ARK Aberration Launch Trailer | Alan Tudyk Joins the 'Steampunk Ascent' Tall Tale
Strap on your goggles and gear-up for an incomparable journey into the dark heart of Aberration!
This hauntingly beautiful, derelict ARK is a sci-fi themed, vertigo-inducing, bioluminescent cave system. Survivors will drop onto a damaged, radioactive ARK, featuring a myriad of lush underground biomes containing exotic new creatures and gear to be acquired or crafted, along with dangerous surprises and horrors untold. All ARK: Survival Ascended owners get this massive ARK: Aberration Ascended Expansion Pack for free, along with that dark world’s new community-voted creature, Yi Ling, a giant bat-winged dinosaur.
Meanwhile, ARK: Survival Ascended today released its initial implementation of AMD FidelityFX Frame Interpolation, resulting in an +80% average frame rate boost on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC for most GPU’s.
Also newly available today is Bob’s Tale Tales - Steampunk Ascent! This second entry in the larger-than-life Bob’s Tall Tales series takes you beyond the underground chaos of Aberration and into a world where gears, cogs, and steam power reign supreme! The saga is narrated by ARK’s legendary Bob (Karl Urban, The Boys) to young Meeka, (Aulii Cravalho, Moana), recounting his absolutely pivotal role within ARK’s epic storyline.
Each entry in Bob’s Tall Tales delivers unique creatures and vehicles, and with Steampunk Ascent, you can defy the subterranean depths by Zeppelin Airship, swing from luminous spider-silk strands with the new Cosmo tame, and meet SIR-5rM8 (voiced by Alan Tudyk, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) a trusty clockwork-robot companion! Gum up adversaries with viscid projectiles, and even evade attacks with a wondrous watch that allows you to slip backwards to safety! SIR-5rM8 will be at your side to help brave the lethal underworld while also automating all domestic survival chores.
Additionally, within Steampunk Ascent, players will unlock:
3 New Weapons & Tools
11 New Structures
40+ Cosmetic Structure Skins
15 New Player Character Cosmetics
1 New Creature Saddle Cosmetic
The final Bob’s Tall Tale - Wasteland War - will be released alongside the Extinction Expansion Pack in late 2024.
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ARK: Aberration Ascended Gameplay Features
Harsh and Dark! Aberration places survivors on a damaged ARK whose internal atmosphere has leaked away, resulting in a harsh surface with intense radiation, and a plethora of lush biomes underground. With the maintenance systems of this ARK malfunctioning, the many hazards, creatures, and nature of the environment present a treacherous new world to explore and master. Navigate your way down to the deepest depths of Aberration to discover the ancient terror that lurks within
New Creatures! Encounter, capture, and tame 15 new creature types with amazing abilities, including the feathered fiend Yi Ling! This unique creature has a flair for the dramatic-part raptor, part rogue, and all sharp edges. Yi Ling joins other Aberration specific creatures, including among others, the self-camouflaging Rock Drake and the luminous Lantern Pets.
Craft 50+ Unique Items! With 30 new Engrams to speed your crafting, you'll now have access to cave-climbing picks, gliding wingsuits, and ziplines to traverse this new ARK. Survivors can dominate the harsh environment and protect themselves with hazmat outfits, charge lanterns, flashbangs, batteries, glowsticks, railguns and much more. Thrive by gathering new resources, using fishing baskets, and gas collectors.