Since the expansion takes place in a sim, the biomes can be very diverse - meaning there’s a low gravity alien moon-like area, dark, deep-sea trenches, ice peaked mountains, and everything in between. Additionally, there’s some cute smaller creatures which can be raised into some pretty fearsome, nasty beasts. Speaking of creatures to discover and tame, there’s certainly some impressive new ones in the Genesis expansion including dreamy flying astral whales, volcanic Magmasaurs and absolutely massive land tortoises. It’s a fun addition to the game and provides a little more structure to the never ending open-world survival. The missions are fairly diverse, from tracking and taking down boss creatures, to just playing some ad-hoc basketball or racing dinos. Using HLN-A, players can scan the environment to pick up missions and tasks, which can provide players with much-needed loot, help push along the story and also provide more detailed info for the creatures inhabiting the world. Introducing the HLN-A hovering AI companion (think Ghost from Destiny) opens up a whole new world of things to do within the game. The new features and enhancements in ARK: Genesis Part 1 set it apart from some of the more recent content drops since they change the gameplay loop to an extent. Your experience may vary depending on playing offline or on (and a public or private server), but either way, it’s not a walk in the park by any means. ARK: Genesis though really seems to expect players to step it up even more, since it drops you into an extremely inhospitable biome which immediately starts affecting the well-being of your character. The base game can challenge even veteran survivalists, and a number of the expansions have pushed it even further up the difficulty scale. New additions to the game include diverse mission-based game mechanics, an AI robo sidekick/companion, and some very unique new creatures and biomes which change things up as compared to past expansions.ĪRK, as a survival game, has never been an easy experience. ARK: Genesis Part 1, with its all-new simulation-style environment, definitely takes it in a different direction. If you’ve thought you’ve seen everything that the game has to offer over the years, you’d likely be wrong. Genesis is actually rolling out in 2 parts, the first of which is now available for all platforms, with Part 2 scheduled to go live later this winter. We’re pretty confident that ARK 2 is deep in development somewhere, but through the end of 2020 Studio Wildcard is committed to ARK’s latest story expansion ARK: Genesis. For a game not named Minecraft or Grand Theft Auto V, that’s impressive to say the least. Fast forward to early 2020 and we’re still on the receiving end of significant updates including new content and expansions, and the game continues to find a place within monthly sales and livestream viewing charts on many platforms. The game first launched as an early access/game preview title for the PC and Xbox One title back in 2015, and to spite its relatively rough appearance and performance, “multiplayer open-world survival with dinosaurs” was a pretty big hit. The success story of Studio Wildcard’s ARK: Survival Evolved has always been a rather interesting one to me.
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