Faicorf

No... they have over 300 hours in-game... The post was stating they had 15 MORE hours than the troll they were feeding. I'm not even sure if I'm spoon feeding you at this point... You can't read and link together 2 posts from the same person..

The community is toxic because we feel insulted by the developers, the toxic community is not driving players away, poor/lazy developers ignoring player feedback and thinking they know it all is whats killing this game. The toxic community is very quickly becoming an angry community, due to how we are being treated by the devs. We do not expect to have the say on what goes into the game, but we DO expect to at least be listened to when telling them what they have done is fu**ked and not working as they intended. A lot of us are beginning to think they do not do any testing at all.

I am pleased that other people are using the forums to vent their frustration about the lack of interest in player feedback and how the devs are acting extremely poor in general, but I feel the need to warn you, such topics so far do not grab the attention of the devs, even when worded politely, calmly and very well constructed as yours is, I applaud you for this. I just want to stress your final point even more. PLEASE GRAPESHOT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ACTUALLY START LISTENING TO OUR FEEDBACK REGARDING IN GAME ISSUES, BECAUSE IT IS BLATANTLY APPARENT YOU DO NEXT TO NO TESTING/NO TESTING AT ALL ON YOUR FEATURES IN GAME. INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO ADD TO YOUR MASSIVE LIST OF FEATURE CREEP, TAKE OUR FEEDBACK ON BOARD. HALT THE PRODUCTION OF NEW FEATURES THAT WILL NOT WORK AS INTENDED, AND FOCUS ON FIXING THE MAJOR GAME BREAKING BUGS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION COUNTLESS TIMES NOW. THE FACT YOU OUTRIGHT IGNORED US IN YOUR DEV STREAM, HAD THE AUDACITY TO CALL IT A LIVE Q+A, THEN EVEN WENT AS FAR AS TO ADMIT YOU ARE READING TWITCH CHAT UPON THE MENTION OF AGING AND ITS NOT PRE-RECORDED (OUT RIGHT ADMITTING YOU WERE JUST CHOOSING TO IGNORE OUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE CURRENT CHEATING ISSUE). WE WERE NOT EXPECTING ANY KIND OF IMMEDIATE ACTION TO BE TAKEN WITHOUT THOROUGH INVESTIGATION. HOWEVER, WE DO EXPECT YOU TO AT LEAST GIVE US A RESPONSE WHEN 80% OF THE TWITCH CHAT WAS DEMANDING ANSWERS. THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE DISREGARDED FEEDBACK AND BLATANT IGNORING OF YOUR COMMUNITY, WE DO NOT JUST FEEL ANGRY, WE FEEL DOWN RIGHT INSULTED! YOU HAVE ALREADY PROVEN WHAT YOU THINK WOULD WORK OR BE COOL TO HAVE FAILS EVERY!, SINGLE!, TIME!. SO FOR ONCE, IN YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE AS A COMPANY STOP IGNORING FEEDBACK AND DOING WHAT YOU FEEL IS BEST IN YOUR EXTREMELY LIMITED NUMBER OF EYES AND LISTEN TO THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO PLAY YOUR GAME AND MAKE IT BETTER INSTEAD OF FIGHTING THEM TO STROKE YOUR OWN EGOS. THERE ARE SOME MANY OF US THAT WANT THIS GAME TO BE THE GREATEST MMO THERE IS (I AM ONE OF THEM) BUT WE ARE SICK TO DEATH OF HAVING TO FIGHT YOU DEVELOPERS AND YOUR P**S POOR DECISIONS BASED ON NOTHING BUT YOUR OWN FLAWED MINDSET TLDR: STOP FIGHTING US AND START LISTENING, OR ACCEPT THE FACT YOUR GAME WILL NOT SURVIVE PAST A YEAR, NOT BECAUSE OF THE GAME IS BAD, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS YOU PLAYER BASE.

After numerous people told Grapeshot they wanted other tamable animals to be buffed like the elephant, Grapeshot decides to completely disregard all of that feedback, and decide to Nerf the elephant instead.. Seriously, why even ask for our feedback if you are just going to blatantly ignore it?? https://gyazo.com/6165bef71d3759416a57bdab79d3d55b

Certainly not Grapeshot, we know that much!

This is why I did not address the "Chinese" directly, as I know there are assholes all over the world abusing this system, my only problem with the Chinese/Asians is that they do not have their own server, which they desperately need. as their connections affect everybody on the server. PVP is basically reality, you will always encounter assholes who just want to belittle,destroy, steal and all sorts of other "unwelcome" activities, I will never complain about players activities in PVP (unless they are actually exploiting mechanics and such) as I hardheartedly expect people to be assholes in PVP, that's why I avoid it, until I am good enough at the game to fight back. But PVE is a place where we are supposed to be free from these problems, I understand it is EA and these things need to be found to be rectified, but the whole point of PVE is to not have to deal with toxic aggressive players, and play against the environment, instead of other players. It's just saddening to know that people are purposely hurting the game and its player base in PVE just to be assholes, and nothing more.

I am far from a fan boy of this game, I am furious with how the devs how handled the launch and all the issues that came with it, not to mention how they have handled the recent black butterfly debacle. I have extremely little faith in the dev team, so come on and try again claiming i'm a fan boy. If you don't like something, don't use it, there is nothing childish about saying that.. Would you constantly eat food you didn't like? would you constantly attend sporting events of which you don't like the sport? I am not being toxic, I am responding to how you worded your post. (cant be bothered to sail = fault of your own part) (choosing where to set up base = your choice/your fault) you chose to set up there, nobody forced you to. I don't care how many hours you have in ARK, you cant be bothered to put in the effort, so that comes down to you being either A). Lazy, or B). you have a care bear entitled attitude towards games in which you feel you should be rewarding for doing anything that required next to no effort what so ever. Your decisions create your experience in this game, for instance, which island you attempt to build on, your choice. If the game does not interest you, despite you not going out to actually find something to do, then you have only your self to blame. And why even mention the fact that you are female, that information is completely irrelevant to your little crying rant of you can't be bothered to put any effort in. Were you hoping to get some sympathy points because you have a pair of breasts or something? And responding to your remarks about you being toxic, I said "it seems you are not bored, just lazy"..key words there "IT SEEMS" you know, that is just an opinion based on how you worded your little rant, if you don't want people to get that impression, maybe you should look at how you worded your post and word it differently. You then turn around and call me a "pathetic fanboy" and then have the audacity to complain about the toxicity of the community in the breath as throwing insults at somebody who didn't agree with you. So tell me, who is the toxic one here? When you just insulted somebody for posting their opinion based on your poorly worded rant (if the impression I got is not what you intended to portray, then yes, it is poorly worded... God forbid you take responsibility for any of your actions, Miss "Female gamer who games a lot..".), If you got offended by somebody calling you lazy for you not wanting to put the time in, what would you rather me say? "don't worry princess ill gather your mats for you?" "let me spend my time playing for you because you don't want to put your own time in?" I guess you really were hoping for sympathy points for being female.. So again, if you do not like this game, do not play it.. It is more childish to think you are entitled to demand things change because YOU are bored (cant be bothered to do anything) So lose your self entitled attitude and either play the game, or don't stop expecting people to cater to your lack of drive and initiative.. TLDR: Either put the work in and play the game, or don't play it, It is as simple as that. I don't play games I don't like, SHOCKER ISN'T IT!... It is not childish to tell somebody to stop doing something they don't like, it is childish to expect a company to change something solely because YOU don't like it or can't be arsed to rectify your poor decisions on where to establish your base .. smell the coffee and calm down sweetheart your entitled attitude is showing..Take responsibility for your own decisions and stop expecting the world to cater to you.

Whether the devs want to believe it or not, there is extreme balancing issues regarding wild animals, and this doesn't even include alphas.. I realize this is not a bug but a balancing issue , but Jat himself said on stream something needs like 200 up-votes to even be considered, after myself and many, many, MANY other players have posted here, on Reddit, on discord and tweeted devs directly about this problem, maybe its time we used this voting system to show just how many of us believe these creatures are pretty much hindering a lot of early game progression. this was a problem for a group of 2 of us, so playing solo will make it almost impossible to progress. 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(also heard of them keeping up with a sloop, can not confirm though.), 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, or do not travel 500 miles out of range so you instantly aggro again upon respawn, 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 supposed 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?

As sarcastic as he is being, he makes an extremely valid point. By added new features without fixing existing problems, they are only going to create more problems for the pile. In turn creating more reasons for players to lose interest in a game with features, mechanics and content that doesn't work as intended.

