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Does anyone else think ARK: Survival Ascended is way too big?
I know it’s a huge game with upgraded graphics, massive maps, and years of content, but the file size is getting ridiculous. I was checking my PS5 storage and realized I only have 12 games installed, and ARK is a major reason why.
Every time I want to download something new, I have to start playing storage manager because ARK is taking up so much space. At this point it feels like I’m making room for ARK instead of ARK making room for itself.
I like the game, but should one game really be this large? Is there a technical reason it has to be this size, or could it be optimized better?
Has ARK’s file size ever stopped you from installing other games

The map loading screen stuck on primaldata_bp loading and game crashes after this tried reinstalling, removing mods and deleting the map and reinstalling it, nothing works facing it form yesterday

After a long time of grinding i finished my new base at the other side of the map i hada a base in the south but i moved to the hidden lake its way better here haveing red drops right next to my house

Raise the sails. Ready the cannons. Part of this fight happens from the ships.

The fleet is assembled. The supplies are aboard. Every survivor has sworn they definitely remembered their gear this time.

To the crews who have already faced the beast: without spoiling the fight, what is one thing every captain should know before leaving port?

Fair winds, steady aim, and fewer than the usual number of ARK-related disasters. If we do not return, the dodos inherit the base.

source: https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxis_sh4cWL9rg4iUhX5vyc4YRDjo9ApbH
, https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxis_sh4cWL9rg4iUhX5vyc4YRDjo9ApbH
no release date still bc of course...

Been having this problem honestly at a loss at this point I don't know what else to try but I wanted to see if anyone out there had this problem and was able to fix it, im able to launch this map on other servers and single player still though also all the other maps i tried to joined on this server worked, I was able to beat the island scorched and valguero before this started happening

The things I tried

Reseting my xbox

Reinstalling ark and all the dlcs multiple times, also tried to launch while using cloud play

Uninstalling all the mods

Going into single player and using commands to reduce my graphic settings

Adjusted my settings for better performance

There's other things I tried too but probably forgot

Console is the Xbox series s

Map is the center, server is ark friends wonderland

Thanks for any help

This is in the brute cave. M on a tuso so it's ignoring me but I really really wanna fight it. My tuso is 65k hp and does about 670 (actual damage) per tentacle but this is thing is still scaring me! I suspect it is in range to aggro on me as soon as I drop to take the artifact so I might as well have to fight....

This is my first post here, and I basically just want to talk about my disappointment with Cryolophosaurus. Basically, my favorite creatures in the game are torpor inducing creatures. There’s something so satisfying about knocking out something with your tame which is why I got the Araneo really early on my first playthrough of Ark Ascended.

I LOVE the Araneo, it can knock out pretty much anything with good positioning, since it slows down creatures and prevents them from coming close to you. I used it to tame Spinos, rexes, brontos or whatever the hell I felt like.

So that’s why I lost my shit when I learned about Cryolophosaurus, one of my favorite dinosaurs ever with that beautiful crest, and it was better than an Araneo?? I had to get it, so I transferred to Genesis with my Acro and I had to kill 3 ice golems just to clear out the area and to keep them from suicide bombing on some Woolly Rhino.

Finally, I found one, and I managed to tame it and, wow, it’s just okay. First off, the only thing going for the Cryolophosaurus is that it has straighter, more accurate shots, which doesn’t really matter since the Araneo can just release a barrage of shots with no consequences, considering it runs on stamina instead of water.

But what truly makes it better is that the Araneo slows down enemies, the Cryolophosaurus doesn’t. Meaning any carnivore will run you down if you shoot them with the Cryolophosaurus. Which is just sad. I mean why doesn’t it slow??? It’s literally an ICE creature ICE SHOULD SLOW.

Anyways, I’m just sad that I got a worse tame for much more effort that also happens to be one of my favorite dinosaurs. Sorry for the yap.

Got to experience my first Alpha Mosasaurus today. While hunting Anglerfish I noticed some Electrophorus, so I swam with my Basil Keiko to deal with them. That's when Mr Alpha spawned out of nowhere and it was game time. Thanks to my two Baryonyx and a couple of Sarcos we manage to slay the beast despite an intense and long fight, with my itchy being by the only casualty (RIP Ice). Best battle I ever experienced on Ark.

How is anyone supposed to defeat that without a Carcha or a Giga of their own????????????

why does this game look like someone rubbed vasoline all over everything jesus. 5090 btw

I have a titanosaur parked alongside my base and it makes my base look 10x better than it actually is. The titan completes the base. I don't wanna store it in a cryo. It wont die cuz m on SP. The thing is, my titan is parked outside my base walls and spike walls. Inside the base, ntg actually spawns but occasionally a raptor does so i have a lose direbear that deals with it, protecting everything that is breeding. Outside my base walls, the titan attacks things. The issue is, it's very huge reparking it is a huge hassle. I was wondering if a hitched titanosaur will still attack anything that attacks it, but not leave it's position (like hitched mating dinos set to wander do).

