The woods are so much scarier now... A bronto litterally got my heart pumping because I couldn't see what it was... all I saw was a tail and the trees moving
i personally really like the yellow-ish color pallete, it makes it more tropical and the tall grass really feels like real jungle, cuz thats what the island was intended to be: a jungle island with some snow in the north :) nice video
Completely agree. I also really love the tall grass and heavy foliage. I feel like it makes the dino's more intimidating because they could be lurking anywhere. I only play PVE though so I'd imagine the grass is frustrating for PVP players
@@damiancatchingzs Its the Lumen lighting of UE5 bouncing off the rock textures and sand. If you were in a white room with sand colored tinted glass floor with lights below, the white walls above would be tinted sand color. Its called bounce lighting and global illumination, which is also why the game is incredibly hard to run on older hardware.
jungles are dense forests. savannas are open plains... "savanna-jungle" makes no sense bro. the term savanna literally means "treeless plains". just saying lol
@@vexouzcan you lower your graphic settings on console yet? Last I checked you can’t and wildcard doesn’t intend to add that, takes away from the combat of pvp
To be fair, the new terrain is _literally_ bigger. Replicating the camera angles would make ASA look better even if jo graohica had changed because we'd be farther away from the textures and models.
ASA looks better graphically for sure, but artistically the gray rocks in ASE added more contrast making some shots more pleasing to look at. The brown rocks are so dull and makes landscapes seem de-saturated.
@@damiancatchingzsits also geologically incorrect (at least for further away from the shore) since the gray rocks are igneous rocks which was formed by volcanic eruptions
@@ThePrimordialArchon Lore-wise the arks are not logically correct, there are in game document explaining that, just for reference, the whole point is this arks are made to harbour some inconsistencies as they are artificial and constructed to be the way they are, aka that volcano was not the source of the terrain in the island
i have to disagree. the entire color revamp of ASA is extremely saturated, you tend to be right with the contrast but, ASE is more dark, and oldy bland in comparison. regardless i have not played ASA and i don't intend to with the whole ark 2 and snail games controversyt
The fog coming out of the jungle at night makes things very terrifying. Troodons and raptors coming I. Through the tall grass was pretty awesome. We were searching for metal nodes and our party was killed by troodons. I escaped only to end up facing off against an Alpha raptor. It was great
ASA is surprisingly amazing. Wild Card has outdone themselves even with the severe setbacks and limits thanks to their greedy and incompetent ruler- sorry "Publisher".
@@arkangelgaming35 indoors dont look shitty anymore. Especially when its raining and the indoor lighting is in sync with the weather outside. It feels amazing
From my own playtime, it looks and feels like they straight up scaled the entire map up. I'd have to go back and play SE Island to be sure, but there are spots I built bases at ages ago that feel significantly larger now in the new release. It's crazy.
The yellow palette is definitely interesting but granted how much I don’t like the color yellow I’m still partial to the atmosphere the old game gives off with the blue hue, maybe it’s just a reimagination of the island but I really hope every map isn’t yellow washed like this one, the game is definitely beautiful and the texture is great but the entire map looking extremely yellow is kind of distracting.
My problem with this game is that it has the wrong rocks now, ASE was correct with its rocks being a dull gray and even ash or black as its a volcanic island full of igneous rocks, now the rocks are all sedimentary which would make almost no sense for it to form like this
True, but it is a completely artificial island with genetically modified creatures on a space station orbiting the post-apocalyptic Earth so realism is kinda out of the window here lol
@lyndathekitsune in that case sedimentary formation would be more likely since sedimentary landscapes and bedrock would be easier to find than igneous formation since there aren't exactly a plethora of volcanos around. I'm not saying that the creators of the Arks(in lore)were strapped for time but they still had a time limit.
What I find insane is people actually bought this pos. It's just ARK with graphic updates and some changes here and there... They could have just updated ARK and called it good but greed pays.
I just started playing the new arc, ascended map and it seems to be smaller than the old island map. Has anybody else noticed this? The oceans seem very small.
Huh, this video surprised me: I honestly overall prefer ASE simply due to the grey rock. The new plants, water, etc, look great, but that beige-yellow stone is absolutely hideous.
The tether distance is changeable if it's like it was back in evolved before changing it was removed then you can just set it to like 100 or 150 and you'll be free to roam. Don't got friends to test it with unfortunately. At least for non dedicated sessions
I may go for the same spot that my tribe and I used to play on back when we first stated, due to there not being a whole lot of places due to a toxic player who had been playing for *much* longer and had stumbled onto a fairly empty server and proceeded to pillar *everywhere* in order to prevent people from building up. This was before they changed the settings to require people to log in and refresh timers. We ended up building on a small rise in the SE corner of the map, just off the beach. There's that one artifact cave, the one with all of the spiders and bats. Exit the cave, walk over to the water, and then turn to face the cave entrance. Pan upwards to the cliff and you're at the location. Not a wide area, with two large land ramps leading upwards to it, but it was relatively flat. Didn't really have any predators pop in either. I think we had the odd Dilo that wandered up that we had to worry about.