This is the problem with this game, it is the only EA game I've heard of that has had so many major updates, that it's at v14 in just 27 days after launch, for comparison 7 Days to Die just released v17.1 today and that came out in December 2013. I understand the game is EA, but the amount of stuff that's broken or just not balanced at all, makes me think a lot of values were just face slammed into the keyboard and not given any thought what so ever. not to mention the fact that their PVE servers are not safe from PVP. I accept server performance and login issues, as even AAA games have this problem at launch. But so many broken features, this game was released WAAY to early that it is actually damaging the games reputation by the amount of issues affecting the game that simply should not be there, even in an EA game. In regard to the topic of taxation. I find it very acceptable, if somebody wants to take the resources from MY LAND then I want a cut of it, why should i lose all the resource on my property on a PVE server because somebody just showed up and harvested it all who had no claim to it what so ever.. In PVP I expect this to happen as it gives you reason to build defenses and barriers, and also incites battles for land if a certain island has a good amount and variety of resources. It is basically no different to renting out a building for somebody to own a shop, you own the building, but for a price allow somebody else to use it.. that is co-operating...

You do realize people in the free ports is what caused the first problem with this game? it sounds to me that you are just not interested in the main part of this game, building up. This mechanic is no different to every survival game ever made. It also seems like you are not bored.. You are just too lazy to put some work in to fix your poor decision of setting up base where there are no resources, where did you expect your resources to come from on an island with none? just like every other game, you need to put the time and effort in to progress, if not, then i suggest you find something else to play.

I can appreciate your point, but this is why there are PVP servers, if they want to harass other players, then goto a PVP server, that is literally what they are for. I can understand the point of "using" them to find bugs, but at what cost? how many players are going to leave the game because they constantly get PVP'd on a PVE server, because personally, that would make me stop playing due to the fact of whats the point in playing a peaceful server if it is not peaceful at all. It just makes you think what is the point of building up, if your stuff is not safe as it should be and can be destroyed/sunk by blatant greifers.

Are specific resources needed? (such as hardwood or softwood instead of the standard wood resource?) I've been unable to play for the past 2 weeks so cant remember the resources required.

Ok thanks for that. All I saw from their stream was nothing but feature creep of stuff the majority of people didn't care about ( like cosmetic skins and such) when I feel the majority of us now want stuff in game to be fixed before they add more problems to the pile.

In that case I think its quite a good idea, as the sea is quite unforgiving as it is, and some form of protection would not go unwelcome.

Are you suggesting the window for shooting out of be in the cage or the submarine? (sorry if this is a stupid question, it is quite late here lol) cause I feel a shark cage would be better suited than a diving cage(or is that what you are meaning?) to allow arrows and such to pass through to kill underwater creatures. Cage would be able to be attacked by underwater creatures meaning there is good reason for such a feature, (you need to defend your cage, otherwise there would be zero danger for going underwater imo)

Did they say if these bans took place after all the events from yesterday, regarding people spawning whales on ships and other things. Or where these bans put forward before yesterday? I missed the part when they said they banned 300 people. so disregard my above post regarding the cheating.

That spamming was people wanting them to address the issue of cheaters within the game, which they never did address as far as i'm aware, it is hardly being children when we want answers to such a serious issue and their response to that, was banning the question instead of taking 10 seconds to answer it, They admitted to reading twitch chat, so they chose to ignore 80% of their stream that had legitimate concerns about the integrity of the game. If they did address this in the short amount of time I missed of the stream, then disregard my reply, but if I'm correct and they did not. It shows an extreme lack of respect for their community. Not to mention the fact they said they "dont know" why people have an issue with wild creatures, which means they are ignoring all the feedback from every post mentioning (there are ample posts on the official forums providing this feedback, I have made one of these posts myself and also brought it up in the official discord) them being overpowered, which was being brought up since launch..Which considering it is up to us that their game survives, is an extremely poor move.

I mentioned this back before the new year to a staff member of grapeshot in their official atlas discord called "Evza" or "Ezva" (Cant remember the name correctly) and their response was, and I quote: "I don't think there is anything wrong with the wild animals" I don't think this team actually attempted to balance any of these things and just slammed their face into the keyboard to set base values..

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..

Same problem with crocodiles, they can out run a raft going with the wind and just pile out top of your raft making it impossible to spawn. Doesn't help that everytime you go any where near an island, you agro 7 of them and die instantly.