Jozzie McTowel

This is a pirates game, why would you have vending machines in there, pirates would loot them not put money in them, they would take your money as well cuz nope that shouldn't magically transfer to your bag. This ain't 7DTD

To be honest I agree on the predators stuff being rediculous but not getting a foothold for at least a couple days on Lawless sounds like u have to get better a bit though. If u play PVP move to PVE at least to overcome the players just there to wreck your experience. Trees also don't need stumping no more there are little trees u can pick by hand for thatch and wood to make your pickaxe and progress from there. For me the last time I went back to freeport was cuz of the HUD not being there and switching servers was the only workaround if all else failed (until they patched it 2 hours later). But all I did there was make sure I was well fed, drank enough, got only a bed on my boat, left without food and bought the raft within the hour of doing all of the above. Getting back to my lawless island also didn't take that long cuz I knew the rout and after that I had two rafts at that island with a bed in case something happend to the first raft. But yesterday I left in a Schooner built thanks to the 2.5 resources u gained for 3 days and made it to an area outside newbie zones gonna try to find just a small patch of land to establish a base with my friends and see how we can progress from there. I agree the game is bad and alot of bugs ruin the experience but learn from those bad experiences if u continue to play, get multiple rafts and beds on location, establish a small base so u have a place to hide when predators come. Gather resources close to your base and only go out far when u aren't travelling with expensive items u can't afford to lose during a gank of wolves and lions or crocs and snakes. Don't build stuff on your boat where other players can put resources into like a smithy or loom on your rafts cuz griefers will just encumber it to sink your raft and ruin your gameplay. You can succeed but it's very harsh to start over so often, I had to do it too and I really hope this Schooner doesn't get destroyed due to a bug or not my fault but I fear it every minute I'm sailing it. Good luck!

I was gonna say sorta what Captain Jack Shadow said about being inland and encountering these things. If you have no base, are not close to water and have the odds against u that these just spawn in on you rather than even walking in on a pack of them u are double screwed. So any newbie who arrives as lvl 8 at a lawless area filled with predators is basically screwed when he's alone. I managed to get out of Lawless by now and moved to a real area last night, logged back in today and next to my boat 3 wolves are attacking a cow, a crow and a turtle. When the wolves entered the water I could pick them off one by one with my pike cuz i'm specced into boat building and artillery to cope with SOTD on my journeys. Those wolves were even attacking a boat next to mine of which I suppose other players were sleeping in the lower deck. Why do these predators go for players who are sleeping in the bottom of a boat where they are unable to see them, might not even smell them. This also damages boats and I wonder if it was my boat next to shore with me being offline for 14 hours if it would have just sank my boat.

Stop being a dick and just aknowledge the damn thing is broken, if this is intentional gameplay I guess I still have to refund this after 70 hours of frustrating gameplay and technical issues.

I'm using a pike no arrows or bows cuz I'm speccing in shipbuilding and artillery, I'm on a lawless temperate island living on the beach hoping to set sail one day when I'm ready to embark off newbie stuff and hoping not to die from SOTD or lvl 1 whales who trash your boat. There is nothing wrong with my tactic, until two patches ago I could kill wolves without too much problems, if I died then it was my own problem, right now it's impossible to survive two wolves at the same time, the only lame ass tactic that works is luring them into the water and kiling them there as they are dumb swimmers. But that's not how the devs intended me to play the game it is broken, i'm not supposed to use douchebag tactics to survive.

Dude please stop trolling and if you aren't go educate yourself on empathy. Lot's of people have these issues, you could be fine for two or three days (ingame time) straight on the same beach, but once the wolves and lions spawn they just roam across the island killing prey until they spot you and gang up on you. Then your nice place with house and resources becomes a hell with 4 wolves attacking your house or just swarm up to you, you can not defend yourself against this at lower level. And even at lvl 25 when not specializing in weaponry or armor I should be able to kill a a wolf 4-5x less levelled than my character with a pike. It was possible a couple of patches ago but now 2 wolves = sure dead.

You must be trolling right? What am I gonna do in a freeport when my level is capped at 8 there? My experience is about Lawless region which is also still a newbie area and my house is built on shore, the worst was last night before I logged out it was swarmed by 4 wolves simultaniously so I logged off on my ship seeing HP from my house go down while there isn't anyone inside it. High ground or even trying to lure one of them out of the pack into the water is a very risky undertaking because once there are 2 or more wolves aggroing me and I don't make it into the water I'm dead. I can't craft better weapons or armor, these wolves are level 1-7 while i'm level 25, I should not have this many issues with low level predators who are insanely OP and impossible to dodge or walk around them due to high aggro ranges.

Have u even read this entire post? I guess u didnt or u wouldn't have made that comment. Even indoors these pesky wolves aggro you and if u don't have a stone wall they will slowly munch their way through it. And if it's more than 1 wolf and u are not well equipped you are a dead guy, leaving u to the point where u have to lure away the wolf from your body time over time to get to your inventory or try to find others to help kill off the pack.