@@damiancatchingzs No worries about the toxic player. He was just a pissy player who liked having in game power and didn't like that we didn't cower away from him and actually stood our ground. We reported him and he knew it. We initially got into it with them because we claimed a spot he had opened up for his buddy to claim when we initially left the beginner server. Not against the rules, so sucks to be him. He did initially ask us to move, but wouldn't open up any other areas for us, so we said to take a hike. He started griefing and then got mad when we started implementing PvP base defense tactics on him. I was working part time then, so I had plenty of time to look up things and start converting areas of our base into solely defensive areas. I even had time to raise up a veritable army of pack tames that I placed around the base locations to counter anything wild he would try to kite in. He one time kited in a swarm of those bloody fliers that inflict bleed when they attack things. Got a few salty messages about the new defenses. At one point, I had the strongest raptors, wolves, dilos, and Allos on the server. I even started handing out replacement dinos to the ones he griefed on our server. New beach player gets griefed? Here's some older dinos and enough stuff to get yourself back onto your feet. Even upgraded their equipment. They'd go from hide armor to having a full set of metal/riot gear. With my work schedule, I was the one who got to focus on things like resource gathering and tame raising. When I wasn't at work, I was online. Imagine it... I basically took away his fun. Dude griefs a newbie, gets a laugh about it... and then comes back to find said beach bob rocking high level tames and gear and in a defensive base. I'd even do things like standing guard while they were building things up to give them a chance. I had a lot of free time back then... and was admittedly petty af towards him lol Dude ultimately did himself in though. Was up late with one of my tribe mates and we had the half asleep idea that maybe he streamed, so we went looking... and immediately snapped away when we found the dude's channel. Even found a few instances of when he interacted with us as we called him out on his bs so we were fairly certain that we had found his channel. He streamed... *everything* toxic that he did. both on our PvE server and the PvP servers. Turns out our self proclaimed PvP pro was nothing more than a griefer who roamed beaches picking off new players and hitting small out laying things like rafts. Never raided a main base or anything. Provided all of the evidence we needed for our report... and I may have passed on some info to the people he griefed on PvP as well. Completely petty I know... but he did kind of deserve it. It culminated in him getting distracted from our server to the point where his base near green ob despawned... and we swooped in to claim the area and turned it into our new base building area. We were in the process of doing that when they shut down SE online.
That’s my current base spot in asa and I love it :) a little out of the way as it’s in the se corner but so many resources and the river inlet to the west has some good spawns occasionally, right neat to the ocean for my glaucuses as well lol
Eastern plains lake was my home for years ❤ what a lovely makeover. Never had a dire bear come my way though thankn god. Brontos, parasaurs, troodons, raptors and the occasional rex or giga on very rare occasion were my usual intruders. 😅 gorgeous spot 10/10.
If you have a decent computer go for ascended. If you never played evolved then ascended is the way to go. If you already have evolved, then ascended is kinda like an upgrade but watching youtube videos is enough to get the feel of it instead of spending money on it. Up to you.
Its definitely not Ark 2. Ark 2 is still in development, and it wont be anything like the first Ark. It will have Souls like gameplay. This here i guess you can call a remaster, but it rather feels like an entire new game to me.
I was surprised to notice that some things look better in ASE and are more practical by being bigger when building huge structures and you don't wanna search for resources but just farm em. I was going into this thinking ASA will be better in everything. That yellow thing does disturb me now when you said it, before I didn't notice it so thanks for that!
Still ASA ain't worth it, why change many maps with many mods for 1 map with 1 mod. I would probably have bought it if they given all the maps at once, because then it would have been an upgrade and modders would have got their mods up to date after a while.
I hope they optimize the game better so we actually can run it with decent grafics. Honestly i think it will run better when they release som updates, as ase was badly optimized at the start
@@damiancatchingzs Now if they could just stop the dinos from sticking their heads through what are supposed to be solid walls & killing us.... and maybe turn down the default spawns on the Icthy.... You know, like NOT make the most hated critter in the game, the most populous thing on the map.
@@damiancatchingzs I'm so glad they left in the freezing to death at night, while holding a torch & crouched next to a campfire... all while in a tropical zone. It's just SOOOOOO ARK
@@damiancatchingzs Oh & did ya know a Trike breathes through it's butt? At least that's what it seems like with how much of them has to be above the water's surface or it drowns.
Hidden lake was and always will be the place my tribe Wytches of Oasis will build in. It was pretty in survival evolved but in ascended it is just breath taking
It certainly feels larger if nothing else, but having just started a single player world today, at least some parts are larger. That one area, the south eastern islands are definetly bigger, and the gaps in the river channels connected to the oceans are wider than I remember. A raft is going to be a must have. Plus the forests are much denser than ASE. Footravel through them is going to feel way longer for sure but at least the creature pathfinding is competent for both better and worse.
I hate the amount/height of the foliage/grass in ASA, luckily there is an option to turn off the grass in commands in-game. Now I can see what I'm actually doing!
