Even thoughARK: Scorched Earthoriginally release forARK: Survival Evolvedas DLC back in 2016, a new remastered and upgraded version is coming toARK: Survival Ascended(ASA).Scorched Earthwill be free for owners ofARK: Survival Ascended. This is whenARK: Scorched Earthreleases forARK: Survival Ascended.
ARK: Scorched Earth(ASA) release time
Update:As of 5:57 pm PST, Studio Wildcard has indicatedARK: Scorched Earthis going to be going live momentarily, but that a bug with transferring characters exists and therefore official servers will not be released for another 1.5 hours (at 7:30 pm PST). However, it doesn’t appear thatScorched Earthhas popped up to be downloaded just yet. We will update this if there is any new news.
Update 2:ARK: Scorched Earthnow available on Steam. The update is 42.55 GB total in size. As of now, Official Servers are still not available.
ARK:Scorched Earthis currently scheduled to release on April 1 at 6 pm PST. It’s undergone a couple of delays, but hopefully this is when it will actually launch. The release time is the same for both PC and consoles. Here is the release time for different locations in the world:
HasARK: Scorched EarthforASAbeen delayed?
OriginallyARK: Scorched Earthwas scheduled to release forARK: Survival Ascendedon March 31. However, due to it being a Sunday and being Easter holiday around most of the world, the delay was postponed by one day for April 1.
On April 1,Scorched Earthoriginally had a release time of 4 pm PST. However, Studio Wildcard announced about an hour before the release that they needed a bit more time and that the new release time is now 6 pm PST. Unfortunately, this is usually a pretty common theme with ARK as ARK: Survival Ascended suffered several delays on the release date pushing the actual release back many hours.
We’ll update here any time we see a newScorched Earthdelay, as well as the release time above, so you know the latest information. Here are all the delays so far:
