06/05/2024 update: They have just released a new $5 pay to win dino with the new center map. After charging us $40 the game, and then $40 for bobs tall tales. All while being 6 new maps behind schedule now. The new dino has pretty much no counter play, and even if someone gave you one, you cant ride it without paying up. Don't buy this game lmao.
@@yperbeatz5356 I don´t even have the minimum requirements and it works good just because some people don´t understand how to optimize their pc and their games it doesn´t mean that it´s not going to work. I got a 1050 2GB and my CPU is ass if you guys keep downloading the newest drivers of nvidia surely optimizing won´t help for an example.
Lol so true I don't even want to know what console will look like. Just sad because it had so much potential to be one of the greatest games of all time instead it's the most corrupt game of all time. I don't wanna give more money to Chinese government.
the average pvp andy: woooow the games so pretty.... 'sets everything to low, removes all vegetation clutter and textures, plugs in aimbot, ddos's server' aright now im ready to game.
Ya the whole reason for moving to UR5 was to improve those issues. But they went bat shit crazy with upping the graphics that they ruined any chance of ARK SA running well for large bases/PVP battles. It will take YEARs and I mean YEARS now until ARK SA can compete with ARK SE when it comes to accessibility.... ARK SE can run on a gosh darn 560 or 660 GPU, ARK SA can barely run on a 2060, let alone the 1080 they recommend on min. It's nuts. 1080 was the lowest end GPU required to play ARK SE on max graphics at 1080p, and now it's the minimum required to run ARK SA at 20FPS on low.
@@Alte.Kameraden Dude I can run ASE on my old MSi laptop with a 980gtx. It runs on mostly epic with a few of the expensive settings turned off. Runs flawlessly for me. It's almost hard to believe. Most of Arks problems are server, network, and port settings as it requires some knowledge and work on the client side to make the game run more reliably. Especially when playing on Unofficial servers with mods. The one problem they are yet to fix with ASA is the player cache. If you have all engrams unlocked, thousands of dinos in storage, and alot of data on your character you will get kicked from every server. Just like ASE. It's a shame.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but no movement speed multiplier sounds like you might actually have a reason to tame more than a flier, an argy and anky and a doedic. (Edit) woah most liked comment haha not as unpopular as I thought
I feel like this should have been a pvp only option, they are trying to sell it as an upgraded perk of pvp but in reality it’s because they know the game can’t handle shit zooming across the map
The speed change was more than welcome. It felt really stupid seeing people outrun raptors and other predators. I'm really glad they disabled that and on dinos as well that could be easily abused.
@@Jriniscool Mostly PVE players liked it, it's very dumb that they disabled it for PVE as well. They could have kept it with PVP No one on PVE is complaining about this shit because we wasn't the one's complaining about it.
Notice on your initial video flyover how you only see one spino and very few other dinos? They greatly reduced the dino rate as a workaround to the poor performance. If they spawned as many dinos as in the original, your framerate would be in the single digits.
the graphics overall was unnecessary. ark had good graphics as it was, we wanted bug fixes and performance fixes which were already a problem with ark and they went and made performance worse.
Take a look at this vid, old bugs weren’t fixed, new bug appeard, server hosting drama. The whole selling point of ASA is graphic. I’ve encountered i chopped a tree 3 times. Usually the tree falling animation will play after you fully harvest it. But it happened for me 3 times. At first, I thought maybe the server was a lil bit laggy, but I remember i play in solo. They may have placed tree at the same spot many time. That graphics part now was counterproductive , it was too much that placing dinos will tank performance. Spoil alert Not only that, i take a look at game file, doing some data mining,… Remember the baby dinos and dinos migrate from one place to another? Yes, this problem made a loophole. It’s not bad, in fact i found these two new features are as good as the new pathfinding ai for dinos. But the baby dinos has a threshold to be spawned depending on, let’s say, number of dino pack. Like if you have a group of 3 trikes, it’s highly to spawn 1-2 baby trikes. If you have a group of 10 trikes, the baby dinos can be spawn ranged from 2-5. And that not taking into consideration of the migrating, since if 1 group of 8 migrate to 1 group of 5, the number baby dinos that can be spawned is 50% max of that new groups. The bigger picture of lacking dinos is they need to figure out what is the optimal number of plantations/vegetations that are placed in the map. That make new features work well, and not tanking performance. Looks like that spawn zone changes a lil bit, but the threshold, max creatures allowed (not counting the baby dinos and dino migrating) still as same as ASE. The new graphic is counterproductive, even for ASE. Since i give Wildcard benefit of the doubt, “the game just normal as ASE, but dino migrating make the map looks scarce”. But many ark content creator have make a tour around the map, no dinos or very little at all in the mainland, interestingly Carno Island is crowned with dinos, beach have couple of dinos too. And the difference is beach and Carno Island have very least amount of plantations/vegetations compare to big jungle/forest, also the beach is starting zone of many player. They place some dinos there but the Carno Island isn’t spawn zone, but also have very least trees/ bushes. They either didn’t test new Ark properly or just didn’t test at all and figured this problem out at very late near the day early access.
On the server topic, that fact that 45-50kl ppl bought the game and the total slots on official servers (pvp+pve+smalls=196 servers x 70 slots) is around 14k. Completely underprepared and some slimy smelly bs imo. You rock Albert!
@@butterfinger4393 No, but being able to accommodate more than 25% of players would have been a bit smarter. Historically only 40% of the player base has been officials. That would have a been a good mark to shoot for.
@@butterfinger4393 This dude doesn't play ASA. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY this guy plays it. You do NOT know how it is to leave the autoclicker on for 30 minutes straight trying to enter the server your tribe is in, just for it to crash 5 minutes after you get in. EVERY SERVER 70 PEOPLE. EVERY SINGLE ONE
my brother in christ, 7:10 building overhaul is one of the biggest changes in ASA. You were doing so well. You needed to try the building a little bit more. No longer do we have to make separate walls, door frame, windows, etc. Now it's all in 1. You press R to switch between them. No longer can you only pick up structures within 30s only, now it's forever. There's not many restrictions this time around. The snaps are super flexible. They even added new structures like secret walls, quarter walls, cellars, etc. Building on tree platform is actually fun now too. It's a huge overhaul. If you keep playing the game casually you'll notice this no problem.
@@noroom4commies086 I mean he has a point. There really is nothing to do underwater besides taming certain marine life. But he wasn’t complaining either.
If hes big into just pvp it makes sense, aside from cheesing structures pvp players usually just make a tiny box in a hidden corner and call it a base.
i may not play asa as much as the original but man am i upset i cant get ark 2 for free or vica versa depending on how you choose to look at it along with asa because too many people had to cry about not getting asa for free. now i either have to pay full price for both or choose one over the other. i may not ever experience asa now because of this ultimatum. regardless as to whether or not some people think asa isnt worth it those that do want to play it get the sht end of the stick because those that dont threw a tantrum. its just a whole lot of selfishness and entitlement.
Its very pretty but the same old bugs are there. Yeah it looks nicer but from what ive seen and heard it plays and feels the same. Maybe if the bugs from the previous ASE was fixed and there was a noticeable change in performance id get it. but without a new official map and the performance issues i would say its not worth it especially if youve already played every DLC like me.
It has a lot of subtle changes under the hood. It certainly does not play the same at all, meta has changed a lot. There are wild baby dinos now if you don't like to tame the old way. Kindly play the game first before you provide an opinion lol
@@ramage7646 Ive watched enough reviews to determine if i want to buy it or not you dont have to play the game to make a opinion on it. Im aware of pretty much all the new features. The only thing that interest me is the new building system and visuals. But my biggest deal breaker was performance and its no better than ASE. Im glad youre enjoying ASA though. But for me im going to wait.
@@Harly206I'm with you bud, a ton of ASA could have been quality of life changes for ASE minus the graphics updates. Babies out in the wild was done for penguins, and people modded in better building
@@ramage7646 All the changes are something I'd expect from a decent mod. Nothing Wildcard has done has justified this sequel, as I feel they could have put the same amount of effort into ASE and achieve the same experience while also fixing bugs instead of porting them.
"Is Ark Survival Ascended Worth It???" I can answer you that question in less then 13:53!! NO, Not only you have to rebuy whole game but also new pc just to run it, not to mentions lots of other problems! And also this is still same game, nothing new came and nothing new will come in future, after all its essentially remake!
