Apex dungeons are the WORST

Ugh, just ugh.
I hate these areas so much.
They lag, they require a great deal of precision platforming, and you can't just cheese them anymore.

Not sure how you guys manage them, but I find them extremely irritating, and just pass them up entirely in most cases.

The first and last one I managed to get through and deactivate the shield for, I thoroughly dislodged every tesla trap and made a complete mess of the damn place. Serves those monkey bastards right :U

 

Three words: Free wire stuff. Good for automating your base when you figure out what you want to do.

 

target blink carries me

i do not think apex labs are worth the effort anymore

they only have guns in them ... i do not want guns

 

Blink... I just got that ability displayed for me, I may try that.
If I need guns.
Which I really don't ._.

 

Speaking of, How the hell do you even get new tech now?

 

I feel like the developers have never played their own game... Starbound is really cool in a lot of ways, but "good movement controls" are NOT one of them. Jumping is wonky, even walking around is EXTREMELY twitchy. You move too fast and too unpredictably, and stopping on a dime? Fuhgeddaboudit!

This game does NOT lend itself to precision platforming.

Also, the only real reason to bother with the Apex dungeons anymore is to get the furniture. That's really it. The guns in the chests are pathetically subpar.

 

They're definitely not calling the key event handler enough. In a CPU-heavy game like this you have to call it multiple times per loop or you get poor control handling.

 

I go to apex dungeons for their computers, and the hope that they have those beautiful life support pods, which look really great in a ship.

 

If you're having difficulty with the electric traps, the shield will block the first few hits, oddly enough. It really helps when running through. Plus, be sure to have some healing food, esp meat stew. That should readily patch up any damage over the course of about 2 minutes.

 

I don't have an issue actually doing the platforming but I do find the framerate drop quite annoying. In koala, it definitely got to the point where I'd just seal'em up and walk or fly over them.

 

Eh, they are quite annoying, but nothing much, their architecture is somewhat strange aswell, basic lab at the top, battle arena for test subjects bellow?

Sounds wierd, even for Apex, and the structure, totally abandoned, despite the amount of resources and pixels it must have costed to build that place, seems wierd its either, not trashed, due to monster infiltration and age, or that it isn't with atleast 1 or 2 test freaks that still reside inside.

Big Ape seems the type to build this kind of thing just for kicks, but abandoning it seems counter intuitive...

Plus, no tunnels or stairs or anything at all for the viewing areas?Seems a bit lazy.
Plus, making some small living quarters would be interesting, or atleast some cells for mutations and keeping "voluntaries" before the gauntlet.

Would make exploring it more interesting and making these wouldn't really require new assets or anything of the type, so Im left wondering why not?

 

I like apex dungeons