The D Legacy

while you guys have my condolences for the lost time and effort you should have checked some youtube reviews about the game before buying it, 50% of the blame falls in your shoulders.

well but of course, i like knowledge, and this is a good oportunity to gather all kinds of data, from the psychological reaction of the different type of players exposed to the different stages of the evolution of this situation to the reaction of a studio who's greed fucked up the entire project rly bad and needs to make a comeback, have you ever wondered where is the limit of the complacency of the hoards of sheeps called players? or where is the limit of how much a company's greed and ego can blind them before they realise it and try to react? this is like a lab experiment but instead of watching rats i watch people, you would be surprised of the ammount of usefull information that can be extracted from a drama.

" with the mission of bringing AAA quality to ambitious indie productions " OMG i am dying i couldnt possibly join a crew with so little gaming experience, their problems are not only code related rather they dont understand what the players want to the point where they literally chased away undecided players by implementing the decay system and the offline raiding, most of the players were tolerant to the technical difficulties but what killed their will to play was the incoherent gameplay desing, so if someone with thousand of played hrs in different gaming genres like myself were to join the team i would probably feel very frustrated from the very first day if the feedback i deliver was to be ignored, ignored as it has been the voice of the community trough this whole mess. still there are some game mechanics that show promise, the naval combat itself is not bad, the way damage is displayed looks nice and fun, the accuracy with wich you can fire the cannons is great, the ability to customize the ship adds a lot to the gameplay experience, but if they are unable to even grasp what they are doing properly and what they are doing wrong, it wont matter how many people they hire. the XBOX players complaining got exactly what they deserved, the state of the game was very well known by the time it was released to XBOX, if they didnt even bother checking review before buying they digged their own grave. have a great time yourself with your family and beloved ones

my honest suggestion is to simply look for something else to play, almost everything has been said already in several posts in the last 4 months, this was a improvised cash grab from the beginning, we were not buying a game we were crowd founding, there was not a game to be bought, there was a half assed idea for a game (kinda like anthem but worse), they only have 1 year before release and the very core features of the game are disliked by most of the community, the current state of the game is the same as when you have a school project to do but you slack until the night before to do it, you will give it to the teacher tomorrow but you can only pray for a miracle. if you like survivals try 7 days to die if you like colony micro/macro managing try oxygen not included if you like MMOs try black desert online (wich btw just got its ocean expansion part 1 released a month ago) the only thing left is to wish to you luck and to the game a miracle.

the real question is why are we allowed to place a shipyard in a area where the ship cannot be released??? i cant blame any of the new players who went trough this honestly, if the shipyard blueprint goes from red to blue it should mean that is a perfectly valid position to place that shipyard and have no further issues he probably forgot to sacrifice a virgin to zeus, ohh zeus why have yo forgotten us!!

future? what future? ROFL they already burned half the time they themselfs set to release the game, they will release the game after the 2 years period but only in name because the game will still be in alpha quality. you say the community is not smart, but, what community? the remnants would be a more appropiate name, that said once the game hit rock bottom (hopefully soon) the only direction left will be up, but do they rly have what it takes? the new guy seems to have a much more clear vision of what the game should be but i can envision "difficulties", as of now the game development is more a tv drama than a game development so we will see (i will most likely never play it again but i wanna see how the drama ends xD)

haters are too busy hating and white knights are to busy looking for excuses, at the end of the day is only few of us that actually pay attention to the topic brought up

and who decides those rules? yes the developers, in the end it all boils down to not knowing what they are doing.

that wasnt the point tho

you can actually feed him from another side so my belief is that is something "hit box" related, the hit boxes in this game are terrible. i agree that the "concept" of the game had a lot of potential specially considering there is a very small ammount of naval survival games out there, but the saying goes like this: "not even gunpowder burns in the hand of fools" probably Atlas mobile comming soon

you completely missed the point. oh and an animal is fed from the mouth unless is atlas ofc in wich case you have to feer from behind the ear, so yeah its the wrong side, this game asks you to feed a elephant from the wrong side.

ohhh they read it, believe me. but for once they are being "smart" they know they fucked up, they know the ship is sinking and rand out of excuses. but thats ok, i rather they say nothing and focus on refloating this than keep making up lies and excuses.

