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Just a note letting you know I solved my low framerate problem by making sure steam.exe was not running in compatibility mode. (it was running in Vista compatibility mode and greyed out) just make sure to click the box to change settings for all users. Hope this helps someone else, makes the game much more enjoyable now my PC doesn't freak out at the hint of animation.
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I am so hyped for this game. I wonder if it would be possible to have a mega-server running so you can be randomly exploring and find some other player's world that has been stripmined, flattened and is just a sprawling ape-man dystopia. (I love the backstory for the Apex, Glitch, and Florans  )
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Dec 7, 2013 15:30
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Me too. I'm pumped for the phase that won't wipe your character. Until then I'll just kinda read the patch notes as they come. I never played Terraria so these mechanics are all pretty new to me.
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Dec 7, 2013 15:36
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I was going to wait until a later phase of the beta, but following this thread and seeing all the pretty pictures, I realise that that's just not going to happen. Installing right now.
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Dec 7, 2013 15:41
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Holy Cheese posted:Just a note letting you know I solved my low framerate problem by making sure steam.exe was not running in compatibility mode. (it was running in Vista compatibility mode and greyed out) just make sure to click the box to change settings for all users. I had this issue as well, followed these instructions. FPS lag gone completely!
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Dec 7, 2013 15:41
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From gaf: "I haven't seen it mentioned and perhaps I'm the only dumbass not to realize, but you can add books type items (not piles of books) to your codex for your reading pleasure. Some are gold colored with numbers on them. Put in item slot, select and click. I wonder if there are actual hints about in-game stuff in them as one of them specifically mentioned a space station over the planet but by the time I realized I could add to Codex that planet was long behind me. Many of them are fumy too  "Find space station!
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Dec 7, 2013 15:49
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I am running a smaller server for my friends ( 5 on at most). Is there a way or a mod to get it to display when someone dies / logs on/off? I looked in the Starbound forums Mod section but did not see anything. I was really surprised there was no discussion about this so I figured I might of missed an easy solution.
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Dec 7, 2013 15:53
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victrix posted:From gaf: I have found USCM Standing Orders and a journal by some guy named Greenfingers who knows about the Beast that destroyed Earth. They're a lot more serious in tone than the introductory codex entries.
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Dec 7, 2013 15:57
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I've seen it mentioned a few times that people are reading books/blueprints by putting them on their item bar. You don't actually need to do this, like Terraria, if you pick an item up and left click outside the inventory, it will use the item.
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Dec 7, 2013 15:57
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Ok, so I've currently finished the first set of quests and I've crafted my way up to a gold pickaxe and some silver armor. I'm not sure what to do now beyond exploring (I still don't know what I need to do to refuel my ship) the only pressing question I have atm is how do I survive the underground heat?
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Dec 7, 2013 16:01
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Holy Cheese posted:Just a note letting you know I solved my low framerate problem by making sure steam.exe was not running in compatibility mode. (it was running in Vista compatibility mode and greyed out) just make sure to click the box to change settings for all users. Thank you so much for this, now I can actually play the game!
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Dec 7, 2013 16:02
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Dana Crysalis posted:I've seen it mentioned a few times that people are reading books/blueprints by putting them on their item bar. You don't actually need to do this, like Terraria, if you pick an item up and left click outside the inventory, it will use the item. Similarly, to place items you can move the inventory window, pick up the item from inventory and place it as you would something from your hotbar. The books add codex entries which are great. Most Glitch castles have the journal entries of a Hyotl that is studying them ("The Prefix Problem") and a story about the first ever Glitch "king".
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Dec 7, 2013 16:03
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Ok, so I've currently finished the first set of quests and I've crafted my way up to a gold pickaxe and some silver armor. I'm not sure what to do now beyond exploring (I still don't know what I need to do to refuel my ship) the only pressing question I have atm is how do I survive the underground heat? Coal, wood. (Those fuel the ship, not protect you from underground heat.)
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Dec 7, 2013 16:03
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Coal and wood fuel my futuristic spaceship. I should have known. Thanks. Also is the distress beacon a multiplayer only item? Because it's been up awhile and hasn't done anything for me.
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Dec 7, 2013 16:08
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Coal and wood fuel my futuristic spaceship. I should have known. Thanks.
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Dec 7, 2013 16:10
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Coal and wood fuel my futuristic spaceship. I should have known. Thanks. You have to activate it with E for it to work.
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Dec 7, 2013 16:10
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I found a couple of logs on an Avian air-pirate ship that mention Hirake Corale. That was pretty awesome. Screencapping them with Steam's capture system doesn't work unfortunately as F12 closes the dialogue windows a split second before screencapping. EDIT: Found a book by Hiraki Corale as well. You can read it if you want. iamded fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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Dec 7, 2013 16:20
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So if you were an idiot and accidentally set Home to the wrong planet, is there a way to get back to a previous planet that isn't following the starmap dotted line backwards for hours?
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Dec 7, 2013 16:20
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Rather Dashing posted:Why can't I find an .abc file for Green Onions? This is important. No idea what it sounds like but here ya go! http://www.thefatlute.eu/rapid/view_song/g/2400 ed: on further inspection you really need 2 people for this
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Dec 7, 2013 16:20
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How do i go back to my ship. I swear i read the OP.
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Holy Cheese posted:Just a note letting you know I solved my low framerate problem by making sure steam.exe was not running in compatibility mode. (it was running in Vista compatibility mode and greyed out) just make sure to click the box to change settings for all users. Suddenly the game is playable! Thanks.
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Vanderdeath posted:I've been typing in coordinates from the spreadsheet but I can't seem to actually go to those planets. I don't know what I'm doing wrong and I feel like a big ol' dummy. first go to the galaxy map (all the way zoomed out) the coordinates will bring you to the star you want (right in the middle of the screen) navigate to the planet you want and voila. http://steamcommunity.com/id/dukeofdummies/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall I will also miss my ship, and my hat, and also my poisonous 1 handed sword that is only good on 1/4 of the planets in gamma. What I won't miss is that every single blueprint says it's a one handed weapon shields clearly have stats but they aren't listed one handed weapons are RARE and While I love the planet levels, the difference between 11 and 19 is Craaaazy. having only three planet levels is the quickest way to do it, but also the most dull  EDIT: look to the top right of the screen, there's a button that beams you up
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Dec 7, 2013 16:29
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Just double-checking here, but I can buy this on Steam and it's basically the same as buying from the website? And I get early access right? Seriously tempted to jump on this today.
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My co-op partner died while we were out adventuring. While he was in the respawn animation, I warped back to his ship and played taps on a trumpet when he appeared on the teleport pad. He got mad. The instruments are way too entertaining.
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Killstick posted:How do i go back to my ship. I swear i read the OP. Be someplace with no roof over your head and it's the button on the right of the screen with a small circle and an arrow coming up from it. I think the shortcut key might be B?
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A shrubbery! posted:Be someplace with no roof over your head and it's the button on the right of the screen with a small circle and an arrow coming up from it. I think the shortcut key might be B? You also need to be on surface level or higher. On the subject of the balance patch I hope they nerf teches slightly by giving them a higher power cost. I got the butterly dash earlier and I found myself pretty much flash farming planets without my feet touching the floor until I found a temple or research facility. Also maybe have shields drain energy on hit or have energy slowly diminish with shields up so you can't just hold it up and meander up to a guy toting bad guy and whack him. Basically I don't want the game to get boring and end up like Terarria did for me where it was like "Ho-hum I'm basically a demi-god with my gear what now...?" and having each drop on a planet be an adventure fraught with risk and reward.
