The cluster I used to play on already moving to ASA, I decided to sink with their ASE cluster and start playing on Single Player since I already got the DLCs and have more freedom since I’m not on a weekly schedule to do upkeeps so things don’t decay or get claimed by randoms. I do think ASE should have been worked on more instead of jumping the gun to “rebrand” as ASA. Currently they haven’t fixed issues where survivors may get completely deleted when ascending on some maps such as Aberration and Extinction, especially if your on single player (lost quite a few characters from it), Reloading a crossbow or longneck may not automatically happen as you fire it resulting having to swap it out then back to your hand to get the reload, and some of the taming (like Noglins (even when they “fixed” it)) not properly working, and game just crashing as soon as you leave a server/single player game to the main menu screen. Could definitely be more issues they could of easily improved on before rebranding since they basically left a “early access game” unfinished to only rebrand with an exact copy with slightly better graphics that has all the same issues and more. I just don’t find ASA relevant, especially when you look at their publishers who are probably using Ark as a crutch and try to get them out of their crippling debt. Even with micro transactions it just looks less like the ARK players loved and more like a desperate cash grab to try and stay afloat all cause of 1 publisher’s terrible (and very idiotic) choices. Wild Card could of been in better hands if things were to play slightly differently in the past but they may wind up dragged down by the very people that bought them, potentially to never to get Ark back up to its former self.
11k hours in ASE, 500 into ASA. I find the current version is just a reskinned version of ase. All the same little glitches are there plus a whole lot more. It's more about surviving the developers' poor work. "Die nerb boy die!" All the best, ty for the content
Even funnier, I've heard that Ascended's new creatures--at least the free ones like Gigantoraptor and Fasolasuchus--are going to be modded into Evolved, and it wouldn't be hard for a modder to create their own discount version of the oasisaur either. Evolved will live forever.
@@Nerdboy81 It's not in Wildcard's hands anymore. Snail Games is afflicted by the modern art-killing plague that is insatiable hunger for money and they don't care where their money comes from. Anyways, it's irrelevant since there are still so many servers online and anyone can host one exactly how they want it, even making them the same as how the official ones were if they want. Personally I enjoy playing and replaying fun games casually, so I prefer settings that don't require me to wait for hours/days/weeks because of all those ridicoulously long taming/mating/breeding timers, so official settings have always been tedious to me, especially if playing solo.
"I assume they're working feverishly to get the game out." Studio Wildcard: *counting their money* Oh. Yeah. We're totally on it. Totally. *continues to count their money*
Like you said veteran players, how have more hours then even me, they have done everything once on the island and most have already do it in ASA and are getting board. For me its the bugs that were fixed in ASE, but are back or worse in ASA. I have a I9 with a NVIDIA 4070 ti and have to downgrade my graphics, and still go into admin commands to turn off settings, and I still crash. I just recently went back to ASE Steam to see what its like to play on PC and not console.
clear indication of recycled code. not ground up rebuild. they transferred the bugs too! lol. so lame. now i can say its a cash grab for sure. ev company?
I agree on your remarks. You hold the torch for those to see what clean content looks like. Thats the kind of world i want to live in. Your the man mr nerdboy. God bless 😊
It was all SnailGames doing, not Wildcard. Wildcard originally wanted to have ASA a free "upgrade" while the tested UE5 for ARK 2. Snailgames got money hungry and forced everything that happened. Look at their financial reports since ASA was announced last year.
A lot of us lost interest in the new ark. After being on a steam server from the beginning, I had 4 imprinted dinos as a base I kept hidden. As the alpha tribe just kept wiping everything and no amount of turrets did anything. Anyway, 1 man on an argie came and killed my 50k hp brontos, by just sitting outside the hit box and attacking their head. I managed to kill him when he started his attack, get my rex and start chomping on his argie. Game crashed, came back in, lost 2 brontos when it eventually loaded in and his onslaught kept coming. Couldn't be bothered after that
Maps is a must but I think asa is ok gives you a chance to experience ark the way it should ha e been and that performance mod makes a. World of difference when you streaming again
I think that is spot on....and they know it...just looking at the mods and stuff....They are doing everything they can to have content....But the roadmap has a big stretch again after ASE till the next drop. We will see what happens.
