Unlike most games today I have followed arks story from the very beginning, watched all the theories with Ante, played all the maps at least once, and crashed more than The amount of hours I've put into this game. I've loss countless dinos in stupid, frustrating and sad ways. Watched friends come and go as we play this game together, slayed great monsters by myself, only for my little brother to erase my save file lol. In the end what always struck me is the atmosphere and sense that your story only ends when you give up. I love this game through thick and thin till this game even at the most frustrating moments. Thank you ark for all you are and aren't!
@@agoogleuser1570 I like to think most ark players are represented by the people on the arks in the last extinction cutscenes. Never ascended/fought the bosses, but survived on the arks.
@@agoogleuser1570 I think you could probably count on one hand the number of people who have beat alpha king titan on official pvp servers. That always makes me a little happy to think about.
I genuinely think of ark is done properly, proper actors etc a good director.. I feel legitimately like it could be the next Star Wars.. maybe a trilogy fallowing the 3 Santiago’s?
I love the little detail in the Extinction Prologue when One Who Waits remembers she’s still Helena, she loses the echo in her voice and sounds more human
@@JU1CET1N It's part of the lore, but basically there's a class of humans that transcend and become energy. When we 'ascend' we just move to another Ark, but she stayed that energy form. That's why she looks all ghostly and surreal when we speak to her. Apparently these special ascended people (I think the 'Homo Deus' but I'm unsure) eventually exist for so long in that state that they lose their humanity, memories, sanity etc. She says most of them can't communicate with her anymore.
I remember hearing Aberration's soundtrack and fell in love with it. The music they made for the Aberration intro cutscene made it so much better. It was my favorite until Genesis Part 2 came out and it was worth the grind to hear Journey's End play in the end credits.
Ark is an amazing story and I'm grateful that they finally did it justice with these scenes all now tying it together. And it makes the player feel so much more a part of it. Great job Ned
I honestly like that scorched earth finally has an ascension cutscene, it needed one for how long, Honestly it should've recieved it during Extinction's release
Did anybody else wonder what H-N-L-A meant when she said she was backing herself up? Like backing up data to the cloud but in this case into another body? Like how when we die our memories (engrams) get backed up into a new body?
She's still a construct, so she would theoretically be capable of upload a backup of her mind somewhere to survive her physical body being destroyed. But, she was almost out of time, and spent that time with Edmund instead.
These cutscenes bring clarity to the story and it’s events, that is something that the ARK story is hurt by. The charm is that it felt like a mystery, that at first glance, is too big to comprehend. With all of its gaps, the story was to be interpreted by the survivors. Also the aberration prologue is the coolest
I've never played anything outside the Island and Fjordur, but damn does this game's lore have a place in my heart. Up there with the likes of Subnautica and Portal when it comes to sci-fi game stories.
I’m watching this for the first time and just, wow. This is deep on so many levels. I can’t wait to see Helena’s story explored in the animated series!
I still cant believe how far the story has come... how much effort went into it and how less we actually as the player notice while playing. I mean the first time we really noticed, if you skipped reading anything and ignored all hints, is the ending of extinction. people had no clue who that floating person was.. helena... many didnt care but honestly, this game offers so much still, despite the bugs and infuriating AI... Ark is and will always be one of its kind.
It’s very clear that this game won’t be dead once ark 2 launches. They are adding so much to it now, we’ve still got years of enjoyment and fun left on this first game, I think.
Also ARK 2 is going to be very different from ARK 1 in terms of gameplay (according to Wildcard). I get a feeling its not going to be everyone's cup of tea.
This is brilliant! The only part they haven't shown as story is how we actually ended up in the simulation for gen 1, instead it skips that part and goes right into gen 2 where it says the corruption had followed us from the simulation But it's still a brilliant video, thanks you neddy, looking forward to your own Aberration part 2 video
Aberration was the first paid döc map i bought and I absolutely fell in love with it its such a unique world and flying with rock drakes is so cool in this world and also the journey down for the first time I play with my sister and we went down there and it was a journey full of emotions because we almost died and barely made it out best dlc ever
Aberration instilled fear and excitement in every corner. Its the best map for anyone to start out. If you can survive this map, other maps are a piece of cake. Aberration is Nightmare fuel compared to every map as well as being the most serene and beautiful map on top of it. Every corner you are in awe of how stunning the world looks.
