Time played : 53 hours... won't be playing again till next patch

without a doubt i am repeating what many others have already said, but in my opinion thats how things get changed. enough people complain about them that the devs notice and take action

1. first and foremost, is the fuel / coal situation. on lower tiers it's quite easy to find coal all over the place, so it's not a big deal early in the game. however, once you get to gamma and delta sectors, finding coal becomes nearly impossible. not only is it hard to find, it's used for nearly everything.. fuel, torches, steel, durasteel, and so on. because of this i am stuck on a delta planet with no way to progress. i can't find enough coal to fuel my ship to go back to alpha sector to get more coal for the durasteel quest items. i know that other ores can provide fuel, but they are even rarer than coal

2. the birds / special attacks. on gamma, wearing the best armor available to me at that point in the game, i get one-shot-killed by ANY ranged / special attack from mobs. not JUST birds, but ANY mob (other than humanoids) that shoot a thing at me will kill me instantly. this was close to true on beta and alpha as well, with ranged attacks doing about 90-95% damage (usually enough to knock me off a ledge and die from fall damage).

3. minibosses also insta-kill if they touch me, even with top armor for that tier

4. guns?! where are they?! i know many features have yet to be added, but there is almost no way to reliably kill birds or the dragon boss without guns. why are guns not dropped by the humanoids USING GUNS???

i am REALLY looking forward to playing more of this game once these issues are addressed, but for now all the fun has been sucked out of this game but these problems

 

http://playstarbound.com/121013-patch-notes/
"Uranium, plutonium and solarium now work as fuels" - mollygos, Yesterday at 10:26 PM

 

yes, i read that. good luck finding any of it, it's rarer than coal is

 

ok well I am sure they are working on that.

 

Which wouldn't be a problem if the amount of fuel they provided reflected the rarity. Too bad they're only slightly better than coal is.

 

In later tiers, meteors are chock full of Plutonium. (Chucklefish calls them meteorites, but they haven't landed so they're actually meteors, hehe.)

I love the new birds, but I can't comment on boss difficulty yet; I haven't had time to play much since the patch.

 

Response to 2. Patch is only 24 hours old how could you log 53 hours in 24 hours?

 

i dont understand, you like dying in one shot? also, there is no way to mine meteors since you can't survive the cold up there. even wearing the full winter gear and standing ON a campfire i lose heat at the max rate till i die.

 

I am sure coal will be getting tweaked. I wonder if it would be beneficial to implement a system where you need coal to get out of the alpha sector, just as a temporary fuel, but after that, you are able to upgrade your ship to use either solar energy, or some other tech that is build-able with materials found in the Beta Sector? I'd like to see a progression from using basic materials to eventually having machines that are made from the basic materials to do more complex things. Think Tekkit for those minecraft players. I'd really enjoy having solar panels, batteries, machines that would break down ores into dust to change into 2 bars , etc.

 

lol what i meant 53 hours total... as in i've played Starboud for 53 hours.

 

I haven't been one-shot by the birds yet, not even two or three shot, so that could be why I love their new AI, lol. I may not have progressed far enough to get one shot by them yet.

For mining meteors, you need multiple fires plus Snow Infantry armor. Or better yet, get radiators. They put off more heat, and over a greater distance.

 

what is up with the tone of some of these threads...Jesus...

 

Aggree.
I find more platinum even in beta sector then coal sometimes. Coal is so rare, its just joke. Minibosses dont instakill me as a rule, but if they shoot something it hurts. There was one with black-hole attack, which instakilled me. Birds do insane amounts of damage, and since bow is useless past beta sector i need to jump to kill them. And then i do they use gas attack which like 1/3 of my hp.
But on the other hand my damage is crazy too.

 

I did find an avian airship in alpha sector and the lovely bird lady there sold me some lovely guns. So you can find guns in alpha sector or just use your bow on the UFO boss.

 

You should see the Character wipe threads. Instead of respectfully saying "Sorry fellow Starbound player, with this being a beta things can change very rapidly. Enjoy the journey as we work to make the game better for you and everyone" Its more like imagine Leonidas from 300 spewing molten spit into your face as he yells that your an insolent worm for even posting your concerns.

 

Gott 3chars on X-Zone

So i really cant see a problem here..

Dmg needs som tweaking fuel is fine to be honest..

 

This doesn't actually do anything. What's helpful is people testing and giving back feedback to the devs. Throwing a tantrum after the patch has only been out for a day doesn't help anyone. Many people are already talking about several of the issues you've addressed, so you should really talk about it on their threads.

Please keep in mind this IS beta, and there will be bugs and balancing with the beta. If you can't handle it, you should probably wait till phase 2 or until the game is no longer in beta.

 

I think a good general rule for enemies able to one-hit kill you is that they should have a damage cap of 33% of the player's max health, so under all circumstances (except bosses/minibosses) you'd at least be able to be hit twice before the third one punched you out

Also I'd like to switch Phase 2 and Phase 1 General optimization first!! :>

 

Same for me.
Time played: 41 hours... won't be playing till next reset.

1.: I've got a ton of coal while mining in alpha and beta. I only mined enough for the armor sets/weapons/pickaxe upgrades/boss items, I never intentionally had to go look for coal. If you have any issues with fuel, that must be a gamma sector specific issue then, because later on there is a ton of uranium/plutonium even on the surface level. I actually have 500+ uranium, most of which I got from mining high tier ores in sand/gravel.

2.: Birds really do a silly amounts of damage, but it's easy to dodge every single attack they have. The issue is going up against them in melee range... which is not something you will have to do in future versions (I hope). As for now, my tactic is to ignore them.

3.: It's not hard to kill anything melee without taking any damage, so this is not much of an issue. Probably will change in the future though...

4.: I don't get this either. I just cleared a penal colony in a threat level 10 planet, hoping for some weapon drops, because I remember one of the recent patch notes saying something about more common guns. I ended up killing guys with sniper rifles, but getting underpowered melee weapons as drops. I did look up some coordinates with gun dealers before the wipe, but I don't want to do that again.

 

I've played 30hrs already and I can't get enough of it and the wipes don't bother me AT ALL since it's just so God damn fun to be building and exploring all over again. So far this game has been just awesome except some stupid quirks like OP birds etc but other than that it's just golden imho