Martyn

Yeh, atm it's the raw metal we need, rather than the alloy, although some will be smelted. I have a smelter on the ship, but I dont know what I need smelted atm as I'm not using it. But yeh a proper base in north with smelter would be a good idea.

In Pve. Can activate other peoples' ice boxes, thus allowing griefing by destroying their supplies if they're offline etc. Should not be able to interact with someone elses stuff. Except maybe water barrels.

Well I've now filled 4 cargo racks with cobalt, tin, softwood, wetwood and some silver/oil etc. Time to roll back to N8. Where I get cooked alive everyday.

That's interesting as steam claims there's 3k online atm and that tracker, which correctly shows me as the only person in N1 na pve, says there's only 1700 online atm. Across all 4 servers.

I don't think there are any "good" teams anymore.. the devs are run by their publishers or share holders.. to hoops most can't jump through, so they keep pumping out content, content, content.. and never really fix the bugs, anything serious, just gets nerfed into uselessness or removed. Like flying speed in Ark. Or the ability to pick up critters in pve ark.. or a dozen other "pvp only" aspects that would have been really cool in pve. There's no doubt in my mind, that pve atlas, is purely accidental. If the devs had their way, there would be no pve at all. It's easier to make a base game, with base content and just leave it to the players to make their own "stories" and almost every game coming out now is exactly the same. Some even with single players.. they hype the idea of we're given a choice.. but it's a choice that they only, will offer us. Which is no choice at all. So ultimately, we do make our own stories. Utilising what the content provides in the way that suits us best. If it wasn't for apps like teamspeak, discord etc.. this game and most like it, would have died within weeks of release. We are the content now. The only actual bug free content at least.

In atlas the first map was free I think.. after that, they were all expansions/dlcs and one even came out before the EA ended. Would be nice to get more info on it, but I think it's fair to say you'll be paying in one way or another.. so I'd rather know up front.. instead of at the last minute. If it's under £20 I'd probably buy it.

Using gamma to see in the dark is cheating.. but.. it's not really something that can be blocked. Since you can also manually change the contrast/gamma on your monitor for the same effect. In Ark it was kinda required because at night you couldnt see your hands.. but in atlas, most nights you can see clearly.. although the torchs are good the lanterns at night actually making seeing harder.. I understand why people resort to using gamma.. but it doesn't matter how you argue it, it's still and always will be, cheating. Not playing the game by it's default rules. Even using mods to improve your gameplay.. is all cheating. But some cheats are within the realms of acceptable gameplay.. the others I laugh at mostly. But to deny it.. that is funny.

Yeh i never get around to making better fur, cos i'm rarely in the north, but it would make sense to. Having to end my mining at 8pm everyday to hide between 2 fires, not much fun. The torch helps during the day as well.

When I said to. I meant it was worth returning to. Not just pointing out the rather obvious typo.

-30 dg c.. even for my 40 fortitude that's too much. That's sitting in all night between two fires that is.

How much will it be? You know what people will say.. about releasing maps.. for an EA game..

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There is no doubt that a wild tamed bear can do mw maps, I know as I've done one or two myself, but it is hard work, I had to pull the weaker ones away, and kill them first, then I had to wait for full stamina and to push the mace aod into a rock so I could pin them and kill them with the damage buff, which was slow going. But to claim to do this regularly.. given the locations of most mw maps, given the probability of getting yourself killed mw maps are not easy and people should not be making these false reports that they are. A skilled player can do them, there are plenty of skilled players in atlas. But most are just avg joes and it is very unfair to expect people who do not buy bears who don't breed them or aren't in megas to be subjected to a nerfed game which makes their game insanely hard. That said, it was also necessary for the devs to remove the exploitation of aod and maps by people who essentially cheat to play and play to cheat. Unfortunately, these people are more prevalent in the game than people might expect. Most people, myself included will use any exploit of the terrain and game mechanics to win. We need to be limited in our exploits. Personally, I try to only use majority exploits available to all, ie I won't use gamma exploit to see in the dark.. I won't use signs to block aod progress or spam aod traps with cannons. etc. But others will and they are the ones to blame for the devs nerfing the game. So shame on those of you who have caused this. It will be nice to see armoured groups doing maps and killing aod again. Like we did in the start, before we even discovered the regen of bears.