Well, "the best": he had sounds in from something like a device disconnecting during the Aberration ascension, and was shooting a Tek Rifle during Rockwell's voicelines.
1:45 I've been playing this game since alpha and this scene right here, when this was added to the game and it was revealed we are the remnant clones of humanity hovering around on arks above a dead earth that changed EVERYTHING for me about Ark. It went from an amazing dinosaur taming survival game to something that speaks to my very core in storytelling, the unlimited grit of humanity never giving up even in the face of extinction creating a system that will forge the best of the best humans, the ALPHA tribes to take back our world.
15:29 99% sure Helena says "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *it* from the soil" but the subtitles still read it as "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *element* from the soil"
This was the first next gen game i ever owned for xbox and my first xbox one title after watching vanoss and riot play the game. Ark will always be a part of my love for survival games and my favorite game of all time, even if snail has murdered it more than once somehow... I'll never forget you ark for getting me into gaming
At 12:50 when Helena said "the love that I found" she is talking about me yin, we already knew she was gay but now that I think about it imagine how heart broken she was when she found out about me yin and Diana.
When did we "know she was gay" i think they just added that for the LGBTQ, or because they thought it would be weird to have no gay people in their whole series
Finally complete history ! A fantastic journey far all players. Thanks Wildcard. Thanks for every hours spent on this game. I think... I have something in my eyes...
So, no one’s gonna talk about how, if you built your base in the sanctuary, it and all the tames there canonically get blown to smithereens once the ARKs land?
Yeah I want more people to ask about the survivor :( Personally, I think the survivor returns on the new planet, still in tek suit. Probably with tek helmet on all the time to not show who he is cause its a player-made character, turned NPC in ark 2. Like they did with the main character in Far cry 5 who became an NPC in Far cry new dawn
And in some other universe, we find out that HLNA transfered her memory into your Exo Mech and claims it as her new body. She also now names herself HW-7274...
Why are you still here? Staying behind to gloat? Edmund... I'm here to help you end this nightmare. You did this to me, for wanting the same power she squandered! Well, I've survived worse! I promise you I will find a way out of this. I will! No, you won't. It's much too late for that. It's so bright! Helena...? I'm afraid! Shhh. She knew.
Dude it's so crazy how Rockwell corrupted aberration so much it even changed the dinos, like ravengers are mutated wolves or sabers and everything glows like it's radioactive, He changed so much he made a map that looked like extinction into aberration
@@dabirby2305 I thought aberration was once like extinction but Rockwell experimented with element ingesting it, becoming the creature you fight on Abberation that was once Rockwell pretty much terraformed the ark changing it and it's creatures
@@akcr2889 aberration once was the island, until santiago blew up a part of it with a tek bomb, thinking it was a prison, and that broke the artificial atmosphere, stopping the sun from burning them alive, so they dug out a cave to survive the sun, and also built the portal to escape to extinction, so the cave was from santiago (with rockwell most likely partially helping make it bigger)
Actually, the caves were already present to some extent prior to Diana and Santiago presenting the Overseer with the fabled tek pipe bomb, so at the very least the Fertile Chambers and perhaps the Bioluminescent Chambers were already present at that time. The Elemental Chambers were most likely either the ARK's infrastructure that ended up being exposed and morphed into what it is now following the Overseer Station crash landing and falling to the bottom of the ARK, or was originally it's iteration of the Tek Cave given the presence of the portal to the Overseer Station at the bottom of the Drake Trench and the pathway leading there bearing some similarities to that of The Island's TC. From the very beginning, Ab was likely one of the more "experimental" ARKs like SE. Element ore nodes were present both on the surface and upper layer caverns even before the pipe bomb incident so the survivors never even needed to fight the Guardians for access to the valuable resource, and the surface itself was likely more comparable to the Fertile Chambers. It's possible that either the Overseer itself, in its last moments of functionality, or the back-up programming of the ARK stopped the regeneration of element ore nodes within all but the surface and elemental chambers while also creating the Nameless and Reapers to punish the survivors for the pipe bomb incident, in a manner similar to what happened with the people of Nosti on SE. Most other native species were likely already present on the ARK, much akin to SE's own cast of unique fictional beasts.
@@akcr2889Helena wrote dossiers for all of the aberration creatures before Rockwell took over it so ravagers and reapers and nameless and seekers and such all existed before rockwell
9:45 please someone else tell me they heard the discord streaming watcher notification here, tell me im not crazy x_x oh and also awesome video thanks for compiling all of the cutscenes and lore for us to enjoy :D thank god for SE getting a Ascension!
The best way to interpret is that despite defeating Edmund on the Aberration, he survived, and when Helena called down the ARK's, despite that ARK's damage, it was called down to earth as well... with the Rockwell entity aboard. This brought a seed of corruption and the human tribes unified together against him as the federation. When they had believed they defeated the Rockwell entity, they began launching ships into space to explore new planets, using the history of the Ark's as a simulation to train future explorers as survivors but unfortunately, the Rockwell entity survived the federations onslaught and existed on-board the Genesis 1 seed ship, where H.L.N.A over rides your cryostasis pod and frees you before Edmund's tendrils infect you.
Well, I was expecting another cutscene for post-ascension in Extinction and explain some other things about Genesis, but I'm totally satisfied with the entire lore update!
I was a little disappointed myself. Howrver we have confirmation from the current writer on what happened. Ill be explaining that in one of the next summary videos :)
@@NeddyTheNoodle So they explain what went wrong post-Extinction like how our character went from cleansing the Earth, the arks landing then *poof* suddenly our body is in a hibernation pod on a colony ship bound for another planet? ^^;
Well we know that Helena was uploaded to the Genesis Simulation at Arat Prime on Earth and created HLN-A who got on the Genesis Colony Ship. Which means the simulation acts as a vary long wireless connection between Earth and the ship. So I’ve always assumed that after we killed the King Titan and saved Earth, Helena realized we were strong enough to save the colony ship as well, so she uploaded us through the simulation too. As for Rockwell, in one of his last notes on Aberration it states that when he became the new Overseer he gained the knowledge in the Ark’s dada base, witch is probably how he knew about the Genesis Ship in the first place. And because of the post credit scene for Extinction we know that he survived when Aberration fell to Earth. So again I’ve always assumed that he found his to Arat Prime and uploaded himself to the simulation to get to the ship too. These are just my thoughts based the facts and implications we have, and as someone who is vary interested in ark lore I think this is the most likely way of how it happened, but we don’t know for sure until someone who actually worked on the game confirms it.
If Ark two never comes out, or I don’t buy the game, I like to consider is the true ending being Survivor landing on the alien planet, and living on one of you esoteric free maps like lostisland, Ragnarok and Val Guero are maps to take place on the recovered earth, while the center, the crystal isles and fjordur take place on the alien planet at the end of genesis
Alright let me get this straight: Ark has two plots, One that covers The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberation and Extinction, and the second that covers the two Genisis DLCs But we leave the Earth ending up in the open and instead follow the spaceship that flew to a earth like planet instead of seeing how Earth is restored and what the Aberations virus will try with the planet?
I think thats a good assumption. I like to believe that earth is saved, mission accomplished but Rockwell still such onto the genesis ship along side with all those other survivors (enough to repopulate an entire planet) that it would lead to a fubar situation unless it's dealt with so maybe she uploaded a clone of our character onto the ship to deal with Rockwell once and for all
Ok so I gotta ask: why did they add that blinding cyan glare to the Extinction ending? The whole scene looked beautiful before and now you can only see half of it. wildcard pls fix
Hey so, quick question, I can’t hear Helena talk during these cutscenes and her robot form in Genesis part 1/2, I play on an Xbox Series S and I’ve never messed with anything, please help-
What are your plans for your explorer notes mod now that they’re adding their own? I have your notes to thank for starting a new playthrough with finding them in mind. :)
23:36 Rex A.K.A Santiago's dinosaur/Ripper: A new story begins (takes a deep breath) RRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Survivor good luck mate!
