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ARK: Survival Ascended New Update Analysis and 2026-2027 Roadmap
This video summarizes the latest ARK: Survival Ascended update, focusing on changes related to the Lost Colony DLC, bug fixes, and creature spawn adjustments. It also discusses ARK's achievement in reaching the highest player peak since the launch of Ragnarok and presents the ASA product roadmap for 2026-2027, highlighting upcoming DLC and content.
Viewers are asked about their New Year's plans.
1. 🎉 Introduction to the New Ark Survival Ascended Update and Reported Issues in Lost Colony
- ✅ The video introduces the new Ark Survival Ascended update.
- ⚠️ It is mentioned that Lost Colony players have reported issues since the map's release.
00:00 - 00:22
1. 🎉 Introduction to the New Ark Survival Ascended Update and Reported Issues in Lost Colony
- ✅ The video introduces the new Ark Survival Ascended update.
- ⚠️ It is mentioned that Lost Colony players have reported issues since the map's release.
00:23 - 01:25
2. 🙌 Thank You to Wildcard for Continuous Support During the Holidays
- ✅ Wildcard is thanked for maintaining operations and enforcing rules during the holidays, unlike the previous year.
- ✅ The importance of this support is highlighted, especially with memory leak issues.
01:26 - 02:39
3. 🎁 Giveaways and Loaded Crisis Community in Lost Colony
- ✅ Dolly gave away a Lost Colony Steam key.
- ✅ Giveaways in the Loaded Crisis cluster are mentioned.
- ✅ Viewers are invited to join the Loaded Crisis cluster's Discord to enjoy the community in Lost Colony.
02:40 - 04:07
4. 🛠️ Increased Active Outposts and Exploit Fixes in the New Update
- ✅ The number of active outposts on servers and clients (Steam, Xbox, Windows, PlayStation) has been increased.
- ✅ Server-side exploits have been fixed, which may include mesh holes or third-party software.
- ⚠️ Initially, many players couldn't find outposts, even after adjusting server settings.
04:08 - 05:36
5. 🦕 Adjustments to Creature Spawning and Continuous Monitoring in Lost Colony
- ✅ Spinosaurus and Caputras have been removed from the starting areas in the water.
- ✅ Rex spawning has been disabled in the starting area.
- ✅ Corrections have been made to dinosaur spawning to fix potential overspawns.
- ✅ Otters have been removed from the rivers.
- ✅ Mega Raptors have been moved to their own spawners.
- ✅ Perblovia and Thilo have been removed from the easy spawn managers.
- ✅ Weights have been added to some missing entries and Thailmounted spawners have been added.
- ⚠️ There are still overspawning issues in Lost Colony. Wildcard is monitoring and plans to release a new patch with fixes.
Viewers are asked about their New Year's plans.
05:37 - 07:36
6. 📈 ARK Survival Ascended Reaches Highest Player Peak Since Ragnarok Launch
- ✅ ARK Survival Ascended reached 35th place with nearly 47,000 players on Steam.
- ✅ This is the highest peak since the launch of Ragnarok.
- ✅ The number of players is compared to the initial launch of the game (98,000) and the subsequent drop to 23,000.
- ❓ It is questioned whether Lost Colony will surpass 50,000 players during the holidays.
07:37 - 09:34
7. 📅 Presentation of the ASA Product Roadmap for 2026 and 2027
- ✅ Q1 2026: Launch of Survivor of the Fittest (by Studio Sirens).
- ✅ Q2 2026: Launch of Bob's True Tales part 1 and the Genesis part one map (Tides of the Fortune, a pirate-inspired DLC).
- ✅ Q3 2026: Launch of Ark World Creator (system to create your own worlds).
- ✅ Q4 2026: Launch of Ark Dragontopia (DLC inspired by How to Train Your Dragon).
- ✅ Q1 2027: Launch of Ark Atlantis (map inspired by the underwater world).
- ✅ Q2 2027: Delay of Genesis part two, but launch of Bob's True Tales Galaxy Wars (DLC inspired by Star Wars).
- ✅ Q4 2027: Launch of Legacy of Santiago (the last DLC of the ASA story until the launch of Ark 2).
- ✅ In 2028, the story will move to Ark 2.
- ✅ Other DLC and content to be released during these two years are mentioned, including free maps like Fjordur, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island.