Enki Anunnaki

1 hour ago, Jerryn said:

And apparently I have to pull the boat over and separate a few people.

Please fight somewhere else, like PMs.  You can fight there all you want.

Two men have an argument at a bar that turns into a shootout. One gets shot and dies. his funeral takes place 3 days later.
4 days after the funeral, cops finally show up at the bar. "hey you! put your guns down! that's it, you're both going to jail, this is not the place to be doing this. we need to separate you two!"

10 hours ago, lordkhan4444 said:

lol I would not count on them sinking anymore money into this game, be happy with what ya got folks its not gona get any better than this. im only still playing this as a time waster until new world comes out, and I suspect a lot of others are also. this game will  NEVER survive to release.

i'm waiting for last oasis, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and new world...at least those devs seem to give a shit. i havnt signed onto atlas in weeks. my lvl 120 can rot for all i care.  i will never buy a single thing from wild card/grapeshot or any of their other sister companies EVER again. What these sad excuses for devs have done to this community is unforgivable. never again.

8 minutes ago, Muppetish said:

I prefer to stay positive, and to be honest if you invest your life in a game then that might be why you struggle to stay positive.  I've been gaming most of my life (started on NES) and I play games more often than I should, but I never let them get in the way of my real life and I never get upset about them. I hope that you all get the results that you are looking for, it's clear that we see things differently. 

my time is my life. i never said it got in the way of my real life nor did i say i care what you've done with your time or your preference on staying positive. only thing clear here is that you don't know what youre talking about and that you shouldn't be lecturing anyone about anything pertaining to this games development or their life choices. 

dude with 8 posts who joined on feb 11 wants to lecture us about the game and its development. thats rich. those of us who you say are fountains of negativity have been here for almost a year and a half, investing our lives into this game and its development, just to get shit on while the devs make false promise after false promise then they left atlas to die while they worked on fucking ark. 

14 hours ago, Muppetish said:

In regards to Grapeshot showing little to no interest in the feelings of the players, it is undoubtedly a bad approach to customer service and doesn't give me much hope for the future of the game. Maybe the complaints and comments about the devs performance will prompt them to change direction or maybe it will encourage them to walk away and give up.  They are only human.

good. i hope they drop the fuck out of the industry and save the gaming community from investing in their lies ever again. if i knew they were going to pull this shit id have never spent 3k hours ingame and countless hours writing posts on how to improve the game and documenting bugs. fuck you.

it doesn't matter anymore. the devs fucked everything up, stopped working on atlas and let the community down so bad that this game is just a new world and lost oasis waiting room. i lost hope a long time ago... if the devs gave a damn AT ALL, this conversation wouldn't even be happening right now.. They stopped talking to us completely and didn't even warn us they were gonna be working on ark instead. fuck them. they will never get another dime from me again. just let atlas die. ark will eventually become old news and these fuckers will never have a hit game again. and by god, if i ever hear of another studio hiring any of these worthless fucks for their project, ill boycott them too.
 

this is why automated shipping where you can set a npc on the wheel and send it somewhere on the map, should be implemented into the game. swivels mounts should be locked to planks and not placeable on a deck. boom. some real pirate content.

well, it all really depends what you want to do...
if you want to solo it, play the game casually or are with a small 2-8 active group, owning an island/islands might not be for you... your best bet is to find a large company that will allow you to build on their land. most companies love renters on their island because that's free resources in their tax bank they don't need to farm them selves. pick a group that has a good well established harbor you can park your boats at and hopefully you can join their renter alliance and have access to their harbors and islands.  

now if you're a lawless pirate and you just want to live reckless and kill/raid indiscriminately, make yourself an underwater crafting fob where you will store all your valuables... make it deep and far out. set a company wide maker so you always know where it is. spam bed boxes all over the island so you can spawn in easy.  craft what we call a "boat in a box" that you can put up on the fly when you log back in because its very rare that your boat will last the night on a lawless island. put your tames in random spots, preferably hidden. don't bother building a tame barn structure because that will attract griefers... or you can park a gally in freeport and make that your base where you store all your tames and valuables... you just gotta maintain it every 6 hours... but honestly, that seems like more work than it's worth. 

but IMO if you are looking to have fun and experience the game for everything that it has to offer, id suggest joining a large established group. but beware, there's always drama and intrigue in a large gaming community.. 

for once i agree with perci. just bring more bears. its not a big deal.

