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Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!

No pause menu in single player.
No menu for key rebind.

If You game is crashing at logo just wait, it will load.

When You try to access tools, game is freezing for brief second.
 
Downloading. HYYYYPEEEE!

yup program stopped responding its battlefield 4 all over again

Come on, man. This is technically an alpha and they already warned people not to try it if they were scared of errors and crashes. If you expect retail stability you really might want to sit this one out.

OS X Crashes when using the bow.

Where do you submit bugs for this?

If it's a bug you can reliably reproduce, and especially this early in alpha, it's likely it will be reported by a ton of other users as well, so you might not want to bother.

If it's a bug that's hard to reproduce, on the other hand, they might find a hand-submitted report valuable. You might also want to submit it if later alpha stages come out and it's still present. In either case, there's a general bug report thread (with log reporting instructions) here:
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/general-bug-reports.34306
The forums seem to be (understandably enough) pretty unstable right now, though, so you might have to retry a few times.

Geek edit: I find it super weird that their logs don't include a timestamp. I don't think I could debug shit myself without the timestamp differences between log lines. O_o
 
Game seems to crash on OSX if you try using the Hunting Bow.

That's strange. I watched quite a few youtube vids last night and no one seemed to have any problems at all with the game, and they all had bows. Sounds like the steam version has some issues, I'm sure they will be quickly fixed.
 
This game is stunning, the footage / screens don't do it justice. The menu screen is gorgeous in itself.

I'm already in love. It has the pixelated aesthetic...but seemingly competent modern UI.





Also...it makes me feel like I'm in Star Trek.
 
This game is stunning, the footage / screens don't do it justice. The menu screen is gorgeous in itself.

I'm already in love. It has the pixelated aesthetic...but seemingly competent modern UI.





Also...it makes me feel like I'm in Star Trek.

stop it! or help me to join your magnificent experience...
 
Played it for a while, and it crashed when I died. Super excited, but I think I'll wait to actually start playing until finals are over next week. Hopefully by then a good deal of launch bugs will be fixed.
 
Played about about 40 minutes so far.

1. The music is amazing. Feels like I'm really exploring space
2. I can't wait to explore all the planets. Going to be so much fun
3. Hopefully the quests are full on quests rather than shitty fetch quests
4. No water sound effects
5. A general lack of ambient sound (lightning with no thunder)
6. Jumping seems like it's too high
7. Game is smooth. No lag at all
8. Search in the crafting screen is genius
9. Why aren't there tooltips/bubbles when I highlight an icon? Not everything is explained
10. When you alt+tab out, the game reverts to windowed mode from fullscreen
11. I kinda wish the starts were more realistic and less cartoony
12. Deleting stuff in the trash is way to easy. I predict many frustrations when accidentally deleting a good item

Wait... tehy just sold more during the 30 minutes its been up on steam than during the entire pre-order campaign?
That's what I thought I heard but I have no idea.
 
Music is unreaaaal. But I get such low fps, are you guys not? I can play SR4 fine so I doubt its my computer. Could just be beta issues.
 
Music is unreaaaal. But I get such low fps, are you guys not? I can play SR4 fine so I doubt its my computer. Could just be beta issues.

Hmm what's your config? Getting full 60fps here (wish it wasn't capped at 60 though :) )

I'm so glad how quick this loads the game versus how long it would usually take Terraria to load worlds. I'm fucking pumped, I'd love to play with you guys/gals!
 
Hmm what's your config? Getting full 60fps here (wish it wasn't capped at 60 though :) )

I'm so glad how quick this loads the game versus how long it would usually take Terraria to load worlds. I'm fucking pumped, I'd love to play with you guys/gals!

I have an alienware mx17 laptop, i don't know the exact graphics card. I mean the computer is by no means great but it can run BF3 and Skyrim and whatnot with decent fps. The menu doesnt lag at all, but when i join the game (even just the ship room) i get 1-2 fps
 
So is no one hosting a server yet?

Edit: This thing is taking up 900MB of ram on the title screen? Does it just load the entire game into memory?
 
Stupid work day. End, damn you. I want to play some more Starbound. I work from home, so it's downstairs taunting me.
 
I just started it up for a couple of minutes and it's been running fine so far. I've just got a question, what's the control layout? More specifically how do you quick select L and R? I know it might be dumb but the only way I seem to be able to access them is with the mouse wheel scroll.
 
I have an alienware mx17 laptop, i don't know the exact graphics card. I mean the computer is by no means great but it can run BF3 and Skyrim and whatnot with decent fps. The menu doesnt lag at all, but when i join the game (even just the ship room) i get 1-2 fps

Hmm strange, you should totally be handling this game for sure if it can run the ones you listed....perhaps a driver update?
 
I literally have no idea what I'm doing, haha. I''m supposed to build a crafting table but have no idea how. Game looks great, great atmosphere and sense of exploration. Music is very cool too.

Edit: never mind, got it.
 
I'm downloading it onto my Surface Pro, hope it works, but my wife is going nuts, as she's wanted this for the longest time. She should be able to play it through the family sharing plan, right?
 
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