Sydhart

Nope. I've asked many times about this with no response. Map is great but needs some work like fixing the ocean spawns, balancing of the SW Powerstone island, fixing holes in the ocean around NE island, resource issues, etc.

Atlas isn't even currently in the top 200 of top games played. The fucking cartoon pirate game, Sea of Thieves, is even in the top 100 games (#59). That's pretty terrible. Hell, Even Raft has more players and is sitting at #149 and it only has like 20 total hours of playable content right now but at least it has competent Developers and non-game breaking bugs. 

Source: https://steamcharts.com/top/p.10

42 minutes ago, MightyMonte88 said:

Exactly, everyone should literally just stop playing this game and teach these fuckbags a lesson.

I really don't understand why people are still playing this game. It's in the worst shape it's ever been and that's even taking into account the release which was the WORST game release of any game I've ever played (that's 20+ years of gaming). 

I've been playing Fallout 76 and Red Dead Online and both games are tons better than this game. Hell, I've even been playing Grounded with my kids and that juvenile game is better than this current game. 

Stopped playing about a month ago and just coming to the forums to see if they are actually trying to fix the game. Apparently not. So sad to see this game fail so hard. It has a ton of potential if it just had a Development team that would listen and focus on fixing problems rather than trying to balance PvP and add fluff to entice a few more people to purchase the game.

When this happened to me I literally had to tear the back end of my ship down to just decks and planks to get all my sails replaced. There is a collision check when you are placing sails. Basically if you have any built structure even close to the mast or where the rigging aligns it will interfere. So that includes walls built on the sides and any roof or stairs. You can place stairs and what not that collide with them after they are placed but not before.  As with most things in this game, very little foresight was used in the design of that feature.

16 hours ago, Rofelo said:

Guys you were really close to fixing the warehouse and farmhouse, but then you made it worse making it so they need to be built near coal and oil (which isnt on every island) to remain functional without player interaction.

If the goal is automation remove the fuel cost, but if you have to program in some sort of fuel just use fiber in the mean time.

Having a fuel cost period is just stupid. This isn't fucking ARK with tech generators and autopoop collectors and distributors. They should be manned by an NPC. Period. 

Yeah, I learned the hard way about the sails thing too. Mine involved a Siren and level 50 SOTD Galleon.   

Was it crewed? Can't you still give commands to crew while on the ship without having to access the wheel? 

1 hour ago, Gindorf said:

Legit question, why do the rename in pve?

So people don't stalk them on steam and discord?

By the way Gin, did you get those pictures I sent you? Why don't you send any back?!  ROFL

7 hours ago, Sheepshooter said:

wait a minute...

you know for 1,5yrs about the noodles clipping through walls and killing tames... and yet you still build like it does not happen and being surprised that it STILL does...?

you know for 1,5yrs that the tames get dropped of the ships... and yet you not make a head count when you change servers...?

you know for 1,5yrs that walled-in-taming/obstructed glitches the animal and moves hit box AND that the animal is more aggressive against you when you made the damage in the first place...? 

this is like "Yeah, it says on the microwave to not dry my cat in it, but I still do and expect different results, because Karen!!!"

Apparently you missed this part?  "This WAS fixed at one point but it's broken AGAIN!" 

And WHY are there cobras in almost every single biome now anyways?  There shouldn't even be any in the my server. I mean, they are even in the cold zones now. Must be those new hot blooded cobras. What's next, murder bees?

I've played from the beginning. I suffered through 3 seasons of doing the exact same crap over and over. We've begged for fixes and we've received some but now, a year and a half later and cobras still glitch through stone floors and walls and are able to kill tames.  This WAS fixed at one point but it's broken AGAIN! How the @#$%^ do you do that? 

A year and a half later and tames still glitch into walls and foundations and get stuck.

A year and a half later and tames still disappear off ships while sailing. 

A year and a half later and LAG is worse than it's ever been. 

A year and a half later and taming is worse than it's ever been. It was improved (feeding box was adjusted) but that was reversed? 

A year and a half later and there are MORE bugs than when the game was released.

A year and a half later and the Developers don't acknowledge their players concerns or wants and needs.

I'm a pretty easy going person but this game doesn't deserve any more chances. It's become apparent that they really don't give a shit about the community and at this point are just trying to make a few more bucks with Steam sales and hoping they can get a release to PS4. A roadmap was presented but just to placate and dangle out there to get more people to purchase. Nice bait and switch tactic.

I'm done. There was one employee that actually gave a damned from what I could tell so a big thanks to @Voodoo. The long standing PC community that built and bred and explored is really the only thing that made this game good so thanks to you guys as well for a semi-fun ride. But to the Developers, thanks for very little. 

On 7/27/2020 at 4:44 AM, Kummba said:

That would have been dealt with, but maybe voodoo is gone. So i dont know.
Tickets allways took some time.