This last patch to end the mythic mystic oss weekend.. magic mythos.. I can't remember, I can barely remember what I've done for the last 48 hours. However.. I did notice, that storms aren't so bad now. I was able to actually go below decks and shelter from the storm, I just ran around in circles repairing my brig. Then the storm passed.. A few times the tornados actually hit the ship, saw bits flying off it.. it did about 500-600 damage to my planks overall. Which I repaired.. One of the big advantages, is having these cargo racks.. just stop at an island, replenish your repair gear, load in a new salvo of cballs.. off you go.. so maybe things are looking up. I even managed to sink 2 gallys, 2 brigs and 3 schooners. Before running out of shots.

Can't even protect our settlement from spiders and bats.. let alone imagine how we'd do it in pvp lol.

So basically you were cheating.. using a bear most people cannot get access to, now making posts suggesting the game is too easy, because your bear is a 200% md bear?? Most bears are around 150 md, 600-900 hp. depending on how long someones had them. A game cannot be judged by endgame content, only by avg content. Because the majority of players are just avg players. Bear I usually use is 130md, 1100 hp, 1050 stamina. I also use on occasion heal and damage buffs. As needed. Most people I've grouped with for pugs can be on foot, on bulls, lions, sometimes tigers which are actually pretty decent for maps, I also have a 66 tiger that rarely get's damaged. I've seen people rain grenades onto their own tames, others with armed crewmen, other still with fences around the treasure lock and explosive barrels.. those are fun.. Didn't need my tiger that time. But on avg.. it's all avg bears. And avg bears die on mw maps. Sometimes. Judging a game from a bred bear standpoint with 220% md.. just doesn't work.. but if people doing so, keep feeding these reports that the game is so easy to be done, the devs will keep nerfing the game and the avg players.. will just leave, because they don't breed tames.. they rarely even tame anything. They don't farm, don't cook.. they just kill stuff. Then log out.. They're here for the arcade game. And I don't blame them, but between the hard core elitists and the arcade players are the avg players and right now, their game is a tough game. If these nerfs continue.. only the hardcore and arcade players will remain. Everyone else will have moved on, because the game just won't be worth playing anymore. That's the death everyone fears. And these discussions people are having in discord, steam, here and various other and many locations will continue. Is it worth it anymore? That's a question I hear alot these days.

This is the second or third time I've seen this, a seagull flies in and I'm "sinking" because I have too many crew. But I don't. I have 31/32 crew. One extra slot, so an admin in my company can board to break stuff, as needed. Due to the broken company system.

It's a buggy broken system.. that's all it is.

Yeh it's bs now. Hasn't worked for a long time. The wiki needs an overhaul.

Either you're cheating on a private server or exploiting the game in some other way or just outright lying and making stuff up. Considering 4-5 people on bears can get wiped by a mw map. I highly doubt you can solo one. The balance changes are stupid. Simple as that. It's nerfing for the sake of it. A serious wildcard failure in Ark.. spreading it's disease into Atlas. Bet the Wild West has the same issue.

Yep.. blind leading the blind.

0 in trolling? I have 40 fort. jm Hide Armour. 100 health.. got me there. Since everything kills me, why bother with health. Stamina, Weight is all that is important. And you can only steer your ship.. when there's somewhere to steer it to.

Not played for awhile? The weather effects should be something you experience every so often.. not 15x a day. Or even multiple effects are the same time.. like a hot front, cold front, fog, rain.. all at the same time. I've even had tornados, hot front and fog.. + sotd. Sotd and Fog seem to come automatically now.

Ok, it's well reported by now that the wheel of misfortune doesn't work.. never really worked in ark.. doesn't work in atlas. So our crewmen are destined to forever shoot fish, parrots, seaguls, horses, sheep, pigs etc. How about an ai overhaul? Where you can actually get a crewman to operate to a script.. pull lever at night.. to switch on lights.. pull lever in morning to switch them off. Unload cargo or tames into nearby lockers/chests. Pickup nearby poo and convert it into fertiliser.. Collect farm crops.. supply fertiliser to crops. Maybe.. just maybe.. shoot crocodiles.. and ignore the elephants, giraffes, parrots, fish, horses, pigs.. just shoot just crocodiles. There's dinos in Ark.. that collect poo.. so why not have crewmen do it too. And oh.. can we have crewmen take up positions in the dingy.. for that little extra speed, hell, forget rowing the boat gently up the stream, merrily merrily.. can we just get them to sit, in the dingy.. so crocodiles and sharks don't eat them when they're being rescued.

Poisoned swords.. and maybe medkits with a cure poison skill point.. maybe a second, cure self of poison skill point...