I've been playing ark for 4 years now. I love this game, truly no other game does what ark does. But your 100% accurate with your assessment of the games' current state. Honestly, they should have left this game in the oven to cook for a bit longer. The QOL changes only go so far to keep the game😊 engaging. I hope they can start turning this around. And it's gotta be soon.
I'm probably not the average ARK-player but I think they should get a few official Hardcore-servers out. It's the only mode where it's hard and realistic enough to largely prevent cheaters and large tribes to abuse smaller actors on the server. If they've managed to stop one account from having multiple characters in the upload and perhaps made it so you even only can make one character per Xbox you own, then nobody can attach or raid you without taking a great risk (even if you cheat or use exploits). Eventually the dominant tribe on a server become untouchable, but in true hardcore noone is untouchable.
I think you're too optimistic, especially as you note the exact same issues with ASE are in ASA AND more issues. Microtransaction packs that are clearly pay to win, and all the other issues mentioned PLUS the situation with so many other new survival games and doesnt incentivize players to play/return to Ark. They relied on mods and modders before but the faith based thinking, EA excusing for issues(again 8+ years issues shifted to ASA from ASE is not able to be dismissed by being in EA), etc types of enabling and giving Snail/Wildcard a pass needs to stop. There's just simply no right way to defend the wrong thing at this point.
To me, it seems like Wildcard themselves don't have the best people for the job. Snail Games is one thing, but the actual product is made by Wildcard. And that involves the managers at Wildcard + the devs. It's just not in a good state, be it on the performance side of things or the content. As you mentioned, RDR2 was made for last gen and it has better graphics + runs SO much better. Yes, Rockstar is way bigger than Wildcard and has way more resources, but Wildcard themselves have been in the game since 2015 and they have made over a billion across their Ark franchise.
The graphics are a good point that I've made to some of my friends. From what I've seen, Ascended honestly doesn't look better by any reasonable margin than some games that are on the older side now, such as Crytek's current flagship Hunt: Showdown; or, as you mentioned, Red Dead Redemption II (yes, I like cowboy shit so those are the examples I'm using). Snail was INCREDIBLY irresponsible with their finances and are paying the price for it by forcing a game that shouldn't exist. Ascended was supposed to be a completely free upgrade wherein Wildcard would have been able to develop and refine it at a more relaxed pace. It's no wonder that people are still playing Evolved when this remake is a half-baked nothing-burger by comparison. Worst of all, circling back to the graphical issues, Ascended is physically unplayable by a large portion of the ARK playerbase because of it's ridiculous hardware requirements. People with substantial PC setups are having difficulty running the game, so why bother when Evolved still runs fine? I am happy for all of the people who can run Ascended but they need to understand that this experience is extremely unfair for a lot of us, and not pretend there isn't a problem just because it's fine for them. To top it all off, Wildcard and Snail failed at transparency throughout most of the Ascended ordeal last year which exacerbated all of their issues. They are not even releasing their creature contest winners in the right order, pushing Gigantoraptor out with The Center instead of with the map it was voted for; and there's been zero word on the Shastasaurus we voted in for The Center. They've been extremely dishonest to their community from the get-go and they deserve every consequence they get.
From what I have seen, ASE has way more players than ASA, nobody wants to play a buggy version of an older game. New graphics do not mean anything when there are way less features. I played from 2016, and from what I have seen it's the same Ark and I mean that in the worst way, what the hell have they been doing and where has everything they have learnt gone? Sure they had to redo the code and the game, but they had a framework to copy from and knew about the bugs from their own notes. Did they just scrap everything and go from fresh. And I think everyone is just more interested in Palworld now, is a similar game but just Ark with Pokémon. And the EA runs a lot better than most I have played and definetly better than ASA, the graphics look nice maybe a bit cartoon but I don't need top of the line specs to run it. I love Ark I really do, I enjoy ASE and how much fun it can be and the effort to put into making and crafting. But I honestly will not buy ASA while I have ASE. ASE is just better in every way. ASA is a good promise, but with what they have currently, I wont be paying to play that. And if they decide to scrap it me and my friends play on our own hosted server anyway, so we don't even need WC anymore at that point. Maybe I am a little heavy handed but it's just like the meme I feel currently "look how they massacred my boy!"
