
Dive deep into the briny water to explore permanent sunken wrecks and recover salvage, unearth the loot from procedurally-generated Treasure Maps and challenge zones, or complete challenging main questlines. Wage battle against enemy fleets as you singlehandedly command large ships of war using the captaining system (or divide up to the responsibilities among your trusted lieutenants), or take control of any weapon directly with your own character. Start small then expand your spheres of influence from a small island, up to an unstoppable pirate empire that spans across the oceans. ATLAS will host up to 40,000 players exploring the same Globe simultaneously, with an unprecedented scale of cooperation and conflict! Stake your claim in this endless open world as you conquer territory, construct ships, search for buried treasure, assemble forts, plunder settlements and hire crew to join your powerful growing armada. This description is the official description as issued on the Steam website.įrom the creators of ARK: Survival Evolved comes ATLAS - a massively multiplayer first-and-third-person fantasy pirate adventure. If the latest generation of Pathfinders can outwit and outgun Xevos and his legions, and recover the Heart pieces for themselves, they will be faced with the very same choice: whether to attempt to restore the old world, or build a new better one… Official Description Across the vast new world they'll encounter hostile creatures, technological remnants of the Golden Age past, and ultimately the undying spirit of Xevos himself and his soulless “Army of the Damned”, still intent on recovering the pieces of the Heart of the Goddess to raise the continents once again under his vision. Many generations later, as living memory of the “Sundering” has faded into legend and the once-plentiful magical energy has long since dissipated, descendants of the protectors of the Heart of the Goddess - known as “Pathfinders” - emerge from their provincial oceanic lives to explore the new continents and islands, and seek out the power they may yet contain.

However, a powerful warlord known as Xevos sought to unite the human civilizations over the magickind, and launched a war that broke the Heart into pieces, unleashing a wave of destruction that shattered the floating landmasses and plunged them into the waters below. Long-ago, far above the watery world of ATLAS there once existed a magic-powered “Golden Age”- where great Empires of the Sky lived at peace alongside magical creatures, flourishing upon floating continents above the clouds, all powered by a magical source of energy known as the Heart of the Goddess, granted by the powerful beings who dwell in the stars beyond. We built some new technology that stitches together a world that's 1,200 times the size of a single ARK server." - Jesse Rapczak, Studio Wildcard founder. "We took everything that we loved about ARK and put it in the largest game world ever for an action-based MMO.

A separate PvE server cluster allows those who wish to play a more peaceful game to do so. PvP gameplay allows players to wage war on one another, destroying each other's ships and plundering their loot for themselves.

Grapeshot describes Atlas as a 'fantasy pirate adventure' that promises highly customizable ship and base building, sailing, PvP and PvE options, a huge skill tree spanning 15 Disciplines and over 300 Skills, and a variety of creatures (50 distinct creatures to begin with) ranging from parrots and monkeys that, once tamed, will sit on your shoulder, to bears and wolves, to the Hydra and Dragons of myth.Ī mostly water-based landscape spanning 45,000km gives players a vast ocean to explore, dotted with 700 islands to claim or plunder as you see fit.īuilding systems allow players to create entirely unique ships, as well as land-bases, and a vast and varied skill tree as well as in-depth character customization ensures individuality between players.Ĭreatures both natural and mythical wander the oceans and islands, for players to find, do battle with or even tame for their own menagerie. Created by Grapeshot Games, a sister company to Wildcard Studios, the creators of Ark: Survival Evolved, Atlas promises an enormous world and immense freedom in gameplay.

MMO Game Atlas is an MMORPG on an apparently unprecedented scale, hosting up to 40,000 players on the same map at one time. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute information or simply chat, check our discussion forums and chat room to share tips. The works in this wiki are a collaboration of global players to bring the best information, strategies, hints and tips for this game.
