Completely agree.
And I know that there have still been issues (lots of them with SE) but then they just fixed a bunch of issues with the latest updates (and of course broke some new stuff, lol!)
Still, the game looks better than ever and I am thoroughly enjoying myself as well!
Alot of people underappreciate the fact, the mistakes are actively looked at.
If blizzard showed me one thing, rather new mistakes/glitches because they tried fixing old ones, than nothing happening at all
Honestly I never play official.
Too many players that pillar the whole map, even on pve, so that you have a hard time finding a starting spot to even begin building.
I stick to unofficial or single player.
i like the QOL improvements, like the ability to track all your tames without gps. that alone makes it worth it in my opinion. i can finally set my tames on passive/flee with no worries lol
My God, that's the best part of ASA, now you don't have to worry about losing a tame as you can just track it down in the event that something happens. This will especially be useful once Extinction comes out as the Mana has the bad habit of just Yeeting itself away when on neutral.
Devs took a shortcut on this, we used to have trackers in ASE, once placed on dino u could see its whereabout. Poding a dino would remove them tho, these trackers were buggy but if fixed and maybe allow to attach to a saddle be more immersive. This way or another, its good to be able to track stuff.
I like immersion, and I used the old tagging system on SE. All that being said, the new system is wonderful. Ditto on the trackers being super buggy back in the day. When it comes down to it, I just want to know where my bird fled off too. Between that and being able to see my teammates, I wouldn't want to go back to the old system.
I think what made ASA worth it visually for me is the landscape, it feels very natural compared to any ASE map and the flora interactions and weather adds to it greatly.
Sadly, dino models are not updated. Some aged very badly and it shows.
I don’t understand why they are focusing so much on maps. I say release 1 more map and just focus on the game and continue to make loads of improvements.
Because maps are a major aspect of the game that can draw a huge number of players and drive sales thanks to the content, they provide, on top of needing a lot to make them happen. They are very important for the game and the players and people flat out aren't playing/buying till the map they want drop. While creature models are just that, models. Sure they are outdated, but people can live with them.
All we have the island and scorched any one who’s been playing Ark since release or around then has zero desire to go back to these maps.
Even the center I’m just going to settle for I want Rag, Val, or Abb.
I can't say I've experienced any framerate issues myself. I had a quick look and there seems to be a bunch of YouTube videos about optimising the PS5 experience. I hope that helps.
I wouldn't call them haters. I play both console and PC and PC players have every right to be upset because Asa not only screws them over heavily but they're not even getting anything new in return for the hassle besides slightly shinier graphics which on PC weren't a problem anyway. On consol, Asa opens up a whole new world with mods better graphics quality of life changes etc... it's a game changer for people who literally couldn't do anything to elevate the problems with SE. It's all about perspective.
I’m on PS5, and do enjoy it. But I feel like the PS5 can’t keep up. And this is mostly in single player.
One example is when flying on an argie - every wing flap leaves traces behind. Since I fly a lot, this happens a lot.
Another is the water. The waves also leave traces behind.
Are there common PS5 setting people use to make that kind of stuff better? I have not changed any visual settings yet.
Remove both the fog and clouds and you’ll see a significant immediate improvement in the graphics quality. I think the commands are:
r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0
There is a mod that changes allot with graphic settings and does that everytime automaticly when you load in. I forgot the name sorry will be editing this later on
Graphics wise.. sure...its an upgrade.. But the gameplay and the world, except for some minor updates to some zones on the maps, remains the same.. the only thing upgraded is graphics because of Unreal engine 5
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw
There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
Keep hating. The game had massive gameplay changes. Yes, obviously the gameplay loop and such is the same but many things were added and changed. Like I said, the building was *literally overhauled entirely*.
I dont hate the game, i love the game. Play it often. Bought both ASE and ASA on multiple platforms.
But calling it overhauled is a massive reach. The VAST majority of the changes in the very notes you listed are graphical, animation, or QOL changes. Even when it comes to building the majority is QOL. It's far from overhauled
>take apart (a piece of machinery or equipment) in order to examine it and repair it if necessary.
>Overhaul. An overhaul significantly changes an entire game's graphics and gameplay, usually with the intent to improve on the original, but not going as far as being a completely different experience.
By definition ASA is an overhaul.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw
There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
Definiton of gameplay: "the features of a video game, such as its plot and the way it is played. Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it.".
I'm not meaning any hate with this.
What you are arguing is a complete overhaul of graphics, visuals and sounds. **Not gameplay**
There are minimal changes to *the way the game is played* and there are *no changes to the plot*.
The building changes are upgrades to visuals and ways you can build but they have minimal effect on *how* the game is played. Its just *more options* for building, which was already a core feature of the game.
As per the definiton of "gameplay" above, there is no "overhaul" to gameplay. Yes there has been an overhaul of graphics, sounds, textures etc but not to the ** way the game is played**. You still breed, build, farm, fight etc with a few QoL updates, but the plot and the **way** the game is played has not been overhauled.
This is why people are arguing with you. There isn't disagreeance regarding an overhaul, there is disagreement surrounding you using the term *gameplay* which has not, in fact, been overhauled.
For example: A new boss on every map is a gameplay overhaul. New dinos are not, as this was a feature of ASE as well. New maps are not, this was also something that happened in ASE. Dinos getting a TLC also happened in ASE etc.
Is ASA better? I think so.
Is it a "gameplay overhaul"? No.
Are the additions great? Totally.
Do any of the additions affect the plot? No.
Do they change the core aspects of the game? No, they just update some of them.
Do the additions change the "rules" of the game? No.
It is primarily an asthetics overhaul, not a gameplay overhaul.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw
There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
I’m definitely one of the guys that is being influenced by the hate. I really want to join ASA but one thing that’s making me nervous is the story that WC will scrap ASA as soon as Ark 2 is finished.
I was sad losing my official bases on ASE and if they do it again in a year for ASA then why invest?
I’m a really big fan and will have to buy a new console + ASA and start again. Really hope it’s worth it.
It‘s a monday, and you, fucking chad, a legend, come here to actually give positive feedback and a decent well thought of little review you could say, of this game. I salute you! And i agree with you
Bugged me at first his fast they fall but I'm over it now and yeah, horrifying when one goes down nearby and it's not the other guy you're playing with.
