Community Crunch 440: ARK: Survival Ascended Content Roadmap!

11 Jan 2025Developer post

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Happy New Year and welcome back, we hope you had a fantastic holiday season and are feeling rested after spending quality time with family, friends, and dinos! We’re going to cut straight to chase and bring you in to take a quick glance at a very high-level ASA content roadmap.

Get ready for the next chapter in the ARK universe, ARK: Lost Colony drops this November, with pre-orders starting in April, when you’ll be able to enhance your immediate survival with early access to new gameplay systems and exclusive content.

Prior to Lost Colony’s November launch, the team also has scheduled these major content releases:

March 2025: ASA Unreal Engine 5.5 update
April 2025: Free Ragnarok Ascended, Bison (Free Creature), and a Fantastic Tame
June 2025: A new premium map in June (to be announced)
August 2025: Free Valguero Ascended with a community-voted free creature, and Fantastic Tame

With the ongoing work throughout the year, we want to take a bit more time to give the Genesis Ascended remaster the love and attention it deserves, and we’re now looking at:

April 2026: Free Genesis Ascended Part 1 & Bob's True Tales Part 1
August 2026: Free Genesis Ascended Part 2 & Bob's True Tales Part 2
December 2026: Free Fjordur Ascended with a community-voted free creature
3 Fantastic Tames spread throughout the year

Over the course of the year, we’ll be sharing juicy details, sneak peeks, and reveals about all of this and more in our crunches, so stay tuned for more news!

We still have a lot more going on behind the scenes so let’s touch on a few things the team’s currently working on:

There’s steady progress being made on the Unreal Engine 5.5 upgrade, which will bring a range of impactful performance improvements along with our ongoing work splitting DLC maps into optional downloads so you’ll have more control over your storage space.
Nvidia Frame Generation is also a priority, and we’re aiming to reintroduce it as an option very soon – we’re as eager to get it back in as you are to have it!

Throw in some more surprise content additions, and we’re looking at a jam-packed first quarter of 2025!

Since returning from the break, the team has been busy reviewing the feedback you've shared with us about Extinction and Bob's Tall Tales: Wasteland War. Your bug reports have been invaluable, and we want to extend a massive thanks to everyone who took the time to help us identify and address these issues.
Here’s what we’re focusing on right now:

Creature spawning issues: We’re working on various creature spawn issues across Extinction.
BattleRig functionality: Some of you have reported hiccups with the rigs, and we’re diving into the mechanics to ensure they’re running smoothly.
Crash fixes: Stability is a top priority for us, and we’re tackling crashes reported during gameplay, particularly on specific hardware configurations.
General improvements: Addressing bug reports that came in with the Extinction launch
Fixing exploits: We’ve been iterating quickly on exploits that violate our Code of Conduct. Please report players breaking the CoC click here

These updates will arrive along with a slew of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements such as a bunch of Armadoggo fixes/QoL, fixing harvesting claimed nodes on PVE, various level design fixes (mesh holes etc), extinguisher grenade fixes, Tinkering Desk and more.
Keep those reports coming, and stay tuned for updates as we roll out a slew of fixes and improvements!

On Monday, January 13, Official Modded servers will receive config and settings updates:

Nyrandil will be added to the cluster
- Nyrandil players: Please ensure there’s nothing in your cloud storage, as the merge will remove all items.
Atlantis transfers will open.
Appalachia transfers will remain closed.

Thank you for your cooperation, and happy surviving!

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