Idk man i really love ark but 50$ for only the island? i get their reasonings for that price but with that you need to spend at least 2k on a pc just to run this game....
The pc part is true. The reason why i think is worth it, is cuz for few months you play the island, then a new map comes out. And a new map will come out all the way until late 2025. So thats pretty worth to pay 50 bucks but have something to play till late 2025
But their is not multiple worlds like Ark survival evolved so technically it is smaller. Unless it has scorched earth, extinction, and more. Also that means it also has less content and game mechanics. Due to the multiplicity of the original having different dlc. Seems like a reskin that wasn’t needed and hard to run on a pc less than $1000. What was the point? If people have to reduce graphics to play then is it still better graphics?
Well even in evolved at the beginning we didnt have all worlds. It took 5 years for all worlds to be released. On Ascended it will take roughly 1 year to release all of them. So its better.
I don't think the dinosaurs look noticeably different. I hate the ridiculous fog (I turned it off). And I hate that I can't see the dinos underwater from over the water. And I hate that larkator doesn't work anymore. But I like the new dinos. I also have a 4080 super and my computer has to run fans hard for this. I hate that I like this game at all.
Admittingly despite WC pulling the plug on Ark SE and we were gutted (not singel player which is not the sane) Arks a great game I had to buy a ps5 just so i could get Ark ascended but what is annoying is people build huge bases and putting pillars everywhere this makes it hard to try and build I tried 3 different The island maps and got killed a the time because I couldn't place a bed
Only the cave and the ice-area look better than Classic ark. But all Land and Water areas look in classic ark much better.... Rocks and Water especially.... When this is the new "better" version I stay with the old...
If this is early access, why is everyone willing to pay 50 dollars for it? I mean, Ark Survival evolved on early release was like 20. They are charging you 50 for halve a game 🤔
I agree, but the reasoning is quite simple, and its the same reason why they mandatoey had to release the game in october. Funds. If they didnt release it in October, wildcard studio would have shut down. And if its 20 dollars, it wouldnt be enough to cover the costs.
@@damiancatchingzs that is because their creator invested 1 billion dollars in a failing car business which yall just now sponsored her poor choice. I want to play..trust me … but at some point we need to stop making poor choices. Unless yall want Ark Ascended to go again in a 5 year early access charade. How do you think we will make Ark Devs and Business partners change? They will keep screwing us up because they know how yall will buy anything unfinished by them for full price.
@@camcat305 while your motivation and point is true, based on what you said, it seems you have little knowledge in the business world. But regardless, simply put, they cant just "change" anything like that. Those contracts are legally binding, and if they didnt do those contracts, ASE would've been gone by now.
@@damiancatchingzs dude, the head of the game company wasted millions on a car making company. All the money it made from Ark. that is why the developers had to bend down to nitrado and increase the price for a game halve done game…again. If the person in charge of Ark monetary wise is investing Ark money and no money is put into ark…how do you think the game will be fixed properly. They never finished fixing the old version. Now we expect them to do better? 🤔
OTRO CYBERPUNK¡¡¡¡ Un verdadero R.O.B.O. Un juego anticipado que le queda 1-1.5 añitos de trabajo. Ni el aspecto grafico tan hablado esta bien y ya ni hablar de mapas o traducciones PERO ELLOS NO TIENEN LA CULPA SOMOS NOSOTROS POR PAGAR MAS DE 40 EUROS POR ALGO INCOMPLETO. Es como si pagas por un coche y te entregan medio motor y tres ruedas...
Well in 1 year it will be done. So its like buying car engine now, but in one year you get the entire car. And if you dont buy the engine, then there wont be a car 😂 so i would rather buy engine and get car in 1 year, then not have a car at all
Ascended looks great, not enough to make you buy the game again thou, Skyrim reached the same results only whit player´s made mods... being a way older game.
so 45 bucks for the same game ive been playing for years but with better graphics that I can play for a year before ARK 2 comes out and this game dies. ill pass, not worth the 45 bucks for 12 months to just shelf it next holiday season with ark 2. if this came out a few years ago id probably get it, the graphics on ark survival evolved where gawd awful and players bases would load in 500 meters away before the trees / rocks did so u could literally see everyone's base no matter how well they "hid" it.
While i see your point, you have to undertand that ASE/ASA are not gonna be shelved, because Ark 2 will be a completely different type of game. It will be souls like, elden ring type of game. So fans of survival will always keep playing ASA. Did we start playing ark when far cry primal came out? No, cuz they are two very different games. Im just sad that people dont understand that Ark 2 will NOT be another survival game.
![ARK: Survival Ascended on RTX 4090 | MAX Graphics Showcase | Hunting Gameplay [4K60]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vTZXTFA8XKo/mqdefault.jpg)
The woods are so much scarier now... A bronto litterally got my heart pumping because I couldn't see what it was... all I saw was a tail and the trees moving
Rightt? 😂 its the best
i personally really like the yellow-ish color pallete, it makes it more tropical and the tall grass really feels like real jungle, cuz thats what the island was intended to be: a jungle island with some snow in the north :) nice video
I absolutely agree with both. But it will still take some time to get used to it, cuz for years we were used to the other version.
