Where’s the Water?: Players must re-learn what it means to survive and thrive in a harsh desert environment depleted of water resources.

Travel Back to the Island: Take characters, favorite creatures and items from Scorched Earth back to the Island, standing out from the crowd and making your Island-dwelling friends jealous with all of the amazing new goodies and secrets you find in the Desert.ARK: Scorched Earth arrives today on Steam, a new expansion pack with new tools, weapons, creatures, and more.

Conquer New Challenges: Prepare yourself for dangerous electrical storms, blinding sand storms, befuddling heat stroke, and unleash the power of the Obelisks to come face-to-face with ARK’s deadliest boss creature to date – the ferocious Manticore!.

Just mind your step in the vast desert, or you might attract a Death Worm! Lead a caravan of the camel-like Morellatops, or rain fire down on your enemies from the back of a Wyvern.

Tame New Creatures: The desert’s biomes are filled with fantastical new creatures, many of which can be tamed.

Carry temporary shelter with you using tents, employ whips, boomerangs and flamethrowers for ‘defense,’ wind turbines to generate clean power, and water wells and oil refineries to harvest scarce resources, among many new mechanics!

Craft More Than 50 New Items: Discover new outfits and structures to protect from the heat, and new tools to help survive in the harsh environment.

Explore a New World: Scorched Earth is an entirely new map, composed of seven unique, desert themed biomes – dunes, high desert, mountains, canyons, badlands, oasis and the ever-dangerous dragon trench – each with their own aesthetics, resources and ecosystems, and littered with ruins, geysers, and intricate ancient cave systems.

Learn more about these features in the Ansel Technology page and the NVIDIA blog.

Compose a shot from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high fidelity formats, and share the screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset. ARK: Scorched Earth arrives today on Steam, a new expansion pack with new tools, weapons, creatures, and more.ĪRK: Survival Evolved and its Scorched Earth Expansion Pack now include support for NVIDIA Ansel - a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots.

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