rid of the whole beach there. My first words while playing this game were “I can’t even recognize where I am”. Which can be a good thing that means the map wasn’t reskined and wasn’t just a (ctrl c, ctrl v) scenario but being able to see some landmarks would have been fine with me, but now I can’t see anything in the jungle and there’s no open areas like there were before. But I’m just nitpicking a little but it is a real criticism I have against it but it’s not a dealbreaker I’m gonna play this game all the way through and do every dlc.
Tough balance to find really, it needs to be recognisable but not identical, I think they've done a decent job of it. The overall shape of the land is the same just not necessarily the same trees/rocks, the caves would've been the best places to restructure I think - either new locations or new layouts.
Agreed, balance is key. Denser vegetation is awesome but more open areas would contrast and be nicer.
i know that there are alot of people who really like the change of the more rocky areas going from grey to more sandstone colours but honestly im not a fan, they couldve kept the more inland areas more grey and stoney and the outer areas more sandstoney, also not a fan of the vibrancy of the leaves and just how bright they are, i feel sons of the forest did a great job of getting the colours just right, for a higher quality feel.
Ya I'm getting similar vibes. It feels like they dove headfirst into realism and sacrificed alot on ase's artistic style
Edit: don't get me wrong visually it's super pretty. I just feel like it looks a bit off ark wise
I agree. Everything looks samey in the new version. Stand in one spot and you've seen it all. Not enough contrast. Too bright. I feel like some of the mystery and fear is lost.
It's bright to almost resembling a fortnite map.. I feel like with a high tier GPU and optimized settings, even the original looked good. Users will have to tweak the visuals.
I disagree, I think this is a perfect upgrade. I just hope they can optimized it a bit more. I mean day 1 I was getting like 30 -40 fps then a major update happened now i can get 670 - 80 with a 3060ti and I7
Thank you for putting into words my odd feelings towards ASA
It's barely recognizable from the old. It's amazing.
Imagine if all maps get a rework like this. Unlikely to be all but at least a few.
Also what the hell is that Carch doing in front of the lava. Thinking about life?
About 5 seconds later it went and stood in the lava.... I guess that answers the question :(
@@freynlives oh. Oh no. So about the new Ai. What happened? Do creatures do anything out of the ordinary
@@Masterofhammersbelieve it or not the ai is significantly better than it used to be. A lot of dinos can get you if you run onto rocks. My guess is that the lava is just a glitch for now loll
If I'm not mistaken I heard they're doing all the maps
new AI is so intelligent it can become depressed and contemplate ending it all
1:43
The timing with the music is beautiful
I can’t wait to see what Aberration looks like! That with the newly upgraded building styles.. gonna look 🔥
why are the trees and leaves so static now? looks like im looking at a still model in ASA. the only thing thats moving are the flickery shadows but i dont know why when nothings moving.
they’re still moving just not as much
It's kind of overdone. Many spots lost their significance, so it all looks kind of the same. While the graphics are better, but how? Seems like they added a lot of fog, bloom, clutter and made everything brown. Hm...
Great work as always! I love how some places are completely unrecognizable. However, with most of that due to foliage or weather effects like fog/mist/etc. I'm curious how much scorched earth will change, not exactly a lot of foliage they can add to a desert map. Also I'm beyond hyped for Ab, Rag, and LI. They are going to be gorgeous. Imagine the marshlands on Ab? The highlands on Rag? or that jungle with about 3 or 4 waterfalls in the middle on lost island?(it always reminded me of a scene in Tarzan) Those are going to look sooo good.
Beamstalk! Not seen you for a bit :)
General terrain shape is the same but there's been some serious changes to the detailing, one of the mountains has a whole set of ruins and stairs running up the side (didn't notice until afterwards or I'd have included it!)
Extinction is the only map I'm not really expecting to be wowed by, due to the wasteland, but perhaps they'll surprise us!
@@freynlives Been watching all your videos, just haven't really felt the need to comment at times, thanks for always replying. Im sure the sunken forest, biome domes and city will still be a huge wow. I actually expect quite a bit for extinction. but with scorched earth assumedly being the next map to release, I'm curious how they are really going to wow the community with anything other than the fasolasuchus. Just doesn't seem like you can do much with a desert map. I guess time will tell though, I'm sure they've got something up their sleeve.