YES PLEASE! More things to do with imprisonment would be very cool. 

Now especially since beheading has been nerfed when it comes to xp loss consequences. which blows that certain individuals ruined it for everyone because they wanted to powerlevel. it was a nice mechanic and gave excitement and urgency not to get caught. also, a reward for catching someone. it was nice. 

If the exp mechanic can't be brought back then could we have more RP alternatives. wall shackles, ball and chains, a whip, a torture rack or table, all sorts of medieval torture devices,  a stockade, more ways to display a captured player or corpse would be nice... hell even a cross. 

Once upon a time, the devs had talked about a bounty system having to do with collecting heads. but for a bounty system... wouldnt you need a law system? if there was a law system, wouldnt that open the door for in game factions? 

shit could get sexy af if only the devs would do it. 

Edit: also, id like to see finishers come into the game. perhaps if a player were only a sliver of health left, you could get an option to pull off a finisher where you have the chance to chop someone's head off and add it to the collection. 

sounds like the attackers used grog and/or pudding... grog increases melee damage and reduces incoming damage... you can stack them up to 4 times if you have the grog skill line. pudding also reduces incoming damage. also sounds like they were wearing upgraded gear... a good ol' fashioned lawless roflstomp. 

Youd need a video and proper proof and youd need to post it to reddit and cause such a public outrage that doing something about it can't be avoided.. This dev's dont even say hi on discord.. or anywhere, anymore.. you really think a ticket means jack shit nowadays?

Freeport cosmetics vender 

4 hours ago, Talono said:

I am looking for a reason to play again. That patch is not it.

Now we have the trolls back carrying stacks of grenades blowing the stone paper walls with it... great.

a grenade still does far less than a cannonball. perhaps pvp servers are not for you?

it was a well needed patch... but yes, i agree shits going super slow and the lack of communication has truly pissed off the community. 

bosses have actual drop tables.. you get better drops from maps and things were balanced in pvp... thatch bp's being removed was the least that was done lol

Not as great a patch as i was hoping for but this will definitely spice things up until come real updates happen. Thank you GS, this was much needed. 

Those who dont like this patch obviously dont play this game much. 

yes GORE!!! i want to dismember people with a finisher move if their health is low enough! yes.

i cant believe i havnt seen this post till right now. you have most of it right on the nail milos.

but Id like to add to:

"Remove/rework grapples. With the current implementation, most fleet battles are a pure numberfight as its impossible to 1vx at all when theres a grappleship in play. Im not sure what exactly needs to happen to make them more fun for both sides, just fuck around with it, any changes are good changes at this point." 

id like to see them do what ive always hoped they would do, winch boats up close like a fishing pole to encourage ship boarding. stopping a ship in its track with it is just lame. you should be able to tow an unanchored ship with it, or get towed with it by bigger ships or ships with more momentum. 

there is a server tame hard limit that includes NPC's even if they are mounted.. the limit includes everyone on the server, not just you.  no one knows the true number the server limit is, as devs dont talk to anyone anymore, but its been happening on many servers. mainly in servers where there are multiple large companies with large breeding facilities with a shit ton of npc puckle and swivel defences. you cant even claim npc's after you slay a ship of the damned in that sever lol.. youd need to go to a different grid and sail them in. same with tames.  

