George of the jungle

On 8/28/2021 at 11:08 PM, Whats Kraken said:

Please please please. I like the game. I enjoy playing it. But we need more than one PVE server. All decent land to build a base on is taken. Allow less land to used by each player or make more PVE servers. It is to a point where I have sailed from H7 to D1 and did not find a single decent spot to build a base near the water.

Nope that will never happen. In case you are new they map the map smaller not larger. Used to be 15x15 grid but the player numbers were abysmal so they made the map smaller.

sorry to burst your bubble but they will never make the map larger. There is a good possibility they will make it smaller again though. Since the game has failed there will likely be more changes to save money.

an average of 1000 players makes it to where still half the servers on the official grids are completely empty with only a few players in other servers on the grid. It is pathetic to say the least.

10 hours ago, Enki Anunnaki said:

still no physicalized trade ships... but atleast we can ride spiders and buy ships no one likes to actually use..wtf?

I remember you from back in the day. You used to defend atlas so hard it was kind of pathetic. I have never been one to say I told you so but....

On 8/27/2021 at 11:30 AM, Robroy Danzing said:

Great update keep getting kicked out of game 

Unplayable once again 

Are you new? Yeah they kick you a lot.

plus this wasn’t an update it was a very poorly made patch. You will know when the update comes because they have literally wiped every single time an update has hit. If you still have your stuff they didn’t update.

but yeah, they are completely incompetent 

On 8/26/2021 at 10:04 PM, Norebo said:

You guys are trying your best to kill this game. This update is just a fucking joke and its easy to see that you fucked up this game and don't care about it anymore. You are probably just want to turn off the servers but you need to convince your boss or someone else that this game is dead and to do that you are trying your best to kill the player base by adding the worst shit that you can imagine 

 

You know they already killed the game right? Did you miss that memo?

On 8/26/2021 at 8:49 PM, Gravity said:

No one wanted these boats.  They are poorly designed and apart from the rare use cases of the mortar boat offer nothing to the current game.  This games pop hovers around 110 players daily for a 11x11 grid map.  Most large companies are being manned by maybe 6-10 people.  Naval combat has pretty much disappeared from the game.   

Your response to this is to add more frail boats that move at 8 knots.  Sink like a rock when they take minimal damage.   And use a repair system no one likes or uses.
  
You stated that you wanted this game to be pvp focused but everything you do other then the mortar ships encourages nothing that remotely resembles pvp.  I'm going to let you in on something you seem to have missed.  No one likes the new boats.  No one likes barrels on boats.  No one likes the gold costs on ships.  NO ONE LIKE THESE CONTROL POINT BUFF TOWERS. 

For the love of all that is holy stop adding garbage to the game and FIX THE CORE GAME.  Performance issues, quality of life improvements etc.  That's what the players want.   You've stripped this game of its fun and added nothing to enhance the gameplay.  Talk to your god damn community and stop doing whatever you want.   Its not working and this game is a ghost town because of it.  

Lmao, remember when they said they want players to spend more time on water than land? 
 

hellllllloooooo 8 knots lmfao

complete joke of a dev company 

Pretty sure you are going to have to wipe. Since you are unofficial just do admin commands. People might say “but that will take a long time” well those people are just lazy because it is a lot faster to rebuild with admin commands. Hopefully the people on your server aren’t that lazy because that would just be sad at that point.

On 8/29/2021 at 12:08 AM, George Catcher said:

You know... I still feel that this Atlas being developed on leftover basis. It's like they have around 35 ppl overall in company, they do ARK-II, they work enthusiastically there. And then, once in 1-2 days, one or two developers open Atlas project and do something there within couple of hours.

I was 3D developer long ago, I was creating Russian trains for TainZ game in 3D studio Max, and It took me the same time to introduce my new projects, as they do this modular ships. I was working alone and using my free time, after university and some homework.

It's not DEVs bad, or something. It's just they don't wanna to. They do more interesting and more important projects. Atlas is more like burden project for them. They don't have time to love it, to feel excited about it, to share their feelings. Even each patch notes - they are ve-e-e-ery formal with copy-paste text like:  Again, we would like to emphasize that ATLAS is still in Early Access, and will be there for next 10-15 years...

I mean I would be glad if I wrong here, I just saying my feelings.

Very good description, but it is still devs bad though because that is unprofessional behavior on their part.

Oh these guys are way past salvation of this game. They have proven their incompetence time and time again. One would have to be a fool to believe otherwise.

and as far as ark goes atlas never had a chance at being a success, let alone an ark sized success. From the day atlas was realizes the playerbase started dropping and it hasn’t stopped. Even when the wipe brings in new people they leave again just as fast as they came. This would go in the record books of one of the biggest failures in gaming history.

On 8/30/2021 at 8:35 AM, Nicksubishi said:

Or people like you being a total DBag. The game is fun and it's also a crashing mess. He was hoping for help not some sarcastic guy who is having a bad day. Real productive reply buddy. One might say you deserved this more than him trying to play the game 

Well I am sure he appreciates all the help you just gave him as well. Didn’t even have anything to do with the thread. Smh and lmao

20 minutes ago, George Catcher said:

Other threads are here:

Ramming Galley

Majestic Kraken

Mortar Ship

Just few words before I start.

Well... you know. After I've got this ship I... was kinda got that this WONT be a sailing game of my dream. I was thinking about something like Pirates of Caribbean, piracy and sailing age romance and all that king of stuff. I've enjoyed old Russian "Corsairs" game so much back of the days. And I was dreaming about getting modern MMO game like this. But with all 4 modular ships I can clearly see - it's just gonna go totally different style. More like fantasy world, with orcs and elves, dragons, magic etc. 

Not what I wish for. So... this season probably be my last one here. I've enjoyed the game, especially at the beginning, with all survival and exploration stuff, but... I just don't wanna THIS. I wish to ride some fast Caravelle or Corvette ship, to serve some fraction, hunt pirates, escort trade expedition, explore the world... or... to be a pirate. Not just pick sausage-like ship called turtle, and fight disco-rave damned ship with jet engines...

It's nothing wrong with this concept. It's just I don't want it...

I'll test Turtle ship anyway.

Oh and my advanced shipyard didn't have this ship in menu. I had to remove this shipyard and build the same one. Only after that I've got turtle ship icon there.

Basics

It's same wide as schooner (wider ships just won't fit advanced shipyard) and twice longer.

It has... you wait for it:

- 4500 basic weight. With no sails - you'll get your empty ship 92.5% loaded. If you put crew there, it'll just sink.

It has 4.0 sails points and your only option in the beginning is to put weight sails. It has 2 small and 1 mid weight sails by default and It gives you 9000 basic weight (around 40% of ship load).

YOU CAN NOT PUT THERE A LARGE SAIL. Because this ship is just not allows you to do so. It shows "no snap point" message. So in the beginning your best option will be to put there 2 mid weight sails. It'll give you 9750 basic weight. Then If you wanna do faster setup, you'll have to spend like 20 points to weight, and replace weightsails with speed sails.

- Empty ship with 2 mid weight sails brings you 5-6 knots full speed. You wanna sail half atlas? Prepare to waste 5-6 hours for that. The slowest ship ever.

- It has 24 crew capacity. With 20 cannons 3 default sails and you - it has all your basics needs.

RAW Stuff

It's not just small hole for ladder between decks. Here the ladder is moved a bit, so you have to jump if you go up.

Basic masts graphic is like that. But if you replace sails, all goes to normal.

Paint... errr... just don't paint it.

Hitbox feels weird. It can't handle shallow waters same as mortar ship, but I sail through pier and pillars like there is nothing there:

Steering wheel in low deck. Masts in upper deck. So manual sails control is tricky. But here you also protected from cold weather and tornadoes.

Gunports.

Alright. By default this ship has:

20 cannons (8 each side. 2 in front pointing forward. 2 in back pointing backward).

32 gunports (12 each side. 4 in front pointing forward. 4 in back pointing backward).

So we have 12 gunports without cannons. Unfortunately you can't equip empty gunports, because cannon replacement still broken.

Now. We can't do anything with gunports in front and real castles. But those 16 gunports on board sides, can be turned to:

- up to 16 double gunports (which increases amount of gunports up to 48 but amount of cannons up to 36. 16 each side and 2 front and back).

- up to 16 oar modules.

- up to 16 regular planks.

But with all those options, those parts will loose their armor.

Only single cannon gunport brings armor to itself here.

Also this spiked shell roof count as "railing" but you can't replace this one with railing modules like catapult or so...

Armor.

Most of default part has armor stat on them.

- Castles has 10 000 hp and 15 600 armor.

- Gunports has 7500 hp and 15 000 armor.

- Railing has 5000 hp and 15 600 armor.

You can fix usual HP with patches.

You can fix armor only in your advanced shipyard (you need to move your ship there), with green anchored stat, using special hammer and armor patches. Armor patch cost the same as usual but instead of wood you need to use metall.

