You did a great job giving us the facts. You made a reasons to buy video and a reasons not to buy video. Love the respect for others opinions and preferences! Happy Ark Day!
The optimization issues can mostly be fixed by turning off volumetric clouds. the amount of FPS gain from doing that is just ridiculous and it doesn't even get rid of the background clouds so there's still some there. I don't know why they added the volumetric clouds if they knew they performance of them would be this bad. When I mean massive it's a 20-50 FPS hit for me (based on area) for them to be enabled (which they are by default.)
@@_Daio_ No, I don't agree. I understand what they are doing. You don't have to like it but, they are making the game graphically intense on purpose with the understanding techonlogy will eventually catch up. That way they will have 10 years or so of being graphically acceptable for the times and never have to overhaul the graphics for this game ever again. 4090s will be considered old and obsolete in a few years, and people will be saying get 6090 it will run like butter.
@@_Daio_ To make matters worse it seems that DLSS is the cause of a lot of game crashes for ASA or so I've heard. I haven't had any since I disabled mine yet.
@@ReadR00ster1 I understand that. I'm 53, and I've lost count of how many times I've built a high-end rig for someone and had to explain that very same thing. Game developers have been implementing higher graphic option settings intended for graphics cards of the future for 20 years, but this is not that, and those settings are 99% In the ultra settings, and certainly not turned on by default. Nobody should expect to play the latest graphically intense games at their maximum settings just because they have the very latest and best Gfx card, but everybody should expect to be able to play them on high settings, or mostly high settings at least at 2k and below.
Can I add one thing that you missed regarding ark 2 and ASA..... ASA was made to give the original game a longer life so it can continue to be played along side ark 2... Wildcard have already said ark 2 will not be for everyone and different to the original game
What i find funny is that you morons believe ark 2 will be releasing in 2024 lmao, do you guys not understand the purpose of ASA? I GUARANTEE ark 2 won't come out until AT LEAST 2 years from now
@@thermalcashew2858 I know but if it's for people that are not aware of the information, it sounded as if ASA was going to get dropped when Ark2 comes about which is not their intention.
@zoeholdaway4556 I guess I missed that part in his video. I hope ark 2 won't be that bad. I mich prefer the original. So long as ASA does the original justice I am happy 😊
I think the biggest reason not to buy it is companies will keep doing what they get $$$ for. If you spend money on anything with a company you tell them “hey regardless of what you’re doing as a business I like your product/service enough to give you a pass on bad ethical behaviors you do.” Wildcard and snails broken promises, not fixing legacy issues meshing etc, and how they treat their fan base ie Island boy’s situation.
As a gamer I will say that the gaming community deserve what they get. Companies like Wildcard/Snail and UA-camrs who play/shill their games should be blacklisted by gamers but it won't happen... so it won't change. I've been lied for 8 years and I won't support Wildcard and Snail anymore like I did with EA and Activision/Blizzard. I won't give my money to companies who don't respect their customers. I'm not their bitch.
@@overheatedeskim054 Of course it was a big YES and Wildcard knew it before they even ask. People don't vote with their head, they vote with their feelings and then bitch about.
The fact that at one point this was going to be a free update is utterly insane to me, I still find it hard to believe that they're bringing all of the DLC maps over with no changes to pricing. I think a lot of drama could've been avoided had there been more substantial previews and teases, because the drip feed in-between the shut down of the ASE servers and its very sudden feeling release has definitely generated a lot of tension, and certainly made it feel like a grift until it was clear that it wasn't. All that said though, as someone who's always been attuned to the PVE side of ASE, the build system overhaul was 100% enough of a selling point, it's done things even S+ couldn't/didn't (and could but now fully vanilla).
as a single player experience (and having played hundreds of hours and never fully beaten ASE) I am fully enjoying ASA and intend to play all the maps to the fullest. My laptop cannot handle the updated graphics, but I am still fully enjoying the slight differences (newb peninsula is fully changed) and baby dino tames, and. I had picked up ASE after extinction dropped, so I never got to play the island with only the base dinos and tech. It is refreshing to try my hand at the island with none of the extra things added to make it trivial. I plan on beating each map with only the base of what is expected on each map, and this gives me a chance to experience that the way it was intended.
I was there at the first days of ASE early access on Xbox. The grind was real, and taming was atrocious. We had to fingure out the taming kibble tree that required players to tame almost every dino to make the right kibble. I played ASE so much i had the kibble tree memorized. Fun memories, it was a challenging game for the first year or two. I kinda miss it. Cant wait to suffer through all the console optimization again😅
Jesus christ ye the kibble tree was awful at first. I remember I stopped playing for a while and when I came back cryo pods where a thing and that was massive too.
I'm playing in Single Player because I have 1700 hours in Evolved and loved the new look, but I refuse to remove my negative review of the game until they rein in Nitrado's price gouging and a bunch of the issues around that monopoly, which they won't.
All valid reasons. Every one of them. I agree 100% with them. The differences in the game they've made are certainly more QoL than they are new mechanics. They really need to roll back on the cryopod thing. Once players start doing serious breeding on official servers, they will change their tunes on it. Having dino caps for each tribe out in the world on official servers is going to force their hand on the cryopod thing.
ye the "paying for a reskin of the original" is more than enough for me. I played my share of games and the ones that matter, to me at least, their remaster version came free because they care for their community, Ark teams don't, they only care to empty your wallets. They even considered at some point microtransactions to sell skins for the items, luckly they didn't went forward with that but the thought alone tells everyone how they are, GREEDY.
the re-skin part is a crazy understatement the amount of changes into dinos AI building and just generally most of the game was changed in how it plays.
Thank you for being honest and showing both sides of the story, especially when many of your audience are ASA fans and may dislike the video for saying something negative about it. I, for one, haven't bought ASA (yet), me and my friends have years worth of mutated dinos and stuff we have collected, all of which are reset in ASA...secondly like you say, it's just vanilla without all the great maps that have been added over the years. This meant a lot to us...I really love the look of the new map and building system, but we need more for us. Third is using Nitrado dedicated servers or our equipment to host servers now. I thought Nitrado customer service was lacking in the past, and I don't want to use them again...This deal also allows Nitrado to charge what it likes and offer whatever customer service it chooses. It's great for business, but it could be better for players. So, I'm gonna stick to my principles and continue with ASE.
Technically speaking, you do have a leg up on the old game through the myriad mods that they didn't have back then. If they ever support the "berry sickle", I strongly recommend you snatch that up right quick. It is awesome. It also picks up sticks and stones at a really good pace like the berries. I wonder if they will finally give scorched earth it's ascension bit.
You know Teach, all that flying around you did I saw less than a dozen dinos. I heard that was one of the other problems of spawns lacking. And like you said that this is more like "Original Ark" where there was only 1 map and the grind for everything was rough. The main problem I remember from Island in the very beginning was that dino spawns were tied to fish spawns. What I mean is that more fish spawns in the river kept the dino spawns low. What we would have to do was run all the rivers with a giga and kill all the fish to get dinos to spawn. However I think in ASA there may be more to this spawn problem.
It was a problem I had same issue they did a patch that said fixed a issue with both server and single player dino spawns and I started a new map yesterday and it is loaded with dinos.
I love going through the harder way, It keeps things calm and raiding is much more fun when there is a limit to how much you can grind out. To me it is what ARK was all about the primitive style with just enough knowledge for basic weapons. I did play a Ton of Atlas also, and several other games like WoW and even Runescape had great success comming out with older versions of their games so going forward with ARK is nice imo.
I got a 4090 and I'm still crashing due to dx12 errors, devs just need to patch the game before its playable. Also from my understanding Ark 2 will be a 3rd person game focused more on fighting and not dino taming... It's a completely different game with the IP of ARK....
Yeah it seems like Ark 2 isn't really something that would dissuade someone from buying this because it's not the same game. I'm getting crashes also on my 4070 TI. They are pretty infrequent, but they still happen.
