According to the well-known game media GameRant, the survival sandbox game "ARK: Survival Evolution" has more than 35 million players on various platforms around the world, which can be regarded as one of the most popular survival sandbox games. On the Steam platform, "ARK: Survival Evolution" occupies the top ten positions in the online number list and sales list for many years, and maintains about 90% praise, which can be described as both sales and word-of-mouth.
This game can be so popular, in addition to the high-quality graphics, game quality, and its excellent backstory is also inseparable, the backstory of this game is not weaker than those science fiction blockbusters, each DLC contains a complete story, and the DLC is connected together to restore the entire magnificent Ark universe.
Based on this feature, ARK: Survival Evolved is often "urged" by players, and it is expected that the development team will launch the next DLC as soon as possible. At present, the main plot of the game has been completed since the release of "ARK: Genesis Season 2", and many players still feel that they are still inexhaustible, and they are full of expectations for the story of the sequel "ARK: Survival Evolution 2". Before the sequel is released, we may wish to comb through the plot of the Ark Universe in its entirety and review this science fiction epic.
By abusing unknown energies, humanity ushered in the end
To understand the game's plot, we must first talk about the worldview of ARK: Survival Evolution. In the game, in the future, humans have mastered highly developed genetic technology, and can already modify various creatures at will, and even dinosaurs can be resurrected. One day, a meteorite fell, and humans extracted a magical element from it, allowing technology to reach a new breakthrough. Later, this kind of energy element became popular, but later humans discovered that the high-purity energy element had a certain consciousness, began to corrode living things, and humans built obelisks to resist corrosion, and eventually failed.
After the failure, in order to preserve the flame of civilization, human beings built several giant ecological space stations with the obelisk as the core and launched them into space, naming them "Ark". At this time, most of the creatures on the earth have been corrupted, the ark preserves the last fire of mankind, and scientists use cloning technology to create a dangerous environment containing all kinds of ancient creatures in the ark, in order to select the best clones and one day return to the earth to solve the corruption crisis.
Adventures across time and space are comparable to science fiction movies
1. Superpowers confront each other and encounter a corruption crisis
In the original world of ARK: Survival Evolution, the world's technology reached a bottleneck, and two superpowers on Earth confronted each other. One day, the accidental landing of an extraterrestrial meteorite allowed humans to discover a new energy, the two sides extracted new energy from the meteorite, and found that this energy can make the existing technology achieve a breakthrough, so they have conducted in-depth research. In order to be ahead of each other in science and technology, the two major forces used the new elemental energy without long-term observation, launching an "arms race", and the new energy was developed madly. Unexpectedly, this energy was found to have a "collective consciousness" at high purity, which would corrupt most creatures, and humans wanted to save themselves and build obelisks to resist the corruption crisis, but failed.
2. Transform the gods and select excellent clones
After the outbreak of the Earth Corruption Crisis, humanity accelerated the pace of transforming human beings, and scientists found that there was a limit to the human body, and the isolation of consciousness could gain the ability to calculate the innumerable possibilities of things in an instant, and would not disappear without running out of energy. Afterwards, scientists transformed some humans into gods, similar to the "elemental masters" who were the source of the corruption crisis, and could only influence the human world through avatars or tools.
The Federation of Earth has since proposed the creation of a colonization spaceship, copying all ecology and characters to the ship using cloning technology, and the spacecraft will jump between galaxies in a fixed cycle in search of habitable planets. The humans in the spacecraft will conduct various simulation training through virtual reality, that is, the "Genesis" project, which aims to select excellent clones.
The United Nations on Earth has proposed another plan, transferring the living space to the satellite orbit of the earth, building countless giant bionic space stations called "Ark", and also copying all the ecology and humans, and the artificial intelligence "monitors" regularly put human beings created with genetic technology to collect data and monitor the corruption level of the earth in real time. Each space station's energy comes from a different god-man, and when the earth's surface elements are out of danger level, the ark will return to earth to release those excellent clones to rekindle the earth civilization.
In a crisis, the two superpowers of The Earth reconcile, and the two solutions work simultaneously. In order to run both programs, scientists recreated the most capable humans in history by cloning technology, then copied them into data and dropped them on a spaceship or space station, and cloned the genius Santiago who died during the war.
3. The gods tamper with the data, and the protagonist group awakens
In order to select excellent clones to eliminate the corruption crisis of the earth, the gods have strengthened their different characteristics without changing the memories of the clones, and in the isolated island space station, helena, Rockwell, Li Meiying, and Nerva, four clones from different historical periods, meet. Biologist Helena became acquainted with Rockwell, a fellow scientist, and Li Meiying from ancient China, who clashed with the roman warrior Nerva, who eventually died at the hands of Li Meiying. In the confusion, Lee and Nerva teleport to the distorted space station, while Helena and Rockwell are teleported to the Scorched Earth Ark.
