Thinking about buying Ark Survival Ascended, you might wanna think again. Take it from someone who has accumulated about 100 hours of playtime on the game. From the sheer amount of time you must devote to the game to be successful, to the irritating bugs and glitches, it’s not for everyone.
This game takes a special type of person to play, you can not have a short temper, you must be very patient. On multiple instances many hours of my time have been wasted by something out of my control. Examples of this include server crashes, glitches, and bugs. Some of the same problems the game used to have have still not been fixed, and the majority of the player base is not very happy about it.
On the other hand, the game does have many good parts to it. The graphics are about 10x better than before and it is extremely fun to play when you can. If you can pull together a good group of friends or buddies that all have a couple hours of free time in their day you guys will have a blast. In contrast to that, if you intend on playing the game solo, good luck. Mostly everything in the game requires at least 2 people to be done efficiently, and you stand no chance against experienced squads of 5 or 6 players.
All in all the game is very fun to play and is developed really well. As of right now, in its current state, I do not think the game is great, but with a couple years for everything to be figured out I do think this game has the possibility to be one of the best out there.