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(First I need a good thread title, looking for suggestions!) Astroneer is a space base building game from System Era. It's available on Steam, Windows Store, and Xbox 1. It features single and co-op play. Cross play is available for the Windows Store and Xbox 1 version. Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/ Here are some screenshots     I have over 500 hours in it, it's an excellent base building game for those of us who don't want to run spreadsheets to try to figure out exactly how many belts we need to accomplish our goals  . It's non-violent, there are no monsters or zombies, however there are plants that will kill you if you wander too close. From the Store Page: quote:ABOUT THIS GAME If you have questions, please ask, I'm no expert but I'm pretty familiar with how the game works. Added: Short documentary on what happened with Astroneer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUjl4owxTQ Mayveena fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 6, 2019 18:22
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How does this game compare to No Man's Sky? That's been my one hangup about buying it as it looks like it hits the same niche as NMS and yeah. Is the base building easier to get into?
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Oct 6, 2019 18:33
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StrixNebulosa posted:How does this game compare to No Man's Sky? That's been my one hangup about buying it as it looks like it hits the same niche as NMS and yeah. Is the base building easier to get into? It’s aimed at a much more casual player. As mentioned in the OP, there’s nothing that comes after you and kills you. The controls are much easier as well. It’s more cartoony too.
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Oct 6, 2019 19:24
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Base building is (or seems) mostly non-existent - your base is where you plop down various crafting/power doodads. It's not really like NMS, and has a pretty narrow focus (at least what I've played), but does a good job of it. The core gameplay loop is basically: - Set up base - Wander around leaving oxygen tethers as a sort of nav system - Hoover up basic materials on the surface or in mines that you explore - Craft new tools, power generation, storage, and crafting stations to get better materials/tools (there are, I think, three "tiers" of materials) - Find research items to open up new crafting blueprints. - repeat With two major kinks: - the starting planet is missing materials - you need to build a rocket to go to other planets to fill in material gaps - each planet has a core... thing at the core of the planet (and related surface items) that are, I think, the "true goal" of the game I've kinda "solved" one of the other "easy" planets and mostly solved a "hard" planet. It's fun and very, VERY laid back - if you can watch TV/movies when you game this is pretty perfect for it. I'm playing on PC using Game Pass - I tried playing it on my Xbonx and while it worked fine it really feels designed around kb+m (YMMV). I haven't tried co-op but I'm pretty sure that would strip away some of the tedium when you work toward a planet core. There are elements of the game that would definitely be better in co-op.
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Oct 6, 2019 20:11
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I played a bunch during EA, but less so post release. If anyone wants to play some time, I'm UTC-10; https://steamcommunity.com/id/Harmburger/
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Oct 6, 2019 20:35
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I guess we have a different definition of base building? You start with a landing pad and build a bunch of stuff to make a base. How is that not base building? Yes the core of the planet plus those big blue things on all the planets are the end game. The wiki is very handy at astroneer.gamepedia.com.
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Oct 6, 2019 20:41
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:I played a bunch during EA, but less so post release. If anyone wants to play some time, I'm UTC-10; https://steamcommunity.com/id/Harmburger/ I have played two player co op and it's been fine, both players on Steam. I've heard issues about multiplay on Xbox and with a full complement of four players.
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Oct 6, 2019 20:42
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Base building to me is something closer to Minecraft/Terraria/NMS where part of the base building is developing a structure to house all of your stuff with ramps/stairs/rooms/etc. Astroneer is more like a base camp than an actual base.
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Oct 6, 2019 23:59
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This is a very fun game, but I feel you've been negligent in describing a key, key feature... Space Trucking. It can be peaceful.  It can be challenging  But most of all it can be beautiful 
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Oct 7, 2019 19:31
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I played this game for a long time as my "I'm watching poo poo but want something to play too" game and really loved it, but gave up when I brought a bunch of poo poo to another planet and died with all my belongings on me because I really didn't want to get a bunch more stuff together to build a new ship to get back to the planet so I could retrieve my crap. I uninstalled it immediately after that happened lol. This is a perfect Xbox Gamepass game IMO. Edit: Also I kept getting frustrated with the overworld exploration stuff while trucking around looking for trash. I'm sure it's intentionally done this way but I found it really easy to lose which way I was going and get completely lost and have to wander around aimlessly for 30-45 minutes until I saw a beacon poking over the horizon. explosivo fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 20:30
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Put down more beacons. There's now 10 colors of beacons too, so you can be more precise in which color means what. Until I get a Hydrazine thruster, I always fly with an extra solid thruster in my back pack to avoid those issues of getting stuck. When I have the hydrazine thruster, I always make sure it has at least two hydrazine bottles before I take off. Have you done the rover with the Extra Large Shredder on top Prokhor? That's always fun!
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Oct 7, 2019 21:08
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Reddit link showing this guy's underground bat cave. Very cool!
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Oct 10, 2019 16:03
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Hello. I am the resident goondev for Astroneer. I started a little less than six months ago. Glad to hear folks enjoy it!
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Oct 11, 2019 05:44
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Astroneer is a pro-tier multiplayer experience if you get the chance to. If you go for completion then single-player gets a bit repetitive and stale near the end. Still a very strong game and highly recommended for casual base-building and exploration.
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Oct 11, 2019 10:38
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Hello. I am the resident goondev for Astroneer. I started a little less than six months ago. Glad to hear folks enjoy it! Very pleasant little game but of course I expect improvements  The recent jetpacks are a godsend but now backpack space is even more precious. With the scanner event I had 2 or 3 slots free after my usual loadout. Needs more space, soon. A compass I can always see would be great (including inside a vehicle). Jumping in and out of tractors to figure out if I'm still going the right way is annoying. The getting lost completely complaint has improved with the jetpacks as I can now fly up to see further.
