Charles U Farley

Sometimes it´s hard to accept you made a mistake. but wildshot-grapecard could now show us real greatness by simply accept the fact that they messed up their own game and just remove this dodo-poo idea like atari got rid of their E.T. game. A little shame on them would be quite appropriate.

Just now, Dragoon14th said:

they need to re do the classes anyway as they have have too many variables that are not in use on every single one of them for example On animals they have the vitamin ABCD as variables.   And I dont see a damn thing that makes them different from players.   they use hte same set up tamed wild alpha etc.   for each variable that are not in use on a Blueprint just Add more saved data onto the game that doesnt need to be there.  I cant see what in the parent class of those BP to see the blueprint events to see whats going on.  But it depends on how they have it set up.   I know from in Dark n light dev kit I belive they use the same stuff?  I was able to see stuff... and my god they used event tick on everything.... that really bad.... because that mean that Every frame tick it was updating variable and checking variable.   It was strange to be honest.   Id would have changed it from every event tick to Signaling when an action has been done .... im sure you know the... different between Input -> action... And The need to Check every frame (did I press A) boolean -> action

 

Those are examples that ive seen personally.   And i did a test a couple of times in UE4 and that was Avoid event tick at all cost instead change it to a dispatcher/callable so that input call action instead of Ticking checking input.  Those are just examples also there a really good Video that explains what i mean by Parenting child and actor component.  (://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNjuA6yhO8)  Sorry i dont want to add the forum with youtube vid but basically he goes indepth of how he retooled his game to be remotely easier and accessiable as well as being able to use important component to determine the Blueprint actor actions

 

Please don´t get me wrong DRAGOON14TH. You are absolutely right that there could be a huge performance increase transforming the project. But the amount of time to do it and the problem that a lot of dependencies are useless for Atlas(and a lot would be necessary but a lot of work to do) is too time consuming and cause of that too expensive.

And yes you are right, DnL used a very early ARK build and they got rid of the Problem soon, btw that is a perfect example that there is no simple converting of projects. 

I´m on unity, sorry.

I get your point, but this way you will only have it on a new engine but you will poorly benefit from it. And i doubt that this will work with a project this big without messing the classes completely up.

I think you are aware of the fact, that this would have meant to start coding from scratch. There is no such thing as simple retooling when changing the engine. This game just wouldn´t exist cause no one would pay the costs for it.

Just now, Dragoon14th said:

Player age is exactly what you just described 

ok, i understand. why should they do it the simple way if there is a complicated and annoying way to do too.

2 minutes ago, Dragoon14th said:

Here a reason for ya if a player is deem inactive for a long time then the Age will slowly erase his data therefore marking Ship/bases own by him would be much easier to take over.   AS i believe the real reason behind age mechanic.  Is to introduce Player decay rate.  So without a sleeping body being there that mean its get easier to take over old bases and such to allow new player to step in... Omg that like real life lol.  

So why not simply remove the player after a period of time?

18 minutes ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

Version 8 had this:

- Ships near shore do not attract cyclones anymore

Somewhere between v8 and v15 that got reverted as I constantly get cyclones hitting the shore now.

The same way they sneaky came back with the SOTD, but now in an overkill way. If this is on purpose, i think they hate us players, if it is not on purpose they just don´t care about us players. Can´t tell which is worse.

13 minutes ago, darcek said:

I vote to keep foy mechanic as is. What needs to be fixed is the server crushing under large amount of users connected, all the technical bugs giving people with bad internet connection or low settings and also nerf Sod attacking helpless people coming from other zone with gun less ships. 

Server crashing due to too many players on one server can not be "fixed", it´s inherent in the system. The used netcode is not intended for so many players. The only fix is to remove that mechanism cause there is no way making it work. Beside that this FOY thing is utterly useless nonsense and adds nothing to the game.

Maybe this works: delete the content of this folder: steamapps\common\ATLAS\ShooterGame\Saved\LocalProfiles

I have to correct you with this: "This game is using the same engine as ARK,thats all."

When you start an unreal 4 project it´s called "shooter game" the project is then a part of a C++ project where you can put your unreal blueprints and connect them. I the case of Atlas it is a two year old ARK build as basis with all the gameplay relevant connections. The did NOT start a new unreal project, they took a previous ARK build. That is the reason why a lot of things are bugged, cause if you have a project this big it is very difficult to have all relevant instances in sight. You can´t just change something anywhere cause all is connected in any way.

