Remember Maelstrom, the last-ship-standing game of naval combat that entered Early Access last year? Download studio one full mac. The one where you can be captain of an orc ship pulled by giant sharks, and the shrinking. You pilot your ship through the dreaded 'Maelstrom' asteroid belt - suddenly your best friend thrusts towards you and fires, directly at your cockpit. You raise your shields just in time, and the battle is joined. The deadliest stretch of space known to mankind has just gotten deadlier. Dec 01, 2020 Cannons are the heart of combat in Maelstrom. Cannonballs are physics controlled, with a significant firing arc and hang time, meaning prediction and good aim are necessary to deal damage effectively. On the receiving end, players with good reactions and anticipation coupled with a nimble ship can dodge incoming fire. WARSHIPS WIN WITH WITS.
ARK servers
Our PvE servers host all official maps. Join any of them, travel freely among them and enjoy well balanced mods and rates. We care!
Online maps
Check who are your neighbours on our online maps. Or use the maps for planning a new spot for your new base. And add your landmarks too.
Server rules
Our community follows the rules to ensure enjoyable and friendly gaming experience on our servers. Read and follow them.
Support team
Our team will assist you to fix login issues to servers or major issues ingame. These volunteers are ready to help as well as enforce server rules.
Our ARK Servers
Our servers are hosted on a dedicated server based in a London data centre, which was custom built for our needs.
The Ark maps run several well balanced mods that enhance the gaming experience without breaking basic ARK principles and strategies. We recommend to install the Maelstrom mods collection prior connecting our servers for the first time, to minimize timeout issues during server connection.
Now you can join our servers and enjoy never-ending action and friendly community. Using the icons below, you can connect the servers, upvote them, or open related online maps.
Aberration [PvE]
185.198.189.124:28485
Ragnarok [PvE]
185.198.188.133:28440
Island [PvE]
185.198.189.124:28465
Scorched Earth [PvE]
185.198.189.124:28425
Center [PvE]
185.198.188.133:28490
Extinction [PvE]
185.198.189.124:28405
Valguero [PvE]
185.198.189.124:28415
Genesis [PvE]
185.198.188.133:28515
Crystal Isles [PvE]
185.198.188.133:28340
PvE Rates
x3 Experience
x2 Harvesting
x3 Taming
x12 Breeding
x20 Maturation
x3 Loot& Fishing
x30 Platform building
Max player level: 300 (With Boss unlocks)
Max wild dino level: 150
Our Awesome Team
Our volunteers spend their time and effort to make players’ gaming experience as much enjoyable as possible. You can contact them for any connection or server unavailability problems, or for any major issues ingame. You should report them any intentional violation of the servers rules. Overall, these are great and friendly people so spread them your love and respect.
HaTcH
Founder
The founder of Maelstrom Gaming. Never sleeping robot watching server logs 24×7. Located in UK. Batch read line from file into variable. Powered by beer. He likes stalking random players ingame.
Beautyfly
Support team
Beautyfly is From the Netherlands and its a massive dinosaur collector. Colours bursting everywhere and she has a hunger for auctions like a seagul has for your seaside iceream “mine-Mine-MINE- MINE!!!”
Mystery
Discord Technician
The indomitable guardian of Maelstrom servers and Discord guru. Located in Netherlands, unbelievable strong man lifting any weights with ease and smile. Be glad he is around.
Haarah
Webmaster
Taking care of our website and online maps. Very busy man with deep love in ARK. Proud father of two kids, located in the Czech Republic. Calm personality with random explosions.
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting
Alumni
Former members of our support staff. We are grateful for their service for the Maelstrom Gaming community.
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DAYS ONLINE
Community Life
Maelstrom Gaming community is a well known for its friendly and cooperative relationships. Players are talkative and they support each other regardless their tribe membership. Read about their experience or check screenshots from community events.
If you are looking for a server where people have fun, admin are proactive, has regular events then this is the place. Server settings are well balanced to ensure the game stays interesting. Mods are voted on by the community.
Come visit, but just be warned remember one visit is all it takes to get hooked.
Dooshbag
3600 hours in ARK
I have to admit this is one of the best ARK servers. In discord and ingame are the most amazing friendly and helpful people i think i have ever met on ARK, lots of banter and laughs. I definitely recommend this server to anyone looking for a great time! Admins are always helpful and very friendly.
Lee Suttling
2600 hours in ARK
I have played both official and private servers, but I really find myself loving this server. Rates arent crazy, aint no mods to make the game easy and everyone is always helping each other so much. This server cluster is well tuned that there is always something to do, always fun to be had.
Wrektar
2500 hours in ARK
| Maelstrom | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Ambrosia Software |
| Publisher(s) | Ambrosia Software |
| Designer(s) | Andrew Welch |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS, Linux |
| Release | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Multidirectional shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Maelstrom is a video game developed by Andrew Welch, released as shareware in November 1992 for Mac OS.[1] The game is an enhanced clone of Atari, Inc.'s 1979 Asteroids arcade game with a visual style similar to the Atari Games 1987 sequel, Blasteroids.[2]Maelstrom was released when there were few action games for the high-resolution color displays of the Macintosh, so it garnered much interest, despite the dated concept, and led to the creation of Ambrosia Software.
Maelstrom Game Mats
The game was later released as free and open-source software, resulting in ports for other platforms.
Gameplay[edit]
Maelstrom is played in a 2D overview in a section of space. The object of the game is to reach the highest score possible by shooting asteroids with a plasma cannon from a spaceship. The ship can move in any direction across the screen and also has a limited amount of shield. The player may also pick up power-ups and encounter unusual objects and enemies throughout the game.
Development[edit]
Maelstrom was created using THINK C and uses 18,000 lines of C code with 9,000 lines of inline assembly language.
Reception[edit]
Maelstrom Game 1992
In 1993, Maelstrom won 'Best New Macintosh Product' in the 'Shareware Industry Awards for Best Game,'[3] as well as receiving other awards.[4]
Legacy[edit]
Maelstrom Game Factions
Welch gave the source code to Sam Lantinga, who created a SDL port and released it in 1995. It included networked multiplayer.
In 1999 Ambrosia Software released Latinga's version 3.0 as open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).[4]In 2010, Andrew Welch and Ian Gilman released the game's contents under the free Creative Commons licenseAttribution,[5] which makes Maelstrom completely free and open-source software.
References[edit]
- ^answer from the official FAQ on the release date
- ^'Maelstrom for Macintosh'. GameSpot. Retrieved 22 January 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)[permanent dead link]
- ^2000-1992 SIA Winner on siavoting.com '1993 Winners - Almanac, Maelstrom, [..]' (archived)
- ^ ab'Into the Maelstrom'. The Mac Observer. 1999-12-08. Archived from the original on 24 May 2000. Retrieved 2011-04-28.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Mercurial > Maelstrom / changeset on libsdl.org 'Andrew Welch and Ian Gilman allow the artwork and animations to be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license' (15 April 2010)
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maelstrom (1992 video game). |
- Maelstrom 3.0 on libsdl.org