Other bits and pieces coming with the balance update

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BE MORE SPECIFIC

SOON WHEN

WHAT ITEMS

WHAT WEAPONS

STOP BEING SO VALVE

 

This is a huge issue for everyone I know trying to play the Beta. It's great to be able to test the game out, but it's very difficult to do so with the current default keybindings.

 

The game gets boring fast, I went to 10 different planets, and it seems that Terraria is better, has more stuff, and was done in less time with less money. Mobs in Starbound have a few frames animation, the combat is really lacking, since you can just hit a mob, wait for him to come back and then hit it again, there is also the fact that the matter thingy is far worse than stone tools, you fight mobs the same way in all the planets, they just get recolored, new body parts, or something like that. Insteaed of upgrading the Matter Manipulator you made pickaxes, axes and hoes, because this is literally a Terraria Rip-Off. You can travel the whole Alhpa sector in 30 seconds, but when you try to travel to a planet of the same solar system, it takes 30 seconds too. The graphics are really lacking too, since you had a big budget and a lot of time to make them better, but you guys just wanted to use those cheap SNES-GBa graphics tier. Actually, Super Metroid looks better than this, and most GBA games do too. The game sucks, would be acceptable for a game made by 1 guy or 2. Hopefully, if someone wants to buy this game, think about it two times, and wait, since now it's just a game that lacks content.

You guys should really think about what is going to happen with the game. The "oh gosh, this monster is cute, i'm going to post in on the SB blog" thing it's not goign to make it better.

 

I think you may be expecting a bit too much from a game that only entered beta a few days ago, especially since you are comparing it to a game that has been released and had a lot of content and polish added to it.

 

All the effort you are putting in this game... the outcome... and after all this time you keep the working rythm...

I honestly think that Tiy, Molly, the penguins, and all the team are awsome. Like a diplodocus. Or a kiwi.

 

I thought it was 7PM right now LOL.

 

i'm not saying it's hard, let's not do it. i'm saying it's hard, have patience, they've been working on it for months.

so basically, let's say that we agree?

 

Gameplay > Graphics

 

Don't really understand how you can say that when this game is still in beta you knew that when you signed up and paid for it unless you pirated it but the game is amazing it is a work in progress and it is only going to get better from here.

 

Likke all fourth-day betas of the world? Lol. You depreciate so easly their work that I fail to imagine you having the experience of creating anything a hundreth of the size starbound has managed to acomplish so far*. Yep. On it's fourth or fifth day of the beta.

*: Scalate the size of the project to the amount of people you could get to work at your side with that attitude.

P Also you have not played long enough to find any ranged enemy, wich get common on later sectors, as people like you would be crying if there was so harsh enviroment on early game. Because bandits with sniper rifles can tear you head off from almost out of the screen. And really, you visited ten planets on a game that has billions of them... you may prefer to go play COD, wich may seem to you a rip-off of Quake.

 

Other than the fact that most of the content ended up coming from the 1.2 update and was user made.

 

Yes it is 7pm GMT, which means in 5 hours it will be 12AM GMT.

 

Very soon? Oh come on! Why do you have to tease us so Tiy?

 

I was expecting what normal people expect from a game that has been in developement for 2 years. What were they doing back then?

Read above.

I paid for it because I thought it was going to be good. But I regret buying it now. I got a gme where you just dig using pickaxes that are far better than actuallsci-fi stuff, then you fight the same mobs that share their AI with almost every other mob of the game.

The gameplay is about digging down, finding nothing and then coming back to surface to find the same mobs you will find in the whole game with new colors.

 

Well concerning the first part of your rant, you might wanna check out my suggestion and support it, so maybe the devs notice it. (Unless of course you don't agree with my suggestion)
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/mechanics-revamp.41226/

 

Keep in mind that the game is not at all feature complete as of yet. Lots more diversity and stuff and awesome mechanics to come.

 

Is this patch also going to include the ability to at least OPEN the game on Mac OS X below Mac OS X 10.8????


I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and it will just crash on start up.

 

That's not what was said. What was said was "There are vastly more important things which need to be resolved with a large amount of dev work right now, and AI is not among them. There are also a number of things which can be dropped-in with very little work, and those are also being added."

If I have 120 minutes to work on a project today, and I have one item which takes 60 minutes, one which takes 30, another which takes 60, and several which are going to take 5-10 minutes, I have to decide whether I'm ONLY going to work on the two largest items, one of which very few people will notice, or one of the large items and multiple smaller items, which people WILL notice.

Further, I have to take into account the fact that I may not actually finish one of the larger items if I try to do both. I can work on a little of one now, then more later, or I can half-ass it out the door and have even more issues to fix tomorrow.

 

I agree on the mobs tho,they seem very bland and all attack and move in the same way,despite being randomized they just feel the same.The terraria way with mobs is better,u get maybe less mobs but they are all very unique in animations,the way they move and attack.

Dont get me wrong tho,i love starbound,its one of my fav games now

 

You can't really judge a game that has only been in beta for a few days we have no idea what they have planned for this amazing game but if it disappoints you that much then don't play it. you aren't being forced to sit down and play it.