I agree....Its hard to want to play a game with bugs and crashes. They may have been better using the ASE framework and creating a new map, while porting over the old maps.
I'm in agreement with many when they state that Wild Card probably shouldn't have promised all the maps be ported to ASA.....the lack of truly new content is part of why people have stepped away from the game. Great video my dude! Keep it up!
I wish they would of just created a new map, launched ASA with it, and then ported over the old maps...It would of had longer staying power...now we all wait for content and not sure it will be enough.
Thats a great question....Probably will be ASA once everything releases. But right now....Maybe ASE....But again just depends on the content that is to come.
Personally for me i want to go play beginner servers in ark evolved not many people can run state of the art unreal engine 5 even when server transfers come and even when that other map comes out i wont install again ascendet.
I totally agree. I think that this game is not bad, but they definitely rushed it, and ark2 is definitely not being released for at least 3 more years, which is sad. I don’t think it’ll ever release. I mean I personally don’t care for the number count only cause I have fun playing with my gf and friends in a locker server, so to me it’s fine. To anyone else I’m sorry for you all haha
I wish it was better optimized. I play on a 4070ti with a intel i9 14900k and I still run out of video memory. I cant run epic settings. Its a bit ridiculous. I suffer tons of crashes even with 64gb ddr5 ram, samsung 960 pro memory, and a direct connection to blazing fast fiber optic internet.
I haven't been able to play Palworld saddly. Hoping it gets on GFN at somepoint so I can play myself. (I tried the Gamepass but doesn't support Key board and mouse. So thats not happening.) That being SAID...2 things that would improve ASA for me for starters. 1 put mods on Steam Workshop! I have been playing ASA through GFN cause my PC can't handle it. But cause of that I have to Reinstall the mods I use. Meaning I gotta remember what Mods I used and install them before firing up the next session. (Not fun! Its annoying!) 2. The Nitrado Exclusive has to end. Let other hosts rent servers cause thats how I have been playing ASE as it works well for me. Sense I now use GFN I can't really change the INI settings which is needed to edit some Mod settings. However using a server host and editing the Mods and Settings that way it takes all the hassle out and both my servers are set. Just those two things for me is whats keeping me playing ASE then ASA. Fire up GFN, wait for all my mods to install cause steam remembers what mods I have, and play the server I want to play on. Simple! Done! PS Sense Playing with GFN I have been able to play with mods I was unable to but now I can. So thats a nice and adds to me sticking to ASE now.😀🦖
It is pretty much a streamer service for games. Let's you play like high end or demanding games on your PC even if it's not the best. By having the game run on a more higher end rig. Plus you don't need the game installed on your own PC for it to work. The game just has to be in their library. Which is why I'm hoping Palworld is added. Been playing ASE on high settings with some demanding mods on high settings through the service and its been great. Just need good internet. As for the controller. I used to play alot of console myself. However after my sister introduced me to Wow during Cata I switched to PC and never went back to console. Trying to pick up a controller again but my muscle memory for it from years ago has left me. So keyboard and mouse has been my more comfortable way to game.
Greed & neglect Played ASE for years, they told us about the closing servers too early. I left when I first heard it was moving to ASA but nothing could be brought with us...even though I imagine one of the community modders could of worked their magic if WC left ASE servers on for a little bit of a crossover period 🤷 I thought great, it needs a fresh coat & improvements why not pay for the experience. The flip flop before it was even finished saying stuff about cost & bundles with ark2 then flip floppy floperoo they lost the plot at that point. Scrambling to fix statements & comments not being statements 🤦 then they go quiet & not much till drop of ASA but on Xbox show exclusive but not available on Xbox 😅 I don't write it well enough to portray how messy the whole thing was from get go & the broken promises they hope we forgot I will still play ark from time to time but only to try & support mod development because the modders & players are the true heart & soul of ark
Its well said...and I agree....It is really hard to convey the frustration in words and comments to the challenges they created for the fans and themselves.
