“Community involvement is, perhaps, the most important reason why we think it best to launch ARK: Survival Ascended as an Early Access product. How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “Once the game is ready to leave Early Access, we’ll be reevaluating its price point based on all the available content/gameplay and make our decision at that time.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? “We've redesigned and rebuilt the game from the ground up, and for Day One, we'll be launching with the first official map, The Island, and Official Mod support.” What is the current state of the Early Access version? We also plan to add new original story content to ASA that will be tied to future story-themed DLC, as well as new gameplay and content additions to the overall product that isn’t available on Day One.” Each of these respective maps will receive one completely new creature nominated by the community. We also plan to have the previously released free DLC available: The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur. In addition to The Island, we plan to have the following content available, remade, in Unreal Engine 5: “ARK: Survival Ascended will differ at full release from Early Access in the following ways: How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? That said, as we get farther down our development path, we'll share continued updates that help to define a more specific timeline for bringing the game out of early access.”

“We're expecting to be in Early Access until the end of 2024. Once we’ve delivered our plans, we can officially leave Early Access.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access? The most valuable reason is that we found it very constructive to develop our studio’s original title, ARK: Survival Evolved, in tandem with the community’s continual feedback, and seeing as ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA) will have its own set of gameplay features, we wanted to have the opportunity to do the same with the wisdom of the many.ĪSA is also being developed on the latest version of Unreal Engine 5 much like ARK: SE at the time of its development early in its engine’s lifecycle, there’s a lot of new tech and systems being explored in innovative ways, and we’ll need to ensure that we’ve worked through all the kinks.įinally, ASA has its own unique content roadmap in addition to the remade expansion pack content, which gives us an opportunity to develop closely with the Community. “We've decided to use the Early Access model for multiple reasons.

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