Starbound: You may find yourself waiting for a better game.

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Cicadas!: Oct 27, 2010

My name is Bear Grylls and this is my favorite mod on the Citadel.

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deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
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Cicadas! posted:

My name is Bear Grylls and this is my favorite mod on the Citadel.

Being able to equip Simon's Soul as some kind of Stand has really turned me around on this mod.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 20:34

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

A series of stands based off famous zookeepers and adventurers would be pretty cool.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 07:09

Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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someone make a jojo's bizarre adventure mod for starbound and then maybe i'll play it again

# ? Apr 11, 2015 08:29

I Said No: May 21, 2007; jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

I figured out how to make slippery, frictionless surfaces. :woop:

# ? Apr 13, 2015 00:07

Cicadas!: Oct 27, 2010

I Said No posted:

I figured out how to make slippery, frictionless surfaces.

That's really cool, and also something I didn't even know was possible within the limitations of the engine. I guess the partnership with Aperture Science is paying off, then?
Seriously, how did you accomplish this? Can blocks transfer status effects to whoever's touching them now, or is this some kind of object fuckery?

e: Does it work vertically as well as horizontally? What are the things on the ends, speed boosters? Are you a wizard?

Cicadas! fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Apr 13, 2015

# ? Apr 13, 2015 00:18

I Said No: May 21, 2007; jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

Yeah I figured out a way to hijack the main processing loop for player characters and stick my own block of code in there that checks what you're standing on and applies a status effect if it's a tile modifier that I have set up to give a status effect. The cyan/yellow goo is Accelerator Gel that gives you a speed boost while you're standing on it, and the blue strip is a frictionless surface that switches the player's friction off as long as they're standing on it.

# ? Apr 13, 2015 00:26

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

I Said No posted:

Yeah I figured out a way to hijack the main processing loop for player characters and stick my own block of code in there that checks what you're standing on and applies a status effect if it's a tile modifier that I have set up to give a status effect. The cyan/yellow goo is Accelerator Gel that gives you a speed boost while you're standing on it, and the blue strip is a frictionless surface that switches the player's friction off as long as they're standing on it.

This is awesome and something dearly needed to make more interesting biomes, I hope you post it when you get it worked out how you like it.

I Said No posted:

I figured out how to make slippery, frictionless surfaces.

You may want it like you have it, but if you want to set it up so that the player has momentum when jumping out of a slide, instead of stopping the moment he hits air, you'll have to change the air friction as well. Back when I cared about making a Starbound mod, these were values that I thought gave a pretty fun balance of "flying all over the place" and "still having some control":

code:

  mcontroller.controlParameters({
	normalGroundFriction = .1,
	ambulatingGroundFriction = -25,
	airFriction = -100,
	airForce = 20,
	groundForce = 5
  })

# ? Apr 13, 2015 00:38

Cicadas!: Oct 27, 2010

I Said No posted:

Yeah I figured out a way to hijack the main processing loop for player characters and stick my own block of code in there that checks what you're standing on and applies a status effect if it's a tile modifier that I have set up to give a status effect. The cyan/yellow goo is Accelerator Gel that gives you a speed boost while you're standing on it, and the blue strip is a frictionless surface that switches the player's friction off as long as they're standing on it.

So, yes to the wizard question then, cause that sounds like some technomancy to me. Are you planning to make it into an API of sorts?
I was hoping they'd made status blocks a feature in the nightly builds or something, but it's all the more impressive you found a workaround like that. It seems like a key feature that should have been in place from day one (in a game about blocks for chrissakes), but we all know better than to expect these things by now. Kudos on keeping the spirit of fun alive.

# ? Apr 13, 2015 00:49

I Said No: May 21, 2007; jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

Ah, you don't actually lose all momentum when you jump, that was just me faffing around. :downs:

# ? Apr 13, 2015 01:33

RottenK: Feb 17, 2011; Sexy bad choices

FAILED NOJOE

if people keep making good mods starbound might become good

someone stop these madmen before it's too late

# ? Apr 13, 2015 08:13

Afraid of Audio: Oct 12, 2012; by exmarx

RottenK posted:

if people keep making good mods starbound might become good

someone stop these madmen before it's too late

There is no chance of that happening, godspeed.

# ? Apr 13, 2015 08:15

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Afraid of Audio posted:

There is no chance of that happening, godspeed.

How does one have such knowledge AoA?

I feel as though every time i see more "LETS ADD MORE GATING MECHANICS TO COOL IDEAS SO THINGS ARE ~~TEDIOUS AND BORING~~ HARD" a piece of me dies. And then i remember that AoA said starbound will never be good and i fear he is right.

# ? Apr 13, 2015 10:34

Babe Magnet: Jun 2, 2008

I Said No posted:

I figured out how to make slippery, frictionless surfaces.

owns

# ? Apr 13, 2015 11:56

Silento Boborachi: Sep 17, 2007

Going to be working on making a custom ship for awhile, so I started a server.

69.9.223.65
account = guest
password = alpaca

I assume you need every mod I am using so:

CompactCrops1.1
CreativeMode
FCSMod
IlluminatedOres
LetteredOres

Silento Boborachi fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Apr 18, 2015

# ? Apr 18, 2015 20:18

Sloppy Milkshake: Nov 9, 2004; I MAKE YOU HUMBLE

That's your internal address, also I don't think those spoilers are going to protect you from anything.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 20:58

Silento Boborachi: Sep 17, 2007

I fixed it! also I thought somewhere we were supposed to spoiler emails, servers, etc. Whatever.

