Inflammable Slinky
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It's literally one guy from Terraria. Don't infer what Starbound is gonna be like from that game.
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Starbound announced - new game from Terraria artist + new studio
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It's literally one guy from Terraria. Don't infer what Starbound is gonna be like from that game.
The one guy from Terraria who did the ART. I doubt he had any major influence on the updates for the game.
Man, we need to really clear this up once and for all. Sales of Starbound might be held back because of the people who were burned by Terraria.
Hey, 50% of the development team of Terraria is a substantial amount!
I don't think this will be an issue. There's nothing else out there like Terraria and Starbound. Minecraft has been the closest comparison I've seen, and they're only barely alike. I don't know what the mod situation is with Terraria, but I'd think most people would jump on the newer game, unless they just don't want to play this kind of game anymore.
1/3rd of the team.
I think they only had 3 people on the team? The only ones I know of are Red, Blue, and Tiy.
That's odd, it was working yesterday.
However, the current status of the game is pretty much the info we have here in the thread, the latest info being under a week old, its about as up to date you can get, without actually going to the game's website.
I haven't been following this thread, so that's why I wanted to check their site
Yeah, according to their twitter "A core team member has had multiple passwords compromised, one of which was a server password. This user has super user level access to the server." They decided to pull the plug just to be safe, and "the site will be down for at least a few hours today for server maintenance."
Arf :s I hope they will be able to fix this quickly, and that the site and forums will be intact.
People bitched when it was accidentally 75% off, and then it jumped back to 50% off after someone noticed. The difference was like $2.44, but SUDDENLY it was too much to pay.
I'd have paid double for half the content and still been content. People want developers these days to move heaven and earth, and throw in the lever while they're at it, and then still bitch that they're not satisfied.
/mini-rant
Ingueferroque
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I don't know.. I'm one of those people that felt disappointed with Terraria. I think it is because Minecraft spoiled people with continued development (even if Notch bailed out). I imagined that Terraria would evolve and evolve (and of course imagined there to be a Mac version at some point).
The sudden announcement that Terraria was no longer being developed felt a bit too abrupt.
It's alive again.
The systems behind Terraria were never flexible enough to provide the same sort of platform for expansion that Minecraft has enjoyed. Its UI and engine were too simple and haphazardly thrown together. For good reason, since Terraria was the first game that the guys ever made, it started as an experiment, and grew slowly from there.
Starbound seems to be the natural progression from Terraria. What Terraria fans wanted out of Terraria, but what would have been impossible to financially support as continued free content additions to Terraria.
Got this from the official forums. Tiy discussing current progress, and, more importantly, that's he's going to put up a development roadmap up to beta.
Some of the major items:
Some of the major items:
RepairmanJack
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Sounds like a lot of stuff. I'm liking the idea of the tiers, but hoping it doesn't put sort of a finite feel to it.
Really sad to hear not a lot of confidence in a Q1 release, but I guess the longer it takes the better.
Really sad to hear not a lot of confidence in a Q1 release, but I guess the longer it takes the better.
Yeah. I'm late to the Terraria party (just bought a four pack to play with my kids) so hopefully that will tide me over a bit.
But if they get the endgame right a GAF server could be incredible.
Edge of Space and Starforge.
We did discuss having an "End of Terraria" farewell party, but maybe we can have one set up early. Up to HaRyu, he's the one who figured that mess out.
I honestly did have to go calm the fuck down after hearing that multiplayer works flawlessly in starbound. So glad they got their priorities right.
By the sounds of the tiered system, assigning people planets (or people claiming planets) might not work so easily on a GAF server. Especially if you might need tier 5 items for a structure you want but we can't find one that isn't claimed. While I'm sure people will share it might cause a few problems.
However, I'm liking the sounds of everything overall, but I might make one character to take everywhere with me, if that option is available. The progression sounds like it'd be interesting, but might be difficult on a server. You might need to clear multiple worlds of the same tier to get everyone in the group up to the tier above that.
However, I'm liking the sounds of everything overall, but I might make one character to take everywhere with me, if that option is available. The progression sounds like it'd be interesting, but might be difficult on a server. You might need to clear multiple worlds of the same tier to get everyone in the group up to the tier above that.
Still curious about the multi-play aspect, mainly on the server side. Running the Terraria server, everything went to hell when we started to exceed 15+ people, constant crashing usually.