Completely agree. I also really love the tall grass and heavy foliage. I feel like it makes the dino's more intimidating because they could be lurking anywhere. I only play PVE though so I'd imagine the grass is frustrating for PVP players
@@ImAmirus i thought i was the only one 😂
@@damiancatchingzs Its the Lumen lighting of UE5 bouncing off the rock textures and sand. If you were in a white room with sand colored tinted glass floor with lights below, the white walls above would be tinted sand color. Its called bounce lighting and global illumination, which is also why the game is incredibly hard to run on older hardware.
jungles are dense forests. savannas are open plains... "savanna-jungle" makes no sense bro. the term savanna literally means "treeless plains". just saying lol
man i hate being poor
Edit: I now have a gaming pc and I'm loving ASA
Me too. Luckily i got the game for free.
@@damiancatchingzs how tho
@@casparlemmens5022 noiz had program called ARKade, so a lot of content creators got accepted and got a key for the game.
@damiancatchingzs Na bro the game isn't the issue, it's that I don't have money for a gaming pc. But one day hopefully.
I feel this. I can either buy a series x or rebuild my pc or buy another pc haha 😂 maybe my next tax returns will come in clutch..
you can make tall grass smaller by lowering the ''folliage'' quality. it actually doesn't affect its quality, but just reduces its quantity
Hmm that seems opposite of what it should be 😂 but good to know thanks
Having everything on low is a must for pvp
Just go into third person mode
@@vexouzcan you lower your graphic settings on console yet? Last I checked you can’t and wildcard doesn’t intend to add that, takes away from the combat of pvp
@@TropikEmpire"takes away from" or you are gay.
The new graphics made the old terrain looks like miniature clay models
Yep, i agree 200%
To be fair, the new terrain is _literally_ bigger. Replicating the camera angles would make ASA look better even if jo graohica had changed because we'd be farther away from the textures and models.
Feel like i'm being professionally sold on those updated base spot graphics like a realtor LMAO, you make em sound like a dream house. great vid man
Hahahah i should try working in sales 😂 thanks for sharing the feedback man, much appreciated
ASA looks better graphically for sure, but artistically the gray rocks in ASE added more contrast making some shots more pleasing to look at. The brown rocks are so dull and makes landscapes seem de-saturated.
Yeah i have to agree with that partially.
@@damiancatchingzsits also geologically incorrect (at least for further away from the shore) since the gray rocks are igneous rocks which was formed by volcanic eruptions
@@ThePrimordialArchon Lore-wise the arks are not logically correct, there are in game document explaining that, just for reference, the whole point is this arks are made to harbour some inconsistencies as they are artificial and constructed to be the way they are, aka that volcano was not the source of the terrain in the island
i have to disagree. the entire color revamp of ASA is extremely saturated, you tend to be right with the contrast but, ASE is more dark, and oldy bland in comparison. regardless i have not played ASA and i don't intend to with the whole ark 2 and snail games controversyt
Love the glistening on the water in the remake
Thank you for making this. I was wondering what was off about ascended, the yellow tint and color palette are off.
Yep hahah. You are welcome.
Exactly hahah. It still feels off even after a month of playing. How did you like the game?
Some better textures sure, but it mostly looks like a warmer colour, double bloom, and 10x the fog
definitely
The fog coming out of the jungle at night makes things very terrifying. Troodons and raptors coming I. Through the tall grass was pretty awesome. We were searching for metal nodes and our party was killed by troodons. I escaped only to end up facing off against an Alpha raptor. It was great
@@TheRealHeavyGthat sounds epic
ASA is surprisingly amazing. Wild Card has outdone themselves even with the severe setbacks and limits thanks to their greedy and incompetent ruler- sorry "Publisher".
@@arkangelgaming35 indoors dont look shitty anymore. Especially when its raining and the indoor lighting is in sync with the weather outside. It feels amazing
Just curious what you mean by the map being 4 times larger? You mean the Island or like the map that your character holds?
From my own playtime, it looks and feels like they straight up scaled the entire map up. I'd have to go back and play SE Island to be sure, but there are spots I built bases at ages ago that feel significantly larger now in the new release. It's crazy.
The entire island is massively scaled up.
You know what, not that you guys say that, it does feel bigger. I thought it was just my imagination
Maybe they just kinda stretched out the map
i never got that feeling honestly...
The yellow palette is definitely interesting but granted how much I don’t like the color yellow I’m still partial to the atmosphere the old game gives off with the blue hue, maybe it’s just a reimagination of the island but I really hope every map isn’t yellow washed like this one, the game is definitely beautiful and the texture is great but the entire map looking extremely yellow is kind of distracting.
I agree with this. Old game felt palette felt refreshing, this one feels dry. Idk how to explain it, i think what you said is exactly correct.
