The Downfall of ARK: Survival Ascended (Hackers, Meshing & Corruption)

[@mochiboot6502]

The game would be fun if devs focused on fixing bugs instead of adding more unbaked, unfinished content.

[@SiouxTube]

As a kid who dreamed of being a paleontologist who loved ASE I'll probably stick with ASA until it folds or Snail drives this whole thing into the ground. In my opinion survival games in general, ARK included, are some of the few games worth playing anymore that isn't charging arms and legs through some level of monetization and any potential Modding is definitely making the game all the better and far more playable for my friend and I on our private server. I definitely understand why people don't enjoy the game anymore or won't support ASA and I hope them all the best finding a game that rewards their time and money.

[@FlesterVids]

Simps like you are why they charge microtransaction after microtransaction after microtransaction after.....

[@adamtiburon9849]

Really hit the nail on the head here with everything you said. The ARK 2 trailer was released 3+ years early and the ASA trailer was released the day before the game came out (and out of nowhere like you said). They obviously ran out of money to fund ARK 2, used ASA as a cash grab, and are now overly invested in it to the point ARK 2 will be pushed back for many more years. They told us “not to worry” about hackers before buying the game since they claimed to have redone the code. They also told their customers that performance would be great on the servers, and to this day I have not seen such poor optimization and consistent lag out of any game I’ve ever played. And this doesn’t include all the crashing on the client side which is completely unacceptable. It’s honestly a miracle a class action lawsuit hasn’t occurred yet for this disaster. They’ll be lucky for them to get away with just losing their jobs. The devs and the publishers have proved over and over that they are all lying trashy people who will say anything to make a buck

[@UnnGowww]

Btw still happening. Just lost 1022hr and my shines

[@FactFeedX]

Yeah and what’s funny is I havnt played for 4 weeks after being wiped by hackers on smalltribes. I come back and I’m banned myself for 6 days for bad language aparently and then before that while being wiped by hackers over a 2 week span I was banned for 2 weeks for bad language again and I don’t barely speak in chat lmao it’s a joke

[@TheOutcasts]

Ive heard many stories like this from a lot of people

[@johnjames4593]

The crashing and dinis flying away doesnt happen to me anymore since several of the past updates

[@xxuponafenderxx]

Agree with pretty much everything said here. Cheaters, hackers, players that take advantage of exploits, and bugs are the biggest issues. I'm not coming back to this game until I have reason to believe that these issues are SOLVED. GGs.

[@RenegadeJames]

There are actually many quality of life changes they implemented into ASA that’s not in ASE. Not just graphical changes. Not sure if you actually played ASA, but even base building is better. Along with major UI changes to make things more easier to manage. I’d also say the performance is noticeably better considering the game doesn’t stutter every 5 seconds like ASE. And while there is some issues still, I’d say ASA is slightly the better game in the long run because they’re adding new creatures that never existed on all the revamped maps coming from ASE along with new player outfits and weapons. Also, being able to utilize mods on consoles is awesome. What they need to do is just bring the price down to $20 bucks and they’ll see more people switch over. Other than that, I’m excited to see how all the maps look on the UE5 along with the creatures. The character customization is better too. I’ve also noticed that they’ve added better Dino sounds. There’s a lot of good things about ASA that many ppl aren’t discussing lol

[@joshuamckenzie831]

What's the point of all these changes if you can't even save anything and your dinos and items keep disappearing. Not to mention people losing entire characters when you ascend.

[@latenitephreak]

@@joshuamckenzie831 got 3 ascensions done…haven’t lost one yet…transfers we will see tho

[@joshuamckenzie831]

@@latenitephreak I lost my character twice beating the alpha overseer, lost both characters and still only gave me gamma ascension. I don't even bother with gamma bosses lol

[@RenegadeJames]

@@joshuamckenzie831 that should have been fixed in yesterday’s new massive update!

[@steveenczi8967]

We want a new ark not a revamp

[@friendlyneighborhoodspider3962]

Wait, ticket response of 2-4 weeks? I had an admin in my base immediately after someone failed to raid me. Telling me i was in a banned spot and had 72hrs to move my base.

