Ark: Survival Evolved Fans Lash Expansion Trailer Filled With AI-Generated Slop

A caller Ark: Survival Evolved enlargement trailer from steadfast Snail Games has been resoundingly condemned by the Ark assemblage for being filled with grounds of appalling generative AI imagery.

The trailer was released successful the aftermath of Snail Games’ GDC announcement of its “in-house developed caller enlargement map, Ark: Aquatica”. The workplace describes the enlargement arsenic a non-canonical broadside communicative to Ark successful “an ambitious underwater mounting featuring 95% of gameplay taking spot beneath the surface.”

“This is disgusting and you should beryllium ashamed of yourselves,” wrote Irish YouTuber Syntac successful effect to the trailer. This connection from the fashionable Ark-oriented video creator, who has implicit 1.9 cardinal subscribers, is presently the apical remark connected the Ark: Aquatica trailer.

Comments from different viewers are unanimously and likewise negative, decrying the trailer arsenic “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” The trailer is rife with traces of AI slop, including schooling food blurring successful and retired of existence, a hideously deformed manus clutching a spear gun, a levitating octopus floating successful beforehand of a shipwreck that doesn’t cognize whether it’s a stone oregon not, quality feet that morph into floppy flippers, and more.

Marvel arsenic this man's ft magically turns into a fin.

For its part, archetypal Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has instantly distanced itself from the discussion, clarifying connected societal media that Ark: Aquatica is not being being developed by its team, and that “Studio Wildcard remains wholly dedicated to the accumulation of Ark: Survival Ascended & Ark 2, and we’re excited to bring Ark: Lost Colony to you aboriginal this year!”

Since missing its antecedently planned precocious 2024 merchandise model the aboriginal of Ark 2 has been unclear amongst fans, but Studio Wildcard confirmed this week that improvement connected the dinosaur endurance sequel is continuing. It besides revealed Ark: Lost Colony, a caller enlargement for Ark: Survival Ascended that volition pb into the sequel.

Ark: The Animated Series prima Michelle Yeoh reprises her relation successful the trailer.

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