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1 hour ago, mgsgta3 said:

I see so many posts about "if this doesnt happen, this game is dead!" or "this games dying because of this thing!".... and This is like Deja Vu.  Did you guys not learn when you said the same thing about Ark every update and had a 0 batting average by the end of it? You CANNOT will things to happen just because you say it will.

Early Access. It's a great concept ruined by peoples lack of ability to comprehend and act/react accordingly to what those two words mean. The game is not dead, nor dying. It's not even born yet, It's not even through its first trimester. In one month it has grown and changed significantly,  and in another month it will have changed and grown quite a bit. Sometimes you will hate the changes, sometimes you will like them. It will change regardless, and in 2 years~ when it releases it will be almost nothing like it is now in most regards. How do those changes take place? Through trial and error, trying risky ideas or sometimes even implementing things that are disliked across the board but necessary(flyer nerf in Ark). When you took your mothers credit card and bought this game you made an agreement that you understood that this game is in its earliest stages, that things will change, and bugs will happen a lot. So stop decrying the game to be dead every damn update. lol Use your words like big boys and give insightful, mature, and constructive feedback to the devs. Effective information that they can actually use. When you berate the devs and are little prophets of hate and doom you know what you'll get? Devs that wont communicate with the community less than they do now. Look at Ark.  If you're such a prodigy of game development then why are you armchair coaching and not making a better Atlas?...Ah, that's what I thought.
It's sad because A lot of those people who left bad reviews are still plugging away hours each day, and post negative and useless information to the devs, and all I can think is that there should be an application process for playing EA games, 

tl;dr Ohhh another "Atlas is dying" prophet. Youre not getting your way, I understand.  I sympathize, truly, and If you listen closely you can hear me playing the worlds tiniest violin just for you.
There should be a vetting of players that want to play EA games, and ways to revoke that privilege. 
That would make the whole process so much better by only having people who earn the privilege and can keep it.

Those days are gone... they were called Alpha Testing, and Closed Beta Testers... You used to have to sign a NDA to participate and submit a tester resume.   If you violated any terms of the testing you could be removed and replaced.  

This is Early Access which is a "legal" way for game companies to charge for the game before it is released.

On 1/23/2019 at 1:31 AM, WolfOfOdin said:

Since they won't do it. I would like to request an optimization mod as this game runs like hot shit despite more than meeting the requirements.

edit your cfg file in the game settings there is a complete right up on how to do it and a youtube video.  I changed mine gained close to 20fps and the game doesn't look any worse than the low settings I had it on.

1 hour ago, Talono said:

What does it mean if you see an enemy dragon approaching your multi-layer well defended honeycomb base ?

Basically it means you can look for a new MMO to play.

Honestly I would rather see the dragon coming to my base than some of the Chinese hackers.... at least the Dragon can be killed.

Just like EVE online.. bounties are pointless.  But a great way to make money on carebears who want to believe it works.

1 minute ago, Faicorf said:

Would literally rather shit in my hands and clap right now than play this abysmal piece of shit game.

This says a lot on how you feel about the game currently.  The visual image of this is just magic.  Thank you for putting into words what I think many of us feel.  

I am preparing for my next project... 400 small wooden pill boxes EVERYWHERE.   Sure they will be easy to kill but that requires you to get close enough with a fire arrow to do it or a cannon.   I am just going to build them in random spots in the middle of the ocean using pillars.  They will be built in protest.   

1 hour ago, AscendedPrime said:

Hello everyone, comrades, tell me for what period of time does the wind make a full turn?

It varies, it doesnt really make a regular turn.  It is based on weather and region.   

Like where I live it mostly comes from the WNW to ESE.

Great work, and it shows something...

PVE is less popular than PVP.

5 minutes ago, Jean Lafitte said:

Well, I guess I should feel lucky. I mean I can use berries to tame... provided I don't mind using 50 bolas and wasting an hour to do it.  But I'm sure that'll be rectified just as soon as they make paste and metal a requirement to make bolas too. (Shit I should stop giving them ideas *sigh*)

You dude I heard you like paste, so I made it so you have to have paste to make your paste.  -Grapeshot

5 minutes ago, Jean Lafitte said:

Oh so wrong.  We have ummm berries. Out the ass we have berries! Oh wait, nvm.