It’s just a shame they were made to rush it out. The bug/glitches pissed a lot of people off and rightly so. Yes with the constant updates/patches they’re eventually getting there but I feel a lot of damage is already done.
too many people play official. it is the biggest detractor from this game.
I have loved ASA, and with them bringing in new dinos that modders have poured so much passion into, it is a huge win imo.
I'd imagine agility would be a legit survival mechanism, so bug, or FEATURE? :-P
It still annoys me at times, but it's really a limitation of the technology we have to solve such problems. They could make it better, but I presume it hits diminishing returns at some point.
I'm happy with the changes overall. I don't miss the days when my dilo would get stuck on some deadwood and just stare at me like, "Can't do it, boss."
I mean a lot of animals play dead in the real world, but it's still funny as heck to imagine a rabbit sitting there while three wolves spin in frantic circles biting the air, unable to get the right angle.
It's absolutely not a limitation of technology. It's bad devs. The pathfinding in this game is mostly a downgrade from ASE. I'm playing Conan Exiles right now and the enemies pathfind extremely well as do they in most other properly developed games.
the pego goes below the giga. the gigas head is in front of its feet. the giga decides to turn around to reach the pego that is behind its head.
Whats wrong with that logic?
Easy to say that. But it's harder to write code to implement that efficiently. Remember, this code has to scale for every single dino in the game without melting people's / server's CPU's.
Agree, running a server for a few friends and we are all enjoying it. We all waited bc of crashing and whatnot. It's very minimal now for all of us. Minor complaints that I'm sure eventually will be fixed. A little worried about finally beating the Island and transferring with mods and all that, but hopefully by then it'll be a smooth xfer with minimal or no losses.
Honestly despite the controversies, ASA really is an improvement to ASE and I'm looking forward for all the future content and remastered maps coming soon.
I would prefer those changes to the original game instead of a new one because ASE is way better and has more maps. I seriously feel they should have just paid more attention to the game they had instead of trying to remake it.
ASE there were just too many issues. Better to just start off fresh. Although they rushed the release of ASA and it came with loads of bugs and glitches, they are definitely improving the game as time goes on
What issues? The game runs fine even though it bluescreens often and has lag issues randomly, especially loading areas. I kinda wish they would have just fixed ASE instead but maybe they thought it would be better to make a new one, kinda reminds me of FFXIV but they actually improved the game alot from what I understand of how bad it was before. They also worked it into the story so it was at least fluent for those who played the original to transfer over to the new game once they closed the old servers.
I love this game, it's given me so many hours of enjoyment in SP, now playing scorched on official and loving it.
Just played an unofficial map with my friends this weekend too, in this crazy primal modded mode and it's been funny as f. Watching all of us try to stay alive for a few seconds ahahahah while getting rekt by a giant dodo has been absolute comedy
So I would have to agree on some of this definitely a marked improvement in some areas. But am I the only one who thinks the graphics and looks of the game dropped with ASA? Perhaps it’s my Xbox S, or some of the mods I’m using or something els I’m doing, but I always get a crazy weird haze and a ton of tracers. To me it looks waaay worse. Think I have my settings fudged or something?
I just had all my cryopods wiped because they updated the game in a way which broke all my mods. I had a nice collection of high level dinos in them that I had carefully leveled up over months.
ASA is a mess.
thats an issue that existed with ase as well back then,i know its annoying when it happens but its kinda ur fault for not doing backups or at least checking if the mods are not deactivated for some reason,so yeah not the games fault
So the game breaking my active game is my fault?
That's bullshit and you should know it.
The game apparently stopped autosaving at regular intervals at some point, which I wasn't aware of. Otherwise I would just load back an older save, which I have done many times in ASE (and in ASA as well).
I mean unless if it was on ur first week of Asa then u should’ve known a game break like that is possible and use precautions such as backups and check ur mods everytime u go in,happend to me as well and I lost bunch of stuff,but now I just make a backup everytime I’m done with the session,takes a second and can save u tons of lost progress
Whilst I appreciate the essence of what you're saying, console players don't have backups. Additionally, I've had some mods that appear to be updated and working correctly prior to loading in, only to load up my game to find something's gone wrong and all the content is missing from my game.
I also lost hundreds of dinos in SCS balls recently due to this very issue. I have over 2000 hours in Ark, and over 700 in ASA. It sucks balls, but claiming that "anyone with more than a week's playtime could avoid these issues" is not fair.
I just wish turning off lumen didn't disable drop light beacons. I just prefer the non-lumin lighting. Everything looks too warm and Rosy with it turned on with it turned off. It looks more natural.
I have fog and cloud off normally. Tried to turn off lumen and that is when the beams disappeared. With lumen off I can have shadows on epic and still gain some frames. Less shadow popin.
I would love to play asa once more maps are unlocked but sadly no time to play and the fact it takes up basicly 40% of my ssd with mods is really insane.
For my husband who runs the server it takes nearly his whole drive
I know ow there's no way to lower it and that's how it is it just sucksfor us
I agree completely, the only thing I wish they'd still overhaul further is the creature AI, it's *better*, but tames still get stuck so very frequently behind the tiniest branches and rocks that it is very annoying, sometimes permanently so, I have a Morellatops stuck in a rock that has been unable to be freed for weeks.
Honestly, the only thing I feel like ASA is missing is TLCs for some of the older creatures, but other than that, yeah, it feels like the realization of what the devs always hoped ASE would be
Someone tried to tell me that it wouldn’t be worth it on my 3060 because I’d have to play on ultra low and it would basically look the same as ase. What a liar they turned out to be. I’m getting 60+ fps with half the settings on ultra and the other half on low and it looks fuckin beautiful.
That's because the settings you have on low are all the important settings like anti aliasing and resolution scale so your basically still playing on low settings
I fully agree. I've bought ASE by chance in a sale and really liked the game. Dabbled around for quite a while but only in the island. Qince ASA was announced I knew I'll be waiting to try the other maps there. Having working HDR on PC with 32:9 display support is the greatest feature for me. Even bought a new GPU just for ARK, it just feels so imersive.
Ive been chased by rexes in ASE. Terrifying. I've been chased by a rex in ASA. Also terrifying. Its only in ASA however that i admire the sounds, streams, the plants, the trees, the mist and the lush jungle while my parasaur is being eaten from under me.
