Atlas is coming to Xbox - a threat to SoT?

@galactic-geek it’s a different experience. Some players may like it some players may not. Any game that comes out may steal players away not just another pirate game. If it does take people away hopefully it will cleanse the community lol.

Interesting:

"One of the things we are really excited about is crossplay support. We actually are going be having Atlas be crossplay enabled for both xbox and PC on day 1 at launch. So players on both platform will be able to play together in the exact same worlds, on all of our official servers. Something else that we are working on is keyboard and mouse support for xbox so players can look forward to that.

The one thing we really want to make sure xbox players understand is that when we launch Atlas on xbox, it's actually gonna have full game parity with xbox and PC. That means that whenever we push an update or we release new content for the game, xbox and PC will both get that simultaneously, it's not a different game for xbox or a different game for PC, it's the exact same game across both platforms."

Sounds familiar! Also, pretty direct approach to xbox players from Wildcard. "Platform parity, crossplay, m+k, deal with it". No real mention of optional crossplay either... Definitely won't be a game for many over here. They don't mention PVP/PVE servers like in Ark, but they did mention official servers, so maybe people will be able to rent those or run them privately, though the worlds described seem a lot bigger than Ark maps.

If they go the same route as Ark in terms of ship and base building, people coming from SOT might have a rude awakening, getting your ship sunk or base raided means it's gone, you have to start from scratch and build again (after farming enough resources of course). Losing an hour of loot will seem quite trivial in comparison. Persistent worlds also means ships and bases can be raided while you are not even in the game. The joy of logging into the game only to find a pile of flaming rubble where your glorious base once stood.

Still looks kinda cool though! As an Ark fan, I might check it out eventually, it looked like quite a hot mess in the beginning though.

I wonder how Xbox players are going to like Chinese hackers flooding your server and/or ddos-ing you offline, maybe even stealing your gamer tag and getting all your info....I've heard terrible things from the pc side...if this is still a thing, which I believe it is, Xbox is going to be a haven for these types of people.

I've tried it but way to much of a grind for my liking. That's the reason I love sea of thieves I can jump on do a couple of voyages, do a bit of PvP, fight a few bosses and then log off it's a more casual experience

@galactic-geek

Looked at it when it first released.
Watched a good bit of it on Twitch with BurkeBlack and his Late Shift mateys over Christmas.
Was entertaining enough... but even those guys moved on fairly quickly to other games. Was so... buggy.
I'm I interested to give it a go myself ? ... probably not, I have my "Pirate" game for the moment :)

@pomalotacusmk3 said in Atlas is coming to Xbox - a threat to SoT?:

@bloodybil
'will be able to play together'
is not the same as
'will be forced to play together'

Of course, that's not how they formulated it, but again, neither did Rare, did they?

Back on topic, I'll pass on atlas, at least till it releases and everything has been laid bare for all to see...one thing that rare has taught me: anything with 'supports crossplay' in the product description should be cautiously approached.

Wise move, I am sure all the people who bought SoT without doing their research beforehand and regretted the crossplay bits will learn of their mistakes before buying a game that might not suit them depending on 1 specific factor.

I will probably wait until the release as well and see how it goes from there.

@galactic-geek

Atlas and Sea of Thieves are two very different games.

Atlas is an MMO, Sea of Thieves is not. This makes them very different experiences in a myriad of ways. They are not competitors simply because they are both pirate games.

Let's say that some game dev out there came out with an Astronaut game, where you fly your own spaceship around, encountering other teams of astronauts on their own spaceship - where interactions were unpredictable and could result in cooperation or PvP. That would be a real competitor to Sea of Thieves.

Look at the differences/similarities in the overarching gameplay experiences instead of what the setting is here.

If what I've heard about Atlas is true, then it has nowhere near the same level of polish as Sea of Thieves, despite this game also having some pretty infamous bugs.

On top of that, the experience is different. Sea of Thieves at its core is an adventure game, while Atlas is more of a "base builder" or resource manager since you can construct ships yourself.

Have you played Ark on Xbox? It's a dumpster fire. I admit that I have fun playing it from time to time but it's so janky that I literally get a headache playing it.

It's more like minecraft. It's really nothing like SoT.

Probably the most noticeable effect will be a lot of players who have, on this forum, expressed how they want to change the core basis of this game to be something different will move over, play Atlas, be disappointed, then come back here with a new string of uninspired and ill thought out ideas about how to change SoT to be a different game.

oh atlas the game that got terrible reviews wouldn't worry while SoT has its issues it doesn't compare to the broken boring mess atlas is