That’s exactly what I was saying, they just made the whole thing look more like the island, same rocks, same redwoods, they even neutered the volcano island so that it’s just a few lava pools in an otherwise normal jungle just like the island, at least before the difference was obvious, now I feel like every island looks the same
@@wfisher4034 I guess we dont have gen1 volcanic biome assets which would perfectly fit in center and on ragnarok volcanic biome. I hope they don't neuter ragnarok one entirely
You know what whound make a great video is where a someone gets a bunch of ark players together whis a bunch of pictures from the different maps on asa and ase and the players have to guse what map and if it's on ase or asa
NGL...a little disappointed. Why does every rock need to be that tan sandstone color? The lush moss covered rocks in the Redwoods are gone, the charred black rocks on lava island are gone. Half burnt island doesn't even have the same vibe-nothing in the lava areas do.
Yeah that rock colour looks like it belongs on Scorched Earth and they made the lava island too alive and not some hellscape and the tall rocks are a bit annoying but its cool to see an updated Center Map
Honestly it feels incredibly monotonous with all the rocks being the same color and all the trees looking the same. The burnt areas don't look at all burnt, and even the redwoods have that tan rock instead of the mossy dark rock we are used to.
I agree with you. I feel the old map in a lot of instances just looks a lot better, and had a better vibe to it. This just feels bland. And the mist everywhere is getting old
Yeah, I like it except for the coloring, the thing that always made Centre stand out to me was how bright and saturated the map was. With this it looks so dull.
Gotta give you a massive applause on getting the location shots, for each comparison, so nicely aligned. I imagine that took a lot more work than would be imagined. I'm honestly surprised nobody as mentioned this yet. Nice job, Raas, and your editor (Reto? Sorry if I spelled your name wrong, bro) 👏🏻
Weird complaint but I really hate how all the Asa rocks are all tan, like they keep taking areas with clearly grey rocks and making them tan, so that areas that are supposed to look like Rocky Mountains end up looking really dry, it worked on the island but they did it to the wyvern trench on scorched and they’re doing a ton here as well
I've noticed this as well. They took the character out of what rocks and bolders usually look like with different colors and even mosses on some of them. We could've done a better job with this.
@@user-ms8fl1ry6t yeah like the crystal caves being blue and pink are now just greenish blue. While it's more realistic sometimes the life is taken out of it
@@husklo One of my favourite things in ASE was finding saturated, pretty coloured places to build and everything looks so bland and washed out and flat now. I'm incredibly disappointed by the art director in ASA. Would love to even see some areas with the lush green Scottish vibe that Ragnarok has and not everything looking like Australian savannah.
I noticed there is new blue butterflies but I think you can only see them with higher settings as my lower spec friends cannot. Can't say I saw any fireflies though sadly
@@halopromise I see the butterflies my pc runs the game on high and my husband’s on ultra unfortunately I don’t see the green fireflies they had on the previous version. I wasn’t sure at first but after seeing my husband’s game at night yeah they’re not there unfortunately.
These hyper detailed textures in asa just make every place look the same :/ After having watched the entire thing: Wow, I didn't think it was possible, but they made it look worse than the original. Yes, the graphics look mote detailed and realistic, but they sacrificed the visual style and the unique look of the center. Eberything looks the same.
I’m disappointed in the new lava island. And why are all rocks sandstone? Same issue with the island. Makes sense for the beaches and mid east mountain but not snow and volcano.
Lava island was very unique example everytime you get near it the surrounding area would change, you had ashes rain down, the sky would turn orange/red, and you can find the occasional raptor/Rex/Giga taking a hot bath in the lava rivers. Honestly it felt like you just enter hell and you’re encountering arks most dangerous creatures. Sad that they removed the ash rain and red/orange sky when getting near the island 😔
Yeah the old lava island looked better. They had too much focus in making it pretty. Lava island is supposed to be a hostile and grim place and preferably no greenery
I really want to like these remasters, but they really sucked the colour and beauty out of the game. Everything is just low contrast reddish brown with a golden cast to all the trees now. There isn't any green lush grass anywhere or grey coloured rocks. If you look at the comparisons of most areas, the grass has been removed and replaced with brown dirt and shrubs.
