Did this game ever get good? Haven't tried it in years.
>>343884931
nope
They actually removed some of the good parts.
>>343885095
>>343885175
>>343885203
Seriously? They had the core of something that could have been great already. How is that even possible?
>>343884931
They said they were nearly ready to release 1.0 a bit over a month ago
>>343885203
What did they remove?
>yfw you fell for the starbound meme
>>343884931
It was really comfy when it came out but it's super repetitive from what I remember
honestly I want to try it again but I'm too lazy to re install and get heartbroken
>>343885360
I had a friend on steam that bought it for me.
I didn't pay anything for it and I still feel let down.
>>343884931
It's so much better now. There are actual dungeons, zelda-like bosses, etc. Combat is pretty different from release, and I think they changed it again after I played it.
With the whole story with stargates and ancient aliens and shit, it's probably going to be pretty good, at least worth its price.
>>343885743
The combat has improved desu. I've heard you can build space ships and shit now. Are the rumors tru? Is it any good senpai?
>>343885891
Yeah. Upgrading your ship is fun. Gives you much Space to make your base in your ship and you don't have to build bases on every planet. Aaand exploring moons for fuel are super comfy. Quests are quite shitty but you need to actually Travel and explore some planets for races tombs and shit.
Combat is really good atm. Just try It out. Some World bosses will rekt you hard.
What's that fuckhuge door you can get to from the gates?
>>343885252
game """""""devs""""""""
>>343885891
>>343886417
What did they improve about combat?
>>343886417
>Exploring moons for fuel
>Comfy
>Not super fucking braindead sleep-inducing boring
>>343884931
I'd say don't bother. Or bother if you're curious to see how randomized planet generation can work for No Man's Sky.
1.0 is out this month, official date should be released with the stream this Friday.
The nightly build has blown Terraria out of the water for months, but don't expect anyone on /v/ to actually know anything about this game. The people who shit on it either haven't played it for years, or haven't played it at all and are just parroting what they've read so people won't suspect they're new here.
You can't praise Starbound or criticize Terraria on /v/ either, which is ironic because this is one of the things Terrariacucks give based Tiy shit for, even though there's no basis in reality for the accusation.
>>343887030
They don't update the versions histories for shit. A quick googling yields that the game hasn't been updated in a year or so. Is there anywhere the patch notes are actually posted? And I don't mean having to slog through their shitty blog.
>>343885340
The good parts.
>>343885286
3 months ago actually, was when they said starbound 1.0 was on final approach. 3 months. I'm past the point of insulting chuclefuck, I honestly just want the game to feel complete and fun so I don't feel so bad for falling for the early access meme
>>343887162
Which were?
>>343887143
>A quick googling yields that the game hasn't been updated in a year or so
You know the nightly build is updated daily, right? Stable has never been updated regularly. This is why Starbound gets a bad reputation here, because of retards like you who are seemingly illiterate.
>>343887238
>implying there were any good parts in the first place
>>343885360
>>343884931
I love how "haven't tried it in years" isn't even an exaggeration, lmao. Terraria was more fun a few months after release.
>>343884931
>generic "ancient evil awakens" plot
>player is now from an earth academy or something instead of being some rando spessman
>penguins are still a thing
>all mentions of alcohol removed
>still no racial traits because it would "make pvp unbalanced" or something
>mining store run by bears
>more penguins
>quests still aren't very good
>alpaca people
>lore has promise that chucklefish has squandered so very very badly
>>343887274
But why not polish their nightly releases and make a monthly update or so?
It really just is one big show of unprofessional developers. Heck, they don't even know how version numbers work so they have to use emotional animals instead.
Also you didn't answer if you actually can see what was updated anywhere.
>>343886625
Different weapons have different Attack style. Skills and abilities. And mobs have different Attack patterns. Also the World bosses and quest bosses can be quite challenging.
>all my friends begged me to buy Starbound with them
>"Come on Anon, it's just like Terraria but better!"
>"You just hate fun Anon, come on it's cheap just buy it"
>tfw I didn't
>>343886763
>Exploring moons for fuel
>Comfy
>Not super fucking braindead sleep-inducing boring
Which is why they're adding enemies to moons in 1.0
I hope the 1.0 patch turns out okay, I want more "minecraftroidvania" and there are literally only two games in that genre. Terraria 2 is an echo of a dream, Terraria Otherworld is some weird spin off shit.
When is somebody competent going to take this idea and make something really good with it?
>>343886763
>No Man's Sky
Isn't there enough disappointment for one thread already?
>>343887749
Terraria is fantastic though, and it's more than a complete game.
