ARK: Aquatica and ASE progress

ARK: Survival Evolved 2025-07-17 01:38:12

Hello everyone,

[p]We have some progress updates to report surrounding ARK: Survival Evolved and the ARK: Aquatica DLC.[/p][p][/p][p]As of yesterday evening, the team was able to push a pre-aquatica release version of A.S.E. This allowed people to return and play a version of the game before the launch of ARK: Aquatica and progress has and will continue to be made to address lingering issues.[/p][p][/p][p]The branch is called "preaquatica". To navigate to the branch: [/p]

[p]Right Click ARK: Survival Evolved in your Steam Library[/p][/*]
[p]Click Properties[/p][/*]
[p]Betas[/p][/*]
[p]Beta participation[/p][/*]
[p]Opt into "preaquatica" branch[/p][/*]

[p][/p][p]The branch is available for clients and dedicated servers now.[/p][p][/p]

Additional updates:

[p]Today, an update was uploaded to the "preaquatica" branch:[/p]

[p]The ability to play all other officially released DLC maps has been restored.[/p][/*]
[p]Progress on recovering the ability to load mods on the latest version of A.S.E. will be coming very soon. Currently a top priority.[/p][/*]
[p]We have identified an issue with the game engine; a fix is in the works to address mods from instantly crashing.[/p][/*]

[p]Other issues that are being targeted for an update later today:[/p]

[p]Linux Server packaged binaries missing.[/p][/*]
[p]Fixed an issue with Official Small Tribe servers for the ARK: Aquatica map.[/p][/*]

[p][/p][p]We will continue to provide updates daily on issues as solutions are identified. [/p][p][/p]

For All ARK: Survival Evolved MOD Creators:

[p][/p][p]This is an outreach for all ARK: Survival Evolved Mod creators. We would love to get in touch with you all as we are actively tracking the mods that will need updates as a community. Please contact the team via the ticket system in the #support channel on the[url="https://discord.gg/j94kU6Dn6Q"] Official ARK Aquatica Discord[/url].[/p][p][/p][p]Look forward to more updates soon, we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.[/p]Source: https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1805431065320760