My problem with this game is that it has the wrong rocks now, ASE was correct with its rocks being a dull gray and even ash or black as its a volcanic island full of igneous rocks, now the rocks are all sedimentary which would make almost no sense for it to form like this
I guess thats true yeah. Plus gray rocks feel like home. ASE made us all used to it.
nerd
True, but it is a completely artificial island with genetically modified creatures on a space station orbiting the post-apocalyptic Earth so realism is kinda out of the window here lol
@@Myne1001 counterpoint all of the terrain is from a real location and it was terraformed over time.
@lyndathekitsune in that case sedimentary formation would be more likely since sedimentary landscapes and bedrock would be easier to find than igneous formation since there aren't exactly a plethora of volcanos around. I'm not saying that the creators of the Arks(in lore)were strapped for time but they still had a time limit.
What I find insane is people actually bought this pos. It's just ARK with graphic updates and some changes here and there... They could have just updated ARK and called it good but greed pays.
Is it me or is it crazy how good the previous version still looks?
My take on the long grass is they're trying to make you use 3rd person so when ARK 2 comes out and forces 3rd person, you're already sorta used to it.
That is an interesting theory, and is definitely possible.
I just started playing the new arc, ascended map and it seems to be smaller than the old island map. Has anybody else noticed this? The oceans seem very small.
It is the opposite. The new map is 4 times larger than the old one.
@@damiancatchingzs wow I would not of thought that. Thanks for the info.
Huh, this video surprised me: I honestly overall prefer ASE simply due to the grey rock. The new plants, water, etc, look great, but that beige-yellow stone is absolutely hideous.
Can you tell me what is the first background music of your video please ?
Everything is unrecognizable. It looks so good!
the first person camera view is just set lower down for some reason..
Its from the stomach height 😂
good job bro
Thanks bro
Is there still a teather distance limit?
Depends, cuz there is no longer option to host direcy from ark
The tether distance is changeable if it's like it was back in evolved before changing it was removed then you can just set it to like 100 or 150 and you'll be free to roam. Don't got friends to test it with unfortunately.
At least for non dedicated sessions
personaly i like Ascended Visuals a lot so many changes :D
Yeah very true
I may go for the same spot that my tribe and I used to play on back when we first stated, due to there not being a whole lot of places due to a toxic player who had been playing for *much* longer and had stumbled onto a fairly empty server and proceeded to pillar *everywhere* in order to prevent people from building up. This was before they changed the settings to require people to log in and refresh timers.
We ended up building on a small rise in the SE corner of the map, just off the beach. There's that one artifact cave, the one with all of the spiders and bats. Exit the cave, walk over to the water, and then turn to face the cave entrance. Pan upwards to the cliff and you're at the location.
Not a wide area, with two large land ramps leading upwards to it, but it was relatively flat. Didn't really have any predators pop in either. I think we had the odd Dilo that wandered up that we had to worry about.
Reading this comment made me imagine the scenario like a short movie. Thank you for that, it was hella fun. And sorry bout the toxic player.
@@damiancatchingzs Someone should make such a thing. Would love to see it online lol
@@damiancatchingzs No worries about the toxic player.
He was just a pissy player who liked having in game power and didn't like that we didn't cower away from him and actually stood our ground. We reported him and he knew it.
We initially got into it with them because we claimed a spot he had opened up for his buddy to claim when we initially left the beginner server. Not against the rules, so sucks to be him. He did initially ask us to move, but wouldn't open up any other areas for us, so we said to take a hike.
He started griefing and then got mad when we started implementing PvP base defense tactics on him. I was working part time then, so I had plenty of time to look up things and start converting areas of our base into solely defensive areas.
I even had time to raise up a veritable army of pack tames that I placed around the base locations to counter anything wild he would try to kite in. He one time kited in a swarm of those bloody fliers that inflict bleed when they attack things.
Got a few salty messages about the new defenses.
At one point, I had the strongest raptors, wolves, dilos, and Allos on the server. I even started handing out replacement dinos to the ones he griefed on our server.
New beach player gets griefed? Here's some older dinos and enough stuff to get yourself back onto your feet. Even upgraded their equipment. They'd go from hide armor to having a full set of metal/riot gear.
With my work schedule, I was the one who got to focus on things like resource gathering and tame raising. When I wasn't at work, I was online.
Imagine it... I basically took away his fun.
Dude griefs a newbie, gets a laugh about it... and then comes back to find said beach bob rocking high level tames and gear and in a defensive base. I'd even do things like standing guard while they were building things up to give them a chance.
I had a lot of free time back then... and was admittedly petty af towards him lol
Dude ultimately did himself in though. Was up late with one of my tribe mates and we had the half asleep idea that maybe he streamed, so we went looking... and immediately snapped away when we found the dude's channel. Even found a few instances of when he interacted with us as we called him out on his bs so we were fairly certain that we had found his channel.
