ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Developer live stream 7/21

Posted on July 21st, 2025 03:12 PM EST

Planned Developer Stream (TODAY 07/21):

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

The plan for this stream is to review the updates from last week’s efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.
The stream will go live at 2:00 PM PST, 07/21 Monday
Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

Rest assured, we are working on a larger scale update for the ARK: Aquatica DLC, we hope to be able to provide a pre-patch notes announcement later today.

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

The “preaquatica” beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

To navigate to the the “preaquatica” 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.

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

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