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HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« on: January 31, 2015, 09:46:25 am »
So yeah, I thought I'd bring this to the attention of anyone that might have been into the game before, but stopped playing it because it was so.... not entirely there yet at all.

Finally, FINALLY, the Big Giant Update they've been teasing for.... well over a year now, has released, letting loose uncountable changes and additions to the game.  No, seriously, the list is LONG.  I've been following their progress in an overall sense by watching their blog and the indev updates (screwy optional updates to the game that let you test the current version that was being worked on at the time), so I have an idea as to just HOW MUCH is in here.  It'd take pages to even try to list everything.

For those that might give a damn, this is a trailer for the update:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sz2zr3pZEo

And the info can also be found on the game's news page on Steam, with a (very long) overview list of the core things the update does.


....now, I may be speaking to walls here, as I dont actually remember if anyone here played this game or not... I might be thinking of a different forum... but I figured I'd make sure to mention it anyway, just in case.   I'll be trying the whole thing out starting later today, and may post impressions on it as I continue through it.  I'll probably be playing it a ton.  At least, up until the point when the Stars Beyond Reach alpha/beta begins, which'll take precedence over everything else as usual. 

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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2015, 10:57:12 am »
Wow, I didn't even know this game still existed. It got me bored just by watching the thing, and then we haven't heard anything for ages. Interesting to see it's still "a thing".
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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2015, 11:45:00 am »
At the rate he releases updates, the game will be finished in 7 years. Good grief.
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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2015, 12:10:41 pm »
At the rate he releases updates, the game will be finished in 7 years. Good grief.

The stupid part is, it actually IS developing at a proper rate;  the sheer ridiculous amount of content in the update proves this.  There's easily enough in here to fit the time between the previous update and now.

The dumb part:  Why in the bloody hell didn't they take the SAME EXACT CONTENT, and just divide it up, releasing it in smaller sections rather than saving it up for one giant heap?  It would have been the EXACT SAME THING, but it wouldnt have aggravated the hell outta everyone.

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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2015, 12:53:13 pm »
Probably because that's exactly what they did with Terraria?
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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2015, 01:10:09 pm »
Probably because that's exactly what they did with Terraria?

They did?  News to me.... I hadnt stuck with Terraria all that long because.... I dont remember.  Something about the gameplay bugged me too much.  I'm sure it made sense at the time.

I hadnt heard about update issues with that game though.  Did they make a mistake there too?

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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2015, 03:26:42 pm »
Probably because that's exactly what they did with Terraria?

They did?  News to me.... I hadnt stuck with Terraria all that long because.... I dont remember.  Something about the gameplay bugged me too much.  I'm sure it made sense at the time.

I hadnt heard about update issues with that game though.  Did they make a mistake there too?

Ehehehe....heh....heh....they basically dumped Terraria development to make Starbound. They didn't even give modders a chance to do anything with the game, they just pulled up shop and said "we're done".

And then decided that was a bad idea and did a huge content update for Terraria this past year. Plus a console port.
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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2015, 04:50:00 pm »
Pretty much what Tim said. Left it alone until everyone was bored out of their skull six times over, then dumped a BAJILLION changes in one huge patch. Then they did it all over again :P
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Re: HOLY POODLES, BATMAN! Starbound finally updated.
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2015, 07:18:13 pm »
I'm having fun with the new update.  The first boss seems to be a proper challenge.  At least, I've failed my first two attempts, but I think I have the pattern sorted now.

For what it's worth, they have been releasing nightly and unstable builds to anyone who wanted to subscribe to them.  I do think, though, that they should have released the unstable builds as the normal release.