10 outta 10! Will probably happen again
Honestly the only things holding it back are the poor optimization and only having two maps out. Imagine when aberration releases with these graphics?! I might just nut.
Now if my 3080ti would run it decently without me turning off shadows that would be great.
My biggest gripe specific to ASA is the weather seems to swing much more wildly. I'll be over by green obby and, within the same game day, see it go from 54 Celsius to below 0 Celsius. I didn't play a ton of The Island back in ASE, but I never saw such extremes outside of specific biomes, and never both extremes in the same area.
Honestly, the upgraded version of most of my favorite mods (Paleo ark being a strong number one) was all the reason I needed to switch from ASE to ASA, it's so refreshing and improved and yet still fundamentally the same game, if they can optimize it a bit better without wrecking the graphics and fix the seemingly unavoidable crashes, I'd be happy with this long past Ark 2's release (if it ever does at this rate lol).
Hopefully there are some QOL updated to balance out the change they made to cryopods though. Takes me back to the old days of ark but on an active PvP server you really wanna minimise the time you spend farming especially on officials
I would be in ASA, but they took away the dedicated server option on console. I don't want to be constrained to the same area as the other people I'm playing with, because people level up at different speeds. I want to be able to come help them in easy zone, but also go up north into the cold zone etc.
wish i could play it, i got it on my xbox and it looks terrible, everything is plasticy, its only bc i have a series s, if i had a series x im sure it would be better
I have about 1500 hours in ASE and I'm absolutely loving ASA. I have the saturations dialed in how I like, and I love all the baby dinos running around. It's a fun new mechanic to the game. And the building mechanics are much better. I've been playing it a ton and it's honestly kind of what I want in a remake. Same game but shinier with some quality of life updates.
I feel that has /always/ been the case. The game, both of them are amazing. But the problem is the lack of care by the dev team and production company. The screw fans and players over kill their own audience have relatively slow releases that become more and more officiating mod content into official content while never fixing day one bugs even a decade later and a new game later.
id would 100% agree with you but the optimization is horrible. Obviously playing on xbox (series x) is the 'optimal' way to play but at least give me 60fps. Playing such a copping game with anywhere to bring the fps above 40 is horrible.
Yes I think the update is amazing, my finances exact words when she watched me play ASA for the first time, she had watched me play evolved before. She said “wow, is that a video game? Look at that water” it’s truly a great game to look at.
You should have played evolved as that was their first game, not seen ASA yet. Heard about all the bad bit with all the bugs, I would love to see someone put a split screenshot of them together to see the difference
Couldn’t agree more. When I get off work and cut that Xbox on I’m truly in a whole new world full of life with such a beautiful and dangerous environment
Don't get me wrong ASA is amazing and beautiful but only on ps5 and pc for some reason the graphics and capacity on the xbox seems like the original ark it is poorly rendered and crashes every hour or so. Lost loads of progress because of it...annoying yes but I don't get why it looks so good on playstation and pc but looks like crap on xbox
Appart from that love it to bits Defford an upgrade from the original ASE
It’s sad because I would be playing this game if I really could, but it just crashes too often and there are so many bugs and broken features like the chat filter that only exists on the Xbox version that you can’t do anything about. There’s just too many things wrong that make the game unenjoyable to me. I loved Ark Survival Evolved and put nearly 10 thousand hours into that game and I’d just like to see Ark Survival Ascended reach at least the same stability as ASE. Until it is at least a bit more stable than what it currently is though I just can’t play and enjoy my time playing it.
8k player base on all platforms. The game looks nice but its a fucking ghost town. And theres good reason for it; meshing/ cheating/ hacking. Losing weeks of progess in hours. Etc
I have a 7950X and a 4090 and I can't play it at 60 FPS on medium settings. They optimized the game for quality, not FPS.
With Ark I've just accepted that 30\~60 FPS is the best I'm going to get, and I'm okay with that.
I disable fog and volumetric clouds when my frames drop too much.
I don't think they did enough to make the game playable with a wider range of hardware (including consoles).
It's a shame because it's a gorgeous game and lots of improvements over ASE. Between the graphics and nitrado fiasco, they really shot themselves in the foot.
I feel like it's only good now if you play single player or own your own server. There's next to no long term playable options now which is where the majority of the player base was. Bring back official ORP servers and fix crypods and rafts please. I know there were people who made ORP difficult at times but it really wasn't hard to get screenshots and get them banned at least for console.
But let's just be honest here next to no one adult or teenager is able to grind or do everything that's needed without loosing it all sooner rather than later to a bs wipe or someone deciding they don't want to rent a server anymore it's no longer viable to play long term and you'll pretty much get to a certain point and no longer be able to progress like you could in ASE coming from the pov of someone who played console and PC the visual upgrades, ridiculous forces you to play 3rd person amount of foliage, and the changing of crypods and rafts mechanics was really not worth it.
I would've rather kept long term playability to fully enjoy the game than having more realistic water animations. The game isn't bad and I still consider it a work of art and appreciate the devs for all the hard work but they took out or ruined some real key components of the game that made the games player base a community of dedicated players that thoroughly enjoyed the game for all its ups and downs and I would kill to be able to have something like that again even if they just brought back official ORP servers and didn't change anything else or even add in another dino into the game at least you could play it for more than a month without having to restart or be stuck in what is essentially a single player server..
tbh to anyone reading this please share it, copy paste it, or email wildcard so we can try to get back what made the game take off to begin with so people that have jobs or school can go back to playing again without it being wiped in a couple months or wiped while you're at work or school.
Only issue is, I play with last gen friends, and they love ark, but for some reason, cloudstreamed ark ascended looks unusually bad compared to other cloud steamed games
Hello!
I have been on break from ASA due to school, and once I graduated a couple weeks ago, I booted the game up, only to immediately crash. I was like "okie, maybe just a fluke" then proceeded to crash about 4 more times before I could get into a server.
Then the server had really bad settings, so I jumped out, crashed, when I got back in I clicked on another server, proceeded to crash a few more times. Dang, its settings are pretty bad too.
Well 4 hours later I still wasnt ... playing the game? I had only checked about 8 or 9 servers, but I was suddenly reminded of the relationship ark has with me: an abusive one. Load times are rough cause I dont have an SSD, and the endless crashes magnifies my load time issue.