He streamed... *everything* toxic that he did. both on our PvE server and the PvP servers. Turns out our self proclaimed PvP pro was nothing more than a griefer who roamed beaches picking off new players and hitting small out laying things like rafts. Never raided a main base or anything.
Provided all of the evidence we needed for our report... and I may have passed on some info to the people he griefed on PvP as well.
Completely petty I know... but he did kind of deserve it.
It culminated in him getting distracted from our server to the point where his base near green ob despawned... and we swooped in to claim the area and turned it into our new base building area. We were in the process of doing that when they shut down SE online.
That’s my current base spot in asa and I love it :) a little out of the way as it’s in the se corner but so many resources and the river inlet to the west has some good spawns occasionally, right neat to the ocean for my glaucuses as well lol
Is the map bigger in general it seems a lot more vast?
Yes it is a lot bigger.
Eastern plains lake was my home for years ❤ what a lovely makeover. Never had a dire bear come my way though thankn god. Brontos, parasaurs, troodons, raptors and the occasional rex or giga on very rare occasion were my usual intruders. 😅 gorgeous spot 10/10.
I agree its one of my favorite spots too 😍 and now it is even larger and nicer
Yeah I've never seen Dire Bears over there either not sure where that info came from
Your commentary kills me 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤ best first watch ever haha
Thank you 🤣😂 i did my best. You should check my latest too, i think similar vibe
Idgi, the maps from original ark wont be updated with ark 2?
You do know that this is not ark 2 right?
@@damiancatchingzs I'm so confused 😅😂
so which one should i buy???? many of people hate ark ascended, but many other people to says ark ascended better…
If you have a decent computer go for ascended. If you never played evolved then ascended is the way to go. If you already have evolved, then ascended is kinda like an upgrade but watching youtube videos is enough to get the feel of it instead of spending money on it. Up to you.
Is it worth the money to upgrade to the newer version?
Good question. If your money comes from social funds, then probably not. But if you have a job that pays at least average salary, then yeah.
Can someone explain it to me? Is this new ark a type of ark 2 or an ark remaster?
Its definitely not Ark 2. Ark 2 is still in development, and it wont be anything like the first Ark. It will have Souls like gameplay. This here i guess you can call a remaster, but it rather feels like an entire new game to me.
@@damiancatchingzs ok thank you
Do u think the game will be stable on ps5 ?, good vidéo thks
When it comes to compatibility stability yes. Will ps5 still experience some of the bugs? Absolutely haha
song playing at 20 seconds?
Its from the Dream manhunt videos
Manhunt or speedrun. Both haha
@@damiancatchingzs ty bro
@@deathrager2404 sure thing bro
I was surprised to notice that some things look better in ASE and are more practical by being bigger when building huge structures and you don't wanna search for resources but just farm em. I was going into this thinking ASA will be better in everything. That yellow thing does disturb me now when you said it, before I didn't notice it so thanks for that!
Still ASA ain't worth it, why change many maps with many mods for 1 map with 1 mod. I would probably have bought it if they given all the maps at once, because then it would have been an upgrade and modders would have got their mods up to date after a while.
@amadeuz819 id say get it now, its got alot of work to be dkme for sure but the funding should help progress, such as hiring actually capable people
good vid bro
Thanks bro
All changes are good… coming from a php player since 2017… love the new game heaps more for every reason
My favorite feature is when you wander through the woods at night, there is a bluish moon glow fog all around and makes it creepy
I hope they optimize the game better so we actually can run it with decent grafics. Honestly i think it will run better when they release som updates, as ase was badly optimized at the start
Absolutely agreed. It will probably take some time tho.
Just standard ark things, like the last game itll improve over time. Theyv already released some patches
@@dutchstylz5531 yeah after release they have even more work, cuz they need to optimize pc version, but also prepare console version.
Wish there was a way to turn down the yellowish tint
compare the server issues for hosting your own servers.
😂😂😂🤣
That would be a 10 hour video xD
2:35 dodge the sarcophagus 😂
Yeeah died couple of times cuz of that xD
Wait, no thats a wrong pronunciation xD
is this a whole new game or is it just a massive mod?
Its a whole new game mate
Thank You! Finally one! Why can't anyone else do this is unbelievable.
What?
@@damiancatchingzs i think they were trying to find a good comparison video and this was them finally finding one
I noticed that even in a private, single player game,
if you don't have BattleEye running,
your STEAM fps counter is disabled.
I didnt know that. Good to know, thanks boss.
@@damiancatchingzs Now if they could just stop the dinos from sticking their heads through what are supposed to be solid walls & killing us....
and maybe turn down the default spawns on the Icthy....
You know, like NOT make the most hated critter in the game, the most populous thing on the map.
@@sc0repio662 hHah true on both, even though not sure how easy it would be to do the head through walls thing
@@damiancatchingzs I'm so glad they left in the freezing to death at night,
while holding a torch
& crouched next to a campfire...
all while in a tropical zone.
It's just SOOOOOO ARK
@@damiancatchingzs Oh & did ya know a Trike breathes through it's butt?
At least that's what it seems like with how much of them has to be above the water's surface or it drowns.
