Before the release of an update, Studio Wildcard takes ARK Survival Ascended down for maintenance to get the servers ready for the patch release. During this period, players cannot access the in-game servers, unabling them to play the game.
If you are not able to play ARK Survival Ascended, it maybe down for maintenance or the issue might be on your side. Want to find out, what exactly is the case here and if it is under maintenance, here's when it will end.
ARK Survival Ascended Maintenance Schedule & End Time
At the time of writing, yes ARK Survival Ascended servers are offline for maintenance for about three hours starting from August 29 at 3 PM UTC.
🚧Maintenance🚧
— ARK: Survival Ascended (@survivetheark) August 29, 2024
At 3 PM UTC on August 29th, we'll be taking down some servers for maintenance, which is expected to last around 3 hours. Some servers will be briefly offline (~20 minutes). For more info, see the link below. https://t.co/ZjGmiKR5s6
This means that you can expect ARK Survival Ascended to come back online today around 6 AM UTC. Apart from this, Studio Wildcard has announced that "upon being restored the affected servers will no longer show as Favorites so you will need to search the main server list and re-add your server."