Join our ARK lore fan community on Discord here! discord.gg/deMg5mS
Unlike most games today I have followed arks story from the very beginning, watched all the theories with Ante, played all the maps at least once, and crashed more than The amount of hours I've put into this game. I've loss countless dinos in stupid, frustrating and sad ways. Watched friends come and go as we play this game together, slayed great monsters by myself, only for my little brother to erase my save file lol.
In the end what always struck me is the atmosphere and sense that your story only ends when you give up.
I love this game through thick and thin till this game even at the most frustrating moments.
Thank you ark for all you are and aren't!
The island ascension is such a cool cutscene, I remember being mindblown when I saw the arks floating around
Funny how most ark players don't see it
@@agoogleuser1570 I like to think most ark players are represented by the people on the arks in the last extinction cutscenes. Never ascended/fought the bosses, but survived on the arks.
@@greattitan371 Yeah that sounds about right
@@agoogleuser1570 I think you could probably count on one hand the number of people who have beat alpha king titan on official pvp servers.
That always makes me a little happy to think about.
So happy to have the whole story to be filled with cutscenes like this. It brings tear to my eyes
Just one, split in half
Very few games make me as emotional as ARK does.
Did anyone consider similarities of ARK element with C&C tiberium? :)
Goose bumps for me 😁
I genuinely think of ark is done properly, proper actors etc a good director.. I feel legitimately like it could be the next Star Wars.. maybe a trilogy fallowing the 3 Santiago’s?
Right?
I still can't get over the fact that Rockwell can talk now.
Exactly
When did that happen? Cus I don’t remember that from the original Aberration. Or any of the stuff with Helena for that matter
@@TotallyNotAlpharius That's why they used the word "now", lol. So yeah, it's been added shortly before this video was released.
@@smilloww2095 . . . Huh
@@TotallyNotAlpharius hmm?
I love the little detail in the Extinction Prologue when One Who Waits remembers she’s still Helena, she loses the echo in her voice and sounds more human
Ikr
Helena became a robot?
@@HNIN1973 she ascended
@@nielsvanhoudt6151what does it mean by she ascended I’m so confused does it mean she died or like what
@@JU1CET1N It's part of the lore, but basically there's a class of humans that transcend and become energy. When we 'ascend' we just move to another Ark, but she stayed that energy form. That's why she looks all ghostly and surreal when we speak to her.
Apparently these special ascended people (I think the 'Homo Deus' but I'm unsure) eventually exist for so long in that state that they lose their humanity, memories, sanity etc. She says most of them can't communicate with her anymore.
This was beautiful. But when Santiago said "Something tells me that this is the easy part". That gave me chills down my spine....
Ark 2 theme is so good bro, the music helps make it feel like a true teaser for the next game
@@mikeH824 IKR 🥰🥰
So wonderful to see all of these in one place now. Thank you Neddy for doing such a wonderful job of putting this all together for us.
Hey, thank wildcard for making them :)
I remember hearing Aberration's soundtrack and fell in love with it. The music they made for the Aberration intro cutscene made it so much better. It was my favorite until Genesis Part 2 came out and it was worth the grind to hear Journey's End play in the end credits.
This game has always had one of my favorite lores, this update looks fantastic. It’s been a great journey WC
Absolutely beautiful, go on, take a look.
It's finally begun, the new cutscenes are out...
…I’m just glad I got to see them.
Huh, look at that. Ark 2 is drawing near.
@@jdamian0247 Ah, I remember what it was like to be filled with hope
Ark is an amazing story and I'm grateful that they finally did it justice with these scenes all now tying it together. And it makes the player feel so much more a part of it. Great job Ned
Yeah im so happy they did this. Scorched earth not having an ascension scene felt so wrong. Also Rockwell not being able to talk didnt make any sense.
No chance they gonna beat the King Titan with a spear
Not with that attitude
It’s the thought that counts 🫡
Mei yin brought a giga to the megapithicus so it must be possible
@@toxicannon3670 didn't she also KO tame a Rock Drake?