Usual patch requires 100 fib + 120 thch + 200 wood.

Armor patch requires 100 fib + 120 thch + 200 metall.

Imagine your ship have all parts to 0 hp and all armor to 0 as well (and it didn't sink for some reason). To repair them all with patches you'll need overall:

- 53 500 fibers.

- 64 200 thatches.

- 32 000 wood.

- 75 000 metall.

So this ship is most expensive ship in terms of maintenance.

There is a hit there tho. Instead of repairing board side modules you can just replace them with new one. Each costs just 20+40+60 wood+thtch+fib and it'll brings you full repaired parts : ))

I'll continue this thread later. I'll move it to open seas and see what my adventure brings. But... well, it's gonna be a bit difficult for me. I just don't have any inspiration to do so...

Stay tuned anyway.

Good job as always man and very informative.

so it is the slowest ship with the highest maintenance cost? Smh

so are they just making prebuilt ships now? Lol

they just keep shitting the bed.

Well the time has come and atlas has reached the 1000 club. Just now they hit 999.6 average. A very big milestone of the future. For a long time there it seemed like it would never go below 1400 because the same people usually joined back in each update. Last update went to 1108 so it was pretty close but with no date for the release of the next update we can be sure we will see even lower than 999.6

welcome to the 1000 club guys. This is your new home.

15 hours ago, igame1979 said:

questions will there still be a restart of the server if so when

A wipe always happens with the update. As far as when nobody knows and they are usually late anyways. But yes a restart will happen. You can be sure of that.

5 hours ago, Kast said:

Where did they mention the next update? Also, I'm pretty sure that spiders are ride-able now since I've ridden one this season - granted, I might just have been drunk and imagined that.

It is the “sneek peek” they have in the main area. Literally showed a hanging plant, spikes on the floor and a dude on a spider. 
 

oh it’s called the teaser on here. It was a sneek peek on Twitter lol

wither way it was pretty pathetic 

1 hour ago, lemand81 said:

I promised I am not trolling, I really enjoy Atlas I played it from launch to the second wipe on officials, then I went back to Ark.  But I decided to give it a try and there are some improvements and some not so cool changes(looking at you gold cost for schooner).  But I I am looking at the notes and social media(what I can find) and it feels like they have abandoned this project which is terrible because there was so much promise.  Maybe I am missing the activity and there is lots coming?  Please tell me.  Part of revisiting this game is because it was a favorite of a good friend of mine who died this year, so I wanted to sail again, but I don't see as much progress as I had hoped but maybe there is more to come?

Yeah they are pretty much done. The summer update is now going to be a spring update and it is going to be a bad one. Some decorations, spikes and riding a spider.

theu will also probably change the map and do another wipe so I wouldn’t bother playing right now because it will be gone soon anyways.

player counts are at an all time low and every wipe, even though it brings people back that number keeps getting smaller and the decrease keeps getting bigger.

so yeah, even though they aren’t technically done , they are done.

7 hours ago, YourUncle said:

Definitely the second option, or maybe less. I just feel like 5k for a schooner is absurd.

Yeah they aren’t going to change it. They will probably be abandoning this pile pretty soon.

Typical grapeshot. They are truly failures.

4 hours ago, InfernaDeus said:

Does anyone have any bot/twitter/anything that will let me know the second they wipe?

No. They will announce when the update is coming and what time you can download the update. You won’t be able to join until you are finished downloading which is usually a pretty big file. The fastest internet wins. 
 

that is also if they don’t crash the game with the new update and people have to wait a couple days to play which has happened. If that happens they will give you multiple times about when the servers will be back up but they usually get that wrong as well. Plus once it is finally up you will be fast asleep. Happens to people all the time.

make sure not to take vacation for it because that is always the most stupid thing anyone can do with these guys. Lots of wasted vacation have happened for some people.

I wouldn’t bother trying to be first on because it almost never happens 

Wow. Lol. Decorations, spider riding and spikes. Hmmmm.

I definitely won’t say it is the worst update but..... pretty lame.

nothing on the map changing which I am sure they will because that is all they can do, as well as the incoming wipe. Even though people don’t like wipes they also don’t like barely over 1000 people either lmao.

we can still see the sails sticking out of the water but the hull is fully submerged

1029 average. Wow there is only 47 people on na pvp.

think we might have to start a raid to 1000 thread since that is a true milestone for gaming. A lot of people in the past said it would never reach 1000 but with no update in sight I believe it is going to happen. And new world got pushed back which means grapeshot has to wait to do an update as well. They will truly be the worst once they hit 1000.