19 hours ago, Percieval said:

If you want the level cap so badly, that means you have no chance against them and you will have no chance against them when they’re 30 levels lower. 

nah. by the time you are lvl 75 you will have enough points where you can spec into a pvp skill tree set that you can compete with. only difference is that you wont have them all like a lvl 120 would and you wouldnt have as high of health and stam. ive seen plenty of lvl 75's with skill in pvp take out lvl 120's. you just need to know what you are doing. 

also, they even stated that they are enabling 2x xp until they add new mechanics for players to gain xp other than just maps and cave farming, so right now, it's easier to get them levels... and hopefully will be even easier after they make the changes. 

but trust me, im lvl 122 and im really happy they are changing this, even though soon ill have nothing left to work towards concerning my player advancement and i'm gonna lose 2 lvls (almost 2 mill exp).

Im looking forward to players advancing faster and there being a more lvl playing field in pvp.

there is no glory in killing low lvl bobs. 

if youre still caged and they are keeping you alive, you can kill your self while handcuffed by using the "yell" function. though, it wont drain your stam unless youre actually causing noise feedback, you will eventually die, even if they are med kitting you. 

30 minutes ago, Percieval said:

And it’s not a number you can use in any argument you try to have. 6K on official is a good amount for Atlas. 

but yet i did use it in an argument, so saying i cant is a pretty stupid argument in and of itself. 6k on an official server that advertises itself as being able to hold 40k is quite sad. 

10 hours ago, Percieval said:

Taking the 55K as standard is a very dumb thing to do. 

probably a good thing i never implied 55k was the standard then, just what this game started with.

1 hour ago, bustaddawg said:

Two wipes in a year isn't a lot and most people don't even count the first wipe(1 month in) because the flag claim system needed a change. I have been playing in Alpha - Beta - EA games for over 20 years now. EA is "usually" meant to be a closed Beta stage. However, some companies under EA release their games in a late alpha stage to help fund the games development. You may think this is an immoral practice(to some it would look that way) but no one is forcing you to buy or play the game, we live in a free market. Wipes are fine to me in a game that is still being developed because the changes they make will sometimes change the direction of the game and implementing it could cause data wipes anyway. If they need wipes to progress the game then I support it. If you are frustrated about the wipes then maybe you should wait for the game to be finished first before you focus your time into something you know may or may not be wiped.

 

Steam charts shows it has doubled average players and peak players since October 2019. That is not including the Xbox players. Your dying game argument is dying. For someone who apparently "loves this fucking game" you have a lot of doubt and negativity towards the game, its supporters, and its developers. I don't feel entitled enough to demand the devs communicate with me. This is my first post on the official forums and I have been playing since launch and have been enjoying, mostly, every minute of it.

doubled average players lmao... i'm sorry i don't consider 5.5k all that much better than 3.5k.. especially a year after the EA release thats started with 55k players. my doubt rests solely on the developers and their inability to commit to atlas, nothing else. a game like this lives and dies because of its playerbase and the devs are supposed to be the ones that keep the playerbase entertained and invested..  if you actually looked at the charts,  it takes a bigger dip in players each time the devs fail to deliver on their promises.. and take longer and longer to release anything of substance whatsoever. an explanation and some engagement with the community would go a very long way...  congratulations, your thoughts about "entitlement" are irrelevant mr first post since you've supposedly been playing on launch. lmao. youre not even remotely invested. i've been active in the same large company since day one and have influenced a lot of changes already made since then. i don't understand where you think you're coming from, but me i'm here because i love this game. dont much give a fuck what you think. 

boot lickers preconceptions aside, GS is the only company i've ever known that has handled their games player base in such a way that they have and its not a good look.

spin it any which way you like but it's obvious the games population is dying AGAIN. the game has barely gotten anywhere for the past year of its planned 2 year development. the devs don't say or do jack to keep this community interested/growing (unless you count the inclusion of xbox) and instead the devs seem to have abandoned this games development in order to work on ark while potentially major competitors like starbase, new world and lost oasis are about to steal a huge swath of atlas's last remaining now disenfranchised playerbase. 

what your condescending and mental midget arguments don't seem to address is that 99% percent of the people freaking out and complaining right now, are doing so because we love this fucking game and have huge ambition and hope that atlas stays relevant and constantly evolving in a positive way, which it currently is not.

idk about you but this shit is hitting me right in the feels. like my wife is cheating on me with my brother or some shit...

i just wanna cry.