Ark remastered?

[PYRACOR]

Is this just a remaster of the original game or does it add anything of substance that I cannot get with mods?

[Maeve]

it's a complete remaster of the original on unreal engine 5 with the ray tracing and the dodads. It includes all the DLCs and the bonus maps of the original but for now only the island is available since from what I understand this is slung out the door in advance due to a contract. Some controls are missing and some sliders and toggles are not functionning properly and the UI is clearly not finished, hence the 10% discount rn. It's overall a pretty good package in my opinion if you look at it in a forward manner. On my end it hasn't crashed and it looks beautiful even if it's 30fps on my 6750xt at 1080p with whatever upscaling I am at (resolution slider is broken). I am going to play on it since it seems good enough, I haven't had too many issues but others are complaining non-stop so idk.

[thestile]

There are some quality of life changes also. It's mostly graphical changes.
Its a nice upgrade if they can fix the bad performance and crashes.

[Gara the Dragon]

Originally posted by PYRACOR:

Is this just a remaster of the original game or does it add anything of substance that I cannot get with mods?

its just a port from UE4 to UE5, devs says its a remaster but all the same bugs are in this game as they were in the original game. I think its just a port of an earlier build of ARK so they can attempt to fix the bugs the never bothered to fix in ASE.

ALSO, get ready to spend more money to buy the rest of the game, devs already are changing their mind and plan to sell all the DLCs separately. Just read the early access release stuff on the store page, its so scummy.

[Luxfere]

same game rehash for a money grab what a bunch of ....

[Chilltex]

They add new bugs, more improved way for WC/SG/Nitrado to milk the player base.

[PYRACOR]

Gross thanks for this. Not touching anymore content from the devs

[DrunkenOrca]

First, and most important, they added new types of berries!

[Jolly]

This has never been asked before. Edumacation system is fail.

[SirSwerving]

It's a remaster for the most part, with some noticeable gameplay changes and small QOL additions. Future patch content will also add some exclusive content that won't be coming to ASE, such as the community voted dinos for each dlc map.

[Sperber]

Problem is that "remastering" is a term that comes from the movie and music business and originally means that the analog original that all copies are made from is being restored from its natural chemical decay over time.
With digital media and games, the term is so undefined as "hanging up the phone" has become or the usage of the floppy symbol for "saving a file". Everyone here has their own idea whether ASA is a "remaster" or rather more.

[ChrisTM]

Just wait RTX 5090 to play in 4k/ 60fps

[Lily]

Game looks absolutely stunning in Unreal5. You just need a 4090 to utilise it.

[Jusdatip]

Don't buy this. You'll do yourself a favor.

[Dracolisk]

Game is more or less original Ark with way better graphics. It has very minor tweaks and seems to follow the same timeline as original Ark, no cryoballs and such. Not sure if they really will release all of the other maps free as they didn't say that exactly. I expect the major expansion DLCs to have a cost.

Using a 3080 ti here and I play in 1920 x 1080 on ultra without major issues, may not get 60fps but its very playable and looks great. Turning off Nvidia DLSS and that other crap helped a lot with crashes for me.

If you have the hardware and are a fan of Ark I would recommend it.

[Innominatam]

Originally posted by Gara the Dragon:

Originally posted by PYRACOR:

Is this just a remaster of the original game or does it add anything of substance that I cannot get with mods?

its just a port from UE4 to UE5, devs says its a remaster but all the same bugs are in this game as they were in the original game. I think its just a port of an earlier build of ARK so they can attempt to fix the bugs the never bothered to fix in ASE.

ALSO, get ready to spend more money to buy the rest of the game, devs already are changing their mind and plan to sell all the DLCs separately. Just read the early access release stuff on the store page, its so scummy.

No the ORIGINAL DLC AND MAPS will be free.

You are quoting the one section where they said they plan to make a NEW DLC map and charge for that one.

Long story short you misread