Vib Rib posted:

I'm thankful for

Lizard Wizard posted:

Evil Fluffy posted:

Lotta people getting mad about video games in here.

Liquid Penguins posted:

Hi I know nothing about starbound except that I would like to try it when they finish it. Taken out of context this post makes the game look like a creepier second life. Good luck with this game!

Ahundredbux posted:

Seriously though whens stable

Ahundredbux posted:

Seriously though whens stable

Ahundredbux posted:

Seriously though whens stable

Mokinokaro posted:

Look deep within yourself. It was there all along.

Mokinokaro posted:

Look deep within yourself. It was there all along.

Koobze posted:

You're right, it was - until I took my morning dump. It is now deep within my toilet-transforming girlfriend.

Just noticed I got a different avatar. I miss being forum babby :*(

Tres Burritos posted:

Got excited when I saw all the replies, this exchange made it slightly less disappointing.

Pop and Loch Nessy posted:

To respond to your question i will post a huge changelog and say the update is soon and then not bring it up for 2 months.

mutata posted:

Never come back here. We don't want your kind here.

Supernorn posted:

I didn't see anyone asking any specific questions. I can try to answer stuff if you sincerely want to know something.

I can confirm that no races will be able to transform into toilets. You'll have to wait for the unofficial mod.

Afraid of Audio posted:

When will the next stable version be released?

Section Z posted:

Well, I've seen a lot of stuff about the new tweaks to combat and food and enemies. But not a whole lot of stuff about actually making it any easier to survive, or heal yourself compared to current stable. Let alone a sense of progression beyond "Well, my gear is a new tier".

While this is highly opinion based, I am very down on the dev notes statements regarding "You will die in 3 hits to +1 enemies, forever." Which like old stable makes you forever have to work your way up to kind of competent, then back to worrying about getting one shot by stronger night monsters (or buffed by depth ones now) the second you step into a new biome, which you have to, because that's where the next tier ore is.

Similarly, expectations of weapons effectiveness. "Can kill 2 to 2.5 Even tier enemies with a gun before running out of energy, if you do not miss much that is. Super staff can kill ONE even tier enemy". Same looping treadmill feeling. The game loves to throw muptiple pairs of enemies at you as well, and the last thing I heard about guns was playing around with NERFING one handed ones because one handed guns meant you got to carry a flashlight in dark dungeons, and two of them was OP (If guns drain energy to the point you can only kill two enemies, wouldn't two guns drain twice as much energy? Or does it not work that way).

Making bandages heal larger amounts as mentioned in the past, step in the right direction. Adding a cooldown to that, AND food feels otherwise because constantly shoveling banana breads down my throat every other hit, while wearing impervium armor (or spending every waking moment with out max HP munching on banages) was just standard in old stable. Being able to eat some potato based recipie for a temporary +20 health (an example given in recent dev blogs) would likely not even help you survive a single extra hit as things are in nightly.

There SO MANY COOL THINGS. QoL features, new mechanics, assorted other cool things that have me looking forward to stable still. But combat/survivability "progression" was my one big problem with old stable, and current nightly. And every combat update or dev blog intention I hear about is all about adding new features or difficulty with no way to actually make you IMPROVE in a permanent sense except "Well, now that you have the very best gear for this tier, THIS tier won't swiftly murder you."

Oh right. Also the painful implications of not being able to wear armor on the Moon, because you will need the snow gear to survive the cold, as you dig up your FTL drive ores. (Bundling environment upgrades into each higher tier of armor past that is cool though).

My more optimistic expectations, is that when we FINALLY hit next stable (whenever the hell that is), beta input from a game more that isn't wiped constantly and not intended to just shortcut with dev commands should helpfully shake out long term survivability stuff. Well, if you can hear it between the two extremes of "SA shitpost thread" and "Official board posters who think you can do no wrong and not wanting to drop ore on death means you are a filthy casual who wants the game to play itself for you".

EDIT: Or the people who's answer to everything is "Shut up and learn to mod that then".

Afraid of Audio posted:

When will the next stable version be released?

Section Z posted:

The game loves to throw muptiple pairs of enemies at you as well, and the last thing I heard about guns was playing around with NERFING one handed ones because one handed guns meant you got to carry a flashlight in dark dungeons, and two of them was OP (If guns drain energy to the point you can only kill two enemies, wouldn't two guns drain twice as much energy? Or does it not work that way).

Supernorn posted:

Update: It is at least 2 months sooner than before. And the changelog will be bigger.

endolithic posted:

Is sandmining back yet?

Kly posted:

Here's some 2month old notes for the patch they said was coming out soon.
http://pastebin.com/jnZfRNL4

Supernorn posted:

I thought this was a rhetorical question at first, but IronicDongz knew best. And to be fair, I can elaborate on those mechanics a bit. Know that right now the energy system is currently being reworked, and this includes how it affects guns. I don't think guns should be tied to energy personally, because it's not very fun for the reasons you gave. Like you said, the real problem is that you can only take on a few enemies before totally running out of energy. They'll probably end up tied to the new energy system in some way, and we're going to try to fix it.

Ahundredbux posted:

I know they're not in any particular order, but the chair allignment cracks me up

Section Z posted:

...but then they could have fixed more doors during all these months, hopefully.

Prop Wash posted:

Hey why is moving backwards slower than forwards, it's not really fun at all and it didn't start out that way so

Devour or Fire posted:

Agent Kool-Aid posted:

i remember when some contest thing was held where people would design creatures to be put in the game. there was some cool idea of some kinda blob(?) thing that would adapt to its biome or some poo poo. sounded neat.

Party Alarm posted:

Ammo sucks as a mechanic, but magazines could be fun. Infinite reserve ammo, but limited ammo in a "clip". You further diversify weapons with magazine capacity and reload times. Some guns could have no magazine limits but tax the energy pool instead. Might be too much work to implement at this point, but I imagine it is possible to mod in now that we have UI stuff and .lua scripts on weapons

Party Alarm posted:

Ammo sucks as a mechanic, but magazines could be fun. Infinite reserve ammo, but limited ammo in a "clip". You further diversify weapons with magazine capacity and reload times. Some guns could have no magazine limits but tax the energy pool instead. Might be too much work to implement at this point, but I imagine it is possible to mod in now that we have UI stuff and .lua scripts on weapons

Imaginary Friend posted:

Devs should get inspiration from games like Castlevania and River City Ransom regarding the current battle system..

Tiy posted:

The more changes we make, the closer Starbound combat seems to get to Castlevania Symphony of the Night