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Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Sachant posted:

If you try talking to the CEO you'll find he's pretty naive too. They really have no idea what they're getting into making a PvP MMO.

In terms of actually releasing something I have more faith in some clueless idiots than all the 'storied developers' who have shown since the advent of kickstarter

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Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


Starbase - New Features Trailer Blooper Reel

RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



the repeated takes of them dogfighting and then running into the debris cloud that they generated (and subsequently destroyed themselves in) were great. That's gonna be a pain to deal with.

cmdrk
Jun 10, 2013

RocketRaygun posted:

the repeated takes of them dogfighting and then running into the debris cloud that they generated (and subsequently destroyed themselves in) were great. That's gonna be a pain to deal with.

yes that owned.

also it looks like the ships are generally fully destructable, but maybe the environments not so much?

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

cmdrk posted:

also it looks like the ships are generally fully destructable, but maybe the environments not so much?

The newbie starting stations are in a safe zone where everything is invulnerable. They wouldn't exist for more than 20 minutes otherwise. Outside of the safe zones it's ancap paradise.

RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



Sachant posted:

The newbie starting stations are in a safe zone where everything is invulnerable. They wouldn't exist for more than 20 minutes otherwise. Outside of the safe zones it's ancap paradise.

Fully automated space communism more like.

cmdrk
Jun 10, 2013
well, unless everything for the early access is safe zone :)

what im saying is that it looks too good and my cold dead heart cannot accept it as promised :colbert:

Turkina_Prime
Oct 26, 2013

If you guys want some laughs, check out the factions wiki

https://wiki.starbasegame.com/index.php/Player_factions

The ones that have the cringiest names are gold mines.

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


BurtLington posted:

The ones that have the cringiest names are gold mines.

So, all of them?

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.
Lmao at least 3 EVE online corps are there

RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



yeah, and over half of the people who played NA PVP in ATLAS.

At least the community will be _very_ interesting, even if the game isn't.

Chasterson
Aug 16, 2013

by Nyc_Tattoo
Really hope the devs cater to the maniacs who want to build a spaceship that looks like spongebob square pants playing guitar and not the maniacs who want to build a 20 level hierarchy around collecting asteroids.

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

Chasterson posted:

Really hope the devs cater to the maniacs who want to build a spaceship that looks like spongebob square pants playing guitar and not the maniacs who want to build a 20 level hierarchy around collecting asteroids.

haha they wont

kaffo
Jun 20, 2017

If it's broken, it's probably my fault

Chasterson posted:

Really hope the devs cater to the maniacs who want to build a spaceship that looks like spongebob square pants playing guitar and not the maniacs who want to build a 20 level hierarchy around collecting asteroids.

Whynotboth.jpeg
I'm a maniac in both ways for sure

RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



weekly update: https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/starbase-progress-notes-week-9-2020.807/

cmdrk
Jun 10, 2013
i want to be gay in space when can i throw money at this dumb game :shepspends:

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSH5vDBCPI

Feature video on the ship designer or, "thank god there's a tool to automatically bolt things for you".

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It
That's a very nice looking editor,

Though when they bring up stuff like balancing weight on the ship that just screams lagfest to me

Same with bolts. Why even have them?

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.
Programmed breaking points for armor? Manual macgyver of a shot off turret on the go?
Endless possibilities tbh

RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



Weekly Update: https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/starbase-progress-notes-week-10-2020.829/

Looks like they are doing at least the bare minimum for territory control at this point... distributing resources around the asteroid belt in clusters.

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

Another weekly update: https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/starbase-progress-notes-week-11-2020.843/

some pubbie on the game's forums posted:

Based on the footage I have seen this game is ABSOLUTELY a toil and labor simulator. It's probably the most involved toil and labor simulator ever built, and a ton of time and effort was put in to simulating toil and labor. What do you think a robot standing on an asteroid with a pickaxe is? What do you think individually bolting single armor plates together is? What do you think NPC jobs to assemble office chairs are?

Assemble those chairs, robots!

Sachant fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Mar 18, 2020

furrygiblets
Mar 29, 2009
This looks pretty amazing tbf

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

Weekly progress notes: https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/starbase-progress-notes-week-13-2020.879/

Adadad
May 16, 2008
Has this gotten past the vaperware phase yet?

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

No(t yet)

throw to first DAMN IT
Apr 10, 2007
This whole thread has been raging at the people who don't want Saracen invasion to their homes

Perhaps you too should be more accepting of their cultures
I mean, the part where you RP on forums about how good the game is gonna be is generally the best part

forge
Feb 26, 2006
This game is going to die from the complexity of it. There are going to be 20 people who can code and figure out how to build all the poo poo. The rest of the players are going to shrug, get lost immediately, and log the gently caress out. They better have one hell of a tutorial and walkthrough if this poo poo is going to get off the ground.

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It
I won't believe it exists until we see how well it runs with actual players

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27X7DHn5XA

A 'getting started' video with a showcase of the 'tutorial' part of the game.

queeb
Jun 10, 2004

m



lemme play this poo poo

a slime
Apr 11, 2005

queeb posted:

lemme play this poo poo

It's not real

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


One can dream.

Good Dumplings
Mar 30, 2011

Excuse my worthless shitposting because all I can ever hope to accomplish in life is to rot away the braincells of strangers on the internet with my irredeemable brainworms.
friend can I interest you in a spaceship voucher with guaranteed lifetime insurance???

Sachant
Apr 27, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbM94NCM04U
space combat

Hommando
Mar 2, 2012
The engine can barely handle a 1v1 ship fight. Those framerate drops are awful.

Hommando fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Apr 23, 2020

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


I think layered armor is going to be the way to go considering how easy everything get's blown apart.

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.

Hommando posted:

The engine can barely handle a 1v1 ship fight. Those are framerate drops are awful.

My take is on complexity of the builds, the thing space engineers suffer from.

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Hommando posted:

The engine can barely handle a 1v1 ship fight. Those are framerate drops are awful.
Called it, but then that's a pretty easy call to make after experiencing the mess that was Worlds Adrift

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


Starbase - Bug Reel

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RocketRaygun
Nov 7, 2015



Looks like Closed Alpha will be starting Monday, May 11th.

This is the survey you need to fill out to get in: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A09u3huSRkRxoA6IqcdyOi3yH7YBiybJEsHVceWbUmY (This is the same survey they released in February, so if you've filled it out already you are good to wait)

RocketRaygun fucked around with this message at 02:37 on May 8, 2020

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