This was meant to be the 12 months of Ark 2, however it wasn’t to be. Properly, there are nonetheless 11 days left of the 12 months on the time of writing, however even essentially the most optimistic of Ark followers will know that the survival recreation sequel gained’t be dropping this 12 months as meant. Ark Survival Ascended, nonetheless, retains trucking on, and one other double dose of DLC has simply landed within the remaster. Nevertheless, not everybody can play it but attributable to some issues on sure platforms.
Ark Survival Ascended aimed to breathe new life into the adored Ark Survival Advanced with a jaw-dropping remaster that will steadily add all the unique recreation’s expansions over time. In actuality, Advanced continues to typically see greater participant counts than Ascended (on Steam, at the very least) and the remaster hasn’t all the time been best-received by survival game followers. However, the expansions hold coming, and in the present day sees the free Extinction DLC and the paid, Mad Max-esque Bob’s Tall Tales: Wasteland Struggle DLC arrive.
Whereas each expansions must be dwell in Ark Survival Ascended for everybody proper now, there’s a catch. Regardless of it dropping on Steam and PlayStation consoles with out a difficulty, a delay in getting certification from Microsoft signifies that it’s at present not obtainable on Xbox’s PC and console platforms.
“Xbox and Home windows customers will sadly want to attend for the replace to clear certification,” an announcement on the Ark X account reads. “At the moment, the certification course of is taking 4x longer than the same old turnaround time. Microsoft is actively investigating our challenge, however presently, we don’t have an ETA but as to when our submission might be authorised nor do we have now a lot perception into the explanation for the delay.
“As we need to guarantee we have now the power to do extra patches post-release, we’re unable to carry again the discharge any additional however as quickly as we change into unblocked on the Microsoft platforms, we’ll instantly launch the replace for our Xbox and Home windows gamers.”
Provided that Microsoft has partnered with Studio Wildcard to make Ark 2 an Xbox console unique and a day-one contender for a spot on our best Game Pass games checklist, the truth that it’s having certification points with them is a bit… odd? Regarding, even? It seems like there’s a backlog, and given the time of 12 months, there are most likely fewer individuals round to clear it, so I’ll sympathize a bit with Studio Wildcard there. However nonetheless, not having an enormous replace go dwell for an enormous chunk of your fanbase is… not nice.
For these PC gamers on Steam, although, you’ll be capable to head to acquainted floor with the Extinction DLC. Sending gamers again to a desolate and corrupted Earth, there are new dinos to tame, new objects to craft, and new missions to finish. The narrative of Extinction additionally “completes your conquest of the ARK universe.” It positive could be good if an Ark 2 release date was ready simply across the nook so we may slide into the brand new recreation afterwards, eh?
Within the newest paid Bob’s Tall Tales DLC, Wasteland Struggle, you’ll additionally get entry to a great deal of Fallout and Mad Max-pilled content material, together with a brand new canine companion and makeshift BattleRig autos. You could find out full particulars on each Extinction and Wasteland Struggle right here.
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