22nd July More Novakids and progression

Ah. The transition from "X" to "1" (or whatever values gravity is at) is quite jolting, as well as the very common "Suddenly Perfectly Flat Terrain" dungeon signal. I hope that they will eventually make those transitions smoother.

 

Hopefully so, but if they didn't it's not the end of the world xD.

 

Yeah, but it is the end of... Gravity? Which more or less spells out the end of the world.

 

So, the novkids use guns instead of swords, can the still make daggers? plz?
Anyways great work and that was a total twist to the update

 

You should change the starting weapon sets based on race.

For example, novakids would get only guns in their initial sets, while glitch only melee.
Then the other races would get different combinations of weapons.

For melee we have: Sword, dagger, broadsword, axe, hammer
For guns we have: pistol, mahine pistol, assault rifle, sniper, grenade launcher, rocket launcher.

Humans, for example, would get pistol, rifle, dagger, and broadsowrdsword.
Hylotl could get weapons that would still work fairly well underwater like daggers and swords and a new type of gun called harpoon that works underwater.

 

I would like to interject here on just one thing. The Harpoon.

Like the idea, but it's a far too crude and cruel weapon for the Hylotl. They're more about finesse, so better bows that goes further along the tier progression seems like a better fit to me.

 

What would the novakid special ability be?[/quote]

I believe novakids should have the ability to glow in the dark since they're made of gas and all.

 

That's the plan.

 

Hmm? Oh this was meant to quote me? I think I'm the one who posted that, I dunno.

Anyway, I think I was refering to the novakid armor, as that's where the special abilities will be if that plan hasn't changed since back then.

The novakid will glow faintly from what I've read in the Starbound wikia, but it will not be enough to properly light a dark cave. I can't confirm to you if that is how it's going to be, since the devs themselves haven't.

Edit: ha, that got pretty jumbled up

Edit2: the one thing worse than a ninja is a ninja with feline agility...

 

The first thing that came to my mind when seeing that novakids get steam train-themed ships was... "We built too many guns..." "So now we gotta shoot them all" "So all aboard the steam traiiiiin~"

I'm so terrible. But I'm excited either way!

 

give all races some sort of especial crafting, like glith shields or avian staffs please!!

 

Nice work with the update.

 

is the update out yet??? i havent gotten any updates since 4-26-14!!!!!! is it because im unstable??? thanks

 

I'm gonna go with what Mithran said. If Novakids are included and they get the special treatment of getting guns early on, I think other races should get more unique starting setups as well, in terms of their weapon availability. Maybe things should open up more in terms of variety as you progress, but I think it would be an excellent idea to have different weapon availability for each race. They should feel more unique than they do, and if the Novakids are the only ones that get special treatment in that sense, it will make them feel a lot like a tacked-on DLC/mod style character type, and not something that fits in well with the vanilla experience.

I will continue to hope that the developers put more emphasis on lateral progression rather than continually playing a game of "get better stat versions of your current gear" as it is currently. It's hard to enjoy content being gated behind a wall of numbers that are too high for my current gear to handle, and I feel that the numerical progression should be lessened significantly for the final game, and limiting what weapon choices you can go with at the start gives more opportunity for finding those other weapon types as you play and adapting to different play styles rather than frontloading those choices into the experience and making them feel meaningless. Giving each race a bit more character rather than simply a different paint job (so to speak) is also a nice benefit.

 

Are you going to give them cowpoke clothing? The hylotl stuff doesn't seem their style.

 

yes. change to nightly if you want nightly updates

 

I need a moment to recompose my face and board the Novakid train.

 

I think that that makes dungeon delving more equal with the worry of insta-death but maybe if they place a terminal that you need to get to to turn off a small set of traps for a given area... something that could be broken but you need to look for breakable walls or even hidden switches to open an area to get to these terminals.

 

Is the shieldbarrier going to act on background tiles as well? If not, then placing a block seemingly "floating in the air" would still be possible, allowing some maneuvering.