George of the jungle

2 hours ago, wolverenre said:

no i am not new i just live in hope,but they fixed it the next day lol my timing sucks.

but they will fix all the bugs and glitches one day ROFL .

Nah, ark still has some bugs and these guys are doing a way worse job than they did with ark. This is just a steaming pile lmao

On 7/17/2021 at 9:49 AM, Nacona said:

I dont' agree with this. The hole topic here is about bug fixes and there are some good once and it sounds like they are listening to the Players now. I support this new decision by the devs. Balancing of the sails of the Mortar Ship is for PvP and obviuosly this ship is not meant to fight for it self. It shall be slow to need protection but with the benefit to attack other players islands. The overall question is if the medium sails need some buff to be of some use? It would be great if the devs would move forward with fixing the modular ships repair system and balance it to be on a same level like current "old" ships. The mortar ship should not be tested on PVE server versus ships of the damned @George Catcher. Well i myself stopped playing some weeks ago because this game needs to much effort for to little reward and real life is coming back now. More SotD is good but loot table needs some changes. I suggested to reduce the spread between common and max mystical to max 200%. A Mortar ship is not bringing me back to play the game. A 4x gold is not bringing me back to game... well there are some good things like you can level ships fast at the moment with barrels but i don't like barrels on ships. At the game start there was no gold to build a brigantine. Now you have lots of gold to do so but you can't go solo and always need some galleon fleet to not risk your ships getting sunk by another fleet. I guess gold is now no issue for all estblished tribes but the ships limit is already low and you need a large bay to place all those shipyards to safe your BP ships in harbor. Well at least the harbor run game part is something of Atlas its past now.

They never do a good job regardless of what they are doing lol. These guys really suck. Like really suck.

1 hour ago, Infpatriot said:

What do you mean a wipe? Like getting rid of the new ships? 

Yeah as in you will no longer have your base or ships or tames or anything. They always wipe when they have an update and they always will wipe. They said it was a summer update even though the summer will be over pretty soon. But we all know these guys are horrible at their job so yeah they will be late. Expect a wipe very soon though.

everything will be gone.

4 hours ago, monkguru said:

No more dumb than the devs thinking that wiping is going to keep this train wreck going. Especially with toxic piss poor attitudes such as yourself. I mean it would be stupid to think that wiping would keep large megas coming back. They don't even want to play anymore. They stated the wipe was necessary for the claim system changes. Are they full of BS. Yeah. But its what was said and if they continue they will lose the rest of their playerbase.  I think Its time for changes, changes that indicate a different type of player. You don't know that type though do you. I am just wondering. Either way its a win win. You won't be here for stupid comments. Be constructive. Instead of a toxic snot nose adolecent who feels entitled to insult like the ignoramus that you are.

Yeah the game is going to fail either way. I know you think you are special and your ideas are going to save the game but sometimes you just gotta realize you are below average and move on. I wish you luck.

On 8/5/2021 at 11:14 PM, kharypayt37 said:

Its hard to find accurate or updated info about... anything for this game.

I was attempting to solo Kraken V1 and had it down to ~20% health with 8 minutes left, so I thought I should be able to make it. Then it just vanished and the event was over.

I think it may have coincided with ~5PM EST time? I have also had this happen with a hydra, the hydra is dying and then disappears, go back to the island and its all new enemies, like the creatures for the whole area got reset? I'm curious if anybody knows if there is some kind of timed creature reset or if there are other kraken mechanics that would explain it just ending early

You will never find accurate info on this game because they are always changing the map and adding more bugs. Nobody bothers anymore.

to be honest nobody plays the game either lol. As far as the kraken goes you got to meet another bug. It will also happen again. No surprise. 
 

I wouldn’t bother doing anything because another wipe is coming very soon and you will lose everything you had including your character/ships/materials and tames. 
 

you are done son lol

On 8/5/2021 at 9:42 AM, ZimBack said:

Jup, well, now its mid 2021, and the game still crash a lOt. Right now I stay online on xbox s for around 30sec, and I crash. I get it that this game is not fully released but they need to understand that since they are taking money for this game, in this state, they at the least need to make it functional. I mean, we must at the least be able to run this code

If you are having that much trouble with the game and staying online you are pretty much asking for it at this point.

those kinds of people don’t even need to be complaining in all honesty.