Yes yes, I’m so happy I found people with the same opinions, like there just washing everything out making it all looks the same, so much of the color palette just got sucked away it’s crazy, the fog doesn’t help either cause it washes everything out even more, the volcano area looks like everywhere else, the mountains look the same as the ones on the island idk man it’s crazy how they managed to make the center so boring and dull
@@wfisher4034 I was looking forward to seeing what they could do with Crystal Isles when they announced Ascended and now I'm dreading it. It's my favourite map and I'm worried they are going to replace all the pretty red and pink treed biomes with this terrible Minecraft savannah looking colour palette. I'm starting to wonder if even the Eldritch Isle will be spared after seeing what they did to the lava island.
It can be all they need to do is copy the asset and then change the texture and swap out the assets that need to be grey or whatever color could even have textured moss on a rock and wouldn't hardly effect performance other than slightly more storage on the hard drive should be a few extra mbs so not to much difference.
@@CamwayGaming I'm glad you weighed in on this (been subscribed to your channel for ages). I wish you could bring your game developer experience to Wildcard and give them a hand even if it was just as a consultant.
This is a great video! :D Man, there is somehting so off with the visuals in the Center remake. I HATE the haze that just desaturates all the colours and details, I wish they had a toggle that could perminently disable it.. They really did the ice castle and the crystal cave dirty too.
I can agree with all parts of the map looking similar. But the ase lava island gave me headaches it was so bad to look at. It has little green and still has its character
Man what are you on about you can’t even tell it’s a volcano, it’s looks just like everywhere else and you’ll never have any reason to go there because of that, it’s the damn sand colored rocks man they spam them everywhere instead dark grey or grey at all
As amazing as it looks, it just doesnt have that flare that the original had. The new one while better graphically, l9st the aestetics. I really enjoyed the green grounds of the center and the flowers, and decor. The new one juat feels like an unreal engine asset build. No hate to it and i will play it even if my view is negative, just wanted to put it out there.
Nobody needs negative thoughts put out so why are you crying over it. Wanna make it better go make your own game the way you like it or go back playing ASE.
@@Ceebz39you have been commenting on every comment that is remotely negative about the map. People have right to their own opinions. Stop dickriding wildcard so hard man
@@Ceebz39 "hurrr durr nobody needs negative thoughts." i bet you're the type of person who drooools over censorship and destroying freedom of speech and is woke as hell etc etc. And this wasnt the first comment you made on this vid like this. Shut the hell up and LET PPL EXPRESS THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT, if you dont like negatively move along.
It's too bright and there's so much hazeand the grass looks a sickly yellow. That saturated green grass texture style even though it was basic, brought magic/fantasy and added a subtle whimsy to the aesthetic. #BringBackTheGreen 😂
Looks great! My only 3 complaints are that the lava island shouldn’t look like the rest of the map, too much of those beige rocks/ground everywhere, and the underworld sun looks a little too big/bright to me. 🤷♀️
Love what they did with The Island and Scorched Earth but i don't like The Center map rework, thanks WildCard. Where are my Lava and half lava islands, ocean water, redwood? Now whole map looks the same...
@Ceebz39 there is nothing negative what he said was real thing and fact If it was done by modder they would have done better. For example look at skyrim. GTA V.
Just take the game out and remake the center bro this shit is hot ass, the skull island has max like 1 stack of metal on a 5x server and the lava island is like a lava stream there’s little to no lava anywhere
With that beige rock color it looks weirdly arid now. Some odd choices have been made for lava island (which feels much less like lava and just like another jungle now), the snow mountains, the redwoods... I also keep noticing (and it was the case on Scorched Earth too) that WildCard tries to minimize ruins now, erases them whenever possible, makes them look less prominent otherwise (on The Center it is even weirder because it was one of the map's characteristics !). It makes me feel sad how less colorful some parts are, like that crystal cave... if that's the direction taken for ASA then Crystal Isles is gonna lose its entire appeal at this rate (especially since the map as we currently know it lacks in other departments). Color is good, WildCard !
You really have to give props to the art direction for the original map, each area is unique while still being absolutely breathtaking each in their own way, new one just feels kind of dull in way too many places.
Not a fan, they took what made the original center special out, lava and skull should be way darker and with less plant life, the redwoods waterfalls just dont look red woodsy enough. They use the same rock style for the entire map, se version just felt unique and had rocks match the biome
Whie they did cook on some parts for the Center, I was kinda hoping that remade assets from Genesis Part 1's Volcano Biome would be used for the Center's Volcano Island, really dislike how they basically made it into a Volcanic Jungle.
