About this weekly update

So yeah, first off, im typing this from an iphone touchpad. Typos inbound, brace for some minor grammatical mistakes because lazy.

Second, loving the new updates. This is a much more nice way to do it .

Aaaand finally, i wanted to ask about looting- but wait! Not just any looting... Looting of clothes off of npcs!

So yeah, after seeing the super badass cultist clothing, i wondered if they were obtainable ingame, which brought me to the question of looting of clothing. How does it work? Is it like terururu where the clothes have a small hance to drop? Do they drop the same way as in terururu but with a 100% chance (because nobody wants to grind for clothes.)? Or do you actually pull up a seperate inventory screen containing the other npc's loot, similar to TES looting?

 

I think these past "stories" molly decided to mix in are rather silly, bland and doesn't appeal to me. But they might be fun and enjoyable for some!

 

It's not my case either. This update took about five minutes to make. But we knew this when they said they will change to weekly updates. At least I can wait for the email now, not having to check this site daily

Ps: Fire has to be overhauled, too many small flames (confetti-bomb incoming!)

Edit:

TES looting/realistic looting would be awesome, but I think it is not possible for games like Starbound. It is just too easy to climb up a hill and shoot a strong enemy from there. Then you loot a very strong weapon (same goes for clothes) but there is no lvl-requirement in any way... grats, you just skipped 2 tiers (or more)!

I love to kill much stronger enemies in TES to get their loot, so did I in Gothic 2. But, as said, lvl requirements presumed.

 

22nd Nov Update.
We have been working hard this week fixing more bugs, and of course making some new ones.
I could continue to report on what bugs we have fixed and what new ones we have found, but I can easily stretch that into next weeks update.
So I will just post a few screenshots and attempt to make a funny out of it, dam I feel like a carpenter dry walling a new build just so it looks like I have done something productive.
Also just a little teaser about Beta...Beta, is a word and begins with B.

 

Sacrilege! Stop hitting the nail on the head! Thx for the laugh!

b2t: Well I guess some of us imagined something else about "more substantial weekly updates".

 

You mention Terururururu...rururururu like it's a game that's popular? I've never even heard of it and I'm usually pretty informed on what's what in games.


Anyway, speculations are going to happen but we're obviously going to need a dev like Molly, GeorgeV or Tiy to pop in like they sometimes do.

 

I haven't really enjoyed the stories at all. It feels like Starbound is supposed to be all cute and all, which I guess it is, but they're giving me the "Look at this cute thing we just did!".

I get it, they make the game and probably know some of the lore. But for us with little or no knowledge of lore or storyline or anything the whole point is lost. If they want to write a fun short story for their updates they need to wait until the game is released so that people can understand their jokes better.

Not saying I don't appreciate that their updates are written casually but they would probably gain much more by simply explaining the small details in their pictures than write a story. So rather than having a short story about a Floran on a planet going "Yo, mang, I am a floran. Durrr u bad guy, i kill yue" they would gain so much more if they explained what was going on. "My floran landed on a tiny planet and had a random encounter (see picture). The encounters is our way to keep the game fresh and in this case I met a crazed cultist who wanted to kill me."

Not saying I'd be a better writer, I just simply do not like what they're doing right now.

 

The update was not what I was expecting I felt like I was reading a short story...I liked the screenies but the update was way to short for a weekly update it looked like something that was just thrown together to shut up all the beta whiners.

Oh well better luck next week I guess.

 

I undoubtedly appreciate Molly's work, but Wuzhles made a good suggestion of how it would be more informative. Explaining things we see on the screens, maybe after her funny short stories. This way more.. "substantialness" would be added. These updates are so restricted by spoiler-freedom... ever since.

 

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Either A. The clothes appear on the ground after killing the mob, or B. You search the body after to see if you can obtain his clothes.

Not sure if funny or smart ass?

If she's just repeating the same thing over then maybe she should do bi-weekly updates.

 

Sorry but...what is terururu?

 

Terraria

 

...oh...well then...
It would be cool if it was like in TES though

 

hm... i like grinding for items i think a rare chance to drop stuff is fun

 

yeah cause i want to stab a bunny and mount its head on my wall. or fashion its scalp into a hat

 

I would like to think it was taken as tongue in cheek funny.
A smart ass one would be too close to the bone

 

What is there to not understand? And this short story thing has nothing to do with the actual main storyline, so how is the point lost?

The way she explained what was going on was by writing the story, though. Combining information and entertainment.
I find it odd that some of us are not pleased. She said that they've been working on random encounters and gave an example of one, with screenshots, then told us that they've implemented fire and the mech. Can someone tell me what exactly you'd rather have?

I for one appreciated Molly's story because it shows how little visual side stories can be generated in the game..

 

a BETA .

 

They've learned from their past mistakes and are not going to give an exact date until they are 100% sure that that's the date they will be ready to release the game.
If they gave a release date too soon, they might miss it. If they didn't people would complain. Can't win.
Anyway, quoting Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that, since we have a thread for beta discussion.