Comparing The ASE Dinos To The Ark Survival Ascended Dinos!! || Ark Survival Ascended 

The new models dont really blow me away, it feels like they just altered their colours and upscaled the textures a bit, still feel mostly lifeless

More than half of this Island roster needs a TLC ASAP. They look hideous compared to the environment around them

The biggest improvement are the faces imo. They have much more depth

They basically imported the old assets and retouched the textures. Some of it works but that giga looks dreadful. I hope they do something with them in the future.

It it just me or do the insect Dino’s have a better glow up than the other Dino’s

You can tell that while some of the models were definitely improved upon and look great, the rest were simply ported over. But the landscape is definitely a massive step up compared to og Ark.

Some minor improvements Skin wise (not the colours) otherwise the dinos are the same! I'll wait patiently for console release...as usual lol

The eyes I feel are the biggest improvement on all models. They used to look so lifeless but on the updated models they look fantastic.

THANK YOU, been looking for this video since it dropped The game is admittedly pretty, sure. But they didn't address my biggest issue Ark has always had: The wildlife doesn't feel alive, and every thing you tame feels like a glorified vehicle I was hoping they'd fix the mindless rampaging carnivores killing everything in their path until something kills them BS and have things chill, sleep and herd/pack up like real animals like they said they would 4 years ago. But I guess I was expecting too much for what was always just going to be a dolled up rerelease 😪

I was hoping for a ton of tlc ngl mainly for carno, dilo, and giga- also disappointed carch didn’t transfer over yet but rhynio did smh

9:21 I think sarcos had the biggest glow up

Really disappointed they’re just reskins… idk why I thought they would have TLC level upgrades.

The biggest difference is when color and texture interact with light. The old one looked kind of cartoony because some colors didn't change the palette to lighter when they interacted with light. And some of them are just like copy and paste...

Wildcard really doing bare minimum to get Ark running in UE5. ASA looks like something a small dedicated modding team could have made. And people line up to pay $60 for upscaled textures and truck loads of gravel spilled on the ground.

I like how everytime you spawn a dino in ASA their colors blend with the foliage

Literally almost every model is just directly ported, the only difference is the shading. People are saying “oh the new faces look different” or whatnot and no they’re the exact same

they somehow made the otter even cuter

Outside of texture changes, the new lighting, and other effects, it seems like most haven't received a major update to their models (a lot of the depth and wrinkles you see are 100% found in the textures and not in the models themselves). However, it does appear that a few have received some minor updates to their eyes, which honestly is enough for some of them. Overall, I think a lot of them are probably fine as is, but there's a fair few that need adjustments (a lot of the furred and feathered creatures need to have the seam between the mesh shell for their fur/feathers and actual model looked at again, as it's very visible in the new lighting) and some that need an outright TLC redesign. Namely: the Araneo, Penguins, Plesiosaur, Quetzal (the slightly longer mohawk doesn't fix the problem) (edit: also the Giga, kind of spoiled with the Paleo variant being god tier visually). I also think that some things could do with a reanimation, such as the Megapithecus. Also, I THINK the Microraptors have lost their teeth lmao! It looks like a similar issue can be found with the Ovis. I think they may be using the wrong LODs for close-ups.

Here come the check videos! You should show off new in game features ETC. been watching you for a long time now, keep up the good work.

My…god…… the beginning of the intro! It’s like Moui but the facial expression of Wreck-It Ralph trying to crack a smile.

is it just me or does it just feel like for most it was a color palette swap models still are very similar I was hoping for a larger TLC difference from ASE

I think what makes the new one better is the lighting that’s helping it out a lot for these animals

We all just not gonna talk about how that tree stood up again when the monkey punched it?😂

Hey can you please make a video about the difference / stuff that changed / got added in ASA compared to ASE pls? From the UI to the new berries etc

Wow! Most of fut and feathers creatures are looking so good! Also many of chitin are super good looking glow up like artropleura and araneo. But my favourite is allosaurus, t-rex, quetzal, megalania and sure, giga. But as I see, there's no carcha in video

I wished they change the dinos animation

Models look amazing, but i feel like the fur/feather models didn't get the same enthusiasm as the scalie boys. Can't wait though to jump in. I'm so excited to see what they do with the shadowmane

How do you get the cheat console thing open, I can only use cheats from the escape menu (tab or "~" does nothing)

"They are the same picture" - Pam Beesly

I like how the dodo slowly turn his head around towards you, and you back away before it cuts to the next dino ahahha

Settings were on epic for both of these as well :)

Some of these aren’t very different (particularly the large non feathered dinos rex,carno,etc), however in all of them the eyes and other facial features are looking better.