Looks so boring now, they really sucked the soul out of this map. Why would they think it’s a good idea to make every area look the same jungle and give every rock that’s dogshit color?
The center was my fav map in ark i was really looking forward to playing on it again. But the biomes look to have the same colour pallet they feel/look very similar bar slight differences
I like ase way more they didn't bother to use new assets for the map that's why they made the lava island green and the snow cave green and changed the lava skull i feel like the map lost its soul
Artiist critique ig? I'm happy to be playing on the center again with a fresh coat of paint! The assets are definitely WAY better and some areas are really neat now, though now with this direct comparison I see what was making me tilt my head. I do feel like the color was a bit drained out of the world, both in some assets getting the beige affect and the ambient lighting losing it's cool tones to becoming blown out white/gray... which I noticed happened to a lot of maps some updates ago. I don't favor the new snow/tundra areas as it kinda looks SE with snow to me? But I prefer the new lava area as I never was a fan of samey lava areas evolved maps all had. There is a cool canyon in the redwoods where the rivers are way more detailed and the cliffs spraw super high into the light which gave me a bit of awe I hadn't felt in ark in ages though. TLDR: There is a lot of ups and the downs I think come to maybe saturating some assets back up along with the biome color grading. Also I beg for whatever that new affect with lighting constantly adjusting to mimic your eyes dialating please be toned down oml it's blinding and makes the map disappear in holy light.
The removal of all the black and gray ash is so sad, the lava area was always really intimidating. I feel they tried to make the map more like a beach, but it ends up kind of looking like a desert lmao.
That’s one. The one thing I like about ASA remakes for Maps is like they take an area that’s so barren and honestly gross to be around like scorched they made it so lush and overall just a better feel to it. I like what they did with the volcano island
@@malekat8539in my opinion the whole old map looked barren and like plastic, it was disgusting to look at and had no soul with flat ground and poor terrain design, and ark mobile genuinely looked better in some cases. I do think that they downgraded some of the areas like the cave entrance and other lighting things, but I would rather take that over the old barren map
Man what the hell, if you like that look just play on the island but these maps are supposed to be different, it looks literally exactly the same as the island, they could have kept the barren volcano but just taken away the old jankiness the first version had, instead they completely neutered it, taking away even more contrast and color palette, is swear man it’s fine that you have that opinion but your are def in the minority here cause I think it sucks ass
@@wfisher4034 I do kinda agree with you, but I would ask how they would make a tropical map with the exact same biomes(excluding volcano) look different besides a different rock color( which would likely look worse in a tropical theme). The only reason the old map looked different was because of the harshly contrasting biomes that had no detail or soul whatsoever.
One thing I hate about ASA is soooo much farmable grass in caves. I don’t wanna disable gathering cause of chiten. But I hate my megatherium gets encumbered after a few swings
Lowkey like the ASE floating island better. this one feels a lot less spacious, and it’s so lush you could hardly see anything unless the areas are bare. also crazy loss of frames there.
I do have to agree, some parts of asa kinda overpopulated the density of trees which made the areas either very laggy or very annoying to build in. Hidden lake is i think the biggest offender to this, tho i do think the floating islands in asa will grow on me.
Go play ASE. Nobody paid for free dlc lmaoo. Stop whining you bunch of whiners. Jeeshh people find tiniest reasons to cry over something new. Don’t like it then walk away and go play bloody something else!!
@@dotalbo8279 The floating lake i was losing so many frames. Also what i noticed is the center is almost, “brighter” than it originally was. all the rock has like a sandy, desert-y tan color that i feel isn’t the most fitting of the deep greys and darker colors of the original map. i like what it is, but some things just seem a bit off.
ASE looks much more stylized and colorful. ASA looks like any other generic game. I would have preferred a simple upscale of assets with nanite and lumen instead of this cashgrab of a "remake"
Ok now i see what people meant regarding the map looking soulless now. It looks good but the deep colors are gone and washed out. Ice area doesnt look too icy anymore is what i noticed the most.
gonna be real here. While it certainly looks more realistic, my personal appeal with the center was how vibrant and green a lot of it was. Way back in the day it gave me the biggest sense of tropical jungle. The sandstone color being everywhere really seems to detract from that aesthetic imo. I doesn't give me the same vibes anymore. It somehow seems more "dry" despite having so much water incorporated throughout the map. Imo this is the first L as far as the remastered maps go. The island and scorched earth look infinitely better but this one changed it up too much imo. The volcano/ lava island in particular is by far the biggest loss.
