Ark: Survival Evolved creators announce Atlas, a pirate survival MMO

Few individuals realise that December is after we’re at biggest threat from pirates, prone to mistake their bloodthirsty cries of “Yo ho!” for the merry “Ho ho ho!” of Father Christmas and run in direction of them reasonably than away. Capitalising on this behaviour, the creators of Ark: Survival Evolved tonight introduced Atlas, an “open-world survival MMO” stuffed with pirates. Word of Atlas leaked months in the past however now it’s official – and it’s launching subsequent week. It’ll have us craft issues, construct ships and bases, sail, battle ships, combat ludicrous creatures, and homicide poor newbies, a bit Ark-y however a lot bigger and on the seas. Have a peek.

Looks prefer it has extra to do than Sea Of Thieves, at the very least.

Studio Wildcard say that it’s meant to help as much as 40,000 gamers, so it’s a giant’un, they usually boast vaguely that its world is “1200 times bigger than Ark.” Given how poorly Ark runs with a world 1200 instances smaller than Atlas, I’d be so very cautious of doing something earlier than braver souls than I enterprise forth to expore efficiency and bugs.

Atlas is coming to Steam subsequent Thursday, December 13th. It’s being made by Instinct Games, one of many 4 studios which labored on Ark, along with Grapeshot Games. Grapeshot are an offshoot of Studio Wildcard, bringing over the 2 co-founders who have been additionally Ark’s artistic administrators plus another Ark people.

Ark’s closing deliberate growth (so far as we all know) launched in November, and was a bit disappointing in response to our Ark: Extinction review, however updates are nonetheless coming. Look, they posted a dev update about constructions and kibble simply the opposite day. Thrilling instances.

Tonight’s announcement got here from The Game Awards, the ‘Oscars but video games’ marketing-o-rama that includes a number of anti-vaping movies.