4 hours ago, Infpatriot said:

I can’t switch/demo the cannon ship railings at all, nor switch or demo the rowing modules. Anyway to fix this? 

You realize a wipe is coming soon so it will all be gone anyways right? I wouldn’t worry about your question to much and start getting ready to grind out more gold for another ship lmao

8 hours ago, monkguru said:

They also said they wanted to get away from seasons and are not doing regular wipes.

Are you dumb enough to believe what they say? Or are you dumb enough to think another wipe is not going to happen very soon? I mean both would be dumb, but I am just wondering.

50 minutes ago, George Catcher said:

Devs told once that there will be "big summer update".

Also they told recently that they wanna change map, so it will be with portals-maelstroms and different biome regions.

My guessing - with one of these updates (or maybe it will be the same single update) there will be a wipe. If they keep their promise and release "Summer update" in actual summer it gonna happen within next 4 weeks, but... well. With current development state and speed this "Summer update" might happen somewhere in November...

Yay, another map change nobody wanted that will come with more bugs and they won’t even fix the other bugs. Smh

worst dev company ever. By far

6 hours ago, Ranger1k said:

@Whitehawk & @George of the jungle yea I'm still befuddled as to why companies go to mass market via mmo's when they don't have a single player or its bugged.

      Strikes me as a learn to crawl before you walk type of no brainer. 90% of Atlas' problems could have been avoided this way. 

I do understand it, I suppose, under some scenarios..

     A large, well funded company w years of industry experience directly relating to mmo's well then i suppose it would be logical. The industry giants, so to speak. However, they've stated on numerous occasions that their development team is small, so I don't get it..

     To build BIG a stable foundation is required. The "foundation" is single player or small scale matchmaking. From there, when the core experience is defined, stable and popular THEN run with it.. They've spent 2 years putting the wagon in front of the horse. Period.

Well just like with ark they have a go big or go home kind of mentality. Their fatal flaw was that ark was such a success they figured they could get away with it again but with half the effort.

with ark they did go big. With atlas they did go home and once they got home they shit the bed, and then they sold that bed to us for 30 dollars. Maybe they are masterminds and we are the idiots after all.

6 hours ago, Ranger1k said:

     Expanding on @Whitehawk comments, they've had literally years worth of constructive criticism and the game just keeps getting worse.

I joined between the 2nd{?} and 3rd(?) wipe, was pretty happy and was encouraging people who had left the game to return. Then they stuck it in sideways, completely wiped all my progress.

The dictionary definition of "prerelease" is "existing or occurring prior to the release of something". The game is mislabeled as "prerelease" when it should be labled as "under development".

    Theres been like 5+ wipes

    Core mechanics undergoing complete overhaul

    Bugs that are persistent and expanding constantly

    Many features or adjustments are rolled out partially then just left in half ass status

    I could go on ad nauseam

 

     I quit playing months ago but unless something radical happens not only will this company never receive a dollar of my money, nor an ounce of my time, but i will encourage anyone who asks to boycott the products of the affiliated companies. They're literally charging people to beta test and then shitting all over the people who participate. I dunno if they lack leadership, just dgf or have TOO MANY leaders. Either way they've turned a potential G.O.A.T. into a clusterfuck.

    My 2 cents.

Hello ranger, this is technically the first post I liked that you have done. It is not your fault because as you said you joined later on in the game(even if it was the second wipe). I found you very annoying coming in as a new player and being naive as to think everything was an easy change without realizing the company you were taking to. 
 

your posts were informative and heart felt, so I did have respect for them but they were annoying nonetheless. Now that I see you have taken the red pill, I have a new found respect for you.

the one piece of advice I could give is next time you join a new game and do the same thing you do, do some research into the company first because you were way off base and that is why you got some unwelcoming introductions.

you are a good talker as well as informative in your opinions but you really have to know what you are walking into before you start. Just a piece of advice.

this company has done more than you can even imagine if you look into it(you also need to look into ark history) the leadership is the exact same and the team is half the same. 

10 hours ago, Whitehawk said:

The problem is they dont really want solo players. Some online games think you can force strangers together and somehow it all magically stays good and friendly. It's fine if you already have friends that play, but personally either starting a company with total strangers or joining one is a huge risk, which I have found out on Atlas sadly. The games company mechanics ,do not make joining or starting a company of unknown individuals a good prospect for a solo player. It's just too risky, (more so joining than starting).

