Whos got it, how is it?
From what I have read and been told, it seems like it will be everything we wanted from their promises in 2012, just once it gets out of beta.
Starbound
Re: Starbound
I have it, but I haven't really played enough of it (or similar style games) to really give much of an opinion. I had to run Steam as an admin for it to launch without crashing >_>
Re: Starbound
Got a 4 key pack for me, my sis and her friends. Gonna setup a server when I get the chance this holiday season if anyone is interested.
If you aren't having a good time, why are you playing?
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Re: Starbound
So I was off yesterday and got sick so I figured I would splurge on Starbound. I couldnt get a server to run, the software kept crashing, but the game ran fine in admin mode on both my gaming pc and my laptop.
For those who are coming to it from Terraria here is my breakdown:
1. The manipulator is like the HAMDRAX, but very weak.
2. Holding Shift lets you place one block at a time instead of four (it really should be swapped)
3. Coal is like Gel, and looks like black rocks in the ground
4. Iron just looks like a pile of brown rocks - it is very easy to miss
5. Do not build the beacon until you have atleast copper armor and an iron bow
6. As soon as you can, build a stone pickaxe. It lets you mine a 3x3 instead of a 2x2, and lets you mine minerals. To upgrade to an iron one, you have to have a stone one anyway.
7. Coal will let you move your ship. If you are going from a planet to a moon, it cost 1 coal, if you are going to another planet in your system, it cost 50.
8. Ores in order: iron, copper, silver, gold, platinum, diamond
9. As of right now, it looks like the highest you armor you can get is the level above copper (for avions it is called hatchling).
10. Just like in Terraria, the best gear is found in dungeons/off bosses.
11. Bosses CAN destroy structures.
12. Pickaxes do have a rate of decay as you use them, but you can use a diamond to recover it, or just upgrade - this has not been an issue for me yet.
13. Dying takes a chunk of your money, but it also resets your hp, hunger, and puts you back on your ship.
14. Sleeping in a bed, tent, or wheel barrel, will recover HP slowly, so will bandages
15. Tents are not safe from enemies.
16. The tomb items are chests
17. Doors are effective to fight random mobs, but not humanoids
18. Traps (like the sawblades in the floor) do not hurt NPCs, but hurt you badly
19. Lava is a quick painful death
20. Sometimes the monster with hundreds of eyeballs that looks like something out of a LSD laden nightmare, is friendly.
21. 3x2 torches heats you up faster than a campfire, and you can mine them back up with the pickaxe quickly
22. Different Biomes have different temperature levels (in a moon biome you get colder faster at night)
23. Bombs are like Terraria Dynamite against enemies, not against tiles
24. There are random Megaman X like powerup stations throughout the planets. When you use one you might get the ability to glow for a minute, or to jump much higher, or it will kill you.
25. You can equip 10 items and two weapon sets. To swap to the weapon sets, hit the key of the item you are on (so if you are on item 2, hit 2), and it will swap to whatever you have equipped in your Left Mousebutton slot (the blue slot up top). To swap between the blue and red slots hit X. This allows you to keep a melee and ranged weapon equipped, and carry a bevy of nice tools. And took me all night to figure out.
26. The CTRL key will allow you to move the camera away from your character. So you can look down holes Spelunky style.
I spent most of my time on my homeworld but did a quick excursion to a nearby planets moon. On said moon I discovered an Avion Temple and did the proper thing and started looting. Quickly I realized that the Temple guard was not happy with this and after kiting 20 of them around I got them stuck at the bottom of a staircase, only to realize I had to go that way. So I chucked down a bomb and it killed everyone of them. It was awesome. All in all, the temple gave me more stuff than I could carry, and 4k in money. I then ran all the way around the planet to see what I could see and got back to a place I had investigated, then I dug down to a river of lava. When I got back to my home planet I found a Human Mausoleum that a Glitch was looting, so I killed him, took his stimpacks, and loot the Mausoleum myself.
