Coming in a few days (sorry for the delay!)

I like the levels that show above the monsters, I feel just putting easy, medium and hard would make the game too simple in feeling/atmosphere. I love running away from level 32 monsters and trying to trap them or end up dying horribly. It's thrilling and makes it all the more worthwhile when you've managed to pass these obstacles in different ways to get to the ores/villages/dungeons you want. Losing pixels upon death in these cases does not upset me and teaches me that I'm not ready or I need to think quicker.

Don't take away planet levels please, I enjoy the success I feel when I have gone from level 20 to 30 after defeating the 2nd boss and same for the 3rd boss. Also I love searching those many high-level planets for rare ores. It's true in life that ores are hard to obtain. But I want to point out that when I use dirt in lava that ores can pop up in that dirt, is it meant to do that?

I think the weapons should be adjusted to show what kind of dps you have, but maybe you should have armour on some mobs WITH more health so that would make interesting variety of bosses. Because a humanoid boss will most likely wear armour in some cases or an armadillo like monster will have scales. Having armour with the variety of health stats will make choosing weapons a pet project. What would be good for armour, what would be good for high health etc.

This is game is extremely interesting as it is, so I hope the new update won't take away from it the things I enjoy and feel successful about.

On the side note: My poor glitch styled castle and techs and village.....Alas I knew thee well.

 

I don't even care, I would just like an update so I can get back to terrorising npc's.

Its just no fun when you know its all going to be reset (sometime) soon.

 

It's a major feature of the progenitor phase.

We wanted beta early, before they finished developing the game. If they change something in how worlds and characters are saved, the old worlds and characters won't be recognised anymore.

Adding backwards compatibility in beta phase is bad. The only purpose of beta is to make a better release version. Backwards compatibility clutters the code.

 

Well as pointed out theres no point on spending dev time to write save convertion code or such atm, as stuff will probably heavily change here and there
Also theres not really much late-game content yet imo, so that point doesnt matter anyway

thats what a beta phase is for anyway, do changes and not having to deal with all the complications that you would have to deal with when its already released (aka making people not lose their save)

also even some big AAA commercial games broke savegames on some patches

 

If the Glitch stuff on the planet was already there, you could always write down your coordinates and head back to make it your home again.

 

They can add a new item:

"Beta Cheating Station"

where you get good enough gear to progress where you left off.



Or a mode in the character options. That'll make it less tempting.

 

Can you please give a date? We have currently stopped playing and wait for the update. We would really like to continue playing. You have created a great game. Starbound Soundtrack is awesome!

 

Nope, I had looted several planets for all the glitch things I wanted and spent 2 hours dismantling a castle dungeon to build again on my home planet haha~ The village I built as well and used the human/guard spawners to fill them up. I'll write the planets co-ords though. Thanks for the tip~

 

I wish we could know when it was coming out, I'm desperate to play it and XP isn't supported atm

 

You know I find it rather amusing how the devs avoid posting in these threads (not just because they're busy coding starbound awesomeness). Probably because it doesn't matter what they post someone, somewhere is going to be disgruntled about the changes they are making. We can complain about losing character saves, or nerfing gear, we can whine insistently about changes to game mechanics. But in the end, unless they are faced with overwhelming negative public feedback the devs are going to do what they will do because this is their baby.

They're doing this to make the game the best it can be and frankly I'm not going to cry over losing a character that hasn't even existed more than a week and will probably be a stunted, underdeveloped shadow of what will eventually be the final product.

From what I've seen and read those complaining about losing their characters are a minority, a very vocal minority but still a minority.

 

Completely annoyed by the amount of people commenting that they are upset and waiting for the update. The BETA just launched. It was stated that there would be character resets. Anyone playing a BETA should expect major updates, and loss of progression.

 

Agreed, Incompatibility ok I can handle that but Losing the character entirely? Seems kind of silly to be honest, but hey we all knew what we were getting into If you wanted to not lose progress you should have stuck to Terraria.

 

When it comes to reading/writing data, such as character saves, large changes to the formatting (such as nixing armor penetration stat and whatever else they may have planned) effectively invalidates the old save for the new version. In other words, the new executable would find 'unknown' data.

Post-release, games that do these kinds of changes include some code to handle/convert/discard changes like this. In this case, their time is better spent on other tasks, rather than writing and testing this. Plus, it's better that the testers provide feedback on the new balance, instead of assuming that what looks good on paper works well in practice.

 

no...no i dont want to start all over again

 

yep but you know how impatient kiddies are o.o they demand a crystal clear super diamond fine product as a beta and twice that on release o.o i fully expected to lose my charecters and i fully expect to lsoe em until the day of official release o.o and ill be happy to start over if it means testing bugs and finding funny ways to crash the game

 

This game is EXTREMELY replayable, me and my friends have already started over 2 or 3 times and played a slightly different way each time and it's still fun.

Cannot wait for the reset, it'l almost be like an all new game without all the oneshotting. (Hopefully anyways)

 

Worst part is actually the pollution it generates in this thread (1000+ messages) making it impossible for dev to actually get any pertinent information about this update (if any...).

Boys will be boys I guess...

 

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if devs have time for forums they sort out bugs and reports not general or comments

 

and? In the other end we where warned about character deletes long before beta was released, giving people ample time to ask and receive refund should they find such deletion detrimental to enjoying the game. I would have agreed more if they dumped this fact the same day they released the Beta, but they didnt, we where informed of this and so anyone still with beta access have to accept this is how it will work.

 

I think it is because the new systeam. Our characters could be useless and can't kill anything