Do they still have that fucking mechanic that makes you move slower if your cursor isn't in front of your character? It kills the game for me, coming from terraria. Specially when you're shooting behind you, which means you'll be moving at a snail's pace
>>343885286
>>343887218
This. I don't fucking get it. After half a decade, the guys say "We finally close to 1.0". And it's been months!
Once a few weeks i remember, "Wasn't Starbound near release, let me check..." and nothing.
>>343885203
>>343885252
This is true, I played an earlier version from a Torrent and loved the game - binge-played it for 2 days straight.
Then I decided to buy it some months later for the multiplayer and I was surprised to see that they had dumbed down some of the content. It didn't even feel like I was playing the same game.
What remains of the game is its small hardcore fanbase and the rule 34 pixel hentai art found on the web.
Too bad, I legit liked the game and its soundtrack.
Currently, it's standing on my shelf of lost hopes and dreams, along with Day Z Standalone, The Forest and many others...
>>343887617
>Different weapons have different Attack style.
You're going to have to elaborate on this, because different weapons always attack in different ways, that didn't make them less shit. It just made some of them downright useless.
>>343884931
No. The combat update was completely shallow and improved nothing. Monsters are still retarded, there are structures underground now but they're mostly useless. Progression still feels pointless and the bosses poorly made. To make matters fucking worse, recent updates made the game simply not start for a lot of fucking people and their forums just go full damage control mode anything you question why they dont fix the problem.
It's still a fucking clusterfuck of poor design decisions because the team is mostly artists.
>>343885360
>>343885360
http://store.steampowered.com/app/321700/
>this exists
Alrighty then
>traded a good hat in tf2 for this pile of shit on release
>>343887495
I swear to God, that "Ursa Miner" joke is the cringiest attempt at geek humour since BBT.
>>343887903
>this game is the product of a team of "idea guys"
Figures, really.
>>343887814
But it's a finite game, once you play through it 2-4 times with each update, there's nothing to go back for. I want new stuff I can keep playing. I want a game that has ARPG-style loot to keep you interested.
Also I hate how the current design for the bosses is like oh hey spend three days building some shitbox arena just so you can stand a chance of killing this shit.
>>343887538
>Also you didn't answer if you actually can see what was updated anywhere.
Google, first page, don't expect to be spoonfed, you're not on reddit anymore
>>343887830
No, this has been fixed
>>343887903
Combat is much better, same with weapon variety and skills. You haven't played nightly and shouldn't talk about the game if you're going to spread misinformation.
If you're complaining about the placeholder progression you're an idiot who shouldn't be playing EA games to begin with. It's always been intended to be skipped through /admin commands while you test new content.
I notice the Terrariacucks are really stepping their game up trying to denounce Starbound now that it has a release coming. Pretty pathetic, guys.
>>343888062
What's even worse is that there's already a ore/bar shop on the outpost
It's just a regular miner dude who hangs around a balcony
Why is that not good enough
What did miner dude do wrong
>>343888165
>your face when Butterlord is looking better and better every update
:D>but it's never ever coming out
D:
>>343888198
>you're not on reddit anymore
Then what's with all these redditors trying to defend this shitty game?
>>343887886
For example different swords have different abilities wave, energy shots, jump slashes, dash slashes etc. Please check out Combat Update movie and you will see what i meant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1800Ougne5E
>no more """cute""" loading screens
That really is so much better
>>343888198
>You haven't played nightly and shouldn't talk about the game if you're going to spread misinformation.
I don't hope they're paying you too much for shilling because you're doing a horrible job at it.
You're not going into any details about what's actually been improved, you just say others are wrong.
If you wanna be right, prove us wrong. I want Starbound to be good, I really do, but the inital letdown and lack of proof of it being good is doing no favours.
>>343888449
If you cared you would play nightly or read a change log.
You just want to shit on Starbound because Otherworld is vaporware and you're getting nervos that Terraria will be overshadowed by a much, much, MUCH better game.
It's over, you lost. You won't even be able to shitpost anymore once 1.0 comes out.
>>343888541
And you just continue shitposting instead of providing any proof.
>Otherworld
No one has ever cared about this.
>>343888541
You are pretty much the only person seriously bringing up terraria. Only a couple other posts mentioned it and they hardly had anything to say.
I was hyped when they announced it, followed them and their development for so many years and still to this day i'm still excited.
The only thing that kept me away from it is how they fucking wipe your character with every fucking update.
I will seriously play it again from scratch with the 1.0, until then they can fuck off.
Haven't played it since december 2013.
Wish me luck!