@@Hazearil I believe so yes
I honestly like that scorched earth finally has an ascension cutscene, it needed one for how long, Honestly it should've recieved it during Extinction's release
That plan was to never release one, but then wild card realized if they wanted the story to make sense they HAD to release it.
Did anybody else wonder what H-N-L-A meant when she said she was backing herself up? Like backing up data to the cloud but in this case into another body? Like how when we die our memories (engrams) get backed up into a new body?
good question i was wondering that too
She's still a construct, so she would theoretically be capable of upload a backup of her mind somewhere to survive her physical body being destroyed. But, she was almost out of time, and spent that time with Edmund instead.
13:05 this part when I first saw it in-game, it got me right in the feels man
Shoutout to the camera man for surviving the arks ❤
These cutscenes bring clarity to the story and it’s events, that is something that the ARK story is hurt by. The charm is that it felt like a mystery, that at first glance, is too big to comprehend. With all of its gaps, the story was to be interpreted by the survivors.
Also the aberration prologue is the coolest
I love the cutscenes except for the Helena introductions. I feel like those should definitely have been left out, yeah.
I've never played anything outside the Island and Fjordur, but damn does this game's lore have a place in my heart. Up there with the likes of Subnautica and Portal when it comes to sci-fi game stories.
wait till you try half life
The ending of the Extinction prologue is my favorite part.
Agreed
That roar at the end. Oh my god, I can't wait For Ark 2!
This game is breathtaking. Even more so now with the cut scenes and lore updates.
Bro the extinction Prologue is my favorite. Helena's return.
I’m watching this for the first time and just, wow. This is deep on so many levels. I can’t wait to see Helena’s story explored in the animated series!
I still cant believe how far the story has come... how much effort went into it and how less we actually as the player notice while playing. I mean the first time we really noticed, if you skipped reading anything and ignored all hints, is the ending of extinction. people had no clue who that floating person was.. helena... many didnt care but honestly, this game offers so much still, despite the bugs and infuriating AI... Ark is and will always be one of its kind.
It’s very clear that this game won’t be dead once ark 2 launches. They are adding so much to it now, we’ve still got years of enjoyment and fun left on this first game, I think.
Also ARK 2 is going to be very different from ARK 1 in terms of gameplay (according to Wildcard). I get a feeling its not going to be everyone's cup of tea.
@@Myne1001I think it's going to go either more story or gameplay but probably not both.
This is brilliant! The only part they haven't shown as story is how we actually ended up in the simulation for gen 1, instead it skips that part and goes right into gen 2 where it says the corruption had followed us from the simulation
But it's still a brilliant video, thanks you neddy, looking forward to your own Aberration part 2 video
They really should’ve added a cutscene to explain this.
Glitches
Aberration was the first paid döc map i bought and I absolutely fell in love with it its such a unique world and flying with rock drakes is so cool in this world and also the journey down for the first time I play with my sister and we went down there and it was a journey full of emotions because we almost died and barely made it out best dlc ever
Aberration instilled fear and excitement in every corner. Its the best map for anyone to start out. If you can survive this map, other maps are a piece of cake. Aberration is Nightmare fuel compared to every map as well as being the most serene and beautiful map on top of it. Every corner you are in awe of how stunning the world looks.
Kinda has a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" feel to it, doesn't it?
I wonder how Aberration will look in Ark Ascended 😮
@@gemsofgreatness8189dark very dark
Ned, once again you have proven why you are the best at showing people Ark lore! Can't wait for you to get to the other maps after Aberration!
All he did was post in game cutscenes in order i dont disagree that he isnt great at sharing the ark lore but i dont see this as a very good example
@@P3rsonL Maybe, but I still like the video.
He won't do the maps after aberration he said so in a stream.
Well, "the best": he had sounds in from something like a device disconnecting during the Aberration ascension, and was shooting a Tek Rifle during Rockwell's voicelines.
@@Hazearil He still tells the lore the way that I like. Not saying other people's ways are bad, just that this one works the best for me .
