Environmental Hazards [Next on the agenda]

Anyone else looking forward to unbreathable atmospheres and more armor-specific planets?

 

Welcome to Starbound : Prepare to Die Edition.

 

If this were the name of the game, I'd have pre-ordered it months before I did.

 

my body is ready

 

Acid rain I think will be the funnest of them all... "Is that rain or acid rain? Oh sh--! Run!"

 

I think I need a new pair of pants.

This is going to be so awesome.

 

It'd probably be specific to environments. I doubt a tranquil forest planet has regular bouts of acid rain unless all the flora and fauna there have somehow adapted to it. A heavily polluted or otherwise toxic planet though I could see the rain being scary.

 

It'll no doubt be biome-specific, yeah. I assume acid rain will be a mushroom-planet thing, since I've seen acid ponds littering a few of these so the matching weather would make sense.

 

Can't wait to get crushed my meteorites.

 

I wonder how the atmospheric effect is going to work. Like if we could build asteroid bases with some sort of life support system that gradually fills all the rooms with breathable air so you have to utilize airlocks to get in and out. I also wonder if the pressurized area being compromised (someone always forgets to shut the damn door...) will lead players being sucked towards the breach. Maybe it's just the same as drowning but it would be cool if those kinds of features could be added down the line.

 

seems like it could be a great addition to the game, i wonder if the "elements" would damage monsters? nothing would give me a greater laugh than a pesky bird to be taken out by a meteorite

 

I'm hoping heat/crushing damage or some hazard is added for desert worlds. Its so easy to abuse the sand falling mechanics to harvest vast amounts of ore quickly in T1.
Which I wouldn't mind being kept in.. as long as like on snowy planets there is some risk to operating in the environment.

 

You'll want a whole new suit of clothes, preferably air-tight and with a sturdy sealed helmet.

Integrated air supplies are an optional extra.

 

I'd rather they take the Arrakis solution there.

 

Here's something else to add to this from the Reddit Starbound area. Apparently compiled from a live stream the devs did three days ago of things they mentioned. Things that are apparently coming within the future of Starbound.

Edit: Oh, I wasn't paying attention. It's on the main page. Well I doofed.

 

Good to know

 

The new way of farming superior brain (pieces): open a fellow player's airlock and wait.

 

If this comes with environmental protection suits such as hazmat suits and breathing apparatus, I'll be very happy. Firstly, because a game that supposedly simulates interstellar exploration can certainly benefit from these mechanics (when a proper response is available of course), and secondly because I would love something that can protect me from those small, annoying, hidden pockets of poisonous mucus in slime biomes.

 

Yes finally! The games needs some kind of difficulty, atm its too easy.