The plan for the scorched earth ark was not going well, the cloned inhabitants lacked the spirit of exploration and resistance, and even blindly worshipped the obelisk, and the overseers decided to clean up the clones and restart the scorched earth ark. In fact, the space station has been restarted many times, resulting in a deserted space station world, full of deserts, and the desert hides the ruins of the city. Before rebooting, the warrior Dakya arrives at the tribe of Leia, the indigenous priestess of the Aberration Space Station, and teaches the tribe to use firearms to defend against dinosaurs and monsters. Finally, the obelisk erupts and destroys the entire tribe, Dakya is sacrificed, and Leia's faith collapses and is renamed Walley.
Rockwell relied on his clever medical skills to make a splash in the scorched earth, stole the tribal artifact and tricked another tribe into attacking the lion scorpion, and after getting the Tektronix Energy Elemental Plate, he murdered all the fallen people, and walked farther and farther along the villain road. Rockwell then encounters Helena and Wally, who are old at this time and tell them that she has cleared the Scorched Earth Ark and can leave at any time. Finally Helena and Rockwell left the scorched earth for Aberration.
In the Ark of Distortion, Diana and her friends popularized Tektronix technology, but the world has not yet begun to usher in corruption. Here Diana activates the obelisk, but the detonation bomb blows down the space station's sky barrier, and cosmic radiation ignites the entire land, eventually escaping into the ground to survive. Then Diana met Li Meiying again, and after a fight with Li Meiying, she became a good friend, and even had an ambiguous affection for each other.
Helena and Rockwell are in danger after teleporting to the aberration and are easily rescued by Li Meiying, while the group is teleported by Santiago's control obelisk to the Ark Creature's living culture room, where they are finally shocked when they learn the truth about their clones. Rockwell, at this time, is completely corrupted by the element, turning into a monster and killing Diana, and is chased down by Helena and Li Meiying. Santiago, along with Helena and Lee Mei-ying, teleported to Earth via the Super Teleporter.
4. Unable to solve the Corruption of the Earth, the Genesis spaceship travels to the New Earth
After the protagonist and his party teleport to the earth, they lose their courage to see the desolate earth and the endless corrupt monsters. Helena chose to become a god after touching the artifact, resurrecting Diana. After Santiago's death, Lee Mi-young is in a desperate situation when confronted by the Titans of the Woods, a tool dominated by the elements, and diana, a clone of the dead, descends from the sky in a mech and rescues her. The two then join hands against the Titans, but are unable to solve it. Diana and Li Meiying are then teleported to the Genesis spacecraft by Helena, who incarnates as a god.
Teleporting to the colony spaceship Genesis, Helena's memory fragments become the small intelligent robot HLEN-A, guiding players along the way on adventures. However, the ship has an accident, and the corrupt Rockwell is teleported to the ship at some point. Players awaken from the Genesis Simulation system for unknown reasons, only to discover that half of the ship has been corrupted by Rockwell, and that the ship is destined for the New Earth. Players fight rockwell to death in the final battle, but in the end Rockwell and the ship are fused together and cannot be destroyed alone, HLN-A destroys Rockwell at the cost of self-detonation, and teleports the player to a new earth without corruption crisis, and the story of ARK: Survival Evolution also ushers in the end, judging from the trailer of "Ark 2", the story of the new world will unfold in the sequel.
Players across the network chase and chase, triggering unlimited conjectures
"ARK: Survival Evolution" in the game is not a complete CG and text to tell the story story, but the main plot is split into various clues, through the game scattered explorer notes and the structure of each Ark map to restore the story of the game, the sandbox gameplay, element collection and puzzle solving characteristics combined together, and DLC's unique non-linear narrative method makes the player have a strong curiosity, vowing to explore the Ark world in the game.
Even players who have not personally explored the plot in the game, after watching the plot explanations produced by other bloggers, can't help but sigh: "Maybe in many years, ARK: Survival Evolution will be forgotten, but we will not give up the wonderful journey of immersing ourselves in the perfect fusion of magnificent biology and technology, and we will still change the legendary story of Helena and her party, and the efforts of all mankind to rebuild this planet." ”
Of course, there are also players who jokingly comment: "A good CG and animation company, with a cow X script, went to the game." ”
Judging from the numerous discussions and spin-offs, the grand story of ARK: Survival Evolution has left a deep impression on the hearts of players. In the six years since its release, the charm of "ARK: Survival Evolution" has not diminished, whether it is a game party that loves dinosaurs, survival, or a story party that is obsessed with digging up stories, it is haunting this free and open world. We have reason to believe that in the future sequel "Ark 2", the development team will bring us a more exciting and moving story.