Ark Survival Ascended - Let's Be Honest...

what's going on everybody welcome back to the channel it's Lieutenant buzz lightbeer and at this point I've logged about 22 hours into Ark survival ascended and I really wanted to put in some Hands-On time before bringing you this breakdown because I played survival evolved when it first came out back in 2015 and refunded out after a few hours for reasons but with Asa being there at launch was really important because if I'm going to critique the game I need to EXP experience the game and so I've got some compliments because there are some improved systems that need to be mentioned but there's also a lot to point out including both new and Legacy Arc issues I'm going to give you both sides of the equation in case you haven't done so already please hit subscribe and ring the notifications Bell to receive my latest upload alerts likes comment Shares are greatly appreciated by the way the rest of this one is going to be completely unscripted and I apologize if I don't touch on every specific point and exact detail anyways here we [Music] [Applause] [Music] go okay so we might as well start with my first issue with Ark survival ascended and that is the fact that this game is heavy on resources when I say it is a hungry game it is a hungry game not in terms of CPU but in GPU now I currently have a 3090 Fe in the system I also have incoming a stricks overclock 4090 and I can't wait to slam that into the system and Jack Arc and Starfield and cyberpunk and the division and all the other games that I'm currently playing all the way up to their maximum settings just to enjoy all that graphical Fidelity but back to the 3090 it was a very expensive card when I purchased it and it's still a very capable card and it struggles to handle Arc I've had to go in manipulate many of the settings I can't run at Epic settings especially not in 4k and I am using all the tricks like volumetric Cloud zero fog zero and as I've spoken with many arc survival evolved faithful that put in thousands upon thousands of hours one consistent message is constantly brought up and that is the concern that their current PC rigs cannot handle moving over from ASE over to ASA and perhaps just perhaps that is why the player counts are consistently pretty close between the two games and I posted many of these comparo over on Twitter showing ASE and ASA I don't know maybe let me know where you stand on this in the comment section below okay on to my second major issue with Ark survival ascended and I know I can't be the only one experiencing this but it has to be the wildly inconsistent stability I'm currently experiencing with this game and I know some people are going to come into the comment section but Buzz it's an early access game those issues are to be expected and listen I know that argument is coming it's to be expected I can appreciate it but let me just be upfront and honest with you as of last night's gaming session so this is basically my most current experience with Asa I crashed more last night than I did when the game first launched that's got to tell you something and these aren't just minor hiccups they're not just minor catches or freezes and then the game catches back up with itself these are huge hard crashes sometimes just freezing up my entire PC if I'm lucky I can control alt delete hit the dashboard and kill the game from there but it takes a while like the entire game just says uh-uh we're done and it tries to take over my PC and not allow even Mouse movements to happen so there's some major major major issues still with this game and I know I've seen a constant barrage of announcements coming out of Studio wildcard and I can appreciate all of their hard work as they try to Wrangle this game under control I've seen announcements about hot fixes patches server optimization bug fixes and once again I can appreciate all that but just telling all my viewers out there that this game currently on PC is a mixed bag and yeah again I'm crashing more now after all of the work they've done than when the game first launched moving on to my next topic and I know I read about a hot fix or a patch being deployed by Studio Wild Card aimed at addressing this very issue but currently within the game there is a major problem with Dino density either spawning in or respawning just off the top of my head I've seen a total of maybe maybe two rexes of which I've actually Tamed one of them maybe a total of five bronos but much more common are the smaller dinos like Theos Raptors Doos compies which is kind of odd they just run up to you and stand underneath your feet but because there's this Dino density issue the entire Island just becomes this resource Farm as you run across the island picking up everything you need the dinos are simply not there or not there in the density we are used to seeing onto my my next major issue with Arc survival ascended and this one is gamebreaking for sure and it has to do with character inventory and losing control of your mouse now for the record I only started experiencing this one yesterday evening so it came post all of those Wild Card fixes and patches that they have deployed and this is how it works if I want to interact with my own character inventory that's not an issue I can jump in there maybe drop some spoiled meat maybe check on some craftable items I can move in and out of that no problem but if I interact with say a Dino's inventory to transfer Goods or to rank up their stats or maybe I want to interact with a mortar imp pestle and move some consumables back and forth because I want to craft something the moment you back out of that menu you were locked in whatever angle that you entered that menu at and you cannot move your mouse all you can do is move forwards backwards left and right with W SD