@@freynlives I noticed that while flying around, and was like, "uh... there's no way that was in the old map, I would have noticed that! wth?"
And Fjordur, best map in most regards !
Could use some color contrast and the new added structures are a bit odd, but absolutely gorgeous either way
Evolved - can see everything.
Ascended - can't see anything.
Lighting in ascended is a lot better. You can actually see at night without needing gamma
@@Cristian-et5bg The whole point of nighttime is that you can't see without light.
@@FireOccator in real life you can see at night though, I'm not saying ascended is perfect, but it's not realistic for it to be pitch black at night.. the lighting is definitely way better!
@@SmallSnailMarie In areas with light pollution -yes. In areas with no light pollution - not so much.
In Ark Survival Evolved the devs did increase the gamma enough to see where the player is going.
@FireOccator it really depends where you are, I live in the middle of nowhere and I can see at night, it's only difficult in the trees 🤷♀️ the moon and stars are bright in areas with no light pollution and its not the same sickly glow of the city no but you can still see at least
You're gonna grow like crazy! Keep up the good work
Thanks
I'm absolutely in love with Aberration, despite being directionally challenged, and I'm excited as hell that it's listed as Q4 of '23... I CANNOT wait to see what Ab looks like with this shit... And right now I'm about to get a 4090 and new monitor
You know, i kinda don't like that everything is so grassy and rocky. The game looks too green and bright. I prefer some of the greyish areas that we had.
over vegetation because that's all they can do to make it look "enhanced". Some artistry is needed too to get grey colored ocean walls and beaches
Man even the locations give so much nostalgia. I haven't played ark in forever but the map just looks so good
0:30 not me more focused on that random spino raging down in the right corner
Haha, that's all I could see while recording too XD
Been playing since 2015, didn't even know half of the actual in game names of these place
Looks great but I feel like they could dial down on the fog a bit😊😊
There's a popular setting to disable the volumetric clouds, mostly for FPS reasons. It makes the sky clear but also removes most of the mist too.
Turning down bloom helps reduce the intensity of the fog, it's still there it just doesn't glow so much.
The Center is going to be unrecognizable and I’m here for it
Wouldn't bet any horses on community maps being remade
@VANU_UNAV they literally had a creature vote for the center
@@AveryWebb37 How does that translate to a map remake?
@@Savoritas why else would they have a creature vote, if there not going to remake the map. Just read some of the community crunches and they say there remaking it
I'd wager a remake is why The Centre is NOT gonna be first mod map added to ASA, Ragnorak is slated to be first instead.
I love that you have more vision in the overseer arena now
Cool video. Can you turn down the bloom without it being jarring like it was in ASE? Still looks blinding. Maybe even more so because of the mistiness.
The snow biome is so much better and the sun doesn’t blind you
3:19
FINALLY RAIN WILL BE BEARABLEEEE
That water looks nice and warm.
The game is coming in November for all new gen consoles.
Nice! Now post specs needed to run both in 60fps :>
I am noticing a massive lack of dino's. did you wipe before each shot?
God can't wait to see what the other maps will look like
It looks prettier in some aspects but dang, I miss the grayer rocks Dx Also is everything legit that foggy now? I remember the center being hated for so much fog!
the only thing I hate bout these visual changes is the fact that now the Island looks more désertique and it looks like a tame Scrorched Earth. Which I dislike because that's what was cool when you go to SE and see the huge climate differences. The OG Island looked like an oasis compare to SE dlc and that was the whole point but now they look alike.
Also not mentioning about the terrible performances... A lot of people seem to not realise it's not even a brand new game yet it's the same story when OG ark was released in 2015. Just pathetic and incompetent from WC. So classic!
i like how the overseer arena is actually messed up like the overseer itself
Hopefully Dino’s get remodeled too 😅
They really went Thanos to all the big rocks lol
Are you planning to make the same style video for whenever any DLC maps release?
I'd like to yeah :)
@@freynlives Can't wait for them honestly
There’s a thin line drawn between a graphical update and a completely different map. I love all the changes asa has made, and despite the performance issues and problems going on with server ownership I absolutely love this game.
I've don't extensive testing on both ASE and ASA. ASA with everything set to medium manually except for global illumination and shadows set to epic or high looks better than ark ASE on Epic and ASA has better performance if comparing it visually. Ive played both in 4k with an rtx 4080 and 5800x3d cpu. They are going to optimize the game. They just need as many people as they can to get enough analytics and bugs as possible to fix. ASA will be better than ASE. But it is our duty to hold them to it.
