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:
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...
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...
