Guns Damaging Terrain

Now, I watched the i49 demo and I just loved the fact that it was the first look at real and honest-to-goodness gameplay. I like the fact that the Matter Manipulator is so varied and it can act as your pickaxe until you actually build one. That's cool, that makes sense. What I didn't enjoy was seeing them use guns to just demolish the environment; trees, dirt, rocks, tents, whatever. I mean, if I can just dig a hole using my gun then what's the point of using a pickaxe, am I right? I haven't seen anybody talking about this and I'm curious about what everybody else thinks. I think if the guns damage terrain in the main game it will ruin many things and make it super frustrating. What about the rest of you?

 

You get guns near tier 3 I believe? They spawned in guns I think just to mess around. By then, you'll ahve better pickaxes.

 

There's a glitch that causes guns to do that (I think it's if there's grass on the block), but Tiy's said that it'll be fixed and that guns will not be the ideal way to mine.

 

Praise the Sun!

 

I'm ok with somewhat effective mining using explosive rounds, because when a round goes off it creates a crater, but bringin' mah house down?

Ain't nobody got time for dat! - Sweet Brown

 

Yeah, I don't want some random Rick Grimes coming in and breaking down my house either! I would personally prefer if guns affected players and players alone. If I am going to mine, I don't even want my gun to be an option. If it is going to damage terrain, I'd rather it simply just affect dirt. It just seems unnecessary for it to break trees and other terrain though.

 

Not only terrain but also normal blocks, like the stream the boss damaging the blocks of the house, hopefully they recover. But the fact some can actually cause holes must be a bug eheh,

 

I hope it's just a bug, truly. I'm not a stickler for much, but I don't want to end up accidentally disassembling my home/bases.

 

It's just a bug. Will be fixed.

 

Can I still shoot down trees? Nothing would suit my redneck wish fulfillment needs more than knocking over a tree with a hail of bullets.

 

Probably not as effective as a axe.

 

Yes.

"How the hay-ul am I gonna make a gunrack without wood!?" - You in Starbound

 

That is so spot on it hurt. That's going to be me exactly. And then I will chop down all the trees on the planet, and make a gun rack big enough to see from orbit!

 

Unfortunately, in the demo you weren't even able to target trees, only the square beneath them. And I'm 99% sure that's unintentional;

Source: http://playstarbound.com/6th-august-update/

Apparently that change got redacted by accident at some point, or they just decided against it.

 

Aw! I'm sad now. My dreams have all been shattered!
Ooh, a cookie! I'm ok now.

 

Oh I REALLY hope guns won't be able to damage terrain - only rockets or grenades, but not just regular guns and rifles. That would be so frustrating to be fighting enemies near your base and demolish large parts of it on accident. That would be maddening.

 

Agreed,
but the Alpha demo in i49 shows that the environment is destructible by projectiles.

I actually like that concept, as long as it's REALLY inefficient or hard to destroy things with your guns rather than the actual dedicated tools.

That should make indoor battles on your *cough* sofa more INTENSE.

 

what I did not is, if you break thing with the guns or the matter manipulater... such as ores , it doesn't produce any sort of mineral. instead it just destroys the block.

so for mining, you must always have a pickaxe.

 

It'll be the most badass, though.