# ? Apr 18, 2015 21:37

I Said No: May 21, 2007; jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

Silento Boborachi posted:

I fixed it! also I thought somewhere we were supposed to spoiler emails, servers, etc. Whatever.

That's only really if you don't want the general public joining in on them. We generally use the Private Games Servers subforum if you only want goons joining in, spoiler tags won't really do much because you can just mouse over them.

# ? Apr 19, 2015 00:05

pwnyXpress: Mar 28, 2007

lol starbound

# ? Apr 20, 2015 20:24

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

haha

# ? Apr 20, 2015 21:38

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

i wish it was a dick

# ? Apr 20, 2015 21:42

Michaellaneous: Oct 30, 2013

starbound more like fartbound

# ? Apr 20, 2015 21:45

Patware: Jan 3, 2005

i used to play shartbound

# ? Apr 20, 2015 22:19

Malek: Jun 22, 2003; Shut up Girl!
And as always: Kill Hitler.

Starbound is the new Cube World

# ? Apr 21, 2015 02:18

kode54: Nov 26, 2007; aka kuroshi; Fun Shoe

Oh yeah, I remember Cube World. I even helped track down why it wouldn't run in wine, and how to fix it in a non-lovely way. (read: likely to be accepted upstream, rather than as yet another CrossOver hack.)

That was a fun game too, for some days after buying it and playing it with a few friends. I love how it had third party launchers to relaunch the server every time it crashed, and oh did it crash often.

Did Cube World ever go anywhere?

# ? Apr 21, 2015 02:30

Babe Magnet: Jun 2, 2008

No, Wollay got scared away from game development for a while. I'm pretty sure you can't even buy the game anymore, which is good, since selling it when you don't plan to update it for a long time would be really lovely

# ? Apr 21, 2015 02:54

Fewd: Mar 22, 2007; #vmp #opsec #kolmiloikka #happoo

has this game been confirmed as cashgrab vaporware yet or is it getting a proper release one of these decades

# ? Apr 21, 2015 11:13

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Malek posted:

Starbound is the new Cube World

Pretty sure a major difference is that somebody, somewhere has looked at the Starbound code in the last year.

Which isn't necessarily a good thing; that got us bullshit like the drat crystal mine.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 15:29

LordZoric: Aug 30, 2012; Let's wish for a space whale!

New stable update showed up on my Facebook feed. I have a lot of posts in the old SB thread about how excited I was for this game. I have to say, Chucklefish has done a very impressive job of killing almost all the enthusiasm I had with their insanely unfocused design decisions. They need some sort of project manager really badly.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 16:04

Davoren: Aug 14, 2003; The devil you say!

dog is project manager

# ? Apr 21, 2015 16:39

Literally Kermit: Mar 4, 2012; t

LordZoric posted:

New stable update showed up on my Facebook feed. I have a lot of posts in the old SB thread about how excited I was for this game. I have to say, Chucklefish has done a very impressive job of killing almost all the enthusiasm I had with their insanely unfocused design decisions. They need some sort of project manager really badly.

Yeah, it's hard to get hype. Looks prettier now, should have been out and done months ago.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 16:54

JerikTelorian: Jan 19, 2007

LordZoric posted:

New stable update showed up on my Facebook feed. I have a lot of posts in the old SB thread about how excited I was for this game. I have to say, Chucklefish has done a very impressive job of killing almost all the enthusiasm I had with their insanely unfocused design decisions. They need some sort of project manager really badly.

It says energy was rebalanced, is this any good?

I'd check myself but I would rather be playing any other game.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 18:27

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
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Mission dungeons will persist for 10 minutes after all players have left, allowing continuation of a mission after dying.

This is a pretty good change.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 18:31

Crimson Harvest: Jul 14, 2004; I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy!

Oh good, the underground parts are even more tedious, can't save+quit to get back to your ship.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 20:27

Trastion: Jul 24, 2003; The one and only.

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EXISTING CHARACTERS WILL LOSE THEIR HOME PLANETS! Make sure to write down your home planet�s coordinates or leave your ship in orbit so that you don�t lose track of its location.

Yeah that's a good idea because I can go in and go back to my home planet before steam automatically updates my game for me.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 20:32

JerikTelorian: Jan 19, 2007

Trastion posted:

Yeah that's a good idea because I can go in and go back to my home planet before steam automatically updates my game for me.

Looks like you got Starboned

# ? Apr 21, 2015 20:36

Smuggins: Mar 14, 2008; Blasphemy! Blasphoryou! Blasphoreveryone!; Fun Shoe

The changes make me happy, Starbound is a good game.

# ? Apr 21, 2015 21:44

stuntwaffle: Mar 7, 2007; I wish Starbound was a dick so I could put it in my ass and mouth!

Smuggins posted:

The changes make me happy, Starbound is a good game.

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Michaellaneous: Oct 30, 2013

Smuggins posted:

The changes make me happy, Starbound is a good game.

Your words say yes.
Your avatar says no.

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Evilreaver: Feb 26, 2007; GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!; Dinosaur Gum

Trastion posted:

Yeah that's a good idea because I can go in and go back to my home planet before steam automatically updates my game for me.

"Should we add the player's Home Planet to the list of bookmarks upon loading a legacy save? I mean, we know right where in the save this data is located and where it would have to be written to bring the save up to date so this would be like a 5-minute code job."

"Nah"

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