ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. progress outlook 7/26

Posted on July 26th, 2025 04:03 PM EST

Good afternoon,

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord[discord.gg].

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will be continuing to stream live!

The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.
Schedule for the next week of developer streams coming soon.

On Tuesday (7/22), we released an update that included a fix for loading mods that will continue to be developed. Another solution will be coming soon. While we have specifically tested certain mods, we are going through a list provided by the community.

While the specific game engine issue is being addressed and is progressing, we would also like to iterate that FPS optimization and server cluster transfer work will be elevated to a higher priority on our pipeline. We will continue to provide updates on these issues as they are developed.

The last update on Friday (7/25) developed a potential issue with “PrimalGameData” taking a long time to load. The game might seem to be stalled but it does in fact load, it will take a while. After the first time loading, joining servers/loading into the game returns to normal speed. We advise that players do not bail out/close the program and let the program load normally for the first time.

Currently, we are dealing with a few complex issues regarding fixes that are going into the next update, we hope to have an update soon.

In the meantime, the ‘preaquatica’ branch will remain available.

Issues pipeline and coming fixes (v360.6 Live Branch)

Adding Tek Armor and Tek Turret + other select Tek engrams into the boss reward/loot pool for ARK: Aquatica to come very soon. Tek Engram list will come with this update.
More game engine fixes to be able to load more mods without an updated devkit
Finalizing fixes for dino/ships/cryopod issues when logging off
Investigating server cluster transfer issues
Continued FPS / Level optimization
Updated DevKit
Continuing to address areas where players are falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava
Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level
Hydrosphere issues
Infected barnacle bugs
Continuing dino spawner updates
Linux binaries missing
Vehicle updates in general (rafts/motorboats and stinger issues)
Ocean platforms placement issue
Settings resetting with each patch update
Explorer Notes location update

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

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