Yeah, they made their mechanics so bad that even online you are basically playing single player because you can go days without seeing another player lol 

player counts are showing that online is a single player game.

13 hours ago, Bishbashbosh said:

Thousands of gold coins for ships is just is crazy it’s killing it for solo players if you want to build the numbers of players up remove the gold coins other wise it’s not worth playing 

Dude nothing is bringing back players. The game has been dead for awhile now. It is in the bottom 100 steam games and has some of the lowest numbers compare to most games. Add in all the bugs and unethical business practices and this could very well be the worst game of all time.

people have been putting up with the gold for ships for a long time now. But I think it is very important to repeat that the player numbers will never go up. The game will never be a success and it has already failed.

if I were you I would be embarrassed to even tell anyone you are playing atlas.

3 hours ago, Jacob Drellerey said:

I've been trying to play on several servers and when I hit the #8 key for the main world map it comes up a back screen and all the maps I collect are blank. I try to figure out the Admin's but don't know how and I see no one ever plays on these servers any more for a LONG time. So why are these server still open to play if no ones servicing them? They say the grids should be 9x9 or 11x11 and I can't sail out of freeport because the borders are RED and wont let you go to other regions. Can someone HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

The game is broke man. There is a reason you don’t see people and and that is because they are close to their all time low player numbers. Especially after aug 31st you will see even less. 
 

just pretend you are playing single player because pretty soon you won’t have to pretend.

1 hour ago, Gemini Five said:

I loved Atlas from the minute I saw it. I thought it would end up being a great one. Its really too bad they didn't do something with it. The whole it's EA so don't expect progress has become a meme.

I don't know anything about Grapeshot but I suspect its only 5 or 6 people with little to no budget. Someone wasted a good core of a game on a team too small for the task. I've also been left at every turn wondering why they use their limited resources on the things they do (like those prebuilt ships). That's really too bad.

I've never seen a game come back from this kind of start and I don't expect this one will either. Now you have a wave of new MMOs coming on line now or over the next few years. NW, soon Ashes, I expect Star Citizen will have some kind of soft launch in 2 years. And a few others. It's gonna be a tough market.

Such a shame.

Well a little insight for you is that jeremy(the head or wildcard and the maker of ark) came over to start grapeshot and used all of arks programming for atlas. He also brought over a good chunk of wildcards employees as well as hiring other new people so about 20 of them total.

they also had a very high budget since the huge amount of money ark made definitely supplemented atlas’ beginning. They were working on atlas as a ark dlc but decided they could screw people out of money by making it its own game. Atlas was supposed to be the “waterworld” dlc ark players had been asking for for years.

wildcard already had a problem with communication as well as fixing code the whole time ark was being developed. They simply brought over the same unethical business practices they had.

so yeah definitely a big budget and a pretty good sized dev company as well. They have even been known to borrow grapeshot employees to help with an ark update as well as borrow wildcard employees for an atlas update.

they don’t have an excuse for their behavior.

3 hours ago, Gemini Five said:

It would take a book. I've done a few 12+ hour days. I've forced myself to stop playing due to it being beta and the final wipe is coming. I've started focusing on learning how things work to have the best start at release. It is a pvp focused game but you never need to take part in pvp. You fight wars for control of areas. Crafting is very deep. Pve and Pvp in world and instances. Housing. Amazon has made big changes this year and it really seems they are listening and building what people want. They will be adding to it for years. Some bugs getting hot fixed still. Some report lag in 100 player battles. Still not perfect but good. I've not seen any lag. The world looks great. Its interesting that you get polled/questioned at every log out to return the next day seeing changes made on your topics. I've submitted bugs and seen them in the next day's patch notes. In general, I've had a lot of fun and expect I'll be playing it for a few years. Not happy its still 30 days away.

So basically they are nothing like grapeshot in any way, shape, or form then? Well that is really good news because these guys are completely incompetent. I mean it is amazing how inept they are.

counting down the days till release then for me. Can’t wait.

