Ark: Survival Evolved is all about the dinosaurs. You can fight them, tame them, ride them and brawl with them, but once those dinosaurs die, you have to go and tame more of them. That's not the case anymore, as if you get yourself a pair that can breed, you can start building your own army of dinosaurs, that you can tame right from birth.
"Survivors will be given the opportunity to pair two members of the same species together, even across Tribes if you’ve got a particularly well endowed creature," said a spokesperson for the developer. "This results in offspring with a random selection of traits from both parents, along with a degree of arbitrary mutation.
That means Ark is now a prehistoric Pokemon too. Players will be able to - and likely will - spend inordinate amounts of time breeding dinosaurs together to get the perfect traits, for the most ridable, ass kickingest dinosaur they can hope to create.
Of course though, players will need to keep the little guys alive. While the larger, adult dinosaurs have some measure of innate survival skills to them, the little dinos will take much more coaching and will need protecting until they can mature into the killers you want them to be.
Oh and there's a new dinosaur in the game too. The Mosasaurus, a hulking sea creature that is as deadly as it is massive, but its bulk gives it a secondary usage that has the potential to be far more dangerous: it's a swimming weapons platform. In a spotlight video we're shown the creature sliding through the water with a number of harpoon weapons on its back.
Be careful, Ark just gets deadlier and deadlier.
