You DESTROYED Aberration

[Butcher]

Title says it all, Aberration is a fkin mess, it was the most beautiful map and you completely destroyed it.

Lighting is very bad, trees are ugly.. there were beautiful blue and pink trees in the blue area, replaced by white flowered trees???

Metal nodes don't even glow blue anymore...

Bugs lighting is horrible...

Light rays are too bright, I can barely navigate the map and I used to know it by heart.

I can honestly say that ASE Aberration is by far better looking overall. There might be some areas with good atmosphere were ASA shines due to higher graphics but they are very few.

I have got a 4090 Suprim X, 64GB Ram & i9 14900K and I have to turn on DLSS to get 60 fps and DLSS gives me a bit of flickering lights to top it all off..

You messed up, big time.

[76561199377993540]

AMEN.

[McMarc]

Yep. I am super disappointed aswell. I was really looking forward to explore this beauty again in next gen graphics, but they underdelivered harder than ever before. Besides the choppy frames and the flickering of lights, the map itself just feels weird. Rocks look like their textures are from a different game. Pains me to think about what will happen with my beloved Ragnarok.

[76561199377993540]

Aberration is by far the worst graphics I've ever seen, I have a 4090 i913900 and it looks like I'm playing on an xbox360, my son is playing ASE and I with him, we're having a great time, and the lighting and shadows are so much better than on ASA-

[Arasine]

Agreed. The overall impression is a first pass by devs who never even played the original map and had "kindergarten - progressive colour scheme" in mind when they build this.

[Butcher]

I forgot to mention the horrible looking mushrooms, it's as if they are covered in sulfur all yellow and horrible textures.

[Butcher]

https://imgur.com/a/GQkPVnh

[babyfoothero]

agreed

all the bug appart, final result is just very bad.
way too "lighty", lost the orignal map atmosphere.

Original map looks and feel 3x better.

[PORTUGA]

agreed

[Justice]

I have to agree with everyone who says that Aberration on ASA is DESTROYED with this horrible lighting that you have put into place on this version of Aberration... I am really disappointed that this is the best that you could come up with. I am so upset with how things have been going with your remaking of the ASE that it's not even funny anymore, you have to start doing better or you are going to loose even more long term players of your game title with the Ark series. Look Wildcard there are more maps that you have promised to us over the next couple of months -&- years and if you don't stop doing what you are doing there's not going to be a public who give two craps about this game anymore. Look Wild Card...? Can you deliver the rest of these maps that are coming out without DESTROYING THEM? I have over 8,000 hours in the first game and I know there are others out there that have way more than I do, so stop and think about what you are doing before you release anymore maps that are not ready to be released yet. DO NOT MESS UP RAGNAROK! That map is very popular and loved by the ark community.

[dr_fish]

OP, as a fellow 4090 owner, try my suggestion here, I would be grateful to hear what you think. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2399830/discussions/0/4757578447243860670/

Obviously, it does not address some of the questionable artistic choices made in this update, but I think you will find that it resolves the technical ones. 5160x2160 with max settings at 100fps is a thing you can do and it looks incredible.

[Winslow]

I went back to SE, I couldn't stand it

[bhaalspawn]

Strange how I am actually agreeing with everything, it goes against my nature.

I have held out trying ASA again and have been waiting for Aberration but it is dreadful.

I have no problem running the game on any setting ( i9-14900KF, 4070ti Super) but the graphics, especially the lighting look terrible. Changing the settings just make things worse.

So, yet again, downloading and going back to ASE.

[76561199377993540]

ASE is better . WILD CARD WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[x_Amphetamine_x]

Agreed. RIP.

[Fairy]

A lot of people agree, myself included. Why they thought a white light, for light bug, was better than the yellow it had is beyond me. Really hoping they do an update to the lighting and bring back the OG charm Ab had. I think some Ab creatures actually look better now but the glow is so lifeless.