I think with all the refunds people are doing for Atlas they are running out of funds for a decent server network, that and lack of dev skills to make this work.

I'm not sure if it does, but do these wolves also just spawn in while u are standing on their spawnpoint? I mean too many times these have attacked me in pair whilst before i started eating or ended my harvesting there was no wolf in sight, only to come back out of my menu to already have a broken leg and see myself die cuz yea, no reaction time and nothing to do really against two wolves.

On my island they swarm in packs of 4 mixed in with a lion and they just roam the beaches, I can fight one on land no problem, two is lethal. Even after they kiilled me they keep attacking my house on Lawless as well for no reason, I logged off today with 4 wolves biting my walls. I'm sleeping on my ship tonight and will check in the morning what they have done to it. This needs urgent patching as one guy states, our island can be a paradise or a living hell, once the predators spawn u have no place to hide because of the laggy spawnscreen they are already biting you before you can start moving away if your raft+bed is near your base. Not to mention if u fight those predators close to your house or any structure or wall'ish' thing u will glitch inside of them, being unable to even swing your spear, forced to switch to axe or other item and hit them a few times to bug out of them and try to kill them again. But these fuckers can take u down in 5 hits. Oh yeah and all of that on a laggy server which ping varies from 100-250 ... Wolves OP, tech issues OP = u need more luck than skill to survive

Not to mention the crazy amount of predators who are super agressive and hunt in packs, at lower levels or worse equipment and solo play you are doomed in these scenarios.

I'm pretty sure you are on different yet similar looking island, me and my friends also had this happen. Check your map again but this time check coordinates. Both of your islands will probably be at a different angle on the map as well. Go to the town and find the ferryman(?) this guy has south west east north next to his name, let your friend travel to you via this NPC to your location.

49 mins since Jat tweeted that he was aware of the issue, it's a bloody HUD that is missing how long can it take to fix

At least the hammer bug is fixed in next update v8.0

Yea, I buy a game that claims it's on MMO to rent a server after one week of early access and play "alone" with friends or team up with other servers ... Do you know how rediculous it even sounds, one week old, have to rent private server to being able to "play" ?

Well that's still wonky, nothing "huge" about it and still depending on whether everyone keeps their server on there. They very hard overpromised and overhyped this mess especially with involving so many streamers to hype it up even more.

Are there unofficial server with a decent sized map? Cuz I can mostly find servers with one tile which is 4 islands big.

Care to post some screenshots from the server lists?

And how many of those "online players" are actually "playing" the game and not sitting in menu trying to log in to a server that isn't online or unable to stay in their region and PVE without having to do some weird stuff that results in losing your progress and having to start over again, I haven't seen anything outside of Freeport and Lawless and I have 60 hours gametime according to steam of which I maybe played 15 hours tops starting over countless times due to various technical and griefing reasons. And not a word about those servers coming back on, some are waiting nearly 20 hours now unable to play along.

They logout on the corner outside of your house and apparently when u log back in u glitch into the other side of the wall of that corner, can't test it myself but read it elsewhere, als the repair hammer does damage to players on PVE. Also griefers go ruin your rafts and other stuff by encumbering themselves and the boat in case u have stuff on there where they can store resources in. The griefing is bad in this game, PVE isn't PVE at all like this. Also the codes on doors and such with only 4 digits is rediculous, i'd rather see a "Company Access" option and a pincode or password as long as I want.

Oh yeah and thanks to my server not being online for god knows how much longer I'm unable to play on EU PVE without doing this weird ass trippy workaround u guys posted on twitter which will probably result in me making a new pathfinder which I will not. Refund requested in steam, I hope for you guys they refund it or I will have to keep whining about how much of a pathethic cashgrab this release of software was.

Did u build it on the sand?

Yea besides alot of people not able to even connect without real help is beyond belief even for an early acces game. Same goes for servers just going down, not working properly (pings of 200 when paying local). Check bug section u see people complaining about servers being down for up to 16 hours. I'm waiting for L9 EU PVE to come back on so I can finish up my boat hoping nobody stole my stuff when I was offline (if server was up much longer then when I went off though). They need to fix land claims as a top priority together with the issues there are with whales and ghost thips so people can start "testing" things outside newbie islands. Also still only 4 official servers online is a joke knowing how much people are still trying to play and their servers can't cope.

Please do fix this, banning everyone who did this is not something I'm for because I did it myself when getting stuck on a Sloop's bottom deck with a player sleeping there I thought with my button spamming that the repair hammer behaved that way and made my point by killing the player. You could ban those who really abused it for griefing thought but not the ones who did this once or even a couple of times by accident whe nrepairing stuff during a fight with a predator and players nearby, shit happens, abusers must go though.