The next installment of the popular online dino-hunt Ark has been released today with Survival Ascended. But how big are the hardware footprints?
Surprise: (Ark: Survival Ascended (ASA)), the Unreal Engine 5 remake of (Ark: Survival Evolved (ASE)) was freshly released today as Early Access.
However, we will have to wait until November this year for the Xbox and Playstation 5 version.
What we do know now, however, are the system requirements of the PCs version of ASA.
These are the system requirements for Ark: Survival Ascended
The system requirements listed here are based on those listed on (Steam) . We assume that the specifications refer to a Full HD resolution. There is currently no exact specification on the part of the developers.
Minimum requirement
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 70 GB available storage space
- Additional note: SSD is required
Recommended system requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6800, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 70 GB available storage space
- Additional Notes: SSD is required
Ark: Survival Ascended: A controversy in a lizard costume?
The announcement of Ark: Survival Ascended in April was met with some controversy . On the one hand, it was said that the developer Wildcard would be shutting down the servers of the predecessor game “Ark: Survival Evolved” when the new edition was released. This would force ASE players to switch to the successor ASA.
On the other hand, the Unreal Engine 5 remake ASA was originally only available for pre-order as a complete package along with Ark 2 – until developer Wildcard decided to release Survival Ascended as a standalone title.
Anyway, thanks to Unreal Engine 5, the game looks like a freshly peeled (dino)egg from Jurassic Park, as evidenced by the following trailer.
Also worth watching is the trailer for Ark 2 from two years ago, starring potato nose Vin Diesel alongside the giant lizards.
Are you delighted by the recent release of Ark: Survival Ascended, or have you hung up your paleontologist hat since you despaired of DreamWorks Interactive’s Trespasser back in 1998? In other words, do you celebrate the Ark series – and what do you think of the latest installment? Feel free to write us your thoughts on this in the comments.