>>343888032
>Traded a useless cosmetic for something that actually does something
Hatfags are the worst.
got starbound for free from a dev
still removed it from my library because it's just that shit
>>343888275
Haven't touched the Unstable/Nightly for about a month now and have some questions.
Are all weapons besides spears with the stabby special or a Elec 1-hand with a shield even worth using yet?
Did they get rid of the multitude of shitty ass fetch quests for obscure things in randomly generated racial dungeons yet?
Are challenge portals, dungeons, everything, etc. interesting after you get targeted blink again yet?
Are the last tier of planets (Arid and only Arid) worth any fucking salt yet? Did they remove the permanent sandstorms and meteors every two minutes yet?
Do we start with the MM again yet?
>>343888541
>If you cared you would play nightly or read a change log.
that's just the thing
I don't care
because the actual game they sold me has been fucking god awful for the last 3 fucking years
I never got the opportunity to care about the content of the game because THERE FUCKING IS NONE
>MUH NIGHTLY BUILD
Holy shit, forest planet dirt blocks changed from #1ab42f to #icb42f, starbound is saved
>>343888942
pardon for making vidya money with a free game
>>343887495
>yfw racial traits are not going to be added because that would be racist
>Tfw bought into the hype
>All the features I liked are on the back burner while they made fireworks and bowling shit.
>All of the development time went to world building instead of game mechanics
>Plot is still ancient evil, ancient aliens and star trek warp gates
>Mfw 2 years later and still no reason to play this """""""""""""""""""""""""game"""""""""""""""""""""""""
>>343889235
>#icb42f
>not an actual colour
"it's fucking nothing" sums up starbound updates actually, n1 anon
>>343888198
>No, this has been fixed
Has it? I tried Starbound - Unstable on Steam, which I assume it's the nightly thing, and the character still always faces the cursor. Meaning if you walk the other direction, moving backwards, you walk super slow. Why can't they just make the movement independent from it, like terraria does. It annoys me to no end
>>343889164
But you haven't bought the actual game anon. You bought the early Access. Proper game will be out soon. Play It Then because whats the reason of buying unfinished game ? I thought that its about seeing the game being developed and take a part in that development by putting some feedback about game. Even if the development is like 3 years long
>>343889471
I tried to give some feedback.
I got banned by the criticism police that roam the forums. Literally nothing negative allowed.
>>343885252
>They had the core of something
They hadn't. You grand fantasies about something isn't "core" for anything at chucklefish office, and they nothing aside from Terraria to rip off and a bunch of bumbling retards who can't even rip something off without making it ten times worse
>>343889465
Did you just install unstable, or also opt into nightly?
If you don't manually opt into nightly stable and unstable are basically identical
>>343889678
Oh, I don't think I did, I just pressed install, didn't see an option anywhere
>>343889380
I had more fun fucking around with friends in early 2014, exploring frozen planets, managing the heat and hunger while fending off monsters and collecting ore, than I have now, in the inclusive, safe-space amalgam of the cringiest sci-fi tropes in existence.
I actually liked this game when it came out....
>>343888198
Go away chucklefuck, we know you're just damage controlling. Nothing to do with Terraria, Starbound is just an uninspired 2D builder.
>>343888198
Hello, Tiy. How's L O N D O N?
>starbound has been released for 2 years and 8 months
>in two years and 8 months of developement, literally fucking nothing of any significance has come out
>the game is still a fucking boring slog to play through
>in the same time after terraria's release, it updated to 1.2.3
>for reference, that's 1.1 (hardmode, all the content up to hallowed armor, the christmas events first round [aka frost legion], wiring, modifiers), 1.2 (plantera and the hardmode jungle, temple and dungeon, the crimson, pirates, the subupdates adding the pumpkin/frost moon events, travelling merchant/stylist/multiple other npcs)
>the content in a full playthrough has gone from a few hours to a few days
Honestly, how?
It fucking baffles me.
>>343890454
>B-but, muh procedurally generated barren wasteland planets!
>>343885360
>>343889747
Got it. And the game gets stuck right at the beggining, SAIL doesnt talk to me, it just says zzzzz. Epic
>>343890454
Don't forget, the game engine itself is still completely broken, causing framerate loss and AI freezing all the time.
>>343888942
To be fair he could've probably traded it for something else instead.
>>343884931
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/321700/
Tiy is literally a dude who's just exploiting the massive hype for Starbound to live in an overpriced London flat with a bunch of female "co-workers", let's not pretend he's ever been out for anyone but himself
This game was pretty neat when it released, then they removed hunger/heat, removed the 1-100 level ranges and dumbed it down to 1-10, shifted focus away from randomly generated enemies and now they've developed "mini-bosses" which you will see time and time again, and the only significant upgrade to your ship is "more space".