Keep in mind, that's on the largest sized map available. In Starbound terms, that's just ONE world. Obviously, its not Terraria anymore, so hopefully, the server side isn't based on the Terraria code, but I'd love to know that multiple worlds work great.
There's a crafting system in place too though, slightly more advanced than Terraria, in that you have to actually find the plans/recipes to build stuff. Sure you can gift stuff, but I would think that you would screw yourself if you kept getting gifts, but never bothered to actually find all those plans.
And Terraria's loot system was messed up, honestly. Its pretty much the same like any other MMO, in that other players can probably gift you high level stuff, but there wasn't much in checks and balances. A lot of the high level crap you can get, you can use immediately, it wasn't like they were locked out from use due to level, or some other requirement (I know some items had requirements, just talking about the majority)
And all the mods that were out for Terraria, they did make the game broken in some aspects (magically creating items for players on the fly, no clipping, etc). Thankfully, believe it or not, that big ass vault we had on the Terraria server, all that loot wasn't made through mods, at least not by me. Any loot that was there, was either found by me, left by other players, or carried over from previous maps. Now, that doesn't mean those other players didn't use mods to get those items, but I can say for sure I didn't take that route.
Cant really say much about how blatant trading of high level crap in Starbound will affect things, until we actually get the game, but I'm probably not going to be giving out a lot of free stuff this time around. I'll still try and have my somewhat semi-customary "Oh Hey, New Guy, Here's a Welcome Gift" thing, but other than that, I'm either going to find loot myself, or I'm going to be off building.
Not too early.
As soon as we get a hard release date, I'll figure out when to put the server up for the Apocalypse.
Keep in mind, that's on the largest sized map available. In Starbound terms, that's just ONE world. Obviously, its not Terraria anymore, so hopefully, the server side isn't based on the Terraria code, but I'd love to know that multiple worlds work great.
There's a crafting system in place too though, slightly more advanced than Terraria, in that you have to actually find the plans/recipes to build stuff. Sure you can gift stuff, but I would think that you would screw yourself if you kept getting gifts, but never bothered to actually find all those plans.
And Terraria's loot system was messed up, honestly. Its pretty much the same like any other MMO, in that other players can probably gift you high level stuff, but there wasn't much in checks and balances. A lot of the high level crap you can get, you can use immediately, it wasn't like they were locked out from use due to level, or some other requirement (I know some items had requirements, just talking about the majority)
And all the mods that were out for Terraria, they did make the game broken in some aspects (magically creating items for players on the fly, no clipping, etc). Thankfully, believe it or not, that big ass vault we had on the Terraria server, all that loot wasn't made through mods, at least not by me. Any loot that was there, was either found by me, left by other players, or carried over from previous maps. Now, that doesn't mean those other players didn't use mods to get those items, but I can say for sure I didn't take that route.
Cant really say much about how blatant trading of high level crap in Starbound will affect things, until we actually get the game, but I'm probably not going to be giving out a lot of free stuff this time around. I'll still try and have my somewhat semi-customary "Oh Hey, New Guy, Here's a Welcome Gift" thing, but other than that, I'm either going to find loot myself, or I'm going to be off building.
Not too early.
As soon as we get a hard release date, I'll figure out when to put the server up for the Apocalypse.
When I'd make a little hidden area, I'd usually just put cosmetic goodies in there; the Indiana Jones outfit in the ruins, for example. Otherwise, I just tried to give Lucky Horseshoes to people because fall damage is kinda cheap, especially on our maps where we had hellevators and stuff that people would stumble into.
One thing I did enjoy, however, was being able to generate building materials. I enjoy just flat out building, when I play The Sims I always put in the unlimited money code. Not because I'm cheating to be rich, but because my enjoyment of that game starts with "What cool house can I build" and ends with "Well, that house is cool."
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Grimm Fandango
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Ingueferroque
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What?
universalmind
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LiquidMetal14
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OCULUS RIFT SUPPORT OR NO BUY
Seriously, if I can't get my wife hooked on this (she says she'll try it, since they have cooking and farming and distinctively non-combat activities) she's probably gonna divorce my ass. I'm gonna be that smelly guy hanging outside Starbucks, using their wifi to play.
