ATLAS Dev Tracker

Originally posted by SlayeDraye

Dollie, I believe the obvious cause for suspicion was the fact that he was in TPG company. Had he been found by himself without a company tag, I doubt the uproar over this would have been as serious.

Originally posted by Ya_like_dags

Happy but out of the loop player here:

Are you still planning on adding NPC pirate bases and cats soon?

Originally posted by Luckboy28

That's a fair point -- other pirate games have less ships.

I think the big difference is that the Skeleton Ships in Sea of Thieves actually have skeletons that you can fight, and there's more than one way to sink them. That adds a whole lot more gameplay/immersion than just "I shoot cannons at an empty ship."

Think about it from a PvE perspective: There's currently no such thing as raiding/boarding ships in a pirate game. If you want to swashbuckle something, you have to go on land and dig up a chest. But even that combat is clunky and unsatisfying -- which is why ATLAS combat is pretty much just a sniping game: Slowly reload gun via mini-game > Shoot once > slowly reload gun via mini-game.

It would have been cool to see a really rich move-set to allow for more detailed combat. Things like rolling, grappling, execution animations, dodges, etc, could make melee combat more engaging, and make ground combat more viable.

Originally posted by Luckboy28

I think they meant more verity, not literally more spawns everywhere.

Launching a pirate game with only like 3 pirate ships was... bold?

And I was massively disappointed when I realized that they don't even have crews. I wanted to throw a hook, swing over, and do swashbuckling battle with skeletons. But no, it's an empty shell that just magically shoots cannons without a crew.

Originally posted by fatherteachergamer

And Grapeshot would have you believe that many of these Changes are not possible or will take many months to do.

Originally posted by WorcestershireToast

What's the reason for not adding more pirates ships to your, you know, pirate game?

Originally posted by usernametakennr57744

It is literally the same engine, you just added some more ue blueprint systems like the water.

You still haven't learned that lies suck .

Originally posted by TamatIRL

I think you're missing the point here, Jesse. Trust is like a currency and because of the actions in the past by WC and now Grapeshot, you're flat broke. You'll need to build some trust if you want to come in here, say shit that seems unlikely, and have people just take you at your word.

Originally posted by BasharAlAspaci

Yeah it'll work just like Ark where if you want crossplay you have to purchase it on the Microsoft store. Atlas will not cross play via Steam.

Originally posted by mangodurban

How about they make the game prioritize pirate fun shenanigans instead of grindy anti fun mechanics. There is a reason the trailer got so much hype, make all that stuff shown there easy to experience. There are ways to add some grind without it effecting every aspect of the game.

Originally posted by BasharAlAspaci

Yeah im interested to see how the cross platform works because steam doesn't cross games with Xbox because of Microsoft. Might have to buy the game again just to play cross platform.

Originally posted by Khardac

It seems the latest patch just added auto demolish - "Structure Decay auto-destruction has been enabled on all servers. Was previously only enabled on Freeports, Golden Age, and PvE servers" - i assume that means all structure that is demolisable - will auto demoish? or am i understanding that wrong?

Originally posted by Frostbite023

Just wanted to say thank you for fixing that update! The hidden pillars are no more! Great work to you and the team.

Originally posted by DatPVMGuy

To those wondering. This is a exploit cstg and them are using. In order to to this bug.

Have a group of people each holding a sail. Do a countdown and have each person place a sail at the same spot. If done right you can have 2 sails in the spot of one glitched without the ship sail unit points. I figured its better to post how to do it instead of reporting it because devs reads reddit more than their support tickets.

This is broken when done on schrooners...you can go 35+ knots. Obviously we did it just to test we are not using the exploit ourself but it is broken.

Originally posted by Capokid

Yeah, the only time I've seen devs actually care about an exploit is right after its been described in detail in public.