Only time will tell. For now, we shall wait for the release of potentially new models for dinos (hopefully)

On what setting did u play ASA? Because i feel that u are using dlss on performance or ultra performance which will look bad , u should use it on ultra quality or turn it off

Whats the music playing 4:47? Incredible video incredible music choice

i think the asa and the ark one is basically the same but with the sun lights and a little bit more details i was think they will update all model of out dated creature of 2015 to 2017 and make a big tlc with all old creatures with new ability

Wish they had more idle animations, or even added a feature where dinosaurs would sit after not doing anything for a while. Also some of the models, especially the micro raptor, seemed to have lost some of their features. Microraptor seems to have lost its teeth. One other thing is models like Ovis seem to have lost a few polygons.

08:12...The plesiosaur be steppin in this update tho! 🔥🔥🔥

11:02 me in the background trying to fight the drunk man at the bar

Didn't actually expect much of the dinosaurs to change they were already looking good but i expected a more lively living ecosystem like animals borrowing nests underground, predatirs hunting pray through the jungle and different tribes living in jungles, frozen tundras in deserts like in minecraft. Tribes hunting creatures

You know they changed almost notthing if you have to highlight the dinos with "old"

I know this game has really mixed reviews on steam band a lot of people hate the performance issues even with their decent PC’s but it is a really good looking game, I loved the crystal isles map and I’d love to see what that looks like in UE5, I bet your PC would catch fire, but still it’d look great! 😂

Is it possible to have a video on the weapons? Or are the models too similar?

How long before there is a mod that implements the new looks/skins into the ASE?

Most of it is updated skins but some of em got well needed model tweaks. Im keeping my fingers crossed for a tlc pass though, because some if them -ahem, rhino- need more than just a facelift.

Whats the name of the music that played during the kentro showcase?

Like I said before to others. It’s gonna take a little more than just reskinned nicer animals and human. The picture looks great 👍🏼 but, what about the fighting styles ? The guns, like are there any new ones or something of explosive size? Did they say anything about a new weapon of melee ? Like katanas or something cool? Like are the noises of the animals still the same or altered a little bit different than the original ? New blueprints? Or even just experimenting the fighting style with the ark 2 in ark Ascension? Like I maybe asking a bit much but this was the thought of how Ark 2 could semi function? Just a Little clue you know lol?

Aberration and its creatures are about to be insane

I love how it say i hate you on the micro raptor, same bro

Idk why I thought the Rynio wouldn’t be in this game but it looks awesome

I love how vibrate the colors are

Is the Carchar not in the game at the moment or did you just forget it?

How do you spawn in the creatures, I’ve been curious, also someone spawned a wyvern on a community post, how do I do that since ive been hearing of a not allowed to spawn on this map error

I'm so disappointed lol I thought the main thing they would upgrade would be the creatures but instead it was the map and items and structures. Lol i dont give a damn about any of those

That was a lot of work, thanks.

Dino sepertinya tidak terlalu mengalami perubahan mungkin nanti nyusul, Tapi perubahan Alamnya Emang Gila sih

Honestly, nothing really changed that much, except for the graphics, resolution, lighting and texture of the game has improved. I love how far ark has evolved into a beloved community game.

Ark Survival Cut'n'pasted...this feels like 10 years ago when you got a photoshop tutorial at school and all it was was using a airbrush or magic tool and altering a picture to be sharper. Bit fishy that they couldnt move servers over because UE$ wasnt compatible with UE%....then 95 percent of assets and functions literally get cut and pasted between them. cheers for doing this vid, its been hard to find/watch any of the changes on any other channel due to game just crashing for everyone and everyone doing their own thing. Water, UI, and some building changes. 1.5/10 stars, 20 percent upgrade for 500 percent price, and that's being nice and ignoring the 30 percent decrease in optimisation, the long delays, the lies, not being on console like promised, and the deletion/resetting of servers both new and old game.