ASA is like a Brontosaurus, slowly but surely moving towards the goal, maybe in a few years when today's top devices and graphics become more commonplace
How much dissapointed i am by this game, waiting for them to fix ping and add beginner servers i cant even go back on ark evolved to play beginner servers because they removed all the servers there.
what is there to play, u go to offical servers small tribes u find 3 people that have duped since begining they have one cheater in their team and you are the fourth player in the entire server, that has 300 ping on a regional server so u tell me what is there left to play, can they just bring back ark evolved servers im gonna get back playing beginner servers with my wife there.
@@Nerdboy81 ikr. They are saying with the new custom player made cosmetics its increasingly difficult. Well... nake them non-transferable and figure it out later... like element and tributes can't transfer... Many players probably won't care. You can recreate a different outfit for each map! Lol.
It is a pretty game on the Xbox but it could be better and I've been having save problems and my saved game has been lost twice now and makes me almost not want to play it
@@Nerdboy81 yeah, at times the sky does look like an oil painting, but at least ASA doesn't have the weird bugs my ASE had, and I love being able to use mods.
i totaly agree with the overall comments about the release and consequent releases of both updates and dlc. it was rushed, but in some ways the player base didn't help with the constant nagging and moaning about the lack of release dates wanting the now now now experience. but you are also right that they needed the money to keep their business going and they needed it for the release of ark 2. but they chose badly flawed business plans, especially making nitrado an exclusive server outlet, not optimizing the console releases and stretching out the release of already utilized maps. while it has many quality of life upgrades and modding capabilities, like you im not overly impressed at this time. i am hopeful it improves over time as when it first released (and here is were i disagree a little with some of the older players) it was an empty bug filled experience that slowly became something of an impressive game over a stretch of time. to do a remaster (which is essentially what asa is) should not be as bad as its initial start and to be fair it hasn't been, but it also should not be dragging its feet for the length of time they are reporting. now the real issue is can they keep going when they are indeed not going to gain what they want/need for their business plan. that is may main worry. i still enjoy playing and waiting patiently for the other maps as there still aren't many games that compare with the nature of arks survival elements on console and that is where most of my gaming is done these days. i am not blind to the fact there are many choices to be had on pc, i just wished they would release more of these on BOTH console formats but that wouldn't help ark ascended any 😏
The cluster I used to play on already moving to ASA, I decided to sink with their ASE cluster and start playing on Single Player since I already got the DLCs and have more freedom since I’m not on a weekly schedule to do upkeeps so things don’t decay or get claimed by randoms. I do think ASE should have been worked on more instead of jumping the gun to “rebrand” as ASA. Currently they haven’t fixed issues where survivors may get completely deleted when ascending on some maps such as Aberration and Extinction, especially if your on single player (lost quite a few characters from it), Reloading a crossbow or longneck may not automatically happen as you fire it resulting having to swap it out then back to your hand to get the reload, and some of the taming (like Noglins (even when they “fixed” it)) not properly working, and game just crashing as soon as you leave a server/single player game to the main menu screen. Could definitely be more issues they could of easily improved on before rebranding since they basically left a “early access game” unfinished to only rebrand with an exact copy with slightly better graphics that has all the same issues and more.
I just don’t find ASA relevant, especially when you look at their publishers who are probably using Ark as a crutch and try to get them out of their crippling debt. Even with micro transactions it just looks less like the ARK players loved and more like a desperate cash grab to try and stay afloat all cause of 1 publisher’s terrible (and very idiotic) choices. Wild Card could of been in better hands if things were to play slightly differently in the past but they may wind up dragged down by the very people that bought them, potentially to never to get Ark back up to its former self.
I agree...It was clearly a situation where they had to get it out to get the money. They seem to make some silly mistakes.
11k hours in ASE, 500 into ASA. I find the current version is just a reskinned version of ase. All the same little glitches are there plus a whole lot more. It's more about surviving the developers' poor work. "Die nerb boy die!" All the best, ty for the content
def not a ground up rebuild is it? same issues transferred over. lol
LOL!!! surviving the developers poor work....AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Thats hilarious!
