I'll be honest, I'm not sure this is any better than what was announced last week. It's not clear if all of these features will be available at launch, but other features which may come later remain unannounced.
The post also reiterates some of the features that Ark: Survival Enhanced will contain, including a "creature pathfinding overhaul", photo mode, DLSS support, quality-of-life fixes, and better character creation. They likewise write that Ark: Survival Evolved's official servers, on which a "minority of players" play, "require significant development resources and time for our teams to operate & maintain." As such, they "have to make the difficult decision of sunsetting ASE and the Official Network in order to provide that truly long-term and evergreen version of the game through ARK: Survival Ascended." They didn't want to amend the original game "for those who prefer it or are unable to upgrade", and wanted to create an "evergreen classic ARK experience, one that can continue to grow over time on a cleaned-up code base." On the subject of the update not being free as indicated earlier this year, the announcement says that while they had originally planned a simple graphical facelift, Survival Ascended is now more ambitious and includes "critical design changes" which will invalidate save data and may break some mods.
Players who purchase Ark: Survival Ascended will receive Survival Of The Fittest (Ark's battle royale mode) and Scorched Earth expansion at launch, while four others - Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1 and Part 2 - will begin releasing in "Q4 2023" and end in "Q2 2024". However, it will cost $60 - more than the previous bundle with Ark 2 - and it will now be bundled together with the expansions, which were previously being offered separately. Instead, Ark: Survival Ascended will now be available to purchase separately from Ark 2. "Our bad we recognize how combining ARK Survival Ascended with ARK 2 and requiring further DLC upgrades wasn’t optimal, especially since you wouldn’t be able to judge ARK 2 as no gameplay or content would be available yet." "First things first, we are scrapping the ARK Respawned Bundle," says today's response to the criticism. Players were quick to criticise the cost of re-buying games and expansions they felt they already owned, as well as the requirement to purchase Ark 2, a game that won't get its first gameplay trailer until next year. This remaster had previously been expected as a free upgrade, but it would now cost $50, only be available in an "ARK Respawned Bundle" with the unreleased Ark 2, and it would cost $90 in total if you also wanted the upgraded Survival Evolved expansions. Instead, this autumn, they would release Ark: Survival Ascended, an Unreal Engine 5 remaster of Survival Evolved. Last week Wildcard announced that Ark 2 would not release in 2023 as initially planned, but instead had slipped until late 2024.
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