I don't think it's worth it. When they said ARK SE was going to be ported to Unreal Engine 5. I was excited because I wanted the engine improvement. Not the massive graphic overhaul. I expected the graphics would be better because of the improved engine. But when they showed the first Trailer, my heart sank to my stomach. I knew then ARK SA as I dreamed it was a pipe dream. Massive Bases, huge PVP Battles, it's all a Pipe dream now. Who can run this game and endure a huge base and PVP Battles? I doubt anyone. It's ridiculous what they did with this game. I mean we only recently in the past few years got to a point that literally anyone could play ARK SE, just ARK SE didn't like newer hardware very much, and UR5 could have fixed that. Honestly what Wildcard did here with ARK SA I think they did to justify charging players more for the game. But as a result we have a game that is now insanely inaccessible when compared to ARK SE. I call ARK SA Insanity, because I don't want to think what went on during meetings for this game. They went beyond just a port in the worst ways possible personally. I don't want the graphics, I want the other game improvements like UI/Building/Etc, but if I turn graphics down even to LOW, it will not run as well as ARK SE does on Epic on my computer, which I find insulting. The Polar OPPOSITE of what I hoped for when ARK SA was announced. I SPIT at this game. ERRR but you can just turn the graphics down, use console commands remove the sky. etc... ya but by that point the game starts looking WORSE than ARK SE, making it pointless.
Everyone knew that ASA was a money grab for ARK 2 "allegedly". I think the devs waisted more time and effort on ASA as, as soon as ARK 2 drops ASA will be just another game in everyone's steam and console library.
1. Devs add new particle effects to make it look nice, 2. Crashes and lags people's game. 3. Devs and content creators, just turn them off, here's what I use "produces a high end computer" What was the fucking point in the update that updates our graphics, to then just play it on a lower setting 😂, Just gunna keep playing ASE but use mods that do the same thing as ASA. And I don't like the fact that the "community" got what they wanted when they got Ark 2 seperate from the bundle and ASA not a free update. Like how is that a fucking Upgrade, people are just Idiots 😂
If you disable some settings through using the console (such as the volumetric clouds) you'll more than double your fps. And because they use all the new UE5 engine features bigger bases won't mean lesser performance like in ASE. So if you're able to run the game well enough you'll be able to run the game well enough. The only limiting factor in having more things happening on screen will be your cpu power. Cool thing is that if you're system is really old or scrappy, you can upgrade to a new platform by going pure budget, not paying much and still being able to run ASA well.
@@DeltaNovum To be honest you'd need a bare minimum of a 4070 to run ARK SA well currently. Which isn't what I'd call budget. A 3060 isn't even budget yet because of the current pricings. Budget build is a system that you can argue is under $1000 USD, something that is a bit more expensive than a video game console but not absurdly more expensive. Though I'd argue many consider budget builds something that is comparable price wise to a console. Issue is you're not going to get a PC that runs ARK SA at this moment that is under $1000, so no, there is no budget build currently that I think can run this game reasonably. If they fix the problems I'm planning on upgrading my PC to a 4070 and 32GB of RAM. I already have a CPU Right now I'd say a budget built would be using a used 1080 on the cheap, maybe a 2060 or 2070. None of which will run this game well. 2080ti can technically run it well with the tweaks you mentioned, but if you're using console commands to fix FPS issues that's still a serious problem with the game.
@@Averysh It features a significantly better navmesh and associated functions. A Navmesh is how an AI agent determines where it can and can not move. So just updating and using these prebuilt functions would have resulted in significantly better pathfinding
asa hit boxes and wild dino ai feels worse than ase, on asa dinos literally can't hit you if you move left or right, picks are bugged, the characters are soooooo small and hit reg is god awful
characters are so small you cant see them in the grass thats everywhere on the map, I honestly think its 2 steps forward 3 steps back (mesh holes from 2015 are back in the game aswell)
Yes very, I think it's all fixable and will be better in the future. But I literally had a Rex that couldn't track me out of a river as it couldn't swim
No, it really does feel 100x better. Even top PVP youtubers have noticed that day one. I also have been personally hitting shots that just wouldn't have been possible on ASE. Also, you can ACTUALLY hit ichthyornis's with arrows and rocks now, where it was nearly impossible in ASE. I was even hitting flick shots. Clearly the hit reg is better. Idk about you. Also, wild dino AI is massively better after some short testing. They can navigate around rocks, and even get to you on top of them. They also don't just leap off cliffs after you anymore. They actually find a safe path down to you. They do the same to get up the cliff, as well. Oh, and if you attack baby dinos, parent dinos that are usually passive like parasaurs will actually protect their young and attack you if they have to. I hit a baby parasaur by accident and it and the other babies ran to the mom to hide under it. The mom even stood in a stance without moving while staring at me. @@SimplyTexy
The reason why the shadows set to low lets you see underwater is because it literally disables all the shadows. And the way your vision is clouded underwater is because of the shadows.
Honestly, for me the performance is so far the worst aspect. They promised a game in a new engine, that runs better, with less bugs and DLSS/FSR (which hugely boost performance) and ... we get a game that runs worse than 2015 ARK imo. You are litteraly required to run DLSS or FSR to even get above 60 FPS. Atleast if you don't own sth like a fricking RTX 4070 or higher... Just to shut some arguments down: I litteraly got like a 1,5k computer (which is more worth than my car) and this game runs like dogwater.
I think it's important to note, despite the graphics being absolutely beautiful in comparison to ASE. Unless you are running a 4000 series you will have to tone down the graphics to a point were it's on par if not even worse to ASE with a lower frame rate. Im running the recommend hardware sepcs and can say my game looks nothing like the trailers or somw video's you see online with 4090's
What's the point in the game looking good if you have to run it at low settings? Completely pointless. Obviously there are tons of good features but I'm not playing a game at below 60 fps with a RX 7900 XT in 2023. No way.
I hope they change the dino models because although some of the ported creatures look good or fine, there's quite a lot that look very bad, especially against the backdrop. As for the map itself, it looks good aside from the ground clutter because a lot of the grass and stones float. For the bugs it's ridiculous considering they talked about how they are cleaning and rebuilding the code yet the reload bug that was there from day 1 ASE is still there day 1 ASA along with all the other bugs. So they clearly didn't and cut corners.
don't forget certain bugs that kills the pvp like turrets not shooting rockets when you jump and ignoring grenades completly aswell as the ability to change your game to a Hard INI with simple ingame commands and the bug with the trapdoor bringing you under the map (aka mesh) everywhere by setting them to open into the bottom
TLCs are coming soon, many of them. They will be based on votes, so its our job to decide what needs a TLC more. I honestly love the voting system they do.
@@fruitybluieblue098 The ones that need it are those that came before Genesis that haven't already had a TLC. Excluding a small handful where their model isn't actually that bad.
Spent hours on the game just for it to crash, losing hours of progress, no proper save system. Too me the game is unplayable and the Servers are too laggy.
Thing is they always said they'd optimize their last title and it never happened. If you head to the steam store right now you can see the game ARK: Survival Evolved has minimum requirements but not recommended. They'll always gaslight you about adding content then optimizing. Or something to that effect.
I am very disappointed that they really didn’t do anything with the dino and animal models. I was expecting the dino models they showed us for Ark 2. So we know they can do it. I was expecting these much-needed updates. The dinos stick out like sore thumbs compared to the beautiful environment. They look fake and plastic. And they break the immersion in my opinion. I have a fairly decent computer but I cannot play this game. I will have to purchase and entirely new computer to play it and even if I do I have seen loads of people with well above the recommended struggle to play without constantly crashing. I was hoping that they would break with tradition and optimize the game much like most other games out there. They still haven't learned how to do that. I was expecting the Ark 2 build system as well. Disappointment again.
You said they were remaking the game from the bottom up, so it is not stupid to expect the dinos to be included. ;) It isn't unreasonable to expect to play a game I have just paid for and not have to wait until it gets better. I already paid for this game once. I have already been patient playing the game I purchased and experienced promises of them to fix the game that never happened. And I would have to upgrade in order to play with all my tribemates that already purchased ASA. My decent computer will not play it unless I upgrade. I am not the only one saying this. I am aware of how to play Ark on unofficial servers. Quit mansplaining. 🙄 @TWDub
I swear Ark players are like cult members... there is no way a normal human being could possibly play a game in 2023 at 30 fps and be fine with it. The UI and Performance in this game are just straight up the worst in the gaming industry.
I honestly wish they did more to change the pvp. A bunch of people in flak running at mock 10 on foot with bolas flying everywhere killed it for me. I remember when we would bring dinos to siege someone's cool fort.
The game does look great, but I just can't justify the visuals for the performance cost. There are other games out there that look amazing and run pretty well too, like Cyberpunk or Red Dead Redemption 2, and while in a lot of ways this game does look better, it does not look enough better to make up for the huge performance loss vs those other games imo. Idk if that's just Unreal 5 being too hard to run on current hardware, or just the devs poorly optimizing the game, but the problem is there regardless (I'm leaning towards bad optimization honestly, and I hope that's the case lol). Anyway, just doesn't seem worth it imo, at least not atm
Idk, they have done some pretty decent performance updates over the last few days and they've already increased the FPS by 10 for me without doing any of their major updates yet. They are releasing about 2-3 patches a day. At this rate, we'll have a performant game in a couple months maybe. Obviously, you still need a 40 series GPU to get high frames (frame gen is a massive cheat) but you can get 70fps on mid range 30 series GPUs by just playing on all low. Game STILL looks way better than ASE on low. Honestly, ASA is the best looking game I've ever played, and I've played many, MANY games over my entire life. In fact, the Epic settings are actually above our current generations of hardware. You CAN still run in on 4090s, but you have to use DLSS and Frame Gen to get to above 100fps. The raw power just isn't there. Of course, I'm talking about 4k. 2k runs really good.
honestly the game looks ugly AF, especially with everyone needing to run it on low settings I could run ARK at medium to high ish on some settings and get a bit better performance So more of a graphical downgrade if you have to play it at such low settings it makes everything look super orange, clouds look eye wateringly blurry, and textures are so flat it just looks like it might liquid rag doll out of existence in a second
Valve already did this with CS:GO,and guess what the graphical upgrade was free,they charge 40 dollars for this. i got a good amount of hours in Ark and i loved the game,but this is just a quick cashgrab if you ask me.
