Starbound Beta Thread - Begins December 4th!

Speaking of creatures and monsters. I'd have to say one of my biggest complaints with watching all the beta video so far is how "fast" all of the monsters seem to be. I remember them talking about along with the random appearance, they will also have random stats and speed. From what I've seen so far that doesn't seem to be the case. Everything just leaps half a screen at super fast speeds all over you. I guess that stuff isn't quite ready or tuned yet? I don't know.

Also, theres way too many ground monsters that make horse noises lol.
 
More_Badass said:
Stuff like this would be awesome. How cool would it be if you accidentally awaken some kind of unstoppable mechanical beast, and then it's stalking you across the planet, maybe even off-world....
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Not mechanical, but... an ancient evil awakening to put the hurt on humanity is in the game already, kinda.

Possible Human story spoilers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xnsy8H31Q8

Wouldn't be shocked if whatever that is ends up being a villain of sorts.

mileS said:
Speaking of creatures and monsters. I'd have to say one of my biggest complaints with watching all the beta video so far is how "fast" all of the monsters seem to be. I remember them talking about along with the random appearance, they will also have random stats and speed. From what I've seen so far that doesn't seem to be the case. Everything just leaps half a screen at super fast speeds all over you. I guess that stuff isn't quite ready or tuned yet? I don't know.

Also, theres way too many ground monsters that make horse noises lol.
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I think this is just because the only critters we've seen are animal-like in nature. I consider them comparable to wolves, lions, etc.

We've seen a few non-animal enemies (penguins with boomsticks, town guards) and they seem slower, but better armed, obviously.
 
I know hardly anything about this game and I think it is for the best. Just going to buy into beta with some friends and have at it.
 
Anyone got an idea of what the price might be on the Steam store / starbound site? Can't see it on the Starbound site seeing as it's offline atm.
 
Weltall Zero said:
After seeing what you did in Terraria, I am almost literally trembling with delighted anticipation at the awesome stuff you will construct in this game. :)
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It'll take me a bit to get a feel for things, and gather materials to build with, of course. Terraria was so bare-bones for so long, with only one type of furniture, it was pretty easy to process. Even after the last update, the amount of furniture and stuff to build with was pretty low, and since so much was poorly implemented I felt like I had more ideas than the game was capable of.

Starbound though, has a ton of stuff right off the bat. I watched a stream last night where a guy found a sewer mini-dungeon and I already have a ton of ideas from just watching that. Every time I see something new, I get new ideas... and we haven't seen much of the Hylotl structures (Asian-style stuff), I don't think we've seen any human stuff, and the Novakids aren't even in yet. I feel like the game has more capacity than I have ideas, currently.

It goes without saying that having a big-ass central repository for materials where GAFers can drop stuff off would help. I can't visit every planet myself, so if I make a junkyard planet, people need to swing by and give me the space trash from their misadventures. I dunno how many people got to see what I had going in the last Terraria update, but I thought it was really impressive. I just... hit the limitations of what Terraria was able to do earlier than I expected.

Raxious said:
Anyone got an idea of what the price might be on the Steam store / starbound site? Can't see it on the Starbound site seeing as it's offline atm.
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Should be $15.
 
Raxious said:
Anyone got an idea of what the price might be on the Steam store / starbound site? Can't see it on the Starbound site seeing as it's offline atm.
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Last I checked, it was $15 to pre-order so I'm expecting the same for Early Access. Would be nice to see a 10% or 15% launch discount though
 
Have any of the early beta video LPers picked the Hylotl race? I've not seen anyone that has so far and I was curious.

Also, can't wait for the beta. :)
 
I got Terraria for like £3 and it was the most cost effective purchase I've ever made alongside Oblivion for £3 back in 08.

Should I wait for sales or is it worth jumping in to the Beta?
 
Nebula said:
I got Terraria for like £3 and it was the most cost effective purchase I've ever made alongside Oblivion for £3 back in 08.