@Teachers Game Too During the beginning of your video I agree with most about being the same but the dino's have been tuned down. I remember if I encountered a Raptor I would have not survived running away. Raptor would have just pounced on me and I would have been dead. The AI with dino's has been tuned down as well. Too many things to list on this subject but I am sure you will get the gist of what I am speaking about.
Nah to call this game a re-skin is an understatement. It looks so much better than the old. Trees, water, plants, bushes, rocks, mountains, even the building material (wood, stone, metal) looks COMPLETELY different from the old, Way better. night and day difference
If Ark 2 comes out in 2024 I'll make a video of me eating my own 💩. If I had any faith or trust In the developers/publishers I'd happily drop more than twice the cost of this garbage to help crowdfund Ark 2. Ark Is dead, and this is nothing more than a money grab.
There’s no offence to anyone but I personally think I’m the biggest ASE fan out there, since it was preview on Xbox I was totally hooked from day one, I’ve never missed a day playing ark but there was no way I’m paying for a reskin of the original maps, I still play on private servers and it’s ok, but I mean just ok. It hurts not to be playing properly I so want to be playing ASA but for me, not until it gets to game pass. HH guys.
I am not comfortable calling this game a reskin because there are a lot of drastic changes not including improved graphics. It's a whole new UI. The drops are very different. The terrain has been changed a lot. The building system is much different. The Engrams have been changed a lot. Many engrams have been combined or flat out removed or added into the game. There are baby dinos roaming around the world, and there are new berries when you harvest. At the core it's the same game but it feels very different.
Another big issue I have is that not only do we have to pay for the game again, which I’m ok with for the reskin and running better on ps5/xbx, but we have to rebuy all the dlc that we’ve already paid for. We don’t get a discount or anything. Just pay another 200 or whatever it ends up being for the game and all the dlc for stuff we’ve played and owned already for years.
@@connormerrick6623 unless they changed their minds again it doesn’t. Only 2 more maps come free I believe and after that it’s all paid dlc again. At the very very beginning I think they said Ark 3 and all the dlc came with it and then they changed their kid s and were like just kidding! You have to pay for it all again.
No the main dlc maps will be added over time for free from my understanding however they are adding a brand new story map dlc sometime during the holiday season(if it doesn’t get delayed) the new dlc I believe you have to pay for.
Everyone HAS to understand that this "new game" IS ARK survival evolved. This is by no means a new game, this is not a remaster. This is the same exact game with the same exact source code with couple of mods slapped into it. All the new visuals are thanks to the engine, not the game. This is a scam, not a game.
You nailed it, reskined a few items, added some quality of life improvements, added mods as permanent features. Left all the old bugs in and re sold it for a stupidly high price. Eveything they have done could have just been an update to ase... But they couldn't charge us for it. Soo say it's a new game and presto, more revenue 😂
@@Learn_Daily Oh yeah me too. I always preferred private servers / solo anyways. The official servers are a joke. It's a great game, but the publisher snailgames simply poisons everything.
@@aev6075 it's a real shame. I think it all goes downhill when the art takes a backseat to profit. Passion is the best motivation, when the passion goes so does the quality.
You missed a HUGE point. You basically said that this is reskinned place saver until Ark 2 comes out. That's not the case at all. They've been very clear that Ark 2 will be so vastly different that they know many of the loyal fans of the game will hate it. Ascended was meant to be an alternative to Ark 2. It's a way for people who love the game to continue playing the game they love with greatly improved building mechanics, AI pathing, better graphics, improved UI, tons of QoL improvements. It gives console players the opportunity to use mods we've never had access to. It allows full cross platform play that was never available in ASE. Yes, they have a bunch of kinks to work out still, but saying it's simply a reskin is not accurate at all. It's not a reskin of an old game, it's a completely redesigned game with a familiar feel.
Don't forget that this remake came out only because a certain Chinese studio owner decided to lose hundreds of millions of dollars by taking profits from ARK and "investing" it in a plain stup!d EV company.
@@mastermind4499 Yeah, true that, did actually not know that, but searched it up thanks to your comment. Large scale corruption, not only in the state, needs to entail capital punishment. Powerful people bully and rob normal people on a daily basis. It needs to stop ASAP, no matter what needs to be done to make it so. That's my two cents on such issues anyway. Or there needs to be consequences that are crippeling enough to make it impossible to get more than once for such behaviur at the very least. Anyway, thanks for the info brother, have a great day as well as days after this one. 😁
@@djingiskhan4581 I agree. I only wish that there were less hamsters that buy ASA. To me, actions like this should be unforgivable. Unless people start doing something instead of just happily gulping crap like this we will be treated like mindless dodos
While I agree with a lot, quite a few of these points aren’t accurate. There are many new features, even as a reskin And official servers were reset after the god mode admin cheat
A reason why you WOULD want to by this game is because there is a good chance if you liked ARK 1 you wont like ARK 2 as the direction for the game in ARK 2 will be a lot closer to Conan exiles rather then ark, the gameplay will be very very different, and its one of the reasons they are remaking ark is because they know already a lot of people wont be happy with 2. Also long term ASA will be updated with all maps and DLC's added for free on the base purchase of the game, bugs will be fixed and QOL changed will be implemented performance will improve. I do not play the game YET but have bought it to play when things get flushed out and things are smoother.
They needed the money and I’m willing to sacrifice a few bucks to help support them cause I’m really excited for ark 2. I really think through time asa will be a really enjoyable experience. The fact that they are updating so frequently is annoying but it also shows promise
Other companies upgrade to UE5 for free, this game is STILL early access and they release paid DLC and now this. They will not get any more of my money other than my original purchase. We need to stop supporting these practices to change the industry for the better.
I disagree with one of your points that its mostly the same game. I'm an Ark builder with 8k hrs of mostly building under my belt. I did primarily use S+ for building but the tricks I developed for building used issues with the orig system ended up getting "fixed" with the building overhaul. Some people used to complain about the "ceiling gaps" when building (if you've done enough building in Ark you will know what I mean) but I used them as "dual snap" points that allowed some neat things to happen (like crenelations ie doorframes and railings overlapped). Sadly I can no longer do this. Nor can I sink boxes into the floor by a half wall (because it no longer is half a wall and doesn't allow ceiling snaps. tho maybe that snap was S+). Its prob a cleaner system for the majority of players but its def a downer for me.
I don't agree at all with almost every points made in this video, i will explain why for each reasons he talked about: Reason 1: I will agree that if you don't at least own a rtx gpu (any of them) then i wouldn't advise to buy this game but otherwise any rtx will do the job, i play with a rtx 2060 on medium/low 1080p settings and have 40-60 fps with no big issues and my friend with a 4070 ti is playing at full epic on 1440p with 60fps+ Reason 2: "it's just a reskin" not at all ! Some dinos got tlc's, the whole building mechanic got changed, wild baby dinos, drops, the whole graphics are upgraded, some really annoying bugged got fixed like the reload one or the hitbox of almost all dinos are better,.... Reason 3: "Not worth buying because ark 2 in coming out end of 2024" still not a reason to not buy it and they said ark 2 wont be the same feel as ark survival evolved so if you want the same gameplay then asa is the best choice Reason 4: "Lack of contents" the game just came out and they did change stuff so it's not really true, mods are available for everyone now so that's also extra content, just let them release other maps and you will see Reason 5: Nitrado having the monopoly on server hosting is bad and i do agree with this one, i personnaly host my own servers so this isn't a big issue for me but it still is bad that they are the only one able to host asa servers Reason 6: "Official servers are broken" honestly i always said it on ase and will say it here: Please stop playing official servers it isn't worth your time ! Just host your own server or singleplayer with your own rates or go on unofficial it so much more fun to play the game like that than official !!! Reason 7: "It's early access" For this one i can understand if some people don't like it because like you said they can do whatever they want with it and i already did play a game that was in early access and that did put it out of it but it was completly unfinished (and still is to this day sadly) so i agree with you but i do trust the devs on this one Reason 8: I don't understand the problem with this one, if they do updates everyday for optimisation then that's good ? You don't want the game to be optimised then ?? Reason 9: I don't understand you on this, why did YOU buy the game and even says that you recommand it but at the same time you don't think it's worth the 40 dollars and it's just a reskin ? Please try to make sense with what you are even saying because right now it doesn't, or you think it's worth the money or it doesn't no in between. I don't really understand the point even of this video it seem that you are undecide on what you think about the game, anyway that's all i have to say have a nice day !