Where I was at we have potatoes... oh the potatoes.

2 minutes ago, Astiria said:

There are valuable resources tho in Siberia, which makes industries go there to exploit them, if atleast Tundra would have something unique that you could trade for SAP it would make sense, but what are people in Tundra supposed to trade, all the basic mats, inlcuding metal are way more accessible in the central regions, Tundra has nothing of value, expect a bit of land those who got shafted at the beginning call home.

I think they should make oil and metal more plentiful in tundra and deserts, to promote a reason to live there.. but keep the lack of sap a thing there.  

Tropics should have large amounts of sap and fiber, but low amounts of metal and oil.

Temperate should have a little bit of everything.. making it ideal as a jack of all but master of none.   

1 hour ago, Gönndyr Meergold said:

tell your grid I come around with a single swivel horse to sink all your fleet over night and I promise you can do nothing about it doesn't matter how many peeps you have online.

Its okay, I didnt lose all of my ships to an overnight attack but due to a middle of the day attack.  Its okay, I was going to rebuild one of them and sink the other two anyway.. no big deal.

5 hours ago, Lilith said:

The stupid thing is, they want less structures for better performance. But if you want to protect your base you have to build more layers of walls and more Gates. So that last changes are idiotic. A Wall is down after 9 hits with canon. This is way to week. And it is unfair for Companies who started to build.

Next Question Tropic has Sugar, Desert has Salt what has Tundra an Polar? Nothing you cant find in Tropic and Desert. Nice Balance.

Well they are meant to be harsh.   I dont mind that tundra doesnt have sap, same for the desert.   There isn't a lot in the tundra in real life, this is why Siberia is a miserable place.   Same goes for the desert, not much industry in the Sahara.   

1 minute ago, Shintai said:

Problem with Atlas is despite saying it´s something new, they still keep revert to ARK mechanics. And if people want to play ARK they just play ARK instead.

Alphas, the mandatory elephant, bear, rhino etc and so on. Big ship construction requires a zoo.

I dont even call them animals.. I call them bulldozers.  

7 hours ago, George Catcher said:

 

 

I would say - game DO NOT REWARD players for anything. I mean... I'm 1lvl, in my underwear, I go ashore and being killed by a lvl2 wolf right? After a month I lvl50 with yellow plate armor I go ashore a-a-a-a-and... being killed by a lvl2 wolf.

So what's the point of lvl growing? Yes I can open more structures I can do more "SIMS 2" stuff but... what about adventures? I can spend hours and hours of gathering resources and after that I UPGRADE MY SPEAR and INCREASE IT DAMAGE FROM 26 TO 27!!!!!!!! So much effort and such a great reward right?

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Or like we go this adventures. We spend couple hours to prepare it. We craft some heavy firearms, grenades. Then after couple hours sailing we face army of damned. We throw grenades, shoot all fire arrows, shootgun and all that stuff. And then when we done - we try to dig a treasure and game sais "there are couple of solders left". Ok we search them. Unable to find. Then whole army respawn. AND WE DEAL WITH THIS ARMY WITHOUT ANY GRENADES, FLAME ARROWS ETC! Just whit spears. So what's the point of preparing? Why we wasted few hours? We could just set sails and go...

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And yet... you can easily loose everything. All stuff you have been creating for a week or even months.

None of your equipment, leveling, diligence, not a single hour you spent in a game! Nothing will help you to keep your stuff safe. Just a single alpha animal spawns at you, or suddenly 15-20 vultures came while you fighting army of damned (this happened yesterday), SoD camping border... I mean there are hundreds ways to loose it (I say nothing about glitches and internet issues but yet I lost everything to that couple of times) and I see not a single way to safe it.

So... I mean. I can spend next couple of weeks to create all I lost. And after I'll loose it again... well maybe I wont feel I ready to spend few weeks more to do what I've done twice...

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At start... I couldn't connect freeport due to 155 players there. Right now I see like 5-7 players connected there. There are more players now I my base's region in tundra then somewhere south.

What are you doing that you are getting killed by a wolf at level 50?  I honestly havent been killed by a wolf days.. probably 4 or 5 days.    

On 1/25/2019 at 4:23 AM, iamwater kebab said:

worst game ive ever played, trash live game support 

i have no clue what the devs are thinking with this game

like 50% people already stopped playing, maybe listen to feedback and not roll out a trash ass patch aun not fix any problems 

trash ass fucking game

You seemed mad... a little angry, possibly even triggered.  