A project this big would drive me mad. It´s like flying a 747 blind with no arms and no clue of flying a plane.

2. no they are not tamable, if the devs have not forgotten to remove this like they did in ARK extinction. There you could tame high level wolfs till they fixed it.

Just now, Forb Hidden said:

I've played over 600h in ark...

And all together over 3000h in alpha survivel games.

And "spoiled" is the word, google translated me into. But when I write in German, no one would read it.

k

7 minutes ago, Forb Hidden said:

Each of this posts increases my hope to find a beautiful landscape to claim

Thx to all the people who don't have the patience to wait for the change or fix.

And never forget: u are able to play a game, who is not finished yet for a lousy deep price. 10 years ago we payed up to 100.- for games, who had not a handfull of this content here and they were finished. No dlc's, no add ons - they were done.

Most of you are just spoiled too much and u have to learn about patience and understanding to the devs. They're working day by day hard (I hope^^) for us guys to serve a good game.

I guess you´ve never been into ARK, aren´t you? I whish i had the kind of optimism you still seem to have. I don´t want to offend you, but what makes a lot of people angry is, that the dev team is making the same mistakes over and over again for years now. I don´t think this has anything to do with being spoiled (little rude to call some spoiled btw), to hope the game moves in a good direction.

And never forget: all this players who complain about the game in this forum don´t do this just for killing time. They actually play the game and just feel like the game needs a little push in the right direction from time to time. And to tolerate the concerns of others is the opposite of calling them spoiled!

The real submarines atm are the developers. It´s very unpolite to fart that loud and stinky it annoys everyone, and then go on a submarine dive. tststs.

Bump.

They build another booby trap with this crap and the consequences in gameplay are a mess and the lost control over it.

Cause this is about grapeshots behavior: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

sadly i think the sorcerer has left

Just to keep this topic up. FOY broke the game even more than SOTD.

(SOTD)I still don´t understand why they invented them, then nerfed them to have them now back even more annoying?!

Just now, Lukas1987 said:

I am ready to go with my empty schooner,sitting here on this forum and refreshing to see if people found it somewhere closer as i am far in b9. 

most stupid game concept ever! Even Ataris E.T. game had more potential!

I couldn´t agree more!

I think someone left his sloop one hour in a freeport.

How about TEK stuff? But you only get the TEK stuff on one secret place on the map where all players meet at once and you only can do the quest with the age of 23 years and a milk bucket in the right, let me repeat this, RIGHT hand! Sound unrealistic, i don´t think so.

I didn´t, sorry about that. It´s just a bore.

a root canal treatment is more fun than doing the FOY!

I totally agree with you! The point is, it is not impossible to do this FOY crap and get the buff, but where is the fun doing that? It´s like doing the tax declaration, i have to do it but i guess there is no one, accept mentally challenged people, who has any fun doing it. It´s just half baked utterly useless bullshit.

And sneaky putting back the SOTD the sledgehammer method makes me wonder if they like their own game?

Just now, Heilos said:

You did indeed pay for the game, and you received a receipt in your email just like you would have if you'd gotten that bank charge in your example. For notices that do not take effect against you specifically and affect their service, they use their OFFICIAL twitter account, thus you are being notified via OFFICIAL channels. Now you know it exists, feel free to add it to your bookmarks in case you want to check for future notices.

wait,i thought twitter is a private company run by jack dorsey? So the are a public institution now? interesting, thanx for the info.

wait a second, i get pizza and beer and have some friends over, to watch our favorite trolls doing their business.

4 minutes ago, Gfnjr said:

So you're on the official website you click one link to go where they supposedly should have their updates.   That exact same amount of time you could click up top and read what you are desired.  Explain to me what I don't get?

There are internet users, like me, who refuse any use of sites like twitter, Facebook, Instagram and so on, you name it. And we do that for a good reason. My u Matrix does a good job blocking all content of such sites and i´m not willing to put exceptions in my script blocker just to read the Atlas news if there is an OFFICIAL WEBSITE. If twitter would be the only possibility, so be it and i would not argue. But it is not.

Could i help you with this answer?