I feel like a child put this "patch" together.

I see, intended. Then please take a look at the most recent patch changelog which reduces the aggressivenes of birds and the damage ranged attacks from enemies do.

 

Taking the same damage with and without armor sounds like a bug, not an intended feature. The bird things was definitely intended, but a lot of us love the new bird AI, me included.

Before, birds pretty much ignored you, and when they did attack, they usually did so from so far away that they didn't even hit you. I love how aggressive they are now. That seems to be getting a tweak next patch, though.

 

This thread is bad and the OP should feel bad.

Protip: Balancing is and it's expected that they won't get it right from the get go, but will be refine over time. Believing otherwise is irrational.

 

Hardcore gamers play Dark Souls.

People who play Starbound and pretend to be hardcore are adorable.

 

Because if your point is invalid. The crafted weapons are better than the starter. You happened to make a character before that change was made, therefore your starter appears to be better than them.

I feel you're incapable of reading changelogs, taking advice, or seeing the point of a beta. Shit changes and if you're not up to speed, you have no room to complain about your situation.

 

I'd love for you to tell me what you "love" about the new bird AI, other than the fact that it makes a game that STILL isn't hard to play "tedious" If you want tedious go count the grains of salt in a saltshaker.

 

Best of advice here: STOP PLAYING and wait for the release version!!!

 

I don't think the OP actually realizes that this is beta testing phase and not the completed game. Beta testing is a time for the devs to get feedback from players on certain game mechanics and also to squish bugs that arise from changing the code. The devs may not be able to address each bug right away when it arises. If you really can't handle playing a game that may be unbalanced because it is in beta testing phase, then delete the beta from your computer and wait until it is properly released.

On a side note, I feel that tier 1 weapons should be somewhat strong. It teaches people to craft new weapons instead of keeping your starter weapon and also it allows the first tier to be easier so people can take the time to get used to the game.

 

The problems came from how the old level(Arpen) scaling combat system interacted with the new manual balance. They caused weapons to get weird modifiers causing ridiculously high numbers and then low numbers.

Revamping a major mechanic that permeates through the entire code of your game tends to have far reaching and unexpected effects. The changes to the weapon and armor balanced caused craziness in the venders, the auto loot, the town guards, everything that takes damages, causes damage, or drops/uses items.

The spectacular game breakage in the last couple patches is frustrating, but a somewhat understandable problem. Things will improve a lot in the next couple of patches as they go in and fix the problems caused by the old combat system.

 

Actually, I do have just as much a right as all the other hundreds of threads bitching about this garbage patch.

 

U mad about balance? Or do you just miss your 3829 dps weapon?
Also, birds are being fixed in the next patch. Try reading the patch notes before complaining about things that are already being worked on.

So far all I've seen from you is

 

No one said beta testing is enjoyable. There are going to be times when the game is going to feel broken. You will have to get used to that and the fact that Chucklefish will probably patch the game 2 days later fixing these problems, making unconstructive feedback(Like yours) meaningless.

 

1) Weapon damages after the initial change were bugged. Some weapons even after the patch continue to be bugged, resulting in higher DPS than intended. Old starter weapons are among the bugged weapons.

2) Creature damage is bugged and currently cannot go below a minimum value. Armor is working, but you're still seeing the same damage because the damage values for mob attacks are bugged.

3) Bird AI was improved, but mob projectile attacks were not adjusted(Mistakenly) for the new damage formula. Coupled with #2, this means birds and most animal projectile attacks are doing far too much damage.

4) A logical person sees problems and makes a post that says "Hey, here are some problems, what are being done about them?"

A two year old makes a bitchy post to whine.

 

Fortune smiles on those who aren't bad at the game.

No wonder you're a whiny little beggar, Liracy.

 

I am sure op is not at all trying to start arguments with his highly charged and loaded not so well thought out post.

 

Its not unconstructive at all.

"Your patch sucks" is constructive. Its telling the dev, hey, you know those things you tried? NONE of them worked, fix it.

 

Someone's jimmies sure are rustled today.

 

Except that unlike them, you've failed to comprehend the necessity of complaining about intended progression. You've effectively bitched about something that was entirely your fault. And then you attempted to defend yourself and continue to bitch about it. It's people like you that I feel the devs should wipe characters on every single update for. That way, you have nothing to bitch about for mixing your updates/patches. You mixed and you bitched, and now people are rofling at you for it.

 

The vermin are coming out of the woodwork today.

 

You got me!