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Hello. I have seen some ships have an Anchor on the back of the ship, anyone knows how to put it down. I saw a ship with it down, but they are not very friendly so it's not like I can ask them.

What I have seen before it's in game notification

Survival “aspects”? The whole thing is a survival game. The whole thing. Once again this just shows it was an ark dlc. You want to make a pirate mmorpg then make one. You want to make another survival game? They already made it No, I am exercising my right to have a complaint about false advertisement. Which I have seen a lot of with this game Seriously doubt they were worried about vitamins

I have 4 hours played and haven't even seen the game run yet.

your having a laugh have to seen how progressed some people are. that might be your playstyle but not mine.

Same for everyone, the game will erase all your toon, every time you cross a border you have 50/50 to lose your toon. You lucky to have reach lvl 29 at least u have seen a bit on content.

Bear in mind, I never played Ark or any other survival MMOs in a serious manner. I messed around with Conan singleplayer for a while but that's all. And I just don't see myself ever wanting to play this game. You literally NEED a group of at least 5 if not a dozen friends to play with because one person can do nothing in the world. Even getting off the starter island is multiple hours of work, but that's not why I'm shelving this game forever. It's because that multiple hours means nothing as soon as you die. Your stuff is gone, your progress is gone, and you get to start over. On the same island, trying to make the same raft, to sail to nowhere. What exactly is the point? Am I supposed to enjoy losing all my stuff over and over? Is starting fresh and never leaving the zone fun? Is that the central nugget of gameplay I have to enjoy to find this satisfying? I'm unsure, but from what I've seen this isn't really a game so much as it's a bunch of tools and no care about whether they work or not because when you pile enough people in, some of those people will make their own fun out of it, regardless of how the rest of the crowd ends up. Anyway good luck with the game.

...and you have no clue what the heck your talking about. Seen and watched trees and brush respawn all around me as I sat at a campfire.

Not true I'm not a streamer iv cut down wood I have seen them respawn. I can kill a fish with a spear ... But that does require wood. If your not expecting any issues to arise I wouldn't recommend buying the game, it is having issues some major some minor resolved with time and patience.... If you have none don't buy the game

