Unruly piratical sandbox MMO Atlas seems to be considerably weirder after the launch of its second “Mega Update”. Previously restricted to its public take a look at realm and now reside, the patch doesn’t appear to essentially have a theme, past devs Grapeshot Games including ‘cool stuff’, actually and figuratively. There’s the Polar Ice Dungeon with a boss battle in opposition to an abominable snowman, new islands across the equator and poles to discover, some very unusual new animals plus torpedo launchers and extra. You can see the full patch notes here, and a trailer under. The game can also be half worth till tomorrow.
The new Polar Ice Dungeon is at the moment the closest factor Atlas has to ‘endgame’ PvE content material. An enormous new surroundings accessible solely to gamers which have unlocked the 9 energy stones hidden around the globe. It’s an impressive-looking surroundings, I have to admit. What I discover extra attention-grabbing are the brand new bizarre fantasy animals they’ve added. While not formally known as Camelphants, that’s what everybody will name the Olfend, a long-legged large creature able to spraying water and placing out fires. The Giant Tortugar is an enormous dinosaur-turtle with a side-panel that opens up, letting gamers journey inside it, even underwater.
High-level gamers will even be capable of equip their ships with torpedoes, large boarding harpoons and devoted fishing gear. Given the regular growth into extra fantastical territory after simply two updates, I’m curious what Atlas will appear to be in the long run. There are after all a myriad of smaller bug-fixes and a few respectable wanting quality-of-life enhancements, however oddly, no point out of efficiency enhancements. As with its predecessor, ARK: Survival Evolved, Atlas is infamous for bringing even high-end machines to their knees. That, it appears, hasn’t modified with this replace.
For the subsequent 20 hours (on the time of writing) Atlas is half price, right down to £11.89/€12.49/$14.99 on Steam. The game remains to be in early entry, and nonetheless very tough across the edges. While considerably improved now, a lot of Steve Hogarty’s maiden near-launch voyage with the game nonetheless holds true.
