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Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Time to pick up and play this again. I hope this was worth the trouble, because it was certainly worth the laughs.

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Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Turtlicious posted:

/admin
/fullbright
/admin

Thanks for the heads up.


EDIT: How the hell do you get out of the outpost? And why can't I talk to the Illegal goods merchant? The game treats it like it's not an object or vendor, or anything really.

Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jan 30, 2015

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Dandywalken posted:

Gotta go back to the gate and use the tele, then warp back to ship. Its weird.

That's wierd. It didn't give me a prompt to go back to the ship or anything, so i saved and quit, and i wasted 500 pixels on the quest item because it didn't show up.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Fermented Tinal posted:

There's a quest(s?) you have to complete for the penguin running around the Outpost before you can access that merchant, iirc.

Okay, what if the penguin running around didn't offer anything?

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Can't you get the crystals from the Quick-E mart? i swear that last item was exactly what i needed.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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They should probably add ranged options on iron level. Seriously, it took me until the end level to get a random gun off a chest.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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OR cheat yourself some Titanium armor.


I know it's early access, but once you cheat, you pretty much lose the will to keep going, if you can just create everything. Still, I think upgrading the Matter Manipulator to the fullest is the best thing to do.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I'm reading the comments on that dev video and people are just wishing for the hunger system to come back, are you loving kidding me?


program666 posted:

I just remembered that by the middle of 2013 I thought this was going to be one of the greatest games ever along with x rebirth and wasteland 2. In the end wasteland 2 seems ok, terraria got great updates since then and other actual good indie titles were released so not bad actually, no thanks to starbound.

Same here, and that's why I have garbage like X:Rebirth on my list, because I am way too optimistic.

Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Apr 4, 2015

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Well, we also thought the teleport system would work nicely. It didn't.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Volt Catfish posted:

is there any reason at all for me to reinstall this game


I mean surely there's fun to be had in the past 1.5 years since I've last played it, right!?

Oh my god, it's been that long?

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I can't believe I had high hopes for starbound.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Remember when just finding planets with a medieval castle housed by robots was cool, so you stole everything and drew satisfaction from just that?

Sometimes a game doesn't have to have progression.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Did security guards escort you out of the building when you got fired unmoderated?

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I was watching Interstellaria for a long time. Still not sure though if i should give my money if those fine folks at starbound can't get a good project together.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I have to say, If i decided not to spend enough money to get the game plus the soundtrack before it came out,I could have used that to buy cheap liquor instead of buying it and playing it in the hopes that this game was going to somehow supercede terraria in creativity.

What we got instead was a product not even the creators know how they want it finished. This is the pure essence of early access.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Magmarashi posted:

That's goddamn creative

Yeah, how many pixels that you'd no doubt need to cheat to get easy is gated behind that?

A loving teleport is insanely expensive, so, what's going on here

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Remember when they advertised wanderlust adventures while this game was in early access? Well thats out now. I think at this point Witchmarsh will come out before Starbound gets done too

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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The dev update tells me one thing, that it just might be possible this game could be fixed, and not only that, that the 1.0 might appear in our lifetime.

I just hope the 1.0 won't turn into Space base DF9 1.0, which was a straight cut n' run, gently caress you double fine

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Weird because nobody ever played this poo poo for the pvp.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Slime posted:

I booted Starbound back up after this patch and figured I'd give it a second third chance. I was bored out of my goddamn skull the entire time. It's still horribly gated, your first major goal is to dig to the centre of the loving planet to get some lovely loving rocks,, and it was still lovely. There were some caves, but all that was in them were some lovely monsters.

Game still bad guys, I can confirm.

You still have to do that? Do you still need to do the stupid crystal quest to actually start flying?

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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How about they just do a "all things unlocked, do as you will," mode, seperate it as "exploration mode" and "story mode" instead of the tier stuff they are forcing on people?


They had a thing going on with the early version they were going with, by just gathering enough things to summon a boss, right? Why not just build on that? The early version had it kinda worked out until we were reaching the palladium and above tier, WHY NOT BUILD ON THAT. I understand that it's their game, but come on, jesus

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Winter Update happened January of last year right? Because if so, holy poo poo.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I'm an idiot because I'm probably going to purchase Stardew Valley, because I'm a sucker for one-man projects, and Witchmarsh, which admittedly, looks pretty loving awesome.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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The White Dragon posted:

you'll be fine, publisher != developer. unfortunately for the devs, though, this means the starbound stank is on their project by association like you demonstrate here and some consumers will avoid it.

stankbound

Sloppy Milkshake posted:

SV looks looks really good though??? idgi

What he said, Publisher !=Developer, and I sometimes have a rough time distinguishing the two thanks to publishers like EA and Ubisoft. I'm a big fan of one guy just toiling away at something he likes so that he/she shares it with others, and that it might become something that funds his basic needs and peace of mind, that's why I'll still buy Stardew when it comes out on the 26th.

Witchmarsh just looks really, really good to me, I like the aesthetic.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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BillmasterCozb posted:

how can they be this awful at everything they do

they're worse than almost as bad as nicalis

What makes nicalis so bad though? Other than Castle in the darkness (for me at least), what makes them just as awful as a three year almost plus early access product that was partially funded through kickstarter?

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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So, Stardew Valley is okay.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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You can not like this game and also not like talking heads. Just saying

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Babe Magnet posted:

every day is april fools day for we, the people who paid money for this

What sucks is when this came out I think it was when Early Access was a thing, and it was one of the more promising ones.

This failure pretty much put me off EA until something more complete came along, like Darkest Dungeon

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Tiy did post here once, so I think maybe he's reading all this

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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I bought Spacebase DF-9, Godus, Mercenary Kings and Starbound when they were launching.


Buuuuttt I did buy Darkest Dungeon?

gently caress Early access is what i'm saying, except when it's good? and it barely is? I don't know what to feel.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Cicadas! posted:


Unless you were asking for the actual rock in which case



Thanks, though I'm amazed you were able to see them at all at 1x. Unless that was the joke.

Geodse.cx

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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FactsAreUseless posted:

Well? Why did you buy this?

Wellll, This was back in 2013, and we thought it was gonna work.


And now we are here.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Three loving years. Not even counting the hype of the years prior to EA release.


As a person who bought it when it was EA first day because I didn't donate earlier, I know that after all this? it wasn't worth it, It wasn't worth it at all. I hope you guys have better luck in another game.


I spent about 100 hours in starbound from then till' today. I'm the rear end in a top hat that says I spent most of that afk, and I played podcasts to keep me awake playing this.

Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jul 9, 2016

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Do the guns still feed off your energy? Because that is loving dumb

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Starbound 1.0: Early Access Done Wrong.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Starbound: Gimmie three steps mister and you'll never see me no more

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Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

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Ahundredbux posted:

what the, its not even out ?

Updates will be fast and thick

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