Starbound

OrbisA · Post by **OrbisA** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:58 pm #51043

Starbound (Terraria, in space)

First of all, I was sure there used to be an starbound thread somewhere, but my incompetence made me unable to find it, so I made this one.

For the ones that already know the game, they are going to release, finally, a huge ass update, next week on the unstable branch they are going to drop the winter update (Upbeat Giraffe), wich expands the game to playable levels, with quests, dungeons, balance, and alternatives to only advancing with combat (ie, you can now be a peaceful space farmer), and a really long list of things.

For those that don't know it, Starbound it's a 2D mix of castlevania and minecraft, themed in space, each player has it's own ship and can colonize planets, ranzack them out of stuff and build literal stairways to heavens in them, it's a sandbox game with a progression that ends in figthing a galactus level tentacle monster, the game is pretty dinamic, fun, and while it doesn't have the level of detail SS13 has, it's surprisingly well detailed, with a food and heat system included, and I believe you need an space helmet for visiting moons, and quite a few goodies, like mechs or logic gates wires and automated stuff, it's really extensive, and I can't make it justice with just one post.

Would you guys want to play it with others player here? should we join a server, make our own, guilds, or just sporadic visits to one guy temporal server?

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:28 pm #51054

danno · Post by **danno** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:37 pm #51057

please don't even try.
starbound is so far gone. even if there was a hope for it, it isn't worth having yourself.
the devs aren't worth it. the game isn't worth it. it's just not worth it. let dying dogs lie.

Sum Ting Wong · Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:52 am

They extended the estimated official release to 2014 last I checked? Tiy said he's been working eight hour days on it since last year so it might be good.

Comrade Leo · Post by **Comrade Leo** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:53 am #51083

His idea of working probably involves 7 hours of furious masturbation with all of our pre-order cash and tears.

ExplosiveCrate · Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:16 am

The only good thing to come out (not really, they're only publishing it) of chucklefish is Risk of Rain

which is, coincidentally, the only good thing to come out of AGDG

Though I did have good times on the game when we tried to build icestation. Too bad I lost the screenshots ;_; save for one

RIP icestation

also RIP imgfit

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:01 am

I'm down to give it another shot when the update drops. I got nothing to lose since I already threw my money at the game.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:16 am #51108

to be fair that update does look pretty great but i dont think starbound really has any hopes to be good until its actually 100% finished and all their promises come true (LOL)

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:11 am #51127

We got nothin' to lose, they already have all our moneys.

Who's hosting?

Scones · Post by **Scones** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:35 am #51140

I feel the same way as most people here - A ton of my friends and I bought the game and got pretty tired of it pretty quick.

But yeah, update looks good. Looking forward to it, even.

danno · Post by **danno** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:56 pm #51271

that was fun to do explosivecrate

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:00 pm #51277

Oh, so they are FINALLY adding Novakids? Jesus Christ, I've been waiting for that since the game fucking launched.

Arty · Post by **Arty** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:52 pm #51349

YO I'M STILL ALIVE

I guess I can host? I mean, why the fuck not?

Gotta grab a modpack tho (people still actively develop and maintan them)

danno · Post by **danno** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:17 pm #51354

me and miggles made one a bit ago. it's got some shit in it. game was still fffffucking boring though

ExplosiveCrate · Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:24 pm

Just wait until the new release comes out. Might even be entertaining, unlike the current version.

Remie Richards · Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:00 pm

Heh, I'm pretty sure I still have my design plans for Icestation.
I hope the update is even a fraction as fun as the game was hyped up to be.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:03 pm #51378

I'm down.

Arty · Post by **Arty** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:15 pm #51382

Game's fucking boring yea

I'd like to wait it out till the january update. Then see if that modpack updates along with it

OrbisA · Post by **OrbisA** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:36 am #51433

No way I am reading the 93 pages, but I remember some of the threads, so we will wait until they release it in stable or just go and play in unstable?

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:20 am #51538

I can host if anyone wants me too

mrpain · Post by **mrpain** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:26 am #51553

How long do you think the update after this will take?

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:29 pm #51631

I'll host, I already have everything set up for hosting the server and I usually leave my computer on all the time anyways so I can leave the server up.

LunchboxKilla · Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:08 pm

mrpain wrote:How long do you think the update after this will take?

Some time in Jan.

If you want to play it now opt into the nightly updates. If you can get it to work. They broke the game in the last update.

OrbisA · Post by **OrbisA** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:36 am #51836

Unstable comes out next week, we could play that since its assured that it runa

LunchboxKilla · Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:03 am

OrbisA wrote:Unstable comes out next week, we could play that since its assured that it runa

start knocking on all the wood you can find

Sum Ting Wong · Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:11 am

Found this in the resuscitated /sbg/ threads in /vg/, figured I'd share. Take it with a grain of salt though because >4chan

"How do you have so much close contact with the development team? Do they at least know that they're working too slowly, and that they're disliked amongst nearly everyone now?"

Anonymous Gossiper wrote: The Irc channel is open to anyone that can join, I joined just to ask a lot and a LOT of questions, most of them got answered and I asked Metadept for some changes on certain things and he said he liked my ideas. For the most part.

