ARK: Genesis Part 2 expansion pack is a narrative bridge between the current game and its recently announced sequel, ARK II. It also introduces new voiceover talent to the ARK universe with David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens) playing the villainous Sir Edmund Rockwell, and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) taking on the in-game robotic AI companion HLN-A/Helena Walker. Tennant and Madden are also part of the extraordinary voice cast of “ARK: The Animated Series,” an original TV series based on the hit franchise coming in 2022.

Since its launch in 2015, ARK: Survival Evolved has sold over 20 million units on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, with more than 40 million players worldwide across all major gaming platforms, spurring spin-off games and amassing a huge following of passionate fans.

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The ARK: Genesis Part 2 expansion pack is a narrative bridge between the current game and its recently announced sequel, ARK II. Genesis Part 2 also introduces new voiceover talent to the ARK universe with David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens) playing the villainous Sir Edmund Rockwell, and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) taking on the in-game robotic AI companion HLN-A/Helena Walker.

The ARK: Genesis Part 2 expansion pack is now available to download as part of the ARK: Genesis Season Pass ($29.99 USD) for Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. In addition to Genesis Part 1 and Part 2, the season pass includes a ‘Noglin’ Chibi cosmetic, a ‘Shadowmane’ Chibi cosmetic, a new cosmetic armor set, and an in-game, artificially intelligent companion called ‘HLN-A’ who can scan additional hidden Explorer Notes found throughout the other ARKs.

Need to complete your ARK experience? Check out the definitive game collection ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition, specially priced at $59.99, packed with everything the franchise has to offer, including the ARK: Survival Evolved base game, and all expansion packs: Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis Part 1 & Part 2.

ARK: Genesis Part 2 Gameplay Features:

NEW STORY-ORIENTED MISSIONS
A holographic guide, HLN-A, offers a wide array of engaging new story-oriented missions at varying difficulty levels, as Survivors build up strength for a final battle with Rockwell. Complete missions to earn map-wide bonuses and Hexagons, which can be spent for extra resources, Engram Points, TEK items, travel between environments, and more. Discover Explorer Notes and environmental cues along the way to learn even more about the ARK saga history.

EXPANSIVE WORLDS TO CONQUER
Emerge from the Genesis Part I simulation into a gargantuan starship filled with unique biomes, including beautiful elysian fields, an exotic twilight realm of highly evolved lifeforms, the depths of outer-space, and even the innards of the ever-expanding Rockwell himself. Whether it’s sentient alien plants, Rockwell’s digestive fluids, or asteroids warping in from intergalactic space travel, each biome presents unique hazards, but also opportunities to acquire new resources and creatures — including the powerful new ‘Mutagen’ that enables you to further evolve your existing tames!

STRANGE NEW CREATURES
The vast expanses of Genesis Part 2’s world is filled with brain-controlling Noglins, elegant high-tech Stryders, the cuddly mobile-nursery Maewing, and even the laser-shooting, bomb-blasting, barrel-rolling Astrodelphis starfighter — among other fantastical new creatures and evolved R-Variants of old favorites!

POWERFUL NEW GEAR
As you brave the many dangers of this new world, you’ll gain access to powerful new tools to aid you. You’ll learn how to place remote cameras, pull off tricks with a floating skateboard-like Hoversail, take care of your eggs with the high-tech Incubator, shoot arrows made of pure energy with the Tek Bow, even engage in a Real Time Strategy command mode within the new Exo-Mek — and far, far more!

ARK: Survival Evolved is available now on Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and is optimized for Xbox Series X/S! In ARK players are stranded naked, freezing and starving on a mysterious island, where they must hunt, harvest, craft items, grow crops, and build shelters to survive. Use skill and cunning to kill, tame, breed, & ride the dinosaurs and primeval creatures living in the ARK. Team up with hundreds of players online or try solo survival in offline play.

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ARK: Survival Evolved has launched major visual enhancements for the Xbox Series X, to synchronize with today’s console launch! The studio released a trailer composed of direct-feed footage from the Xbox Series X and Xbox One respectively, highlighting the stunning visual upgrades. The ARK Xbox Series X Enhancement Update is available for download now.
 