Honestly if I had the time and money I would search up the legalities of releasing a Remaster version of a game I early access. Kind of a quality control aspect that the game devs could simple refuse to officially release the game. Atlas is still in early access and this would confirm my theory of them simply denying or even stop supporting an early access game making a very unfair and unsatisfying to the customer that had paid money for the early access of a game that is technically released, but could be deleted at a wimb.
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 lol Xbox got the okay still waiting though and we was supposed to get I in October etc but yes ps is very strict I'm not surprised ps will have them fix more before release
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 lol Xbox got the okay still waiting though and we was supposed to get I in October etc but yes ps is very strict I'm not surprised ps will have them fix more before release
Pretty much everything you listed is at worst tolerable and at best negligible for me. That is just me and I understand that those things are a tripping point for others. The only thing that I don't like is the Nitrado hosting changes. Making 20 slots the minimum is ridiculous for many of us who previously rented servers just for a small group of friends (under 10). We now have to pay for one server, almost what we paid for two.
1087 consoles DC and HR are duping. I have seen shots and video proof with them admitting to it in global chat. I report this and was told by ark support they don't handle it. I used the form and posted this same statement and was removed and given a warning from the forum. 🤕
Building, building, building. From what I've seen, the changes in building alone make it worth it for me. Gone are the days of rendering cables on official and water pipes into the sky 😆
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 crystal isle’s felt over hyped. Like yeah it looks good and all but tbh ASE crystal isles felt empty and it’s honestly not a challenge to survive on it at all.
I think with both optimisation and the fact that they didn't give enough time to let people upgrade their rigs is one of the core things I recommend people NOT to buy ASA. If anything unless your a hardcore fan I'd suggest waiting at least 3 months for them to roll out performance patches (and release additional content DLC as I believe the next maps are coming in December) and potentially have enough funds to upgrade your PC to run ASA. I'm currently using just below average specs with a 2070 Super and just manage 30-40 FPS on medium or 60 FPS on low. Even then I'll be trying to upgrade as soon as I can.
You don't need to upgrade. I run it just fine with a mixture of settings and don't sacrifice overall beauty of the game with a 107ti. There are some surprising changes you can do that can actually help a ton. Turning off volumetric clouds helped a tooooon for starts.
I think the game is improved enough and I like it eventhough I have to turn off clouds and and play on mostly low settings at 40 fps. It still looks better than ASE which also is a very laggy game for me that I can't run on epic settings either.
2 things 1. Saying "dont buy Asa because Ark 2 will release next year" is crazy because wildcard has said many times that it wont be the same type of survival game as Asa is it will be more souls like and narrative driven 2. You can have servers without Nitrado they announced that deal was scrapped like last week
Asa is a beta for Ark 2. They wanna see how everyone likes the “new” changes. And then tweak what they need to for Ark 2 which I think will be a 2025-2036 release.
yeah what an amazing job of giving it all straight to us. best video ive watched explaining the new ascended ark. i was making a video on it as well about some of this stuff and id say i have a pretty high performance rig and still couldnt handle recording the game without crashing. yk $1300 4070ti 12gb gpu and the rest of my pc bringing the total to $2500. i absolutely love the revamp of the old game, but have to give up quite a bit of of my quality still just to play at a decent framerate. played evolved just fine at 2k res and MAX settings(80-90fps) NP, but i cant even play ascended at 2k low or even 1080p high. so its just that anyone with a low to high tier Gaming Pc will have to give up a lot of that newly Given Quality of ark life as of where the game Stands now.
So, they've released a roadmap, Ark 2 isn't coming next year. I've never played ASE because of the terrible animations in 3rd person which has been mostly fixed in this game I see, so it would be a new experience for me. I can get passed all the things you've mentioned, however, I am still on the fence because most reviews on steam mention frequent crashes and progress loss. How many of you have experienced it too? Cuz that's a true deal breaker for me.
The biggest issue for me is the number of times my game has crashed, I have about 5 hours on the game and I have crashed more times than I can count. Another personal issue for me is over the summer I built my first PC, and I thought a 3060 would be would be enough to run this game on high settings. I have to run it on medium/low settings just to get adequate frames, even still, the game crashes. I love the game, it looks beautiful, but these crashes are really frustrating.
My computer runs ASA fine and I don’t have a 30 90, I experience very little game crashes maybe 10 in 200 hours of gameplay if that, frame rate gets a little laggy sometimes mostly in big fight sequences, the game runs fine if your comparing it to ASE standards.
It's not 100% identical to Survival Evolved. The map is recreated, seemingly from memory. It's not the exact same. I've tried making bases in many of my old spots and found the geography to be completely different. Same goes for Scorched Earth, now that it's out. Not to mention tons of extra foliage (I don't just mean grass, but an overabundance of trees and bushes EVERYwhere).
A good analogy would be flagship cell phone more specifically the IPhone, they release a new one half way through the life cycle of the current phone and call it a new phone when it is basically it's just the same one with a couple of changes.
well casual gamers (that has ULTRA MOTHER BOARD 9000) would just wait until the game gets more polish but sweaty stinky gamers (that has ULTRA MOTHER BOARD 9000) like me dont care we just wanna play ARK
The game looks so much better now to me! Somehow I can play at 1080p 30 fps for the most part with a 1080Ti and an I7 6700k so that's not terrible. The performance is all over the place, anywhere between 20 and 60 fps randomly. When the first ARK came out it was basically the same for me and I had to upgrade for it lol. To be fair, calling it only a reskin is a bit reductive. More like skin and bones. The meat of it is the same, but with a stronger framework to support the bulk now building those muscles makes more sense. If this was a mod but you had to buy for $40 people would probably think it's the best thing ever. Not having official servers for the old version though, maybe not the best idea.
I own my own server hardware, and run over 50 mods on a dedicated cluster server. I will be sticking with that for a while. I have graphics turn mostly to epic settings and still seem to run better then what i have seen on videos. With modded maps,Modded Dino's, S+, castles and keeps. For me it just feels better. Oh, and that is with an ATI - 470 with 8g GPU. I get lag when i fly fast and enter caves. but that is it.
I love your content teach. I also, of course, love Ark and have been patiently awaiting ASA. All of the palace intrigue around Snail and Nitrado makes me wish Microsoft would have bought Wildcard. I kind of feel bad for Wildcard. In any case while I won't be an ASA early adopter I will eventually hope to find an unofficial xbox pve group to join. My biggest worry with ASA is support because of Ark 2 (which I have zero interest in). With the whole thing being kind of a sh*t show and Nitrado soaking unofficial players I'm not a don't buy but wait and see.... keep up the good work!
This game is an embarrassment and the studio is a failure. They’re also chronic liars. They said they did a complete redo of the game’s code which is clearly a lie if there’s already dupers, they lied when they said Unreal Engine 5 could handle everything, they lied when they said ASA would be free, they lied when they said the game would be complete in October (early access is not complete) and they lied when they said console and pc would release at the same time. There’s probably other things I’m missing as well. I’ve never seen a developer studio treat their consumer base so poorly as this one. It’s amazing to me how many people continue to support them. They released the ARK 2 trailer two years early and the ASA trailer the same day as the game came out. They have absolutely no clue what they’re doing and will say/promise whatever to get people to buy their broken, buggy, pathetic game
I respect the relatively unbiased take a lot are either super critical or super lenient. The reality is it's got a handful of giant glaring issues but for certain people it just won't matter because it is fun
Thank god we can’t bump movement speed. Building is better. Graphics are amazing. Bugs from the first game are either gone or being fixed. Baby wild dinos. This game is amazing and I will gladly buy it
If I recall correctly they did say they were eventually going to add 2 new expansions to the game and a community voted Dino each map I think, I'm getting it anyway because ark survival evolved on my ps5 the PS4 version, stutters every 5 steps I take sometimes if I'm remembering it correctly and that was on single player, I was up north on island, it wasn't like that to begin with either, to be fair tho I had a fair bit of Dino's so that's probably it lol, so the ps5 version for me will be a nice upgrade, it's definitely far better than the PS4 version, been a long time since I played ark but I really loved it so I'm quite excited for the ps5 version, my most recent survival game tho was Conan exiles, wish they'd do a ps5 version for that too tbh, anyway great vid 👍
Imagine beta testing a game that is 8 years old. That is exactly what this release feels like. I play on a private server and the server crashes or the client crashes multiple times.