It seems way harder to cool down/warm up in ASA, I’ve been underwater with no armor at night and I’m still dying from heat, and I’ve been next to a campfire with cloth gear during the day and freezing, it’s really confusing having just come from ASE

Im more or less going crazy. New to Ark SA. Getting black screen when accesing a server, any region. Im connecting from USA. Offcial or none, with BE or not. I tried reinstalling the game, reset network stat, run as admin, connect with wifi, with cable and from the phone. I even tried creating an account from and playing using nvidia geforce, same problem. Im suing the game with steam. This is the log.

Platform Memory Stats for Windows

Process Physical Memory: 400.80 MB used, 920.63 MB peak

Process Virtual Memory: 431.40 MB used, 431.40 MB peak

Physical Memory: 14327.46 MB used, 17537.39 MB free, 31864.86 MB total

Virtual Memory: 19156.44 MB used, 14756.42 MB free, 33912.86 MB total

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ARK Version: 93.9

[... Sentry crashpad init / envelope POSTs trimmed - all HTTP 200 ...]

WARNING: Could not find mod id 0 in enabled mods list. Will not use mod map setting.

[MediaTexture sampler warning - cosmetic]

Attempted GC & Defrag: Start: 4.43 GB End: 4.55 GB -0.12 GB Free'd, Duration: 1.123248 seconds

Commandline: -VideoReplayEnabled=false -log

Full Startup: 7.86 seconds

Number of cores 12

SetSettings called:

{

"defaultLanguage": "it",

"gameId": 83374,

"apiKey": "\*\*\*\*\*1aZe",

"provider": "Steam",

"modsDirectory": "ShooterGame/Mods",

"modsDirectoryMode": "CFCore",

"userDataDirectory": "ShooterGame/ModsUserData",

"isServer": false,

...

}

InternalSettings called:

{

"apiBaseUrl": "https://83374.api.curseforge.com",

"userAgent": "cfcore.ue 1.46.0",

"platform": "windows",

"pluginVersion": "1.46.0",

"httpFileDownloadTimeoutSecs": 1200

}

Detected OS Windows: 10.0.26200.1.768.64bit

GetMe called. id:REDACTED, email:

User successfully authenticated

Entitlements: 0

GetMe called. id:REDACTED, email:

Primal Game Data Took 0.63 seconds

Added Explorer Note Entry: DEARJANE_EXP_NOTE_1

[... EXP_NOTE_2 through _7 ...]

[MediaTexture sampler warning - cosmetic]

Entitlements: 0

*** LOG ENDS HERE - client never proceeds past this point ***

I tried. I really tried to get back into the game enough to find some joy in it. But, I can't. Genesis provided a little interest until the recent patches. And no, I haven't even been able to experience any missions or other zones. I couldn't get ahead enough. Then the pirate camps showed up everywhere. Why am I seeing DLC content I haven't unlocked or paid for? It's dumb. It shouldn't be in my game at all. If I kill a pirate, there's no loot. The body just vanishes. But if I wander too close, the pirates can kill me.

On The Island, the game feels a little empty. I know it matters where you go. I usually do the easiest note run which levels you to around 73 - 8X in no time. I head to where I can tame a Stego and Argentavis. I ran into problems where the Trilobytes are just floating dead in the water, don't really respawn, and I don't know it just feels empty. It's hard to describe.

What happened to this game?

Llevo atrapado en la cueva de hielo más de una hora y no sé cómo salir de aquí

Hi everyone, I'm playing Ark Survival Evolved on Xbox, currently playing Ragnarok. I was wondering if the griffin spawns on that map. I have been around almost eveywhere on the map and haven't seen a single one.

Guys, my friends handcuffed me and put me in a cage while I was AFK. I want revenge. My goal is to grind hard in one night, get ahead of them, and handcuff them back.

I’m lvl 93 and now I think it’s time to beat the game ik I can beat it if I get Rex’s but I wanna beat it on alpha or wtv max difficulty is, what animals do I need and will I need any mods to get good stats or could I beat it naturally

So me and my friend are playing ark trying to get the artifacts when we went to a cave in the red wood forest and while exploring we encounter someone called “top hat guy” and we literally have never seen him in the game(we’re on vanilla console no way for it to be modded) , we kill it and it dropped a player death bag with skins I’ve never seen, like a translucent skin where I can see the veins, anyway my friend accidentally dies in the cave so it brings me back to base with him cause my friends host, we get back and everything from out fabricator and chem bench and forge are gone, we had them full with material but me and my friend see the top hat guys bag right by the chem bench, with the skins and nothing else, so we’re at a loss wondering what we encountered cause it halted are progression pretty damn bad and if it was a dev then what the hell

does anybody have tips, i played a little on ps4 and saw some content creators playing it, so i know the basics, but idk how to make kibbles, traps and those stuffs