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[Aklyon]

The only bad thing about playing a Floran is that you get an awful purple snake pet (like I need another) instead of a SUPER CUTIE KITTEH KITTEH

Theres a mod to replace it with whatever pet you want.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Also using the number keys isn't practical since that uses the same hand that is needed to dodge enemies.

Yep. Major reason why I used to keep my secondary heavy weapons on 6 and 7 - better to let go of the mouse to quickly jab a key with the right hand, than let go of the movement controls for the same time. Same reason why the magic mirror always goes to 0 when I find it in Terraria. The 1-5 half of the old hotbar typically had my exploration gear - flashlight, grapple, torches, platforms. The main weapons in the center slots, it was all so... handy.

[umiman]

I stopped playing after fully decking out my ship. I only got to the Avian boss and I really can't be bothered any more.

It's still pretty lackluster, even if I completely ignore how shit it was at first. Even as just a game judged by its own merits it's pretty frigging boring.

Hell, in some ways I prefer it at launch because at least the loot was meaningful and we don't have so much useless crap like these dumbass techs. I don't understand how a game can come out of early access three years later and be LESS feature rich. What a bunch of wankers.

But meh, I wrote this game off years ago so whatever.

[Random_Dragon]

Man, is the new hotbar that bad? I really find it alright, not perfect, maybe, but I'm not a connoisseur of hotbars, two blocks for every section, which correspond to the left and right mouse buttons, what made the original hotbar better?

1: You could ALWAYS have your shield or preferred offhand item available for right-click.
2. Torches, blocks, and way too many other things take up both halves of a hotbar slot.
2a: This makes your effective number of slots less than 12 in practice, compared to the no-bullshit, guaranteed 10 you used to have.
3: Matter manipulator and misc. placed in the middle. The old system was actually more annoying to me because I'm used to placing torches on the end and scrolling UP to get them quickly, but I can see this new system being annoying to others.

[Gabeux]

I guess everyone already gave their opinions and all that. I've played around 2 days and been trying to hold off until later in the game in order to judge it..but damn.
I've played for hours and it seems they try to delay you fixing your ship now, because that could mean the player ignoring the main quest or something.
I think my opinion on the game is the same as my opinion on its Hoverbikes. It looks good and stylish, lots of art, but that's one of the most stupid things I've ever seen in videogames.

At least my friends who are more casually-inclined say they are satisfied with the game. But I can't help but be dissapointed when I think the amount of time and money they had, and they deliver a game filled with boring stuff. Like the procedurally generated quests. Maybe I don't get it, but it made me run around a planet 5 times just so I could get a Reward Bag that gave me like 10 iron ore.
Am I missing something? Otherwise I'm pretty sure this feature was half-assed just so they could put a check on their roadmap or something.
Even the story made me facepalm. "Get the 5 items to open this door" right from the get-go? Really? Couldn't you hold the cliches for maybe a few hours? 

In any case, I don't mean to start any sort of tantrum spiral on the thread. I'm glad this Starbound soap opera is over. 

[forsaken1111]

I had my ship fixed within the first hour or so. Grabbed 40 core shards from boxes in the mineshaft area then got the mining facility dungeon quest, finished it. It wasn't exactly a lengthy process. Again I think this is one of those differences in perspective from those who played the unfinished alphas and now see things have changed.

[Darkmere]

I'm running out of steam on it. Lots of stuff is pretty neat in concept with mediocre execution. The colony system is pretty cool, but the rent from it is abysmal (i.e. there's tables for each threat level, so you KNOW if I'm on a dangerous planet I have shitall use for hunting spears. Stop it.). Three native biomes per threat level? Comon. Where's the eyeball planets? At least some biomes should be planet-wide across multiple threat levels.

And for all the dungeons and stuff they said they were adopting to fill in, I haven't seen much if any of them. USMC prisons, avian towns, avian crypts, avian temples, and apex labs over and over and over. Maybe two planets with glitch. One Floran village (on a volcanic world). Zero apex apartments, no USMC bunkers, there's only one Hylotl city that I've seen three times. The same set of ruins on forests, jungles, savannahs, and mutants.

Why can't you sort containers?
Why in the holy hell isn't there a quick-stack button for containers?
Further, it was said they had finished (not were working on, finished!) a system that scanned the contents of containers. Why can't we quick-stack into containers in a radius?
Why won't the placement of windows save when you close them? Further, whoever decided the best place for the inventory to open is OVER your character should be fired, if they haven't quit already.

I'm not even going to ask about the walking mechs we were shown. The hoverbikes prove that implementation just escapes them.

[Random_Dragon]

They have a wonderful tendency to think up clever ideas, fuck them up initially, polish it up...and then scrap it all in favor of something less interesting, right at the last minute.

I could've sworn they HAD mechs and hoverbikes actually. And they apparently removed them?

[Random_Dragon]

They did have mechs as a tech. They were nearly useless because they constantly drained energy at a rapid rate, so you'd wind up in it for all of 10 seconds.

I remember that, yes. Seemed like a good panic-button tech though, if they'd just balanced it instead of scrapping it. ._.

[Darkmere]

The hoverbikes are still in, but unless you're using them to skim an ocean floor (which works, btw), they handle worse than the Mako from Mass Effect. Stuck on everything, laggy as hell in multiplayer, take damage a lot, and extremely awkward to maneuver unless you're just on flat ground.

[Chiefwaffles]

I have a hoverbike and haven't been having any problems with it. Sure, damage is inavoidable, but it's cheap to repair and the hoverbike has enough health to not instantly get destroyed. Manuevering is really easy as well. I've been able to easily scale cliffs going straight up thanks to my hoverbike.

What kind of things do they even get stuck on, anyways?

[scriver]

So I went spelunking and found, deep, deep down below the surface, a bunch of old sandstone tombs.

With people living inside of them.

One of them gave me a quest to fetch her date.

Not sure if bug.

[MagmaMcFry]

I've found some human scientists in those underground ice biome mini-outposts, although they had lines that suggested they were supposed to be there.

[Sirus]

Does anyone know if there's a limit to how many colonists you can stick on a planet? I found a desert world with two solid places to plunk down large communities. One is a half-ruined desert town - built on, surrounded by, and partially flooded by dozens of pools of healing water. If I rebuild and furnish the buildings, I can have a sprawling township where no one should be badly hurt or sick.

The other is a massive, nearly-abandoned hylotl mansion. I cleared it of ghosts and monsters, and just about every one of its many rooms is well-furnished and lit. I should be able to easily stick an entire extended family in there, with guard outposts near the entrances, while providing nearly no furniture of my own.

[Neonivek]

I've found some human scientists in those underground ice biome mini-outposts, although they had lines that suggested they were supposed to be there.

Yeah people are just kind of scattered randomly for no reason in Starbound now