Studio Wildcard has announced revised release dates for Ark: Survival Ascended's The Center and Scorched Earth expansion map remasters following a delay for the latter last year, confirming they'll arrival in February and April respectively.
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has a lot of different features, some of which are hidden behind menus or console commands and may be hard to find or figure out for new players. Those who are veterans of the franchise and come from likely know many of the tricks, but even for them — some things have changed with the newest iteration of the title from Studio Wildcard.
Because there are so many mechanics inside of, including taming and breeding, base-building, crafting, and more, getting overwhelmed is common for many new players. Even veterans who have spent hundreds of hours in the game may not be going about it in an optimal way, so learning these hidden features can save a bunch of time and make the gameplay experience much smoother.
The first thing that people will need to do is navigate to the settings to turn on the console. To do this, select Settings>Advanced>Console Access and ensure it's toggled on. From here, PC users can hit the ~ key, while console players will need to hit the left menu or option button to access it. From here, there are a few commands that can be used to adjust certain graphics settings to improve performance.
Console Command
Command Description
r.VolumetricCloud 0
Turns off clouds.
r.VolumetricFog 0
Turns off dust and increases view distance in the water.
r.ShadowQuality 0
Turns off shadows.
r.MaterialQualityLevel 0
Reduces textures on materials.
grass.densityScale 0
Flattens and removes grass and small shrubs.
While it might be obvious that has added a new function to quickly change ammo type by holding the reload button, there are also new quick-access toolbars that can be accessed and will organize items in the same order they are placed in the inventory. On PC, the default key is Q, while on consoles, it can be accessed by pressing L1 (LB) and up on the D-pad. This is a great way to quickly access new items without having to waste loads of time in inventory screens.
It's also possible to quickly access your shoulder pet's inventory by holding the reload button.
A huge update is the introduction of wireless crafting with Tek Dedicated Storage containers. Though they are a late-game item, in the past, it was necessary to ferry resources in the inventory to craft at various benches. Resources stored in Tek Dedicated Storage containers will automatically pull into whatever people craft at the stations, so long as they are in the same base. This saves loads of time having to transport goods all over the base and is a huge QoL improvement.
The Tek Replicator is required to build Tek Dedicated Storage containers.
While Turrets in are nothing new, there is a new functionality within that some don't end up using. Turrets can now be programmed by holding the interact button on a specific turret and then
Studio Wildcard has announced revised release dates for Ark: Survival Ascended's The Center and Scorched Earth expansion map remasters following a delay for the latter last year, confirming they'll arrival in February and April respectively.
Ark: Survival Ascended’s existing dev kit is about to get much bigger in a “colossal” update, which Studio Wildcard says will “put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands.”
Do you like trapping innocent, extinct animals in diabolical, broken worlds of your own devising, miring them in a purgatory of genre comparisions from which they may never escape? Because Ark: Survival Ascended developers Studio Wildcard and Grove Street Games are promising/threatening to "put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands" with the game's next major dev kit update, which will release by the end of January.
Starfield’s biggest update yet is on the way, with Bethesda promising to bring more than 100 tweaks in the coming weeks.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is promising to be an absolutely massive experience, and while it doesn’t look like there will be any shortage of excellent content even if you decide to stick to its main story, Capcom is still tucking away a bevy of optional content for players to find and engage with. The developer has unveiled another slice of that – courtesy of a new video by IGN – in the form of Sphinx, a completely optional and mysterious enemy that will test players in entirely unique ways.
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is getting a new map, but it might seem familiar to survivors who've played in the past. Because of the connection between these games, it's safe to assume that the remastered version of this map added to won't be too different from the original version that was featured in. However, it's possible that adjustments could be made to the new variation of this map, which has been seen with other features in already.
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