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Starbound: 'Spiritual' successor to Terraria

Zarniwoop

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That's one less micro-issue, well done. When it actually shows up.
 

Zarniwoop

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Also I thought the whole premise of the game is that your planet has been blown up and you're stranded?
 

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I played this about a month back and it was actually not half bad. Still miles behind Terraria, but getting there. If you haven't played Terraria 1.3 yet I'd suggest doing that over buying this, though.
 

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The problem with Starbound is that they kept making stupid shit like vehicles and races and cutesy home decor stuff before they even bothered fleshing out the game -- giving you some kind of purpose to explore/kill stuff/etc. Terraria had that from the start.
 

Zewp

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Indeed. And even at this point I think the questline in Starbound is pretty short.

I hope they flesh out the colonist feature too. It's nice that you can spawn specific colonists, but they don't actually do anything. Plus the guards are pretty useless. Mine got slaughtered by the most basic of enemies.
 

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Who is this guy? His voice is mesmerizing and it's a refreshing change from Youtubers who just scream at the top of their lungs about how angry they are about games.
 

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1.0 dropped on unstable path in steam.

Playing currently and compared to half a year before seems like they did some good changes.
Playing it @ hardcore. This type of game plays waaay better in hardcore mode where standard "meh" events change to "oh shit" moments.

They added finaly backstory. You have this starting mission where you wake up on earth and you are graduating from some space academy when suddenly everything goes to shit via tentacle monster.

I like rewamped crafting system. It is much more logical now and branches of crafting have their own worktables.

Finally you have some proper starting goals instead of some shitty 3 quest system which gives you something like 50 pixels or some critical part for whatever reason.

Overall i like it but it can change later.
 
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If it dropped to unstable, meaning not the nightly, that means the release is not too far off. They are also going to do a "special" stream tomorrow where it is pretty much announced that they will be revealing the release date for the full game, thus leaving early access. They will continue to add content, of course, after the release.
 

Metro

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Might give it a try again so long as it doesn't feel like the awful grind it did a couple of years ago.
 

Perkel

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heh first weapon i found is spear that has second mode flamethrower. That is some neat scripting.
 

Zewp

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And judging by what was in when I played a few months ago I don't think people are going to be happy, but I stand to be corrected.
 
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I'm getting some annoying flickering in the lower 25% of my screen. It's enraging me. I just deleted everything and am attempting a reinstall.
 

Metro

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Time to see if I can finally get my $8 Russian worth out of this game.
 

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