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man you can get the spiked ball without even leaving your solar system you get 3 techs from doing sidequests at the outpost and from there you just need 8 tech cards which I got from doing random quests for florans in a village I found

Yeah, I unlocked to the jump tech and didn't have enough on me at the time to go farther. I saw the Tier 2 stuff and moon ghosts later and I didn't want to go back.

Well we finished the Floran quest chain and don't really want to repeat that another five times so I guess we're done.

But at least the game is just mediocre now instead of completely unplayable.

Funnily enough, they actually made the game worse in 1.0. Before they "released" it, the UI was 100 times better, the inventory was way better, crafting didn't take time, armor didn't require anything but ingots so building a homestead was completely optional, there weren't any Spook ghosts, and it was around that time that I was talking in this thread about it. I actually thought it was decent. Then they took a fat, greasy shit all over the game and called it done.

Zilenan91 wrote:Funnily enough, they actually made the game worse in 1.0. Before they "released" it, the UI was 100 times better, the inventory was way better, crafting didn't take time, armor didn't require anything but ingots so building a homestead was completely optional, there weren't any Spook ghosts, and it was around that time that I was talking in this thread about it. I actually thought it was decent. Then they took a fat, greasy shit all over the game and called it done.

I know this doesn't make it any better but for pretty much all the stuff you're talking about there are mods that change it, even spook ghosts

There might be now, but there weren't yesterday. I'll check them out.

its ok

I don't like how they pretty much force the colony system on you so early but the colony system is as good as it used to be. I was more focused on watering my crops and putting avian shit everywhere so I could have a colony filled only with members of the master race, rather than actually playing the game. Like seriously the colony system is something special.

whats wrong with the ui now? I liked it before but I think it is genius that you switch the thingy with x

It was a combination of changes to the UI and inventory. Before, there was only three tabs in your inventory, but you could put whatever you wanted into any of them, with weapons and food automatically going in the first, blocks going in the third, and furniture and stuff going in the second one and you could easily move them around. You could store much, much more than what you can now. They changed it to what it currently is, where only designated items can go into their designated tabs.

Beyond that, they fucked up the UI because you know how you press 1-6 to select what you want? It used to be where 1-0 were mapped to whatever you had in your hotbar up above and if you put something up there it was no longer in your inventory and you could still select and use it. Due to the inventory changes this just makes it harder to carry things since you only have around 1/4 of the inventory space you did before.

Another thing the old UI did right was switching using X. There used to be a double hand representation thing in the middle where you could put a sword and shield combo and you could press X to switch it out to another item + shield combo or any dual-wielded combination you could think of. If you've ever played Diablo it was like that. You can still do that and it's easier to set up these combos since you can put the same weapon in different slots but that just creates clutter on the UI and I've never had to dual-wield anything but sword and shield and gun and shield, which I could've easily done before with the old UI. I like the current one less because it's harder to use, not as clean, and makes your inventory more cluttered.

I thought the inventory was weird, but then I realised it means that I don't have to throw out every piece of moonstone I come across. and yea, I remember the old ui, except for the fact that the items went directly in the slot.
by the way, there IS liquid erchius on the moons, but it is deep down. not too deep, but not on the surface or anything. its basically the silver of moons. and I think the reason the erchius ghosts were a pain in the ass was because you were holding on to your erchius, as they are only attracted by the erchius being on you, not from how long you stay down there. I dump mine after I go down and up, and the ghosts don't even come close to running speed, while I still get plenty. it wasn't that dangerous either, I tried to jump over one and failed, and survived with 2/3rds damage without even using a dash to walk through it.

Also, the second artifact boss is only vulnerable after he runs out of energy in which case you hear the sound and I thought that was really funny.

I got to Tier 4 armours so far, and killed dreadwing. I'm on the Hyotyl mission at the moment. Initially was a pain in the arse, as you have to go underwater for that to find their bases. I don't even mine anymore, there is no need - I found all the titanium I needed just exploring planets. Want diamonds? Go to snow planets, find hidden caches - usually under a pile of ice blocks which lead to a cavern with diamond nodes. Racked up 20 so far. It's kinda easy at the moment, but I initially hated the way they make you weak as fuck when heading to the next tier of planet with lower tier armour as they effect both your attack and defense.

Still, is better than I last played in the beta which was frustrating and boring as hell.

I hear hoverbikes are good for searching the bottom of the ocean, and I can't believe I did the stuff with no idea about the diamonds in snow caches. my main source of diamonds was one place- I discovered that there is a lowwww chance that, upon using those giant capsules that can set you on fire or heal you or something, it will TURN ALL NEARBY DIRT INTO DIAMONDS. I still am trying to afford the penguin suit though.

The unloved rock wrote:I hear hoverbikes are good for searching the bottom of the ocean, and I can't believe I did the stuff with no idea about the diamonds in snow caches. my main source of diamonds was one place- I discovered that there is a lowwww chance that, upon using those giant capsules that can set you on fire or heal you or something, it will TURN ALL NEARBY DIRT INTO DIAMONDS. I still am trying to afford the penguin suit though.

Found them by accident, they are usually just 5 or 6 ice blocks covering the ground, underneath is snow. Clear out the snow into a small water pool, loadsa diamonds. Just started the Avian missions now.

the guy you get at the end of that avian quest does nothing but give you a speed buff when you talk to him that lasts like 30 minutes, which is dumb but really nice.
also for the fish guy don't do his quests until you complete the main ones, because you can make a pixel printer later, allowing you to clone any furniture you examine, so just examine the stuff in all the missions and you can print it for around 50 pixels to give to the fish guy. the only one of his I am stuck on is the armed display armour, which is found in friendly glitch castles and isn't fucking found in the glitch mission.

