A new Ark: Survival Advanced growth trailer from writer Snail Video games has been resoundingly condemned by the Ark group for being stuffed with proof of appalling generative AI imagery.
The trailer was launched within the wake of Snail Video games’ GDC announcement of its “in-house developed new growth map, Ark: Aquatica”. The studio describes the growth as a non-canonical facet story to Ark in “an bold underwater setting that includes 95% of gameplay happening beneath the floor.”
“That is disgusting and you have to be ashamed of yourselves,” wrote Irish YouTuber Syntac in response to the trailer. This assertion from the favored Ark-oriented video creator, who has over 1.9 million subscribers, is at present the highest touch upon the Ark: Aquatica trailer.
Feedback from different viewers are unanimously and equally unfavourable, decrying the trailer as “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” The trailer is rife with traces of AI slop, together with education fish blurring out and in of existence, a hideously deformed hand clutching a spear gun, a levitating octopus floating in entrance of a shipwreck that doesn’t know whether or not it’s a rock or not, human toes that morph into floppy flippers, and extra.
For its half, unique Ark: Survival Advanced developer Studio Wildcard has instantly distanced itself from the dialogue, clarifying on social media that Ark: Aquatica is just not being being developed by its staff, and that “Studio Wildcard stays solely devoted to the manufacturing of Ark: Survival Ascended & Ark 2, and we’re excited to convey Ark: Misplaced Colony to you later this 12 months!”
Since lacking its beforehand deliberate late 2024 launch window the way forward for Ark 2 has been unclear amongst followers, however Studio Wildcard confirmed this week that growth on the dinosaur survival sequel is constant. It additionally revealed Ark: Misplaced Colony, a brand new growth for Ark: Survival Ascended that can lead into the sequel.
Ark: The Animated Sequence star Michelle Yeoh reprises her function within the trailer.
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