10 Reasons to Play ARK in 2024

2024 begins a new chapter in the survival sandbox franchise of dinosaur infested islands of Discovery to space AG Tech flying per rangu Kaiju fights and with a wealth promised for this year only recently just changed to reflect a surprise early arrival for both mine and your benefit let's take a look at 10 things to get excited for the ascended Revival of Ark news just in r to us on New Year's Eve through Wild Card social channels and perhaps owed to a wavering concern of lacking official content between now and its upcoming second Cannon map the Center opens its arms as our very next official map to arrive to ascended in Feb originally planned for May the underrated but understandably most tired map of ASE brings forth a new and real five reimagining to the ascended delivery iterated time and time again by myself this vertical Wonder offers perhaps the most untapped potential of any redesigned map from its evolved Origins owed to being one of the very first Maps delivered to the original Arc way back in 2016 and based on an early grasp of assets and map environments we'd see fleshed out in later Maps through ark's history its biggest criticism throughout was the lack of exclusive creatures now retorted with not quite the original giant Aqua saddle sea living Chasta sorus we originally was promised but the caregiving little one nurturing giganto Raptor an excitable entry seemingly owed to use with wild baby creatures helping you to find them and take them home seemingly like a mwing will offer a new type of buff when in proximity of its mothering giganto Raptor to perhaps make even stronger iterations of the creatures we already know nevertheless a questionable wonder why the original Ragnarok exclusive creature has been swapped into a map more known for its deep sea areas and more fitting to the giant whik undersea home but a brand new creature is still a brand new creature and I wonder what more can be expected of the center and its content considering the Island's mediation of subtle and larger differences but overall still the very same map we know in layout will this second installment do anything different such as a more aberant underworld and certainly desired use of a completely vacant sea level or could its facelift be enough to tide us over until the very next month March welcomes the second and arguably most punishing of environment scorched Earth again reimagined in ascended with all The Whiz and bangs to be excited for in unreal 5 but already promised new story elements to not expect a onetoone redo like we found somewhat with the island with the devs acknowledging it never being as tied to the games LW as it should have been though very late in asc's life dropping and ever demanded Ascension ending cutscene appears to be built on further with perhaps more steps in order to attain such ending feeling a little too easy to accomplish compared to its less fantasy based predecessor noted to be delivered with new caves to explore especially needed with only three in its original offering and new secrets to unlock that could possibly nod to the game's ever growing law and flashh out the journey relived through our diary keeping protagonists with my personal hope a full list of unlocks to the wyen armor set only seeing gloves prior and again as the map before a brand new creature the Ferocious Juna dwelling for solar sucus brings a new element in traversal of the vast foot Burning Sands littering the outskirts of the map able to dive underneath and Sand Shark their way through like their giant Tremor hellor worms sand swimming counterparts and noted to be used somewhat to tame them needing to steer them into rocks and cliffsides to stun them into a momentary interaction of taming for yourself to ride and make use of sand swimming yourself boasting a do magnetized area attack to stack and wreck havoc alongside armor corroding abilities we'd once again assume we'll negate creature Saddles and perhaps double as some counter to the other ground dweller acid spitting tank basilisk either way noting how well environments are affected by rainfall cloudes and sea levels on the island taking advantage of physics plugins with the four variant gameplay shaping environment effects of scorched Earth in its current iteration it's with some anticipation how I cany filling electrical storms specifically could fill us with and or how brutal sandstorms could punish our viewing experience even further to demanding its map exclusive armor set desert gear and speaking of map exclusive gear ascended introduces a whole new type of exclusivity in the form of optional paid side sister expansion packs formerly known as adventure packs and plan to drop alongside map launches perhaps only story Cannon map launches but seemingly introduced firstly with scorched Earth as a branded Frontier Adventure Pack the offering seems to detract from the survival aspects entirely to focus on Sandbox roleplaying revisions of play with this specific one at least offering New Cowboy and cowgirl outfits and accessories structure skins to remodel existing models as seen with the most recent turkey trials and winter wonderland events wagons to ride bar games to play most notably trains and railway tracks that really question a new way of playing Arc specifically and most controversially at all at least one new creature despite all of the maps and their content planned to be included with ascended purchase price these new paid content pieces leave some concern for question Ed to official compatibility despite all of the maps and their content plan to be included with ascended purchase price these new paid content pieces leave some concern for question O2 official compatibility personally I I couldn't see trains and tracks being allowed un official Ode to its Detachment from a PVP experience and as such wouldn't find players bounding around unconcerning pay to win creatures in the vanilla official servers