ATLAS has been amazing so far!! Thoroughly enjoy it just like I enjoyed ARK!! Love all the new mechanics and I love how it feels so familiar!!

"OMG Its an ARK reskin! Don't buy it! Its a scam" Please show me a game franchise that HASN'T used and reused assets from previous versions of their games to lighten their futute work load???? Battlefield 1-4. Literally a constant game of reskinning. Tomb Raider! All the new games have the same kind of building design or art design!!

If you look closely enough, a LOT of the skins and item models in ATLAS look and are DIFFERENT from ARK and they even added a ton more items!! We used to just have "stone" But now we have slate, chalcedony, granite etc. How is that simply a "reskin"??? They took the best things from ARK and simply expanded on those ideas!! The skill trees are a lot more complex and it encourages people to join a company (a clan) so you all have access to the entirety of the skill tree. ARK was one tree and you could eventually unlock almost everything. ARK you could play solo because there was nowhere to travel to aside from traveling across the only landmass in the entire server. Servers used to only hold 100-200 people. Now we have servers operating alongside eachother and a massive map to explore! OMG yes the islands are copied, but do you REALIZE how long it would TAKE to design fully unique islands??? Even Stranded Deep abandoned the "proceedurally generated island" idea because it caused way too much lag.

And YES the game has its fair share of common issues like lag, FPS drops and item/creature spawns being crazy, but we ALL accepted that risk when we chose to hit the purchase button.

I have also had my fair share of misery. I spent 10 hours building a Scooner by MYSELF...only to have it destroyed while I slept IRL. Logged in and it was gone. Well, thats how the game is on PvP servers.

"OMG They said it was gonna have 40,000 players all playing at the same time! They lied! Don't buy it!" Well, maybe things stand as they are because again, Early Access game. They learned from their mistakes with ARK, so having 150 people per map grid makes sense in terms of balancing the overall performance and decreasing the liklihood of server disconnects and reducing lag. There are only 4 servers, each with dozens of micro servers for each map grid. There may very well be more servers in the future. For now, less is more.

This game is a GRIND. Anyone who sits there for 2 hours and complains about the trailer being "false advertising" probably hasn't sat there and done what I did. They have not spent a good amount of time farming materials and making a ship on their own! Most of them have less than 1 hour played, aren't in a company (clan) and have no idea what the rst of the game holds for them. This is NOT the type of game where you get from point A to point Z and finish a game in a few hours during one session. So if that tedium is not appealing to you, then by all means, leave. But do NOT trash the game simply because you do not like it.

I give this a 9/10! But that may change when we see more content and see where the player feedback takes us!!