The real game has always been better. I'll never play ASA. Long live Ark Survival Evolved.
Agreed!!! I will not pay for this game 2x. Skyrim got me already😅
And that's saying a LOT
Even funnier, I've heard that Ascended's new creatures--at least the free ones like Gigantoraptor and Fasolasuchus--are going to be modded into Evolved, and it wouldn't be hard for a modder to create their own discount version of the oasisaur either. Evolved will live forever.
Considering how many people feel this way, its a shame they shut down the offical servers.
@@Nerdboy81 It's not in Wildcard's hands anymore. Snail Games is afflicted by the modern art-killing plague that is insatiable hunger for money and they don't care where their money comes from.
Anyways, it's irrelevant since there are still so many servers online and anyone can host one exactly how they want it, even making them the same as how the official ones were if they want.
Personally I enjoy playing and replaying fun games casually, so I prefer settings that don't require me to wait for hours/days/weeks because of all those ridicoulously long taming/mating/breeding timers, so official settings have always been tedious to me, especially if playing solo.
"I assume they're working feverishly to get the game out."
Studio Wildcard: *counting their money* Oh. Yeah. We're totally on it. Totally. *continues to count their money*
*Snail Games
LoL....Unfortunately....Doesn't seem like they have that much money to count these days.
Like you said veteran players, how have more hours then even me, they have done everything once on the island and most have already do it in ASA and are getting board.
For me its the bugs that were fixed in ASE, but are back or worse in ASA.
I have a I9 with a NVIDIA 4070 ti and have to downgrade my graphics, and still go into admin commands to turn off settings, and I still crash.
I just recently went back to ASE Steam to see what its like to play on PC and not console.
clear indication of recycled code. not ground up rebuild. they transferred the bugs too! lol. so lame. now i can say its a cash grab for sure. ev company?
Yeah they clearly did not rebuild it. Its a shame...I hold out hope it gets better...not holding my breath though.
I agree on your remarks. You hold the torch for those to see what clean content looks like. Thats the kind of world i want to live in. Your the man mr nerdboy. God bless
😊
Thanks!
It was all SnailGames doing, not Wildcard. Wildcard originally wanted to have ASA a free "upgrade" while the tested UE5 for ARK 2. Snailgames got money hungry and forced everything that happened. Look at their financial reports since ASA was announced last year.
Yeah Snail games is really in bad shape financially and ASA did not help like they thought it would.
Answer is simple, release more maps. How many months can we play on one map we have had for years.
Right!! But the rushed the game out to get that Nitrado money and now they are playing catch up.
A lot of us lost interest in the new ark. After being on a steam server from the beginning, I had 4 imprinted dinos as a base I kept hidden. As the alpha tribe just kept wiping everything and no amount of turrets did anything. Anyway, 1 man on an argie came and killed my 50k hp brontos, by just sitting outside the hit box and attacking their head. I managed to kill him when he started his attack, get my rex and start chomping on his argie. Game crashed, came back in, lost 2 brontos when it eventually loaded in and his onslaught kept coming. Couldn't be bothered after that
That sounds terrible....Yeah I like single player for these main reasons.
Maps is a must but I think asa is ok gives you a chance to experience ark the way it should ha e been and that performance mod makes a. World of difference when you streaming again
The plan is this monday again. 5:30mst.
Broken game, bad decisions, incoming microtransactions = I’d rather play Palworld.
I have Palworld loaded up...just need to find time to hit go!
I've been playing for 2 years. If they want to save ASA, add more maps. I've gone back to ASE just for content.
I think that is spot on....and they know it...just looking at the mods and stuff....They are doing everything they can to have content....But the roadmap has a big stretch again after ASE till the next drop. We will see what happens.
I've been playing ark for 4 years now. I love this game, truly no other game does what ark does. But your 100% accurate with your assessment of the games' current state. Honestly, they should have left this game in the oven to cook for a bit longer. The QOL changes only go so far to keep the game😊 engaging. I hope they can start turning this around. And it's gotta be soon.
Spot on. Hopefully it starts moving in the right direction!
