Castles, Fireballs, Sewers, and Secret Facilities (Leth's Twitch streams November 22-23) [PICS]

The arrows travel much farther and faster if you hold the attack. Obviously this doesn't happen in conjunction with the rapid firing bugginess

edit- this was seen in an earlier part of the stream, while bartwe was on.

 

So it's like a charged-up attack? If so, that's really freakin' awesome.

 

Yeah. Shot almost in a straight line (not totally, but hey, physics.)

 

That's true, that along with the fact you could combine player dungeons with any sort of mods that add more mechanics and content to build upon more than just dungeon layout. But yes, the pattern bit was what I was mainly referring too.
Not that I expect to be tired of dungeons any time soon after starting the game, hah.

 

Oh, didn't knew there was the Charged Attack on the bows :O

How much they travel before landing after a full Charged Attack ? ( the first 30 minutes of the streaming are missing in a video on youtube )

 

Having no choice but to go Ranged to be able to get Alien Meat bums me out... I feel as if my fav weapons, Axes, got Nerfed before their Balance Level could even be given a fair chance. What about those of us that wanted to be Melee Characters...?

Digging the Glitch Castles, though the Glitch House makes me cause it's funny to see Torches all over inside the Straw Roof without the place goin up in Flames, Terraria Style!

The sight of all those Electric Traps in that last Pic... so awesome...

 

That just gave me a thought, maybe on ocean worlds, destroying a background block will make water pour into the foreground

 

Maybe there'll be a butcher's knife or meat cleaver or something.

 

I read the bolded part as all one thing.. And for a minute, I was excited that Starbound would allow me to collect Alien Meat Bums. Alas.. it was just me misreading it.

 

The bow/meat thing is intended. If you think about it, it kinda makes sense. I mean, chopping up a monster wouldn't give you much meat, but an arrow clean through the heart? Dinner's ready!

 

I think the Law of Conservation of Matter would like a word with you.

Also, what about a bullet or laser beam clean through the heart? (Or flamethrower BBQ?)

 

I gotta better idea: Axe swing right through the Monster's Neck. Severing the Head before prepping the meat woulda been on the to-do list anyway... Why not start the prep to turn the Monster into Dinner & slay it in one pro swing?

 

My understanding is that bows are now something in between a tool and a weapon. They'll be weaker that other weapons, but can be used to farm meat. You will stockpile meat until you don't really need more of it, then use the weapons you prefer when you raid dungeons or start exploring a new world. In other words, while the bow CAN be used as a weapon in general, it's really just for getting meat in the same way that a hoe is used for crops.

I don't really like that, personally. I think bows should be weapons on par with anything else, not just tools for one purpose. At the same time, making Bows equal in strength compared to other weapons isn't fair if only bows can gather meat. It also generally means players will need to carry a bow at all times in case they need to gather meat, unless they plan on planting crops on every planet they visit.

 

Plus, the additional consideration: How the hell do Monsters survive on Meat without being able to make & use Hunting Bows? How different can Melee Damage be between Axe Damage & Tooth/Claw Damage?

If they were really worried about meat overfarming woes, then easy solution: Make Meat something ya can feed your Pets. Ta Da! Problem solved!

 

I think the idea isn't that melee weapons would destroy the meat, but that they would render it unusable by contaminating it with inedible parts of the animal. True, people have historically hunted with melee weapons (or even done things like herd animals off cliffs), but maybe these monsters have some sort of poisonous organs so that safely collecting their meat requires more precision. The gun thing is also problematic; maybe the sort of laser guns you use in the game somehow contaminate the meat?

Animals generally aren't as particular about what they eat as humans (or, presumably, sapient aliens) are. For example, humans would never eat raw meat (unless they were starving or something), but animals do it all the time. Presumably, killing a monster with a melee weapon still theoretically produces meat, but it's not fit for human consumption so it's not represented in the game by any sort of dropped item.

It doesn't make perfect sense, though. IMO, it might be better if they just labeled certain types of monster as edible (preferably less common, non-aggressive monsters), and only had those drop meat.

 

Your observations were talked about by leth, On his end his FPS was good, it was the Stream lagging, He only teleported into blocks because Tiy had the "Spawn IN a dungeon" on for a bit, and after it went off, the terrain was all screwed up on other planets, There was no bug when draining water, thats how it WORKS, he broke the blocks in the background, and the water goes through that hole, when having a tank of water, you NEED blocks in the background, and on all sides, and the Animals are only dropping meat with a bow was a update, witch is not smart IMO...

 

I have to agree with that. However, the fact there is a hunting bow doesn't exclude the fact there may be other bows designed for combat like longbows or crossbows. It makes sense to have variations of weapons designed for a purpose other than killing efficiently too.

 

wow. What armor are they wearing? Looks cool.

 

Hmm... does anyone remember whether any of the Glitch guard NPCs we've seen had crossbows, or were they all melee weapons?

 

No crossbows yet, but not all melee weapons: