My disappointing experience with the new patch - has the game become extremely easy?

1. Gather wood/copper/iron easily, dual-wield cheapest Glitch tier 1 daggers
2. One-shot everything on Sector A
3. Gather copper/iron easily, copper armor and distress beacon
4. Kill UFO with daggers, no risk of death whatsoever
5. Go to Sector B
6. I still one-shot everything with daggers
7. Got bored, quit

What's the deal with the new combat? As flawed as it was, the old one was at least challenging (even if for the wrong reasons).

I just built the cheapest daggers and nothing can harm me.

Also, creating landfills to dig ores is ridiculously easy and grants the player enormous amounts of resources.
They should play through the game before releasing a patch... I honestly would prefer less frequent but well though-out and well-tested patches.

 

I'm really confused, some people are saying the new changes make the game much harder and some, easier. I haven't even had a chance to play yet...

 

Its definitely easier. I just 6 shotted the first boss with an iron bow. That boss used to be a challenge and was usually satisfying to beat. This was just sad. Me thinks there were a few mistaken values in the damage/health in the last update. But hey thats what beta is for.

 

It's a beta. We are supposed to test it.

 

It's harder up until you make an anvil or get a weapon drop off a mob. Then it's easier than any part of the game has ever been.

 

The dps values simply got screwed because they probably implemented a formula instead of manually changing the numbers.
So you got starter weapons doing 30 dps and then steel ones doing 4-5k. It will be fixed, don't fret.

 

im sad to read this, so we should expect another wipe soon cause if we all get the best stuff in no time cause is easy, there should be a wipe, i dont like easy games, and this one is made to be a challenge, just like terraria, it was really hard and fun.

 

After receiving suggestions from your beta testers, you shouldn't rush a patch overnight without testing it first, that actually makes the situation worse.

You should carefully consider and test out every suggestion that you think can benefit the game, then thoughtfully test the changes before releasing a patch.

If the developers even tried playing the game for 20 minutes before releasing the patch they would have noticed how BROKEN it was.

Unless the wrong files were uploaded to Steam, there is no excuse for releasing a patch this broken. We are here to report bugs and give suggestions, not to be the first ones to check if changing some values in the code improved the game or not.

 

Then you need to wait for the next stage of the beta.

 

The first stage is actually for stuff like this. They need to find the sweet spot, and it's a lot easier with direct community feedback. After the formula change, hopefully it's now just a matter of changing values...

 

It's pretty much because so many people was complaining that it was too hard. Now it's too hard. I actually prefered it before.

 

This game needs raptors. Like in Jurassic park.

 

Now calm down people.

 

after 1 hour of playing on the starting planet i gathered so much copper,iron,silver,gold that i can make all the equipment until platinum....

 

This game is nowhere near as difficult as Ninja Gaiden for NES. Until then, it's not too hard.

 

lambo517 is a smart individual.

We should listen to his words.

 

I don't get it. I'm really enjoying myself with this patch. I feel like there's a real survival aspect now that has been missing. Its good fun!

 

when it comes down to it, our aim of this patch is to test the Dps function, they already are aware with the over-abundance of ores, now i have done nothing but farm planets for ores and kill mobs, nothign much challenging except for dive bombing seagulls. i understand that the values are going to change for the wepons/gear but for now im trying to get a crap ton of pixels and ore before the gear nerf is hit. think of the positives.

 

Easy? What the crap are you playing. Those flying creatures on my first planet have owned me several times.
Also i've ran away with health only to fall from a shorter height difference than before only to die from fall damage.

Have fun mourning that messed up combat system and making these whiny threads. I on the other hand will be playing Starbound.

 

Give them at least ONE HOUR of patch release to figure out problems.
The game just need balancing, and we are here to give devs the sweet spot.