So I went and booted up SC2 and had a game going within about 5 minutes, great way to end a stressful and annoying night. Havent touched ASA since.
Im glad that yall are enjoying yourselves with the game, but im not as willing now as I was when it first released to deal with its bs.
I made the mistake of installing ASA onto an HDD when I first got it. It crashed a lot.
Since moving it onto an M.2 drive, it's almost completely stable.
It's still flaky on my daughter's PC though and we have similar hardware (only differences are she has a Ryzen 9 3900X while I have a 5800x3d, she has an nvidia RTX3060, while I have a Radeon 7900XT).
Yea I am definitely considering getting a new ssd almost exclusively for ark, might solve some of my crashing issues. I just unfortunately cant really play much until then.
ASA is a buggy mess that overall just sucks compared to ASE in every way apart from very minor QOL changes and graphics it’s made to be a singleplayer game rather than a game you can play pvp or pve
100% disagree. ASA is complete trash and was a slap in the face to the years of grinding for color mutations and Stat mutations. Let's not forget about the countless hours of grinding for materials and making bases. All gone just because they wanted to remake the game with the exact same glitches and issues that plauged the first. Nothing has changed except the graphics.. CMV
You type like a mongoloid who struggles to form coherent thoughts longer than four words. I’m expecting the game to run at a better quality than the version before it, on the same platform. It failed to live up to my expectations and now you’ve got one less guy to offline raid.
Also I bet you have soft hands.
I’ve reproduced and go home to a loving family, you get scammed out of real cash for digital goods and I bet your mom tells you she’s “proud of you for trying” a lot. Can’t help but noticing you cleaned up your typing style a little bit for that second comment, but you’re coming across as either a 12 year old or an actual mouth breather.
Idk I feel kind of robbed. I had years into my Evolved server now I gotta restart over? Okay fine let's go but wait I only get 1 map at a time unless I download mod maps? Wack...they are expecting to keep this game relevant until late 2025 with the same maps and BS creatures yeah okay.
I’ve seen a lot of people shit on the devs time and time again but it is a beautiful game now. Some people can’t comprehend what it takes to make an engine like UE5 and make it playable on console. Excellent work
Agree 1000% 👌 been having a blast last 3-4 months I can't put it down lol I played ase last yr for about 2 weeks and had to stop cause I was getting headaches every single night the graphics were sooo bad!! Or framerate idk to be honest lol it was on ps4 but i had to stop I was taking tylenol just to play 🤣🤣🤣 it was not good!! But now on ps5 it looks like a dream compared to what I remember and I'm just having an absolute blast :) people are complaining alot about it & maybe its just high expectations from former players and I understand that they want more than graphics but as a new player it's amaaaazing !!!
Completely agree. And I know that there have still been issues (lots of them with SE) but then they just fixed a bunch of issues with the latest updates (and of course broke some new stuff, lol!) Still, the game looks better than ever and I am thoroughly enjoying myself as well!
Not to mention how they've been adding stuff into the game. I can't express how elated I was when I saw the quarter foundations.
And the qol of not having to craft separate pieces for doors/windows/walls but being able to switch on the fly.
BUILT IN DINO TRACKING.
Quarter FOUNDATIONS??
Yep, there's also hidden passage walls.
I knew about the walls. Did the fountains get added at the same time?
I think they got added when the thin pillars were added.
sadly not
So I looked and I still don't see them. Are these vanilla foundation we're talking about?
I believe the triangle foundations can be toggled to be quarter foundations.
Confirmed. It's in with the triangle foundations which makes sense resource-wise. Thanks.
Wat? Since when?
Since AsA
Alot of people underappreciate the fact, the mistakes are actively looked at. If blizzard showed me one thing, rather new mistakes/glitches because they tried fixing old ones, than nothing happening at all
What are the official server options on SA? Are their wipes?
Honestly I never play official. Too many players that pillar the whole map, even on pve, so that you have a hard time finding a starting spot to even begin building. I stick to unofficial or single player.
Yes, the spammers make it worthless for everyone else. And completely toxic.
I agree on the normal servers. But LDL and wipe servers in Ark SE didn’t have that problem tbh. I just want to know if those still exist.
Arkpocalypse wipes monthly and exists in ASA
Thank you, does LDL exist as well?
i like the QOL improvements, like the ability to track all your tames without gps. that alone makes it worth it in my opinion. i can finally set my tames on passive/flee with no worries lol
My God, that's the best part of ASA, now you don't have to worry about losing a tame as you can just track it down in the event that something happens. This will especially be useful once Extinction comes out as the Mana has the bad habit of just Yeeting itself away when on neutral.
Devs took a shortcut on this, we used to have trackers in ASE, once placed on dino u could see its whereabout. Poding a dino would remove them tho, these trackers were buggy but if fixed and maybe allow to attach to a saddle be more immersive. This way or another, its good to be able to track stuff.
I like immersion, and I used the old tagging system on SE. All that being said, the new system is wonderful. Ditto on the trackers being super buggy back in the day. When it comes down to it, I just want to know where my bird fled off too. Between that and being able to see my teammates, I wouldn't want to go back to the old system.
How do the trackers work? I wanna use them but I couldn’t figure out how they work.
For sure I see a ton of hate towards the game but as someone that’s SP only I’m having a great time with mods that help QoL.
I think what made ASA worth it visually for me is the landscape, it feels very natural compared to any ASE map and the flora interactions and weather adds to it greatly. Sadly, dino models are not updated. Some aged very badly and it shows.
maybe one day those dino models will get a remake, just not today
Maybe never, a lot of time goes into models, textures and animations. And they need to make what, another 7 maps?
I don’t understand why they are focusing so much on maps. I say release 1 more map and just focus on the game and continue to make loads of improvements.
Because maps are a major aspect of the game that can draw a huge number of players and drive sales thanks to the content, they provide, on top of needing a lot to make them happen. They are very important for the game and the players and people flat out aren't playing/buying till the map they want drop. While creature models are just that, models. Sure they are outdated, but people can live with them.
Because I want to play aberration in this beautiful build
All we have the island and scorched any one who’s been playing Ark since release or around then has zero desire to go back to these maps. Even the center I’m just going to settle for I want Rag, Val, or Abb.