If you can't critic the things you love and accept its flaws, then you're blinded by fanboyism. It's good with a video where you can say what you don't like or what others wouldn't like about the game you love. That being said the game is not simply a reskin. They rewrote the entire code. That includes remaking the entire island, which is also why the other expansions are taking so long to be released. They are remaking it all. Not just reskinning it. The outside world looking in that would be what it looks like though. But it's far more than that. There are places on the map I don't even recognize when I come through a thick jungle area. Water is not the same either. Jesse always wanted that beachy feel where the water goes up the shore, and around things as they enter or surface in the water. Side note. ARK 2 is 100% not going to release next year. Even a diehard ARK fan like me knows that's just not possible. Second note. The server hosting DRM was removed and anyone can host now. This was put up 7 hours ago but that has been removed for almost a week, teacher. Third note. Come on, bro.... They rolled back the servers where people cheated X_x You should honestly take down this video and redo it. These reasons are getting ridiculous and untrue.
There are ways to tweak the settings to run pretty awesome without 3080s etc. I play it on a 1070ti Was very disappointed they claimed they were redoing the entire island map but then it was just tiny tweaks and overall nothing new at all really to the main design. The new bugs that never existed before or not nearly as bad are genuinely horrific. The UI getting stuck, unable to use a scroll wheel after you already have to pickup structures or change settings on your dinos. Baby dinos can drop under the map if you pick them up with a dino before riding them and the only fix is having them follow to a water source so they can swim out and then promptly restart the server to get it fixed... Ultimately pretty sad they also said SE would be available at release and it isn't.
100000%, NOT WORTH IT!!! I got 7000+ hours on ASE, this game was told it was a free upgrade, yet they put in on steam for $50, then gotta buy the dlc's, which was also supposed to be free. In the game, the cryopod system is back. Don't even get me started on how many times it takes to get into an official server without it crashing or "losing connection to host" DO NOT BUY!!! TOXIC COMPANY, DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLAYERS ONLY MONEY.
I am totally new to any Ark and having a ball just enjoying the game and the journey with no mods. The graphics are pretty and it gets exciting trying to tame etc. I love it and hearing there will be an Ark 2 I look forward to that.
I've been playing Early Access games for about 10 years and one thing I've learned is that EA should be taken seriously. Regular game releases are risky enough but Early Access is almost guaranteed troubles. I'm fine with the risk but I don't think the majority of people are. EA = unfinished game
Great video. I purchased ASA, played a bunch, now I'm back on ASE for the next little bit just because I miss aberration. Once ASA releases Aberration, ohhhhh boy I'll be all up in that.
Making a new game is hard. I think the devs tried and failed to make ark 2. So they side stepped into this "remake" Which makes me unwilling to support this studio. They've ignored the community for 10 years. They've ignored the bugs in their own game for 10 years. Why now would they fix it? Even in remaking the game they choose to make it more graphically intense rather than optimizing game play. As if graphics are so important. They're not, but they could make a substantial amount of money re releasing the old game with new graphics. I mean how hard is it to just reskin a game, vs recode it to run better. They could've remade the game on ue5 and not made it so cpu heavy that only 5% of the player base will be able to play it on "normal" graphic settings. It's maddening. The graphics were fine. They never needed this overhaul. And for those who bought this, I'm sorry. Even if you "love it" I know you love the idea of it. It's so close to being the game you want that you'll accept it no matter what. And I'm sorry that you love a game which the developers love less than you. I'm sorry you got scammed and paid another 50 bucks. On top of the 100 plus you spent on the old game and all its maps and bugs. This studio will get no support from me. Over 1500 hours of play time, and not once have they addressed a single issue that ever affected me. But somehow there's always a new map, or new dinos? Trash.
You did a great job giving us the facts. You made a reasons to buy video and a reasons not to buy video. Love the respect for others opinions and preferences! Happy Ark Day!
3:30 "arc 2 is gonna come out next year" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The optimization issues can mostly be fixed by turning off volumetric clouds. the amount of FPS gain from doing that is just ridiculous and it doesn't even get rid of the background clouds so there's still some there. I don't know why they added the volumetric clouds if they knew they performance of them would be this bad. When I mean massive it's a 20-50 FPS hit for me (based on area) for them to be enabled (which they are by default.)
@AsreiMurasame, I could understand that If you had a 3060ti or even a 3070, but needing to turn stuff off with a 3090ti or even a 4090 Is a joke.
@@_Daio_ No, I don't agree. I understand what they are doing. You don't have to like it but, they are making the game graphically intense on purpose with the understanding techonlogy will eventually catch up. That way they will have 10 years or so of being graphically acceptable for the times and never have to overhaul the graphics for this game ever again. 4090s will be considered old and obsolete in a few years, and people will be saying get 6090 it will run like butter.
@@_Daio_ To make matters worse it seems that DLSS is the cause of a lot of game crashes for ASA or so I've heard. I haven't had any since I disabled mine yet.
@@ReadR00ster1still there are games 10x better in graphics and run 10 times better i have a 4070ti and cant hit 60 in epic...
@@ReadR00ster1 I understand that. I'm 53, and I've lost count of how many times I've built a high-end rig for someone and had to explain that very same thing. Game developers have been implementing higher graphic option settings intended for graphics cards of the future for 20 years, but this is not that, and those settings are 99% In the ultra settings, and certainly not turned on by default. Nobody should expect to play the latest graphically intense games at their maximum settings just because they have the very latest and best Gfx card, but everybody should expect to be able to play them on high settings, or mostly high settings at least at 2k and below.
I deliver mail, and thoroughly enjoy listening to your long play videos.
Really the best distraction from the frozen northern weather!
I myself am also a City Carrier, Love listening to Teach and few others while delivering here in the PNW.
Thank you for the comment!
I don't need 9 reasons why not to buy I'll give you just one snail
One for me too, Im not stupid enough to buy a game I already own
@@Kit-yv7obI mean it's mostly for people who care about awesome graphics.
Honestly, I'm one of them. Hehe
Can I add one thing that you missed regarding ark 2 and ASA..... ASA was made to give the original game a longer life so it can continue to be played along side ark 2... Wildcard have already said ark 2 will not be for everyone and different to the original game
I fully agree with you and that's a reason I intend to buy it. But this video is reasons not to buy this game lol.
What i find funny is that you morons believe ark 2 will be releasing in 2024 lmao, do you guys not understand the purpose of ASA? I GUARANTEE ark 2 won't come out until AT LEAST 2 years from now
@@thermalcashew2858 I know but if it's for people that are not aware of the information, it sounded as if ASA was going to get dropped when Ark2 comes about which is not their intention.
@zoeholdaway4556 I guess I missed that part in his video. I hope ark 2 won't be that bad. I mich prefer the original. So long as ASA does the original justice I am happy 😊
Souls like yeah this guy isn't very informed
I think the biggest reason not to buy it is companies will keep doing what they get $$$ for. If you spend money on anything with a company you tell them “hey regardless of what you’re doing as a business I like your product/service enough to give you a pass on bad ethical behaviors you do.” Wildcard and snails broken promises, not fixing legacy issues meshing etc, and how they treat their fan base ie Island boy’s situation.
