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Starbound 1.0 Releases July 22nd
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Hero Prinny
Member
oooh wow good for them! this was actually my first early access purchase and will most likely be my last. i bought it a few year ago and realized I'd much rather play the game when its complete. I know they added a bunch of content since i last played it but i just couldn't possibly care less about it anymore. Maybe I'll force myself to give it a shot, it might click afterall.
chaobreaker
Member
Good to know. Can't wait to see how the linear progression works in this game.
WaterAstro
Member
Whooooooooooooooaaaaa!
That's damn soon.
That's damn soon.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
For those who played it recently, is it a good focused game? Or is it aimless without any plot like terraria?
Both. It has a pretty big story with quests, dungeons (where you can't alter the environment) + more. Also has randomly generated sidequests on populated planets, colony building, pets. And of course you have all the freedom of something like Terreria too.
They have improved it tons. They have added lots of underground dungeons, massively reworked how caves are formed for more interesting layouts. Many quests will have objectives underground and they have added new tools such as a grappling hook and much improved upgradeable matter manipulator.
WaterAstro
Member
Well there was like an update a year ago... or maybe two years ago, where they had this questing system and linear level feature where you couldn't break blocks.
There is a clear progression in the game, but it wasn't too long the last time I played it.
Sad Affleck
Member
Finally! I got it through their crowdfunding campaign and I'm ready to dig in!
Grim Patron
Member
Finally, Bought this ages ago lol.
Polioliolio
Member
About 4 years too late.
I was sooo super psyched about this game.. It looked awesome. It came out early access, and I figured I'd wait it out till the real deal came... Then it appeared that they weren't really doing updates and it seemed to peter out, becoming a textbook version of development limbo that happens to most early access games.. My question is, will this really be the full game they promised, or are they just polishing off an unfinished game (also like a lot of early access titles)
edit: It appears I've been corrected. Well now I'm definitely looking forward to it!!
I was sooo super psyched about this game.. It looked awesome. It came out early access, and I figured I'd wait it out till the real deal came... Then it appeared that they weren't really doing updates and it seemed to peter out, becoming a textbook version of development limbo that happens to most early access games.. My question is, will this really be the full game they promised, or are they just polishing off an unfinished game (also like a lot of early access titles)
edit: It appears I've been corrected. Well now I'm definitely looking forward to it!!
WaterAstro
Member
I guess they aren't having a standalone client like promised at launch.
Candescence
Member
Starbound has certainly come a long way, and holy shit, it's a very different beast from when it first launched on early access, and so much better now. Seeing the constant updates and seeing the game evolve has been a fascinating journey.
1.0 is set to basically implement a full main story questline with a focus on exploring on specific types of planets. I'm playing the unstable version right now, and the story quests are pretty neat so far, with a bit of a focus on examining various objects in towns and villages after a certain point with a look mechanic akin to classic adventure games, which more games should have, IMO.
Incidentally, it was originally planned to be individual story lines for each playable race, but the devs apparently decided to consolidate all of it into a single focused storyline, which was probably for the best.
1.0 is set to basically implement a full main story questline with a focus on exploring on specific types of planets. I'm playing the unstable version right now, and the story quests are pretty neat so far, with a bit of a focus on examining various objects in towns and villages after a certain point with a look mechanic akin to classic adventure games, which more games should have, IMO.
Incidentally, it was originally planned to be individual story lines for each playable race, but the devs apparently decided to consolidate all of it into a single focused storyline, which was probably for the best.
They have been releasing nightly builds for like two years. The amount of new stuff they have added is amazing and they have rebuilt pretty much every system in the game.
Some of the new stuff:
Colony system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6db4718sRY
Combat system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZGJjJLFps
Candescence
Member
The updates never petered out, they've been doing regular updates on the game's dev blog and the devs have kept unstable and nightly branches active for players to check out. The sheer amount of changes and additions between its first EA release and 1.0 is mind-boggling.
Kresnik258
Member
I had completely forgotten about this game, wow.
Guessing the Vita version is probably a big fat no at this point, but I'll probably pick up on Steam down the line.
Guessing the Vita version is probably a big fat no at this point, but I'll probably pick up on Steam down the line.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Oh good, this means that the PS4 version is probably only another few years away....
... Well, I'll be damned. The video combat is especially awesome, they added a lot of good ideas for weapons and special techniques. Also that car is really cool.
I'm still relatively apathetic (no need to rant on the numerous reasons Chucklefish disappointed me with how they handled this game), but I guess I'm willing to give this game a chance once it is finally released as a complete product.