I'm probably not the average ARK-player but I think they should get a few official Hardcore-servers out. It's the only mode where it's hard and realistic enough to largely prevent cheaters and large tribes to abuse smaller actors on the server. If they've managed to stop one account from having multiple characters in the upload and perhaps made it so you even only can make one character per Xbox you own, then nobody can attach or raid you without taking a great risk (even if you cheat or use exploits). Eventually the dominant tribe on a server become untouchable, but in true hardcore noone is untouchable.
I never play online so I can't comment much but it sounds like a good idea.
I think you're too optimistic, especially as you note the exact same issues with ASE are in ASA AND more issues. Microtransaction packs that are clearly pay to win, and all the other issues mentioned PLUS the situation with so many other new survival games and doesnt incentivize players to play/return to Ark. They relied on mods and modders before but the faith based thinking, EA excusing for issues(again 8+ years issues shifted to ASA from ASE is not able to be dismissed by being in EA), etc types of enabling and giving Snail/Wildcard a pass needs to stop. There's just simply no right way to defend the wrong thing at this point.
I try to take a positive approach, but it is getting harder with ASA these days.
@@Nerdboy81 Just present it. Negative or positive then is left to the viewer.
To me, it seems like Wildcard themselves don't have the best people for the job. Snail Games is one thing, but the actual product is made by Wildcard. And that involves the managers at Wildcard + the devs. It's just not in a good state, be it on the performance side of things or the content.
As you mentioned, RDR2 was made for last gen and it has better graphics + runs SO much better. Yes, Rockstar is way bigger than Wildcard and has way more resources, but Wildcard themselves have been in the game since 2015 and they have made over a billion across their Ark franchise.
I am probably the most disappointed in the optimization of the game.
great review keep it up and you got a place in the gaming community review world.
Thanks!!! That is nice to hear!
The graphics are a good point that I've made to some of my friends. From what I've seen, Ascended honestly doesn't look better by any reasonable margin than some games that are on the older side now, such as Crytek's current flagship Hunt: Showdown; or, as you mentioned, Red Dead Redemption II (yes, I like cowboy shit so those are the examples I'm using).
Snail was INCREDIBLY irresponsible with their finances and are paying the price for it by forcing a game that shouldn't exist. Ascended was supposed to be a completely free upgrade wherein Wildcard would have been able to develop and refine it at a more relaxed pace. It's no wonder that people are still playing Evolved when this remake is a half-baked nothing-burger by comparison.
Worst of all, circling back to the graphical issues, Ascended is physically unplayable by a large portion of the ARK playerbase because of it's ridiculous hardware requirements. People with substantial PC setups are having difficulty running the game, so why bother when Evolved still runs fine? I am happy for all of the people who can run Ascended but they need to understand that this experience is extremely unfair for a lot of us, and not pretend there isn't a problem just because it's fine for them.
To top it all off, Wildcard and Snail failed at transparency throughout most of the Ascended ordeal last year which exacerbated all of their issues. They are not even releasing their creature contest winners in the right order, pushing Gigantoraptor out with The Center instead of with the map it was voted for; and there's been zero word on the Shastasaurus we voted in for The Center. They've been extremely dishonest to their community from the get-go and they deserve every consequence they get.
Agree with it all. Bad optimization, bad management = angry fans.
From what I have seen, ASE has way more players than ASA, nobody wants to play a buggy version of an older game. New graphics do not mean anything when there are way less features.
I played from 2016, and from what I have seen it's the same Ark and I mean that in the worst way, what the hell have they been doing and where has everything they have learnt gone? Sure they had to redo the code and the game, but they had a framework to copy from and knew about the bugs from their own notes. Did they just scrap everything and go from fresh.
And I think everyone is just more interested in Palworld now, is a similar game but just Ark with Pokémon. And the EA runs a lot better than most I have played and definetly better than ASA, the graphics look nice maybe a bit cartoon but I don't need top of the line specs to run it.
I love Ark I really do, I enjoy ASE and how much fun it can be and the effort to put into making and crafting. But I honestly will not buy ASA while I have ASE. ASE is just better in every way.
ASA is a good promise, but with what they have currently, I wont be paying to play that.
