
Suddenly
awakened on a strange primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance; you must piece
together the history of how you arrived there, team-up with legendary heroes, and confront powerful dark
forces seeking to control the fate of all life. Saddle up, and join the definitive next-generation survival
experience with ARK 2!
Every aspect of the ARK series has been rethought and redesigned in this
sequel. Here's a sampling of the new features that ARK 2 will contain upon its initial Early Access
release:

Starring
Vin Diesel ("Riddick") as legendary ARK hero Santiago, experience an epoch-spanning adventure as he seeks to
protect his daughter Meeka -- voiced by Auli'i Cravalho ("Moana") -- from the ghosts of the ancient past and
visions of a new future.

Fully
stackable, user-created Mods for new creatures, items, gameplay features, and maps are now distributed
across all platforms, along with support for modded unofficial servers!

Advanced
character traversal mechanics like mantling, free-climbing, parkour, sliding, and swinging!

Target-lock,
blocks, dodges, combos, staggers, special attacks, emphasizing player-skill-based action.

Explore
a mysterious, chaotic world where native flora and fauna are being overrun by invasive primeval creatures
from an extinct Earth!

Construct
your weapons and tools from a range of distinct modules to customize their look and functionality --
millions of possible combinations enable you to craft your own unique gear! The specific materials you
choose will further affect the appearance of your items, with multiple options of resources found in unique
regions of the world.

Natural
and unnatural occurrences are always happening across the game world, independent of your presence! Your
choices in deciding whether to interact with these events will yield rewards or challenges.

Hostile
'Aratai' hunt & attack you riding their own tamed creatures, as they seek to drive human interlopers
from their world.

Instanced
rendering and network-streaming enable much higher client and server performance for large, player-built
structures, and a longer draw distance! Survivors can set up and save their own preferred building
templates, share them, and place prospective template layouts in the world to then build them out as a
team.

No
omnipresent radar -- animals now track and hunt by sight, sound, and smell! Hide from predators with visual
camouflage and environmental obstructions, and learn to mask your scent! Dynamic pathfinding enables
creatures to intelligently maneuver around obstacles and player-built structures.

Gain
both experience points from gameplay, and knowledge points by accomplishing key objectives and overcoming
unique challenges, to progress along a massive skill tree filled with new active abilities, perks, and
passive benefits.

See
foliage react convincingly to passing wildlife, water flow downstream around obstacles, volumetric
stormclouds, localized weather systems, smoke and particles affected by physical forces, and much more!
Fundamental advancement of lighting systems enables a more photorealistic day-night cycle, generating
real-time ambient lighting & shadows within both natural and player-constructed environments!