Ark: Survival Ascended’s Release Date Is Great News For Ark 2
has just pulled off the surprise of a sudden PC release, and although this is great news for anyone interested in playing it, it's even better for the upcoming title. Following up on the 2015 title is a remake of the game in Unreal Engine 5. It's intended to act as a complete and definitive experience, including the content from all of the DLC that the original title racked up as part of its $45 price tag.
Although the new tech in offers an exciting new angle on, not everything leading up to the launch has been sunshine and roses. Support for the original ended on September 30, 2023, to pave the way for the remake, forcing anyone who wants to keep playing on official servers to cough up the money for its successor. It's still possible to play the original on unofficial servers or in single-player mode, but the shift in support follows the recent trend exhibited by games like and in essentially overwriting one online experience for another.
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Ambitious game projects often take much longer than planned to release, as any manner of even minor delays can ultimately stack up until a product is months or years past its intended launch. Delays have already struck on multiple occasions, and this very well could have been an indication that both it and were slipping further and further behind in the schedule. Although it's still impossible to say exactly when will be released, the release of shows that the future for the latter is unlikely to be in any worse shape now than when delays were first announced.
Development of the two titles is doubtless more complex than the same team and the same resources going toward both games simultaneously but wrapping up principal
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