[@horshue7873]

Ahhh how i said i told you so to all my old ark buddies

[@levis3131]

Like a 3rd grader.... "I told you so" can't stand people like that. Get humble

[@horshue7873]

@@levis3131 its not that deep how attached are you to this game that this shallow statement that is accurate anyway got you hot. Peculiar

[@minustheone80]

What's the background music?

[@Landinsite]

Thanks for making this video its pure and exact

[@Vjamesx13]

Im glad i didnt buy this i could already tell a game that was supposed to be a FREE UPGRADE as long as you preorder ark 2 but instead they retracked that and make you pay 45 buck for a legit reskin. Like FOH. I can have fun on a polished older Ark with more mods and less bugs jank and break. At least it stays stable now instead of a petty cash grab.

[@ave383]

My game crashed about 60 times yesterday. It was so bad and they show no urgency to fix this game breaking issue. I may get a refund and leave again for another 5 years until they fix their game

[@criminatix6919]

Game still has these issues.. and so many more problems to, games just gonna die sadly specially with how pay to win its becoming. Loved this game, but sadly its being taken away by a bad company filled with greed.

[@corbindallas1954]

Yeah, they fumbled hard on this one. I just stopped. I'm not pouring 1000s of hours into this garbage.

[@snillum5004]

Wild card was sued by 3 different organizations for illegal use of cgi models and they should be shut down permanently

[@yeahitsdrew]

been playing since 2018 brother I'm here to stay, I'll be grinding for mats until either snail games kills our beloved franchise, or ark folds and makes a comeback (I hope it thrives)

[@ThisIsStupid12312312]

If they can hit the release schedule for new maps I can see my tribe playing for quite a long time on our private server which is quite well populated. I wouldn't go back to official.. ever, it was a horrible experience. Cheating should be at the forefront of multiplayer game developers minds, using an anti cheat package simply does not work. Someone should agree a price to free Ark from underneath snail games and setup a kickstarter to do it.

[@sidekicks3738]

Ive played ark for a long time. I remember when the center map came out and I was so excited. But as the years went on I realized how money hungry they were. They have yet to release a free dlc, yet this is the game that made them. The only free things theyve given have been community made. Its so infuriating to see a company ruin a game with greed. But then again, I guess it's not thay uncommon.

[@chouyang6518]

Yea I just got aimbot today and the hacker just esp all my purlovia so I know I’m not going to buy scorch earth when it releases.

[@YakmonSaysItLikeItIs]

I just got esp'd aswell. I have been playing long enough to know what happened couldn't happen under normal circumstances

[@Whysir]

Everything you said absolutely needs to be said. Thank you.

[@dune1774]

Can we get a update for this please

[@TheOutcasts]

Have a video planned to go out soon expanding about this

[@jsduzagsduzgazusgd]

what are good unofficial servers in ase?

[@dylanblucker7196]

All server need a fair admin

[@snillum5004]

Lets not discuss people duplicating dinos and items still and selling them illegally on discord

[@pvtghost95]

I believe the issue was the map let’s admit it no one really played the map even in the old ark we’d normally use it just for note runs so I believe once rag or other maps launched it’d be different

[@lux_less]

They should've waited to have at least have a couple other maps finished. More people would be looking past the horrendous bugs if there were more content to cover it up.

[@redeyeshinigami9678]

It's so sad I saw on small tribes enemies use ESP,Aimbot,Speedhack, Full torpor command, ddos, roleback, kicking player with command.... Wildcard / the devs doing nooooothing!

[@AnkleMuncher]

Damn, I punched a guy like 50 times the other day and he was still awake is that the command?