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I'm specifying private server since some of the bugs here are definitely private server related, like the map bug thing. I have no idea whether all of them are, but just in case! Also you may have fixed some of them already, but due to the first thing on the list, I'm afraid I can't get back in to test more. Definitely Server-Related * Most recently, cannot rejoin server. We were kicked out of the server trying to cross the barrier between the main server and an expansion server, and since then we haven't been able to rejoin. We were playing version 5 on the server, the game's title page said that 5.2 was coming soon, but I was somehow playing version 5.3. Everything's synced up to 5.9 now, but still can't enter the server, even after reinstalling it and wiping all files on both the main and the expansion. (May be a Nitrado thing; I've reported this to them, too.) * While in the private server, our maps don't seem to work. Instead of what I'm seeing in screens and vids from official players--an actual map once the FoW is removed--we just have this solid block of grey fog that never lifts. We can see what might be rocks? and a skull in a triangle? as markers on the map, but we just have to sort of shoot for them blindly. Not being able to see the shape of the islands as they're uncovered is going to make the treasure map minigame pretty much impossible. There was also a point while we were heading for the cell border and passed an island that was north of us but which definitely should have been south of us--we can see the X of our position, and the only landmark that fit the bill was definitely not in that location, so...maps seem really, really buggy on our server right now. Can't retest it at the moment, though, sorry. Maybe Server-Related * Beds do not work for me. They might possibly work for my friend, but even after placing one down, I'm unable to spawn there or see it on the fast travel options screen. The fast travel options screen is also just a plain black box without a map. I also can't see the bed she placed, even though she made and placed it after we created a company. The company log registers that we've added beds to the company, but so far they're unusable. Might be a server thing since the map seems to be buggy here too, and I recall seeing a map of bed locations when I fast traveled or spawned in Ark. Probably Not Server-Related * Adding weapons to your hotbar is really strange...? This is going to be hard to describe, but basically if you have no weapons on your hotbar and want to add one, you can add it to any slot. However, once you've added a weapon to your hotbar, if you want to add another weapon, you pretty much can only replace the one that already exists. I've seen people who play on officials commenting that they can't equip their fishing rod, and then that they can only equip it where their spear was, which sounds like the same problem. Say I have a spear and want to add a bow. The bow can only go where the spear currently is--I can't have a bow and a spear equipped on my hotbar at the same time. Same goes with fishing rods, as they're considered a weapon. I can have a spear/bow/fishing rod and up to two bolas, but I cannot add a third bola. * Also, not sure just because I do play Ark--are bolas supposed to stack? Because they don't in Atlas, and I can't recall now whether there's durability on them or not. I do appreciate that it seems to pull the next one from your inventory without you having to craft it or add it manually! * Not sure if this is a bug, but some creatures don't report that they're a Level 2 tame until you try to bola them, and then it says "requires level 2!" whereas some have grey text that outright says they're Level 2. The bulls but not the cows, for instance. (I was very excited to get a pack animal to haul all that stone and wood and metal around, and then...pack mule denied. Figured it probably wouldn't work since it said it wouldn't for the cows, but it was worth a try.) * Raft crew...is hilarious. XD I don't know if this is a bug or just funny as heck, but before we left the starting island, I'd tamed two monkeys and a chicken. We each had a monkey on our shoulder when we got on the raft, but I took the chicken because why not. The raft listed us as three crew--two officers and no sailors. (I made my friend an admin, so that may be why two officers?) We decided the chicken must've been the second officer, though, and declared her first mate. Is it intentional that un-carried (unridden as well?) tames count as crew? I suppose that's one way of preventing an army of monkeys.... Suggestions Being able to see precisely what status effect we're under would be kind of nice...I don't know all the icons yet, and your "freezing to death" icon looked more like a silhouette with a blue spider, not a blue snowflake, so I was terribly confused since it came up in the middle of a port town. Was I poisoned? Was there a trap? Tiny invisible death spiders? In the middle of a Freeport town? I was all "What is with this blue hellspider?" "That's a snowflake!" my friend says, as I die of cold in the middle of town. XD * Maybe make the Freeport towns warmer? XD I mean, if you're in a Freeport, chances are you have no idea what you're doing and you're probably in cloth armor. * Or maybe make the status icons (optionally?) bigger, with an explanation? I mean, I've got two cats that hate each other, I'm not always looking at the screen when notifications pop up. * Haven't been able to find it, but maybe it already exists somewhere--if it doesn't, can something be made where you can read the starter info again? I missed about half of it because I was trying to sort out our company, and I probably figured it all out on my own, but someone else is bound to want the same thing. Salt does this nicely with lorebooks that spawn in your inventory, which you can always discard later. * Speaking of Salt...I hate to compare games, I really do, but one dude and some playdough-quality models honestly did a better job of sailing commands than this game. In Salt, you just stand at the rudder or stand at the wheel and mouse-drag to control your ship. The current system in Atlas is super-clunky, and I definitely see why you need a crew--I would die very quickly in a sea battle if I had to steer the ship and man the guns, and unfortunately my friend gets violently motion-sick from sailing in this game, so she's probably going to be incapacitated for the duration. * I went and downloaded your map maker from Github, and...well, I figured out how to create a map, and island placement, but there are a ton of server-related variables I can only puzzle out by looking at the two samples, and I'm not honestly certain I'm matching things up properly. Some documentation would be nice for the UE4 challenged when someone gets the time! The starting cell is pretty boring for private play, and the world is going to feel very small very quickly without custom maps. Anyway, sorry for the wall of text...if you have a bug database somewhere like Planet Explorers did, I'd be happy to enter them all one by one! We really did like what little of the game we managed to play, though it was sort of disappointing to realize the entire cell was going to be Freeport and without a second server, there would've been no ability to level up past 8. (And even with a second server, clearly that was not to be!) And unfortunately I can't attach logs because I completely forgot to download them before trying a reinstall...it was very late/early, and I was very tired by then, since initially Nitrado kept telling me no game existed to reinstall. (Freely admitting I'm just waiting for Host Havoc's Atlas servers to be offered before bailing on Nitrado entirely...pun maybe intended.) Thanks so much, and good luck!

I downloaded the game the night of initial launch and have not seen the games main menu yet. I click play, I hear 5 seconds of the music, and then the game crashes and displays a page with a bunch of code. I have verified files, updated drivers, and redownloaded the game twice, same thing every time. I want to play so bad and I have no idea what to do. I have uploaded a picture of the error message if anybody is smart enough to know what is causing the crash. Please help

Yes but you’ve seen 4 islands pretty fast.

Does anyone know how to rid of my character so then i am able to spawn? this bug is caused by the server not able to find your existing character from what i've seen and my character is in the void been tryna play for 9 hours

Where to begin? For me it's not about the things shown for example in the Trailer vs. Reality youtube video or the poor server quality and connection issues etc. It's an early access and those, to be fair, were expected and surely will improve as time goes on. My major issues are about the balance of the game. From the trailers i got the vibe that this game would be heavily balanced towards the RPG/exploration side (Divinity Original Sin, Pillars Of Eternity and so on, with open world exploration) and not the survival. Boy was i wrong. The survival side is so overwhelming that it makes the game not fun for me and what i've seen, many others. It's often best to just let yourself die and reset hunger/thirst/vitamins etc, than to really worry about them the way it's ment to at the moment. And these mechanics in place really take away the potential exploration side of the whole experience. You are so tied down to your base/ship/crate of stuff that you can't really go explore the islands cause of all the survival mechanics. And the material farming, oh boy the the material farming. You have to spend tens or maybe hundreds of hours just to farm so you can build a decent ship to kind of get started. I just wish the would tone down these survival mechanics and focus on the quests, exploration and progression systems more. Maybe make the survival stuff be like a buff/debuff kind of thing. If you're for example hungry, you are weaker in battle and if you're full you gain some extra strenght or other buffs (or maybe just tone down on the starvation etc HEAVILY). Not so that you literally die in the middle of a huge island from hunger, cause you felt like exploring and now have to spawn on your bed million miles away and start farming food and materials for hours and hours just have even a slight chance of getting your stuff back from your dead body. Just focus on the FUN. Fill the world with quests and cool loot to go after. Make us feel like bad ass pirates and not some weak castaways using their last breaths to barely survive. Maybe the game is more of what i described, like couple hundred hours in, but for what it is like now i'm never gonna see that. It's just too much. Here's to hoping for a better future! There sure is potential here

