There's no denying that 2018 has been a terrible year to the majority of fans of playing as pirates and discovering the unknown. First, a new disappointment was discovered in Rare's
Sea of Thieves that turned out to be an unfished product with a serious lack of content, and now the
ARK: Survival Evolved studio launched
ATLAS that might be the biggest video game hoax since 2014's
Watch_Dogs.
ATLAS was officially announced during this month's The Game Awards and insatntly became one of the biggest highlights of the Geoff Keighley-produced show. In its reveal trailer, developers Instinct Games and Grapeshot Games were promising a vast open-world filled with activates to do, featuring combat between hulking pirate ships, underwater exploration, first-person brawls, and much more, as
ATLAS was even supposed to boast over 40,000 players in the same world, all discovering it simultaneously.
Instead of being another
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, ATLAS is basically a
Sea of Thieves 2.0 and a shameless attempt on selling players a big lie that's all but officially the scrapped pirate-themed
ARK: Survival Evolved DLC priced at $30. YouTuber Blackbird has shared a comparison video that spotlights those enormous differences between the
ATLAS beta and what was promised in its reveal trailer.
Take a look (and hope that Ubisoft won't make the same mistakes in their upcoming
Skull & Bones):
From the creators of ARK: Survival Evolved comes ATLAS - a massively multiplayer first-and-third-person fantasy pirate adventure. 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.
ATLAS is now available on Steam Early Access.