I got lucky and found the avian sarcophagus exploring a ocean planet.

how the fuck did you find it there?

Dunno it was underwater in it's own cavern, with treasure hoard tiles and a bunch of other sarcophagi.

Meanwhile I'm just sitting here, murdering whatever is left of humanity while wearing a goat skull mask.



Frackin universe is pretty fun so far. Especially since it doesn't look like it has updated it's oregen, resulting in planets with ridiculous amounts of ore. Multiplayer is pretty fun as well after having spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to get workshop mods mounting on the dedicated server.

I'm having fun on the server when I crashed and got maddered, I know tank was leaving it up for me but if it's still on in like 15 minutes I'll be back on

finally decided to pick this up and play a bit. i forgot how atmospheric it was. farming cotton is a pain in the dick though and i don't like what they did with pickaxes, but so far it's been a good time. pleasantly surprised

the only reason I am not replaying this on hardcore as a novakid is because a bug means the outpost is fully repaired so id have to delete my old file
also for cotton, you can just skip that armor set and the only other thing in the game cotton is needed for is a single teddy bear.

Cotton isn't too much of a problem once you get a teleporter set up.


Alternatively, get some doubloons from the penguin bartender and use the penguin crew for ship upgrades. You should be able to put plants on your ship no problem.

It's a real bummer there aren't any natural novakid villages. I've resorted to building a tower of tiny saloon rooms to bring in novakid villagers to try and recruit one onto my ship.

EDIT: Apparently caused by a driver issue if you have a NVIDIA card and requires downgrading to 350.15, that's always nice.

Finally got the game running. Hunting dem fuckin core fragments. Do we have a server up?

Jacough wrote:Finally got the game running. Hunting dem fuckin core fragments. Do we have a server up?

I've started running a modded server somewhat consistently. I usually put it up when someone asks for it and shut it down when people stop playing/I go to bed. Either add me on steam or join the skype group and someone will hook you up with the links.

What mods do you run? Might join once in a while as long as I don't need to brick my save

Completed the main quest line last night. Once you get best armour game is pretty much ez game ez life.

Wyzack wrote:What mods do you run? Might join once in a while as long as I don't need to brick my save

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =731862717


All the mods we're currently running.

The only mod I have even considered is "Starbound Except It Makes That Weird Tim Allen Noise When Monsters Die"

Holy fuck that is a lot of mods. I have frackin universe and XS mechs right now, will any of the other ones require a fresh character? If not i will totally jump in

I don't think any of the other mods require fresh characters but going from these mods back to just frackin universe and XS mechs might not be possible. So just a heads up.

I might be wrong, but I thought it was possible to get away with getting onto some modded servers without any mods, at least it used to be.

I don't care about not being able to go back, I will probably just keep em all. Right now I am looking for avian shit to scan and have the spess mareen power armor that is roughly aeigisalt tier

If you had examined avian shit earlier and forgot where the village is, you will be able to print the avian stuff you examined with a pixel printer.
also I just remembered something I heard a REALLY long time ago that a combo of the violium and ferozium for armor is actually 100% better than aegisalt, but as a user of aegisalt I am too lazy to care.

The unloved rock wrote:I might be wrong, but I thought it was possible to get away with getting onto some modded servers without any mods, at least it used to be.

You can get away with some clientside mods but as soon as you run into any assets that you don't have like blocks you'll be kicked right back out.

I killed wiznard by dropping my mech once. Also is there pvp? I want to do mech battles

You can pvp with other players by exiting your party if they're in it and using the /pvp command. Both sides have to enable it.

Huh, the latest patch actually fixed the VC launch issues, you just have to run it in 32 bit mode instead of 64.

I joined TankNut's server with a new character because honestly building stuff is boring when you're the only person you can show it off to. I'll just hide in my thatch tower while everyone else has mechs and death ball swords.

Also the tenants from the deeds keep beelining for the cave basement below and I have no idea why.

Has anyone used the Ronin mech? It has a fucking badass heatray that is insanely good for mining

Built my first colony. By built I mean I found a small village of tribal frog people who were completely unarmed, killed them all and took over their village.

Man how do you survive having so many mods

> head to colony to collect gifts from my people
> they give me throwing knives

Yeah fuck you too guys.

>build a tower of saloons to try and start a novakid colony
>just saloon things, not even beds
>novakid asks me to build a home for a human tenant
>plop down a house with just a sleeping bag, toilet, and stool
>human moves in and loves it

I'm glad it's easy to keep colonists happy but there's literally only one place to sleep and it's in the human's toilet hovel

So these floran dudes decided that their dungeon wasn't metal enough.


How do they solve it? Connect it to an ocean of literal poison.



This was of course done after flooding some of their original traps with LIQUID NITROGEN.

Knaive wrote:>build a tower of saloons to try and start a novakid colony
>just saloon things, not even beds
>novakid asks me to build a home for a human tenant
>plop down a house with just a sleeping bag, toilet, and stool
>human moves in and loves it

I'm glad it's easy to keep colonists happy but there's literally only one place to sleep and it's in the human's toilet hovel

Novakids don't truly sleep until they can no longer be seen from other galaxies

I built a giant statue to remind my villagers who they owe their entire lives to, and who can burn their huts to the ground with lava.

jesus christ

I stole a van from a group of human refugees

I don't really understand why they had a van unless there's a FTL drive hidden in it

Knaive wrote:

Spoiler:

I built a giant statue to remind my villagers who they owe their entire lives to, and who can burn their huts to the ground with lava.

Now that's what I call autism