Tengames posted:

The whole "caveman" thing kinda falls flat when you start with a space ship, 3d printer, and a high tech matter manipulator, and you have to use said manipulator to cut down your first tree, and mine the stone for your first pickaxe. if it can do all that, why cant I just freaking use that instead of having to bang rocks together for progress?

Enzer posted:

To store all the poo poo you'll eventually find yourself looting and hoarding, of course!

Minrad posted:

Man, that title. I pretty much agree with what you're saying; starting out crash landed on a planet and needing to recover some base copper or something to do some makeshift repairs and continuing down the current path up until you get the spaceship flying again would make more sense than it does currently. Alternatively, just bump it up to a sci-fi setting from the get go if I'm gonna be flying in a god drat spaceship.

A.C. posted:

I blame all of the streamers for the confusion; every single streamer I watched stayed on one planet and played the game like it was Terraria. I remember watching the absolutely atrocious Totalbiscuit/Jesse Cox stream which was 14 minutes long, and thinking at the end of the 14 minutes, "It took them 14 minutes to accomplish what I expect to have done in about 90 seconds" and I was right. I watched one where they actually killed the first boss after about six hours, which was the most "successful" early stream I saw, and I still managed to do what they had done in about an hour and a half. Famous minecraft/terraria streamers are notoriously bad at videogames and they should have given some of the early copies to people like Kripp who are actually good at videogames and give viewers a good idea of how to advance in videogames.

Cybermg posted:

I have some concerns with the progression rebalance. Some of these are things people have already stated:

- Lack of differentiation between planets. It's nice to have some easy planets and some hard planets, or as someone said, the feeling that you're risking something by going to a very hard world for a greater reward. The difficulty level of a planet is very much a part of its character. I guess you can have easy, medium, and hard planets, but see below.
- Less of a sense of progression within a tier. You've got easy, medium, and hard, but more levels allows for more variety and seems less artificial. It doesn't seem like it'd be hard to add granularity to a system once you already have multiple levels.
- I hope there's still an armor stat, because while basing a system on straight DPS makes weapon choice simpler, it also removes a lot of the strategy around weapon choice (pick the highest number, it's the best always).

Infinity Gaia posted:

Go to another planet.

drat, the key thing Chucklefish needs to add is a small quest that says YO CHUCK SOME WOOD OR COAL INTO YOUR SHIP AND GO FLY INTO INFINITY, there are SO MANY PEOPLE that completely miss the ability to do this.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

They should all be docile and be harmless loot pinatas to solve this problem. I don't think those enemies are that much of a problem in particularly hostile places, but restricting ones that actually attack to NPC toys / crashed ship and eldritch abomination defenses would be nice.

Arsonide posted:

A: It's wood, not warp fuel.

B: Wood being efficient as warp fuel negates a large portion of the game.

Edit: Mostly B.

Shoehead posted:

It'd be cool if you went full on Castaway. But this being a building game it'd be more like Gilligan's Island.

I think I've figured out what the main problem for me with the nightly version of caveman tier is, finally. It's not so much getting stuck on one planet that bothers me, it's that terrain generation is a bit dodgy atm. For one it's a bit of a crapshoot, with wood maybe not spawning and some ore being scarcer and another problem is the surface caves broke or something and don't spawn. Which deprives you of plant materials and easy spelunking. I think with a few dungeons and special stuff for starter planets would make the start a lot more interesting. Oh and have the bloody ufo drop some core fragments or something.

The biggest issue though is multiplayer. If everyone has to do all this alone on separate planets it will seriously suck.

AceClown posted:

Magic?? Really?

Wow, that sounds retarded.

Mokinokaro posted:

Just wait for the announcement that Sony or Nintendo bought Chucklefish for 1 billion.

Tenebrais posted:

Starbound is an early access game, and as such is in all three development phases at once.


Not even as a joke. They're still adding fundamental systems while also being released to the public and needing bug-testing and balancing to bridge those two parts.

Supernorn posted:

guys, please learn the difference between a 'plan' and a set date.

I'm only providing information that's already been given on the blog. We already announced our plan to get the game out by year end.

Saxophone posted:

Still have no clue how people don't just have those two (and some others) on ignore. Is reporting for thread-making GBS threads and trolling a thing anymore? Because holy gently caress.

I'll just stick to my honored tradition of not bothering to read a post if there isn't any capitalization or punctuation.

oddium posted:

Everyone in the conference room, we need to discuss whether or not to punish the player for moving around in our exploration platformer. Yes, bring the dog

Bob NewSCART posted:

The win in this thread is reaching critical mass

XboxPants posted:

It ain't even about that, thought. Like, here:



I got a gun, there's a guy above me with a melee weapon and he's gonna come after me. Do I run to the left, or to the right? What position do I take?

If I run to the left I'm boxed in and he's gonna cut me to ribbons 'cause I can't get range. Energy doesn't even play into it either way, it's just about making better choices about where to move.

If your can boost just whenever, then your positioning kinda doesn't matter 'cause you can bail out whenever you want. If your movement is more limited, then you gotta think things out a couple steps ahead like this, 'cause you know you may not have enough energy to use your dash tech to escape. Or, you may have to think "poo poo, do I want to just dash away and be safe, or go risky and try and finish him off" and perhaps make an interesting decision with consequences.

Ahundredbux posted:

See this is the real problem people have with this game, a lot of time has passed and they don't really seem to have much to show for it.

Bob NewSCART posted:

I'm gonna fire one shot at this guy. Oh wait he's a tier above me now I need to wait for the recharge and now Im gay.

Ahundredbux posted:

Starbound is pregnant?!

Bilal posted:

Dr Who

Babe Magnet posted:

Bob NewSCART posted:

Imagine a turd falling out of my rear end. My rear end is chucklefish and the turd is star bound

Kikas posted:

It's Today for just 3 more hours in London where they moved, so they better act fast.

Turtlicious posted:

@Tiyuri
Having some issues pushing the build to steam, solving them update will be out today still

stuntwaffle posted:

mods please change my avatar to this if it's not too NSFW

OwlFancier posted:

I'm going to just say it, the update hasn't added anything. Oh sure it's got like, more sprites and stuff, but in terms of actual playable content? Way less. Because the quest gating has completely annihilated the one part of the game that was implemented half decently, which was the sandbox. Now you get no sandbox, just some lovely fetch quest slog. No alternative paths because those still haven't been added, just do dumb quests that are mind numbingly boring.

It is more of a game in that it is structured more like one, it is not anything I would actually want to play because it has zero content in the game department.