When it comes to running speed, in the server settings when making your item single player game, there is a check-in that allows you to upgrade running speed.
SOOOO BAD. WE TRIED, WE WERE EXCITED. 3 HOURS IN, WE DELETED THE GAME. LEVEL 100 OUTSIDE MY TWIG BASE IN STARTER AREA. TAIL CLIPPING THROUGH, MAKING ME A PRISONER. CANT PVP WITH A FRIEND ON OUR OWN SERVER. LOL, GARBAGE. (WE LIKE TO GET SURVUVAL GAMES, RENT A SERVER THEN RUN OUR OWN WAYS AND PVP EACH OTHER.. ITS HILARIOUS.) BACK TO RUST WE GO.
Server rentals more than doubled HOLY. And I can’t server host anymore. Damn. That really hurts ASA for me and my friends. Guess we’ll stick with ASE. I haven’t seen a single other video that covers this.
I bought it for 45 bucks and immeadeatly regreted it. The only way i could play it was by streaming it from my laptop witch has a RTX305ti but if u have a shity internet steam game streaming isnt a vaible option for most people. However the final nail in the cofffin for me was when I tried to connect to server it had a bug witch showed "no session found" and imieadiatly afterwards I refunded the game. Not worth it in my opion.
Youre only getting upped graphics its still survival evolved and now you get the added fuck you from snail by being forced into buying a server from a company they owe tons of money to. Never touching this game again. Not worth paying for everything twice.
I was gonna wait out until I get to see youtubers palythrough to now if it's worth it and what you just told me made me not want to buy it. Like ASA would be better then ASE but it has more bugs and no movement speed upgrade, like bruh what??? They literally just copied the game and gave it more bugs... I though it would be something new! Im not buying the game unless they make new maps and make it actually look like two diffrent games that follow similar concept!
Wanted to try this game out but looking at how poorly optimized this game is rn I’ll have to wait a bit, like we have games way more detailed than this game yet the requirements for this game are through the roof 1:32
As a vetern of ASE pvp in all officals and ARKALLTHETIME type stuff... ASA is genuinely more fun alone and with friends. PvP is better, and the optimization is fun. I'm glad it's better than it used to be. ASE has so much nostalgia, but ASA (now) is fun as all hell.
Taaaa no more crack head sonic speed that's great now nobody is faster than the next person way more realistic shit was annoying in real life u not out running a raptors especially alphas 😂😂that a big W my eyes no movement speed is great
I spent 45 minutes trying to join servers both at 65/70 and 10/70 just for me to get “server full” the entire time. I now have a refund because THAT WAS FUCKING BULLSHIT. Also my computer is beefy and I was even getting fps issues in the single player mode. And that was on medium 💀
@@wyattbhoffman lmao when you put a game on sale and ready to download on a store site that’s as close to done as done gets. If you can’t get your servers correct then the game should not be out. Especially when it lacks in terms of stuff to set it apart as a genuinely new game 🤷🏻♂️
@@steelcitykings28 can you read it’s a early access build, literally says this in the description of the game so you may experience bugs and issues, so it’s completely on you if you buy it and aren’t happy because it’s glitchy, if this was a official release I’d completely agree with you but it’s not.
@@wyattbhoffman I’m sorry twinkle toes my point seems to have gone right over that thick skull of yours. The second they put that shit on steam is the second they lose that defense. You can write “early access build” on your fucking description all you want that doesn’t mean shit when it comes to playing the most basic features, something that should’ve been found internally long before it reached ANY of the public. Especially when the game is literally the same fucking game as the first one but with far more issues. Can’t even fix the first one so you got to try taking another games worth of money to fuck up another game or what?
It’s subjective dude. THEIR PUBLISHER is as scummy as it comes. No doubt. But the devs do good work. The devs probably wanna put time into fixing the issues but the publisher wants more microtransactions. Is the game worth $40? If you have the funds, a 4090 and love the game, yes it’s worth it. If you answered no to any of those, it’s probably not worth it. I’m having a blast. After finishing your whole video. And I had thought you were just a NO answer. I actually agree with all your points. 100%.
I have a $1200 computer from best buy and I can run this on High graphics with a 60fps limit. You most certainly don't need a $2K computer. Just use a decent SSD + 16GB ram and at least an NVIDIA 2060 or comperable. I also haven't crashed at all yet. I don't know if that's an update they already pushed.
I have a decent computer, i-7 6700K cpu, 32gb ram, 1650 rtx, and I couldn’t go 2 steps without fps dropping in all low and INI settings. Save to say, I refunded the game. I just wish they would actually optimize the fuckinh game considering a bit portion of their player base doesn’t even care much about graphics but the actual game mechanics.
idk if you still can run your own dedicated server free or not, but i do and don't give af what Nitrado says. i'll buy it when its $15-$20 on steam. i play free on game pass just to try it out. till then i'll keep playing ASE.
Would have been worth 60 if all my DLC's that I bought would have been released at day one in that same 60. I have no NONE interest in playing the island map, my favorites are Abberation and Extinction so july 2024 and october 2024. According to them Ark 2 will be out before that after that they have moved it already from 2022 so even if they move it to the end of 2024 I would have time to play ASA for about 6 months. So Aberration 1440p ASE with S+ is better than ASA the darn Island. If someone knows that ARK 2 will be delayed until 2026 then please inform me. I do also suspect they will have 1 more delay but still start of 2025 will only give me 6 months to play ASA aberration.
Sadly the Favorite Tab isnt even visible at the moment or bugged out completly aswell as showing servers where you have survivors on! In general the performance for PC is just horrible in general! The server issue is still a problem because some Serverhosts straight up refuse to include ASA since theyre pissed at WC / nitrado which is understandable. The game is not optimized in any way shape or form. For The Servers on Nitrado its a minimum of 20 slots for a server which is ludicrious as we want to play with 5 people -.-
To be honest i cant wait for them to add the other maps and optimise. I dont really want to buy it right now but i will definitely get it at some point since this is all of the changes they made are personal complaints i had with the og game
NitrAdo, not Nitrando, lol, loaned millions of dollars to Snail/Wildcard for exclusive server rights to Ark. Snail/Wilcard are mostly broke due to Snail using Ark as a cash cow and putting it's profits towards their other debts (Snail owner tried making an EV company that has built in gaming PC's and it went belly up). If you look into the situation, Nooblets does a good job explaining, you will see that Ark is as close to dead as possible. Wildcard are literally being forced to rush out games with minimal quality consideration to generate revenue. If Ark 2 ever sees the light of day, it is going to be a half finished and buggy nightmare on a scale infinitely worse than the original Ark. Original Ark was a passion project from Wildcard that they put a LOT of time and effort into patching/fixing and it was still a nightmare and still buggy to this day.....can you imagine them putting out Ark and not being given time to work on it/patch it as much as they did? Yeah...now you know what Ark 2 will be in a nutshell.
About your point that you need atleast a 2K computer, not actually true! My friend and I are hardcore ARK PVE fans, but his pc was shit so he couldn’t handle ASA. We decided to go get him a new pc, ended up with a pre-built that was around 1K, and now he’s running ASA on medium-high with 60 fps I have not had any hitmarker issues, something tells me it’s just a ping issue if you do. Titans falling out of the sky, while it still is jarring, it isn’t actually a bug. The Titan is so gigantic that they spawn it high up on purpose so it doesn’t get stuck in the mesh every time it spawns
New players to Ark will definitely enjoy ASA if they enjoy survival-crafting games and if they've never played ASE. If you already own ASE, don't bother buying it at it's current price. Not enough new content or fixes to justify spending your time on.
Pfff okay, Movement speed literally tanked pvp on ASE. If you weren't pumping movement speed, you were pumping damage. Thus, getting rid of movement speed altogether was the best option.
To be honest, most of these things don’t sound like new game changes, it sounds like a bunch of stuff they should have fixed or tweaked in the previous game, where they didn’t give a shit or bother. Then come back 8 years later and republish the same game with updated graphics. Edit: Oh, just got to the server part of the video. Yeah, straight up greed.
