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Rumour – ARK: Survival Evolved is getting an expansion called Scorched Earth

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ARK: Survival Evolved has been around on Steam Early Access for quite a while now. It’s been out so long in fact, that the game has already celebrated its first birthday, despite not even being officially out.

Throughout this whole Early Access period, Studio Wildcard have released regular streams of additional content. These patches have come packed with the likes of new dinosaurs, extra areas, and more. Let’s just say that in terms of raw content, ARK: Survival evolved seems to be ok. When the studio plan on giving their game a proper launch however, is anyone’s guess.

But according to a twitter user called bosbevk, they’re already working on an expansion. He brought it to our attention with the following tweet:

Following the link leads to a Google cache page of a forum post that has since been deleted. In it, bosbevk shares his findings on what he believes is proof of the expansion that Studio Wildcard are working on for ARK: Survival Evolved, called Scorched Earth.

It’s pretty compelling evidence. The Steamdb pages that bosbevk shared don’t show anything significant now, but a few weeks ago (thanks again, to the power of Google cache) we can see that they held some interesting intel. The one specifically has Scorched Earth for Windows, Mac, and Linux listed as Depots in the package.

As if that wasn’t proof enough, check out this simple Google search bosbevk did last friday.

512540 is supposedly the new expansion’s package number. Doing the same search now does not show the same result. In fact, it brings up bosbevk’s original forum post, which as we all know, has since been deleted.

So, are Studio Wildcard working on a new expansion. It certainly seems that way, but there’s been no solid confirmation of any kind. Though, interestingly enough, they did tell Rock, Paper, Shotgun in an interview last year that Ark’s first expansion would be ready a few months after its June 2016 release.

The game’s not out yet, but hey, maybe Wildcard are sticking to their schedule regardless. That, or they’re officially launching ARK: Survival Evolved with this new expansion. Or they’re launching the game soon, and the expansion shortly after. I don’t know, this is all a big rumour for now, so I hope you have a huge bag of salt ready!

Last Updated: August 22, 2016

30 Comments

  1. Ottokie

    August 22, 2016 at 09:31

    Don’t you need to release a game before developing expansions for it?

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    • Pariah

      August 22, 2016 at 09:34

      This. 10000000x times this.

      Makes me regret buying the game in the first place.

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      • Ottokie

        August 22, 2016 at 09:35

        I don’t regret buying it. I would love to go back soon but the amounts of bugs and optimization needs attention way over new content.

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        • Pariah

          August 22, 2016 at 09:38

          That’s the thing. I’ve been waiting over a year for any kind of meaningful optimisation. So at least on min settings I can play in not 0.5fps.

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          • Dungeon of JJ

            August 22, 2016 at 09:40

            There was an “optimisation” update the other day. It means it loads to menu much faster now. But that is literally all difference I’ve noticed.

          • Pariah

            August 22, 2016 at 09:44

            I had no issues with the menu. My issue was in game. I wanted to play. But on min settings it looks worse than NMS on min settings. And worse than The Forest on low settings. But The Forest I run on max settings at a smooth 60fps, and NMS runs better too. I don’t meet the min GFX for NMS.

            So yeah.

          • Dungeon of JJ

            August 22, 2016 at 09:47

            I had no issues with the menu either. Never. That’s what I’m saying.
            The 1 second that it’s loading faster now, is not “optimisation”.
            The Forest runs absolutely beautifullly. I also run that on full and it looks incredible. Other indie devs sure can learn a thing or two from them. It’s the small things in that game that just shows the attention to detail. Even something as simple as chopping down trees.

          • Talavar

            August 23, 2016 at 17:16

            Did you try running in d3d10 mode?

    • bosbevk

      August 22, 2016 at 11:21

      You would think so, but they have already released 2 DLC’s prior to release, so I don’t see why they would not release another.

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 22, 2016 at 09:37

    Sweet, can’t wait to drop a MIRV or Death’s Head on someone else’s dinosaur.

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    • Original Heretic

      August 22, 2016 at 09:44

      Go the with Death’s Head!! Cluster mini nukes are great at parties.

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    • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

      August 22, 2016 at 09:47

      • Dungeon of JJ

        August 22, 2016 at 09:48

        I want to upvote this 100 times.

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      • Pariah

        August 22, 2016 at 09:50

        Worms or GTFO

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        • Dungeon of JJ

          August 22, 2016 at 09:51

          I played Worms (the first one) so much in high school. Loved that game.

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        • Kromas GG

          August 22, 2016 at 10:15

          Gorillaz or GTFO!

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            August 22, 2016 at 11:12

            In colour? n00b.

        • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

          August 22, 2016 at 11:18

          This had it’s place in gaming, accept it or STFU
          *Or don’t, please don’t kill me

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          • Pariah

            August 22, 2016 at 11:42

            But I’m a gamer, aren’t death threats how I’m meant to respond if someone has a different opinion to me?

            I don’t know what to do with my life now.

          • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

            August 22, 2016 at 11:47

            XD

      • HairyEwok

        August 22, 2016 at 10:08

        Jon used a Funky Bomb at an angle of 62 with the wind pushing 45 against his aim…. I’m amazed Jon didn’t kill himself.

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      • Jonah Cash

        August 22, 2016 at 15:13

        Downloaded this on abondonware the other day. There are some amazing bombs in this game till this day!

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    • hairyknees

      August 22, 2016 at 09:57

      I was waiting for this 😀

      Reply

    • Admiral Chief

      August 22, 2016 at 10:17

      Came here for this comment

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  3. Dungeon of JJ

    August 22, 2016 at 09:39

    Oh for f*#ks sake. There goes my respect for these devs.
    How about improving the damn game into something that runs decently before adding even more to it. There is a TON of content already, we don’t need more stuff to keep it interesting. We need a game that runs the way it should.

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    • HairyEwok

      August 22, 2016 at 10:09

      Exactly. If I remember correctly they did say they were going to first optimize the game before releasing anything else big…. I guess the game therefore is complete, perfectly optimized and ready for launch.

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  4. HairyEwok

    August 22, 2016 at 10:06

    Here’s a thought. Before you actually release expansions, make sure your game is well optimized and officially released.

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    • Dungeon of JJ

      August 22, 2016 at 11:03

      MADNESS!

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  5. bosbevk

    August 22, 2016 at 12:52

    Look at change 2156719 and change 2178131 https://steamdb.info/app/346110/history/

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  6. Vivid

    August 22, 2016 at 18:28

    Brutal. Pretty lame but hey, you don’t have to buy this expansion. Ark is pretty massive by its self. It’s not like no mans sky that promises a lot and delivered virtually nothing, Ark has a ton of features and working mechanics. Hopefully though they get the damn thing optimized before release and don’t launch it as is currently. I had to drop 32 gigs of ram and a 970 Ti into my system to get a solid 50 fps in Ark. That’s ridiculous.

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