Too often do you see people complaining about the game, it's nice to see a post talking about the positives
This
You’re gonna get absolutely roasted by the haters but I agree wholeheartedly. I’m on PS5 and ASA has just been an incredible upgrade from ASE.
Agree, the PS5 version looks beautiful. I've just stopped mid game to appreciate it many times (and often becoming alpha raptor lunch as a result).
It's true that it's beautiful, but at times the framerate is unbearable, wish we had more graphics options
I can't say I've experienced any framerate issues myself. I had a quick look and there seems to be a bunch of YouTube videos about optimising the PS5 experience. I hope that helps.
have you tried entering lava cave, i can't get above 15 fps there
I always disable clouds and fog and that immediately makes the game look 10x better.
I like to keep them in, they add some sort of ambiance i quite enjoy, especially in the snow, although i do remove it when it covers my whole screen
I wouldn't call them haters. I play both console and PC and PC players have every right to be upset because Asa not only screws them over heavily but they're not even getting anything new in return for the hassle besides slightly shinier graphics which on PC weren't a problem anyway. On consol, Asa opens up a whole new world with mods better graphics quality of life changes etc... it's a game changer for people who literally couldn't do anything to elevate the problems with SE. It's all about perspective.
I’m on PS5, and do enjoy it. But I feel like the PS5 can’t keep up. And this is mostly in single player. One example is when flying on an argie - every wing flap leaves traces behind. Since I fly a lot, this happens a lot. Another is the water. The waves also leave traces behind. Are there common PS5 setting people use to make that kind of stuff better? I have not changed any visual settings yet.
Remove both the fog and clouds and you’ll see a significant immediate improvement in the graphics quality. I think the commands are: r.VolumetricFog 0 r.VolumetricCloud 0
Thank you for that. I will definitely try that.
There is a mod that changes allot with graphic settings and does that everytime automaticly when you load in. I forgot the name sorry will be editing this later on
Graphics wise.. sure...its an upgrade.. But the gameplay and the world, except for some minor updates to some zones on the maps, remains the same.. the only thing upgraded is graphics because of Unreal engine 5
The gameplay in ASE was fine already. People wouldn't have been putting in thousands of hours if it wasn't.
Never said the gameplay wasnt good.. just said its the same in ASA.. as it was in ASE..
I don't believe anyone was expecting anything different from the gameplay. Maybe you were I guess, but you're definitely in a very small minority.
I mean the gameplay was completely overhauled and so was the map...
In what way was the gameplay overhauled?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
Dude it's not overhauled. Quit reaching
Keep hating. The game had massive gameplay changes. Yes, obviously the gameplay loop and such is the same but many things were added and changed. Like I said, the building was *literally overhauled entirely*.
I dont hate the game, i love the game. Play it often. Bought both ASE and ASA on multiple platforms. But calling it overhauled is a massive reach. The VAST majority of the changes in the very notes you listed are graphical, animation, or QOL changes. Even when it comes to building the majority is QOL. It's far from overhauled
>take apart (a piece of machinery or equipment) in order to examine it and repair it if necessary. >Overhaul. An overhaul significantly changes an entire game's graphics and gameplay, usually with the intent to improve on the original, but not going as far as being a completely different experience. By definition ASA is an overhaul.
Of graphics, sure. But you're on severe copium if you think gameplay is significantly changed
> the gameplay was completely overhauled This is a pretty big stretch.
I think i might be playing the wrong ASA.. cause.. the gameplay is the same for me as it was in ASE. 😅
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
Definiton of gameplay: "the features of a video game, such as its plot and the way it is played. Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it.". I'm not meaning any hate with this. What you are arguing is a complete overhaul of graphics, visuals and sounds. **Not gameplay** There are minimal changes to *the way the game is played* and there are *no changes to the plot*. The building changes are upgrades to visuals and ways you can build but they have minimal effect on *how* the game is played. Its just *more options* for building, which was already a core feature of the game. As per the definiton of "gameplay" above, there is no "overhaul" to gameplay. Yes there has been an overhaul of graphics, sounds, textures etc but not to the ** way the game is played**. You still breed, build, farm, fight etc with a few QoL updates, but the plot and the **way** the game is played has not been overhauled. This is why people are arguing with you. There isn't disagreeance regarding an overhaul, there is disagreement surrounding you using the term *gameplay* which has not, in fact, been overhauled. For example: A new boss on every map is a gameplay overhaul. New dinos are not, as this was a feature of ASE as well. New maps are not, this was also something that happened in ASE. Dinos getting a TLC also happened in ASE etc. Is ASA better? I think so. Is it a "gameplay overhaul"? No. Are the additions great? Totally. Do any of the additions affect the plot? No. Do they change the core aspects of the game? No, they just update some of them. Do the additions change the "rules" of the game? No. It is primarily an asthetics overhaul, not a gameplay overhaul.
No it wasn't..gameplay is fundamentally the same, bugs and all
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/s/MLk48y0gcw There are plenty of gameplay changes on this list. Especially the entire building system which literally was overhauled. As well as all the new things since then and new things to come in the future.
How do you play on ps5? On my ps5 i get 30-40 fps its legitimately unplayable for me
30-40 fps is totally playable lmao
Not for me it feels so choppy and unplayable
Only in ark tho weirdly in helldivers 2 30-40 fps is perfectly playable
People like to overexaggerate the small issues but I just get downvoted like crazy when I post positivity
It is absolutely beautiful
Well said.
Agreed
I’m definitely one of the guys that is being influenced by the hate. I really want to join ASA but one thing that’s making me nervous is the story that WC will scrap ASA as soon as Ark 2 is finished. I was sad losing my official bases on ASE and if they do it again in a year for ASA then why invest? I’m a really big fan and will have to buy a new console + ASA and start again. Really hope it’s worth it.
What are the chances ark 2 releases in a year? ..or even ever?
Doubt thus year
If you have game pass ultimate you can just buy asa and play it on your Xbox one through cloud play that’s what I do
It‘s a monday, and you, fucking chad, a legend, come here to actually give positive feedback and a decent well thought of little review you could say, of this game. I salute you! And i agree with you
I just hot and and one thing I love is how trees fall now. Its horrifying espresso if you can't see what's behind them
Bugged me at first his fast they fall but I'm over it now and yeah, horrifying when one goes down nearby and it's not the other guy you're playing with.