Should I wait for sales or is it worth jumping in to the Beta?
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I say wait for impressions from the first stage of the Beta

Could be fine, could be disastrous and extremely buggy.

Its almost out so you will probably know tomorrow :)
 
HaRyu said:
c) They're waiting for beta to be completed and actual game to be released before they say anything.
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This is me. Will probably poke around in it when the beta launches but after all this time I feel like I can wait for a fuller release before really devoting to it.
 
Unbound By Death said:
I say wait for impressions from the first stage of the Beta

Could be fine, could be disastrous and extremely buggy.

Its almost out so you will probably know tomorrow :)
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Exactly this, unless you're dying to play ASAP, like some of us. You can always buy in if it turns out it's great to play even in stage 1 beta.
 
I'm going to wait to get my 4 pack until tomorrow on Steam and hope it still has the 25% discount.

I don't think I can resist. Going to be playing the beta immediately.
 
fluffydelusions said:
Do planets have weather systems?
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Yes.

Not sure if all this is 100% accurate but:
- Weather is atmospheric, and lightning is generated in real time on the screen. Trees will sway in wind and more clouds will appear in rainstorms
- Planets day and night cycles will differ based on the planet, some may even be eternally dark or eternally light.
- Acid rain has been mentioned, which may actually eat away at player constructions during certain quests to protect an injured npc.
- Warmth Meter - Depletes at different speeds based on the warmth of the planet/surroundings. It takes into account things like weather, time of day, wind chill, etc.
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And I've seen more weather info elsewhere
 
I would have never guessed to hack apart (material source spoiler)
. . . vines . . .
to get the last item for the basic hunting bow.

Boy, am I glad I watched some early impression videos. I probably would have ignored that (in hindsight incredibly obvious) source and run all over the planet in search for the item in question. This would seriously have left me stumped. (I blame Terraria.)

Not much time left until the beta starts... this is torture. I just know my mail with the beta key will get sucked into the void in a freak router malfunction.
 
Something strange/interesting I noticed, again, from the Leth stream video. Leth went to a different planet with d2king also on his ship. When d2king died on that planet, he respawned back in his own ship, and his ship was still over the old planet they were on. He was able to warp straight to Leth's ship by the party interface, then beam down to the second planet. So you won't have to fly directly to a planet someone else is on if you're in a party. You just warp to their ship, then warp to ground. Pretty neat.
 
So Bart(programmer) confirmed the derpy AI we've been seeing is a recent bug that cropped up and he's hoping to fix it today.
 
-tetsuo- said:
That cat is amazing
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What did it do?

And since we can have pets, and the devs want breeding, how cool would it be if you can grow and evolve your pet into a dangerous companion? Like the cat could be grow and engineered along the way to become a armored tiger-like beast that accompanies and protects you
 
Jira said:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store
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Everywhere wants me to buy Shadow Warrior O.o

More_Badass said:
What did it do?

And since we can have pets, and the devs want breeding, how cool would it be if you can grow and evolve your pet into a dangerous companion? Like the cat could be grow and engineered along the way to become a armored tiger-like beast that accompanies and protects you
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I am talking about the streamers cat. It looks like a leopard!
 
Cant wait, i watched soo many stream and even if ,when you think about it, watching some guy mine cobblestone for four hours and get raped by a green level 1 rabbit is not that amazing, i want it more than ever.
Is it confirmed that it goed up at 10 am PST ?
 
What the hell I pre-ordered it, not like I had anything else to do at the moment. I like the idea of starbound and I was sort of addicted to Teraria for a while (till I switched to minecraft). So might as well give this a go.

I get the feeling I will probably enjoy it for a while but we will see.
 
DPsygnet said:
Cant wait, i watched soo many stream and even if ,when you think about it, watching some guy mine cobblestone for four hours and get raped by a green level 1 rabbit is not that amazing, i want it more than ever.
Is it confirmed that it goed up at 10 am PST ?
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Yep, Steam has very set times for releases.
 
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