Storm’s here, Atlas players (however many of you are still around). As of this past Friday, the Maelstrom update has arrived to the piratical sandbox, along with some fresh patch notes.
As promised, this update has added an all-new map to the game that features centralized Golden Age islands for a clearer path to completing the compass, centralized high-density servers to reduce the distance between conflict areas, and the removal of most unique discoveries in order to ease the grind of getting to level cap.
There’s also been some changes as part of an economy balance for this update: Army of Dead on Golden Age Islands gold drops have been reduced by 62%, Island Claim upkeep costs are reduced by about 75%, and NPC crew upkeep costs have reduced by about half on sea and 84% on land.
The update has some other changes as well as a list of removed islands for those who run their own custom servers, so it’s worth a peek at all of the updates.