Hidden lake was and always will be the place my tribe Wytches of Oasis will build in. It was pretty in survival evolved but in ascended it is just breath taking
Can you do comparison of structures included green house please and hi new to channel
Thats a great idea. Will work on it.
are you sure about the map being larger? haven't bought the game yet but all i can find online is people saying the map is 1:1 in size
It certainly feels larger if nothing else, but having just started a single player world today, at least some parts are larger. That one area, the south eastern islands are definetly bigger, and the gaps in the river channels connected to the oceans are wider than I remember. A raft is going to be a must have. Plus the forests are much denser than ASE. Footravel through them is going to feel way longer for sure but at least the creature pathfinding is competent for both better and worse.
thx damian
You are welcome friend.
You should play Palworld when it releases in a few days :))
the grass genuinely makes sense, plants were bigger back in the dinosaur era
A $10 upgrad price would’ve been better and allowing you still keep the OG one too
I hate the amount/height of the foliage/grass in ASA, luckily there is an option to turn off the grass in commands in-game. Now I can see what I'm actually doing!
Its almost like tall grasslands was supposed to pose as an obstacle
Nice!
Nice!
I can afford ascended.
But i cant afford the storage.
Cause i already have normal ark.
Yeah having both arks is a luxury. I guess you gotta delete the normal one.
@@damiancatchingzs hm
Nah I'm good.
Idk man i really love ark but 50$ for only the island? i get their reasonings for that price but with that you need to spend at least 2k on a pc just to run this game....
The pc part is true. The reason why i think is worth it, is cuz for few months you play the island, then a new map comes out. And a new map will come out all the way until late 2025. So thats pretty worth to pay 50 bucks but have something to play till late 2025
I never played ascended, but I’ve always loved evolved ascended may have better graphics, but I’m an evolved fan all the way
I am a fan of both xD
Can we just agree Ark Survival Evolved's world was easier to memorize than of the new one
@toyboxskits1341 You mean yes yeah i know right
tall walls around your base was a death sentence in PVP
The ASA's Redwood forest looks more like a Borneo Rainforest, I preferred the ASE's Redwood forest
Seeing the old map reminds me of the time I saw a unicorn and I though it was just a different coloured horse and watched it get killed by dilos
Oh noo 🤣😂😂
But their is not multiple worlds like Ark survival evolved so technically it is smaller. Unless it has scorched earth, extinction, and more. Also that means it also has less content and game mechanics. Due to the multiplicity of the original having different dlc. Seems like a reskin that wasn’t needed and hard to run on a pc less than $1000. What was the point? If people have to reduce graphics to play then is it still better graphics?
Well even in evolved at the beginning we didnt have all worlds. It took 5 years for all worlds to be released. On Ascended it will take roughly 1 year to release all of them. So its better.
Honestly prefer ark: SE for it's pvp, building, simplicity and framerate.
Slow it down a little bit and I'm swearing I just watched a video narrated by Anton Chigurh! But overall a definite like to this video from me.
And i am here thinking that it wasnt fast enough 😂 im worried not to make it boring if im too slow
I don't think the dinosaurs look noticeably different. I hate the ridiculous fog (I turned it off). And I hate that I can't see the dinos underwater from over the water. And I hate that larkator doesn't work anymore. But I like the new dinos. I also have a 4080 super and my computer has to run fans hard for this. I hate that I like this game at all.
This comment makes the most sense honestly. I feel the same way.
Admittingly despite WC pulling the plug on Ark SE and we were gutted (not singel player which is not the sane) Arks a great game I had to buy a ps5 just so i could get Ark ascended but what is annoying is people build huge bases and putting pillars everywhere this makes it hard to try and build I tried 3 different The island maps and got killed a the time because I couldn't place a bed
''Dinos are much more realistic'' U mean their AI right ? cause they changed nothing apart from that
Their AI, their models have more polygons, and textures are in 4k. Of course those stuff only load that way in highest resolution settings.
@@damiancatchingzs really ? doesnt look like that to me, they seem so ''cartoony'' and out of place
Only the cave and the ice-area look better than Classic ark. But all Land and Water areas look in classic ark much better.... Rocks and Water especially.... When this is the new "better" version I stay with the old...
Why did they not just make Ark SA Ark 2?
Wait is the map really bigger now?
Yeah. You can even tell from most of those side by side comparison views. But that Makes it more realistic.
I love how players play the game for a long time, feel a sense of creative ownership 😂
The problem that the grass is bigger than the player is because the camera in the player's stomach doesn't disappear in the head
My base building places are up high on a place you can't get to without climbing or flying. And none of these places are it.
Yeah i have few specific places i like too. Sorry that i didnt manage to cover every location in this video.
@@damiancatchingzs Covering every location worth building in one video would have been impossible.
Is it the same game?
Yes but actually no 🤣
Is this just a pay for reskin of the same game?
It depends. There are many changes. When you play it feels like a completely different game. But it depends on how you feel about it.
