So it turns out that my main worry for this game that I mentioned above—server size—has been addressed, and in spectacular fashion, as this will be a persistent universe capable of hosting an incredible 40,000 to 50,000 players. Moreover, inspired by
Planetary Annihilation and the wave of games with spherical maps that inimitable masterpiece has inspired,
Atlas will be played on a globe of an archipelago (which is where the game's name comes from: Google it for the history lesson) filled with all sorts of land masses to explore, build up, and fight over. And you'll be able to zoom out to planet level on the official website and see the borders of your clan as you compete with other clans for territory! And there will be recruitable NPCs on top of the tens of thousands of players for a truly living world! And there will be aging and procreation, so that when your character gets old and dies, his son will continue his legacy! And God himself will descend from the heavens and say, "Might as well wrap up the videogame industry at this point, since the best game ever has arrived".
Yes, I know how ridiculously unreal all this sounds, but here it is. And it's about to drop in a mere couple of days (the 19th). In the
Insomnia Discord [
> ] I have posted a small book's worth of commentary on the game that I won't bother repeating here (so head on over there and search for "Atlas", if you want the details), and several other CULT players are excited about the game too, so that's what we'll be playing the very nanosecond the game drops on Steam on the 19th, and hopefully—as long as it's ANYwhere near as good as it sounds—for many weeks and months after. And everyone is welcome to join us on this grand adventure for the very low special end-of-year holiday clearance sales price of $1/month on Patreon to support the clan's activities:
https://www.patreon.com/icycalmOfficial site:
https://www.playatlas.com/Don't miss the slick countdown timer!
Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/834910/ATLAS/Grapeshot Games wrote:ATLAS: The ultimate survival MMO of unprecedented scale with 40,000+ simultaneous players in the same world. Join an endless adventure of piracy & sailing, exploration & combat, roleplaying & progression, settlement & civilization-building, in one of the largest game worlds ever! Explore, Build, Conquer!
The trailer is much the same that was leaked some months ago and is linked above, but here's an official link for it now:
Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6OTD21w4gThere's still stuff in the old version that's not in the new, and vice versa, though, so scroll up and check the old one too after you've watched this. It's worth it.
Hope to see you exploring, building and fighting alongside me on the 19th, otherwise be sure to catch my stream, because it'll be epic! (I'll probably be streaming for 15 hours straight or something.)