Ark: Survival Ascended Gameplay #1 - First Impressions! 

My biggest hope is that WC focuses on optimization and back-end fixes rather than falling into their past mistakes of just adding new stuff. It's rare that a game gets a promising second chance like this, and I want to see it shine in the places that A:SE failed. Looking forward to the videos, don't burn yourself out!

I like the thick foliage, dense untouched forest with minimal visibility really gets you immersed in the primitive ark. The fear of creatures lurking you had when you played A:SE for the first time has been reborn. Gives me a vibe like the forest and I love that game

I've just got to say again, this game looks so stunning, the graphics are phenomenal, it feels so immersive from just watching this video.

After finishing the video, im loving this. The baby dinos may be a bit OP for the start and may be nerfed but I like quick easy tames tbh. The characters do look a bit cartoony but i dont mind it heaps. I think the reason you dont know you are dying is there are no longer dehydration and starvation symbols, I cant wait to play and I appreciate they buffed drops finally, hopefully my PC will be ablento handle it somewhat

At last, let the adventures begin.

the rocks cracking. and the models have had some update. more details like u can see them be more scaley. and the meg was lil diff aswell. sad the folliage flicker is still there but its not the bs like blue outline atleast. also the sun not blinding u. wayyy less fog. seems great so far

I've watched rampy for a long time and I gotta say ark has changed so much

I'm gonna be honest, I hope they don't let people increase their movement speed or those of their dinos. Because it's stupid that a person can outrun half the dinos in the game. And you can't have any meaningful engagements when everyone is running around slinging bolas while moving at Mach Jesus. I personally can't wait for it to come to Xbox so I can join a server and have an opportunity to join and have some fun on a PvP server.

So far I’m really liking a lot of the changes, I’m just hoping they’ll use this as a chance to improve some of the older creatures with some more TLCs

I like the extra foliage! Ark always used to feel a bit barren compared to what one would expect in different biomes. This extra is great tho! Also adds to the difficulty a bit. imagine a raptor sneaking up on you and you only see the eyes through the leaves before it jump scares you!

The performance I've seen from RU-vidrs with 40 series cards and better cpu's than mine is such that I'm not even bothering touching the game. My rig isn't *terribly* outdated but I'm not paying for a beautiful slideshow with the same bugs and issues we had for nearly ten years in the original game. I'm happy enough to watch and help you earn back the money you spent on it, but the fact that it's managed to stay at Mixed reviews on Steam from 1500 to now 7800 reviews says a lot, and they all mention the same performance and game-breaking bugs (including saves being deleted and the game crashing excessively). Early Access is not an excuse anymore. ASE was Early Access for a stupid length of time and even after release they left in bugs that existed for years. This is a remaster of a game that was already fully made. If I went and redid Pong and called it an EA title I'd rightly get shat on for it on every form of media. Expecting optimizations or bug-fixes from the company that left even a third of what they did in ASE is.. more optimistic than I'd like, and to try and tell a viewerbase that with no caveats and such determination feels less like optimism and more like lying.

Been a long time coming, hope you have an amazing time and can't wait for the future of the 100 days videos

"It's early access, they'll take the feedback on board..." As if they learned nothing in EIGHT YEARS!

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This is how The Island looks, i heavily look forward to how Abberation and Fjordur look whenever theyre added.

I like that they changed the big green lvl up taking up a lot of space

21:54 Flashbacks to the raptor series. The Raptor-King shall rise again!!!!

cant wait for the console release!

Listen us console players might have to wait another week but atleast we have you showing us it

gotta be honest i actually liked that the dossier can be read out, though hopefully there would be an option to turn on and off?

The buff drops are going to be so nice when saddle hunting

SO EXCITED TO WATCH YOUR SERIES ON THIS DUDE !!!

the different body types that are actually available for people in their character creation is insane and i love that!

LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!

Best ark RU-vidr

I get that the foliage seems thick but that's realistic. My job involves traversing wild areas no matter what the terrain and you can't see shit. 😅

I also have a 4090, and my pc managed to handle Ultra when I turned the rtx off. Ran smooth as butter, and managed to keep the other setting high. Maybe also check the foilage and fluid interactivity

A RAMPY EARLY LOOK??!! LETS GOOOOOOO

rampy: why am I hungry also rampy : refuses to cook meat

Thx for your wisdom

And with this the ark survival evolved era ends😢. So many good memories.

Great first video on ASA. Looking forward to the series.

any rampy vid is good but i wont watch it until i have had a chance to play it first

You know shit's bad when even Rampy with his INCREDIBLE 4090 GRAPHICS CARD starts lagging lmfao

I already struggle with running regular ark, TIME TO WATCH MY PC BURST INTO FLAMES

After years of waiting, here we are!

I manage to get 60fps on a blend of medium to low settings with 2080ti at 1440p. Couldn’t consistently hit that range until I locked my fps though. Game may have some memory leak issues rn

I have a question did you by there or did it come naturally like an update PS art survival Ascension work for old servers ?

I know rates kinda ruin your early game but if you dont have a lot of time on your hands those settings are a god gift

Rampy seems to have a type

just waiting for my game to download cant wait to play

Its pretty insane that even for those of us with a 4080/4090, or in my case a 7900xtx, getting proper fps is still a bit of a struggle with high graphics.

Runs perfectly smooth on my 3080 RTX 16gb, 64gb RAM and AMD 9 LAPTOP on HIGH settings and 4k. 60 FPS+

storage also contribute to your stuttering problems, but ig main thing is for them to optimize before we can fully critique

Hopefully gets better optimised, looks way better than ASE but y'know WildCard needs to do some work (I still got the game)

It took me like 5 minutes to realise ur the raptor guy

u can now have multiple save games i think - so that ought to make having parallel worlds easier

The Megaladons swimmig and turning looks a lot better.