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Oct 11, 2019 11:27
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Hello. I am the resident goondev for Astroneer. I started a little less than six months ago. Glad to hear folks enjoy it! Could we please get a way to turn the pointing emote off? I can't count how many times I've been trying to pick up a falling something and instead click on the terrain and get locked into the emote for the next 2 seconds. Or at least let the emote be interrupted by attempting to move.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:20
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Hello. I am the resident goondev for Astroneer. I started a little less than six months ago. Glad to hear folks enjoy it! Welcome! It’s a great game, I have over 600 hours in it.
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Oct 11, 2019 22:38
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You can't post an Astroneer thread without including the short documentary about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUjl4owxTQ It's pretty heart rending and definitely worth watching if only to see how No Man Sky nearly hosed them over.
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Oct 11, 2019 23:11
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Thanks just added it to the OP.
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Oct 11, 2019 23:16
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The stream yesterday was very clear that there will be no mod support for the game, in neither the short term or the long term and they actively discourage people from making mods, as later patches will almost certainly break the mods and players will be angry. Frankly all I want is a way to make signs myself.
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Oct 12, 2019 15:05
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Mayveena posted:The stream yesterday was very clear that there will be no mod support for the game, in neither the short term or the long term and they actively discourage people from making mods, as later patches will almost certainly break the mods and players will be angry. Signs yes but what I most want in the world is a map or pointer showing me where my poo poo it. If I can go into space on a whim then why can't I have GPS of some sort. Hell, even dead reckoning hundreds of years ago worked. Making getting lost be such a large part of the game 'experience' is really loving irritating.
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Oct 12, 2019 15:58
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It's a lot like Subnautica where if they put in a map it would betray just how little there is to explore.
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Oct 12, 2019 16:07
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Mayveena posted:The stream yesterday was very clear that there will be no mod support for the game, in neither the short term or the long term and they actively discourage people from making mods, as later patches will almost certainly break the mods and players will be angry. Have the devs not been paying attention to literally every other early access/etc game that allows modding? Patches breaking mods is a way of life. Minecraft, KSP, Factorio, Rimworld, etc. Most if not all of those other games also allow rolling back to previous patches, though. e. one partial solution is creating a versatile modding API. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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Oct 12, 2019 18:06
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I’m sure they know. Those other games are not Astroneer and aren’t programmed like it. They might be clearer about this in the Steam/Windows/Xbox descriptions though.
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Oct 12, 2019 18:44
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Hello. I am the resident goondev for Astroneer. I started a little less than six months ago. Glad to hear folks enjoy it! Oh snap I had no idea!!  Astroneer is such a good and well-polished game. I played through all of it in co-op after the 1.0 release and it was such a fun time.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:54
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Oh snap I had no idea!! Yeah! You're still at Disney, right? We should catch up next time you're in town, it's been a while.
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Oct 14, 2019 04:33
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Yeah! You're still at Disney, right? We should catch up next time you're in town, it's been a while. Yup yup yup I'll be in town around Christmas you can tell me all the secrets of the universe
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Oct 16, 2019 03:15
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From the stream yesterday the ability to pave the road is coming, as well as a medium sized soil container so that you don't run out of soil too quickly while paving. Also a new event. Should hit mid-week next week.
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Oct 19, 2019 14:39
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Hi folks, I wanted you to know I just created a base building megathread here. Hope you find it helpful, and please leave comments in the thread, thanks.
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Oct 21, 2019 16:38
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this game is good as heck and one of my main chill-out games. someday maybe i'll actually bother finishing it but i find it more fun just exploring around and plopping bases everywhere.
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Oct 21, 2019 16:50
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:this game is good as heck and one of my main chill-out games. someday maybe i'll actually bother finishing it but i find it more fun just exploring around and plopping bases everywhere. Me too!! And with the new organizer stuff, it's awesome to keep putting stuff together like Legos
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Oct 21, 2019 17:05
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I just keep starting over. Don't even mind. It's a lovely little chill out game. When you get a bigger shuttle dont forget to take the smaller one off the landing pad before you head to space or you might have a long walk when you return 
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Oct 22, 2019 08:54
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Didn't quite make that left turn at Albuquerque (Feel free to post your own screen shots!!!)
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Oct 22, 2019 14:08
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this is fine
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Oct 22, 2019 20:23
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Patch time https://forum.systemera.net/topic/54622-the-groundwork-update-october-24th-2019/ Paver? Roads? Please let this be roads. And 3 sizes of horns - ho ho, yeah. Also something about changes to the vehicle drill, I will be pleasantly surprised if it's now worth using.
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Oct 24, 2019 19:23
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Ratzap posted:Also something about changes to the vehicle drill, I will be pleasantly surprised if it's now worth using. Eh? It has been worth using ever since they gave vehicles more power. Just being able to plow through mountains made it much easier to power all the spoiler-y things.
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Oct 24, 2019 19:27
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Ratzap posted:Patch time Yes, it is roads indeed. Gotta see what the byte cost is for the paver though.
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Oct 24, 2019 21:01
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5,000 bytes is the answer
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Oct 24, 2019 23:15
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Mayveena posted:(First I need a good thread title, looking for suggestions!) Space is chill.
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Oct 25, 2019 03:20
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Huh, I thought I could change the subject by editing the OP but I guess not. How do I get the subject changed?
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Oct 25, 2019 15:35
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