Joking (?) aside, being able to paint means that instead of dealing with 20 different colored versions of the same brick, we'll now basically just need one brick type that we can paint.
And since bricks are also placed directly into the background to create walls (instead of being their own separate object), we also won't need to have 20 different colored version of the same walls. This will greatly help with inventory management, no longer will we need to have giant warehouses with chests full of bricks.
Well, I mean, we won't NEED too, but I'm sure as hell gonna end up doing that anyways.
Joking (?) aside, being able to paint means that instead of dealing with 20 different colored versions of the same brick, we'll now basically just need one brick type that we can paint.
And since bricks are also placed directly into the background to create walls (instead of being their own separate object), we also won't need to have 20 different colored version of the same walls. This will greatly help with inventory management, no longer will we need to have giant warehouses with chests full of bricks.
Well, I mean, we won't NEED too, but I'm sure as hell gonna end up doing that anyways.
The wait gets worse:
Tiy: "we have painting!"
Oh great, we're gonna have people trolling with penis graffiti, aren't we?
We didn't before?
RepairmanJack
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Grimm Fandango
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Lord this better come out after my semester is over. Don't think I can handle another Terraria addiction.
RepairmanJack
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Forget the paint on the glass, I like those square stone bricks. :lol
Tiy on Twitter: "this is what happens when our sound guy gets his hands on the paint tool":
Edit: stained glass. My recreation of the Symphony of the Night castle in Starbound will be a reality!
Oh my... I really need this game, NOW!
So...when will we be able to pre-order?
Oh that's sweet. Being allowed to paint on glass definitely gets rid of the problem we had in Terraria, building sprites out of blocks.
For those who don't know, you build a structure big enough without any gaps to the background, there's not going to be any light, lighting up that section of the structure. So huge structures would have giant black spots in them. The only ways to get around that is you have to be creative with where you put some gaps/torches.
Gonna need to designate a single planet for art gallery sprite work.
For those who don't know, you build a structure big enough without any gaps to the background, there's not going to be any light, lighting up that section of the structure. So huge structures would have giant black spots in them. The only ways to get around that is you have to be creative with where you put some gaps/torches.
Gonna need to designate a single planet for art gallery sprite work.
CrunchyFrog
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Oh that's sweet. Being allowed to paint on glass definitely gets rid of the problem we had in Terraria, building sprites out of blocks.
For those who don't know, you build a structure big enough without any gaps to the background, there's not going to be any light, lighting up that section of the structure. So huge structures would have giant black spots in them. The only ways to get around that is you have to be creative with where you put some gaps/torches.
Gonna need to designate a single planet for art gallery sprite work.
On this note, will there be any camera control? Zoom, specifically?
The developer has previously mentioned being able to zoom in and out, and specifically mentioned the need to do so when using Sniper Rifles (I'm going to assume your zoom range is based on what weapon you're using).
Hello, George V here!
We’ve decided to show you how you’ll be navigating the cosmos in Starbound. You’ll be going from planet to planet, system to system, and sector to sector. You’ll discover odd new worlds and species as you bravely travel where someone may or may not have gone before!
Accessed from your ship’s console you’ll be able to open the Navigation Menu.
Currently in this example you’re in orbit around a gas giant named Delta Aura IV which you cannot land on. You may scan the gas giant for resources and other treats and then be on your way.
You click on one of the gas giant’s moons. It is called DAIVS-II, a scientific name you can change on a whim. Revealed is some basic information about the moon including the fact that you may walk on it. Initiate the FTL to go into orbit if you want but for now we’re zooming out!
With a right click our view becomes a view of the local planetary system. You may click on any of those celestial objects to get basic information on them or even visit them. Make sure you have enough fuel!
With another right click you’ll zoom out further revealing a much larger area. Each of those is a dynamically generated planetary system with suns, worlds, and even more to discover! Walk on planets, moons and much more as it’s not only planets and moons that you may walk on and visit. Click on them to view their info (there’s no fuel cost to simply look) and travel the stars!
I think with this brief glimpse you can see how BIG this universe will be and hopefully how fun it will be to explore, share discoveries with friends via seed coordinates, and do so much more.
Now, this is all subject to change as we continue to develop the game and test it out. Everything this is a work in progress. Nothing is set in stone but we thought we’d give you a look into what we’re currently doing with the development of the game. (source)
Holy shit. There goes all of my free time, forever.