but you're locked into that angle unless you pop an emote which seems to reset this issue and you can once again gain control of your mouse and this is game breaking as I said but it becomes even more of an issue say like when you're in your menu you've just interacted with something say again that mortar and pestle you back out and then you're jumped by a Dino and you can't turn to defend yourself unless you first pop an emote so you see where I'm going with this this is a huge issue within the game right now be wary of this one the next two issues I wanted to shine some light on contained within Ark survival ascended seem to have found their way over due to faulty coding from Ark survival evolved so these are Legacy issues the first of which is meshing which is very much still a thing now I'm currently only playing on single player and I have f through the map to my death once but if I were to refer you over to Hod Gaming's Channel he's done quite a bit of research into this and by the way link to his video in the video description he has shown that meshing is still very much a part of Asa and this needs to be addressed immediately especially if PVP is to continue to thrive within the ark Community now the second issue and this is one that I have personally seen quite a few times has to do with Dino spawning into static objects like halfway into a rock and halfway out or completely into a cliff wall for instance I've seen an RG with its head and One Wing out of a giant boulder I've also seen I couldn't even tell you what kind of dyo it was with just this massive tail hanging out of a cliff face there are serious issues with dinos spawning into the game where they get caught into static structures and of course course you have that meshing issue over there that can really affect PVP so these are two things you really need to keep your eye on and finally the last topic I did want to shed some light on this is a discussion that is currently only on simmer but always has the potential to just boil over and it has to do with both NR and snail games now last week we all know about Netty the noodles battle and victory against the NR dedicated server hosting agreement that was only posted after the game had launched that was a small battle and victory but just keep in mind when it comes to NR when it comes to snail games and the money that is involved in there there will be more battles ahead we may have won this battle but the war is far from over and as the dedicated Arc player base knows we're going to have to keep our eyes wide open and pay close attention to what is happening behind the scenes with this game okay so this entire video seems to have evolved into one giant scathing critique aimed squarely at ARC survival ascended pointing out all the faults and deficiencies contained within the game but there are some positives to this game as well and I did want to present those starting off with the fact that the game does look pretty amazing especially when you're able to run it up on the higher graphical settings textures sh Shadows the god Rays coming through the tree line in terms of Graphics the game seems to have been brought over into the 20 first century although I do have some stylistic issues with some of the color palettes contained within the game it tends to be so vibrant it can be a little rough on the eyes but as you're flying over the different Landscapes as you're traveling through the different dense forest on your dinos and even the dinos themselves everything has definitely been up scaled from ASE to ASA another major quality of life improvement from the old game to the new that is definitely worthy of recognition has to do with the map rework and specifically for me how easy it has made Dino tracking because in the old game you could easily lose one of your tames into the vast Wild open but now with this new dino tracking system just by double tapping your map button and then touching the dino icon icon you can place a marker and locate instantly any of your T dinos across the entire map and it just makes finding them and traveling to them so easy I'm sure there are plenty of other topics I could have discussed and included in this video both to the positive and to the negative in relation to Arc survival ascended but the last item I wanted to touch on and this is a positive for the game has to do with the modifications to the dropping of loot the old days of the popcorn loot drops of them just flying out and getting stuck all over the place and you losing track of loot as it hits the ground those days are over with the new system and Arc survival ascended it's all just dropped into a neat and tidy pile right there at your feet it makes finding loot that you've discarded so much easier you can just drop out items come back for them transfer them over the teammates that system is vastly improved and it was definitely worthy of mention so there we are you've got some positives you've got some negatives and you've even got some gamebreaking issues and I wanted to get them out there and just be brutally honest with you of course there is the issue of the console delays and no definitive launch date yet announced for that one but as always I look forward to reading your feedback in the comments section below remember to hit subscribe and ring the notifications Bell to receive my latest upload alerts likes comment Shares are greatly appreciated shout out to the now over 178,000 you that have stuck with me and hit subscribe and a special Thanks goes out to my patreon supporters and to those lovely YouTube Super Chat donations until the next one this is Lieutenant Buzz lightbeer signing [Music] off

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Length: 13min 3sec (783 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 02 2023