[@redeyeshinigami9678]

@@AnkleMuncher maybe, i also fighted a guy with prim flak bola him shot 7 tranq arrows in his head nothing happened

[@jimmythecrow]

@@redeyeshinigami9678 i doubt that

[@redeyeshinigami9678]

@@jimmythecrow u want to get smoked? Why should i lie geek

[@thamakil1394]

To be honest: me and my friends are currently having a lot of fun in ASA. I had over 6300 h playtime in ASE and it was great but now I also already have 700 h in ASA. In my opinion most of the complaints are coming from people playing official and / or pvp. Me and my friends have never been interested in playing on official and we only ever played ASE on a private, password protected server with hand picked people and we only ever played pve. For us the Fun in ARK has always been the great graphics, breeding dinos and perhaps most of all the creativity in high end base building. For people like us ASA is perfectly alright as we never had to deal with cheaters and similar sum. Yes it had quite some bugs in the beginning but that has greatly improved over the last weeks and yes with currently only the island map there is limited content but that is due to change soon with the release of the next maps. Also I can not quite understand the argument that they are "selling the same game for the same price" as that is not true. For the 40 bucks we get a lot of maps ... if I compare that to the amount of money I payed for the ASE Base Game + SE + AB + EXT + Season Passes that was WAY more money! So yes it is a remake but it looks incredibly good graphics wise and I am very exited to see what they do with maps like Aberation or Ragnarok. I really hope all the negativity coming from official/pvp players does not lead to the game being abandoned by WC.

[@pedrorosa5782]

same opinion as you, but yeah I only play pve as well so my only complain is optimization and crashing. But they definitely need to fix what was mentioned in this video since pvp is a big part of the game

[@beerandbones22]

Game isn't going to die because of online negativity. It will die because nobody is playing it, player count is crashing. If players come back for new maps remains to be seen. My guess is yes but for only a few weeks at best. Future of asa looks grim because first impressions are important and wildcard botched asa release horribly. Opened a lot of eyes to the reality of how terrible wildcard is as a developer and how it treats its playerbase. Before u crap on my opinion this comes from a 10k hour player of ase. Not hating on asa it's just the sad reality of the state of the game that I've played and loved for many years.

[@thamakil1394]

​@@beerandbones22 I am not going to crap on your opinion :) It is perfectly valid as are the complaints of the official / pvp players I mentioned in my first posting. I only feel that with all the negative videos coming out on youtube recently - that do have valid points ! - it gets somewhat lost in the discussion that there are also playstyles for whom ASA is an absolutely enjoyable game. Namely people playing pve on private and mostly modded servers.

[@beerandbones22]

@@thamakil1394 something I forgot to mention in first post. Far more alarming stat than players is server count. In the last two months asa has lost 16,000 servers, this is far more than a official server problem. Losing 16k unofficial servers isn't a good sign.

[@markmeyer6800]

I still play SSE I don’t think ASA looks that good. Floating rocks water looks like garbage. Unofficial ASE is the best experience. WC really doesn’t give a crap about us on official.

[@kinderunterhaltung5571]

Real

[@pedrorosa5782]

floating rocks is because of a setting that people have as 0.1 when it needs to be 1 (dont exacly know the name now). I dont understand why people just play like that instead of fixing it...

[@kinderunterhaltung5571]

@@pedrorosa5782 yea but the game looks so shit when you turn it on 0

[@beerandbones22]

​@@pedrorosa5782 why should we have to "fix it"? that's the devs job to polish this turd.

[@pedrorosa5782]

@@beerandbones22 Its a simple option that bugs out if the value is 0,1 (its probably something from Unreal terrain and not ark itself). Definitely its something that should have been fixed already. But nothing to cry about. Since it looks so hideous, losing 5 seconds changing the option is nothing.

[@x_z0mb1_x]

To say the only difference is terrain isn't really correct. Alot has actually changed while alot is the same

[@Fulltimebottomsniffer]

Yeah people say “nothing has changed” which isn’t true

[@macn1894]

Shoosh pve bobs lol nothing has changed except the graphics

[@thedstroyer0075]

@@macn1894oh so your going to ignore placement changes, as if it doesn’t affect pvp

[@thedstroyer0075]

@@macn1894also its “shush”

[@XTX767RT]

​@@macn1894smartest pvp player

[@TrulyTarulli]

Ark has been destroyed. I officially quit the trash game. From greatest game to absolute trashhhhhhh

[@rhyxic1349]

Evolved is more fun anyways even though it’s the same issues. Nobody has the time to sweat as hard as this game requires unless you’re a kid or a no life single adult.

