Daily Update Discussion

Updated the OP, changed format and made newest post orange

 

Very nice! This thread has come a long way. The speech bubbles look great, and it seems that they sort of work in proximity to who you are talking to, so if you're standing close to that person then your speech bubble interlocks with theirs (at least how I'm seeing it). Very clever!

I'm still curious about this secret biome!

 

I appreciate your efforts.

However, I can't help but think people will make the threads regardless.

Anyway, keep it up.

 

Looking forward to the biomes and terrain discussion tonight.

 

Yeah I'm pumped for that too. Also does anyone else think that because we're moving from integral features of the game to "secret stuff", the beta must be close? I understand that some of the secret features may also be integral to the launch of the game, but the fact that Tiy is starting to withhold information is a good sign, to me at least. Maybe I'm just crazy.

 

I've had the same thought - it seems like the core gameplay is being wrapped up and they're working on story elements now. They could have beta out for gameplay purposes well before they integrate the story elements just to have people play and test the gameplay, the balance, the look and feel etc, then release a full product with the story so that those of us who spend hours in the beta can still feel like there is something new and exciting about the final release.

Or maybe I'm just overly hopeful.

 

Let your worries be assuaged, Eyeball. Lots of interesting feature development in the new update. Apparently they're working on vehicles again, so that's cool. I'm pleasantly surprised that they did character animation for chat--I wonder what it will look like for other races!

 

This update brings hope to my zenned out mind.
The amount of quality work in just a few days is nothing short of amazing!
The starbound team is (pardon the pun) bound for greatness!
EDIT: I like the emotes, even if it was unexpected.:alien:

 

The caracter animations look soo nice ! What a great idea ! I had a big smile on my face during the whole video. Did you notice the lava lamp on the table ? And the fact that caracters were actually sitting on the chairs ?
EDIT: I'm also really glad they started working on mechs again, hope to see more from vehicules soon because I think it's a really neat feature for the game to have

 

Why couldn't the mech have been an animated gif.. the oldone was.. would like to see how they compare.
Land formations are cool tho, hope we see more soon.

 

I have to admit I geeked out when I saw how cool the mech was. I can't wait for some cool mech on mech PvP and PvE. Also, the speech bubbles are looking awesome.

 

Dear god. That mech they're working on looks so much better.

For comparison, here's the initial drawing:



The new one is angled a bit, looks smaller, has better shading, and overall looks far better. Seriously, props to whoever redesigned it.

As for the other stuff:

Chat emotions are okay. Not much added to gameplay, but they make the game come to life a bit.

Terrain features are also nice. There's certainly a lot of diversity it could add, and seeing how it could be easily added to, the amount of stuff it could generate would be endless. (Jungle-esque shrines, groves, traps, destroyed robots, hills, small ruins, monster nests, etc. They also can supposedly generate with loot chests.)

 

The terrain bits are most exciting for me. Though it dose remind me of a nagging bug that keeps bugging me. I never see a lot of vertical mobility in the screen shots. I don't know how or if that will impact my enjoyment of the game, but it pops into my head with each screen shot.

 

The emotes are pretty cool and add another layer to multiplayer chatting. The terrain generation is probably the coolest thing from this update, I'm interested in what other kinds of formations they're generating from unique pictures.

 

Character expressions is pretty neat!

It reminds me a bit of... Habbo Hotel, and the fact that I just said that made me cringe and shiver at the same time. The shame.

 

Do you mean how we haven't seen any huge mountains or deep valleys, and it just seems kinda flat for the most part? I agree, hopefully the degrees of elevation and depression are a little more extreme sometimes than what we've seen.

 

Not exactly. We have seen some big valleys and mountains. I might describe this wrong, but notice how you can't easy move up and down. Like with the bridge you can cross the bridge, but you can't go under the bridge or over the bridge. I'm worried it will be like terraria where you had to carry around and make your own platforms to make the land passable.

 

well i just think they dont want to show everything yet regarding the world generation

 

Thanks for making a thread like this!

 

Not sure how I feel about the chat animations, I guess it looks cool. Love the idea of terrain features though.