Some areas are definitely improved. I personally like the lava section more now. That being said, I’m sure the team are good, hard working people, but they definitely missed the mark. Doesn’t match up the island and SE remasters. Hoping Ragnarok will get the love it deserves
The graphics are clearly better and the terrain is FAR more detailed and built up but the color is completely gone. I miss the saturation. Everything looks like its washed out now and all the rocks are the same color. With a bit more color variety and more saturation it would look spectacular ❤
Theres some bits that just look very odd to me lava island looks like a big jungle if you didnt know it was lava island youd just think it was all jungle
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Looks great on it's own, but the thing I wanted from these modded map remasters was to make them *_different_* from The Island, not more similar :/
That’s exactly what I was saying, they just made the whole thing look more like the island, same rocks, same redwoods, they even neutered the volcano island so that it’s just a few lava pools in an otherwise normal jungle just like the island, at least before the difference was obvious, now I feel like every island looks the same
@@wfisher4034 I guess we dont have gen1 volcanic biome assets which would perfectly fit in center and on ragnarok volcanic biome. I hope they don't neuter ragnarok one entirely
Biggest sin was removing the fire flies
You know what whound make a great video is where a someone gets a bunch of ark players together whis a bunch of pictures from the different maps on asa and ase and the players have to guse what map and if it's on ase or asa
i dont really want to be negative cus it looks good but they did just take all the colour out
Bro your not being negative that’s the truth, maybe if we can get through to wildcard the Ragnarok and be saved the evil
All the terrain looks like its sand.
NGL...a little disappointed.
Why does every rock need to be that tan sandstone color? The lush moss covered rocks in the Redwoods are gone, the charred black rocks on lava island are gone.
Half burnt island doesn't even have the same vibe-nothing in the lava areas do.
Yeah that rock colour looks like it belongs on Scorched Earth and they made the lava island too alive and not some hellscape and the tall rocks are a bit annoying but its cool to see an updated Center Map
Go back to Ase stop crying over tiny details
Looks dry af
@@diewarrior9012 and..?
@Ceebz39 bro, been telling people to stop whining while you're the one replying to everyone who doesn't like it lmao.
Honestly it feels incredibly monotonous with all the rocks being the same color and all the trees looking the same. The burnt areas don't look at all burnt, and even the redwoods have that tan rock instead of the mossy dark rock we are used to.
I can agree with you. I think a lot of the map looks the same
I kinda get it but the baby poop green rocks everywhere in the og map was much worse
I agree with you. I feel the old map in a lot of instances just looks a lot better, and had a better vibe to it. This just feels bland. And the mist everywhere is getting old
WTF is wrong with them making every terrain covered in yellow rocks Ark yellow rock not ark ascended💀💀💀
That was my first thought, glad I'm not the only one
Yeah, I like it except for the coloring, the thing that always made Centre stand out to me was how bright and saturated the map was. With this it looks so dull.
Gotta give you a massive applause on getting the location shots, for each comparison, so nicely aligned. I imagine that took a lot more work than would be imagined.
I'm honestly surprised nobody as mentioned this yet.
Nice job, Raas, and your editor (Reto? Sorry if I spelled your name wrong, bro) 👏🏻
Where's all the greenery gone. More like scorched earth with more water. Needs more colour seeing its meant to be more of a fantasy island.
They moved the greenery to the lava island LMAO
@@michaelbeckett2918 makes sense 🤔😂
@michaelbeckett2918 i noticed that lmaooo
@@michaelbeckett2918 hardly that even
Weird complaint but I really hate how all the Asa rocks are all tan, like they keep taking areas with clearly grey rocks and making them tan, so that areas that are supposed to look like Rocky Mountains end up looking really dry, it worked on the island but they did it to the wyvern trench on scorched and they’re doing a ton here as well
It’s not weird the place looks like it got hit by global warming 😢
I've noticed this as well. They took the character out of what rocks and bolders usually look like with different colors and even mosses on some of them. We could've done a better job with this.
not a weird complaint at all, its very lazy and ugly
Why yall hating the most highly graphic game in the world 💀
@@Jam-ih7bv I don’t have issue the graphics it’s the fact they made the map look so dry
Took a lot of the color and charm out of it
I expect the colours to get more vibrant if we use the remove fog commands, just like underwater.
that looked very videogamey while asa looks more realistic
@@user-ms8fl1ry6t yeah like the crystal caves being blue and pink are now just greenish blue. While it's more realistic sometimes the life is taken out of it
@@user-ms8fl1ry6t Agreed, I was gonna comment the same.