I could see why someone would see it as a reskin, but i only see it as a new game bc im desperate for ark content lmao
If this is early access, why is everyone willing to pay 50 dollars for it? I mean, Ark Survival evolved on early release was like 20. They are charging you 50 for halve a game 🤔
I agree, but the reasoning is quite simple, and its the same reason why they mandatoey had to release the game in october. Funds. If they didnt release it in October, wildcard studio would have shut down. And if its 20 dollars, it wouldnt be enough to cover the costs.
@@damiancatchingzs that is because their creator invested 1 billion dollars in a failing car business which yall just now sponsored her poor choice. I want to play..trust me … but at some point we need to stop making poor choices. Unless yall want Ark Ascended to go again in a 5 year early access charade.
How do you think we will make Ark Devs and Business partners change? They will keep screwing us up because they know how yall will buy anything unfinished by them for full price.
@@camcat305 while your motivation and point is true, based on what you said, it seems you have little knowledge in the business world. But regardless, simply put, they cant just "change" anything like that. Those contracts are legally binding, and if they didnt do those contracts, ASE would've been gone by now.
@@damiancatchingzs dude, the head of the game company wasted millions on a car making company. All the money it made from Ark. that is why the developers had to bend down to nitrado and increase the price for a game halve done game…again. If the person in charge of Ark monetary wise is investing Ark money and no money is put into ark…how do you think the game will be fixed properly. They never finished fixing the old version. Now we expect them to do better? 🤔
i like old and new Ark
Same
I don't care about the graphics, i care about the sounds. Ark used to give me such a headache, especially walking through a herd of giants.
Is this ark 2
Nope
@@damiancatchingzs thanks my friend keeps saying it is 😂
I prefer ase
Ark is full of exploits remove the trees the rocks the water and your PC will run fine, and you can see other players Ez use INI Ez Kill in PvP
Didnt know that 😂 thanks for the tip
if GTA 6 doesn't have graphics like this i'm done
I really doubt it will
As a Raptor I want my meele damage to be increased as my pace is by the developers or we will go on strike
Getting to the hiddeb lake after starting fresh on asa was an ordeal
yeah its soo much more difficult to get there
Map is 4 times larger???????
Not a fan of how many little rocks and stones there are on the beaches lol
Yeah there are quite a lot
as it is in reality
bro is either a chatgpt enjoyer or is a pro script writer
Been doing youtube for 12 years. I like to think that comparing it to GPT is a compliment. So thanks. 😂
@@damiancatchingzs ha yea, the editing and the language u used kept me interested. what was your old channel?
@@I998SubaruSTi22b i have like 13 of them xD only 2 semi successful 😂
Good luck finding those small tames now...
3:24 noo not stonehenge
The ground is all the same color 👀
ASA is so much better, but the wait period for the maps is a pain.
and yet ase came out 8 years ago, that time has passed and now it will die out! long live asa and the maps will be here in NO TIME.
I honestly prefer evolved, mostly.
Reason???
OTRO CYBERPUNK¡¡¡¡ Un verdadero R.O.B.O. Un juego anticipado que le queda 1-1.5 añitos de trabajo. Ni el aspecto grafico tan hablado esta bien y ya ni hablar de mapas o traducciones PERO ELLOS NO TIENEN LA CULPA SOMOS NOSOTROS POR PAGAR MAS DE 40 EUROS POR ALGO INCOMPLETO. Es como si pagas por un coche y te entregan medio motor y tres ruedas...
Well in 1 year it will be done. So its like buying car engine now, but in one year you get the entire car. And if you dont buy the engine, then there wont be a car 😂 so i would rather buy engine and get car in 1 year, then not have a car at all
Ascended looks great, not enough to make you buy the game again thou, Skyrim reached the same results only whit player´s made mods... being a way older game.
Cant wait to play this game on the lowest settings to have it somewhat playable without buying a 3k pc
2k pc over here xD running like butter
@@damiancatchingzsfr Bro? Can I ask what grafics card you’re using and what settings? :D
Ascended more smooth ... more beutiful
Smooth? If you have good PC yes. Beautiful absolutely, every frame is like a movie.
if only i had a nasa pc
:(
On the thumbnail I actually think ASE is way better
I can barely run ark on medium graphics 😭
😂😂😭 sorry
so 45 bucks for the same game ive been playing for years but with better graphics that I can play for a year before ARK 2 comes out and this game dies. ill pass, not worth the 45 bucks for 12 months to just shelf it next holiday season with ark 2. if this came out a few years ago id probably get it, the graphics on ark survival evolved where gawd awful and players bases would load in 500 meters away before the trees / rocks did so u could literally see everyone's base no matter how well they "hid" it.
While i see your point, you have to undertand that ASE/ASA are not gonna be shelved, because Ark 2 will be a completely different type of game. It will be souls like, elden ring type of game. So fans of survival will always keep playing ASA. Did we start playing ark when far cry primal came out? No, cuz they are two very different games. Im just sad that people dont understand that Ark 2 will NOT be another survival game.