to then only satisfy single player or unofficial playthroughs but if treated as the next on the list and likely would be to be required to own to play alongside others on your community servers could we see these doomed from the start Wild Card hope these Adventure Packs to enable their entire team to continue working on ascended for the years to come and and imagine would be monitored to develop entirely based on this first offering success but all to play for based on price and how much content is offered and what experiences they can hope to create to entice players from the vanilla survival game they already expect and are comfortable with which brings us to the ambiguous potential of modded content it's undeniable how successful and complimentary Ark mods have been for the original installment from new handcrafted beautiful monstrosities to Rich detailed themed Maps full of wonder and exploration to complete gamechanging overhaul styles of play now harnessed and charged by contracted company overwolf paves way for a new delivery of unreal five assets offered to all platforms including console to crossplay alongside each other with some giant prizegiving incentives already over 1,000 available to play today and seemingly DLC worthy content inviting stakeholders and other game studios to offer thousands of hours of content promises an exciting future and longevity of Arc ascended as mentioned prior at some point during quarter 1 we will see the roll out of P muds iterated to be applicable to the most premium of muds with price points ranging between $2 to $15 leers a concern of visibility needing all players to have paid for decided content to play together and worries if it'll Doom some muds to lose the impact they desire to be shelved behind the most prestigious available but equally could enable a whole world of interaction as seen with other mud heavy games to deliver in infite ways of playing but really it's still in its infancy with many more maps still to be seen and content from devs with already proven games made could find some seriously huge content appearing over the next few months and redefine how to play Arc in the future toted for July though notably quite a gap between scorched Earth's Aral in March and the originally planned Center between could possibly see these and the the next few mentioned moved up though Hazard perhaps further delay based on sc's initial delay alone nevertheless delivers arguably the most anticipated and Fan Favorite underground bioluminescent adventure of aberration to arrive and Ascend in all its next gen Glory noting how beautiful a map it remains today in survival evolved with new looming technology taking advantage of light rays Shadows casted and colors reflected invites an excitable approach in the non flyer sunken depths of a broken Ark bringing with it another new creature The Feathered War clinging hunting Mount ya Ling appears to boast Elemental feathered attacks Based On A variation of different diets from mushrooms to nameless Venom and unleash a unique Firepower of Barbed feathers seeming to stack to cause incredible damage from a creature touted to be the new best adventuring mount for cave and otherwise exploration excited to see how much could change with the element infused map noting scorched Earth being jazzed up with more caves to explore and noting aberration to offer the same amount of artifact dwelling experiences could potentially see more to dive into and flesh out even further an Ever popular map specifically some Elemental rewards would be desired from the now conversation authentically giant rock well noted to always feel slightly after to not reward any element despite the map offering an opportunity to craft such resource though noting survival evolves timeline could we perhaps see the gap between it and scorched Earth superseded by the next in the list another fan favorite arguably to some to be the number one map until foror came along the scenic and Nordic landscape of Ragnarok comes in as planned for a September release dat little to be expected content wise considering its already vast array of regions from Canyons to Highlands to Sandy Dunes all wrapped into a giant area filled with explorable caves labyrinths Mini Bus filled Dungeons and one of the more detailed explorable sea environments in fact perhaps working well with the giant shastasaurus if planned for the Island dwarfing map a weaponized Juggernaut of ultrasonic chps to disorient its prey as it blasts sound waves through the sea seeming to Be Tamed with scraped iosaur Barnacles to allow a monolith saddle to not only allow undersea travel and storage for you and your creatures but a periscope and torpedo Baye to launch destruction from this aquatic submarine not forgetting the map's exclusive environmental effects such as an active volcano hot springs and occasional wind storms it's a hope we'll find these expanded upon specifically the former to transform more of the map to a dash for Freedom as lava rocks fly into the air and perhaps scatter right across the entire map much like the meteor showers of the next on this list perhaps venturing into the Realms of will it really drop this year now but currently dated for October invites the gameplay changing Kaiju dominating harsh wastelands of extend iction the first to feel truly removed from the original core offering set not on arcs like before it but offering mini arcs instead in a mashup of punishing Health hurting decaying life surrounding G city was and an underground overgrown done away with the supply crates and exploring we knew to open map mini games of horde protection and three much more challenging giant Caverns to reach and summon one of the three table giant Titans to take on the encompassing and map transforming brutally challenging King Titan in what was once the planned ending of Ark one wondered how transformative it could feel in ascended with perhaps an expansion on caves like being explored