Love the parasaur reskin. Really noticeable

Really hope that this means they will fix the derpy eyes on the griffin later on

out of context question but will i be able to run ASA smoothly on my 3060, i heard people getting 40 frames on their 4090s

I hope Microraptor lacking teeth is just the game going low poly like OG Ark likes to do from time to time and it isn’t just permanently stuck like that,.

It may just be a trick of placement, but some of them seemed bigger than their old selves

40;dollars for a shader is wild

Is there anything new outside of cosmetics?

The new ark looks more cartoonish for some reason

I could be dead wrong, but a lot of these seem to be the exact same but with better normal maps (the textures that determine how light bounces off the model). Would explain why some people are mentioning better depth.

The new lighting engine really highlights how most of the old dinos looked like they were made of play-doh

I’ll be honest I thought we were getting new movements animations and stuff but this just looks like the exact same game with a texture pack and super high saturation. I was really hoping the creatures would move more naturally since they claimed to have made it all from scratch. More wild card lies.

This was always one of those games where I thought it was like the Pinnacle of graphic technology and then they go and kill it again it's crazy

bro some of these new models look significantly worse than the older ones. that microraptor 😂

Dodo looks majestic imo 😂

My biggest question is wether the lagg will persist like in the lauch where server ping was over 200

Colors of these dinos are so bright on purpose or they spawn like that naturally now?

Lmao Random flying titan at 11:02

I swear they all look the exact same as the old models, the only difference being their colours

So basically just lumen, I’ll b happy if the new game engine helps with meshing/ render lag. Honestly loved this game so much I would of been happy paying the 60$ to breath life into the old game and double its server life so big W even if it’s a major scam to milk us for money. We know it’s their only good game and tlc/updates will come back to back so I’m happy ❤

some got a good texture update but they all the same derpy model

Looks fckin amazing😍😍 can’t wait to dive in

Argy had very little change, but it was also TLC'd. If it was compared to OG Argy it would be a vast difference.

Daedon looks great now. Can't say that for all the "new" models tho 😂

why does old water dhinos look better? is realistic water making dhinos look old?

Really excited to play it

whats the song in the first part of the video?

Kinda wish this was a side by side. While playing I truly felt like the Trike, Stego and Dodo were literally the same textures

All huge improvements

My biggest worry is whether I can get graphics that don't look blurry/mushy/washed out in ASA

I literally cannot tell the difference between any of these- *Except* for the Ovis, which somehow looks worse?? But not to shoot the messenger- thanks for posting this comparison video! Keeps my expectations for this rip off niiiice and low :P

Lol...face of ovis in asa definately isn´t ready, right...? It looks a bit like in ASE when not rendered completely...

The new centipedes face got me shook

I really hope the devs apply some gameplay tlc to some of the creatures that needed but didn’t get a tlc patch in the original game. I still don’t see a single reason to tame a Diplodocus and Mosasaurs are extremely underwhelming for something referred to as the “Giga of the Sea”

so what i see is improvement to the lighting making everything look better which is automatically in UE5. Main improvement is new terrain that is not like a static shading and texture?

The Kairuku (penguin) and Ovis look worse to me. Look at the horns on the Ovis.

I was expecting the Argy to look amazing, all it got was an updated face. FeelsSameMan

Bro why are people so suprised that the remaster is a remaster and not a full fucking remake

The new kapro is a masterpiece ❤

Some of those fur transitions look pretty rough, like the beaver, bear and wolf. Not the fur itself, but where it changes from the normal texture to fur, especially in the face it doesn't blend in well at all. Most of the creatures look fine, not much has changed, but honestly seeing the beaver made me go "oh dear".

I am a bit confused here. Is this a new game or is it an update for the old one?

Im just like the map everytime you show a new dino

Carch ?