Editing ATLAS (section)

==Trivia==
*Atlas has often been publicly criticized as being "An Ark Expansion released as a standalone title" for reasons listed below. However, this accusation comes from a fundamental lack of understanding of the processes involved in game development, specifically including but not limited to the processes of prototyping and greyboxing. Atlas was designed as a standalone game, but for the sake of releasing it in 2018 instead of 2020 or beyond, its early concept stages were tested and iterated as a sublevel of an existing IP of the developers. This is a process that is not only common in franchise development, but nearly universal, as a mere spoken concept will not keep an entire team coordinating in unison to visualize the same final concept, so early development iterations of established studios make use of other properties they own in order to lay down a prototype or framework to get the team members on the same page. Atlas made the mistake of leaving those assets in the game and not cleaning up properly. But the notion that Atlas is an expansion pack deceptively released as a separate title is one resulting from a fundamental lack of game development insight and further from individuals having not played the game, as Atlas' primary limiting factor to its success can be attributed to the fact that the playerbase of Ark: Survival Evolved, upon hearing of Atlas, became wound up in widespread hype about "Ark 2.0" but upon entering the game, widespread public disappointment was expressed resulting from how dissimilar to two games played.

Below I have left the conjecture often used to claim "Atlas was an Ark Expansion." From here, the decision making process of whether it was or was not, is yours to pursue.

**There used to be a hidden menu in the game which would show the Ark menu showing all of its maps and one called "ocean".
**there are many creatures that share similarities with the Expansion Pack Aberration suggesting it was originally intended to take its place.
**The [[Drake]] is in Aberration albeit called the Rock Drake and is far more accurate to its mythological counterpart.
**The [[Giant Crab]] is clearly based on the Karkinos from Aberration with similar mechanics and attacks.
**The [[Kraken]] is a near carbon copy of Rockwell sharing similar attacks, animations and model.
**The [[Gorgon]] has a similar snake like creature to compare in Aberration as well, as Aberration has the Basilisk.