SomedayTheFire
Member
Excellent. Probably the one game I've put far too many hours into farming. Played loads of the early access and put it down for 1.0. Excited to get back in.
LelouchZero
Member
Awesome! I'm really looking forward to the 1.0 release!
CuckFupertino
Banned
Controller support & UI?
Been a long long journey but they've made one hell of game with so much great content and systems. Can't wait to have a final release I can really dig into and go nuts with instead of the occasional toying with nightly builds every few weeks or months like I have been for so long now.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
I'll give it a whirl I guess, last time I played it I felt like a lot of the changes kinda ruined the game, mostly the exploring felt super unrewarding and samey.
Then the last time I played before that was that nice period of about a year when they didn't release any updates and if you asked about it on the forums they'd ban you and lock the thread.
It's been a fun trip with this game.
Then the last time I played before that was that nice period of about a year when they didn't release any updates and if you asked about it on the forums they'd ban you and lock the thread.
It's been a fun trip with this game.
afternoon delight
Member
Does any keen or kind person here know if there will be more save wipes after 1.0 or are we past that bit of beta business?
Believe that's been a non factor for quite some time now. Unless for some odd reason they choose to introduce some seriously massive changes post launch it should not be a worry.
So if you go in deep after 1.0 you should be totally fine.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
So wow, finally. I kept checking the beta thread for like 3 months. I also checked their blog and some of the stuff they're adding looks really nice.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Been waiting a long damn time. Originally backed this. Can't wait to play the full release 
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Copper
Member
It's essentially a whole new game at this point.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Has there been any progress on the XB1 version?
This game brought me to that exact same conclusion. Unfortunate that I burned myself out on the game long before it was content complete.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I think a lot of changes they made over the course of development were only temporary, like multiple-biome planets are back. Apparently each planet is a lot more unique due to that and other things. I'm gonna try out the unstable build shortly.
afternoon delight
Member
Thank you friendly ghost!
Just saw this thread, gimmie a bit to answer some questions;
You already own it and the last few years have been amazingly good for the game; if you only played it when it first went into Beta, it's pretty much an entirely different game now.
Not yet, from a recent AMA:
I've been working on the OT lately, and so much has changed over the last few years that all of the stuff I had written up is woefully outdated.
Good News: In version 1.0, you will finally be able to join multiplayer Starbound servers via your Steam friends list.
Here's the latest on handheld ports from the most recent AMA:
Now that the PC version is about to officially launch, console versions are that much closer. Hopefully not a few years, but they are a small, start-up developer so... we'll see.
I'm trying to dig one up now, but it may be a bit too early. Stuff has been changing on a nightly basis for so long that a solid list is kind of hard to put together. I'm hoping the developers actually have a big ass list they'll release soon. A few of them post on GAF, so maybe they'll chime in.
See above; not likely for 1.0 but it's something they want to get in.
After 1.0, the wipes should (obviously there's no 100% airtight guarantee of anything) be over. They did mention on the stream today that a character wipe is incoming, not sure if that includes universes too (I sure hope not). After 1.0 though, it should be all good.
See above; console stuff has always been on the back burner until the PC version released; hopefully after the 22nd we'll get some news.
You already own it and the last few years have been amazingly good for the game; if you only played it when it first went into Beta, it's pretty much an entirely different game now.
Not yet, from a recent AMA:
I've been working on the OT lately, and so much has changed over the last few years that all of the stuff I had written up is woefully outdated.
Good News: In version 1.0, you will finally be able to join multiplayer Starbound servers via your Steam friends list.
Here's the latest on handheld ports from the most recent AMA:
Q: any plans for handheld platforms? i would love to be able to take this game with me everywhere i go!
A: it's something we'll be examining after console ports. The game has so much going on under the hood that I'm not sure how handheld consoles would manage it from a RAM perspective. The 3DS has so little RAM
(source)
Now that the PC version is about to officially launch, console versions are that much closer. Hopefully not a few years, but they are a small, start-up developer so... we'll see.
I'm trying to dig one up now, but it may be a bit too early. Stuff has been changing on a nightly basis for so long that a solid list is kind of hard to put together. I'm hoping the developers actually have a big ass list they'll release soon. A few of them post on GAF, so maybe they'll chime in.
See above; not likely for 1.0 but it's something they want to get in.
After 1.0, the wipes should (obviously there's no 100% airtight guarantee of anything) be over. They did mention on the stream today that a character wipe is incoming, not sure if that includes universes too (I sure hope not). After 1.0 though, it should be all good.
See above; console stuff has always been on the back burner until the PC version released; hopefully after the 22nd we'll get some news.