2 hours ago, wolverenre said:

Ok some servers have been down for days the central maw among them so anyone wanting to do the kraken can not and those trying to gat all the power stone can not complete that ether so if its going to be down for a longer period of time then they should just give everyone the kraken achevment as they can not get it them selfs while zone is down then they can get the sub and carry on with other parts of the game.

but letting us know when zones will be offline for periods of time would be nice , i have looked and can not find any warning or reasion for it .

just give everyome the kraken achevment at least it wont matter if the zone is down then .

Dude, they don’t even fix the game. They sure as hell are not going to warn you that a server is down. They don’t communicate period. Time to get used to that if you are new lol

5 hours ago, Gemini Five said:

A lot of us have suggested this in the past.

I will quit the game the day this is put in. 

The most over used and broken idea ever heard in dead MMOs is to force PVEers to PVP. They will quit the game. This game has some of the worst, laggy, bugged, janky LOLz PVP I have ever seen. You want to force PVEers into that? Or, yeah, force then to have less, when most are already just logging on to reset timers.

A better idea would be to have the PVE areas have most or all of the resource, where PVPers would go to refit, repair and stock up. And the PVP areas have higher gold. Now you have an economy and two areas working in support of each other.

I had high hopes for Atlas, no longer. Two years and the game has had little progress and still runs terrible (yes I have a high end gaming rig). I only log now to feed and reset times. Another wipe and I have no reason to ever return. Besides, I'm loving the New World beta test.

Yep. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

so how awesome is new world? I didn’t do the beta so I have just been watching gameplay. Seems awesome but I want to hear from the horses mouth

6 hours ago, Worlordx3m said:

Some ideas for atlas

 

 

 

Why can you make a half pvp / pve server?

 

Make the lawless areas pve but they must use a clam flag.

 

The pve areas only have common material. To force players to go to pvp islands to min  or to trad.

 

You can also make pvp islands that  work with clam flags.

 

Inside you calmed area people cant kill you or brake your staff. So the island is half pve /pvp people can kill you if you are not in your clam area. Then pvp islands are full pvp.

 

NPC  you can make rare NPC that can do stuff better so people must

 

Go look for them on islands or on the water. Make them breed-able or not. So people can trad with them.  

 

I don’t think these guys have half the talent or potential to pull this off. Nowhere near enough players now anyways.

my bet is they get rid of another whole cluster of servers by the next season/wipe lol

I just saw the new world intro and game play for the first time. Pretty excited to say the least.

now at only a little over 100 from their all time low. Still dropping as always. These numbers are just bad. Pure failure 

19 hours ago, EstdoDaSunGod said:

How do you get the mines to work? I have placed three mines, one by gems, one by regular stones that have Iron, and one by crystal.. yet none of them are producing anything! I have fuel in them and the mining is turned on.

By the way I'm playing on Xbox one.

Even though you might not want to cheat on single player. This game sucks and is so broken you have to cheat if you want to play it right. Don’t let pride get in the way or nobody will feel bad, plus you will just waste your time fighting bugs the whole time instead of actually playing.

2 hours ago, JadeRain77 said:

Is sailing through a grid wall with a pet on your shoulder still an issue? I know it was broken a while ago, but figured it would have been fixed by now. DH took a parrot to Freeport, but when he went to head home, realized the bird was gone. (He plays in first person, so didn't notice right away it was missing) I've checked all around,  traveled both sides of the wall and checked the crew log to see if it had died, but no joy. The parrot has seemingly up and vanished like a fart in the wind. 

It is a true shame that very minor bugs are still happening. I get if they can’t fix huge ones, but damn. Once again, could have been a great game but they definitely chose the wrong devs for it smh.

2 hours ago, Pattus said:

In PVE nothing is stopping you from getting gold.

Doesn’t matter. Pvp people have no business advising pve as well as the other way around.

28 minutes ago, hartsia said:

you think so? tbh i hated it in the start, but then i started liking it and  the ships feel more valuable when u hafto pay for them, espseclly when u craft from mythical shipyards and the price is double, And it also gives me reasons to farm gold. in pvp its very nice feeling also when u risk more than just resourses.

 

King regards: white knight

In pve people buy printed ships from eachother, but in pvp u dont wanna sell printed ships to enemys. or even allies because of the big risk loosing it.  and u want backup ships aswell

Seems like the easy fix would be pvp ships cost gold and pve they don’t.

8 minutes ago, Kummba said:

Damn, it reads like a nightmare
 

That would be the most accurate steam review for atlas as a whole. That one sentence said it all.