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Vib Rib posted:Heads up, huge patch scheduled for a few days from now, will wipe characters.  Performance chat So, I know that the Beta isn't optimized at all, but I have some pretty bad graphic glitches when I want to travel to another planet. Like, using the starmap makes the game suddenly change the zoom(while still having the old value in the options), my screen goes black for a bit during the jump, and all kinds of fun crashes like this  I just wanna hear if there are other Nvidia users here who have the same troubles? I have the newest drivers, and my Steam was also never running in compatibility mode. Creature chat Did anyone see repeated creatures so far? I'm just asking because the amount of diferent species on my starter planet alone is nuts. There are like eight different ones above ground, and four that appear only at night. I already thought that was impressive, but then I went on a long spelunking trip. And well...             And I didn't even cap all of them 
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WarLocke posted:Just double-checking here, but I can buy this on Steam and it's basically the same as buying from the website? And I get early access right? Yep, but you may as well buy straight from the devs - they get all of the money instead of a cut that way and there's no difference to you.
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WarLocke posted:Just double-checking here, but I can buy this on Steam and it's basically the same as buying from the website? And I get early access right? Yes, it's early access on Steam. If you buy from the devs I think you still get the soundtrack download as well as a steam key though.
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Can someone advise me on a general initial build order to get myself more or less set up to go exploring/mining/collecting items? At the minute i've got a furnace and crafted a stone axe/pick and decided to go wandering. My current quest mentioned something about iron ore, but if i wander too far from my starting point, i get mauled.
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Tin Tim posted:Creature chat There are probably far too many combinations to see full repeats, but you frequently see repeated components. 3 of your examples have the same body, 3 have one particular tail, 2 have a another particular tail, etc. Their randomised attack types are probably the most interesting part of the random creatures, I'd like to see some more attacks though since "charge" attacks are very common indeed. This might just be because we're on low tier planets though and players using swords means lots of enemies attacking with melee.
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Kin posted:Can someone advise me on a general initial build order to get myself more or less set up to go exploring/mining/collecting items? If you can't go too far across, dig down. Build an iron bow as soon as possible as it can murder most tier 1 (alpha sector) enemies.
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Dec 7, 2013 16:52
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Is Diamond the best pickaxe in the beta?
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Dec 7, 2013 16:52
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Has anyone found any floran towns in the alpha sector? So far I've only found a few lonely huts scattered around different maps.
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Fat_Cow posted:Is Diamond the best pickaxe in the beta? Best pickaxe that you can craft. Best to mine with bombs though.
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Dec 7, 2013 17:04
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Yeah they really need to tone down the techs. I immediately got the flower backpack that converts Sun into energy and the dash tech. I basically chain dash across a whole planet without my feet touching the ground and super quickly farm out buildings and tech huts. With some red stim packs, I can dash through the lava at the core of a map and simply hop out when I see goodies. This got me silly amounts of gold.
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Hope they get the character wipe done ASAP. I lose all will to play when I know everything I build is going to be gone in a few days.
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Zereth posted:I have no idea what this person is talking about, there were no Florans in town. Imagine super violent cavemen hijacking spaceships and you got Florans. They are the best race.
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Baldbeard posted:Yeah they really need to tone down the techs. I immediately got the flower backpack that converts Sun into energy and the dash tech. I basically chain dash across a whole planet without my feet touching the ground and super quickly farm out buildings and tech huts. With some red stim packs, I can dash through the lava at the core of a map and simply hop out when I see goodies. This got me silly amounts of gold. I heavily disagree. The Dash is great as is, as it makes traveling across a world not take forever. Reason posted:Hope they get the character wipe done ASAP. I lose all will to play when I know everything I build is going to be gone in a few days. Maybe you should wait for the second stage of beta then? Just sayin'. If it's just a character wipe, you can find an Alpha planet, put all your poo poo from one planet there, then come with the new character and it should be there. But from the update, it sounds like it'll be a complete wipe so I doubt that would work in this case. Genocyber fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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