Next update?

Does anyone have any idea on when the next update is coming out or what's going to be in it? I've seen a few people mention a combat update is that the theme for the next update?

 

I personally would like to see some story add-ons in the future larger updates, such as 1.1 and 1.2. Maybe even a new storyline.

 

bot exactly what I asked for but yeah,more bosses less scanning.

 

More bosses but I'd not be looking forward to power creep ala terraria, ahem "Oh, we got a new boss! Oh we need to give players a reason other then challenge or story? Lets make new OP items to render the old ones useless!". I didn't even play the game until 1.3 but the games tendency to get way to easy with every new weapon becoming available at ever drastically increasing power levels made the game feel dull to me, especially as it shifted away from exploration and turned into little more then an action game.

Above that though, more story line and more exploration. Big time, I love exploring, although I didn't like scanning so much. But I loved discovering new things to make and build, and seeing the differing worlds and there mini biomes.

 

I just mentioned something along this in a different thread on almost the same topic, curious as to what your take might be on it. Difference in topic is trying to pin down what people keep finding missing in the game, instead of what the next update is.

 

I think that before the next update we need bug fixes. I also fear the power creep mentioned earlier. I think we need a furniture item to allow for protection for our ships in multiplayer. I think crew members need to stop standing on barbed wire fences with a smile on their face, and that escort mission NPC's also need to avoid hazards. I think that multiplayer stability in general needs to be improved. There are things that take a higher priority, and these are a few of them.

 

More toward what you asked...

Expect the content updates to begin after the bulk of optimization passes. Currently the whole of the studio is likely geared toward solving user bugs and improving performance.
Once the largest portion of the community can play the game, they'll probably reallocate the team to content additions primarily.

As for WHAT that content is, I have no clue. Im not the person to ask, sorry.

 

Well at least you're the first person to answer the question instead of saying what they want in the next update.

 

Well seeing as there is a crap ton of unused stuff, even NPCs that exist in the files. I can list a few potential things that may come...

• Seasonal missions (Monster Gift NPC which bounds up and down, but causes the game to crash upon killing it).
• More story-based missions (Few items pointing toward this, a Caretaker that carries an ancient stone on his back that when translated says "Caretaker" he must be killable or story-related as there is a resembling player armour. Which currently the chest and legs are glitched.)
• New weaponry (It's a given)
• Re-introduction of removed boss battles (I miss the giant pink monster...)

And pretty much just general other goodies which people have already talked about.

 

The Wiki mentions more stuff to come with being able to Terraform one's Home World & such...

 

But those aren't the issues artists can fix

I bet as a team they work on both bugfixes and new content.

 

Yea I didn't think about that. That's good.

 

The Starbounder Wiki?

 

.... When you said Combat update, i thought you meant the final update before 1.0, which was, well, called the Combat update. Wow i feel old now.... kinda

 

Bug fixes are obvious. Otherwise, I'd like to see a lot of quality of life stuff. I think just looking at the sort of mods that already exist would be a good place to look for inspiration (not to copy them directly, but to consider the aspects they address). For instance, perhaps a more modular difficulty system (in other words, hunger and death punishment being different dials you can turn separately).

Storage stuff in general could use a pass. It would always be nice to have the ability to better distinguish storage for organization purposes, as well as having a little more control over it. I spent a few hours decorating my ship this morning, and a lot of that time was relegated to planning out where I was going to store things and how I was going to move them as I shifted things around. I prefer a balance of logical placing, convenience, and it looking nice, and that can get complicated pretty quickly, especially since most containers have such a low number of slots. What I'd really like (though is much more of an out-there suggestion rather than a relatively simple quality of life addition), is some sort of "construction mode" while you're on your ship, in which you have access to every block on your person and the ship, and can move storage items around without having to empty them.

Another thing I'd like which is simpler, but not an immediate concern, is some sort of "barber", probably in the Outpost, where you can re-customize your character.

Overall, I think the launched version of the game is in a pretty stable and balanced place. It may not have all the features we've seen over time, but I think it's a good foundation to build back up from. The first significant patch might want at least one big draw, but I'd like to see a lot of other little things.

 

http://starbounder.org/Homeworld

Mass Terraforming, i'd especially love. I'm Glitched in the Head & can like doing Mass Digging, followed by Mass Landscaping &/or Mass Building.