The server thing is an absolute catastrophe. I built my own rack mounted server in my home to host various games for me and friends and there's no way in hell I'll pay Nitrado to host it for me. The "SCUM" game did the exact same (unable to host yourself) and it's the primary thing keeping me from playing it with anyone. Such a shame. I'd be truly surprised if this game Ever emerges from the well deserved abysmal depths of negative reviews.
I used to play the old "ark" years ago ... only now I realised that your video is of a new game . I literaly could not tell the diffrent exept that your game never crash! what a fucking sad joke it is....
“If you care about performance” who the fuck looks at 20-30 FPS and is like “Yeah it’s fine” the game looks great… it’s the best power point presentation I’ve seen youtubers play. Wild card always prefers content over performance and it shows they have the exact same launch problems they did almost a decade ago. Same shit different bucket
I cannot believe people are actually paying for this. This should have been an update/overhaul to Ark Survival Evolved. It is baically a "next gen graphical update" with a few other minor tweaks. The greed of modern developers is incredible, yet whats even more incredible are the people still buying such products.
If a game needs to be manually adjusted with console commands to achieve even a sub-60 stable framerate, then that's a massive failure. I wasn't expecting this game to run well, but this is Unreal 5. Did they just actively ignore all the optimization potential of the engine, and focus solely on making it look pretty?
Still doesnt look good IMO, Looks like something out of 2010 game ( Yeah the cinematic camera shots look good but so did 2010 cinematic game play demos) just not up to standard seems buggy as hell per usual dont think this is worth more then 10$ tbh, Then again nothing new for this game really wish this game was better then it is.
No I don't think it's worth the price. Yes it's polished and pretty af but it's just that, the same old same old but like better looking and with 1/2 new creatures and a couple of new mechanics. Maybe if they had made the map more diverse but... yeah 😶
You know why this game isnt worth it ? It makes your pc crash you only play on low graphics and if you change to high graphics you play with 10 fps this is bullshit i play AAA GAMES on high graphics on 60 fps or more like cyberpunk like elden ring like remnant 2 and this game in my opinion has the worst optimization ive ever seen , after my pc crashed i refunded it never in a million years in buying games from wildcard snail etc
Should have changed the title to: An Ark PVP players rant about ASA. As if this game was going to be anything other than a cash grab. I mean, I never played Ark for more than an hour because the original looked so trash. Hoping into the game though, i'm absolutely hooked and know why you dudes put hours into it.
I play single player and non dedicated, I haven't been able to keep a save file for more then 3 real life days. And it's dumb. I thinking the engram system is better, the grass is too tall, and everything else is just sorta meh. I noticed no worth while graphic updates, the resource gathering rates are whatever. And lastly, this is a great example of I should be able to get a refund for the game.
Sooo is this game going to even allow new players? Myself and everyone I know tried ARK SE for about a month. In that time not one of us was ever allowed the most basic of function. This all due to the games design and the most toxic community I've ever seen in a video game. The game took forever to achieve anything and the instant you log off someone just destroys all your work for no reason. On top of that the single player mode was so broken you couldn't even enjoy the game that way. I loved the concept of the game but the execution is the worst I've ever seen. So tell me have they actually fixed anything over the years???
Tbf, none of these matter since they made it a paid game after saying it would be free. And it is fucking expensive. Worst disappointment of all, all others are just "ark".
So to play ask survival asended a game thats 40 + dollars currently on steam will for playere to buy/upgrade their pc/laptops caueet8nb about $2k😂 sure makes total sence to play a 40 usd game i 1st need to blow$ 2,000 or more use to play the 40 dollar game thats surver crashes,more bugs then the past game then pay $26 and fill out paperwork if i wanna hoast a survers im sorry unless you have alot of time and money to waste the new ark is not worth it at all 😂 dont forget the force closed the past ark game ro force players to their new game the pulled a blizzard 😂 this is over watch to overwatch 2 issue all over again just with more bs also dont forget how they fucked over players who pre ordered ark survival asended this game is a money pit that unless your a streamer you're better off finding a new game franchise to have fun with frieds. The hold pre order dramma behind ark survival ascended. I pre orders this game and avter i saw what was being done to other people who pre order it i cancled my pre order its plane to see this game will not be abke to run as smooth as the past ark unless you have a pc or labtop thats 2k or more sooooo im ganna pass they must really think that ark doest have any competitors 😂
Man idk how to feel about ASA i really like ark but i hate the publisher. They've ripped us off so bad so many times, I just don't know if I can anymore.
The graphics fps is a huge problem. Just another game that'll get launch half-baked and updated along the way. We really need some bug and graphic optimization
Seems like valheim is more of a W than Ark remastered.. I feel bad for those who regret buying, it’s okay I bought starfield and quit wayyy before mid game because of how terrible it is.
I agree with most of your points but I do believe the hit reg got a whole lot better in asa, I’ve snipes a lot of small flyers out of the air with a crossbow that would’ve never ever been possible in ase
even if it is better, name one game that has hit reg problems, you really can't, hit reg is one of the most basic aspect of video game coding and the issue stems from wildcard having shit hitbox movement and tracking, when streamers played atlas (an ark knockoff made by wildcard) these streamers who had never played ark were ASTONISHED by how their shots weren't hitting because theyve never seen that in a game before, it goes to show how ark is the only game with this issue and it's a huge downside of ark that makes pvp less skillful and more luck based
ark survival: reskinned its not worth it, its the same game..only thing that is better are graphics, literally nothing else changed ,i have 2000hours on the first game and i hate how ignorant the devs are.. if you bought the game and you played the first one i really dont know what to tell you, hope you enjoy this copy pasted game
Its literally 40 usd get over it thats like a few hours of work from your paycheck and you can play it as long as you like Its good they are not catering to the pvp 9-5 players that ruined the first game by spamming off whole servers and raiding and caging anyone who so much as makes a thatch base on the beach
"Good" specs for minimum and "Pretty Good" for recommended? You know pretty good suggests that it is not "good" but close to it. Your choice of words were wrong/you put them in the wrong order.
I've always thought of "pretty good" as being better then just "good", but I've just looked it up and it seems like most people think of it as slightly worse. so my bad.
06/05/2024 update: They have just released a new $5 pay to win dino with the new center map. After charging us $40 the game, and then $40 for bobs tall tales. All while being 6 new maps behind schedule now. The new dino has pretty much no counter play, and even if someone gave you one, you cant ride it without paying up.
Don't buy this game lmao.
They did fix the Nitrado thing so now you can host your own servers on your machine now without getting a license.
bad servers
The movement change is the best thing, pvp suffered from movement speed issues all fight was won by beening as fast as possible.
You can turn on movement speed btw
you can turn it on in world settings though
Yeah, the game looks better and you'll be able to play it fluently after you've stolen the quantum mainframe from nasa headquaters
LMFAO
just optimize the game
@@kiwi3803 there are points in life where you cant optimize because it wouldnt help
@@yperbeatz5356 I don´t even have the minimum requirements and it works good just because some people don´t understand how to optimize their pc and their games it doesn´t mean that it´s not going to work. I got a 1050 2GB and my CPU is ass if you guys keep downloading the newest drivers of nvidia surely optimizing won´t help for an example.
Lol so true I don't even want to know what console will look like. Just sad because it had so much potential to be one of the greatest games of all time instead it's the most corrupt game of all time. I don't wanna give more money to Chinese government.
the average pvp andy: woooow the games so pretty.... 'sets everything to low, removes all vegetation clutter and textures, plugs in aimbot, ddos's server' aright now im ready to game.
Ya the whole reason for moving to UR5 was to improve those issues. But they went bat shit crazy with upping the graphics that they ruined any chance of ARK SA running well for large bases/PVP battles. It will take YEARs and I mean YEARS now until ARK SA can compete with ARK SE when it comes to accessibility.... ARK SE can run on a gosh darn 560 or 660 GPU, ARK SA can barely run on a 2060, let alone the 1080 they recommend on min. It's nuts. 1080 was the lowest end GPU required to play ARK SE on max graphics at 1080p, and now it's the minimum required to run ARK SA at 20FPS on low.
@@Alte.Kameraden Dude I can run ASE on my old MSi laptop with a 980gtx. It runs on mostly epic with a few of the expensive settings turned off. Runs flawlessly for me. It's almost hard to believe. Most of Arks problems are server, network, and port settings as it requires some knowledge and work on the client side to make the game run more reliably. Especially when playing on Unofficial servers with mods.
The one problem they are yet to fix with ASA is the player cache. If you have all engrams unlocked, thousands of dinos in storage, and alot of data on your character you will get kicked from every server. Just like ASE. It's a shame.
@@Alte.Kameraden Comment aged poorly
Might be an unpopular opinion, but no movement speed multiplier sounds like you might actually have a reason to tame more than a flier, an argy and anky and a doedic.
