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Space travel and how it works is such a GREAT mechanic for a 'loading screen'

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Vahnkiljoy, Dec 12, 2013.

  1. Vahnkiljoy

    Vahnkiljoy Ketchup Robot

    The fact that friends can teleport to your ship, do stuff, as well as yourself all while the planet is being loaded with no impact at all to the game is just awesome, so, MASSIVE kudos to da chucklefish devs, every time I fly to a new planet and hop off the captains chair to go into 'cryo'-hop in my bone bed-, it's just awesome.
     
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  2. Krogglidor

    Krogglidor Phantasmal Quasar

    It actually takes far less time to load than it does to travel on almost every system, if not every system.
     
  3. ZangooseSlash

    ZangooseSlash Black Hole Surfer

    It would be cool if we could skip the animation
     
  4. BitHorizon

    BitHorizon Ketchup Robot

    It's quite ingenious. I'm surprised more games haven't done something similar.
     
  5. BitHorizon

    BitHorizon Ketchup Robot

    It loads the planet you're going to while it plays. Skipping it would make you have to wait anyways. Might as well have a pretty animation to look at.
     
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  6. Spiffe

    Spiffe Tentacle Wrangler

    Agreed. It's really neat.
    This sort of loading screen solutions seem to be more and more common in games lately, witch is awesome.
     
  7. joey4track

    joey4track Ketchup Robot

    Man, so true. I love when flying to another planet. The sound effects are great too, esp with nice headphones and an arcade machine on board :cool:
     
  8. Doc Honcho

    Doc Honcho Big Damn Hero

    Not when the pretty animation is significantly longer than the load time and you see it all the time.

    But of course it needs to stay because skipping it would make the game too easy, since hard == time filling, mindless grinding.
     
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  9. Affero

    Affero Contributor

    I think it's kinda nice and comforting since I can do other stuff inbetween planets. Like read up on the forum, prepare for the next planet and so on.
     
  10. GundamZphyr7

    GundamZphyr7 Big Damn Hero

    Reading the forum comforts you?
     
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  11. Krogglidor

    Krogglidor Phantasmal Quasar

    No it wouldn't, the planets load in seconds.
     
  12. Starhowl

    Starhowl Phantasmal Quasar

    A lot of them do, actually. Any time a game has you stop - An elevator, a car drive, a cutscene, trolley ride, whatever, they're often used to seamlessly load the next part of the content. The harder it is to see the seam, the better. This game, because you can still play and move around and interact during these "loading screens" in warp, is probably the smoothest and most immersive transition I've seen yet.
     
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  13. GSGregory

    GSGregory Ketchup Robot

    I just make stuffs while I warp..
     
  14. Vahnkiljoy

    Vahnkiljoy Ketchup Robot

    Hell you can LEAVE your ship mid transit and come back later and it will be sitting at the planet, did that earlier and it just made me smile at how awesome that is.
     
  15. Shadow86

    Shadow86 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Sounds quite like a bug. Needs to be fixed!
     
  16. Vahnkiljoy

    Vahnkiljoy Ketchup Robot

    I hope that is supposed to be sarcasm.
     
  17. Joe Dolca

    Joe Dolca Big Damn Hero

    Space travel as a loading screen is neato. Now, the fact that the loading takes the same for any planet you visit since the engine and scope is the same is a little off.

    30 seconds to go to the furthest point of another sector, 30 seconds to go to the planet right there in the background. Science!
     
  18. Vahnkiljoy

    Vahnkiljoy Ketchup Robot

    Wat is faster than light?
     
  19. Stormquake

    Stormquake Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I had some really witty reply ready to say to this, but then when I hit the reply button, I completely forgot it. I am so fucking upset right now, you don't understand.
     
  20. Professional N00b

    Professional N00b Poptop Tamer

    Relativity my dear Watson.
     

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