[@phillipwoods5754]

The time you are dead on about. I wish they took the time to make official servers that had ORP on a regular work schedule like 9 to 5 or something with silent structures. regular server admins that routinely check a cluster of servers. That would be great.

[@jcnunez25]

They should replace the CEO. Because that company will go on bankruptcy

[@reitifoh]

As posted on another video, i play on an unofficial server (admins are FAAAAR better than WC as cheaters, hacking etc is dealt with quickly) unfortunately even there they cant save the game, i live in a small undiscovered rathole and have not ventured out in weeks, barely go on, body NEVER left in base and all tames in cryopods in smithy or fab, nothing to show its there unless you physically see it, and i am the ONLY non mega tribe on this server that is still standing, rest ate in ruins with even mega tribes leaving! Even so with so few updates, delays etc, the only time i EVER go on ASA now is to make new cryopods to replace the ones holding my tames about to expire (dont want to loose my sky giga) but more and more lately a small part of me keeps thinking, it wouldn't be so bad if i got raided, then id have no need to keep playing! That is honestly how i feel atm, the ONLY thing keeping my ark game going is ensuring i have tames and items for future updates, and i doubt im the only one! On my server only i have heard of mega tribes actually creating rosters for whos turn it is to go on and maintain/ check on the base, like its become a chore. I am sickened to think that such a loyal fan base has been reduced to nothing more than a chore with many praying thier base gets destroyed so they have more time to play elsewhere!!!!

[@reitifoh]

It's further annoying that the maps I personally enjoyed the most will not be out for over a year!!!! Given the choice, I would gladly accept even half my money back as a refund as I can not currently see the rest of my tribe from ASE ever joining me in ASA 😢

[@lux_less]

The pain of ASA definitely would've been lessened if they waited to give us more maps on launch. I'm just waiting for Aberration on UE5 😭@@reitifoh

[@lux_less]

If they truly wanted any sort of good reception, and I think they would've made more money if they had done this, they should've waited until they had atleast SE and Abb finished. They could've also reached out to youtubers and given a large handful of them access to an official server or two as a form of easy bugtesting from the people who know best how to break the game. It's sad that these obvious solutions to their problems are things they didn't take the time to do because it shows how little they truly care. ~~Actions speak louder than words though and I already bought ASA for picture mode and UE5 graphics, so take what I say with a grain of salt~~

[@thefunkadelic9814]

I'm still having fun playing the game on pve but snail games is garbage and the ppl in charge of player relations are horrible. We have a Chinese tribe who we've recorded speed hacking. Anyone that uploads the clips and reports then gets banned. It wild

[@chouyang6518]

Honestly ass was just a front, release to cover up ase crime, these guys were about to face some really serious charges facing millions and most likely jail time for exploiting their own game for money from customers illegally. For example if you are a old players you would know about dev selling hacks on discord, wildcard were punks to begin with that’s why it was bought off by the Chinese

[@lostconfig7812]

duping was never fixed in old ark i dont know where you came to that conclusion from lmfao people were still duping and selling duped shit days before the servers closed down!

[@asthmarollin7632]

People still cheating on steam it’s not just windows smalls on steam is crazy even 1x its wildcard not steam windows or Xbox it’s really just a shitty build great concept

[@NaniTL]

RIP ARK 😢

[@shacharabutbul]

game not even dying yet lmao

[@Dig_Pig]

Feels like getting my childhood and youth stolen.. there are more emotions in this game than in any other.. We once were survivors.. now we are only in our memories But they can never delete those

[@madhagael]

Literally posted the video the day of them fixing a lot of these issues lol

[@TheOutcasts]

hopefully all of us youtubers making these videos will make a difference for the community and they will finally listen. thats the goal

[@dune1774]

Is hacking still bad on Xbox and how many issues are fixed if I may ask ?

