Ark Survival Ascended Receives July 2025 Update

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So, uh, guess what? Ark: Survival Ascended just got one of those updates, right smack in the middle of July 2025. Yeah, it’s called version 68.34. Kinda like a mid-year gift, fixing annoying bugs. Players on PCs and consoles – you’ve got stuff to download, pronto. The main drama is tackling performance mess-ups in Ark: Ragnarok Ascended. Oh by the way, that’s one of the free DLCs everyone’s yapping about.

Ark: Survival Ascended dropped back in late October 2023 (feels like ages ago) and it’s almost celebrating its second anniversary. It’s been a wild ride – the kind some love, others… not so much. The reviews are all over the place. Like, you’ve got people grumbling on Steam about the game’s performance tantrums on PCs and those “pay to win” DLCs. But hey, updates keep rolling in, and players keep crawling back.

Remember June 20th? Studio Wildcard, the masterminds behind all this, released Ark: Ragnarok Ascended. That DLC sprinkles a Norse vibe over a sprawling 144 square-kilometer map. New places, new chaos, and yeah, more technical hiccups. Surprising? Maybe not. The Steam reviews are a mixed bag there too.

Anyway – oh right, the update. July 18th, mark the date. This one’s not about shiny new toys. Nope. It’s fixing lag woes like low frame rates, especially during those crazy sandstorms. Got the Basilosaurus spawns kicking up a notch too. And finally, codes in the labyrinth puzzle? They should behave now, thankfully.

Oh, almost forgot. This patch irons out wrinkles in the base game and mod maps. Things finally save as they should, backup saves included. It’s all about breathing easier when diving back into those mod maps.

Let’s see… right! A couple of extra tweaks. Thylacoleo’s weird swim animation when holding jump is fixed. And no more items disappearing into the landscape black hole when you toss them around. Players on Steam keep pointing fingers at stuff still broken, but more patches are on the horizon. August promises more goodies, so hang tight.

Here, let me dump the patch notes on you:
– Sandstorm lags? Fixed.
– Labyrinth input’s stable-ish now.
– Basilosaurus A.K.A. fish dinos, more of ‘em.
– Save icons are back on mod maps.
– Mods can safely go poof if you don’t want ‘em.
– Thylacoleo swimming like it should.
– Items obey gravity again.

Shutdown for now but stay tuned. More fixes and updates ahead. Who knows, maybe things’ll smooth out eventually. Until then, happy surviving, folks!