# Atlas the new Elyria made better (released date 12/13/2018)
**URL:** https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542
**Category:** GG Other Games
**Tags:** mmo, video, news, atlas, survival
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542 "2018-12-09T21:42:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Zercon](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Zercon)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/1 "2018-12-09T21:42:35Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WAe6N2wgSY)
[steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/834910/ATLAS/)
Claim territory and apply taxation and behavior rules to that which you own: be a benevolent governor, a feudal lord, or a ruthless dictator. Territory ownership is visualized on your dynamic zoomable World Map, with Fog of War obscuring uncharted regions and Shroud of War hiding enemy territories out of sight range. Contest other government’s ownership of land, structures, or ships to expand your empire! The top large-scale Spheres of Influence on the Official ATLAS’ are visualized in real-time on the Play ATLAS homepage. Design your own custom flag per-pixel to apply to your claims, to be famous (or infamous)
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### Author:  [@Alexander-Nightsky](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Alexander-Nightsky)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/2 "2018-12-10T22:47:58Z")
Sounds pretty interesting. I’ll probably give it a try, at least on a local private server with all the settings on super easy.
As with ARK, I’ll most likely find the official server too punishingly hard or timers taking too long for my taste.
Plus I’ll want to mod in things like flying airships, questionable clothing choices like some Skyrim mods allow lol, NPC/pet resurrection ability like an ARK mod had, and other fun things.
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### Author:  [@Darthaden](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Darthaden)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/3 "2018-12-11T11:11:38Z")
Pretty skeptical about how well optimized and buggy the game will be with a 2 year EA and being made by the same people behind Ark but I’ll fall for it again and give them my $30 lol
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### Author:  [@Zercon](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Zercon)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/4 "2018-12-11T14:06:24Z")
truthfully I think they added way to much at one time but I will be trying this game out. And the way they are going to cluster the servers as one is crazy, they are going to do it like EVE but use the sea to change servers with no zoning will be interesting to see. If they pull it off maybe other games will do the same thing
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### Author:  [@Wildfires](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Wildfires)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/5 "2018-12-11T20:30:52Z")
I will probably watch it to start with . I am very skeptical of this game with them talking about what you can do and one is take someones virginity. This makes me think they are condoning rape and to me this is not ok in anyway. I hope it was a play on words that was poorly chosen but we will see.
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### Author:  [@Darthaden](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Darthaden)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/6 "2018-12-13T11:16:26Z")
got pushed back to next week
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/7 "2018-12-19T04:13:17Z")
Early Access starts tomorrow (12/19) on Steam. It’s sink or swim time for the devs. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Darthaden](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Darthaden)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/8 "2018-12-19T15:21:08Z")
Doesn’t look like there’s a whole lot of interest at this point but if anyone starts or joins a crew for us old folks let me know. I’ll be buying the game shortly after it goes up to start the download but wont be able to play until tomorrow so I’ll check back here to see what island everyone is starting on
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### Author:  [@Zercon](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Zercon)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/9 "2018-12-19T15:58:06Z")
talk to the ark players (wozzle’s Discord) it looks like people not using the forums that much
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/10 "2018-12-19T19:19:28Z")
Same Darthaden, since early access supposedly starts around 6pm ET that means downloading overnight with my snail bandwidth. Since the game will be very ARK-like being in development for 2~ years I suppose there’s no great rush.
Hoping for the best, the game world needs a decent MMO to take our minds off the crap they’ve been peddling. 😛
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### Author:  [@Zercon](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Zercon)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/11 "2018-12-19T19:45:39Z")
it is only 30 gb so maybe not to long
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/12 "2018-12-19T20:07:38Z")
Hmmm, that’s suspicious. 🙂 ARK is hogging around 168gb. If the 30 holds true then it might finish up around midnight if the CenturyLink squirrels are running fast. There’s hope. Yay for pirates before bedtime! 🥳
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### Author:  [@Zercon](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Zercon)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/13 "2018-12-19T21:57:25Z")
ark started out as 30gb when it was first released and now like you mine is up to 189gb
here is some more info you may like
- The map is 45,000 square kilometers, with 700 land masses capable of supporting more than 40,000 simultaneous players. (If you’re sailing in a straight line without any stops or detours, it would take you about 30 hours to sail across the world map – and that’s also if the wind was in your favour!)
- Ship upgrades, different weapon types and character customization
- 300 skills spread across 15 different classes
- Quests, subquests and PvP
- Land claim features
- 50 varied creatures to interact with
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### Author:  [@Vusion](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Vusion)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/14 "2018-12-19T23:50:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/15 "2018-12-20T00:23:48Z")
Bummer on the latest time bump… I finally finished watching the awesome Black Sails tv series and was totally ready for more pirates. A Friday launch would be a great way to stress test the servers and stress the devs. Win! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/16 "2018-12-21T19:16:34Z")
Snippet from [PC Gamer article](https://www.pcgamer.com/atlas-mmo/):
- For example, players in Atlas will age and eventually die if they get too old, forcing players to start a new character. But Stieglitz tells me the second phase of that feature will include a full systems where players can mate and birth children that they can “transfer” their stats to and take control of when they reach a certain age.
That just sounds wrong on so many levels. 😁
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### Author:  [@vanster](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/vanster)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/17 "2018-12-21T19:25:48Z")
looks interesting, i may have to try this one out tonight with some beer drinking tonight.
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### Author:  [@Vusion](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Vusion)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/18 "2018-12-21T19:53:31Z")
Steam says it is 100gb. At I thought I saw that .
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### Author:  [@Petalwing](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Petalwing)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/19 "2018-12-21T19:55:21Z")
Looks like there’s two threads here. I just came across this on Steam. Can’t wait to check it out. I checked discussions and couldn’t find a launch time. Checked Twitch and there’s several streamers with countdowns. Looks like it launches at 5pm CST today. I haven’t seen a price yet though. Anyone know the cost? Does OTG have a Discord? Arr, where we meetin’ mateys? 🏴☠️
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### Author:  [@Terra](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/u/Terra)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/t/atlas-the-new-elyria-made-better-released-date-12-13-2018/10542/20 "2018-12-21T20:03:38Z")
Supposedly it’s $29 to buy it during early access, or $50-something at launch
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