ARK: Survival Evolved Final Chapter DLC ARK: Genesis Season 2 will be officially launched in the near future, in addition to a variety of new creatures, new equipment, the game map has added a minimum building-free area to ensure the integrity of the overall environment. The development team said that this change conveys the concept of the game and the corresponding philosophical thinking.
In the 6 years since the launch of ARK Survival Evolved, the development team has continued to improve and optimize the game, and launched a number of DLC to enrich the game content. Among them, "ARK: Genesis Season 1" is a sci-fi style DLC, which once dominated the Steam sales list after the Steam pre-sale in August 2019. After the official release of "ARK: Genesis Season 1", the number of people online at the same time as "ARK: Survival Evolution" broke a new high, reaching a new record of 160,000.
This year's ARK: Genesis Season 2 has been exposed, and DLC will be officially released in the near future. Inheriting the story and worldview of ARK: Genesis Season 1, players will return to Earth in a sci-fi-style open world for an adventure that uncovers the final conspiracy. But there are also some differences between ARK: Genesis Season 2 and the previous game, and the development team made a lot of adjustments from the perspective of game philosophy and design philosophy.
Open and livable map, preserving ecological integrity and beauty
According to current sources, ARK: Genesis Season 2 has a total of 5 regions and 4 biomes. The world is not divided, and although different areas have different biomes and environments, they together build the overall world of ARK: Genesis Season 2, and the seamless map setting allows players to get an immersive experience.
The reason why the world of ARK: Genesis Season 2 is open and livable is because it has the smallest building-free area, which means that players cannot change the terrain and state of certain areas through buildings, thus affecting the ecological environment of this world.
At present, the area exposed by "Ark: Genesis Season 2" includes the Genesis spacecraft and four major communities, the community may be in different locations inside the Genesis spacecraft, and different communities have their own functions, some communities are suitable for early development and survival, some communities are similar to extinction environments, some communities are facing corruption crisis, and even in the universe around the Genesis spacecraft, there may be a void environment to explore. Different functional communities have different styles, which also have a certain impact on player survival.
Props are designed around the player experience to improve the playability of the game
In most games, props are designed from the developer's point of view, and it is inevitable that players will criticize them when they are not handled. In "ARK: Genesis Season 2", this concept is subverted, in order to improve the quality of life of players in the game, the structure, objects, and creatures in "ARK: Genesis Season 2" are designed around the player experience.
Taking weapons as an example, a new weapon such as the Tektronix pistol appeared in ARK: Genesis Season 2. According to the development team's exposure news, there are 3 modes of Tektronix pistols, namely kill, heal, and stun, and the effect will be amplified with the frequency of shooting at the target. To put it simply, a pistol can be used in a variety of scenarios, which can effectively avoid the embarrassment of players needing to carry a variety of different functional items.
The Mechanical Rhinoceros, which appears in the ARK: Genesis Season 2 video, is a completely new structure that is loaded into a mod, similar to a mech, and can be used to decide whether to be in battle mode or acquisition mode through the loaded mod, in which it can launch laser collection resources. It can be seen that this new structure has a very sci-fi style appearance, and at the same time can greatly improve the game efficiency of players and bring a better experience.
In terms of biology, there are not many new creatures currently exposed in ARK: Genesis Season 2, mainly just a few, the most important of which is Nogrin, a small glowing creature with pointed ears that can be used to control survivors and creatures' minds, and is likely to play an important role in the player's PVP war.
Compared with "ARK: Genesis Season 1", "Ark: Genesis Season 2" is more humanistic, allowing players to explore this world happily, whether it is a livable environment or a more reasonable structure, props, equipment design, can let players feel the pure fun of the game.
Perhaps ARK: Genesis Season 2 will not be as hardcore as the previous DLC, but it will create a comfortable and enjoyable cyberspace where players can explore and survive freely and easily in this world, returning to the most essential purpose of the game for relaxation and pleasure. I believe that under such a design concept, "ARK: Genesis Season 2" can live up to expectations and bring a happy ending to "ARK: Survival Evolution".