Watching this on my phone and struggled with figuring out which was which 😅
i love so much of the new map, but i have to say im not sure i like the new stone colors. i liked the grey stone mixed with the vibrant green grass
but iunderstand why it was changed
objectively amazing. Still happy ase is still a standalone thing. wouldnt have wanted to lose it
nothing just the background song giving me nostalgia of old ARK with events like fear evovled,winter wonderlands etc🥲🥺🥺
Im so exited how the other Arks are gonna look like
Aberration will be mind blowing I sweat
@@petekiki9129when's that coming
@@devanarayans5131 December 31, I think, but take that with a grain of salt
The maps are not called arks
from being able to see shit to not being able to see shit what an improvement
That foliage in the swamp cave is gonna make it so much harder... the bugs and snakes will be practically invisible.
They added trees. Lots of trees. A gargantuan quantity of trees.
Great video, definitely helps determine if the game is worth buying.
Can’t wait to see how aberration looks
I dont like aberration its one of the most boring Map
@@THELIONMAN7 I personally think it’s the best map, far from boring compared to maps like the center
why is the music so quiet?
The remaster makes me happy. I started playing in 2018 so it's been a long time coming. Glad it's decent. But what sucks is you have to buy the new console to play it. But oh well still brings back the memories of official an how fun it was.
I really wish they would make the dinosaurs behaviors more historically accurate like herds attacking other Dino’s ext I’d like to see a heard of raptors in the wild or stegos fighting off a rex
Sir, have you played this game? Because heards of dinos do exist and they do attack eachother.
@@XNoah52 I played old ark not new
@@user-qc5te9wk1sdoesn't that, like, invalidate everything you just said?
@@XNoah52yeah but some of the behaivior in the old ark was trash like all kinds of carnivores ganging up attacking any herbivores on sight in the more dangerous bioms.
Changing the colour of majority of rocks from light gray to bright yellow was an AMAZING idea
This looks so beautiful
Im so fucking excited to see what they do with aberration.
I dont like aberration boring Map
@@THELIONMAN7 boring opinion smh, the single most fledged out map there is
@@saikopsychiatry Aberration Map is like you are inside a house full of bush the Heck are you on about ? Its not even an open field , pretty sure you like boring things
@@THELIONMAN7 nah it has immersion and map design for days, not to mention being one of the only maps with a nearly fully linear layout and still working as an ark map. Not even mentioning the creatures
Thanks for your time, looks good but feels like a desert, needs some rocks or grey or... it's not ok.
Visually looks amazing now let’s hope they fix performance and bugs left over from years old code 😅
I downloaded from steam and was unplayable had to refund I was getting like under 30.fps on medium settings at 1080p😊
@@ryleelaking7882what do you expect’s gonna happen with 4k graphics, you’re device just sucks
@@ryleelaking7882was it your specs?
@@ryleelaking78826 years old GPU what did you expect ? Besides there has been updates that improve frame rate, friend on same card says it runs fine. It’s Early Access remember.
Stop exagerating the Map graphics are decent not Amazing let alone the ps2 dinos that are still there
Epic!!!! Do a dino one please!
Looks great! Still not rebuying a game I already own for a graphical update, especially with how they’re handling servers. I love Ark but I just cannot stand by their most recent decisions.
I’m not saying it makes it worth buying but they also added alot of quality of life improvements like fixing the shitty building mechanics and adding wild baby Dinos that you can tame, theres more but those are the biggest ones
Ark survival apocalypse, really has that apocalyptic vibe
Honestly most games do these type of upgrades for free. Its the same exact game with the developer doing what they should have done for years.
This is a upgrade on another level
6:17 is so beautiful!
I think 02:05 is my favourite of the shots in this vid, although I've found some other really nice spots since!
Our best friend the island is completely different now... Looking good thoooo
I guess they were proud of their work on trees. They've put them about everywhere.
They recycle same objects, obv they won't be making 1000 varieties of same trees in a given area
But i can agree on the fact that the trees needed heavy polishing and detail
It looks so fake.
i love how it looks i dont like how my wallet look having to upgrade my pc for it to look this good
Is it well optimised?
