Let's make some wild speculations!

Ok, the Winter Update is out, and I think everybody's had time to get used to it. However, there are still plenty of intriguing little tidbits hidden away in the assets of the game, ripe for speculation. This thread is for hypothesizing based on dev-released plans as well as hidden assets for Starbound's future additions. (This isn't for wishlists, i.e. "Oh, I hope they add giant space-chinchillas.")

For starters, we know from the current plan that we're not at the end-game tier yet. There are two more planned stages, going through a nebula and black hole, respectively. To do so, I hypothesize that there will be at least one more ship upgrade. However, I can't imagine the ships getting and larger. Perhaps they'll just get some improved FTL engine or something, with different exhaust animations.

In any case, this upgrade will allow us to travel to the next tier, where there will be every planet type at a higher difficulty level, as well as tentacle planets. But wait! Won't we need better armor to survive this new, hostile tier? That's where Prisilite comes in. It's an unused ore in the assets that's called "one of the toughest materials in the galaxy." I'd bet anything that that's where our end-game gear will come from. Would it be impossible to imagine a final-tier armor for each race and combat style made of prisilite? That's 21 new armor sets, so maybe not, but it would be cool. It might be that Prisilite doesn't get a new armor set, but rather improves the stats of an existing one. (Personally, a brand-new tier of armor sounds really neat to me, and not impossible.)

What do you think? What are some speculations you have? Prisilite armor? Let's discuss!

 

Gem are truly, truly, truly, outrageous

 

Not saying it's aliens, but aliens.

 

Tabletop Simulator in Starbound confirmed

 

Despite their playable status being so brief, the penguin race still shows up in the ai.config files and they still have a cinematic file and an armor file. Hmmm....

 

Completely customized ships without mods needs to be confirmed. Right. Now.

 

Giant Space Chinchilas seem cool, now ya mention em.

Galactic bounty hunters and such hunting ya down, maybe some Regulators, Fallout 3 and NV style, and some miniguns and exotics would be much awaited features.

I mean, who would want a shoulder mounted Railgun/Ion Cannon.?

 

Greenfinger is a llama.

 

Starbound visual novel-style NPC interaction (though, it'll require a lot of sprites to recreate a visual novel asset)

 

A thread about wild speculations? How about this, The devs may be planning to add the "You starbound crew" mod officaly to the game.

This wild speculation is based on a "Poking you on skype" message from Tiy to the mod maker 12 days ago on reddit.

 

Anybody else notice a set of Hylotl furniture and decorations? Hoping the next stable has ocean cities. Or at least some Hylotl stuff.

 

I for one would love to see a twist in what's been expected of the Hylotl. Alongside the probable "traditional" ocean cities with Japan/Eastern-inspired architecture, how about some sprawling megacities with lots of neon lights (bioluminescent stuff) and a cyberpunk vibe?

The more I think about the current water lighting/physics, the more it makes sense to me. Anything at the bottom of an ocean is going to want a lot of really bright lights to be visible, and I can't picture the Hylotl wanting to live in shadows.

Of course, this is coming from someone who still has to sit down and read the lore files for everything, so maybe I'm way off-base.

 

So, just like the hylotl city concepts we have allredy been shown ages ago before they even had ocean worlds?

 

Wasn't something similar to that mentioned in a blog post a little while back? like the Hylotl citie's being huge modern-japan kinda things, might of remember wrong, though
EDIT: Whoops someone literally just posted a pic of it, guess i was right...

 

I really hope that they don't do that.
(As in, add a new tier.)

Right now we have three armor sets to choose from. Accelerator/Manipulator/Separator.
Adding one ultimate armor set would be a step backwards. You'd only have 1 right choice then.
And I really don't see them making 21 new sets...

It'd be way better to offer a second upgrade for each T6 armor type.
I mean they already added one for each.
Cerulium -> Rubium, Aegisalt -> Ferozium, Violium -> Impervium.


I think that they have enough armor tiers already, though.
It's turning grindy like many MMOs do after a while.

Mine the next ore to make the next armor to explore the next planets! ...for the 7th time!
I think that doing the same thing 6 times is more than enough.
I'd rather see more Techs, fun stuff like Grappling hook variations and new, challenging optional missions.

Armor sets that work together with the current ones instead of being a new tier.
Like an armor set with relatively low defense and energy but a boost to mining speed.
Or one with really high defense that slows you down.
Or a ninja-style set of armor with low defense, low or average amount of energy but a boost to movement speed.

I saw that and I'm thinking the same thing.
Could be very cool.

 

Whoa, when was that posted?

Apologies for speculating on something that had already been revealed, but I hadn't even seen that before. It looks awesome.

 

That really is just a mockup, somethin they were thinking when they made the game Id very much doubt the designs would be like this, given the amount of assets available in the game from wich to choose, and the way Oceans work and such.

Though I will be disapointed in no Rapture exists in any ocean planet, seriously.

 

Most of the furniture in that mockup is ingame allredy. So im not so sure, but on the other hand i wouldent be suprised if they didnt use such a early concept.

 

Oh, I do know this, since I was kind of a builder in the Koala version, though what I meant was, since there are so many objects like that and so many are of verry high quality, why would they go around and make such boring and empty villages and towns?

Makes no sense, ya know.