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Ok, it's been a little over five weeks since Atlas has been released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUvPBm8BFic&feature=youtu.be Is it good? Not really Is it fun? Absolutely!* Here is an explanation of the game that's much better than I can come up with. dylguy90 posted:*Come play this game with us. It's seriously fun. It's absolutely a bad game and an ARK clone BUT it is a first person shooter, pirate, Eve Online. Permanent, emergently-customizable ships you can live on. Deep crafting systems involving hundreds of resources from around the globe. Territory and strategic basebuilding that actually has relevance beyond being pretty to look at - base building and ship building are genuine art forms and can dictate the outcome of a battle. Drive ships, shoot cannons, snipe people, board ships, hunt treasure, kill ghost ships, explore resources, build outposts, be a diplomat, pirate, bounty hunter, bear trucker - all of these roles have a valid place in the game. Videos of our exploits Here we are sinking a Twitch streamer who attacked us first. Note how fast they go from "Let's sink their galleon" to "They stream sniped us" when they sailed straight into our ship after attacking our allies and after being warned which direction to sail. Go to the 4 hour 30 minute mark for the most laughs. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/358218787?t=05h20s Sinking an enemy ship that is much larger than ours. They eventually ended up becoming our ally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0AUo4dnRfM Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObI3AWabGM Steam Page https://store.steampowered.com/app/834910/ATLAS/ Discord Link https://discord.gg/ZJN8waB Link to Atlas thread in The MMO HMO. Seems to be much more active than this thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3876736 A pirate ditty for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwUUDypEDNQ Grapeshot Games/Wildcard, the studio behind ARK Survival Evolved, is getting ready to release a pirate themed sandbox MMO to early access on Steam. At launch there will only be two servers to choose from. One PvE server, and one PvP server. Release date is December GrapeShot has now stated that they are going to have a staggered release. Allowing some "content creators" to get in before launch and then bring in groups of people at a time. Still no confirmation on when this will take place. https://imgur.com/1D55zPM Official Count Down to release. 17:00 CST. https://www.playatlas.com/ Price will be $30 in early access and $60 when released. PC Gamer article. Keep in mind that it was probably paid for. https://www.pcgamer.com/atlas-mmo/ quote:“1,200 times the size of a single ARK server.” Some of the absolute best times that I've ever had playing video games with goons was in the early stages of ARK. Just be prepared for bugs and grinding. Just wondering if there might be any interest in this. Edited to add links South fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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Dec 10, 2018 18:45
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I am very interested in playing this. They did push the release back until 12/19.
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Dec 12, 2018 13:15
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Miznasty posted:I am very interested in playing this. They did push the release back until 12/19. Yup, its been pushed back til the 19th. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/12/pirate-mmo-atlas-staying-in-port-for-another-week/ quote:“to give the team more time to run through this massive game’s extensive content”
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Dec 12, 2018 16:58
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I've got a group on standby already. This is exactly my flavor of bullshit. Other survival whatever games never got their hooks in me, but PIRATE survival whatever game? Sign me up.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:43
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im gonna play this there is also an MMO thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3876736 i say lets keep both open, also there is a goon discord https://discord.gg/EH6FV7S
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Dec 14, 2018 05:19
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I'm hoping this won't turn out busted like ARK, but at least some of their sketchier ideas (airships) won't be around for launch
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Dec 14, 2018 20:14
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I liked ark well enough to give this a go.
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Dec 14, 2018 20:15
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Added Discord link.
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Dec 15, 2018 22:31
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Jackard posted:I'm hoping this won't turn out busted like ARK, but at least some of their sketchier ideas (airships) won't be around for launch Same. Also hopefully people don't tame dragons the first week.
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Dec 16, 2018 10:29
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hey buds, im actually excited about this
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Dec 17, 2018 02:41
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bump
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Dec 19, 2018 05:45
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eonwe posted:bump It’s dead until tomorrow when they open up early access. Don’t worry I’m sure this place will liven up.
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Dec 19, 2018 05:49
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I can see the servers on fire from here, what are you talking about?
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Dec 19, 2018 05:57
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TheDarkAvenger posted:It’s dead until tomorrow when they open up early access. Don’t worry I’m sure this place will liven up. just wanted a few people to see the thread and be interested 
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Here is a Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview with one of the devs from Atlas. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/19/atlas-pirate-mmo-developer-interview/
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Dec 19, 2018 16:43
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Added more links. Just over 6 more hours to go.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:36
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I'll support anything that breaks the crap MMO mold.