1:45 I've been playing this game since alpha and this scene right here, when this was added to the game and it was revealed we are the remnant clones of humanity hovering around on arks above a dead earth that changed EVERYTHING for me about Ark. It went from an amazing dinosaur taming survival game to something that speaks to my very core in storytelling, the unlimited grit of humanity never giving up even in the face of extinction creating a system that will forge the best of the best humans, the ALPHA tribes to take back our world.
Rockwell: I've survived way worse. about 10 or more seconds later, DIES
(we hope)
What a trip! All at once, back to back! It's like years just flew by! What memories!
15:29 99% sure Helena says "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *it* from the soil" but the subtitles still read it as "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *element* from the soil"
That’s cause before they updated the ascension to the new voice actor, she did in fact say element.
Im not able to express my happiness bc of the fact scorched earth finally has a end cutscenes
This was the first next gen game i ever owned for xbox and my first xbox one title after watching vanoss and riot play the game. Ark will always be a part of my love for survival games and my favorite game of all time, even if snail has murdered it more than once somehow... I'll never forget you ark for getting me into gaming
At 12:50 when Helena said "the love that I found" she is talking about me yin, we already knew she was gay but now that I think about it imagine how heart broken she was when she found out about me yin and Diana.
When did we "know she was gay" i think they just added that for the LGBTQ, or because they thought it would be weird to have no gay people in their whole series
@Zane Willavize I can't remember which ones exactly but I think there was something mentioning it on her island explorer notes
It's pretty funny how Helena had identity issues as She Who Waits, so when that was over she made HLN-A, who has identity issues about being Helena.
Logging on today and got this cut scene, it's brilliant
17:19 the return of Rockwells was hype asf when this came out 🔥
Thank you very much for putting all that together for us!
Finally complete history ! A fantastic journey far all players. Thanks Wildcard. Thanks for every hours spent on this game.
I think... I have something in my eyes...
Dilo spit
@@cysgod45 😂😂😂
God I actually almost cried watching this can’t wait for our new journey in ark 2!!
Ten years later and the game finally tells you what it wants you to do 😂
We don't *need more lore for Ark, but I sure am happy to get it.
“Pods from the genesis spaceship falling”
The survivor in the exo-mech:well fuck
Aberration's Prologue is the best. By far. No doubts. Nothing will change my mind. Absolutely Bonechilling...
Damn scorched finally got an ascension, I've been waiting years for this..
They put so much work into this it’s so cool
The SE ascension was awesome awesome job on that
Finally we got the ascending cutscene for scorched earth after asking and putting it out there everywhere for so many years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So, no one’s gonna talk about how, if you built your base in the sanctuary, it and all the tames there canonically get blown to smithereens once the ARKs land?
Anyone else notice that the ark destroys the sanctuary when you ascend on extinction
You know nobody ever talks about what actually happened to the survivor like is he falling onto the planet in the exo-mek?
Maybe we find out in ark 2
Yeah I want more people to ask about the survivor :(
Personally, I think the survivor returns on the new planet, still in tek suit. Probably with tek helmet on all the time to not show who he is cause its a player-made character, turned NPC in ark 2.
Like they did with the main character in Far cry 5 who became an NPC in Far cry new dawn
@@tekark_01 was it ever confirmed that the deputy and judge were the same person?
Yes supposedly he is, we already know that the game offers both a story mode and a customizable character sandbox game
And in some other universe, we find out that HLNA transfered her memory into your Exo Mech and claims it as her new body. She also now names herself HW-7274...
Why are you still here?
Staying behind to gloat?
Edmund...
I'm here to help you end this nightmare.
You did this to me, for wanting the same power she squandered!
Well, I've survived worse!
I promise you I will find a way out of this. I will!
No, you won't.
It's much too late for that.
It's so bright!
Helena...?
I'm afraid!
Shhh.
She knew.
We all know how Santiago escapes the crash, there’s a charger in back and he drives out the pod and drifts mid air to escape the crash
The sound track has absolutely no right to go this hard, but it still does.
And it is excellent!
