Game abandoned?

[alexzander]

i heard that developers gave up on this game, is that true

[Balls]

Originally posted by Captain Benjamin Worngold:

no it is not...... with the latest update to Ark now released the developers are working on a roadmap to further develop Atlas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GoZ-4jDI8

https://www.playatlas.com/index.php?/atlas-news/news/atlas-roadmap-r207/

The only developers who work on both Ark and Atlas are Jesse Rapczak and Jeremy Stieglitz, they are the lead developers and co-founders of both Wildcard and Grapeshot. Beyond that, Atlas and Ark have their own development teams. They specifically said that they were doing a one-year-long recruitment phase to ensure that development on Atlas was not coming at the expense of Ark. Atlas' development didn't halt during Genesis' launch or last few months of development. Currently in Phase 1 of the roadmap and we have already seen 2 patches to prove it.

[Scourn]

Originally posted by Balls:

Originally posted by Captain Benjamin Worngold:

no it is not...... with the latest update to Ark now released the developers are working on a roadmap to further develop Atlas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GoZ-4jDI8

https://www.playatlas.com/index.php?/atlas-news/news/atlas-roadmap-r207/

The only developers who work on both Ark and Atlas are Jesse Rapczak and Jeremy Stieglitz, they are the lead developers and co-founders of both Wildcard and Grapeshot. Beyond that, Atlas and Ark have their own development teams. They specifically said that they were doing a one-year-long recruitment phase to ensure that development on Atlas was not coming at the expense of Ark. Atlas' development didn't halt during Genesis' launch or last few months of development. Currently in Phase 1 of the roadmap and we have already seen 2 patches to prove it.

this is not true at all , go look at every ark dev pretty much on twitter , everyone of them do something on atlas also. Just because they say that and you believe it doesnt make it true at all. Hell Dolli and Jat are posting on their twitters about ark daily. so is cudacores etc. Atlas basically stopped development when ark genesis got delayed , unless you want to count a couple of basic patches that changed literally a couple of data tables inside blueprint files that can take anyone familiar with modding seconds to do.

[swmark78]

Originally posted by Scourn:

Originally posted by Balls:

https://www.playatlas.com/index.php?/atlas-news/news/atlas-roadmap-r207/

The only developers who work on both Ark and Atlas are Jesse Rapczak and Jeremy Stieglitz, they are the lead developers and co-founders of both Wildcard and Grapeshot. Beyond that, Atlas and Ark have their own development teams. They specifically said that they were doing a one-year-long recruitment phase to ensure that development on Atlas was not coming at the expense of Ark. Atlas' development didn't halt during Genesis' launch or last few months of development. Currently in Phase 1 of the roadmap and we have already seen 2 patches to prove it.

this is not true at all , go look at every ark dev pretty much on twitter , everyone of them do something on atlas also. Just because they say that and you believe it doesnt make it true at all. Hell Dolli and Jat are posting on their twitters about ark daily. so is cudacores etc. Atlas basically stopped development when ark genesis got delayed , unless you want to count a couple of basic patches that changed literally a couple of data tables inside blueprint files that can take anyone familiar with modding seconds to do.

Yeah, they are all talking about Ark and haven't mentioned Atlas in a while.

Has all work on Atlas stopped? No, they are bug fixing and doing some re-balancing. The patches since the XBox release have all felt like post-launch maintenance and upkeep and not actual active game development.

It honestly feels they took all the Xbox Atlas money and poured it into Ark: Genesis. Now that Genesis Part 1 is out, Wildcard is committed for the rest of the year on Part 2. Then MAYBE they might go back to working on Atlas. But I doubt it. "Roadmap" or no, progress on Atlas has halted. Even if they were to get back on track, the Roadmap basically said no new content until Phase 4 and as Phase 1 is in it's 6th month, we can't expect the Ships/Seas overhaul or Combat overhaul (Phase 2 and 3) to be done by the end of the year. That's based on the assumption they take devs off working on Ark and put them back on Atlas. Which they've shown no signs of doing.

[Doc]

On the bright side, no development is an improvement over the trash they were putting out this time last year.

[Scourn]

actually the last patch posted would take anyone with knowledge of unreal a couple of hours for one person to produce. New content takes longer but that patch you mentioned thirty days ago was two or three blueprint file changes inside of a data table. They also managed to mess that up and had to repatch fixes. Jat or a CM could easily do that not even a dev. A lot of people here are misinformed and thats because wildcard likes to spread their own misinformation. Atlas and Ark are the same devs linked-in and twitter are your friends to always exposing boogus info they post. Do I think atlas is abandoned? Not a chance, its still profitable and wildcard will not abandoned it. But thinking its being done truthfully by another team? Thats rubbish as you can see from the devs postings on twitter linking themselves to both games - not just the CMs like Jat and Dollie but actual devs.

[Balls]

Originally posted by Scourn:

actually the last patch posted would take anyone with knowledge of unreal a couple of hours for one person to produce. New content takes longer but that patch you mentioned thirty days ago was two or three blueprint file changes inside of a data table. They also managed to mess that up and had to repatch fixes. Jat or a CM could easily do that not even a dev. A lot of people here are misinformed and thats because wildcard likes to spread their own misinformation. Atlas and Ark are the same devs linked-in and twitter are your friends to always exposing boogus info they post. Do I think atlas is abandoned? Not a chance, its still profitable and wildcard will not abandoned it. But thinking its being done truthfully by another team? Thats rubbish as you can see from the devs postings on twitter linking themselves to both games - not just the CMs like Jat and Dollie but actual devs.

Thanks for the information. Makes me wonder why they even created another company to develop Atlas.

[MightyMonte88]

I see allot of debate on this subject, in my opinion based on whats going on, atlas is on the furthest back burner of wildcards stove lol.