Ark is one of those strange series to me that seems to have a ridiculous amount of cash to dispense, what with its star-studded cast in the animated adaptation. Gerard Butler and bloody Michelle Yeoh are in it! Not to mention David Tenant, Elliot Page, Russel Crowe and Vin Diesel, the final of whom is meant to be in the borderline MIA Ark 2. But some of those voices will be appearing in-game through Ark: Survival Ascended’s next expansion, Lost Colony, which now has a release date!
Said release date is a little over a month away on December 16th, and according to a press release makes direct connections between Ark’s Extinction and Genesis expansions, and Ark 2. It’s a little bit of prep work, essentially.
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Yeoh is back in her role from the animated series, alongside Tennant as his, as well as cast members like Madeleine Madden (Wheel of Time), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), Katie Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) and Keith David (Coraline).
While this feels like an odd way to put it, Lost Colony adds in the first “canonical” expansion map into Ark: Survival Ascended, though I’m sure the presumably many Ark loreheads can speak to that better than I can. Once you start up the expansion, you’ll find yourself in a big ole city where something’s hunting you down.
There’ll be new abilities, gears, building systems, the usual expansion affair. And from today until the expansion launches, a new dino, the Ossidon, will be wandering around cold-biomes in Ragnarok, Valguero, and The Center. The trailer above puts a spotlight on this admittedly nasty looking beastie. Happy Arking, Arkers! Or Survival Ascending? You get what I mean.
