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ATLAS announced, a massively multiplayer first-and-third-person fantasy pirate adventure coming to Steam December 13th, XB1 in 2019
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Looks interesting but being made by the Ark people makes me worry about it's performance. Combat also looks pretty rough.
This was my impression and its gonna sell like fcking hot cakes
I feel like I have been looking for a really great pirate game my whole life. Maybe this will be it. Ark devs though...
Sid Meier's Shadowbane
Shades of 25yo me coming back raidin' and politickin' all errwhrr...IF they can pull it off.
Shades of 25yo me coming back raidin' and politickin' all errwhrr...IF they can pull it off.
This sounds fucking wild. I'm curious to see how it pans out--moreso than the game itself.
Presentation ran at like 10 fps in spots but it does look like it has a lot more to do than SoT.
An actual MMO, I'm super in. Shit looks dope as hell I am gonna rope my friends into this to play it with me.
Yeah my first impression was this is what sea of thieves should have been. This will be big.
It will be huge, I just tweet this out and got 200 likes in seconds.
PC gamer has an article up.
Very in depth.
"Stieglitz says Atlas will likely be in Early Access for two years or longer. It will not have any paid DLC or expansions because "the world of Atlas is obviously going to grow, but it should grow for everybody." To help cover the cost of development, though, Atlas will eventually add cosmetic microtransactions before leaving Early Access. The idea, at this time, is that players will be able to buy outfits and decorations but in-game methods will be available to "grind" for these items. And though Atlas only costs $30 USD right now, it will eventually cost $60 USD when it leaves Early Access.
As for performance, Stieglitz contends that "at launch Atlas will run better than ARK does now" and will continue to improve from there. Part of that is due to improvements made to both the Unreal Engine and Studio Wildcard's own code, but Rapczak also says that, no surprise here, open sea is a lot easier to render than dense jungles."
Very in depth.
"Stieglitz says Atlas will likely be in Early Access for two years or longer. It will not have any paid DLC or expansions because "the world of Atlas is obviously going to grow, but it should grow for everybody." To help cover the cost of development, though, Atlas will eventually add cosmetic microtransactions before leaving Early Access. The idea, at this time, is that players will be able to buy outfits and decorations but in-game methods will be available to "grind" for these items. And though Atlas only costs $30 USD right now, it will eventually cost $60 USD when it leaves Early Access.
As for performance, Stieglitz contends that "at launch Atlas will run better than ARK does now" and will continue to improve from there. Part of that is due to improvements made to both the Unreal Engine and Studio Wildcard's own code, but Rapczak also says that, no surprise here, open sea is a lot easier to render than dense jungles."
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Developers of Ark eh? I'll be skeptical as to how this game will actually perform upon its eventual release.
Hmmmmm... I'll wait about a week after release before buying it to see how performance is, but if it turns out to be OK I could see me playing this with my friends and having a blast.
Sounds like you've been ignoring everything that they've been doing since release. It has actually come a long way and they are very much continuing to push content into it.
Same =/
At this point I've resigned myself to just waiting for the Black Flag remastered edition, sold with the season pass for 2020's Assassin's Creed.
Not really. I think this latest update to SoT was a great push forward in making the world seem more alive, but this game looks saturated with stuff going on.
One thing is for sure at least for a few weeks this game is going to be enormous on twitch with the RP/Survival crowd which will generate a ton of sales. Hope they can do better than they did with Ark because this really interest me.
At the moment it does. Like anything I'd wait and see before hyping yourself up.
Looks like a Sea of Thieves with a lot more jank and more rpg elements. I'm interested, but it doesn't capture the magic that Sea of Thieves does for me. Let's see.
Looks like it might interest me, unlike vanilla sea of thieves. So I'm cautiously optimistic but it might just have been a very solid trailer so I'll wait for impressions and info on amount of different content to do
With all the content updates coming to Sea of Thieves, the launch of Skull and Bones and this reaching early access, 2019 will be a very piratey year.
It's an easy comparison to make but they are two extremely different games. Sea of thieves is more of a co-op pvp game with small player number per instances and a focus on finding loot and delivering it for pay while avoiding getting robbed.
This is a survival game with a pirate theme with extensive building mechanics a much larger world and many more players. Obviously it's not one giant landmass with 40 thousand people. Seems like the island territories are all separate instances with I'm sure a player cap and it uses the ocean as a loading zone between them. But from what I read your ships are customizable and islands can be claimed and anyone building on them can be taxed. Much like Eve Online everyone plays on one giant "universe" but in this game there is a PvP and PvE option.
The game has a lot of potential but the developer doesn't spark a lot of faith.
Also here is a longer gameplay trailer.
Yeah, I'm interested. Hope it's not too heavy on the survival aspects. I get tired of those very fast most of the times. But knowing they are the ARK dev's..
I like the idea of the seas being a large loading screen with the islands as separate servers with smaller player counts. Will keep an eye on this.
Meanwhile sailing the seas on Sea of Thieves.
I think it's gonna be tough to beat the feel/look of the water and ship combat in Sea of Thieves. But for sure there will be a ton of streamers playing this next week so I'll be watching a lot of it before deciding to jump in.