You'll put effort in like that over games whilst being a complete slave to government, that tickled me 😂 remind how many million took vaccine 😂😂😂😂😂
well to be fair they asked the community directly if they would buy Ark 1 if it was ported to UE5 and it was overwhelmingly yes
As a gamer I will say that the gaming community deserve what they get. Companies like Wildcard/Snail and UA-camrs who play/shill their games should be blacklisted by gamers but it won't happen... so it won't change. I've been lied for 8 years and I won't support Wildcard and Snail anymore like I did with EA and Activision/Blizzard. I won't give my money to companies who don't respect their customers. I'm not their bitch.
@@overheatedeskim054 Of course it was a big YES and Wildcard knew it before they even ask. People don't vote with their head, they vote with their feelings and then bitch about.
I appreciate how you like the game but still have the honest take on it and acknowledge the problems it currently has.
Love it
I'd have to respectfully disagree with you. Early access or not, Wildcard owes me the game I paid for.
@@JKal19 This is the same game that we have already paid for?
The fact that at one point this was going to be a free update is utterly insane to me, I still find it hard to believe that they're bringing all of the DLC maps over with no changes to pricing. I think a lot of drama could've been avoided had there been more substantial previews and teases, because the drip feed in-between the shut down of the ASE servers and its very sudden feeling release has definitely generated a lot of tension, and certainly made it feel like a grift until it was clear that it wasn't.
All that said though, as someone who's always been attuned to the PVE side of ASE, the build system overhaul was 100% enough of a selling point, it's done things even S+ couldn't/didn't (and could but now fully vanilla).
as a single player experience (and having played hundreds of hours and never fully beaten ASE) I am fully enjoying ASA and intend to play all the maps to the fullest. My laptop cannot handle the updated graphics, but I am still fully enjoying the slight differences (newb peninsula is fully changed) and baby dino tames, and. I had picked up ASE after extinction dropped, so I never got to play the island with only the base dinos and tech. It is refreshing to try my hand at the island with none of the extra things added to make it trivial. I plan on beating each map with only the base of what is expected on each map, and this gives me a chance to experience that the way it was intended.
I have hundreds of days sucked into ASE lol
Fair comments - enjoy the game, for me (with 7,728 hours of ASE) I need to wait for a more complete game
It was all new stuff to me, lol.
As a non-Ark player, paying 40 bucks for this felt like I got my money's worth.
I agree. I played evolved with my brother for a while and bought ascended for ps5. My wife and i are having a great time.
I was there at the first days of ASE early access on Xbox. The grind was real, and taming was atrocious. We had to fingure out the taming kibble tree that required players to tame almost every dino to make the right kibble. I played ASE so much i had the kibble tree memorized. Fun memories, it was a challenging game for the first year or two. I kinda miss it. Cant wait to suffer through all the console optimization again😅
Same here💪😉
Same here!
I tried to get back into ark on the PC, but it just didn't feel the same
Jesus christ ye the kibble tree was awful at first. I remember I stopped playing for a while and when I came back cryo pods where a thing and that was massive too.
As an unreal developer, It's hilarious that they're charging money for this. Evolved owners should get this for free.
I'm playing in Single Player because I have 1700 hours in Evolved and loved the new look, but I refuse to remove my negative review of the game until they rein in Nitrado's price gouging and a bunch of the issues around that monopoly, which they won't.
All valid reasons. Every one of them. I agree 100% with them. The differences in the game they've made are certainly more QoL than they are new mechanics. They really need to roll back on the cryopod thing. Once players start doing serious breeding on official servers, they will change their tunes on it. Having dino caps for each tribe out in the world on official servers is going to force their hand on the cryopod thing.
ye the "paying for a reskin of the original" is more than enough for me. I played my share of games and the ones that matter, to me at least, their remaster version came free because they care for their community, Ark teams don't, they only care to empty your wallets. They even considered at some point microtransactions to sell skins for the items, luckly they didn't went forward with that but the thought alone tells everyone how they are, GREEDY.
They know the fan boys are gonna fan boy
Is it just me but i just hate how metal walls looks like? I relly liked how metal lookd like in original ark
How about the greenhouse walls. Someone should get fired for those.
the re-skin part is a crazy understatement the amount of changes into dinos AI building and just generally most of the game was changed in how it plays.
Alot of that could be done easily and quickly with mods
sorry but that fits as QoL update
TBH the AI is almost as terrible as it's always been. Not impressed by it.
I would tell you how the QoL thing could have been added to ASE but three people told you that before me so..
@@aev6075 I didnt ask little bro maybe dont be broke and be able to afford a game
Thank you for being honest and showing both sides of the story, especially when many of your audience are ASA fans and may dislike the video for saying something negative about it.
I, for one, haven't bought ASA (yet), me and my friends have years worth of mutated dinos and stuff we have collected, all of which are reset in ASA...secondly like you say, it's just vanilla without all the great maps that have been added over the years. This meant a lot to us...I really love the look of the new map and building system, but we need more for us.
Third is using Nitrado dedicated servers or our equipment to host servers now. I thought Nitrado customer service was lacking in the past, and I don't want to use them again...This deal also allows Nitrado to charge what it likes and offer whatever customer service it chooses. It's great for business, but it could be better for players.
So, I'm gonna stick to my principles and continue with ASE.
Technically speaking, you do have a leg up on the old game through the myriad mods that they didn't have back then. If they ever support the "berry sickle", I strongly recommend you snatch that up right quick. It is awesome. It also picks up sticks and stones at a really good pace like the berries. I wonder if they will finally give scorched earth it's ascension bit.
I'm sure Scorched Already got one ages ago
@LophoLeeVT it didn't. They skipped it, because everyone hated the expansion when it first dropped.
I just want extinction to have a blood moon. Where the corrupted invade the city in a chaotic war with boosted spawned tech. 😢
Berry sickle sounds alot like trike tail whip on bushes
You know Teach, all that flying around you did I saw less than a dozen dinos. I heard that was one of the other problems of spawns lacking. And like you said that this is more like "Original Ark" where there was only 1 map and the grind for everything was rough. The main problem I remember from Island in the very beginning was that dino spawns were tied to fish spawns. What I mean is that more fish spawns in the river kept the dino spawns low. What we would have to do was run all the rivers with a giga and kill all the fish to get dinos to spawn. However I think in ASA there may be more to this spawn problem.
There will probably come a mod that fixes this
There’s been several fixes for spawns
It was a problem I had same issue they did a patch that said fixed a issue with both server and single player dino spawns and I started a new map yesterday and it is loaded with dinos.
@@lensan2919it shouldnt be up to modders tho
@@sionbarzad5371 I know
I love going through the harder way, It keeps things calm and raiding is much more fun when there is a limit to how much you can grind out. To me it is what ARK was all about the primitive style with just enough knowledge for basic weapons. I did play a Ton of Atlas also, and several other games like WoW and even Runescape had great success comming out with older versions of their games so going forward with ARK is nice imo.
that's not what Ark is about tho your thrown into that environment but the world you come from is not primitive.
I got a 4090 and I'm still crashing due to dx12 errors, devs just need to patch the game before its playable. Also from my understanding Ark 2 will be a 3rd person game focused more on fighting and not dino taming... It's a completely different game with the IP of ARK....
Yeah it seems like Ark 2 isn't really something that would dissuade someone from buying this because it's not the same game.
I'm getting crashes also on my 4070 TI. They are pretty infrequent, but they still happen.
@Teachers Game Too During the beginning of your video I agree with most about being the same but the dino's have been tuned down. I remember if I encountered a Raptor I would have not survived running away. Raptor would have just pounced on me and I would have been dead. The AI with dino's has been tuned down as well. Too many things to list on this subject but I am sure you will get the gist of what I am speaking about.
Nah to call this game a re-skin is an understatement. It looks so much better than the old. Trees, water, plants, bushes, rocks, mountains, even the building material (wood, stone, metal) looks COMPLETELY different from the old, Way better. night and day difference
Sooo a reskin..?