Right now I would say if you are on the fence, stay on it. The game is fun, but it is far from finished. Critical drops do not happen due to bugs, the game is about to have all the characters wiped, and it is really unfinished. I only had one crash, but it is like playing Terraria on launch. It has a whole lot of promise, but we are a few months before it will be worth the cost. Case in point, there is no adhoc server setting in the menu, you have to run a dedicated then connect to it.
For those who are coming to it from Terraria here is my breakdown:
1. The manipulator is like the HAMDRAX, but very weak.
2. Holding Shift lets you place one block at a time instead of four (it really should be swapped)
3. Coal is like Gel, and looks like black rocks in the ground
4. Iron just looks like a pile of brown rocks - it is very easy to miss
5. Do not build the beacon until you have atleast copper armor and an iron bow
6. As soon as you can, build a stone pickaxe. It lets you mine a 3x3 instead of a 2x2, and lets you mine minerals. To upgrade to an iron one, you have to have a stone one anyway.
7. Coal will let you move your ship. If you are going from a planet to a moon, it cost 1 coal, if you are going to another planet in your system, it cost 50.
8. Ores in order: iron, copper, silver, gold, platinum, diamond
9. As of right now, it looks like the highest you armor you can get is the level above copper (for avions it is called hatchling).
10. Just like in Terraria, the best gear is found in dungeons/off bosses.
11. Bosses CAN destroy structures.
12. Pickaxes do have a rate of decay as you use them, but you can use a diamond to recover it, or just upgrade - this has not been an issue for me yet.
13. Dying takes a chunk of your money, but it also resets your hp, hunger, and puts you back on your ship.
14. Sleeping in a bed, tent, or wheel barrel, will recover HP slowly, so will bandages
15. Tents are not safe from enemies.
16. The tomb items are chests
17. Doors are effective to fight random mobs, but not humanoids
18. Traps (like the sawblades in the floor) do not hurt NPCs, but hurt you badly
19. Lava is a quick painful death
20. Sometimes the monster with hundreds of eyeballs that looks like something out of a LSD laden nightmare, is friendly.
21. 3x2 torches heats you up faster than a campfire, and you can mine them back up with the pickaxe quickly
22. Different Biomes have different temperature levels (in a moon biome you get colder faster at night)
23. Bombs are like Terraria Dynamite against enemies, not against tiles
24. There are random Megaman X like powerup stations throughout the planets. When you use one you might get the ability to glow for a minute, or to jump much higher, or it will kill you.
25. You can equip 10 items and two weapon sets. To swap to the weapon sets, hit the key of the item you are on (so if you are on item 2, hit 2), and it will swap to whatever you have equipped in your Left Mousebutton slot (the blue slot up top). To swap between the blue and red slots hit X. This allows you to keep a melee and ranged weapon equipped, and carry a bevy of nice tools. And took me all night to figure out.
26. The CTRL key will allow you to move the camera away from your character. So you can look down holes Spelunky style.
I spent most of my time on my homeworld but did a quick excursion to a nearby planets moon. On said moon I discovered an Avion Temple and did the proper thing and started looting. Quickly I realized that the Temple guard was not happy with this and after kiting 20 of them around I got them stuck at the bottom of a staircase, only to realize I had to go that way. So I chucked down a bomb and it killed everyone of them. It was awesome. All in all, the temple gave me more stuff than I could carry, and 4k in money. I then ran all the way around the planet to see what I could see and got back to a place I had investigated, then I dug down to a river of lava. When I got back to my home planet I found a Human Mausoleum that a Glitch was looting, so I killed him, took his stimpacks, and loot the Mausoleum myself.
Right now I would say if you are on the fence, stay on it. The game is fun, but it is far from finished. Critical drops do not happen due to bugs, the game is about to have all the characters wiped, and it is really unfinished. I only had one crash, but it is like playing Terraria on launch. It has a whole lot of promise, but we are a few months before it will be worth the cost. Case in point, there is no adhoc server setting in the menu, you have to run a dedicated then connect to it.