community Engage with, respect and listen to your community!

[Faicorf 46]

Warning, this is a LONG post, regarding the latest dev stream along with feedback that has been brought up countless times, and still being ignored.

If this post is "silenced" by the devs, I will simply keep re-posting until we are no longer swept under the rug.

 

TLDR:

• Start treating us with respect, and actually engage with us and listen to our concerns. 
• Actually learn how to balance your game.

After watching your live developer stream, I can hardheartedly say you guys have absolutely ZERO respect for your community, throughout the entire stream people where asking why Black Butterfly have not been banned, but you chose to outright ignore your community. On top of that, you even had the nerve to admit that you are watching/reading the twitch chat, which means you are choosing to ignore 80% of your community watching the stream. Not only that, but you also decided to even stop the name of the accused company even being mentioned in your twitch chat "BLACK BUTTERFLY" You cannot just sweep something as serious as this under the rug, when the evidence and articles writing about it is literally all over the internet.

My single suggestion to you in saving (what is left of) your game, is to actually listen to your community's concerns and at least acknowledge what they are saying, instead of showing off skins and other things, that at this point with the amount of broken features in your game, is complete feature creep. 

Again, show the slightest bit of respect for your community and listen to us, let us know that you here our concerns, instead of ignoring this MAJOR issue and hoping it goes away like some kind of common cold

Numerous videos showing evidence of these incidents happening, a single google search allowed me to find 4 separate videos of these hacking/cheaters in action, and what makes it worse is they were recorded from live streams from quite popular streamers, who all played on the official servers. Whales being spawned on top of ships and 6 whales spawning around a galleon to defend it, ships getting dive bombed by WW2 aircraft, players spawning in multiple WW2 tanks, and mortar barrages that can only be described as the apocalypse..

Moving on from this game breaking issue.

Crocodiles: 

• Aggro range is insanely large
• movement speed in the water is ridiculously insane, these things can go faster than a raft sailing with the wind, so if you aggro one, you cant even sail away from the island
• after being killed from the homing torpedo crocodiles, they simply stay on your raft, making it impossible to spawn back on the raft .
• spawn frequency and amount spawned. I have lost count of how long I have spent kiting around wild crocodiles and snakes while trying to gather resources to make arrows to kill them (melee is completely useless in this game) only to find once I've killed them there are already another 5 chasing me down. Forcing me to start the kiting process all over again, how are you suppose to advance, when you spend all your time in game taking crocodiles/snakes for a walk?

Wolves: 

• Movement speed is again, like the crocodiles in water, ridiculously overpowered. if you aggro a wolf in the early game, it is certain death as even while sprinting, you cannot get away.
• attack speed is again, overpowered. While sprinting away the wolves can stay on your ass and bite down till your dead. Again, certain death in the early game.
• aggro range like every other wild creature in this game, is not balanced at all and is.. You guessed it... OVERPOWERED.
• Spawn frequency and amount spawned - exact same problem with the crocodiles and snakes, only its impossible to escape from the wolves.

 

Giant Snakes:

• Again.. range is insanely large
• 2 bites from a snake and you will become unconscious
• spawn frequency and amount spawned. I have lost count of how long I have spent kiting around wild crocodiles/snakes while trying to gather resources to make arrows to kill them (melee is completely useless in this game) only to find once I've killed them, there are already another 5 chasing me down. Forcing me to start the kiting process all over again, how are you supposed to advance, when you spend all your time in game taking crocodiles/snakes for a walk?

Chinese/Asian Players:

• This has been brought up countless times now, give the Chinese/Asians their own server. they are causing insane lag issues for those playing on NA making it almost impossible for those actually living in NA to play their home server. 

 

Going by the fact that almost every single creature in the game is overpowered, it makes me think, did you even do any balancing at all for these creatures? I cant even comment on the ships of the damned, because its impossible to progress far enough to even build a base, never mind a ship and heading out to see.

 

I can honestly say that so far, the only good thing I have seen from you as a company, is the frequency of updates to try and fix what shouldn't have been broken, even in an early access build, to be honest, this game is so poorly developed, I struggle to even call it early access. I have never seen any other early access game have so many issues and have to update the major version of the game up to V14 in LESS THAN A MONTH. For comparison, 7 Days To Die was released into early access in December 2013, and it just released v17.1 TODAY, atlas is at V14 after ONLY 27 DAYS.

You claim this game can handle 40k players at once..

"The map or world of Atlas is divided into 225 regions forming the grid. Each region represents a dedicated host which has 4 other hosts connected at its adjacent borders all 225 regions follow this same concept creating the vast "seamless" one sharded world of Atlas."  -Atlas wiki

Doing the math, the game can only hold a grand total of 33,750 players, so it is literally impossible for you to hold 40k players at once...this is without mentioning the fact that every single server will individually fail and sh*t itself when there are 50 people in a cell.

how many more false claims are going to be made?

how long are you going to ignore your community?

how long are you going to try and divert our attention with pointless feature creep that nobody cares about?

how long are you going to ignore issues that need fixing in the game?

and how can you claim you are increasing server performance by *insert a random percentage here* when there is no difference after numerous "20-25% server performance" updates?

 

So again, to mention my point above and in the title, actually start to listen and respect your community, we are the ones who pay. We do not expect that to give us the right to what we say must happen, but that does give us the right to at least be heard and not treated like trash on the floor that you simply try to sweep under the rug?

 

You have witnessed all the negative reviews on steam through your p**s poor launch, do you want to add a complete lack of respect for your players into those reviews as well?

 

And once more to bring it up, since you so dearly like to ignore points made from your community, start listening to us when we bring up problems and concerns and start treating us with even the slightest ounce of respect.

 

I do hope to hear a response from somebody from the team, although based on how you treated your twitch audience in your dev stream, I have extremely little hope that any staff member at all will even reads this..

 

 

[TrevorJD 117]

> seamless

Each time the game stops, says "Transferring to Zone XX" then loads in the next zone, that's a seam. A visible demarcation between two regions.

They seem to have bought too deeply into the Sean Murray school of public relations