If Ark 2 comes out in 2024 I'll make a video of me eating my own 💩. If I had any faith or trust In the developers/publishers I'd happily drop more than twice the cost of this garbage to help crowdfund Ark 2. Ark Is dead, and this is nothing more than a money grab.
There’s no offence to anyone but I personally think I’m the biggest ASE fan out there, since it was preview on Xbox I was totally hooked from day one, I’ve never missed a day playing ark but there was no way I’m paying for a reskin of the original maps, I still play on private servers and it’s ok, but I mean just ok. It hurts not to be playing properly I so want to be playing ASA but for me, not until it gets to game pass. HH guys.
dude i agree i been playing ark all day everyday since it came out i think the new ark is crap just to much clutter to be even remotely playable
I heard they fixed the issue with servers only being hosted by nitrado. Their monopoly is gone. You can host on your own
Other server providers cant host, you have to make your own equipment
I am not comfortable calling this game a reskin because there are a lot of drastic changes not including improved graphics. It's a whole new UI. The drops are very different. The terrain has been changed a lot. The building system is much different. The Engrams have been changed a lot. Many engrams have been combined or flat out removed or added into the game. There are baby dinos roaming around the world, and there are new berries when you harvest. At the core it's the same game but it feels very different.
Agreed, to me along with the graphics, they added/changed just enough to make it feel like I’m playing ark again for the first time.
It's a reskin. Sorry.
@@Irish1Erichow is it just a reskin? Explain. Do you even know what a reskin is?
I agree, but It's still only a revamp.
@@josephbolton5893it's the same game but better. That's a reskin.
Another big issue I have is that not only do we have to pay for the game again, which I’m ok with for the reskin and running better on ps5/xbx, but we have to rebuy all the dlc that we’ve already paid for. We don’t get a discount or anything. Just pay another 200 or whatever it ends up being for the game and all the dlc for stuff we’ve played and owned already for years.
I think they said all dlc comes with the game
@@connormerrick6623 unless they changed their minds again it doesn’t. Only 2 more maps come free I believe and after that it’s all paid dlc again. At the very very beginning I think they said Ark 3 and all the dlc came with it and then they changed their kid s and were like just kidding! You have to pay for it all again.
My question is do we still have to buy the dlc”s as they re drop ?… if so that’s a hard pass
No the main dlc maps will be added over time for free from my understanding however they are adding a brand new story map dlc sometime during the holiday season(if it doesn’t get delayed) the new dlc I believe you have to pay for.
I kinda like the idea of ark going back to its roots. Bugs and server problems included
Everyone HAS to understand that this "new game" IS ARK survival evolved. This is by no means a new game, this is not a remaster. This is the same exact game with the same exact source code with couple of mods slapped into it. All the new visuals are thanks to the engine, not the game. This is a scam, not a game.
You nailed it, reskined a few items, added some quality of life improvements, added mods as permanent features. Left all the old bugs in and re sold it for a stupidly high price. Eveything they have done could have just been an update to ase... But they couldn't charge us for it. Soo say it's a new game and presto, more revenue 😂
@@Learn_Daily If I remember correctly, this engine flip was supposed to be free, but then they smelled money.
@@aev6075 A common tactic these days unfortunately. I'm just going to keep play ASE. Still lots of fun to be had.
@@Learn_Daily Oh yeah me too. I always preferred private servers / solo anyways. The official servers are a joke. It's a great game, but the publisher snailgames simply poisons everything.
@@aev6075 it's a real shame. I think it all goes downhill when the art takes a backseat to profit. Passion is the best motivation, when the passion goes so does the quality.
This game being a reskin is why i got it. The pvp gameplay loop ark has is so unique and fun i’m glad they didn’t overhaul it
It is not even a reskin. The updated graphics are thanks to the engine, not the game so..
You missed a HUGE point. You basically said that this is reskinned place saver until Ark 2 comes out. That's not the case at all. They've been very clear that Ark 2 will be so vastly different that they know many of the loyal fans of the game will hate it.
Ascended was meant to be an alternative to Ark 2. It's a way for people who love the game to continue playing the game they love with greatly improved building mechanics, AI pathing, better graphics, improved UI, tons of QoL improvements. It gives console players the opportunity to use mods we've never had access to. It allows full cross platform play that was never available in ASE.
Yes, they have a bunch of kinks to work out still, but saying it's simply a reskin is not accurate at all.
It's not a reskin of an old game, it's a completely redesigned game with a familiar feel.
Don't forget that this remake came out only because a certain Chinese studio owner decided to lose hundreds of millions of dollars by taking profits from ARK and "investing" it in a plain stup!d EV company.
Also don't forget that they said before that ASE owners will get this remake for free... So f**k them twice.
@@mastermind4499 Yeah, true that, did actually not know that, but searched it up thanks to your comment.
Large scale corruption, not only in the state, needs to entail capital punishment. Powerful people bully and rob normal people on a daily basis. It needs to stop ASAP, no matter what needs to be done to make it so. That's my two cents on such issues anyway.
Or there needs to be consequences that are crippeling enough to make it impossible to get more than once for such behaviur at the very least.
Anyway, thanks for the info brother, have a great day as well as days after this one. 😁
@@djingiskhan4581 I agree. I only wish that there were less hamsters that buy ASA. To me, actions like this should be unforgivable. Unless people start doing something instead of just happily gulping crap like this we will be treated like mindless dodos
While I agree with a lot, quite a few of these points aren’t accurate.
There are many new features, even as a reskin
And official servers were reset after the god mode admin cheat
A reason why you WOULD want to by this game is because there is a good chance if you liked ARK 1 you wont like ARK 2 as the direction for the game in ARK 2 will be a lot closer to Conan exiles rather then ark, the gameplay will be very very different, and its one of the reasons they are remaking ark is because they know already a lot of people wont be happy with 2. Also long term ASA will be updated with all maps and DLC's added for free on the base purchase of the game, bugs will be fixed and QOL changed will be implemented performance will improve. I do not play the game YET but have bought it to play when things get flushed out and things are smoother.
Atlas and Conan had a child they didn't want.
They wiped the whole server not able yo keep any of that ugh
this should be either free or heavily discounted for people who already had Ark as this can be achieved to an extent by mods
True
They needed the money and I’m willing to sacrifice a few bucks to help support them cause I’m really excited for ark 2. I really think through time asa will be a really enjoyable experience. The fact that they are updating so frequently is annoying but it also shows promise
I would say dinosaurs are different in the fact that their AI is different as they are much smarter and can't be easily led up ramps for traps
Other companies upgrade to UE5 for free, this game is STILL early access and they release paid DLC and now this. They will not get any more of my money other than my original purchase. We need to stop supporting these practices to change the industry for the better.
I disagree with one of your points that its mostly the same game. I'm an Ark builder with 8k hrs of mostly building under my belt. I did primarily use S+ for building but the tricks I developed for building used issues with the orig system ended up getting "fixed" with the building overhaul. Some people used to complain about the "ceiling gaps" when building (if you've done enough building in Ark you will know what I mean) but I used them as "dual snap" points that allowed some neat things to happen (like crenelations ie doorframes and railings overlapped). Sadly I can no longer do this. Nor can I sink boxes into the floor by a half wall (because it no longer is half a wall and doesn't allow ceiling snaps. tho maybe that snap was S+). Its prob a cleaner system for the majority of players but its def a downer for me.
I don't agree at all with almost every points made in this video, i will explain why for each reasons he talked about:
Reason 1: I will agree that if you don't at least own a rtx gpu (any of them) then i wouldn't advise to buy this game but otherwise any rtx will do the job, i play with a rtx 2060 on medium/low 1080p settings and have 40-60 fps with no big issues and my friend with a 4070 ti is playing at full epic on 1440p with 60fps+
Reason 2: "it's just a reskin" not at all ! Some dinos got tlc's, the whole building mechanic got changed, wild baby dinos, drops, the whole graphics are upgraded, some really annoying bugged got fixed like the reload one or the hitbox of almost all dinos are better,....
