Well, this one snuck up on me... Early access scheduled for tomorrow (12/19)

Bruttle

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MMO's are my favorite genre by far. It is also a genre that has been absolutely vacant quality entries for several years now. As a result, I have been regularly checking for anything new or on the horizon. So you can imagine my suprise when I stumbled on Atlas. It was supposed to release in early access last week, but now is scheduled for tomorrow.... ish.


So what is known and claimed by the developer:
  • Basically Ark 2.0 (built with Ark assets by Ark developer Wildcard)
  • Only two official servers planned for early release, PVP and PVE (so if you hated getting oneshotted by some jackass on a flyer while you're standing in your underwear with a stone hatchet, there's a pve option)
  • Servers are allegedly capable of handling up to 40,000 concurrent players (...allegedly)
  • Pirate era gameplay (with ship battles)
  • Map is allegedly 1,200x larger than anything in Ark
  • Map comprised of huge sea and tons of islands
  • Uses "WaveWorks" for realistic water physics (rolling waves)
  • Territories can be claimed and taxed
  • Separate development team from Ark
  • 5 ships available to build and modify (from rowboat to warship)
  • NPC's in game (and for hire as crew for ship)
  • Treasure maps
  • Elemental, floating city, god based end game bosses
  • 50 tamable creatures at the early access
  • Players can build structures just like Ark
  • Private servers and mods will eventually be available

There's tons more, but that's just what I have read so far. Honestly, I don't care if it's basically a reskinned and modded Ark. At this point the genre has been so devoid of quality I'm willing to give it a shot. Hell, it can't be as bad as 76...
 

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I saw this the other week, looks good and I'd love to play a fantasy pirate FPSMMO. If all 18,000 Test members played we could rule the server.
 
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I'm planning on playing in between releases of SC. Looks fun and I'm really interested to see if they how the pull off 40k plus in one world.
 
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