with Scorch a feel to grow richer the four livable regions to offer more exploration and seemingly needed a more traversible Wasteland with the arrival of another new creature The Dread naus by far my favorite of the planned new additions the newly described fossil genus appears to go toe totoe in stature against the Titans known in the map able to absorb incoming attacks to charge up into an element disrupting Bellow unknown yet on how to tame though imagine some blunt trauma unlike its other lung necked relative to shoulder your heaviest artillery swallow bould and cannonballs and spit back as acid coated ammo curious exactly how this could be useful in Titan fights more so than just big thing for big thing it's a wonder if it too will be offered the same cross transferring abilities as the Titan counterparts or could all be abandoned entirely noting how influential both these and mechs were to cave dwelling bases something I really hoped we'd move away from with the nextg remaster but already seeming to encourage the same base race once again this map specifically could really alter heav vanilla Arc could and should be played if developed with learnings in mind bringing us to the last known promised map for 2024 valguero planned for December though I'd already expect it to be pushed back to 2025 is a lovable map to some admittedly not one of my favorites perhaps feeling just a little lackluster in cave Exploration with a hope to really expand upon and flesh out some much needed Adventure but undeniably offering some luscious Landscapes from the elevated white Cliffs to the mini underground aberration Cave System feeling like if Ragnarok and aberration had a baby without Drakes and Reapers some Mark is just missed it feels deserving of perhaps its closed Valley could be addressed to Warrant Peaks desired to be EXP exped before falling way to a surrounding sea but the addition of a unique mini bus or two alone within expanded labyrinths could be just enough and I wonder what new creature could we see arrive with this being the only one to leave us in the dark as of yet but a firm believer any sight of this is likely to be seen into next year now if the next on this list is anything to go by when it comes to delays it's crazy to think this was announced over three years ago December 2020 surprised us all with the reveal of a very well animated show reliving the tales of words we'd only read in Explorer notes throughout the game's existence headed up and funded by developers Wild Card themselves invited arguably one of the most star studied cast to voice The Adventures of protagonist Helena as she encounters the other survivors brought through time to discover their existence and write a new history to tell an incredibly convoluted story that's simply criminal to be locked away in text Heavy documents hidden around each map a promising future for the ark franchise offering a media to masses otherwise completely unaware of the game the potential of these 14 30 minute episodes produced by Studio Lex and Otis is seriously huge however seems to be doomed in development hell as put by Founders Jesse and Jeremy who knew it could take this long to make an animation noting during their extra life appearance late November last year the delay was owed to the last half being in post production but close to finalizing in fact well over a year ago CEO Doug Kennedy explained the chosen streaming platform would be revealed within a matter of months but that hasn't fil fruition as we're still unaware if we need to renew Netflix or HBO accounts to watch the anticipated TV series later revealed in further depth with a season 1 trailer to capture how magnificent it truly looks and leaving us hungry for more recently pushed back to soon in 2024 that's all we really know as of yet and with development limbo hanging over it for the last few years surely this is the year we we finally get to watch Ark on our streaming screens which brings us with a surprise project dated for November which could possibly be the now well-known new story Cannon map we've been teased almost a year ago originally planned for late last year and rumored to be featured on a rat Prime the opposite side of the earth and explain the link to how we traveled light years in space or it could well be Ark 2 I know it almost feels like a figment of imagination at this point but the surprise announcement of a fully-fledged sequel starring Vin Diesel back in December 2020 offering a whole new gameplay experience un like we know with Arc Souls like third person only gameplay component based item crafting Dynamic world events Advanced template building and character progression systems well many arc fans may tell you at this point they aren't even bothered if it comes out or not but if a recent presentation by publisher snar games is anything to go by it's coming this year apparently in 2024 and perhaps this surprise project is indeed that mentioned by the dev team they plan for it to run alongside Arc ascended and in fact are trailing some gameplay elements in this iteration to prepare for the sequel Honestly though expectations have been grinded down to fossil sized dust particles that there's just no view to have right now with some recent overshadowing legal concerns of big Vin concerning a jeopardizing frontman now to though very early days who knows what may happen were the co-founders words on whole team working on ascended leaving some ND to it lost by the way or will it really happen with snail games pushing the money and as such the development team there could be substance in their presentation but as a wise man once said I'll believe it when I see it and do you think we'll see it this year comment below let me know my name's Ras Clark don't forget to like share and subscribe and as always up peace out

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Length: 21min 17sec (1277 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 05 2024