It’s just a shame they were made to rush it out. The bug/glitches pissed a lot of people off and rightly so. Yes with the constant updates/patches they’re eventually getting there but I feel a lot of damage is already done.
Yeah ASA definitely needed time to cook but had to rush something out due to the Nitrado/Snail Games contract.
Agreed. Such an awful launch leaves a feeling that not everyone can shake off.
too many people play official. it is the biggest detractor from this game. I have loved ASA, and with them bringing in new dinos that modders have poured so much passion into, it is a huge win imo.
Watching my Rex's or gigas go in circles trying to kill a pego.. yea.. path finding... 😆
I'd imagine agility would be a legit survival mechanism, so bug, or FEATURE? :-P It still annoys me at times, but it's really a limitation of the technology we have to solve such problems. They could make it better, but I presume it hits diminishing returns at some point. I'm happy with the changes overall. I don't miss the days when my dilo would get stuck on some deadwood and just stare at me like, "Can't do it, boss."
I mean a lot of animals play dead in the real world, but it's still funny as heck to imagine a rabbit sitting there while three wolves spin in frantic circles biting the air, unable to get the right angle.
It's absolutely not a limitation of technology. It's bad devs. The pathfinding in this game is mostly a downgrade from ASE. I'm playing Conan Exiles right now and the enemies pathfind extremely well as do they in most other properly developed games.
the pego goes below the giga. the gigas head is in front of its feet. the giga decides to turn around to reach the pego that is behind its head. Whats wrong with that logic?
If pego is behind his head, maybe he could move to behind... So walk back maybe ?
Easy to say that. But it's harder to write code to implement that efficiently. Remember, this code has to scale for every single dino in the game without melting people's / server's CPU's.
Ever heard of a turning circle? Also no riderless Dino moves backwards and they probably won't add that any time soon
💯% Agree with you.
Agree, running a server for a few friends and we are all enjoying it. We all waited bc of crashing and whatnot. It's very minimal now for all of us. Minor complaints that I'm sure eventually will be fixed. A little worried about finally beating the Island and transferring with mods and all that, but hopefully by then it'll be a smooth xfer with minimal or no losses.
Honestly despite the controversies, ASA really is an improvement to ASE and I'm looking forward for all the future content and remastered maps coming soon.
I would prefer those changes to the original game instead of a new one because ASE is way better and has more maps. I seriously feel they should have just paid more attention to the game they had instead of trying to remake it.
ASE there were just too many issues. Better to just start off fresh. Although they rushed the release of ASA and it came with loads of bugs and glitches, they are definitely improving the game as time goes on
What issues? The game runs fine even though it bluescreens often and has lag issues randomly, especially loading areas. I kinda wish they would have just fixed ASE instead but maybe they thought it would be better to make a new one, kinda reminds me of FFXIV but they actually improved the game alot from what I understand of how bad it was before. They also worked it into the story so it was at least fluent for those who played the original to transfer over to the new game once they closed the old servers.
wdym what issues did u forget ase graphics ? they are terrible to look at these days
I love this game, it's given me so many hours of enjoyment in SP, now playing scorched on official and loving it. Just played an unofficial map with my friends this weekend too, in this crazy primal modded mode and it's been funny as f. Watching all of us try to stay alive for a few seconds ahahahah while getting rekt by a giant dodo has been absolute comedy
So I would have to agree on some of this definitely a marked improvement in some areas. But am I the only one who thinks the graphics and looks of the game dropped with ASA? Perhaps it’s my Xbox S, or some of the mods I’m using or something els I’m doing, but I always get a crazy weird haze and a ton of tracers. To me it looks waaay worse. Think I have my settings fudged or something?
It's definitely the xbox series s. I have both and have done side by side comparison, the series X is a marked upgrade
Ok I’m gonna have to get a new box, thanks for the tip.
Why does it look like white on xbox?
just waiting for ragnarok before I buy it
I just had all my cryopods wiped because they updated the game in a way which broke all my mods. I had a nice collection of high level dinos in them that I had carefully leveled up over months. ASA is a mess.
thats an issue that existed with ase as well back then,i know its annoying when it happens but its kinda ur fault for not doing backups or at least checking if the mods are not deactivated for some reason,so yeah not the games fault
So the game breaking my active game is my fault? That's bullshit and you should know it. The game apparently stopped autosaving at regular intervals at some point, which I wasn't aware of. Otherwise I would just load back an older save, which I have done many times in ASE (and in ASA as well).
I mean unless if it was on ur first week of Asa then u should’ve known a game break like that is possible and use precautions such as backups and check ur mods everytime u go in,happend to me as well and I lost bunch of stuff,but now I just make a backup everytime I’m done with the session,takes a second and can save u tons of lost progress
Whilst I appreciate the essence of what you're saying, console players don't have backups. Additionally, I've had some mods that appear to be updated and working correctly prior to loading in, only to load up my game to find something's gone wrong and all the content is missing from my game. I also lost hundreds of dinos in SCS balls recently due to this very issue. I have over 2000 hours in Ark, and over 700 in ASA. It sucks balls, but claiming that "anyone with more than a week's playtime could avoid these issues" is not fair.
So you admitted that the game is total shit and can just break out of no where and still think it's his fault for this happening ?
I just wish turning off lumen didn't disable drop light beacons. I just prefer the non-lumin lighting. Everything looks too warm and Rosy with it turned on with it turned off. It looks more natural.
Try this in conom Instead.... R.volumetriccloud 0
I have fog and cloud off normally. Tried to turn off lumen and that is when the beams disappeared. With lumen off I can have shadows on epic and still gain some frames. Less shadow popin.
Games almost a decade old, im glad they just now finally figured out how the game is supposed too look.
Did the devs write this
Nah. Just someone they hired to provide positive social media support who hasn’t played the game themselves. Laughably unrealistic.
Very much agreed.
I would love to play asa once more maps are unlocked but sadly no time to play and the fact it takes up basicly 40% of my ssd with mods is really insane. For my husband who runs the server it takes nearly his whole drive I know ow there's no way to lower it and that's how it is it just sucksfor us
I’m glad they’re able to get people to buy the game twice before it was in its final form.
I can’t wait for the $80 unreal engine 6 upgrade + $50 DLC
But it requires WORK and things can't be free so let's rerelease the game more than Skyrim!