Literal chills the whole way through
Dude I like the fact how HELN-A just says oh *beep*
Aberration hit diff the music the ascension everything
9:46 discord disconnected noise lol
Ahh the Discord sound as you go through the rings of abberation 😂😂
Dude it's so crazy how Rockwell corrupted aberration so much it even changed the dinos, like ravengers are mutated wolves or sabers and everything glows like it's radioactive, He changed so much he made a map that looked like extinction into aberration
Not true bro, aberrations terrain is mostly the same, while ravagers were already there
@@dabirby2305 I thought aberration was once like extinction but Rockwell experimented with element ingesting it, becoming the creature you fight on Abberation that was once Rockwell pretty much terraformed the ark changing it and it's creatures
@@akcr2889 aberration once was the island, until santiago blew up a part of it with a tek bomb, thinking it was a prison, and that broke the artificial atmosphere, stopping the sun from burning them alive, so they dug out a cave to survive the sun, and also built the portal to escape to extinction, so the cave was from santiago (with rockwell most likely partially helping make it bigger)
Actually, the caves were already present to some extent prior to Diana and Santiago presenting the Overseer with the fabled tek pipe bomb, so at the very least the Fertile Chambers and perhaps the Bioluminescent Chambers were already present at that time.
The Elemental Chambers were most likely either the ARK's infrastructure that ended up being exposed and morphed into what it is now following the Overseer Station crash landing and falling to the bottom of the ARK, or was originally it's iteration of the Tek Cave given the presence of the portal to the Overseer Station at the bottom of the Drake Trench and the pathway leading there bearing some similarities to that of The Island's TC.
From the very beginning, Ab was likely one of the more "experimental" ARKs like SE. Element ore nodes were present both on the surface and upper layer caverns even before the pipe bomb incident so the survivors never even needed to fight the Guardians for access to the valuable resource, and the surface itself was likely more comparable to the Fertile Chambers.
It's possible that either the Overseer itself, in its last moments of functionality, or the back-up programming of the ARK stopped the regeneration of element ore nodes within all but the surface and elemental chambers while also creating the Nameless and Reapers to punish the survivors for the pipe bomb incident, in a manner similar to what happened with the people of Nosti on SE. Most other native species were likely already present on the ARK, much akin to SE's own cast of unique fictional beasts.
@@akcr2889Helena wrote dossiers for all of the aberration creatures before Rockwell took over it so ravagers and reapers and nameless and seekers and such all existed before rockwell
"Well ----"
Appropriately timed curse word tbh lol-
9:45 please someone else tell me they heard the discord streaming watcher notification here, tell me im not crazy x_x
oh and also awesome video thanks for compiling all of the cutscenes and lore for us to enjoy :D
thank god for SE getting a Ascension!
These cutscenes helped implementing the story. But there's still huge gaps in between extinction ascension and genesis 1 and 2
The best way to interpret is that despite defeating Edmund on the Aberration, he survived, and when Helena called down the ARK's, despite that ARK's damage, it was called down to earth as well... with the Rockwell entity aboard. This brought a seed of corruption and the human tribes unified together against him as the federation.
When they had believed they defeated the Rockwell entity, they began launching ships into space to explore new planets, using the history of the Ark's as a simulation to train future explorers as survivors but unfortunately, the Rockwell entity survived the federations onslaught and existed on-board the Genesis 1 seed ship, where H.L.N.A over rides your cryostasis pod and frees you before Edmund's tendrils infect you.
The end gives me goosebumps, allot!!!!!! Best game and best story ever!
Scorched finally gets an ascensioj cutscene???
Finally!
THESE CUTSCENES SLAP
When Helena said "well Fuck" I lost it then and there
Thanks for the prologs and epilogs
Damn I really miss the old extinction ascension with the old voice acting, it just sounded less stiff and had more emotion in it
Well, I was expecting another cutscene for post-ascension in Extinction and explain some other things about Genesis, but I'm totally satisfied with the entire lore update!
I was a little disappointed myself. Howrver we have confirmation from the current writer on what happened. Ill be explaining that in one of the next summary videos :)
Oh well, those are amazing news, I can't wait for that!
