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[Chiefwaffles]

Needless aggression, check.
Alright, it's a wrap everyone. See you in a month or two.

[Rose]

So who still plays this?

I'm going through the campaign, and it's pretty interesting so far.

[ollobrains]

i still spend a few hours a week on it

[Wiles]

I just started playing again with a friend. It haven't played since it was in early access so it is neat to see all the changes.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Picked it back up about a week and a half ago, and haven't been able to put it down since. The content is pretty darned acceptable for a complete game, however long the road was, and Frackin' Universe, while I don't agree with all of the additions and changes to balance, adds enough to keep you really busy.

I work on my fledgling colony when I want to unwind on my casual character, and otherwise play exclusively hardcore.

[BigD145]

Players who have completed the main storyline can visit a mysterious trader on the Outpost who will send them on a quest to activate and enter the Ancient Gateways found floating in some systems
These gateways provide access to Ancient Vaults: challenging procedural dungeons left by the ancients, filled with dangerous guardians (including procedural bosses!) and fantastic lost technologies

Ugh. I don't want to finish the main storyline. It's a boring pile of poo.

[Darkmere]

Oh. Well that's nice, FU already updated... Think I might take the game for another spin, see what's happened lately.

[ollobrains]

post engame additions (ancient vaults and ancient weapons) as well as procedural bosses that can be taken on.  What id like to see now is perhaps intergrating new ideas from the beginning to midgame, making colonies more diverse and a few others

[Oneir]

post engame additions (ancient vaults and ancient weapons) as well as procedural bosses that can be taken on.  What id like to see now is perhaps intergrating new ideas from the beginning to midgame, making colonies more diverse and a few others

Agreed. Just glancing over the list, I definitely don't see anything that would get me playing again. I bounced out right after starting the hyoltl quest, and the only thing it looks like that would change my experience at that point is elemental damage being rebalanced.

Full patch notes are here: http://playstarbound.com/starbound-vault-update/, main updates in spoiler.

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Ancient Vaults
Players who have completed the main storyline can visit a mysterious trader on the Outpost who will send them on a quest to activate and enter the Ancient Gateways found floating in some systems
These gateways provide access to Ancient Vaults: challenging procedural dungeons left by the ancients, filled with dangerous guardians (including procedural bosses!) and fantastic lost technologies

Terraforming
Using powerful devices acquired from the Ancient Vaults along with a new Essence currency, you can now transform regions or whole planets into entirely different biomes
Terraformers can be used to expand a region across a planet’s surface, replacing natural blocks, objects and plant life, and eventually changing the type of the planet itself
Microformers are consumable single-use terraformers which provide even more region types to add to your worlds

Weapon Upgrades
Use the ancient anvil available at the end of Ancient Vaults and spend Essence to upgrade your outdated legendary weapons, opening up many new options for endgame combat styles

Elemental Damage
Monsters now have resistance and weakness to elemental damage types, making your choice of weapons more important than ever

Holiday Spirit!
Celebrate the holidays with the variety of festive items bought from Space Santa at the Outpost!

[Sordid]

That sounds really cool for people who enjoy building things. Personally I'm not into that, so I think I'll hold off on going back to this game until they release an update that's all about improving the core fighting and platforming mechanics, making enemies more interesting, etc.

[Tiruin]

Huh, just checked up the recent update and there seems to be an achievement on steam for...PvPing someone else? O_o

Wonder if anyone is hosting a Bay12 server (moreso for adventure and funtime) lately though. I'd like to try out multiplayer given my (still spotty) internet.

[Ultimuh]

Huh, just checked up the recent update and there seems to be an achievement on steam for...PvPing someone else? O_o

Wonder if anyone is hosting a Bay12 server (moreso for adventure and funtime) lately though. I'd like to try out multiplayer given my (still spotty) internet.

Yeah, I also sometimes wish someone would host a server at some point.
Sure players will come and go eventually, but I bet there are those here whom want a place to visit and play with others once in a while.

edit: While on topic of servers.. What sort of mods would work client side?
I know mere texture and music replacers/additions would only be seen/heard on my own computer.
But would GUI changes lock me out from servers that doesn't have them?

[Oneir]

Next update promises more interesting and varied space exploration:

Space isn’t just about stars and planets, it’s about the space between them, so you’ll now be able to fly freely around systems and explore all kinds of new locations, from space stations to traveling merchant ships to mysterious derelicts! Systems won’t just be static, either — moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, and rich opportunities come and go, rewarding patient explorers with brand new perils and plunder!

Their mockup of the new travel interface is potentially interesting? It could be satisfying in practice, but there's nothing that says you need a little moving spaceship mode to visit new kinds of environments. "Rich opportunities come and go" implies you might need to be looking out for things, and in the right system (or the right place in the right system?) at the right time. Hopefully they'll add better features for scouting other stars and finding those opportunities.

I also hope that they don't lock the mechs to the post-game like they did terraforming in the last update. I keep bouncing off of the early/mid game so post-game content does nothing for me personally. Also -- I would definitely play a game where one of the archetypes was mech pilot or drone jockey or whatever. Not saying that's where they're going with this update, but I like the concept.

[Darkmere]

The interface reminded me of Star Control, which is cool and all, but I know it won't really have the depth they're trying to hype. There's already mobility mechs and tons of interesting stuff in Frackin' Universe, and I can't escape a nagging suspicion that this will just be less interesting copies of that.

[Chiefwaffles]

I do not like the way Starbound handles endgame content.

The main storyline is very tedious. It's only ever even slightly manageable for me to endure once. So even though the rest of the gameplay is fun and still can provide a progression system without the storyline, new content is locked behind extreme tedium for me.

But this does look pretty cool. Not to be negative, but wasn't something like this planned early on as the final interface where the current once was supposed to be a placeholder?