@@husklo One of my favourite things in ASE was finding saturated, pretty coloured places to build and everything looks so bland and washed out and flat now. I'm incredibly disappointed by the art director in ASA. Would love to even see some areas with the lush green Scottish vibe that Ragnarok has and not everything looking like Australian savannah.
Ok they really need to invest in some new rock textures. I am not going to be happy if we get to Ragnarok and they just make the entire map sandstone.
If they do this to Rag ill be so dissappointed.
Unreal 5 effect lmao, they spent all their budget on the detail of one rock type😂
It looks better and worse at the same time 😵💫
Did they remove the nighttime fireflies from the center? Was on of my favorite things about it…
They better not 😭
i hadn't even noticed.... wow if that actually gone im gonna be super sad
I noticed there is new blue butterflies but I think you can only see them with higher settings as my lower spec friends cannot.
Can't say I saw any fireflies though sadly
@@halopromise I see the butterflies my pc runs the game on high and my husband’s on ultra unfortunately I don’t see the green fireflies they had on the previous version. I wasn’t sure at first but after seeing my husband’s game at night yeah they’re not there unfortunately.
They don’t have fireflies on ark phone or the others
Who else thinks the snow lava and redwoods looked batter in ase then asa?
These hyper detailed textures in asa just make every place look the same :/
After having watched the entire thing: Wow, I didn't think it was possible, but they made it look worse than the original. Yes, the graphics look mote detailed and realistic, but they sacrificed the visual style and the unique look of the center. Eberything looks the same.
Yes yes yes please be vocal about this shit cause idk what I’m gonna do if ragnarok ends up the same way
Lol, keep whining, you are just sad you can't run this game on ur potatoe pc
I’m disappointed in the new lava island. And why are all rocks sandstone? Same issue with the island. Makes sense for the beaches and mid east mountain but not snow and volcano.
im so gonna build a pirate base at the skull island. now it actually looks good
Lava island was very unique example everytime you get near it the surrounding area would change, you had ashes rain down, the sky would turn orange/red, and you can find the occasional raptor/Rex/Giga taking a hot bath in the lava rivers. Honestly it felt like you just enter hell and you’re encountering arks most dangerous creatures. Sad that they removed the ash rain and red/orange sky when getting near the island 😔
Yeah the old lava island looked better.
They had too much focus in making it pretty. Lava island is supposed to be a hostile and grim place and preferably no greenery
Yep yep
ExactLy what i thought looks like a jungle with all them trees
they did my redwoods dirty.
Does all the exposed ground have to be that sand color rock? Can that be color not be altered in different areas?
I really want to like these remasters, but they really sucked the colour and beauty out of the game. Everything is just low contrast reddish brown with a golden cast to all the trees now. There isn't any green lush grass anywhere or grey coloured rocks. If you look at the comparisons of most areas, the grass has been removed and replaced with brown dirt and shrubs.
Yes yes, I’m so happy I found people with the same opinions, like there just washing everything out making it all looks the same, so much of the color palette just got sucked away it’s crazy, the fog doesn’t help either cause it washes everything out even more, the volcano area looks like everywhere else, the mountains look the same as the ones on the island idk man it’s crazy how they managed to make the center so boring and dull
@@wfisher4034 I was looking forward to seeing what they could do with Crystal Isles when they announced Ascended and now I'm dreading it. It's my favourite map and I'm worried they are going to replace all the pretty red and pink treed biomes with this terrible Minecraft savannah looking colour palette. I'm starting to wonder if even the Eldritch Isle will be spared after seeing what they did to the lava island.
It can be all they need to do is copy the asset and then change the texture and swap out the assets that need to be grey or whatever color could even have textured moss on a rock and wouldn't hardly effect performance other than slightly more storage on the hard drive should be a few extra mbs so not to much difference.
@@CamwayGaming I'm glad you weighed in on this (been subscribed to your channel for ages). I wish you could bring your game developer experience to Wildcard and give them a hand even if it was just as a consultant.
Better assets, but worse environment contrasts, vibe and lighting. Now I'm worried about what Aberration will look like.
Scorched Earth but underground and big mushrooms lol
exactly... im ready to be disappointed
New disappointment unlocked. Oh no...
This is a great video! :D
Man, there is somehting so off with the visuals in the Center remake.