And if they decide to scrap it me and my friends play on our own hosted server anyway, so we don't even need WC anymore at that point.
Maybe I am a little heavy handed but it's just like the meme I feel currently "look how they massacred my boy!"
I agree....Its hard to want to play a game with bugs and crashes. They may have been better using the ASE framework and creating a new map, while porting over the old maps.
I'm in agreement with many when they state that Wild Card probably shouldn't have promised all the maps be ported to ASA.....the lack of truly new content is part of why people have stepped away from the game. Great video my dude! Keep it up!
I wish they would of just created a new map, launched ASA with it, and then ported over the old maps...It would of had longer staying power...now we all wait for content and not sure it will be enough.
It is going to be rough@@Nerdboy81 That being said, I'm prepping for a series on ASE for my YT channel to go with an ASA series lol
ASA Or ASE With ALL dls maps?
Which is better in Ps5
Thats a great question....Probably will be ASA once everything releases. But right now....Maybe ASE....But again just depends on the content that is to come.
Personally for me i want to go play beginner servers in ark evolved not many people can run state of the art unreal engine 5 even when server transfers come and even when that other map comes out i wont install again ascendet.
My PC can't run it. Not even close. only chance is on Xbox.
The devs suck. Palworld is mre playable and they only had a 10k budget
Its on my list to play!!!
I totally agree. I think that this game is not bad, but they definitely rushed it, and ark2 is definitely not being released for at least 3 more years, which is sad. I don’t think it’ll ever release. I mean I personally don’t care for the number count only cause I have fun playing with my gf and friends in a locker server, so to me it’s fine. To anyone else I’m sorry for you all haha
Yeah I don't think Ark 2 is really every going to happen....unless something changes at Snail (purchased, bankrupt, etc)
I wish it was better optimized. I play on a 4070ti with a intel i9 14900k and I still run out of video memory. I cant run epic settings. Its a bit ridiculous. I suffer tons of crashes even with 64gb ddr5 ram, samsung 960 pro memory, and a direct connection to blazing fast fiber optic internet.
That is really sad to hear.....That has got to be there biggest issue...it needs to be optimized better.
I will not be buying ASA. I'll just stay on ASE
That seems like a wise decision...maybe 5-6 maps from now they will have this all worked out...maybe.
I haven't been able to play Palworld saddly. Hoping it gets on GFN at somepoint so I can play myself. (I tried the Gamepass but doesn't support Key board and mouse. So thats not happening.) That being SAID...2 things that would improve ASA for me for starters. 1 put mods on Steam Workshop! I have been playing ASA through GFN cause my PC can't handle it. But cause of that I have to Reinstall the mods I use. Meaning I gotta remember what Mods I used and install them before firing up the next session. (Not fun! Its annoying!) 2. The Nitrado Exclusive has to end. Let other hosts rent servers cause thats how I have been playing ASE as it works well for me. Sense I now use GFN I can't really change the INI settings which is needed to edit some Mod settings. However using a server host and editing the Mods and Settings that way it takes all the hassle out and both my servers are set. Just those two things for me is whats keeping me playing ASE then ASA. Fire up GFN, wait for all my mods to install cause steam remembers what mods I have, and play the server I want to play on. Simple! Done! PS Sense Playing with GFN I have been able to play with mods I was unable to but now I can. So thats a nice and adds to me sticking to ASE now.😀🦖
GFN? What is that? I am a console guy so I am pretty used to controllers. 3
It is pretty much a streamer service for games. Let's you play like high end or demanding games on your PC even if it's not the best. By having the game run on a more higher end rig. Plus you don't need the game installed on your own PC for it to work. The game just has to be in their library. Which is why I'm hoping Palworld is added. Been playing ASE on high settings with some demanding mods on high settings through the service and its been great. Just need good internet. As for the controller. I used to play alot of console myself. However after my sister introduced me to Wow during Cata I switched to PC and never went back to console. Trying to pick up a controller again but my muscle memory for it from years ago has left me. So keyboard and mouse has been my more comfortable way to game.
GFN = GeForce Now
plemty of frame stutters on ps5 as well. l am tbh. almost to the point i would rather evolved just with fixed gameplay.