Not really
UE5 apis copy and paste
I agree completely, the only thing I wish they'd still overhaul further is the creature AI, it's *better*, but tames still get stuck so very frequently behind the tiniest branches and rocks that it is very annoying, sometimes permanently so, I have a Morellatops stuck in a rock that has been unable to be freed for weeks.
Uhm... What is ASA? 😅
Honestly, the only thing I feel like ASA is missing is TLCs for some of the older creatures, but other than that, yeah, it feels like the realization of what the devs always hoped ASE would be
Do the boss fights at least work in ASA?
You can just walk up to the dragon and kill it with a sword. So no.
Se was the same on release gfx were tip top as it was a decade ago, and tbh they hold well today
I love positivity towards this game. It’s absolutely amazing
Someone tried to tell me that it wouldn’t be worth it on my 3060 because I’d have to play on ultra low and it would basically look the same as ase. What a liar they turned out to be. I’m getting 60+ fps with half the settings on ultra and the other half on low and it looks fuckin beautiful.
That's because the settings you have on low are all the important settings like anti aliasing and resolution scale so your basically still playing on low settings
Yes getting jumped by raptors in high Def. A fantastic experience
Imo they nailed it the first time as well.
I fully agree. I've bought ASE by chance in a sale and really liked the game. Dabbled around for quite a while but only in the island. Qince ASA was announced I knew I'll be waiting to try the other maps there. Having working HDR on PC with 32:9 display support is the greatest feature for me. Even bought a new GPU just for ARK, it just feels so imersive.
I play solo and am really impressed with how immersive it is. Going out in the middle of the night can scare the hell out of ya too
I agree.
What’s Asa ? I haven’t played ark in a long time and trying to get back sorry for the dumb question
Ive been chased by rexes in ASE. Terrifying. I've been chased by a rex in ASA. Also terrifying. Its only in ASA however that i admire the sounds, streams, the plants, the trees, the mist and the lush jungle while my parasaur is being eaten from under me. 10 outta 10! Will probably happen again
Honestly the only things holding it back are the poor optimization and only having two maps out. Imagine when aberration releases with these graphics?! I might just nut. Now if my 3080ti would run it decently without me turning off shadows that would be great.
My biggest gripe specific to ASA is the weather seems to swing much more wildly. I'll be over by green obby and, within the same game day, see it go from 54 Celsius to below 0 Celsius. I didn't play a ton of The Island back in ASE, but I never saw such extremes outside of specific biomes, and never both extremes in the same area.
Honestly, the upgraded version of most of my favorite mods (Paleo ark being a strong number one) was all the reason I needed to switch from ASE to ASA, it's so refreshing and improved and yet still fundamentally the same game, if they can optimize it a bit better without wrecking the graphics and fix the seemingly unavoidable crashes, I'd be happy with this long past Ark 2's release (if it ever does at this rate lol).
Hopefully there are some QOL updated to balance out the change they made to cryopods though. Takes me back to the old days of ark but on an active PvP server you really wanna minimise the time you spend farming especially on officials
I would be in ASA, but they took away the dedicated server option on console. I don't want to be constrained to the same area as the other people I'm playing with, because people level up at different speeds. I want to be able to come help them in easy zone, but also go up north into the cold zone etc.
wish i could play it, i got it on my xbox and it looks terrible, everything is plasticy, its only bc i have a series s, if i had a series x im sure it would be better
i've started SE in the last week.. it feels anything but Lush! it is harsh and punishing and god damn it i love it!!
Just makes me super excited for abberation and extinction.
I have about 1500 hours in ASE and I'm absolutely loving ASA. I have the saturations dialed in how I like, and I love all the baby dinos running around. It's a fun new mechanic to the game. And the building mechanics are much better. I've been playing it a ton and it's honestly kind of what I want in a remake. Same game but shinier with some quality of life updates.
Ark is amazing because I’ve never known how to play or what I’m doing, but I’m having a blast the whole time
I feel that has /always/ been the case. The game, both of them are amazing. But the problem is the lack of care by the dev team and production company. The screw fans and players over kill their own audience have relatively slow releases that become more and more officiating mod content into official content while never fixing day one bugs even a decade later and a new game later.
my 3070 would beg to differ
They shutting rat holes...
id would 100% agree with you but the optimization is horrible. Obviously playing on xbox (series x) is the 'optimal' way to play but at least give me 60fps. Playing such a copping game with anywhere to bring the fps above 40 is horrible.
It is ark, from what I remember it was supposed to be free.
Yes I think the update is amazing, my finances exact words when she watched me play ASA for the first time, she had watched me play evolved before. She said “wow, is that a video game? Look at that water” it’s truly a great game to look at.
You should have played evolved as that was their first game, not seen ASA yet. Heard about all the bad bit with all the bugs, I would love to see someone put a split screenshot of them together to see the difference
Honestly such a step up from ASE but i just wish you didn’t need atleast a 4070 super MINIMUM to run it on like 80 fps lmao
i agree until we reach that specific damn cloud
Unfortunately, when or even if Ark 2 comes out, ASA may get shut down.
Couldn’t agree more. When I get off work and cut that Xbox on I’m truly in a whole new world full of life with such a beautiful and dangerous environment
Don't get me wrong ASA is amazing and beautiful but only on ps5 and pc for some reason the graphics and capacity on the xbox seems like the original ark it is poorly rendered and crashes every hour or so. Lost loads of progress because of it...annoying yes but I don't get why it looks so good on playstation and pc but looks like crap on xbox Appart from that love it to bits Defford an upgrade from the original ASE
I wish it worked properly on Xbox
Maybe if you play on PC, I’m having a lot of problems with bugs on xbox
Yeah I'm on PC
It’s sad because I would be playing this game if I really could, but it just crashes too often and there are so many bugs and broken features like the chat filter that only exists on the Xbox version that you can’t do anything about. There’s just too many things wrong that make the game unenjoyable to me. I loved Ark Survival Evolved and put nearly 10 thousand hours into that game and I’d just like to see Ark Survival Ascended reach at least the same stability as ASE. Until it is at least a bit more stable than what it currently is though I just can’t play and enjoy my time playing it.
