• Starbound 1.2 - Vault Update Trailer
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I kinda want to come back to this game. I haven't played since launch a couple years back. Is it much better than before?
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;51562713]I kinda want to come back to this game. I haven't played since launch a couple years back. Is it much better than before?[/QUOTE] So much better, as a person who has just got back to it after not playing it since late 2014, it's amazing now.
I'm probably going to start playing again sometime.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;51562713]I kinda want to come back to this game. I haven't played since launch a couple years back. Is it much better than before?[/QUOTE] It has become a great sandbox game but the way they've streamlined the plot is sort of annoying. It starts to feel like your progress is on rails not far into the game by severely limiting where you can go. I absolutely love the building in it but the progression is boss 1, suit 1, boss 2, suit 2, etc. Exploration is much less important than say, Terraria. There are some big mods that help improve this.
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;51562713]I kinda want to come back to this game. I haven't played since launch a couple years back. Is it much better than before?[/QUOTE] It's okay. It didn't live up to my hype personally. The story quest isn't very good, and exploration kinda got bland after a while. The building and sandboxing is the best part of the game.
The game is still nowhere near as fleshed out as Terraria is, but if you can forget Terraria exists, then it's an okay game.
[QUOTE=Zadrave;51563864]The game is still nowhere near as fleshed out as Terraria is, but if you can forget Terraria exists, then it's an okay game.[/QUOTE] terraria is pretty shit at times though
[QUOTE=SirJon;51564144]terraria is pretty shit at times though[/QUOTE] Perhaps but you could easily compare to two games and Terraria would be the clear winner. That said, Starbound holds more potential and i'm glad they are still doing updates.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;51564229]Perhaps but you could easily compare to two games and Terraria would be the clear winner. That said, Starbound holds more potential and i'm glad they are still doing updates.[/QUOTE] haven't played too much of starbound but you're probably right
I find Terraria to be a lot less enjoyable than Starbound for my taste.
Terraria used to be so much fun back then, specially with friends, but now I find it unbearable, mainly because it takes forever to get anywhere.
[QUOTE=DaWhatTheFox;51564356]Terraria used to be so much fun back then, specially with friends, but now I find it unbearable, mainly because it takes forever to get anywhere.[/QUOTE] also artificial difficulty and general bad game design incited by the yes-man echo chamber that is the official forums
My problem with terraria was that to get a new area, items or so you needed to make a new world entirely to get those after each update.
I've been on a break from SB for a couple of years and I can confirm it's a lot of fun now. They took it to a way different direction than Terraria so they aren't really comparable.
[QUOTE=dedo678;51563354]It has become a great sandbox game but the way they've streamlined the plot is sort of annoying. It starts to feel like your progress is on rails not far into the game by severely limiting where you can go. I absolutely love the building in it but the progression is boss 1, suit 1, boss 2, suit 2, etc. Exploration is much less important than say, Terraria. There are some big mods that help improve this.[/QUOTE] I got near endgame stuff before even touching any of the bosses.
I'm sure the combat still sucks a big fat one, and most of the tech being mediocre. The game still has a nice atmosphere and building is crazy streamlined and easy, but they've dropped the ball on almost everything else
[QUOTE=DaWhatTheFox;51564356]Terraria used to be so much fun back then, specially with friends, but now I find it unbearable, mainly because it takes forever to get anywhere.[/QUOTE] stop making maximum sized worlds every time?
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;51574131]stop making maximum sized worlds every time?[/QUOTE] Can't you get more resources in bigger worlds?
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;51574131]stop making maximum sized worlds every time?[/QUOTE] i think he means progression wise
[QUOTE=xZippy;51575409]Can't you get more resources in bigger worlds?[/QUOTE] If I remember correctly no, the world gen just spreads the resources further apart.
[QUOTE=anthonywolfe;51575431]If I remember correctly no, the world gen just spreads the resources further apart.[/QUOTE] What I'd give to tell my past self that.
it does give more special resources, as in, more crimson hearts, etc, with larger worlds, but if you just care about ore and shit than yea small worlds are the way to go.
Is the combat in this game not complete garbage anymore? If there's a lot of movement options specifically made for combat I'll consider reinstalling it.
Unless they've fixed their garbage optimization, I can't see myself ever returning to Starbound. I put in like 40 hours with the game averaging 20FPS, sometimes running as low as 4 or 5FPS at particularly heavy scenes (like when there's 5 or more 2D sprite animations playing). I got a new PC recently, runs Witcher 3 at high settings at 60FPS, yet Starbound still averages less than 30FPS - plus apparently the savegames don't use Steam Cloud so I lost all progress there. Game's decently fun, but it's honestly the single most poorly optimized games I've ever played and I've told everyone I know to stay the fuck away despite putting 40 hours into it. Zero reason a 2D pixel art game should struggle to hit 30FPS on a PC that can run most detailed 3D games at high or ultra. Just pure garbage optimization that makes the game virtually unplayable.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;51577563]Unless they've fixed their garbage optimization, I can't see myself ever returning to Starbound. I put in like 40 hours with the game averaging 20FPS, sometimes running as low as 4 or 5FPS at particularly heavy scenes (like when there's 5 or more 2D sprite animations playing). I got a new PC recently, runs Witcher 3 at high settings at 60FPS, yet Starbound still averages less than 30FPS - plus apparently the savegames don't use Steam Cloud so I lost all progress there. Game's decently fun, but it's honestly the single most poorly optimized games I've ever played and I've told everyone I know to stay the fuck away despite putting 40 hours into it. Zero reason a 2D pixel art game should struggle to hit 30FPS on a PC that can run most detailed 3D games at high or ultra. Just pure garbage optimization that makes the game virtually unplayable.[/QUOTE] Yeah I don't know what the hell they did. If it's raining you might as well turn the game off because you aren't playing anything unless you've got a good computer. They can get liquid physics to work with almost no fps drops but they cant even have a rain overlay without reducing everything by 20fps.
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