I’m so hyped for this! 💜

100 Days with Raptors: Coming soon to a Rampy near you!

Please tell me the giga isn't comically oversized.

Night seems pretty bright! Is that a setting? I always liked the fear of the dark nights in ASE, and they looked really dark in the trailer. I’m super excited to play when I get home!

Ryzen 9, 3060 gpu and it is running fine on high. Occasional lag spike, but otherwise fine.

This game is so crazy that it was lagging my 500$ laptop on 4k by watching a the video

Nahh hidden lake looks stunning!! Dunno what you're on about 😂😂😂

Looks really good, not quite a fan of some of the changes but thats just because im used to playing a certain way

we will do something about it, when it comes to it :) the basic rampy masterclass strategie :)

Hi Rampy! Amazing video again! Can you tell me what CPU and GPU you have?

Too be honest I just hope the game gets optimised alot so that my pc can handle it.. Edit: 11 months later, I upgraded my pc to a 3060 and able to play on medium graphics the game looks amazing even on mid. Although it is very unoptimised and filled with more glitches than even ASE!

Honestly I think ASA shouldn’t have been made. Glad it’s here but I don’t think it was worth the hype especially having to pay for it. I think they should’ve started working on ark 2 giving it all they said they’d be giving to ASA + dino TLC + new dinos + new engrams + more to do + wild babies + new hunting styles, etc.

1st lol love your videos bro recently rewatched all of your 100 days and no damage videos you are amazing

Well, recommended gpu is a 6800/3080. I have a 6700 xt which is the equivalent of a 3070, did not play it yet, but i saw benchmarks and it's not looking good, 60-70ish fps on low performance, 40fps on medium:) Gonna stick to evolved

it looks gorgeous, but all i had to do was glance at steam reviews to know that my pc isn't ever going to be able to run this game with the settings it needs to LOOK that beautiful - fingers crossed they optimise it, but they never optimised the original so i'm doubtful. in the meantime, i'll be happy enough just watching Rampy's videos :>

Kinda crazy all recent games except a few need at least series 30 when the series 20 is still very good. It just seems games are a lot less optimized. How in hell can baldurs gate run on a 1080 and alan wake 2 cant run on a 2060

It does say as well that the minimum is 16GB of RAM and 32GB is recommended so maybe that would explain the lag? Graphics card is great and all but I've noticed with these games RAM is super important. I have a 16GB RAM laptop with a 1050TI graphics card so I can't play this game until I upgrade. My laptop's RAM died a little and now it's 12GB and even ASE lags a lot now for me. I'm worried if I tried to play this it would instantly crash my laptop lol. But I do have to say even on lowered quality this game is still gorgeous! I look forward to watching it until I can get a desktop that can run the game!

What confuses the hell out of me, is that we had games that look as good as this years ago, Early FarCry for example that ran on what today is considered a potato. Yet now we've got this that runs pretty average after you spend thousands on a graphics card. Have programmers somehow forgotten the art. This game really doesn't look very cutting edge at all.

Did you turn dlss 3.0 and rtx on?

My Internet cant handle the video let alone the game, gonna need some upgrades lol

Bro eats 1 piece of raw meat and wonders why he's still hungry

The hidden lake seems a lot more hidden

I remember in early days of Ark SE, getting a pick axe in the beginning was a pain in the rear, sure you have to punch trees but your chances of getting wood were low, you are more likely to die than get a single piece of wood. Though seeing Primitive means the game is a grind slog. but chances are, this is gonna be one of those games with very slow development, shame that Primitive plus us left abandoned.

Finally

I have a really old gpu a 970 so I hope it will look ok

will this be on xbox?

luv it

Omgomgomg

Didn't they sell this game for like 60 bucks even though it's the same game with better graphics and some QoL? Bc this is sold as a completely different game right? Confused. Edit: apparently its labeled as a "new game" so you have to pay the full price. For those without money to waste(like most of the people living in america) i dont see the value in buying it.

I think the photo mode is from ark mobile

Can we just apreciate that the first comment is not somebody complaining that Rampy is playing a "plus size colored woman" as a straight white cis guy?

for the people wondering it runs like garbage unless your on med setting's even with good pc specs

I have a 7900xt gpu, i7 13700kf cpu. ASA is running great at arounf 100 fps all max settings. Am I special?

Hype

capped frames is crazy

I love the new look and stuff in the game, so far overall it looks great except for 1 core thing, performance, steam recommended being a RTX 3080 is disgusting. How do they expect most of the fanbase to move over to ASA when you've got to spend like 2.5k on a pc to run it at medium settings? This is exactly what i was terrified of for the release of ASA and its a shame to see it is probably true. Like you said though, early access so there is potential for it to run well with what its meant to which is better than everything else that comes out now but yeah, I'm just disappointed I personally and many others on pc wont be able to play it due to spec requirements. I imagine console will run it quite well by the time it releases, so that's good.

Rampy needs a bit of deforestation 😂 reckon it's almost realistic foliage

"They will optimise it".. People said that about ASE and it never happened.

I can only play on switch so can't wait till it comes out on switch

a friend has an 4090/ i9 9th gen/ 32gb ram and it runs with like 50fps on epic

I already forgot about ark survival evolved bro, these graphics are insane! This is a masterpiece.

I think we could just take the parents

Looks neat. I guess I have to invest in a gaming rig 😅

I got a 1660 and it's not even laggy for me on medium settings

Im still Stuck with ase but asa looks awesome

This about to cook my xbox☠️

any idea when on ps5?

I noticed that you managed to get max level 150, but it doesn't work for me, how did you do it?

the common 4090 flex

Looks great shame it's no on console tho

Thsi game looks so cool

You got beat this with only raptors