I HATE the haze that just desaturates all the colours and details, I wish they had a toggle that could perminently disable it..
They really did the ice castle and the crystal cave dirty too.
They about to use the tan color for every map at this point lol.
RIP Ragnarok and Crystal Isles. :(
@@Stephain You mean Ragnasand and Dirt Isles?
With how well they did the island and scorched earth I didn't expect it to be this bad
I can agree with all parts of the map looking similar. But the ase lava island gave me headaches it was so bad to look at. It has little green and still has its character
Man what are you on about you can’t even tell it’s a volcano, it’s looks just like everywhere else and you’ll never have any reason to go there because of that, it’s the damn sand colored rocks man they spam them everywhere instead dark grey or grey at all
This looks like how I make my park enclosures in Jwe lazy
Low key don’t like the new lava island kind sucked the character out of it
Yea, was really hoping for something like gen 1 lava biome
Go make it better then why whine over it
what do you mean character it was literally the shittiest designed volcano biome ever
Looks great to me
Just a bit simple you ain’t ya 🤣🤣
Tbh... I dont know how to feel...
I dont like the sand ground it felt so much more jungle before
As amazing as it looks, it just doesnt have that flare that the original had. The new one while better graphically, l9st the aestetics. I really enjoyed the green grounds of the center and the flowers, and decor. The new one juat feels like an unreal engine asset build. No hate to it and i will play it even if my view is negative, just wanted to put it out there.
Nobody needs negative thoughts put out so why are you crying over it. Wanna make it better go make your own game the way you like it or go back playing ASE.
@@Ceebz39you have been commenting on every comment that is remotely negative about the map. People have right to their own opinions. Stop dickriding wildcard so hard man
Bro stfu people can critique it’s a remake ffs comparisons are a given stop crying about people crying
@@Ceebz39 "hurrr durr nobody needs negative thoughts."
i bet you're the type of person who drooools over censorship and destroying freedom of speech and is woke as hell etc etc. And this wasnt the first comment you made on this vid like this.
Shut the hell up and LET PPL EXPRESS THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT, if you dont like negatively move along.
@@Ceebz39 bro defending wild card like it's he's family ☠️☠️
Dude got this video out with a quickness
It's too bright and there's so much hazeand the grass looks a sickly yellow. That saturated green grass texture style even though it was basic, brought magic/fantasy and added a subtle whimsy to the aesthetic. #BringBackTheGreen 😂
center looks nice also loved the sotf music as background ❤
Looks great!
My only 3 complaints are that the lava island shouldn’t look like the rest of the map, too much of those beige rocks/ground everywhere, and the underworld sun looks a little too big/bright to me. 🤷♀️
Love what they did with The Island and Scorched Earth but i don't like The Center map rework, thanks WildCard. Where are my Lava and half lava islands, ocean water, redwood? Now whole map looks the same...
genuinely looked better in ASE in some areas
Remember guys, the original creator of the center was consulted, so don’t blame only wildcard
I really liked the more greenery in the previous maps,but ngl,in the center,they did it way way over the top
Well lava island doesn’t feel threatening anymore…let me go get some trees…
The only thing i like more than the OG Center is the underworld
Yeah that comparison shot was insane
Hot-take, but ASA suffers from way too much detail lava island looks worse and i don't like how every beach needs 1.2 million rock pebbles on it
Well no one is forcing you to play so why the negative crap here. Go play Rust or something and stop being a crybaby
@@Ceebz39 I know right. Game looks amazing, and STILL people make up things to complain about.
@@chadantonioit’s their money they have the right to complain
@Ceebz39 there is nothing negative what he said was real thing and fact
If it was done by modder they would have done better.
For example look at skyrim. GTA V.
@@BlueNish12 well go make it better ya smart ass. There’s always whiners who “could do it better” but they never do and whine instead
The new lava island is way to green and the rocks to light coloured imao, the rest of the map is beautiful though.
The new lava island is a big letdown. I hope they do better on Rag and Gen 1.
As much as I d like to love ASA, ASE just hits different.