Check out the direct-feed side-by-side comparison HERE: youtu.be/L_n7Ep7cjJA
 
“The increased memory of Xbox Series X lets us keep nearly the entire game world loaded in the background, enabling us to eliminate the “tether” when hosting certain multiplayer modes, while the fast storage medium makes getting into ARK’s gameplay and travelling through its environments extremely quick and smooth,” said Jeremy Stieglitz, Co-founder and Development Director, Studio Wildcard. “Together with the upgrade’s extreme graphics improvements in draw distance, texture resolution, and levels-of-detail, these changes make the feeling of playing ARK on a 4K HDR TV with the Xbox Series X feel like a new, engrossing adventure.”

The ARK: Survival Evolved Series X upgraded features include:

• 4K Output at 30-60 FPS
• Extreme Draw/LOD Distance (Higher than PC)
• Extreme Level Streaming Distance (Higher than PC)
• Epic Sky & Atmospherics Quality
• Epic Subsurface Scattering Quality
• Infinite-Range High Precision Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• Max Texture Resolution
• 16x Anisotropic Filtering
• Infinite-Range Distance Field Shadows
• Terrain Self-Shadowing
• Epic Dynamic Shadow Quality
• Epic Ground Clutter Distance
• High-Precision HDR Output
• Epic Postprocessing Quality
• Tetherless Non-Dedicated Hosting
• Tetherless Splitscreen
• 100-player Dedicated Server Hosting
• Splitscreen Multiplayer uses Epic Graphics Settings
• 7x Faster Loading Times

ARK: Survival Evolved is available on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and now also includes dramatic Xbox Series X/S Enhancement Upgrade, which you can view HERE! For the latest updates follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit the Website at playark.com and watch us tame and train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.

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• Scary Dino Encounters: Take on the DodoWyvern and DodoRex bosses who lead the scary band of creatures found during Spooktober on the ARK!  
• Spooky Chibis: Collect the 11 new event chibis, including Skeletal Rex, Bone Wyvern, Skeletal Stego, even adding a Zombie Wyvern to your collection!
• Ghost Creature Skins: Find a Ghost Creature in the wild and after you kill it, get the skin to add to your creature. Available for Reaper, Bulbdog, Rex, Basilisk, Snow Owl, Mantis, and Direwolf.
• Creepy Emotes: Choose from five event emotes, including new Knock and Scare expressions to spook your friends.
• Festive Clothing: Pick your favorite Halloween themed Hawaiian shirt or swimsuit, including new stylish Reaper and Jack o’ Lantern swimsuits.
• Special Creature Event Colors: This year’s colors now include Vermillion, Actual Black, Midnight Blue, Medium Autumn, Dark Warm Gray, Orange, Dark Lavender, and Jade.  

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Jump into any of the ARK: Survival Evolved maps to experience an autumnal wonderland, as well as the memorable DodoRex Tribute and Wishbones. The Turkey Trial 3 event features increased rates to 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation), 2X Player XP, and 2X Harvesting that will have you burning through all those extra calories! The event also includes:

• New Cosmetic Items: Choose from all-new items, such as Pilgrim Hat, Bonnet Hat, Turkey Hat, Turkey Leg Club Skin, Pitchfork Pike Skin,, three new sets of undergarments (tops and bottoms!), & Thanksgiving-inspired Dino Colorization Candy to satisfy your holiday sweet-tooth.
• New Emotes: Show your holiday spirit with the Belly Rub, Hungry, or Food Coma Emotes!
• Autumnal Colors: The environments and dinos are beautifully shaded in fall colors, such as Dragon Fire, Dino Albino, and more!
• Randomly Spawning Turkeys: Do we even need to say more than that?