(Edit) woah most liked comment haha not as unpopular as I thought
I agree
Personally i also think the pvp is better cuz ppl dont just run aways fast as fuck so u cant hit them
Yes it's better when everyone is at equal disadvantage you have to rely on skill and dino
I feel like this should have been a pvp only option, they are trying to sell it as an upgraded perk of pvp but in reality it’s because they know the game can’t handle shit zooming across the map
@aceneto9386 you can just turn on speed leveling in server settings it was never removed entirely
The speed change was more than welcome. It felt really stupid seeing people outrun raptors and other predators. I'm really glad they disabled that and on dinos as well that could be easily abused.
I agree, seeing a raptor is actually scary and not "Haha slow ass mf" Or taming rexes solo will actually not be easy af
Yeah welcome by some and unwelcome by others.
Only pve players like it lol
@@Jriniscool Mostly PVE players liked it, it's very dumb that they disabled it for PVE as well. They could have kept it with PVP No one on PVE is complaining about this shit because we wasn't the one's complaining about it.
its a good thing you can just enable speed leveling inside the "host a server" for the non dedicated players
Notice on your initial video flyover how you only see one spino and very few other dinos? They greatly reduced the dino rate as a workaround to the poor performance. If they spawned as many dinos as in the original, your framerate would be in the single digits.
Traded in dinos in a dino game for pretty pictures. lmao
Oh wow great, a workaround that inconveniences the player
How about they fix the frame rate and leave the Dino’s
the graphics overall was unnecessary. ark had good graphics as it was, we wanted bug fixes and performance fixes which were already a problem with ark and they went and made performance worse.
Take a look at this vid, old bugs weren’t fixed, new bug appeard, server hosting drama. The whole selling point of ASA is graphic. I’ve encountered i chopped a tree 3 times. Usually the tree falling animation will play after you fully harvest it. But it happened for me 3 times. At first, I thought maybe the server was a lil bit laggy, but I remember i play in solo. They may have placed tree at the same spot many time. That graphics part now was counterproductive , it was too much that placing dinos will tank performance.
Spoil alert
Not only that, i take a look at game file, doing some data mining,… Remember the baby dinos and dinos migrate from one place to another? Yes, this problem made a loophole. It’s not bad, in fact i found these two new features are as good as the new pathfinding ai for dinos. But the baby dinos has a threshold to be spawned depending on, let’s say, number of dino pack. Like if you have a group of 3 trikes, it’s highly to spawn 1-2 baby trikes. If you have a group of 10 trikes, the baby dinos can be spawn ranged from 2-5. And that not taking into consideration of the migrating, since if 1 group of 8 migrate to 1 group of 5, the number baby dinos that can be spawned is 50% max of that new groups.
The bigger picture of lacking dinos is they need to figure out what is the optimal number of plantations/vegetations that are placed in the map. That make new features work well, and not tanking performance. Looks like that spawn zone changes a lil bit, but the threshold, max creatures allowed (not counting the baby dinos and dino migrating) still as same as ASE.
The new graphic is counterproductive, even for ASE. Since i give Wildcard benefit of the doubt, “the game just normal as ASE, but dino migrating make the map looks scarce”. But many ark content creator have make a tour around the map, no dinos or very little at all in the mainland, interestingly Carno Island is crowned with dinos, beach have couple of dinos too. And the difference is beach and Carno Island have very least amount of plantations/vegetations compare to big jungle/forest, also the beach is starting zone of many player. They place some dinos there but the Carno Island isn’t spawn zone, but also have very least trees/ bushes.
They either didn’t test new Ark properly or just didn’t test at all and figured this problem out at very late near the day early access.
@@itzigloo ark evolved can't be fixed
On the server topic, that fact that 45-50kl ppl bought the game and the total slots on official servers (pvp+pve+smalls=196 servers x 70 slots) is around 14k. Completely underprepared and some slimy smelly bs imo. You rock Albert!
Do you really think everyone is gonna be playing at the same time ?
@@butterfinger4393 No, but being able to accommodate more than 25% of players would have been a bit smarter. Historically only 40% of the player base has been officials. That would have a been a good mark to shoot for.
@@butterfinger4393 This dude doesn't play ASA. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY this guy plays it.
You do NOT know how it is to leave the autoclicker on for 30 minutes straight trying to enter the server your tribe is in, just for it to crash 5 minutes after you get in.
EVERY SERVER
70
PEOPLE. EVERY SINGLE ONE
@@user-zl1vf4me1p is this on a public server?
@@user-zl1vf4me1p Must suck to suck.
my brother in christ, 7:10 building overhaul is one of the biggest changes in ASA. You were doing so well. You needed to try the building a little bit more. No longer do we have to make separate walls, door frame, windows, etc. Now it's all in 1. You press R to switch between them. No longer can you only pick up structures within 30s only, now it's forever. There's not many restrictions this time around. The snaps are super flexible. They even added new structures like secret walls, quarter walls, cellars, etc. Building on tree platform is actually fun now too. It's a huge overhaul. If you keep playing the game casually you'll notice this no problem.
He said “there is nothing to do underwater”
Lol
Thx for info
I love this comment
@@noroom4commies086 I mean he has a point. There really is nothing to do underwater besides taming certain marine life. But he wasn’t complaining either.
If hes big into just pvp it makes sense, aside from cheesing structures pvp players usually just make a tiny box in a hidden corner and call it a base.
I have over 7k hours in the Original Ark , and Refunded this one in just 2 Hours
Very good glad to see fellow gamers have not all completely lost their minds good decision bro🎉
i may not play asa as much as the original but man am i upset i cant get ark 2 for free or vica versa depending on how you choose to look at it along with asa because too many people had to cry about not getting asa for free. now i either have to pay full price for both or choose one over the other. i may not ever experience asa now because of this ultimatum. regardless as to whether or not some people think asa isnt worth it those that do want to play it get the sht end of the stick because those that dont threw a tantrum. its just a whole lot of selfishness and entitlement.
Better to wait, since Snail could wake up a random monday and shut down another one of their games.. like they always do.
Maybe then people will learn if they do. Think about it once they get all the early access money they just ghost.
Its very pretty but the same old bugs are there. Yeah it looks nicer but from what ive seen and heard it plays and feels the same. Maybe if the bugs from the previous ASE was fixed and there was a noticeable change in performance id get it. but without a new official map and the performance issues i would say its not worth it especially if youve already played every DLC like me.
It has a lot of subtle changes under the hood. It certainly does not play the same at all, meta has changed a lot. There are wild baby dinos now if you don't like to tame the old way.
Kindly play the game first before you provide an opinion lol
@@ramage7646 Ive watched enough reviews to determine if i want to buy it or not you dont have to play the game to make a opinion on it. Im aware of pretty much all the new features. The only thing that interest me is the new building system and visuals. But my biggest deal breaker was performance and its no better than ASE. Im glad youre enjoying ASA though. But for me im going to wait.
@@ramage7646who hasn't seen kbd mod lol
@@Harly206I'm with you bud, a ton of ASA could have been quality of life changes for ASE minus the graphics updates. Babies out in the wild was done for penguins, and people modded in better building
@@ramage7646 All the changes are something I'd expect from a decent mod. Nothing Wildcard has done has justified this sequel, as I feel they could have put the same amount of effort into ASE and achieve the same experience while also fixing bugs instead of porting them.
"Is Ark Survival Ascended Worth It???" I can answer you that question in less then 13:53!!
NO, Not only you have to rebuy whole game but also new pc just to run it, not to mentions lots of other problems!
And also this is still same game, nothing new came and nothing new will come in future, after all its essentially remake!
I don't think it's worth it. When they said ARK SE was going to be ported to Unreal Engine 5. I was excited because I wanted the engine improvement. Not the massive graphic overhaul. I expected the graphics would be better because of the improved engine. But when they showed the first Trailer, my heart sank to my stomach. I knew then ARK SA as I dreamed it was a pipe dream. Massive Bases, huge PVP Battles, it's all a Pipe dream now. Who can run this game and endure a huge base and PVP Battles? I doubt anyone.
It's ridiculous what they did with this game. I mean we only recently in the past few years got to a point that literally anyone could play ARK SE, just ARK SE didn't like newer hardware very much, and UR5 could have fixed that. Honestly what Wildcard did here with ARK SA I think they did to justify charging players more for the game. But as a result we have a game that is now insanely inaccessible when compared to ARK SE.
I call ARK SA Insanity, because I don't want to think what went on during meetings for this game. They went beyond just a port in the worst ways possible personally. I don't want the graphics, I want the other game improvements like UI/Building/Etc, but if I turn graphics down even to LOW, it will not run as well as ARK SE does on Epic on my computer, which I find insulting. The Polar OPPOSITE of what I hoped for when ARK SA was announced. I SPIT at this game.
ERRR but you can just turn the graphics down, use console commands remove the sky. etc... ya but by that point the game starts looking WORSE than ARK SE, making it pointless.
Everyone knew that ASA was a money grab for ARK 2 "allegedly". I think the devs waisted more time and effort on ASA as, as soon as ARK 2 drops ASA will be just another game in everyone's steam and console library.
