ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 7/19

Posted on July 19th, 2025 06:25 PM EST

Good Afternoon,

We are continuing to make posts through the weekend to continue to provide transparency regarding issues reported through the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord[discord.gg]. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed.

Our top priority remains to fix an issue with the game engine on the live version of ARK: Survival Evolved (360.1) ; proving to be complex, a solution continues to be developed in order to address mods from instantly crashing and we look forward to posting an update when possible. Once this specific issue is addressed, only then will the team be able to chase down specific mods with issues that may require an update with the updated devkit.

We are looking into issues that relate to shader issues built into the engine
We have been able to identify content that was pushed to the base game that may be conflicting with mods

To continue 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.

Scope of issues pending for the Aquatica DLC

Low performance/FPS fixes are in progress and are being tested to be pushed onto the live A.S.E. branch (v360.1).
Game Engine Issue on A.S.E. branch (v360.1)
Boss Engram Rewards issue, where engrams requiring boss eliminations to unlock are not being rewarded.
Tame Specific issues
Issue identified with missing tames when logging off, with no tribe logs showing what happened to specific tames
Hydrosphere visual and function issues
Skiff despawn issue after every update pushed to v360.1, we ask that players pause production of Skiffs until this can be addressed.
More mesh holes to be addressed
Continuing the search for killboxes/instadeath locations/objects

Planned Developer Stream:

A member of the Studio Sirens Development team will be doing a live stream

The focus of this stream would be to showcase the fixes made in the game client
The stream will go live at 2:00 PM PST, 07/21 Monday
Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

For All ARK: Survival Evolved MOD Creators:

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].

Look forward to more updates soon, we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.

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