Reason 3: "Not worth buying because ark 2 in coming out end of 2024" still not a reason to not buy it and they said ark 2 wont be the same feel as ark survival evolved so if you want the same gameplay then asa is the best choice
Reason 4: "Lack of contents" the game just came out and they did change stuff so it's not really true, mods are available for everyone now so that's also extra content, just let them release other maps and you will see
Reason 5: Nitrado having the monopoly on server hosting is bad and i do agree with this one, i personnaly host my own servers so this isn't a big issue for me but it still is bad that they are the only one able to host asa servers
Reason 6: "Official servers are broken" honestly i always said it on ase and will say it here: Please stop playing official servers it isn't worth your time ! Just host your own server or singleplayer with your own rates or go on unofficial it so much more fun to play the game like that than official !!!
Reason 7: "It's early access" For this one i can understand if some people don't like it because like you said they can do whatever they want with it and i already did play a game that was in early access and that did put it out of it but it was completly unfinished (and still is to this day sadly) so i agree with you but i do trust the devs on this one
Reason 8: I don't understand the problem with this one, if they do updates everyday for optimisation then that's good ? You don't want the game to be optimised then ??
Reason 9: I don't understand you on this, why did YOU buy the game and even says that you recommand it but at the same time you don't think it's worth the 40 dollars and it's just a reskin ? Please try to make sense with what you are even saying because right now it doesn't, or you think it's worth the money or it doesn't no in between.
I don't really understand the point even of this video it seem that you are undecide on what you think about the game, anyway that's all i have to say have a nice day !
It's nice to see someone looking at the arguments against his own decision. Respect!
They didn't even friggin fix parachutes...
5:37 thats misinformation. my friends got a server running right now, off her own server rack at home.
Youve actually talked me out of buying it for now.. thank you! Saved me $130! (My wife, son and I all play together)
The reskin argument and the ARK 2 argument are just wrong
Honestly if I had the time and money I would search up the legalities of releasing a Remaster version of a game I early access. Kind of a quality control aspect that the game devs could simple refuse to officially release the game. Atlas is still in early access and this would confirm my theory of them simply denying or even stop supporting an early access game making a very unfair and unsatisfying to the customer that had paid money for the early access of a game that is technically released, but could be deleted at a wimb.
Man, I had to double check to see if I was subscribed 😂
You da best
40$ for all story maps and 1 new Dino on every map etc this is so worth it now the release sucks for console
Ps5*
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 lol Xbox got the okay still waiting though and we was supposed to get I in October etc but yes ps is very strict I'm not surprised ps will have them fix more before release
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 lol Xbox got the okay still waiting though and we was supposed to get I in October etc but yes ps is very strict I'm not surprised ps will have them fix more before release
Console players finally getting mods
Pretty much everything you listed is at worst tolerable and at best negligible for me. That is just me and I understand that those things are a tripping point for others. The only thing that I don't like is the Nitrado hosting changes. Making 20 slots the minimum is ridiculous for many of us who previously rented servers just for a small group of friends (under 10). We now have to pay for one server, almost what we paid for two.
1087 consoles DC and HR are duping. I have seen shots and video proof with them admitting to it in global chat. I report this and was told by ark support they don't handle it. I used the form and posted this same statement and was removed and given a warning from the forum. 🤕
Building, building, building. From what I've seen, the changes in building alone make it worth it for me. Gone are the days of rendering cables on official and water pipes into the sky 😆
Man cant wait to see abb in the new engine
I know abb is my favorite map and it was gorgeous before I can’t imagine how good it will look in ASA
@@guru187What about Crystal Isles?
@@captainamericaandcaptainma3337 crystal isle’s felt over hyped. Like yeah it looks good and all but tbh ASE crystal isles felt empty and it’s honestly not a challenge to survive on it at all.
All these reasons just strengthens my wish to get this game
I think with both optimisation and the fact that they didn't give enough time to let people upgrade their rigs is one of the core things I recommend people NOT to buy ASA. If anything unless your a hardcore fan I'd suggest waiting at least 3 months for them to roll out performance patches (and release additional content DLC as I believe the next maps are coming in December) and potentially have enough funds to upgrade your PC to run ASA.
I'm currently using just below average specs with a 2070 Super and just manage 30-40 FPS on medium or 60 FPS on low. Even then I'll be trying to upgrade as soon as I can.
happy to know theres more people i can't run it but bouta upgrade just for ark
You don't need to upgrade. I run it just fine with a mixture of settings and don't sacrifice overall beauty of the game with a 107ti. There are some surprising changes you can do that can actually help a ton. Turning off volumetric clouds helped a tooooon for starts.
I think the game is improved enough and I like it eventhough I have to turn off clouds and and play on mostly low settings at 40 fps. It still looks better than ASE which also is a very laggy game for me that I can't run on epic settings either.
2 things
1. Saying "dont buy Asa because Ark 2 will release next year" is crazy because wildcard has said many times that it wont be the same type of survival game as Asa is it will be more souls like and narrative driven
2. You can have servers without Nitrado they announced that deal was scrapped like last week
Asa is a beta for Ark 2. They wanna see how everyone likes the “new” changes. And then tweak what they need to for Ark 2 which I think will be a 2025-2036 release.
They said ark 2 is gonna be more dark souls style of combat and this is for a more traditional ark experience.
yeah what an amazing job of giving it all straight to us. best video ive watched explaining the new ascended ark. i was making a video on it as well about some of this stuff and id say i have a pretty high performance rig and still couldnt handle recording the game without crashing. yk $1300 4070ti 12gb gpu and the rest of my pc bringing the total to $2500. i absolutely love the revamp of the old game, but have to give up quite a bit of of my quality still just to play at a decent framerate. played evolved just fine at 2k res and MAX settings(80-90fps) NP, but i cant even play ascended at 2k low or even 1080p high. so its just that anyone with a low to high tier Gaming Pc will have to give up a lot of that newly Given Quality of ark life as of where the game Stands now.
First time loading into a single player and there’s 2 titanosaurs in the easy spot
if they haven’t fixed the hit scans i don’t want it
So, they've released a roadmap, Ark 2 isn't coming next year. I've never played ASE because of the terrible animations in 3rd person which has been mostly fixed in this game I see, so it would be a new experience for me. I can get passed all the things you've mentioned, however, I am still on the fence because most reviews on steam mention frequent crashes and progress loss. How many of you have experienced it too? Cuz that's a true deal breaker for me.
The biggest issue for me is the number of times my game has crashed, I have about 5 hours on the game and I have crashed more times than I can count. Another personal issue for me is over the summer I built my first PC, and I thought a 3060 would be would be enough to run this game on high settings. I have to run it on medium/low settings just to get adequate frames, even still, the game crashes. I love the game, it looks beautiful, but these crashes are really frustrating.
My computer runs ASA fine and I don’t have a 30 90, I experience very little game crashes maybe 10 in 200 hours of gameplay if that, frame rate gets a little laggy sometimes mostly in big fight sequences, the game runs fine if your comparing it to ASE standards.
It's not 100% identical to Survival Evolved. The map is recreated, seemingly from memory. It's not the exact same. I've tried making bases in many of my old spots and found the geography to be completely different. Same goes for Scorched Earth, now that it's out. Not to mention tons of extra foliage (I don't just mean grass, but an overabundance of trees and bushes EVERYwhere).
The only reason nitrado got the server exclusivity is because they gave a large loan to snail games to bail out their poor finance management
A good analogy would be flagship cell phone more specifically the IPhone, they release a new one half way through the life cycle of the current phone and call it a new phone when it is basically it's just the same one with a couple of changes.
well casual gamers (that has ULTRA MOTHER BOARD 9000) would just wait until the game gets more polish but sweaty stinky gamers (that has ULTRA MOTHER BOARD 9000) like me dont care we just wanna play ARK
The game looks so much better now to me! Somehow I can play at 1080p 30 fps for the most part with a 1080Ti and an I7 6700k so that's not terrible. The performance is all over the place, anywhere between 20 and 60 fps randomly. When the first ARK came out it was basically the same for me and I had to upgrade for it lol. To be fair, calling it only a reskin is a bit reductive. More like skin and bones. The meat of it is the same, but with a stronger framework to support the bulk now building those muscles makes more sense. If this was a mod but you had to buy for $40 people would probably think it's the best thing ever. Not having official servers for the old version though, maybe not the best idea.