Just take the game out and remake the center bro this shit is hot ass, the skull island has max like 1 stack of metal on a 5x server and the lava island is like a lava stream there’s little to no lava anywhere
Facts
With that beige rock color it looks weirdly arid now. Some odd choices have been made for lava island (which feels much less like lava and just like another jungle now), the snow mountains, the redwoods... I also keep noticing (and it was the case on Scorched Earth too) that WildCard tries to minimize ruins now, erases them whenever possible, makes them look less prominent otherwise (on The Center it is even weirder because it was one of the map's characteristics !). It makes me feel sad how less colorful some parts are, like that crystal cave... if that's the direction taken for ASA then Crystal Isles is gonna lose its entire appeal at this rate (especially since the map as we currently know it lacks in other departments). Color is good, WildCard !
Oh yes, Crystal Isles has always been a very special map. I hope they don't mess it up!
You really have to give props to the art direction for the original map, each area is unique while still being absolutely breathtaking each in their own way, new one just feels kind of dull in way too many places.
the upscaling of the size is awesome
Not a fan, they took what made the original center special out, lava and skull should be way darker and with less plant life, the redwoods waterfalls just dont look red woodsy enough. They use the same rock style for the entire map, se version just felt unique and had rocks match the biome
Theres just something about the light that just makes ot look meh. Like with the redwoods and burnt areas
Whie they did cook on some parts for the Center, I was kinda hoping that remade assets from Genesis Part 1's Volcano Biome would be used for the Center's Volcano Island, really dislike how they basically made it into a Volcanic Jungle.
They need to use more saturated colors going forward.
Though more detailed, it looks a bit more dull at times.
They should also fix the flow of the large waterfalls to make it more realistic.
Thank you Raas 😁💛
Since when did the center look like scorched earth?
As long as the water doesn't glitch you back when playing with friends on a non dedicated then it's good on my terms
I like how the older one looks darker, which gives a sense of danger.
Looks so boring now, they really sucked the soul out of this map. Why would they think it’s a good idea to make every area look the same jungle and give every rock that’s dogshit color?
The center was my fav map in ark i was really looking forward to playing on it again. But the biomes look to have the same colour pallet they feel/look very similar bar slight differences
Not to be negative but this new map is shocking, absolutely butchered the old center
How can it be better yet worse at the same time 😵💫
I like ase way more they didn't bother to use new assets for the map that's why they made the lava island green and the snow cave green and changed the lava skull i feel like the map lost its soul
Looks amazing
Not a fan of the center but this just gets me more hyped for Aberattion in hopefully two months time
9:21 Bummed about the cave with the vibrant crystals :(
(and the boss arena)
I'm glad that it looks different. I started playing on this map 😊
Artiist critique ig? I'm happy to be playing on the center again with a fresh coat of paint! The assets are definitely WAY better and some areas are really neat now, though now with this direct comparison I see what was making me tilt my head.
I do feel like the color was a bit drained out of the world, both in some assets getting the beige affect and the ambient lighting losing it's cool tones to becoming blown out white/gray... which I noticed happened to a lot of maps some updates ago. I don't favor the new snow/tundra areas as it kinda looks SE with snow to me? But I prefer the new lava area as I never was a fan of samey lava areas evolved maps all had.
There is a cool canyon in the redwoods where the rivers are way more detailed and the cliffs spraw super high into the light which gave me a bit of awe I hadn't felt in ark in ages though.
TLDR: There is a lot of ups and the downs I think come to maybe saturating some assets back up along with the biome color grading. Also I beg for whatever that new affect with lighting constantly adjusting to mimic your eyes dialating please be toned down oml it's blinding and makes the map disappear in holy light.
oh wow The Center finally has the up to date obalisks
Also this looks awsome can't wait to play this
cannot wait to explore!
The removal of all the black and gray ash is so sad, the lava area was always really intimidating. I feel they tried to make the map more like a beach, but it ends up kind of looking like a desert lmao.
That’s one. The one thing I like about ASA remakes for Maps is like they take an area that’s so barren and honestly gross to be around like scorched they made it so lush and overall just a better feel to it. I like what they did with the volcano island
This was the worst take I've seen here...
@@malekat8539in my opinion the whole old map looked barren and like plastic, it was disgusting to look at and had no soul with flat ground and poor terrain design, and ark mobile genuinely looked better in some cases. I do think that they downgraded some of the areas like the cave entrance and other lighting things, but I would rather take that over the old barren map
Man what the hell, if you like that look just play on the island but these maps are supposed to be different, it looks literally exactly the same as the island, they could have kept the barren volcano but just taken away the old jankiness the first version had, instead they completely neutered it, taking away even more contrast and color palette, is swear man it’s fine that you have that opinion but your are def in the minority here cause I think it sucks ass
@@wfisher4034 I do kinda agree with you, but I would ask how they would make a tropical map with the exact same biomes(excluding volcano) look different besides a different rock color( which would likely look worse in a tropical theme). The only reason the old map looked different was because of the harshly contrasting biomes that had no detail or soul whatsoever.
