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Maelstrom is a video game developed by Andrew Welch, released as shareware in November 1992 for Mac OS. 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. 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. Maelstrom Overview Maelstrom is a third-person strategy game with a focus on multiplayer, fast-paced action, ship-vs-ship tactical combat, in-depth customization and progression.

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. 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

A downloadable game for Windows

Welcome me Hearties to Gentlemen of Fortune: Maelstrom

This download offers three sets of executables: DirectX9 - 64 bit, DirectX9 - 32 bit, DirectX 8 - 32 bit. By themselves, they provide nothing to play, but each of the versions can play the following, freely available mods and derivatives:

Buccaneers of the Caribe (based on Pirates of the Caribbean)
New Horizons (from Pirates Ahoy! community)
Caribe Stories (based on Caribbean Tales)
Caribe Stories Historical Immersion (based on Caribbean Tales)
Lost Ships City (based on City of Abandoned Ships)
Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.0
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.5
Historical ERAS II

Anyone who has played the above games, knows the frustration with the originals; rife with game-breaking bugs and frequent crashes.

No more! We have overhauled the code, eliminating the vast memory leaks and crash-inducing bugs. In addition, we have improved the performance, and also upgraded from the original DirectX 8 (despite the claim on the COAS box, any process explorer showed the game was never actually running DirectX 9). Also now provide a 64 bit, for systems using that architecture (though even without, all the same fixes were applied to our DX8 and 32 bit versions, so older systems can still benefit).

Some other improvements are the swapping out of Windows memory allocation routines, in favor of a famous, more efficient method that increases allocation speed, improves efficiency and reduces fragmentation. FMOD, for sound, is updated to the most current and the engine implementation of it completely rewritten for new features. Fixed fullscreen task-switching bug that crashed game, to actually allow fullscreen and task/window switching in/out of game without a problem. Deprecated DDRAW for video has been removed and updated with something newer. Save-file compression routine updated (still compatible for old saves, only in GOF, COAS and ERAS 2). Corrected multi-threading of sea calc routines. Changed to asynch system/trace logging. Now with built in options to control video adapter selection, VSynch, Triple Buffering, and Antialiasing. Various features were added to support further mod capabilities, notably seen in ERAS II, and things like improved ship AI within the engine itself. These are just a few of the long list of improvements/fixes developed over the last couple years that have been most graciously beta-tested by some forum members over at https://buccaneersreef.com.

Maelstrom Game Online

Original Base Game: AGE OF PIRATES 2 – City of Abandoned Ships; Licensing sold and owned by other third party(s). Original Source Code (freeware) which ran in DirectX 8 was given away freely eight years ago and completely rebuilt and overhauled by the Buccaneer's Reef Team. This is completely new source code which is now capable of running all the older games based on POTC (Storm 2.0) and Caribbean Tales (Storm 2.5), plus the newer based on City of Abandoned Ships (Storm 2.8), but now in DirectX 9 and 64 bit, if desired, to which all rights are reserved by the Buccaneer's Reef Team and official legal licensing pending.

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU SPEED: 1.75 GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• OS: Windows XP
• FREE DISK SPACE: 180 MB

Maelstrom Game Book

Purchase

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Development log

• Maelstrom Update
  21 hours ago
• Maelstrom Update
  11 days ago
• Maelstrom Update
  35 days ago
• Maelstrom Update
  50 days ago

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