Why are people talking about a reset?

Like a character reset or something? I've seen a lot of people talking about it. Pretty sure player data is local though so I don't know where they're getting it from.

 

Yes all current characters will be unusable after this newest update/patch.
It'll rework the combat system and make all levels down from 100 to only 10.

 

One of the devs was talking about a patch to the game coming out some time tonight from what I heard.
The result of updating will likely be a wipe of save-data.

 

That's not to say the game will be easier, just simpler or less over-complex.

 

True, and also to note I just hope they fix the beam down bug allot of people are having, me included.

 

Yes that's the big major thing people need to keep in mind. Lowering the number of levels, but because they're rejiggering the whole combat system.
Same content, different math.

 

The next patch is going to revamp the item system to fix some scaling issues, and that will make our character files incompatible and have to be restarted.

 

People should avoid getting attached to characters atm. It's actually good to see and encouraging that they will do a reset to improve something. Other games, in the past have avoided doing any balancing or fixing just to please some of the players.

 

The thing is though will there be slight differences in the three threat levels of enemies though (this is not including the below ground enemies)? If not, then in total it would be like the 100 levels got condensed down into 30.

 

From what I have read about it, it appears that there will be a easy normal and hard version of mobs in each tier (alpha, beta, gamma, x sectors each being a tier). The intention, from my understanding, is that the top end gear of each tier should be still applicable and useful to an extent for easy mobs in the tier above you. This would be a flattening of the scale of your damage and defense per tier and between tiers. It would be as if currently your level 10 gear would still be useful up until level 13 ish.

 

Wow, that's disappointing. I know I shouldn't play beta games because of wipes but it's just so fun. Why would it affect everything though? :\

 

The big answer to that is that there are 100% and completely randomly generated weapons, that there is no way for the devs to go in and update to the new system, these weapons would be bugged in the new system, so rather than deal with potential faulty bug reports of 'my shitty slapper is causing kittens to spit yellow pudding at me' They're completely wiping the character data, and making you restart from scratch with the updated weapons.

 

cuz if they wouldn't wipe ya everything you probably couldn't play starbound anymore thanks to crashes or that your character could be just a littttttttttttle overpowered.

 

you were given fair warning long ago that wipes would be common during beta.

 

The universe as a whole needs to be restarted, because planet levels and monster generation is changing, along with ore generation.
As for why characters need to be wiped, i'm not entirely certain, but i see at as the best way of testing out the new progression, allowing for the devs to get more feedback regarding it.