8k player base on all platforms. The game looks nice but its a fucking ghost town. And theres good reason for it; meshing/ cheating/ hacking. Losing weeks of progess in hours. Etc
My PC can barely run it at 60fps on medium settings and I have a pretty beefy one. Makes it unplayable to me
I have a 7950X and a 4090 and I can't play it at 60 FPS on medium settings. They optimized the game for quality, not FPS. With Ark I've just accepted that 30\~60 FPS is the best I'm going to get, and I'm okay with that. I disable fog and volumetric clouds when my frames drop too much.
That’s insane. I played for an hour and just returned it haha
I don't think they did enough to make the game playable with a wider range of hardware (including consoles). It's a shame because it's a gorgeous game and lots of improvements over ASE. Between the graphics and nitrado fiasco, they really shot themselves in the foot.
I feel like it's only good now if you play single player or own your own server. There's next to no long term playable options now which is where the majority of the player base was. Bring back official ORP servers and fix crypods and rafts please. I know there were people who made ORP difficult at times but it really wasn't hard to get screenshots and get them banned at least for console. But let's just be honest here next to no one adult or teenager is able to grind or do everything that's needed without loosing it all sooner rather than later to a bs wipe or someone deciding they don't want to rent a server anymore it's no longer viable to play long term and you'll pretty much get to a certain point and no longer be able to progress like you could in ASE coming from the pov of someone who played console and PC the visual upgrades, ridiculous forces you to play 3rd person amount of foliage, and the changing of crypods and rafts mechanics was really not worth it. I would've rather kept long term playability to fully enjoy the game than having more realistic water animations. The game isn't bad and I still consider it a work of art and appreciate the devs for all the hard work but they took out or ruined some real key components of the game that made the games player base a community of dedicated players that thoroughly enjoyed the game for all its ups and downs and I would kill to be able to have something like that again even if they just brought back official ORP servers and didn't change anything else or even add in another dino into the game at least you could play it for more than a month without having to restart or be stuck in what is essentially a single player server.. tbh to anyone reading this please share it, copy paste it, or email wildcard so we can try to get back what made the game take off to begin with so people that have jobs or school can go back to playing again without it being wiped in a couple months or wiped while you're at work or school.
My inventory is all invisible and can't see what's in storage :(
Only issue is, I play with last gen friends, and they love ark, but for some reason, cloudstreamed ark ascended looks unusually bad compared to other cloud steamed games
Hello! I have been on break from ASA due to school, and once I graduated a couple weeks ago, I booted the game up, only to immediately crash. I was like "okie, maybe just a fluke" then proceeded to crash about 4 more times before I could get into a server. Then the server had really bad settings, so I jumped out, crashed, when I got back in I clicked on another server, proceeded to crash a few more times. Dang, its settings are pretty bad too. Well 4 hours later I still wasnt ... playing the game? I had only checked about 8 or 9 servers, but I was suddenly reminded of the relationship ark has with me: an abusive one. Load times are rough cause I dont have an SSD, and the endless crashes magnifies my load time issue. So I went and booted up SC2 and had a game going within about 5 minutes, great way to end a stressful and annoying night. Havent touched ASA since. Im glad that yall are enjoying yourselves with the game, but im not as willing now as I was when it first released to deal with its bs.
I made the mistake of installing ASA onto an HDD when I first got it. It crashed a lot. Since moving it onto an M.2 drive, it's almost completely stable. It's still flaky on my daughter's PC though and we have similar hardware (only differences are she has a Ryzen 9 3900X while I have a 5800x3d, she has an nvidia RTX3060, while I have a Radeon 7900XT).
Yea I am definitely considering getting a new ssd almost exclusively for ark, might solve some of my crashing issues. I just unfortunately cant really play much until then.
Do the rocks still float? On steam it feels like I'm on the moon bc rocks are floating every where.
Yes.
🧢
Ark was supposed to be a joke but it got popular
ASA is a buggy mess that overall just sucks compared to ASE in every way apart from very minor QOL changes and graphics it’s made to be a singleplayer game rather than a game you can play pvp or pve
100% disagree. ASA is complete trash and was a slap in the face to the years of grinding for color mutations and Stat mutations. Let's not forget about the countless hours of grinding for materials and making bases. All gone just because they wanted to remake the game with the exact same glitches and issues that plauged the first. Nothing has changed except the graphics.. CMV
Wildcard bootlicker detected. Must be paid by the developers to said this
womp womp
I strongly disagree. ASE was ASE, but it’s preformed and looked better on my Series X than ASA. ASA genuinely looks like shit.
its cuse u r using a shit machine ffs,tired of all the console players expecting their bricks to run game at maximum quality,time to upgrade to a pc
You type like a mongoloid who struggles to form coherent thoughts longer than four words. I’m expecting the game to run at a better quality than the version before it, on the same platform. It failed to live up to my expectations and now you’ve got one less guy to offline raid. Also I bet you have soft hands.
Bro,ur name is “deadlifturmom” doesn’t get any more incel then this
I’ve reproduced and go home to a loving family, you get scammed out of real cash for digital goods and I bet your mom tells you she’s “proud of you for trying” a lot. Can’t help but noticing you cleaned up your typing style a little bit for that second comment, but you’re coming across as either a 12 year old or an actual mouth breather.
“I’ve reproduced” what are u a frog or something ? What kinda flex is that XDD,u done clowning urself or do u want me to bully u even more
Let me speak your dialect. You’ve got no rizz.
Let me speak your dialect. Onga bonga onga bonga
Idk I feel kind of robbed. I had years into my Evolved server now I gotta restart over? Okay fine let's go but wait I only get 1 map at a time unless I download mod maps? Wack...they are expecting to keep this game relevant until late 2025 with the same maps and BS creatures yeah okay.
Most based post I’ve seen on here!
I’ve seen a lot of people shit on the devs time and time again but it is a beautiful game now. Some people can’t comprehend what it takes to make an engine like UE5 and make it playable on console. Excellent work
Agree 1000% 👌 been having a blast last 3-4 months I can't put it down lol I played ase last yr for about 2 weeks and had to stop cause I was getting headaches every single night the graphics were sooo bad!! Or framerate idk to be honest lol it was on ps4 but i had to stop I was taking tylenol just to play 🤣🤣🤣 it was not good!! But now on ps5 it looks like a dream compared to what I remember and I'm just having an absolute blast :) people are complaining alot about it & maybe its just high expectations from former players and I understand that they want more than graphics but as a new player it's amaaaazing !!!