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GrapeShot has now stated that they are going to have a staggered release. Allowing some "content creators" to get in before launch and then bring in groups of people at a time. Still no confirmation on when this will take place. https://imgur.com/1D55zPM
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Dec 21, 2018 17:08
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this has trainwreck written all over it
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Dec 21, 2018 17:13
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lalaland posted:this has trainwreck written all over it It’s a good idea but they should have: a) Executed this a week ago b) Been up front and communicated their concerns c) Not made promises when they hadn’t done any meaningful stress testing. Who in their right mind was like ‘Well we’ve had a hundred or so concurrent internal test players and we ran simulations so I’m sure we can handle 40k per server no problem’
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Dec 21, 2018 20:13
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Streams are up (after something like a five hour delay!) and it looks very like an Ark expansion so far.
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Carecat posted:Streams are up (after something like a five hour delay!) and it looks very like an Ark expansion so far. Agreed. Ark expansion with less dinosaurs, tech level around the age of sail and a persistent open world is what I thought it would be and that’s what it looks like. Too early to tell but it looks fun.
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ARK is a pretty fun romp but the combat is rear end GARBAGE, I hope they get an actual combat system in and focus more on optimization than adding a billion new things every week
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Dec 22, 2018 17:15
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Nothing says fun like an enormous blank expanse of water which has fifty or sixty instances of the same prefab islands pasted across it at random.
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Dec 22, 2018 17:22
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Capri Sun Tzu posted:ARK is a pretty fun romp but the combat is rear end GARBAGE, I hope they get an actual combat system in and focus more on optimization than adding a billion new things every week I have bad news.
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Dec 22, 2018 17:32
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Rime posted:Nothing says fun like an enormous blank expanse of water which has fifty or sixty instances of the same prefab islands pasted across it at random. you can mate and bear children on the islands
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Dec 22, 2018 17:37
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I'm watching GiantWaffle and it seems pretty fun. I cannot wait to buy it.
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Dec 22, 2018 17:40
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I'm watching a stream of the game and things look pretty janky, but on the positive side I think they will probably accept my job application for UI designer because they clearly don't have anyone on staff in the role already. It does look fun though
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Dec 22, 2018 17:42
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Got in killed a monkey. Great game 10/10!
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Dec 23, 2018 00:50
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300,000 viewers on twitch, crashed steam, and it seems like nobody on SA really gives a toot. it seems like the launch is going poorly with steam reviews growing by the second and almost all people complaining about being unable to log in
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Frog Act posted:300,000 viewers on twitch, crashed steam, and it seems like nobody on SA really gives a toot. it seems like the launch is going poorly with steam reviews growing by the second and almost all people complaining about being unable to log in We're having a blast playing the login page for 30 minutes followed by running around for 30 seconds. Game of the Year already, come join us!
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Frog Act posted:300,000 viewers on twitch, crashed steam, and it seems like nobody on SA really gives a toot. it seems like the launch is going poorly with steam reviews growing by the second and almost all people complaining about being unable to log in This is like every high hype MMO launch ever. Also, the MMO HMO thread and goon Discord are pretty busy.
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where is our goon horde?
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:where is our goon horde? This thread is somewhat dead, more active one is in the MMO section.
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This thread is dead but the game is definitely not - so it would be good to revive it here for recruiting goons to play. After having spent a few days getting up to speed in it - I must say; this game is REALLY fun. Its biggest fault so far is it is poorly optimized, and if you're not rolling with a large company like the goons, it's not quite as fun. (Also server stability.) And pvp has janky balance issues that railroad you into using a particular set of weapons that actually are decent for pvp versus useless pve poo poo. But most everything the game sets out to do it succeeds at. Sailing the high seas to dunk on assholes and gathering/building poo poo is hella fun, and it's a great feeling helping contribute to making the pirating efforts better for your team. The game succeeds at being fun as hell. This game has been exponentially getting better too as we've gotten an influx of goons coming to play, so making more goons aware of it to increase our numbers further via this thread would be fab. Also, here's a strongly recommended pirate album I found: https://open.spotify.com/album/7c4Wh9jvX4pSJT1M0VxlJg?si=uZrW4MHvQlScIxpavujI2w The whole album is a fantastic listen. Here's one of the standout tracks for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmg9VGPXDlI Do we like pirate concept albums? Hell yeah. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Your stormfrun YouTube vid won't save this pile of poo poo
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dylguy90 posted:*Come play this game with us. It's seriously fun. It's absolutely a bad game and an ARK clone BUT it is a first person shooter, pirate, Eve Online. Permanent, emergently-customizable ships you can live on. Deep crafting systems involving hundreds of resources from around the globe. Territory and strategic basebuilding that actually has relevance beyond being pretty to look at - base building and ship building are genuine art forms and can dictate the outcome of a battle. Drive ships, shoot cannons, snipe people, board ships, hunt treasure, kill ghost ships, explore resources, build outposts, be a diplomat, pirate, bounty hunter, bear trucker - all of these roles have a valid place in the game. Posting this reason to play this dumb game. It's awesome.
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