I remember playing ark when it came out and the optimisation was just so poor it genuinely just felt unenjoyable. If its improved significantly I might check it out
Lost island is gonna look beyond incredible
The ocean actually looks dark like it should be
It’s amazing how good the island has been improved with its looks, really makes me think how the other maps will look with unreal engine 5
How yellow do you want the new game?
Developers: Yes.
Super cool of NASA to let you borrow a computer for this
I dont know where I will set up my base in this new gorgeous version.. Every places look so good.
I know a lot of you will set up your base in my previous location I mentioned but I won't because I need something new.
1:08 I remember this place being so ugly, like.. ugly, and now it looks like a little heaven's place. I might set up my base here, or not. We'll see
What the fuck am I supposed to run this on the nasa super computer?
My specs are in the description, but I've got a 4070/ryzen 5600x/32gb RAM and this is high settings, it still needs a bit of juice but it's not too impossible thankfully.
@@freynlives yea I am on a 4070 and can hold over 60fps with med-high settings and frame gen. Frame gen OP
The volumetric fog really helps some areas
there is way too much of it... every shot was full of fog
It’s great but one thing I’ll say is the overseer room shouldn’t have had plants added to the floor. It makes the room look too full of nature, when it should be cold and lifeless.
Now this is a world I want to spend my time in 😊
How can the change seem to be so drastic yet so small at the same time
think of it as minecraft with shaders on and off. Don't get me wrong they changed alot of the textures, but the lighting is whats selling it
So they wanted us to buy a new copy without updating the old 😅
Any chance you know coords of the Grand Hills River? I came to this vid for base locations 😅
IIRC it's about 45 LAT/25 LONG, just west of the Volcano :)
Thank you for your great work
It just looks gorgeous compared to evolved no doubt about it
ok!!!! we get it!!! how about gameplay comparison? it'll be a whole different story
With the exception of Final Fantasy 7, this has easily been the best remaster of a game ive seen in near 20 years. They outdid themselves with it, its just such a massive shame that Dino textures didnt get the same level of care, the water physic make it look more like a thick viscous slime than actual water, that its so hardware demanding that even systems with 3080s are struggling and most people dont have those systems, and then theres the server exclusivity and private server hosting being forbidden as well.
For me personally, there are too many trees now. It's nice to have this jungel feeling, but some more open areas would be nice.
So, instead of, I don't know, fixing the many, many, MANY bugs and issues with the game, they just did a visual update? Sure, the game did look quite atrocious before, but I think visuals were one of the last things this game needed updates too. Now, the game is just a bloom-riddled nightmare that also has major gameplay issues.
Can't wait to get a new graphics card just to run this without rocks that look like they're made of foam
"Same same .... but different"
Where did all the oil rocks go?!?!?!
I'd guess they've returned (rightfully) to the sea, but be damned if I can find them, it's incredibly dark down there
@@freynlives It's scary down there. I don't want to go down there.
How dark?
Because the angler fish could come in handy for that alot more
There's a timestamp for some ocean clips for a sense of the darkness, but I also cut one extra comparison out because I literally couldn't see a single thing, on the one hand it really shows the extreme difference.. on the other it just looked like I forgot to actually put a clip in it was so dark
@@freynlives yeah I see it. That's actually scary. You can't see beyond like 3 meters. If an alpha mosa or tuso was lurking in there then my heart would literally jump out of me
It's so hard to see anything, way too cluttered. Good luck spotting spotting raptors or protecting a tame in those bushes. Everything is unrealistically foggy too, but I assume the fog can be turned down. The water doesn't look realistic either, just kinda prettier. The only thing that truly looks better imo is the human characters.
And is it even guaranteed that every map will end up updated to Ascended? How much support will this game even get with Ark 2 coming out in a few years?
Can you get rid of the fog that just washes everything out?
so is there actually a Gig/Carch stood waiting in the volcano all the time? i saw someone mention one was there in their playthrough, then its here in the pic too.
Not all the time no haha, just a random spawn :) There isn't one there for me anymore
I freaking love the water. Wish i could buy it and run it at max settings.
What a world of difference.
People bitching about the $40 price for “graphics only” yet these people don’t understand the cost involved in remaking a game in a new engine this isn’t a drag and drop and export in 1 minute situation.
When demons souls was remade for PS5 nobody was complaining about it costing $60 for “the same game but better graphics”.
Looks amazing but the hardware required is simply absurd, plus all the props popping