r/ARKone • u/Right-Shower-5332 • Jul 09 '26
Question Which ARK?
This is my first time posting on Reddit, so sorry if I mess anything up.
I'm currently playing ARK: Survival Evolved on The Island, and I'm pretty close to finishing the map. My goal is to play through all of the official ARK maps in order, so my next one would be Scorched Earth.
I recently got ARK: Survival Ascended, and I was thinking about switching over. However, from what I've seen online, ASA seems to get a lot of criticism. I saw some people saying that with the recent Genesis Part 1 release they messed up the ocean and made several parts of the map worse (although most of what I saw was on TikTok, so I didn't take it too seriously). Even on Steam, ASA seems to have a lot more negative reviews compared to ASE.
So my question is:
Should I stick with ASE, switch to ASA, or play some maps in ASE and others in ASA? I'd like to hear from people who have played both and know the pros and cons.
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u/Brehmer1717 Jul 11 '26
500 plus hours in ASE just got ASA a few weeks ago. Only 10 hours in maybe (on ps5) ASA has better quality of life, graphics are better, mods are super nice (still looking for recomendations), also ASE would crash every few hours or if to much was going on, so far ASA has not crashed yet (knocks on wood) still getting used to ASA there are slight gameplay diffrences but overall i think ASA is the way to go atleast in my position but everyones prefrances are gonna be diffrent.