The reason things are slow is because of that move to England. The move caused EIGHT people to quit, including their programmer, Bartwe. Now there's 12 people working on the game, and 2 programmers had to totally redo Bartwes work because he never commented on his code. I think these people are legit trying as best they can, and shit only hit the fan because of Tiy's mistake.

They're all really friendly people and listened to the community on a lot of things, at least in the Nightly...I hope the worst of the waiting is over since the long long wait was mainly from the two programmers basically redoing the game from scratch. As for lasers and laser swords, I dunno. I asked them last night about racials but they said they removed it for a few reasons. In the nightly, getting oxygen protection is REALLY early game so that makes it not so useful on Hylotl, lantern stick is now an early thing so it would be useless on Novakid past that point. They said Florans would heal in sunlight and humans would have more inventory slots but were removed because at the time of that stuff, they thought it would interfere with PvP but they totally rebalanced the game anyway. They said they might include racials to the races armor at some point but after this update.

And I just heard them say on irc that the Deadline for the unstable is the 19th of this month, they want to make it there before the holidays. Metadept claims to have been working monday through sunday just programming and fixing things so IMO a break probably would be good.

Ps. - Metadept hinted that Uranium and plutonium will eventually be ingredients in high tier explosives for mining and killing things.

DrPillzRedux · Post by **DrPillzRedux** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:22 am #51904

You people are falling for this shit again? Jesus.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:25 am #51905

when'd you turn into violaceus?

ExplosiveCrate · Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:50 am

DrPillzRedux wrote:You people are falling for this shit again? Jesus.

We already paid for the game when we first fell for it, might as well see if they've done anything

That, and I really want to restart Icestotzka

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:38 pm #52003

Yeah we've already been flim flammed anyway.

As long as nobody else makes the mistake of buying into it as a result of us we're all just making the best of what we have.

Tsaricide · Post by **Tsaricide** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:02 am #52074

Why didn't you guys just get your money back when they were doing refunds?

danno · Post by **danno** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:07 am #52085

my name is drpillz and it's hilarious that i think that i'm better than anyone

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:15 am #52087

I find it hilarious DrPillz is whining about people falling for an unfinished game when the

couldn't even finish an RPG Maker game

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:43 am #52096

Tsaricide wrote:Why didn't you guys just get your money back when they were doing refunds?

Because there was a slim hope of "Well I got it for 15bux now, MAYBE they'll fix it sometime this year and i'll have saved a bit of money."

danno · Post by **danno** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:46 am #52097

Tsaricide wrote:Why didn't you guys just get your money back when they were doing refunds?

Because when I asked for a refund they told me they didn't do refunds
and when I showed them all of my friends who got refunds they stopped answering my emails

Sum Ting Wong · Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:28 am

The twenty bucks wasn't worth the hoop jumping.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:00 am #52117

Sum Ting Wong wrote:The twenty bucks wasn't worth the hoop jumping.

I can't feel too bad about it.
All I did was trade some TF2 hats for a Starbound key, i'd already quit TF2 long before that anyway so i'm just sitting on a tiny pile of potential money anyway.

Kuraudo · Post by **Kuraudo** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:40 pm #52153

I have it and my dual core CPU suffers on some planets.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:57 pm #52201

Yeah I was playing it earlier and it seems like the overall performance of the game has gotten WORSE since we started playing it at first.

Lots of random shitty slowdown for no reason. Wandering near a USMC underground bunker causes all kinds of bullshit to happen. Enemies jumping around like assholes frequently freeze and then teleport somewhere they shouldn't be.

On the plus side I found a folded steel chair I can beat things with WWE style so that's cool.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:40 pm #52215

theres a mod that adds stands from jojo

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:55 pm

An0n3 wrote:Yeah I was playing it earlier and it seems like the overall performance of the game has gotten WORSE since we started playing it at first.

The performance issues might be contributed to the whole 'had to totally redo Bartwes work' that Sum Ting Wong mentioned. I'm sure they'll improve performance eventually.

Lavastation will rise again!

danno · Post by **danno** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:02 pm #52217

lavastation straight up never existed

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:02 pm

danno wrote:lavastation straight up never existed

It always existed...

in my heart...

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:28 pm #52230

Icestotzka stronk.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:29 pm #52231

STRONK

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:32 pm #52232

I feel like we did Icestotzka, we should do something new?

If the patch adds new ocean biomes we should figure out a way to pump out the water and make Oceanstation...?

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:52 pm #52242

An0n3 wrote:I feel like we did Icestotzka, we should do something new?

If the patch adds new ocean biomes we should figure out a way to pump out the water and make Oceanstation...?

Tentaclestation.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:53 pm #52243

Well you can upgrade your manipulator now to harvest liquids, so I guess? I'd prefer a lava station this time around though.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:55 pm #52245

TENTACLESTATION.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:57 pm #52246

ThanatosRa wrote:TENTACLESTATION.

You can't even build tentacles though. They just turn into wood logs when chopped down and you can't plant them.