Yeah I am finding myself enjoying scorched earth on ASE better then ASA...I think it still looks good on ASE.
Greed & neglect
Played ASE for years, they told us about the closing servers too early. I left when I first heard it was moving to ASA but nothing could be brought with us...even though I imagine one of the community modders could of worked their magic if WC left ASE servers on for a little bit of a crossover period 🤷
I thought great, it needs a fresh coat & improvements why not pay for the experience. The flip flop before it was even finished saying stuff about cost & bundles with ark2 then flip floppy floperoo they lost the plot at that point. Scrambling to fix statements & comments not being statements 🤦 then they go quiet & not much till drop of ASA but on Xbox show exclusive but not available on Xbox 😅
I don't write it well enough to portray how messy the whole thing was from get go & the broken promises they hope we forgot
I will still play ark from time to time but only to try & support mod development because the modders & players are the true heart & soul of ark
Its well said...and I agree....It is really hard to convey the frustration in words and comments to the challenges they created for the fans and themselves.
at least it aint no star citizen in that regard. but atm.. im in the same lifeboat. abandoning ship!
I agree....I am loosing some faith.
cant stand the slow servers and getting booted 12 times a session either.
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ASA is like a Brontosaurus, slowly but surely moving towards the goal, maybe in a few years when today's top devices and graphics become more commonplace
Thats a great analogy. LOL.
How much dissapointed i am by this game, waiting for them to fix ping and add beginner servers i cant even go back on ark evolved to play beginner servers because they removed all the servers there.
Its really frustrating...
what is there to play, u go to offical servers small tribes u find 3 people that have duped since begining they have one cheater in their team and you are the fourth player in the entire server, that has 300 ping on a regional server so u tell me what is there left to play, can they just bring back ark evolved servers im gonna get back playing beginner servers with my wife there.
Yeah...I just play single player at this point.
And we NEED transfers so we can bring back clustered servers.
I heard it was delayed again...that's unfortunate. hopefully soon!
@@Nerdboy81 ikr. They are saying with the new custom player made cosmetics its increasingly difficult. Well... nake them non-transferable and figure it out later... like element and tributes can't transfer... Many players probably won't care. You can recreate a different outfit for each map! Lol.
It is a pretty game on the Xbox but it could be better and I've been having save problems and my saved game has been lost twice now and makes me almost not want to play it
Had save problems on Xbox too, but turning Dino spawns down to 0.75 instead of 1 has helped me.
I have been lucky....so far....at times the game looks great, other times not so much.
@@Nerdboy81 yeah, at times the sky does look like an oil painting, but at least ASA doesn't have the weird bugs my ASE had, and I love being able to use mods.
Mods are the best part of it
Mods are definitely nice, especially for someone like me who loves building.
you are not running ASA on Xbox in 4k true LUL
Well its running at its top resolution.
i totaly agree with the overall comments about the release and consequent releases of both updates and dlc. it was rushed, but in some ways the player base didn't help with the constant nagging and moaning about the lack of release dates wanting the now now now experience. but you are also right that they needed the money to keep their business going and they needed it for the release of ark 2. but they chose badly flawed business plans, especially making nitrado an exclusive server outlet, not optimizing the console releases and stretching out the release of already utilized maps. while it has many quality of life upgrades and modding capabilities, like you im not overly impressed at this time. i am hopeful it improves over time as when it first released (and here is were i disagree a little with some of the older players) it was an empty bug filled experience that slowly became something of an impressive game over a stretch of time. to do a remaster (which is essentially what asa is) should not be as bad as its initial start and to be fair it hasn't been, but it also should not be dragging its feet for the length of time they are reporting. now the real issue is can they keep going when they are indeed not going to gain what they want/need for their business plan. that is may main worry. i still enjoy playing and waiting patiently for the other maps as there still aren't many games that compare with the nature of arks survival elements on console and that is where most of my gaming is done these days. i am not blind to the fact there are many choices to be had on pc, i just wished they would release more of these on BOTH console formats but that wouldn't help ark ascended any 😏
ASA was rushed to get out and because of that the player base has been left the a buggy, prettier version of an old game.