Where's the space combat?
>>343891470
>>Where's the space combat?
you've clearly seen the on foot combat, what makes you think space combat would be anything other than an abortion?
>>343891470
He'd be looking out for himself even more if he made a decent fucking game, those of us who didn't bother to buy it might actually do it,
Can mods fix it?
>>343892138
At one point the mods where the only thing keeping this game alive.
>>343892138
They tried and the devs decided that the best idea was to steal the mods
What happened to mechs?
>>343892327
Honestly at this point it's just the best thing to do
If devs want to be Jews and lazy just put out a contest whoever makes the best gameplay changing mechanic will get $500 and some shitty exclusive Starbound figure.
>>343892501
They stole the ammo mod from some anon at /vg/ and never gave him credit
>>343892546
Oh yeah, there was supposed to be ammo right?
What happened to that?
Why the energy garbage?
>>343892893
They don't want the special snowflake players to confuse Starbound with an actual videogame with a skill-curve and item management.
>>343892893
no no
With ammo I mean that some anon added a bunch of different projectiles to the game
Also
They never fixed the ships awful design
>>343892138
most of the good modmakers have stopped updating their mods after a 1000th mini update that changes nothing but makes them unplayable
>>343892198
this happened and then people got tired, there were probably more new meaningful mods made in the first few months of early acces then all ther rest combined
So we all agree thatFlorans are cuteright?
>>343893067
What is the point of having planetside settlements when the fully upgraded ships have more storage capacity than you would ever possibly need? That colony update was such a massive fucking disappointment, really.
>>343888198
>>343884931
They don't know what they were doing.
I looked it up once long after I first played it and saw that they straight up removed some features I really liked.
Then on a whim a few months later they readded them.
I've heard they've gone back and forth on numerous of things like this and to me it seems they don't really have a vision other than "lets make a terraria game" and they don't know who their audience is.
I have 500 hours in Terraria and I only think it is alright. It is fun for a while with friends or strangers, and I don't think it is a great game beyond that.
To make a good Terraria like game you have to think about features that dramatically change the game instead of just covering the game in more content over time.
The enjoyment I can get out of Starbound won't increase if they add another yellow planet.
They need to do something substantial in terms of survival, building and interaction and I don't think Tiy and his ilk simply aren't bright enough for that.
>>343893538
Their design direction is atrocious. Now they're bringing back hunger as an option (which is perfectly fine), but not temperature (which was the more interesting one of the two, IMO), because "reasons".
>>343891772
>space combat comes out
>consists entirely of enemy ships bumping into you and moving at the same speed as you so you can't get away
>>343893862
Oh, and let's not forget about damage-on-contact, which was brought back because of "balancing reasons", kek.
>>343894552
>>343893862
>damage-on-contact
God damn. I thought that was one of the thing Starbound did better than Terraria and made the combat more interesting.
Where the enemies functioned like you, using their own attacks and you could dodge eachothers blows by running past eachother.
Temperature made the exploration much more intriguing early on.
>>343893168
>furries
>>343892138
>The modders abandoned the game
>Nobody is going to make a pixel porn mod to make this piece of shit good for something like Skyrim
>>343885360
>>343896104
There is a sex mod already though
>>343896659
name or link please, ive been looking for one for quite a while but nothing else then nude mods and some sweet bdsm/oviposition/machine things
>>343896659
Call me when it has realistic real time simulation of ovulation periods and all that shit. oblivion sexmods were magical
>>343896094
>Plants
>Fur
>>343896659
Restricted to birbs and even then, very limited in what you can do
>tfw we could have had fully functional sex mods on par with what skyrim/oblivion can do
>>343896883
wait till you hear about skyrim then, beeing female mod can be used with hormones mod to even make changes to her body during pregancy
>>343887030
Just because Starbound is better than it used to be doesn't make it good. I've seen enough of the game and enough from the devs to know that it will never be truly good. It may be better than prior, it may be a somewhat average game, but in the end it does next to nothing that made Terraria good in the first place, and what it does uniquely apart from Terraria it fucks up because the RNG nature of literally everything absolutely ruins it. And it will continue this pattern because the idea of consistency is a fucking shit unless you're copying coordinates from a wiki.
Tell me, have they addressed these issues yet? I'm interested to see what your response is:
~Biome-specific rewards were lacking so there was rarely any good reason to seek out a particular biome except to find bones or flesh to replace your ship walls with.
~Enemies had next to no individual character or individual rewards because they're randomly generated
~Is there a reason to actually settle down on a planet and build something neat that might see actual use, instead of just building up your ship because that at least can travel around?
