ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 7/17 #2

This post and continued posts will be bringing more updates and some outlook into the issues revolving around the Aquatica DLC as well as issues in ARK: Survival Evolved.

To remind everyone of the current solution, the team was able to push a pre-aquatica release version of A.S.E. This allowed people to return and play a version of the game before the launch of ARK: Aquatica and progress has and will continue to be made to address lingering issues.

The branch is called "preaquatica". To navigate to the branch: 

• Right Click ARK: Survival Evolved in your Steam Library

• Click Properties

• Betas

• Beta participation

• Opt into "preaquatica" branch

The branch is available for clients and dedicated servers now.

• Addressing more holes in the level/map.

• Low performance/FPS fixes are in progress for tomorrow (7/18).

• Fixing performance on environmental hazards.

• Fixing an issue where wall eel trap animation loops endlessly.

• Fixing an issue where cyclones are spawning in abnormal conditions.

• Fixing an issue where assets are loaded at incorrect distances, meaning some foliage is loading when it is out of view distance and this will be addressed.

• Fixing an issue with LODs (Level of detail).

The team is dedicated to tackling the performance issues at hand with the Aquatica DLC, we hope to have fixes trickle out to address performance in waves.

This is an outreach for all ARK: Survival Evolved Mod creators. We would love to get in touch with you all as we are actively tracking the mods that will need updates as a community. Please contact the team via the ticket system in the #support channel on the Official ARK Aquatica Discord[discord.gg].

We remain dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come and to continue to make announcements on our progress.