@@bulletant880 ark 2 will be a fundamentally different game tho
1. Devs add new particle effects to make it look nice,
2. Crashes and lags people's game.
3. Devs and content creators, just turn them off, here's what I use "produces a high end computer"
What was the fucking point in the update that updates our graphics, to then just play it on a lower setting 😂,
Just gunna keep playing ASE but use mods that do the same thing as ASA.
And I don't like the fact that the "community" got what they wanted when they got Ark 2 seperate from the bundle and ASA not a free update. Like how is that a fucking Upgrade, people are just Idiots 😂
If you disable some settings through using the console (such as the volumetric clouds) you'll more than double your fps. And because they use all the new UE5 engine features bigger bases won't mean lesser performance like in ASE. So if you're able to run the game well enough you'll be able to run the game well enough. The only limiting factor in having more things happening on screen will be your cpu power. Cool thing is that if you're system is really old or scrappy, you can upgrade to a new platform by going pure budget, not paying much and still being able to run ASA well.
@@DeltaNovum To be honest you'd need a bare minimum of a 4070 to run ARK SA well currently. Which isn't what I'd call budget. A 3060 isn't even budget yet because of the current pricings. Budget build is a system that you can argue is under $1000 USD, something that is a bit more expensive than a video game console but not absurdly more expensive. Though I'd argue many consider budget builds something that is comparable price wise to a console.
Issue is you're not going to get a PC that runs ARK SA at this moment that is under $1000, so no, there is no budget build currently that I think can run this game reasonably.
If they fix the problems I'm planning on upgrading my PC to a 4070 and 32GB of RAM. I already have a CPU
Right now I'd say a budget built would be using a used 1080 on the cheap, maybe a 2060 or 2070. None of which will run this game well. 2080ti can technically run it well with the tweaks you mentioned, but if you're using console commands to fix FPS issues that's still a serious problem with the game.
It’s terribly designed. Constant crashing and awful performamce. I’ll stick with AsE for now.
The real game has always been better. I'll never play ASA. Long live Ark Survival Evolved.
Just to make sure you are aware. The pathfinding is a UE5 thing. Wildcard will have done minimal work on that
what's new about pathfinding in unreal engine 5?
@@Averysh It features a significantly better navmesh and associated functions. A Navmesh is how an AI agent determines where it can and can not move. So just updating and using these prebuilt functions would have resulted in significantly better pathfinding
@@wtfwhoisthisguy oh i see, i've used navmesh in unity but i have no experience with unreal engine
asa hit boxes and wild dino ai feels worse than ase, on asa dinos literally can't hit you if you move left or right, picks are bugged, the characters are soooooo small and hit reg is god awful
characters are so small you cant see them in the grass thats everywhere on the map, I honestly think its 2 steps forward 3 steps back (mesh holes from 2015 are back in the game aswell)
Yes very, I think it's all fixable and will be better in the future. But I literally had a Rex that couldn't track me out of a river as it couldn't swim
The hit reg is perfect wdym lmao
@@yhiz4757 it's really not, it feels worse than ase tbh
No, it really does feel 100x better. Even top PVP youtubers have noticed that day one.
I also have been personally hitting shots that just wouldn't have been possible on ASE. Also, you can ACTUALLY hit ichthyornis's with arrows and rocks now, where it was nearly impossible in ASE. I was even hitting flick shots.
Clearly the hit reg is better. Idk about you.
Also, wild dino AI is massively better after some short testing. They can navigate around rocks, and even get to you on top of them. They also don't just leap off cliffs after you anymore. They actually find a safe path down to you. They do the same to get up the cliff, as well.
Oh, and if you attack baby dinos, parent dinos that are usually passive like parasaurs will actually protect their young and attack you if they have to.
I hit a baby parasaur by accident and it and the other babies ran to the mom to hide under it. The mom even stood in a stance without moving while staring at me.
@@SimplyTexy
The reason why the shadows set to low lets you see underwater is because it literally disables all the shadows. And the way your vision is clouded underwater is because of the shadows.
Honestly, for me the performance is so far the worst aspect.
They promised a game in a new engine, that runs better, with less bugs and DLSS/FSR (which hugely boost performance) and ... we get a game that runs worse than 2015 ARK imo.
You are litteraly required to run DLSS or FSR to even get above 60 FPS. Atleast if you don't own sth like a fricking RTX 4070 or higher...
Just to shut some arguments down: I litteraly got like a 1,5k computer (which is more worth than my car) and this game runs like dogwater.
I think it's important to note, despite the graphics being absolutely beautiful in comparison to ASE. Unless you are running a 4000 series you will have to tone down the graphics to a point were it's on par if not even worse to ASE with a lower frame rate.
Im running the recommend hardware sepcs and can say my game looks nothing like the trailers or somw video's you see online with 4090's
Psa: you no longer have to buy slots in order to host your own servers.
What do you mean?
What's the point in the game looking good if you have to run it at low settings? Completely pointless. Obviously there are tons of good features but I'm not playing a game at below 60 fps with a RX 7900 XT in 2023. No way.
I hope they change the dino models because although some of the ported creatures look good or fine, there's quite a lot that look very bad, especially against the backdrop.
As for the map itself, it looks good aside from the ground clutter because a lot of the grass and stones float.
For the bugs it's ridiculous considering they talked about how they are cleaning and rebuilding the code yet the reload bug that was there from day 1 ASE is still there day 1 ASA along with all the other bugs. So they clearly didn't and cut corners.
Floating rocks were introduced after a performance hotfix, should be gone after a few days.
don't forget certain bugs that kills the pvp like turrets not shooting rockets when you jump and ignoring grenades completly aswell as the ability to change your game to a Hard INI with simple ingame commands and the bug with the trapdoor bringing you under the map (aka mesh) everywhere by setting them to open into the bottom
TLCs are coming soon, many of them. They will be based on votes, so its our job to decide what needs a TLC more. I honestly love the voting system they do.
@@fruitybluieblue098 The ones that need it are those that came before Genesis that haven't already had a TLC.
Excluding a small handful where their model isn't actually that bad.
Spent hours on the game just for it to crash, losing hours of progress, no proper save system. Too me the game is unplayable and the Servers are too laggy.
Thing is they always said they'd optimize their last title and it never happened. If you head to the steam store right now you can see the game ARK: Survival Evolved has minimum requirements but not recommended. They'll always gaslight you about adding content then optimizing. Or something to that effect.
they said they would fix it until they realized it was impossible
This is just a paid update for the game, it would be better as a dlc, nothing has really changed and they changed the vibe for the game.
I am very disappointed that they really didn’t do anything with the dino and animal models. I was expecting the dino models they showed us for Ark 2. So we know they can do it. I was expecting these much-needed updates. The dinos stick out like sore thumbs compared to the beautiful environment. They look fake and plastic. And they break the immersion in my opinion. I have a fairly decent computer but I cannot play this game. I will have to purchase and entirely new computer to play it and even if I do I have seen loads of people with well above the recommended struggle to play without constantly crashing.
I was hoping that they would break with tradition and optimize the game much like most other games out there. They still haven't learned how to do that.
I was expecting the Ark 2 build system as well. Disappointment again.
You said they were remaking the game from the bottom up, so it is not stupid to expect the dinos to be included. ;) It isn't unreasonable to expect to play a game I have just paid for and not have to wait until it gets better. I already paid for this game once. I have already been patient playing the game I purchased and experienced promises of them to fix the game that never happened.
And I would have to upgrade in order to play with all my tribemates that already purchased ASA. My decent computer will not play it unless I upgrade. I am not the only one saying this.
I am aware of how to play Ark on unofficial servers. Quit mansplaining. 🙄 @TWDub
I swear Ark players are like cult members... there is no way a normal human being could possibly play a game in 2023 at 30 fps and be fine with it. The UI and Performance in this game are just straight up the worst in the gaming industry.
I honestly wish they did more to change the pvp. A bunch of people in flak running at mock 10 on foot with bolas flying everywhere killed it for me. I remember when we would bring dinos to siege someone's cool fort.
The game does look great, but I just can't justify the visuals for the performance cost. There are other games out there that look amazing and run pretty well too, like Cyberpunk or Red Dead Redemption 2, and while in a lot of ways this game does look better, it does not look enough better to make up for the huge performance loss vs those other games imo. Idk if that's just Unreal 5 being too hard to run on current hardware, or just the devs poorly optimizing the game, but the problem is there regardless (I'm leaning towards bad optimization honestly, and I hope that's the case lol). Anyway, just doesn't seem worth it imo, at least not atm
Idk, they have done some pretty decent performance updates over the last few days and they've already increased the FPS by 10 for me without doing any of their major updates yet.
They are releasing about 2-3 patches a day. At this rate, we'll have a performant game in a couple months maybe.
Obviously, you still need a 40 series GPU to get high frames (frame gen is a massive cheat) but you can get 70fps on mid range 30 series GPUs by just playing on all low.