~There's like, what, 10 different colours of dirt alone, right? Is there anything you can do with that besides trashing it, yet?
~Mining was complete dogshit. I understand you can mine in clusters of 3x3 but have they added a function where focused mining on a 1x1 is 9x faster yet? Moreover do they have SMART CURSOR that autoselects blocks to be mined?
~Have they actually settled on a hotbar style yet, or are they still switching it around?
~Is the experience between tiers actually different yet, aside from the boss you fight? Or is it still the same shit of "dig down to the core to get the new material, go back up, make thing, summon/find boss, and continue on to the next tier to repeat it all over again"?
~Are there any consistent characters you can meet in the setting, or is it all just lore and random NPCs?
>>343898128
Not the fanboy you're responding to, but the answer to 90% of those questions is either "no" or "not really".
This game was garbage at release and having gone back to try it with a friend last week with the nightly builds I can safely say that it has managed to get even worse since it started. There was a reason that the /vg/ Starbound thread, the place for dedicated fans to any vidya series where the series almost never gets criticizedunless it's so fucking bad like KF2 post-last patch, warned people to stay the fuck away from this game for years. The devs are incompetent, arrogant, and literal thieves. The game is shallow, repetitive, and soulless. Advancing the version number to 1.0 will change NOTHING about the real problems this game has.
Stay away from it.
>>343884931
I'll tell you when it gets out of beta.Which is never.
>>343888148
http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?attachments/tales_of_the_terrarian-v1-1-wld.114516/
This is an adventure map with its own little story and some neato puzzles, officially endorsed by the devs behind Terraria as a showcase for 1.3.1's mechanics. Download it and jam it in your worlds folder. Good couple hours or so of fun there and some really cool world design.
And after that:
http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/1-3-tmodloader-a-modding-api.23726/
Literally just copy this shit into your Terraria folder and replace Terraria.exe with the new one, boot up the game, go into mods and open mods folders then add:
http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/prefixes-for-enemies.40620/
and
http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/class-based-rpg-mod.43901/
The first will add stat- and move-modifying prefixes and suffixes to enemies, and has some new weapons and accessories that drop from "rare" prefixed enemies that aren't unbalanced at all and focus on new mechanics rather than just being OP stuff.
The second will let you pick a "class" with new characters, and will give you starting equipment and modify your stats to fit. Not just a buff, other things will get weaker, too. Like the Angel class has built-in wings and a summon/magic damage buff, but every other class is weaker, and your health suffers quite a bit, starting with 90 and only gaining 18 with each heart, plus weaker regen.
Both are multiplayer capable.
>>343885360
>mfw I didn't
>mfw I knew it would be shit and tried to warn people
>mfw they bought it anyway
>mfw I shitposted in the /sbg/ thread posting 2hu picks constantly until somebody bought me it
Dodged a bullet there
>>343888148
M8 I've been going through solo expert and all I need is a single line of wooden platform for just about any boss, a campfire and a heart lantern and I'm good. MAYBE a nurse house, maybe.
Although having an asphalt road for spazmatism so you can outrun it is probably a good idea. Golem comes with its own arena, and Plantera only needs you to bomb a vertical shaft.
Although really why are you surprised that bosses are made easier when you engage the building portion of a game about combat and building?
Hey any super richfags out there please buy the rights to the game, start taking mod submissions and add them to the game, there, ive made it good for you, go rake in the cash
>>343888148
dude, I have 200+ hours in terraria, I had a blast and I didn't explore 100% of its content which involved doing some autistic farming, I don't think I'd want a game to last longer, for 7 dollars I think that its time span is more than satisfying, don't you? being finite is not bad at all, and it's something that mmorpgs have made people believe
>>343888198
I notice starbound cucks shilling heavily on this board
It's okay, but all the quests in it are quickly done.
Terraria is much better.
>>343888148
>there's nothing to go back for
Considering the progression will take dozens and dozens of hours to get through to the final point, that's not much of a demerit. Not to mention the RNG loot of Starbound gives you even less to go back for because everything you get feels mostly identical and bland.
Will it actually be fucking optimized?
I have an alright - decent setup and the game runs like shit in fullscreen last time i tried to play it 3 months ago.
>>343901939
Their programmers have literally never been competent. Most of their team is art guys who don't even know what the programmers a doing, so the programmers can spaghetti code all they like and avoid optimization because of the lack of any oversight.
>>343902684
Daily reminder that one of their programmers literally asked for help in a programming subreddit and was called out for it. It was some babby-tier problem that he lacked the knowledge to take care of.