@@NeddyTheNoodle So they explain what went wrong post-Extinction like how our character went from cleansing the Earth, the arks landing then *poof* suddenly our body is in a hibernation pod on a colony ship bound for another planet? ^^;
Well we know that Helena was uploaded to the Genesis Simulation at Arat Prime on Earth and created HLN-A who got on the Genesis Colony Ship. Which means the simulation acts as a vary long wireless connection between Earth and the ship. So I’ve always assumed that after we killed the King Titan and saved Earth, Helena realized we were strong enough to save the colony ship as well, so she uploaded us through the simulation too. As for Rockwell, in one of his last notes on Aberration it states that when he became the new Overseer he gained the knowledge in the Ark’s dada base, witch is probably how he knew about the Genesis Ship in the first place. And because of the post credit scene for Extinction we know that he survived when Aberration fell to Earth. So again I’ve always assumed that he found his to Arat Prime and uploaded himself to the simulation to get to the ship too. These are just my thoughts based the facts and implications we have, and as someone who is vary interested in ark lore I think this is the most likely way of how it happened, but we don’t know for sure until someone who actually worked on the game confirms it.
If Ark two never comes out, or I don’t buy the game, I like to consider is the true ending being Survivor landing on the alien planet, and living on one of you esoteric free maps like lostisland, Ragnarok and Val Guero are maps to take place on the recovered earth, while the center, the crystal isles and fjordur take place on the alien planet at the end of genesis
With this I think that ark is finally complete
The Island ascension is SOOOO GOOD!
Thanks for all your great work Neddy!
My pleasure! Stay tuned as I'm putting out ALL new Rockwell lines too.
There's more Rockwell lines than that! He even mentions Santiago at one point! Dedicated Rockwell Voiceline video when?
very soon :)
Alright let me get this straight: Ark has two plots, One that covers The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberation and Extinction, and the second that covers the two Genisis DLCs
But we leave the Earth ending up in the open and instead follow the spaceship that flew to a earth like planet instead of seeing how Earth is restored and what the Aberations virus will try with the planet?
I think thats a good assumption. I like to believe that earth is saved, mission accomplished but Rockwell still such onto the genesis ship along side with all those other survivors (enough to repopulate an entire planet) that it would lead to a fubar situation unless it's dealt with so maybe she uploaded a clone of our character onto the ship to deal with Rockwell once and for all
Funny how rockwell gets a tantrum at both abberation and genesis 2
Really must say, The music-Creators, Storywriters and Graphics Designers of Ark Survival are Top notch.
The Game-Designers however...
Rockwell:you wont suvive this
1 sec later
"Rockwell dying"
Ok so I gotta ask: why did they add that blinding cyan glare to the Extinction ending? The whole scene looked beautiful before and now you can only see half of it.
wildcard pls fix
i feel that man
Love how you shoot while Rockwell is talking so I have no idea what he's saying 😢
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Omg been waiting for this for ages
Genesis part 2 ending hit me different ngl.
Finally they gave scorched Earth an actual Ascension
SO MUCH NEW CONTENT.
What were your settings filming these? All mine are maxed out but it's still grainy...
I was so immersed in the cutscene then suddenly discord noises xD
You are still winning the upload race
Anyone else notice what looks like a new Titan in the prologue for Extinction or is that just the King Titan?
King titan
And to think it all started with us punching dodos and running away from lvl 4 raptors back in 2015.
Hey so, quick question, I can’t hear Helena talk during these cutscenes and her robot form in Genesis part 1/2, I play on an Xbox Series S and I’ve never messed with anything, please help-
What are your plans for your explorer notes mod now that they’re adding their own?
I have your notes to thank for starting a new playthrough with finding them in mind. :)
13:00 i just love this momment!
23:36 Rex A.K.A Santiago's dinosaur/Ripper: A new story begins (takes a deep breath) RRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Survivor good luck mate!
13:00 If you feel like something is too hard for you to do, here is some inspiration
😂👌🏻
I was like "WTH is he doing with a spear, facing the king titan?!"
these make me cry
WAIT they added more cutscenes to ark??? Yooo I needa go back to ark
I liked Helena Walker so much!
Nice to see they still haven't fixed that blue haze bug that ruins the Extinction cutscene. Still, I can't wait to see where the story goes with Ark 2