7 hours ago, igame1979 said:

especially stop resetting the games because if that happens I stop playing and I was there from the beginning

Another wipe is coming within a month of two.

9 hours ago, IndianaJane1 said:

Hello everyone. I'm looking, and struggling, to find feedback on Series X and S Atlas performance. I may not be looking at the right place, but if anyone could tell me how it handles new gen it would be cool. While i'm waiting for a Series X to be available, i'm considering buying a Series S but i would like to be sure that there's a massive improvement versus my One X.

Thanks !

Well the game is fatally flawed as it is so the improvement might not be that noticeable. They really didn’t do a good job making this game.

16 hours ago, Grayson said:

What petty asshole decided to kick from the atlas discord and ban me from it?  What didn’t like my opinions? 

There are some SJW’s over there lol I have known many people to get kicked from their discord. The rules he or more relaxed as well as Reddit. Careful on Twitter as well.

4 hours ago, monkguru said:

Just because a wipe always brought back pop for ark doesn't mean it's going to happen here. Each wipe has brought less and more disappear even faster each wipe. Not everyone wants a mega experience with all the control freaks. Not everyone has that kind of time. If your developing a persistent mmo, then it is just that. Stop spreading rumors just so you can watch the game die. If you don't enjoy the game simply leave. I for one enjoy the peace as a small company and still have the option for PvP on occasion. Either way whomever is right is irrelevant. How are you contributing to the community? By arguing about what is or is not going to kill the game all the while admitting nothing will save it? No, not toxic at all.

There is no competition because of lack of balance. Cannot please everyone all the time.

White knighting does contribute one bit. They do however need to know they are doing a crappy job which they are. Also, if they continue on the path they are going they will continue to fail. They don’t need to hear “good job” because they haven’t ever done one. This isn’t elementary school where they pass out participation trophies. This is the real world.

hey devs, best advice you can get. Anytime you ever have any idea no matter how big or how small, automatically do the opposite and then and only then will you do a good job. Don’t even think about making a new map again. Nobody asked for it and that is the only thing you have done. How about surprise everyone and have an update that fixes all the bugs. Like all of them. You wouldn’t even have to add anything and people would be happy.

but no, I am sure we will just get another shitty map nobody asked for. Smh.

3 hours ago, Pattus said:

The wipes ALWAYS bring players back for a while.  Right now the servers are pretty dead.  In PVP we got 3-4 megas who basically pick everyone else apart for absolutely no reason whatsoever.  They all got full mythic ships, and a sinking anyone on site.  They wave at each other in passing.  Pretty much all of the megas are 'allied' and hungry for PVP.  So what do you do?  Grow renters and sacrifice them rather that face each other.  They've all become ***holes.

Nah that just means they are pussies and are not hungry for PVP lmao. Even when the game first came out I said this is where “pvpers” with no skill in pvp games go to feel good about themselves lmao. That is why Megas don’t fight each other. These are the losers that don’t like real competition and just want to grieve people because it’s easy. It is pretty pathetic to say the least.

and yes the numbers are actually at an all time low since release but that is because the game is a failure.

3 hours ago, monkguru said:

Right, I'm the one who thinks he special, posting shit all up and down the forum. Gave me a good laugh though. Hey, find a doctor, they have medication for your behavior. Sometimes toxic people just need to be banned. But you go ahead and think its something else.

You must be confused. The sunshine and rainbows went out the door 2 years ago. Maybe we can get CNN in here to give a fluff piece lmao.

game has been failing all along and nothing will ever change that. Once again, there have been plenty or poor or stupid people that think they have the perfect solution. Same old same old.

Well we officially made it to another all time low. Before last wipe we needed at 1108 average and not we are at 1096. Once we reach the 1k average mark it will really be pathetic to say the least.

with talk of them “changing the map” again that just really shows how worthless these guys are. None of the map changes were ever wanted and they just play by the heat of their own drum. I am pretty sure these guys have delusions of grandeur and every time they get a new idea they always think it is the next big thing lol

sorry guys the new big thing in new world and you definitely didn’t think of it. You didn’t really think of atlas either. Ark players wanted a water world map and your idea was to make it a stand alone so you could squeeze more money out of them. That was the real idea you had.

with numbers this low of you took all official servers and unofficial servers there would not even be an average of 1 person per server. Now when people come to the forums to talk about problems with single player I can’t tell if they are talking about online or offline. Smh

you guys are truly sad.