[@derekbuttery4776]

I returned ASA after a week on Steam.... it's terrible, prettier but nothing new TBH. Snail have destroyed something that could've been an epic game. RIP Ark!

[@xredfirex3014]

I love the graphics but i only played for some days.

[@GeoBot_Gaming]

100% true!

[@TheHeartlessHero]

Snail Toho Nintendo Universal Disney All on my black list... mark my words...

[@Dig_Pig]

ASA is short for Survival evolved backwards

[@corbinbone4613]

I’m so glad I saved 45 dollars

[@calebpeters514]

yup i played ASA it looks nice but runs like donkey ass so as we speak i am downloading Evolved

[@kurdgsm2067]

Why would you even leave the first game completely before you even make the second no game does that why just abandon ARE to go to ASA that’s like abandoning the ps4 just to update the ps5 only sony isn’t gonna do that because ps4 is still famous and a lot of people just do not have the money but snail games are such idiotic people that only care for how much money they make no body is gonna leave the first game which has the most sales and more people own THE FIRST DAY that the second one released this shows how greedy you snail games is, you aren’t gonna make money like that AKA is just the first version with RTX like for the love of the Great God why did you guys even abandon the first game? Atleast update the graphics for a little bit to make it better rust players were right they’re trying hard to make the first game seem very bad so people buy the second but that backfired and a lot of people are now just leaving ark you’re goddamn right

[@shortclips3666]

bro forgot you need high end pc to run that crap unoptimised game im talking rtx 4090 and they expect all people to have that lol

[@easyway5482]

ADA ark dead ascended LOL good riddance

[@Shawnbzilla]

Fact is the game isn’t the same and there is only one map atm give it time and you will eat those words and most of this stuff you are tossing down is bs anyway. No Wonder you never made it big

[@paulofloriano7724]

and Monopoly Nitrado ^^... for dedicated servers.... complet death servers owners.....

[@matveylevin8042]

I hope new Scorched Earth will rescue Ark Ascended

[@WillfromBrooklyn]

it wont. SE is from when ARK was still trying to be a hardcore survival pve game before the embraced the war game Ark actually is. in short, its the worst map for arks core player base.

[@stevenhibbert4610]

There is alot different then just graphics hate video don't help the game at all

[@ryanbackvlogs7356]

Asa came out literally over night, without us expecting it? Mate you are craaaaazy, spinning some weird narrative. We all know they delayed it over and over and over again with missed deadlines like they always do with any deadline 😂

[@TheOutcasts]

it did. it was randomly announced on the xbox game awards and not even 24 hours after it was out. It was a shocker to all of us

[@SL3333P]

Games always been trash. Rust wins.

[@ChaoticRaptor336]

Im surprised were still comparing it. I thought the decision was made years ago. Ark wins in pve, Rust in pvp

[@wiktorbolek8391]

​@@ChaoticRaptor336 maybe bcs rust dont even have pve. Ark had potential to be the best pvp survival game but devs dont give a crap about pvp, we as community created pvp from this buggy as hell game imo ASE>Rust>ASA but objectivly rust is just strictly pvp and ark is strictly pve which is pretty sad bcs pve is so boring

[@ChaoticRaptor336]

@@wiktorbolek8391 yessir. I would say that ARK had some pvp intention, just showed it as a Medieval fighting game with dinosaurs. They completely butchered that idea after Extinction. Gen 1 and 2 did not make it better. As you said, Ark doesnt care about pvp, and its shown as they release broken metas, allowing cheating, and tribe favoritism. It sucks because I also love pvp, though I dont have the time and mental resources to spend 10 hours on my pc daily, it just sucks to what it became. Unforgiving to the new players and preferred to the no-lifers.

[@cirstoforoainsworth8264]

❤️ 'Promo SM'

[@dylanblucker7196]

Need to be sued more