I own my own server hardware, and run over 50 mods on a dedicated cluster server.
I will be sticking with that for a while. I have graphics turn mostly to epic settings and still seem to run better then what i have seen on videos. With modded maps,Modded Dino's, S+, castles and keeps. For me it just feels better. Oh, and that is with an ATI - 470 with 8g GPU. I get lag when i fly fast and enter caves. but that is it.
I love your content teach. I also, of course, love Ark and have been patiently awaiting ASA. All of the palace intrigue around Snail and Nitrado makes me wish Microsoft would have bought Wildcard. I kind of feel bad for Wildcard. In any case while I won't be an ASA early adopter I will eventually hope to find an unofficial xbox pve group to join. My biggest worry with ASA is support because of Ark 2 (which I have zero interest in). With the whole thing being kind of a sh*t show and Nitrado soaking unofficial players I'm not a don't buy but wait and see.... keep up the good work!
apreciate the honesty especially because you love this game
This game is an embarrassment and the studio is a failure. They’re also chronic liars. They said they did a complete redo of the game’s code which is clearly a lie if there’s already dupers, they lied when they said Unreal Engine 5 could handle everything, they lied when they said ASA would be free, they lied when they said the game would be complete in October (early access is not complete) and they lied when they said console and pc would release at the same time. There’s probably other things I’m missing as well. I’ve never seen a developer studio treat their consumer base so poorly as this one. It’s amazing to me how many people continue to support them. They released the ARK 2 trailer two years early and the ASA trailer the same day as the game came out. They have absolutely no clue what they’re doing and will say/promise whatever to get people to buy their broken, buggy, pathetic game
I respect the relatively unbiased take a lot are either super critical or super lenient. The reality is it's got a handful of giant glaring issues but for certain people it just won't matter because it is fun
Thank god we can’t bump movement speed. Building is better. Graphics are amazing. Bugs from the first game are either gone or being fixed. Baby wild dinos. This game is amazing and I will gladly buy it
If I recall correctly they did say they were eventually going to add 2 new expansions to the game and a community voted Dino each map I think, I'm getting it anyway because ark survival evolved on my ps5 the PS4 version, stutters every 5 steps I take sometimes if I'm remembering it correctly and that was on single player, I was up north on island, it wasn't like that to begin with either, to be fair tho I had a fair bit of Dino's so that's probably it lol, so the ps5 version for me will be a nice upgrade, it's definitely far better than the PS4 version, been a long time since I played ark but I really loved it so I'm quite excited for the ps5 version, my most recent survival game tho was Conan exiles, wish they'd do a ps5 version for that too tbh, anyway great vid 👍
10th reason is there are no dinos in the game, its about 10% of the original game
I've never played an ARK game. And I recently thought about buying it. I'm so thankful I didn't!
Imagine beta testing a game that is 8 years old. That is exactly what this release feels like. I play on a private server and the server crashes or the client crashes multiple times.
Thank you for this update. I am hearing the same thing all around
To late i already got it 😊
Mistakes were made
@@SeaMonkeyMetals unfortunately i agree with you, had more crashes then gameplay
same here and enjoying it lol
@@crow8299yeah me to
@@Thelastyataat least u have the game
"This game has been out for 8 years and they've had time to perfect everything" ...faaaaaaacts!
If you can't critic the things you love and accept its flaws, then you're blinded by fanboyism. It's good with a video where you can say what you don't like or what others wouldn't like about the game you love.
That being said the game is not simply a reskin. They rewrote the entire code. That includes remaking the entire island, which is also why the other expansions are taking so long to be released. They are remaking it all. Not just reskinning it. The outside world looking in that would be what it looks like though. But it's far more than that. There are places on the map I don't even recognize when I come through a thick jungle area. Water is not the same either. Jesse always wanted that beachy feel where the water goes up the shore, and around things as they enter or surface in the water.
Side note. ARK 2 is 100% not going to release next year. Even a diehard ARK fan like me knows that's just not possible.
Second note. The server hosting DRM was removed and anyone can host now. This was put up 7 hours ago but that has been removed for almost a week, teacher.
Third note. Come on, bro.... They rolled back the servers where people cheated X_x You should honestly take down this video and redo it. These reasons are getting ridiculous and untrue.
There are ways to tweak the settings to run pretty awesome without 3080s etc. I play it on a 1070ti
Was very disappointed they claimed they were redoing the entire island map but then it was just tiny tweaks and overall nothing new at all really to the main design.
The new bugs that never existed before or not nearly as bad are genuinely horrific. The UI getting stuck, unable to use a scroll wheel after you already have to pickup structures or change settings on your dinos.
Baby dinos can drop under the map if you pick them up with a dino before riding them and the only fix is having them follow to a water source so they can swim out and then promptly restart the server to get it fixed...
Ultimately pretty sad they also said SE would be available at release and it isn't.
I am pretty sure I saw ASE on sale for 15 dollars when I bought the game. I mean it was 4 days after release but still.
100000%, NOT WORTH IT!!! I got 7000+ hours on ASE, this game was told it was a free upgrade, yet they put in on steam for $50, then gotta buy the dlc's, which was also supposed to be free. In the game, the cryopod system is back. Don't even get me started on how many times it takes to get into an official server without it crashing or "losing connection to host" DO NOT BUY!!! TOXIC COMPANY, DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLAYERS ONLY MONEY.
WC also seemed like they relied heavily on mods
I am totally new to any Ark and having a ball just enjoying the game and the journey with no mods. The graphics are pretty and it gets exciting trying to tame etc. I love it and hearing there will be an Ark 2 I look forward to that.
Can’t believe people are buying this game it’s a game with less dinosaurs but it looks better people are dummy’s
I've been playing Early Access games for about 10 years and one thing I've learned is that EA should be taken seriously. Regular game releases are risky enough but Early Access is almost guaranteed troubles. I'm fine with the risk but I don't think the majority of people are.
EA = unfinished game
Great video. I purchased ASA, played a bunch, now I'm back on ASE for the next little bit just because I miss aberration. Once ASA releases Aberration, ohhhhh boy I'll be all up in that.
It’s possible to host an unofficial server without Nitrado. I play on one.
You have to host it yourself, and request a server offer through nitrado though
Wrong. You do not have to host it on your own hardware and you do not have to go through Nitrado. @@TeachersGameToo
7:48 I don’t think it’s about supporting, WC isn’t supporting ASE anymore and basically forced players to switch
Making a new game is hard. I think the devs tried and failed to make ark 2. So they side stepped into this "remake"
Which makes me unwilling to support this studio. They've ignored the community for 10 years. They've ignored the bugs in their own game for 10 years. Why now would they fix it? Even in remaking the game they choose to make it more graphically intense rather than optimizing game play.
As if graphics are so important. They're not, but they could make a substantial amount of money re releasing the old game with new graphics.
I mean how hard is it to just reskin a game, vs recode it to run better.
They could've remade the game on ue5 and not made it so cpu heavy that only 5% of the player base will be able to play it on "normal" graphic settings.
It's maddening. The graphics were fine. They never needed this overhaul. And for those who bought this, I'm sorry.
Even if you "love it" I know you love the idea of it. It's so close to being the game you want that you'll accept it no matter what. And I'm sorry that you love a game which the developers love less than you. I'm sorry you got scammed and paid another 50 bucks. On top of the 100 plus you spent on the old game and all its maps and bugs.
This studio will get no support from me. Over 1500 hours of play time, and not once have they addressed a single issue that ever affected me.
But somehow there's always a new map, or new dinos? Trash.
I just want to know, on console, did they remove the host limited distance?
They made this because ARK 2 wont have the same pvp. This is to keep half their fanbase happy