Ark: Aquatica has had a really unusual reveal over the previous few days. Sadly, it is the reveal itself that makes me fear that the discharge date we got, June 2025, just isn’t going to be met. That’s three months away, and what followers have been given doesn’t really feel prefer it is able to be launched. It looks like ideas for a DLC that’s years away.
Since its reveal in December 2020, Studio Wildcard has been principally silent concerning the growth of Ark 2, solely updating to say the sport remains to be in growth. Ark: Acquatica, which is not made by Studio Wildcard, appears to have gone a special route, seemingly virtually being executed earlier than all of us heard about it, however I’d be very stunned if it got here out in the course of the promised launch window.
Ark: Aquatica Is A Unusual Survival Advanced Reveal
The Reveal Trailers Positively Bought Consideration
There have been two trailers launched for Ark: Aquatica, one that appears like AI and an everyday one. What’s attention-grabbing is that each trailers share the identical beginning animation, however what’s going on within the background is totally different. The seaside is seen within the trailer that appears like AI posted on the Snail Video games USA YouTube, however the trailer posted on Ark Ascended Information on X exhibits the identical animation underwater. This exhibits that some belongings have been reused, and primarily based on what we have seen in each trailers, not a lot was really executed.
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We all know that Ark 2 remains to be in growth, and the newest replace solely happened as a result of a weird trailer for the sequence sparked backlash.
Apart from the 2 trailers, the one help that Studio Wildcard gave was that Ark: Aquatica is an official a part of the Ark franchise. Within the publish on the Ark: Survival Ascended X account, it was said that Ark: Aquatica can be developed by Snail Video games USA Colorado. Nonetheless, it appeared like the corporate was distancing itself from the announcement. The subsequent assertion was to comply with Snails Video games USA for any extra updates, and that Studio Wildcard would stay solely devoted to Ark: Survival Ascended and Ark 2.
What makes this delicate distancing clearer is the truth that this tweet got here lower than 24 hours after the YouTube trailer was launched. This similar trailer was taken down in lower than 24 hours after a number of backlash from followers within the feedback over the usage of ostensible use of AI. It may be perceived as Studio Wildcard washing its arms of Ark: Aquatica.
Trailers For Ark: Aquatica Do not Have A lot To Present
The Trailers Gave Us Very Little Info
The trailers for Ark: Acquatica do not look like that they had a number of planning behind them. They appear very rushed, and whereas one among them exhibits gameplay, it does not actually give a lot details about what’s new or coming on this subsequent DLC or enlargement. As a substitute, it makes the viewer query what the aim of the trailer was aside from to clarify that new Ark content material was coming.
Within the YouTube trailer, all of it looks like an AI-generated video. It’s onerous to disregard the brilliant colours and virtually unrealistic physique elements that seem. Nonetheless, within the X trailer, it is simply two folks shifting round a base constructed underwater. One among them makes use of a fish to swim away, however it’s very low effort.
The trailer does present gamers that bases shall be underwater and aquatic life is there, however that is one thing you may get from the title. It is virtually as if the corporate wanted to place one thing out shortly, so they gave us the naked necessities for a trailer, and it is not as spectacular as a trailer ought to be.
Delays Are All Too Frequent For Ark Video games
It Appears Like A Tough Launch Window To Meet
Ark: Aquatica is coming from a sequence that’s no stranger to delays. The final official phrase was that Ark 2 can be launched in 2024. We’re in 2025, and there’s nonetheless no Ark 2 in sight. Sadly, the promised launch date of June 2025 for Aquatica is both a date that will not be met, or it’s a horrible signal that the following enlargement will not have a lot to it.
The most important situation comes from the trailer itself. It isn’t an impressive-looking enlargement for Survival Advanced, and the truth that so little has been proven this near launch might counsel the studio does not think about it. These trailers present so little that it is onerous to think about there’s so much to what’s coming.
The subsequent situation is how little backing this has had. A tweet stating that one other studio is making the sport alongside two low-effort trailers doesn’t really feel like one thing gamers would get throughout an announcement, not to mention three months earlier than launch. It looks like there shall be a delay coming, however hopefully Ark 2 shall be extra promising since Studio Wildcard is dealing with it.
Supply: ARK: Survival Ascended/X, Snail Video games USA/YouTube, Ark Ascended Information/X
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August 29, 2017
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T for Teen: Blood, Crude Humor, Use of Alcohol, Violence
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Studio Wildcard
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Studio Wildcard