As my mom used to tell me... dont go angry, dont go sad, just go.  

6 minutes ago, A_Roland83_ said:

well my PSU is from XFX pro850W so probably will only need to upgrade my GPU then, but i agree the problem might as well be that the game is poorly optimized right now

 

That is DEFINITELY a problem, the game is really poorly optimized right now.

Well you could make a boat out of pumice, which is a stone, and DOES float.

And it has been known to occur naturally. And the largest recorded "pumice raft" was several hundred KM across and thick enough to walk over it.  

So in short you could build a boat out of stone.  

28 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

Development on Atlas to date reminds me of an old joke that describes programming languages in terms of shooting yourself in the foot. The one for (I think) Cobol seems most apt:

You hear a loud bang. There’s a lot of smoke, and a hole in your foot, but you don’t understand enough linear algebra to know what the hell happened.

 

Substitute “player feedback” for “linear algebra” and you’ve got a pretty good metaphor imo.

I like to say they are living up to their name... Grapeshot development.. they are just shooting a widespread of things and hoping it fixes things.

3 minutes ago, A_Roland83_ said:

ah ok thx, well guess i'll be looking to do some upgrades soon then. thx matey

I had the same issue a year ago when I upgraded my GPU but didnt do my PSU... and when I played games that were poorly optimized they would draw way more load on my GPU and cause my system to restart.  I ended up having to upgrade my PSU from the 650w to the 800w one I have now.  

3 minutes ago, A_Roland83_ said:

shouldn't i have the same problem then when i play squad or post scriptum? i doesn't happen on those games. and they are pretyy big games as well

 

yeah i tried that as well still having the same problem

It depends on if those games draw the same load on your GPU.

12 hours ago, Ellentro said:

Yeah, to be frank, the numbers aren't really what I'd consider even remotely debatable. The entire issue has so much nuance to it that we could debate the merits of various parts of them to death and both be almost entirely correct.

I'm simply disagreeing with the OP because he fundamentally misconstrues and cherrypicks statistics to show that his "DOOMSDAY" threads are right. He doesn't actually care about the game, he simply wants to bash it because he got wiped and wants to be able to win official PvP while being a solo player. 

The other factor in the STEAM charts that make them inaccurate to compare to the current system is Steam changed the way they track their data last year.    

This also made outside sources of tracking difficult.  

The last thing is was Ark only sold on Steam?  Or was it sold directly through their website too?  

While I love using Steam charts they are not 100% accurate, at best they are a good 70-75% accurate.  

On 1/24/2019 at 8:43 AM, Ellentro said:

Honestly, I know I'm not going to get anywhere. He's a troll. Its just annoying that he somehow posts literally 15 threads a day saying the game is dying. 

Just do what I did, and add him to your ignore list... Him and his forum alt AngryTango.

1 minute ago, ForsakenFalcon said:

yeah your right, i did know when i first started to play over a week ago, since then however never really went to freeport and would assume after a week of this horse shit it would be fix or removed but nah apparently thats as intended, what ever, who ever the dev is who came up with this idea and i don't care if i get a forum ban, your a piece of shit.

Sorry this happened.  

And not going to say you are wrong about the last part.  It is a stupid fix... probably the second dumbest in recent history of this game.

Now for my continuing effort to improve forum English written skills...  It's you're not your.  

4 hours ago, ForsakenFalcon said:

or is this to much to fucking ask? i mean to battle ghost ships i need npcs and to get said npcs is to go to freeport which i did as you dev's intended paid for 6 new crew to man the cannons so i could attempt ships of the dammed, cross the docks, try to simply walk over some ones small "raft" oh great i am now stuck, oh great after death the 600 gold i had aquired the night before from at less 10 maps has no vanish and i can no longer pay my fucking npcs which i had to fire on the boat which then blocked the sails npc i wanted to keep and had put money in her inventory only for her to disappear, fucking awesome. 

Why were you carrying 600 gold on you to hire a handful of NPCs?  

Why did you choose to walk over a raft when you KNOW this is a known issue?

And only 600 gold from 10 maps.. wow.. you got robbed... I think I made close to 5k off of 10 maps not to long ago.