Our favorite spot is gone rip..
That land behind Blue and Red beyond the Barrier is very detailed. Possible expansion at some point?
I hope the Ragnarok Highlands dont have the dull grass color later
Fog everywhere :(
Yeah, and even using a command to remove fog will leave it still looking hazy
yey more brown rock
Look how they massacred my boy
glad I'm not the only one thinking they had only 3 colours to use 💀
I was hoping they'd expand the cave world so it'd be a biome or two larger
One thing I hate about ASA is soooo much farmable grass in caves. I don’t wanna disable gathering cause of chiten. But I hate my megatherium gets encumbered after a few swings
Lowkey like the ASE floating island better. this one feels a lot less spacious, and it’s so lush you could hardly see anything unless the areas are bare. also crazy loss of frames there.
Go play ASE then 😊
@@chadantonio or i can fairly critique the game i paid for, thanks for the input though
I do have to agree, some parts of asa kinda overpopulated the density of trees which made the areas either very laggy or very annoying to build in.
Hidden lake is i think the biggest offender to this, tho i do think the floating islands in asa will grow on me.
Go play ASE. Nobody paid for free dlc lmaoo. Stop whining you bunch of whiners. Jeeshh people find tiniest reasons to cry over something new. Don’t like it then walk away and go play bloody something else!!
@@dotalbo8279 The floating lake i was losing so many frames. Also what i noticed is the center is almost, “brighter” than it originally was. all the rock has like a sandy, desert-y tan color that i feel isn’t the most fitting of the deep greys and darker colors of the original map. i like what it is, but some things just seem a bit off.
Great video most likely but Raas when was the last time you got your cars oil changed? I feel it might be time
ASE looks much more stylized and colorful. ASA looks like any other generic game. I would have preferred a simple upscale of assets with nanite and lumen instead of this cashgrab of a "remake"
Some of these look awesome but they’re just making everywhere look the same lmao
it looks so GOD DAMN BRIGHT :p i bet it's prety cool but the brightness wow...
EDIT: the fogg is also not helping tbf.
The rock color makes it look, warmer I guess
im not impressed by the new version
Nobody gives a shit
This looks more like scorched earth than the center
if they made all the trees black and torn down from lava i think it would fit well . i still like the lava area
I'm very happy with this remake especially the red woods
I’ll admit I’m a little disappointed to but HOLY the under world looks fucking insane now.
I hope this is a work in progress....
nope this is forever now, unfortunately
@@viralshark far too many mesh breaks for this to be it.
Ok now i see what people meant regarding the map looking soulless now. It looks good but the deep colors are gone and washed out. Ice area doesnt look too icy anymore is what i noticed the most.
Why does every map now look like they added a layer of thin fog. ASE maps look crisp.
gonna be real here. While it certainly looks more realistic, my personal appeal with the center was how vibrant and green a lot of it was. Way back in the day it gave me the biggest sense of tropical jungle. The sandstone color being everywhere really seems to detract from that aesthetic imo. I doesn't give me the same vibes anymore. It somehow seems more "dry" despite having so much water incorporated throughout the map. Imo this is the first L as far as the remastered maps go. The island and scorched earth look infinitely better but this one changed it up too much imo. The volcano/ lava island in particular is by far the biggest loss.
I don’t Like how it took away that (Nordic) cold and dark feeling and I hope the rag overhaul won’t do the same thing :/
Some areas are definitely improved. I personally like the lava section more now. That being said, I’m sure the team are good, hard working people, but they definitely missed the mark. Doesn’t match up the island and SE remasters. Hoping Ragnarok will get the love it deserves
Lot of elevation changes I wonder what percentage of drops are now floor loot to be tricked by
IS it just me or some area seem that they lost personality?
#bringbacktheoldcentermap
In my opinion the water looked better in ASE in this comparison.
The graphics are clearly better and the terrain is FAR more detailed and built up but the color is completely gone. I miss the saturation. Everything looks like its washed out now and all the rocks are the same color. With a bit more color variety and more saturation it would look spectacular ❤
Theres some bits that just look very odd to me lava island looks like a big jungle if you didnt know it was lava island youd just think it was all jungle