do you realise every time you run out of arguments you go back to the crab thing? you have tried to used it as an argument like 3 times already when i have already said the crab is nothing but a small example, a piece of the big picture, and you even admitted it that situation "While some things are similar, like the Smithy, tools, etc...they all have different skins, and slightly different functions" once again, if it was all just about textures being recycled it would still be lame but could have a pass, but as i stated before is not only that, is every single game feature, all taken from ARK and changed just a tiny lil bit, wich is not only mediocre but also dishonest if you also consider how they advertised the game. who said you should give a crap? who said you should not enjoy it? what does that have to do with the topic at hand? because they copy pasted the code, wich is one of the things i have been saying all this time. and ofc there are bigger problems but whats the point in me saying what others have already said? that would be redundant. once again, the crab is only one of many arrows pointing in the direction of a lazy design and as i said if asset recycing was the only problem i wouldnt mind so much, but the whole game follows that same lazy design philosophy, i suggest you to stop looking at the arrow and start looking at the direction it points at.

well i mentioned in one of the answers that if atlas had been advertised as an ARK DLC i would have had no problem at all, wich implied that my problem with the asset recycling is mainly centered on how the game was missleadingly advertised. that being said i consider asset recycling to be an underisable practice, it might not kill a game but it certainly hits a heavy punch on it. TERA did the same thing over and over and it has gone from like 12 servers to currently 2-3, with the difference that TERA actually had a very strog point: carefully designed and challenging dungeons, now they are preparing the release of Ascent: Infinite Real and surprise surprise they recycled several items/objects textures from TERA, is that what we want our games to be in the future? a cheap recycle of old games? certainly i dont, hence why i am critic about asset recycing and why i wont be touching A:IR not even with a 2 meters long stick.

the engine's associated assets might give a game a general feel of reminiscence as you mentioned but i can guarantee you that if enough creativity is put into something it can be completely different. about half life 2, no, it doesnt bother me if the have similar assets because they are totaly different, if you get to play ARK you will quickly notice the problem i am referring about is way wider then just asset recycling, is a giantic copy paste that also includes collision mechanics, movement mechanics, sounds, taming mechanics, even the how you drink water in early game is exactly the same, hell they even have the exact same bugs. i am pretty sure that if you got the left overs of another person's food as your food in a restaurant you would complain, yet here people even defend it like beggars who simply cannot afford themselfs something better. you are free to like and enjoy the game if you do so and i will never critizice you for that, but you gotta understand that the gaming industry is a sinking ship in wich companies feel entitled to do just about anything to grab some easy money, if we allow that to continue the only thing awaiting ahead of us is a heavy drop in games's quality and an exponential increase in its price.

i guess our standars are different.

Humilliation is directly associated with ego, and my ego unlike other's is not fragile enough as to be hit in a forum. but i guess is quite convenient to decontextualyze something and twist its meaning to use it as a counterargument, to be honest i dont give 2 flying fucks about being insulted, yet using insults as an argument is not something i let slide simply because an insult is not an argument, is the expression of a repressed feeling of impotence (usually caused by lack or aguments/inteligence), therefore it lacks any usefull meaning or content. so if you were trying to provoke me with your false and twisted out of context accusation, well, at least try harder mate. btw: i would suggest you to not confuse sarcasm with insults, those words are located in different places of the dictionary for a reason.

i never intended a deep on analisis of the game assets, as i stated i was watching those youtubers not lookig for a point of comparison rather because they have lots of vids of 7 days to die wich i play a lot, the crab thing was a coincidental find. i have played a lot of games, many of them has the same animals, but they have never been so similar to eachother as to say: "hey, that X animal is identical to the X animal on Y game", so what if one of them jump higher? it still is an asset copy paste. i dont feel embarrassed at all, if anything... worried, worried that this is the generation that is running the world right now, customers who are satisfied with just about any bone they get thrown and companies that have fallen into mediocrity for the sake of increasing the profit margin, while the second is "expected" (not acceptable) the first is rather worrisome.

i agree

sure heri tus sentimientos? delicado trocito de mierda? better? do you want it in french now?

the situation havent changed much since then tho

sorry, did my statements hurt your feelings? is not adviced for fragile minds to wander in this forum without the supervision of an adult.

ATLAS is big enough to hold many types of playing styles, the real problem is the game has no internal content structure wich makes the gameplay a shitfest for everyone.

when did i ever said i was forced? and if you think about it dont politicians use missleading information to throw shit at their adversaries to gain votes? well videogame representatives advertise games in a missleading ways to increase the ammount of sold units, both use infrmation manipulation, thats why honesty is so important because we are normalising dishonesty to a point were people see it as a standar practice now, be it in politics or in videogames. believe me i have gotten over it quite a while ago, i play 3 different games now all of them are a lot of fun, but moving on from corporates/politicians lying their way through everything is something very unwise in my opinion, you said it yourself we barely have any weight when it comes to changing something, but that doesnt mean you cannot at least try, what would be of life if we just accept everything as it is?

you are comparing a big hit from a multi billionare company in times when there were barely any gaming developers with a disaster from a small company in a date in wich there is literally thousands of games released per month in steam...you are comparing apples with bacon.