ARK: Survival Ascended’s 2024 Halloween coverage introduced the Dreadmare as a new tame associated with Fear Ascended. A secondary report described it as a skeletal unicorn-pegasus hybrid with dark-magic abilities; Studio Wildcard’s later official event announcement covers the 2025 return, not the 2024 edition.
What was the Dreadmare in the 2024 Fear Ascended announcement?
An October 31, 2024 ScreenRant article summary hosted by IMDb identified the Dreadmare as the new tame announced alongside Fear Ascended, which it described as ARK: Survival Ascended’s first Halloween event. The summary characterized the creature as a skeletal unicorn-pegasus hybrid with glowing red eyes and batlike wings. These are reported details from secondary coverage, not independently verified gameplay findings. Read the October 31, 2024 summary on IMDb.
What abilities were reported for Dreadmare?
The same summary said the Dreadmare could use dark magic to damage enemies and heal itself. It also described a dark shroud that could briefly conceal and shield players. Those abilities are the report’s description; the available material does not establish their precise mechanics, duration, or balance values.
What did the later Fear Ascended event include?
Studio Wildcard’s official Community Crunch 481, published October 25, 2025, announced that Fear Ascended would return from October 29 through November 12, 2025. The post listed boosted gameplay rates, event creatures and costumes, weapon and armor skins, items, a chibi, new emotes, and color palettes. It also gave instructions for enabling the event mod in single-player or on private servers. These are details for the 2025 edition, not evidence of the 2024 event’s exact content or setup. Read Studio Wildcard’s Community Crunch 481.
#1 Best Overall
- ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and redesigned the artwork and worlds of ARK to take advantage of the latest in videogame technology, Unreal Engine 5, using high-end graphics features such as fully dynamic Global Illumination (“Lumen”), so that light bounces realistically of off surfaces and provides realistic reflections, and advanced mesh streaming (“Nanite”) of hundreds of millions of triangles for extreme detail.
- Advanced new physics systems such as dynamic water so that every creature creates waves, ripples, splashes, and bubbles as they move through fluids, and fully interactive physical foliage where every blade of grass, bush, and tree reacts to characters, explosions, projectiles, and physics objects.
- ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all of ARK’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The Island is released now, with the subsequent expansion worlds to be added at no additional cost on a regular basis.
- Thorough Quality of Life revamps in every area: redesigned User Interfaces, dynamic navigation for intelligent creature pathfinding, Wild Babies, Photo Mode, new Camera systems, new Map system, Tracking System, new Structures and Items, new Creatures, and much more.
- Cross-Platform Modding: Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-bowser directly within the game! Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time ever across gaming platforms!
Can you get Dreadmare or play Fear Ascended now?
The reviewed sources do not establish whether Dreadmare or the event is currently available on any particular platform. The 2024 secondary summary’s platform wording describes availability at that time, while the official 2025 post gives dates for a limited-time return. Neither is confirmation of present-day availability.
Quick Recap
Rank #3
- Ark graphics and worlds are completely recreated and designed to use the latest video game technology, Unreal Engine 5
- Advanced new physical systems such as dynamic water and fully interactive physical leaves
- Design your survivor, shape the trunk and tame, train, multiply and ride dinosaurs in a vivid ecosystem
- Public online mode for up to 70 players, private multiplayer mode for up to 8 players + local split screen for 2 players
Rank #2
- Brand new UK Import PAL version. Game in English. UK PSN store account required to use any online features
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