Game STILL looks way better than ASE on low.
Honestly, ASA is the best looking game I've ever played, and I've played many, MANY games over my entire life.
In fact, the Epic settings are actually above our current generations of hardware. You CAN still run in on 4090s, but you have to use DLSS and Frame Gen to get to above 100fps. The raw power just isn't there. Of course, I'm talking about 4k. 2k runs really good.
I agree, it looks good but not all that great. ASE is very nice on max settings, not worth the performance hit imo
@@fubhobama Low on ASA looks better than Epic on ASE imo
I find it funny that people actually listen to this garbo company & it’s publisher still ….😂
honestly the game looks ugly AF, especially with everyone needing to run it on low settings
I could run ARK at medium to high ish on some settings and get a bit better performance
So more of a graphical downgrade if you have to play it at such low settings it makes everything look super orange, clouds look eye wateringly blurry, and textures are so flat it just looks like it might liquid rag doll out of existence in a second
the weird thing is that i got used to the new graphics so fast that it doesnt feel special anymore. its just the new normal.
how did you say it looks much better when your on the lowest setting at or below 30 fps your gameplay looks like garbage
i hoped they optimized this, ASE is game from 2015 but still pretty heavy even for 3000 gtx series, like wth even witcher 3 runs super smooth
I think a lot of the big dev studios just forgot how to optimize lmao
@@saudade7842 maybe, just take a look at witcher 3 even gtx 1050 still can run it on high setting and it run smoothly
istg i said the exact same thing about the menu!! it really does look like fortnite
Two steps forward 7 steps back
"They changed the character creator"
"Awww, they probably took the crazy sliders away"
"No no, They made them way worse, and added more sliders."
woohoo
12:54” he can see around like it’s Kansas”
they made everything prettier but the things under the surface got worse. not surprising, this is how theyve handled the game since the beginning.
Graphical upgrade is to be expected but did they fix ANY of the bugs the game has had for the better part of the last decade?
Im surprised that you can play a game in 30 fps and enjoy it, what resolution are you playing on as well?
Valve already did this with CS:GO,and guess what the graphical upgrade was free,they charge 40 dollars for this.
i got a good amount of hours in Ark and i loved the game,but this is just a quick cashgrab if you ask me.
When it comes to running speed, in the server settings when making your item single player game, there is a check-in that allows you to upgrade running speed.
All you need is a $2k pc, $60 more for the game, $26/month, and you might be able to experience 20 mins of fun before it crashes.
Is'nt it strange how a "good" computer is regarded as better than a "pretty good" computer
I heard that only PlayStation and Xbox can cross play. Hopefully the cheating issue can be resolved on console version.😢
SOOOO BAD.
WE TRIED, WE WERE EXCITED.
3 HOURS IN, WE DELETED THE GAME.
LEVEL 100 OUTSIDE MY TWIG BASE IN STARTER AREA. TAIL CLIPPING THROUGH, MAKING ME A PRISONER.
CANT PVP WITH A FRIEND ON OUR OWN SERVER. LOL, GARBAGE.
(WE LIKE TO GET SURVUVAL GAMES, RENT A SERVER THEN RUN OUR OWN WAYS AND PVP EACH OTHER.. ITS HILARIOUS.)
BACK TO RUST WE GO.
Server rentals more than doubled HOLY. And I can’t server host anymore. Damn. That really hurts ASA for me and my friends. Guess we’ll stick with ASE. I haven’t seen a single other video that covers this.
I bought it for 45 bucks and immeadeatly regreted it. The only way i could play it was by streaming it from my laptop witch has a RTX305ti but if u have a shity internet steam game streaming isnt a vaible option for most people. However the final nail in the cofffin for me was when I tried to connect to server it had a bug witch showed "no session found" and imieadiatly afterwards I refunded the game. Not worth it in my opion.
Youre only getting upped graphics its still survival evolved and now you get the added fuck you from snail by being forced into buying a server from a company they owe tons of money to. Never touching this game again. Not worth paying for everything twice.
I was gonna wait out until I get to see youtubers palythrough to now if it's worth it and what you just told me made me not want to buy it. Like ASA would be better then ASE but it has more bugs and no movement speed upgrade, like bruh what??? They literally just copied the game and gave it more bugs... I though it would be something new! Im not buying the game unless they make new maps and make it actually look like two diffrent games that follow similar concept!
Wanted to try this game out but looking at how poorly optimized this game is rn I’ll have to wait a bit, like we have games way more detailed than this game yet the requirements for this game are through the roof 1:32
No matter how great the graphics are, if it doesn't achieve the bare minimum of 60fps on most computers then it is not worth buying it.
As a vetern of ASE pvp in all officals and ARKALLTHETIME type stuff...
ASA is genuinely more fun alone and with friends. PvP is better, and the optimization is fun. I'm glad it's better than it used to be. ASE has so much nostalgia, but ASA (now) is fun as all hell.
Taaaa no more crack head sonic speed that's great now nobody is faster than the next person way more realistic shit was annoying in real life u not out running a raptors especially alphas 😂😂that a big W my eyes no movement speed is great
I spent 45 minutes trying to join servers both at 65/70 and 10/70 just for me to get “server full” the entire time. I now have a refund because THAT WAS FUCKING BULLSHIT. Also my computer is beefy and I was even getting fps issues in the single player mode. And that was on medium 💀
We got a fucking update/dlc as a brand “new” game 💀
It’s not even full release it’s preview work in progress
@@wyattbhoffman lmao when you put a game on sale and ready to download on a store site that’s as close to done as done gets. If you can’t get your servers correct then the game should not be out. Especially when it lacks in terms of stuff to set it apart as a genuinely new game 🤷🏻♂️
@@steelcitykings28 can you read it’s a early access build, literally says this in the description of the game so you may experience bugs and issues, so it’s completely on you if you buy it and aren’t happy because it’s glitchy, if this was a official release I’d completely agree with you but it’s not.
@@wyattbhoffman I’m sorry twinkle toes my point seems to have gone right over that thick skull of yours. The second they put that shit on steam is the second they lose that defense. You can write “early access build” on your fucking description all you want that doesn’t mean shit when it comes to playing the most basic features, something that should’ve been found internally long before it reached ANY of the public. Especially when the game is literally the same fucking game as the first one but with far more issues. Can’t even fix the first one so you got to try taking another games worth of money to fuck up another game or what?
It’s subjective dude. THEIR PUBLISHER is as scummy as it comes. No doubt. But the devs do good work. The devs probably wanna put time into fixing the issues but the publisher wants more microtransactions.
Is the game worth $40? If you have the funds, a 4090 and love the game, yes it’s worth it. If you answered no to any of those, it’s probably not worth it. I’m having a blast.
After finishing your whole video. And I had thought you were just a NO answer. I actually agree with all your points. 100%.
I have a $1200 computer from best buy and I can run this on High graphics with a 60fps limit. You most certainly don't need a $2K computer. Just use a decent SSD + 16GB ram and at least an NVIDIA 2060 or comperable.
I also haven't crashed at all yet. I don't know if that's an update they already pushed.
😮 1:20 honestly I'm really loving the looks of ASA compared to ASE ngll
I have a decent computer, i-7 6700K cpu, 32gb ram, 1650 rtx, and I couldn’t go 2 steps without fps dropping in all low and INI settings. Save to say, I refunded the game. I just wish they would actually optimize the fuckinh game considering a bit portion of their player base doesn’t even care much about graphics but the actual game mechanics.
idk if you still can run your own dedicated server free or not, but i do and don't give af what Nitrado says. i'll buy it when its $15-$20 on steam. i play free on game pass just to try it out. till then i'll keep playing ASE.
Would have been worth 60 if all my DLC's that I bought would have been released at day one in that same 60. I have no NONE interest in playing the island map, my favorites are Abberation and Extinction so july 2024 and october 2024. According to them Ark 2 will be out before that after that they have moved it already from 2022 so even if they move it to the end of 2024 I would have time to play ASA for about 6 months. So Aberration 1440p ASE with S+ is better than ASA the darn Island.
If someone knows that ARK 2 will be delayed until 2026 then please inform me. I do also suspect they will have 1 more delay but still start of 2025 will only give me 6 months to play ASA aberration.
Sadly the Favorite Tab isnt even visible at the moment or bugged out completly aswell as showing servers where you have survivors on! In general the performance for PC is just horrible in general! The server issue is still a problem because some Serverhosts straight up refuse to include ASA since theyre pissed at WC / nitrado which is understandable. The game is not optimized in any way shape or form.