Seven times I've now been in the situation that I've died / respawn / been forced to recreate my character (regardless of action taken to prevent). I've lost my Company, my gear and my bed spawn. My company mates are now many many levels beyond me and don't really want to come back and help at this point because it's happen so many times and it's a pain to try and help at this stage. I understand that it's an EA game, which is technically a beta, but when you force players to pay for the privilege to test your game for you you take on a measure of responsibility. Part of that responsibility is that when a major bug crops up you do your best to fix it and aid the players affected by it with some form of compensation be it levels, gear, coin, etc. Someone asked me if I felt entitled to support for a beta game.... yeah, I do. Money was spent. Regardless of what stage the game is at, you the company have a responsibility to the customers to compensate when things go seriously wrong. In my case, as in the case of many others according to what I've been reading, is the repeated loss of levels, gear, bed spawn ability and fellow players in a formed Company. Here is what I personally have lost... Level 1 to Level 9 (about 2/3 deep into level) - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(death by drowning) Level 1 to Level 8 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn for a second time. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Death by Snake) Level 1 to Level 5 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn again. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Croc) Level 1 to 3 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks including gender)(Death by drowning) Level 1 to 4 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Snake) Level 1 to Level 3 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Croc) Level 1 to Level 5 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. This time forced to respawn in middle of map while rest of company, after many hours of piloting raft managed to claim island which I can no longer get to at all because you folks set up that ridiculous buffer zone initially that forced everyone to move two full "servers" (don't get me started on the server thing, very bad implementation going on their...Should have added a dozen more region servers instead of expanding landing zones) away from FPs. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by snake, are we seeing the pattern in the bug yet?) Level 1 - Currently on hold while I decide if I'm still going to play the game or if I'm going to advise my viewers to avoid the game and the company in general.(Char name Kalcindra Jaxa) Yeah, I'm a streamer and quite honestly not happy with the way this launch was handled. I've been a GM for a game company in the past and I was a professional beta tester before the whole EA craze started and for me to say this launch was handled was horrifically says a lot. This was bungled from top to bottom, though I admit I've seen worse and do appreciate that you are trying to stay on top of it. So, what do I expect/want? Simple. 1) I'd like the bug to be fixed right away because it's affecting a fair number of people as far as I can tell and should be considered a priority. 2) I'd like to have my original lost 8 levels returned plus half of the XP earned on all the other incarnations I was forced to take. It's not an unreasonable request since we paid for game. 3) If the levels can not or will not be returned then I still want #1 AND I want it to be fair to all and have all the servers wiped so everyone starts fresh and no one has any advantage. Not to mention with all the bugs and stuff it couldn't hurt to wipe it clean and see what new bugs pop up. Thanks, Kal Jaxa

We have seen a pteranodon but I’m pretty sure that that would be a mod, so you won’t see them on officials. And I agree with the people above, having flyers will pretty much ruin the discovery feeling to a total.

From what I understand each 1x1 is a sever in its self. so this is how they get their "40k" 15x15 at 150 people per is 37500 people with each square being its own server. So to host multiple squares you would need a seriously powerful server, or multiple ones assuming your running max players. So far I have seen max of 100 people on a rented server for a 1x1...

yup still time out every single node every server since i installed the game never even seen the char creation screen.....

Yet to be seen!

Can you deepthroat me next? ive never seen anyone take the whole thing like that @Scantcoin

Just the one, but I've just seen an update where the level cap can be removed, but still, pretty small area to explore Awesome game nonetheless!

Hello lady and gent, my server g7 was down for about 4-5 hrs, before the shut down my region was lag free and really fun. After the patch fix 5.2 my Server is Broken the patch decreased the performences of G7 by 80%. I don't understand i never seen such thing in 20 years of gaming.

It doesn't look like Freeports are the only empty servers. Seen several Lawless grids also empty. Either folks are packing it in, which is unlikely, or players are having respawn and connection isues. I've been having trouble connecting to a number of the grid servers for a few hours myself.

Doesn´t make any sense...just think about it. Look at the ark and atlas folders and tell me what you see there. Ever seen something called "scorched earth" or "aberration" in Atlas? No? Because these were DLC´s of Ark...