There is a whole new customer service team so who knows when it will be looked at now.  

I wasn't against it but you got to talk Lightning into doing it. He and I have been playing together since the beginning of ARK so not going to leave him hanging. For some reason he didn't want to join up with people this round. I think he was concerned that we'd just be dead weight or he didn't want to play too seriously since Grapeshot can't seem to figure out what the hell they are doing and keeps making us start over and do the same shit over and over. 

I can't play anymore in D7 due to the 200+ ping of lawless. Looking to settle and build a dock and animal area on a claimed island. Looking for something that has a couple of different types of each resource if possible for building upgraded ships easier. It's just me and a buddy that have played since season 1. We're pretty quite (except when we get some rum in us). Basically just living the nomadic life mostly on ship until this company gets it's head out of it's ass and figures out a direction for the game. 

Haven't really wanted to log in but decided to see how things were last night on D7. Latency was over 200. Fed my animals and promptly logged off. I don't even want to get on to try the new Farmhouse because the game is unplayable right now. 

I agree though. We set up shop on an island that was supposed to have 2-3 types of wood, thatch, and fiber. But there is only 1 type of all of them even though there are 3 different types of trees and bamboo.  Oh wait, I did find 2 bushes on the edge of a field that gives hemp which is labeled as giving straw....

I think some of the maps get bugged. They reuse locations and if someone doesn't finish all of theirs the AoD stay. I went to a 2.1 common map this weekend and there was already 8-10 level 25 AoD guys standing around. I watched them sink into the ground and waited a bit but when I got close 3 level 6 guys popped up but the higher level guys popped up too. I took them all out and got my treasure but makes me think it's bugged. 

1 hour ago, Xsarec said:

Oh well, we got excited for a moment there, thought it was on track to something big.  But nothing wrong with wanting to be a small niche game.

Thank you for taking the time to answer....

Not sure what small niche game they are trying to fill at this point with their PvP except maybe a griefers paradise?  Game is going backwards in a hurry.

There's ton of issues right now and ZERO acknowledgement from the Devs or Community Reps. Very disappointing right now. 

Aside from the features, are there any important things being addressed in this issue? At this point most of us could care less for new features because the game is not running well. Many bugs that were fixed last season are back and QoL things presented last season are missing.

With the lack islands and decent areas to build (who wants to build on top of these dumbass pillars of rock that occupy every single island), it's going to happen. Blocking resources intentionally (e.g. putting large walls around it) is one thing, building a base that affects 1 node is another. 

20 hours ago, eeeceee said:

Nice story, another group of players that play PVE that you missed is the people who realise the PVP mechanics are mostly lame/undeveloped/imba/boring and want to just play the content (lol)

This is me. I've been playing PvP games since the early 80's with text based PvP MUD's. After that it was Shadowbane, then DaOC, then dozens of other games that at least had some point to engaging other players other than to just kill them. 

I love the sailing. I love the building. I love the idea. But their is literally no point to PvP in this game. No objective. No ladder to climb. No quests to turn in. No rewards to obtain. A lot of risk for zero reward. You can literally lose hundreds of hours of work while you aren't even online.

Hell, even my old text based games had an objective in PvP. There was a program that kept track of kills and every kill earned you a point. You were able to buy resurrection scrolls and items using your points. That was over 30 years ago and this game has NOTHING?!

I honestly think it's a server by server issue and related to lag and desynch. The central part of the map seems VERY laggy as opposed to the outer edges. I was sailing up around the NW part of the map and it was much smoother than where I live on D7. Tamed a Giraffe on B2 without almost no issue. All the C5 through like F9 grids are just terrible in terms of latency. Average latency in the NW was around 70-80 while in the central grids it's typically 140+. Can't lower sails using spacebar, sails are twitching back and forth, sailing below the waves in storms. Bears and crew are desynching and traveling behind the boat. I've got some funny screenshots of one of my crew that looks like he's skiing off the back of my boat on one of my bears. 

12 minutes ago, gadefence said:

I have tamed multiple elephants getting hit 2-5 times during a 30 tame.

 

It's not broken, you probably suck and don't know where to stand. Try more you'll get it

Love how the ONE GUY who got lucky and found a high level elephant on flat ground in a field far away from others comes on and says EVERYONE else sucks and we don't play enough to know what to do. There are plenty of threads posted with people having taming issues but apparently you are the ONLY person that knows how to to feed an elephant. Because no one knows from the LAST 3 seasons to start from the belly side at the back legs and inching up to the front shoulders and staying behind the front legs to find the feed spot.  /sarcasm off

Gad, you're posts aren't usually this dumb but If there was a downgrade reputation I'd use it on you bro. 

2 hours ago, Gindorf said:

@Sydhart

Dont forget the spinning/clip check every 5 seconds.

Fuck giraffe taming.

YEP! I've tried twice and on the 2nd time I got a little angry and cracked my desk with my fist.