For The Servers on Nitrado its a minimum of 20 slots for a server which is ludicrious as we want to play with 5 people -.-
To be honest i cant wait for them to add the other maps and optimise. I dont really want to buy it right now but i will definitely get it at some point since this is all of the changes they made are personal complaints i had with the og game
NitrAdo, not Nitrando, lol, loaned millions of dollars to Snail/Wildcard for exclusive server rights to Ark. Snail/Wilcard are mostly broke due to Snail using Ark as a cash cow and putting it's profits towards their other debts (Snail owner tried making an EV company that has built in gaming PC's and it went belly up). If you look into the situation, Nooblets does a good job explaining, you will see that Ark is as close to dead as possible. Wildcard are literally being forced to rush out games with minimal quality consideration to generate revenue. If Ark 2 ever sees the light of day, it is going to be a half finished and buggy nightmare on a scale infinitely worse than the original Ark. Original Ark was a passion project from Wildcard that they put a LOT of time and effort into patching/fixing and it was still a nightmare and still buggy to this day.....can you imagine them putting out Ark and not being given time to work on it/patch it as much as they did? Yeah...now you know what Ark 2 will be in a nutshell.
I bought the game. I don’t regret it all too much, but too many god damn transactions.
About your point that you need atleast a 2K computer, not actually true! My friend and I are hardcore ARK PVE fans, but his pc was shit so he couldn’t handle ASA. We decided to go get him a new pc, ended up with a pre-built that was around 1K, and now he’s running ASA on medium-high with 60 fps
I have not had any hitmarker issues, something tells me it’s just a ping issue if you do.
Titans falling out of the sky, while it still is jarring, it isn’t actually a bug. The Titan is so gigantic that they spawn it high up on purpose so it doesn’t get stuck in the mesh every time it spawns
New players to Ark will definitely enjoy ASA if they enjoy survival-crafting games and if they've never played ASE. If you already own ASE, don't bother buying it at it's current price. Not enough new content or fixes to justify spending your time on.
Pfff okay,
Movement speed literally tanked pvp on ASE.
If you weren't pumping movement speed, you were pumping damage.
Thus, getting rid of movement speed altogether was the best option.
Seeing like it’s Kansas made me laugh lmao good video
pretty sure u cannot upgrade speed on ANYTHING anymore.
Every reviewer yt seems to hate this game but there's like a 100k olayers everyday on steam and tons of series on yt
To be honest, most of these things don’t sound like new game changes, it sounds like a bunch of stuff they should have fixed or tweaked in the previous game, where they didn’t give a shit or bother. Then come back 8 years later and republish the same game with updated graphics.
Edit: Oh, just got to the server part of the video. Yeah, straight up greed.
The server thing is an absolute catastrophe. I built my own rack mounted server in my home to host various games for me and friends and there's no way in hell I'll pay Nitrado to host it for me.
The "SCUM" game did the exact same (unable to host yourself) and it's the primary thing keeping me from playing it with anyone.
Such a shame. I'd be truly surprised if this game Ever emerges from the well deserved abysmal depths of negative reviews.
I used to play the old "ark" years ago ...
only now I realised that your video is of a new game .
I literaly could not tell the diffrent exept that your game never crash! what a fucking sad joke it is....
“If you care about performance” who the fuck looks at 20-30 FPS and is like
“Yeah it’s fine” the game looks great… it’s the best power point presentation I’ve seen youtubers play. Wild card always prefers content over performance and it shows they have the exact same launch problems they did almost a decade ago. Same shit different bucket
I personally dont really care what my fps is, as long as it's atleast 30
I cannot believe people are actually paying for this.
This should have been an update/overhaul to Ark Survival Evolved. It is baically a "next gen graphical update" with a few other minor tweaks.
The greed of modern developers is incredible, yet whats even more incredible are the people still buying such products.
No movement speed wow ill never play this
No.
If a game needs to be manually adjusted with console commands to achieve even a sub-60 stable framerate, then that's a massive failure.
I wasn't expecting this game to run well, but this is Unreal 5. Did they just actively ignore all the optimization potential of the engine, and focus solely on making it look pretty?
Still doesnt look good IMO, Looks like something out of 2010 game ( Yeah the cinematic camera shots look good but so did 2010 cinematic game play demos) just not up to standard seems buggy as hell per usual dont think this is worth more then 10$ tbh, Then again nothing new for this game really wish this game was better then it is.
No I don't think it's worth the price. Yes it's polished and pretty af but it's just that, the same old same old but like better looking and with 1/2 new creatures and a couple of new mechanics. Maybe if they had made the map more diverse but... yeah 😶
You know why this game isnt worth it ? It makes your pc crash you only play on low graphics and if you change to high graphics you play with 10 fps this is bullshit i play AAA GAMES on high graphics on 60 fps or more like cyberpunk like elden ring like remnant 2 and this game in my opinion has the worst optimization ive ever seen , after my pc crashed i refunded it never in a million years in buying games from wildcard snail etc
No, it is not worth the buy. (experienced player with 11k hours on ASE here). Just another Wildcard/Snail Games rip off.
Should have changed the title to: An Ark PVP players rant about ASA. As if this game was going to be anything other than a cash grab. I mean, I never played Ark for more than an hour because the original looked so trash. Hoping into the game though, i'm absolutely hooked and know why you dudes put hours into it.
I play single player and non dedicated, I haven't been able to keep a save file for more then 3 real life days. And it's dumb. I thinking the engram system is better, the grass is too tall, and everything else is just sorta meh. I noticed no worth while graphic updates, the resource gathering rates are whatever. And lastly, this is a great example of I should be able to get a refund for the game.
Sooo is this game going to even allow new players? Myself and everyone I know tried ARK SE for about a month. In that time not one of us was ever allowed the most basic of function. This all due to the games design and the most toxic community I've ever seen in a video game. The game took forever to achieve anything and the instant you log off someone just destroys all your work for no reason. On top of that the single player mode was so broken you couldn't even enjoy the game that way. I loved the concept of the game but the execution is the worst I've ever seen. So tell me have they actually fixed anything over the years???
Tbf, none of these matter since they made it a paid game after saying it would be free. And it is fucking expensive. Worst disappointment of all, all others are just "ark".
They were supposed to give this to us. Hell no, it's not worth it. From free to $60? They can eat it. I won't even buy Ark 2 because they suck.
I have a 3080ti 5800x and when in action the fps drop was unplayable, I refunded it think it's terrible personally
So to play ask survival asended a game thats 40 + dollars currently on steam will for playere to buy/upgrade their pc/laptops caueet8nb about $2k😂 sure makes total sence to play a 40 usd game i 1st need to blow$ 2,000 or more use to play the 40 dollar game thats surver crashes,more bugs then the past game then pay $26 and fill out paperwork if i wanna hoast a survers im sorry unless you have alot of time and money to waste the new ark is not worth it at all 😂 dont forget the force closed the past ark game ro force players to their new game the pulled a blizzard 😂 this is over watch to overwatch 2 issue all over again just with more bs also dont forget how they fucked over players who pre ordered ark survival asended this game is a money pit that unless your a streamer you're better off finding a new game franchise to have fun with frieds. The hold pre order dramma behind ark survival ascended. I pre orders this game and avter i saw what was being done to other people who pre order it i cancled my pre order its plane to see this game will not be abke to run as smooth as the past ark unless you have a pc or labtop thats 2k or more sooooo im ganna pass they must really think that ark doest have any competitors 😂
Man idk how to feel about ASA i really like ark but i hate the publisher. They've ripped us off so bad so many times, I just don't know if I can anymore.
The graphics fps is a huge problem. Just another game that'll get launch half-baked and updated along the way. We really need some bug and graphic optimization
Seems like valheim is more of a W than Ark remastered..
I feel bad for those who regret buying, it’s okay I bought starfield and quit wayyy before mid game because of how terrible it is.
I agree with most of your points but I do believe the hit reg got a whole lot better in asa, I’ve snipes a lot of small flyers out of the air with a crossbow that would’ve never ever been possible in ase
I sniped an icthy like 20 mins ago, it isn't all that bad in ASE.
even if it is better, name one game that has hit reg problems, you really can't, hit reg is one of the most basic aspect of video game coding and the issue stems from wildcard having shit hitbox movement and tracking, when streamers played atlas (an ark knockoff made by wildcard) these streamers who had never played ark were ASTONISHED by how their shots weren't hitting because theyve never seen that in a game before, it goes to show how ark is the only game with this issue and it's a huge downside of ark that makes pvp less skillful and more luck based
ark survival: reskinned
its not worth it, its the same game..only thing that is better are graphics, literally nothing else changed ,i have 2000hours on the first game and i hate how ignorant the devs are..
if you bought the game and you played the first one i really dont know what to tell you, hope you enjoy this copy pasted game
Its literally 40 usd get over it thats like a few hours of work from your paycheck and you can play it as long as you like Its good they are not catering to the pvp 9-5 players that ruined the first game by spamming off whole servers and raiding and caging anyone who so much as makes a thatch base on the beach
This game is a cash grab
"Good" specs for minimum and "Pretty Good" for recommended? You know pretty good suggests that it is not "good" but close to it. Your choice of words were wrong/you put them in the wrong order.
I've always thought of "pretty good" as being better then just "good", but I've just looked it up and it seems like most people think of it as slightly worse. so my bad.