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Watch the Fear Evolved 3 Halloween video HERE, where Survivors run from hack ‘n slashers and headless pumpkin men boogie down: youtu.be/wzZ8J5hTMRE

The ghoulish graves and skeletal dinos have returned, but fear not! There are new items to collect, cool skin costumes to try out and a Blood Moon casting a pale shadow over it all. The ARK Fear Evolved 3 event features increased rates to 2X Player XP, 2X Harvesting and 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation), as well as:

• New cosmetic items: Jack O’ Lantern Mask, Hockey Mask, Headless Neck Stump, Halloween-inspired Dino Colorization Candy and event-themed undergarments (tops and bottoms)
• New emotes: Panic, Spooky Dance and Zombie
• Event-themed wild dinosaur spawns
• Randomly spawning gravestones, scarecrows and pumpkin patches
• A candy corn-themed supply drop brings an abundance of useful Halloween treats for players, surprises like berries, cooked meats, heal brews, veggie cakes, consumable buffing soups, dino Halloween candy and dino skins from past Halloween events.
• The environment and trees to be Halloween themed

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The Valguero Expansion Map will come to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms in July 2019.

The ARK: Valguero Expansion Map includes:

• Expanded Exploration: Over 63 square kilometers of new land and sea to explore!
• Peaks and Valleys: Eight Biomes with a vast array of climates and dangers – tread lightly through the hazards of Skeleton Gorge, see the vistas on top of the Twin Peaks or find remnants of the past at the Lost Temple.
• Triple Threat Boss Challenges: A boss arena where players face an  epic battle against a Megapithecus, Manticore and Dragon in this heavy-hitting, triple threat encounter! Face familiar dangers in the End-Game Boss encounter in an entirely different way!
• New Dinosaur – Deinonychus: Encounter the ill-natured Deinonychus! Similar to the raptor, it uses speed and agility to leap wall ledge to wall ledge as it seeks high vantage points to lie in wait for prey. This contentious beast is fearless and will hunt prey much larger than itself, latching onto a larger dinosaur’s back with its sickle-shaped claws as it starts to feed before its victim is even dead.
• Into The Trenches: A large network of caves to spelunk as you delve into unexplored territory featuring different themes and varied perks, including the extensive Aberration Trench.
• Secrets From the Ancient Age: Explore scattered ruins throughout the world of forgotten Valguero survivors.

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Homestead includes the major elements of Structures Plus (S+), a player created Sponsored Mod by Orionsun. Studio Wildcard ran a public beta for the Homestead update, testing the features with the community, and all of the builds you see featured in the video trailer below were made by survivors! Be sure to check out their videos on how to build these incredible structures yourself.

ARK players love to create amazing structures with the vast open-world, showing off their creativity and imagination with amazing results! Now with Homestead, the customization potential has escalated with new choices for existing structures and their placement options, as well as a myriad of additional pieces to utilize in any way your imagination can conjure. Existing buildings were preserved while all new snap points, alternate versions of structure pieces and entirely new structure pieces, were added. Triangle floors, half walls, angled pieces and much more provide survivors the ability to create stairs, ramps, triangular buildings, reworked pipes and cables, etc. These new tools let every building look as unique as its builder!

Homestead delivers a simplified Kibble system across all ARK content. Each creature now falls into one of six categories, and that creature’s egg can be used to tame any creature within that category. Instead of 50+ different kibbles all requiring a specific egg, its reduced to: Basic, Simple, Regular, Superior, Exception, and Extraordinary Kibbles.

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Starting today at 10am PST through January 7, the ARK Winter Wonderland holiday event will be celebrated on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 platforms. All maps are supported in both single player and multiplayer, with the event automatically activating on any map, even on modded map servers.

This year, Gacha Claus will be roaming all maps in a dashing Santa Hat and sporting holiday-themed colors to help out the very busy Raptor Claus. If you give Gacha Claus coal, he will in exchange gift ARK Survivors holiday themed items, or you can trade in your mistletoe for weapons and armor!

Survivors can stay warm this season in their festively decorated homes with the holiday lights, decorative Christmas tree, wreaths, stockings, snowmen, and wrapped presents they receive from Gacha Claus.

In addition to the holiday event, there are a bevy of fixes simultaneously launching across all three platforms, including improvements to commanding flyers, better AI for the Manticore along with continued improvements and fixes to the Extinction Expansion Pack.

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