It’s incredibly hard to establish a base to build a ship to sail in when every time you spawn you’re welcomed by the giant jaws of a mega-cobra. It’s because of these predators that I felt more frustration with Atlas’s early hours than I have with any game in months. I’ve had moments where I’ve counted no fewer than five giant snakes, three giant crocodiles, and a few large scorpions chasing me across the desert beach where we first established our camp, all while I’m armed with nothing more than a pitifully fragile spear.
By themselves they’re not too challenging and can be killed to provide meat, hide, and other valuable materials, but more often than not they travel in overwhelming packs. I can’t begin to count how many times a wolf saw me across the beach – yes, a wolf on a beach – and came pouncing at speeds that seemed to rival an SR-71 Blackbird. Animals such as lions, tigers, and bears (don’t you dare say it) prowl the beaches and jungles, and especially when you’re still getting your bearings they are a giant source of grief.
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“You won’t just be fighting malnourishment to survive – these islands are full of irritatingly aggressive predators who would love nothing more than to nourish themselves on your corpse. It’s meant to emulate sailors getting scurvy on the high seas, but at some point the simulation has to give way to being fun, and tracking whether I’ve eaten enough foods containing vitamin C is a tedious chore on top of the otherwise-standard survival mechanics. This is all while you’re keeping an eye on stats such as hunger, thirst, and even the over-the-top vitamin system, which feels absolutely unnecessary. The eventual payoff is the ability to construct either a hand-built base of operations or a highly customizable, multi-player crewable pirate ship of your very own.
As with ARK and most other crafting games, much of your time in Atlas will be spent doing mundane tasks such as hacking trees for wood, picking cotton, stripping bark for tatch and so on. Made by a sister studio to the makers of ARK: Survival Evolved, that game’s design is ingrained in Atlas’s DNA. Of course, after a few times of spawning back home without our expensive and time-consuming ships through little or no fault of our own, that excitement turned to questions of whether it was worth our while to continue.Atlas is a survival MMO set in a large, watery open world that’s dotted with diverse and interesting islands to explore.
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The high-stakes excitement of leaving the relative safety of my base to explore the watery unknown is definitely perilous: What if we’re sunk by a storm? What if there is no land to claim? What if the latest patch makes the marauding Ships of the Damned nigh-indestructible again? All of these thoughts fluttered through my mind every time my company and I sailed out in search of territory and resources. In large part thanks to its dreadful imbalances and instability, setting sail in Atlas is, in its own way, extremely tense.
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