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Reako Wrote:Also, if you're lucky apparently you can find avian sky merchants docked on a planet somewheres, and those guys sell guns too. I have yet to encounter that though. Tonight, begins the great farming session to make the 2nd boss summoner :o

Razmos Wrote:I found a "Stim Spawner" item that dropped from an Apex Soldier, I put it down on my ship and teleported down to the surface, and when I came back to my ship, I found an Apex Merchant, selling stim packs! Not sure if he is here for good or not, but yeah, awesome.

I'm wondering if this is how you get NPC's.

EDIT: He's still there after I have teleported back and forth, and he stayed on the ship even when I travelled to another planet. Looks like he is definitely here to stay, my journey just got slightly less lonely.

Razmos Wrote:I really doubt i'll be able to beat the UFO boss with what I have now, but i'm getting so frustrated with exploring random planets, spending ages to find absolutely nothing, and then having to mine for more coal to move to a different planet to find nothing once again.

Dark Link Wrote:UFO boss got nerfed in the latest patch and full Silver armor should make you take minimal damage. I was only taking around 10-15 damage at most pre-nerf. Plus mobs do less damage to you if they're under your "Armor Value Level".

Phoenix Wright Wrote:Dirt OP.



It can't move or attack. It's stuck like this. And it's surprisingly easy to do. Make a wide U, make a smaller U at the bottom of the first U, and then hide in the small U. When it tries to dive down into you, jump up and put dirt over it from one of the sides of the U.

Polantaris Wrote:Pfft screw Silver Armor. Leather Armor is vastly superior. It gives warmth and 30% more defense. It's probably going to get nerfed in the very near future, because Leather is far easier to obtain then Silver is, at least in my experience.

Dark Link Wrote:The only thing the new workstation gave us was access to the Gamma sector.

RedRaven16 Wrote:Game explain things better how the fk do i cook

Watch when someone tells me im going to feel stupid and no i cant be bothered to look it up becase id rather play ms

RedRaven16 Wrote:Game explain things better how the fk do i cook

Watch when someone tells me im going to feel stupid and no i cant be bothered to look it up becase id rather play ms

Reako Wrote:More schematics will unlock as you find new materials, I think. I have a strong hunch that Uranium will be necessary for boss #3, which I do know exists. I'm starting to wonder how far basic progression goes in this beta.

Tiy Wrote:Ok guys so we decided to make this update a lot bigger. It’s going to take a day or two to complete and I wanted to explain exactly what we’re doing with the balance of the game to open it up for discussion.

Currently the damage system in Starbound is built around an armor penetration system. This system was put in place to account for the 100 planet levels, 100 monster levels and so on. Whilst the system works it leads to a difficulty curve that can be confusing to navigate as well as stats that are a little more difficult to understand. (A weapon that does 40 damage, only does 40 damage to a monster of the same level as the weapon. Otherwise as the distance between armor penetration/armor level grows the damage increases/decreases.)

It’s hard to know exactly how much damage your weapon will do to any given monster and it’s difficult to know which of two weapons is the most effective.

Another problem with this system is items that do a static amount of damage. For example in the current alpha sector it’s possible to find throwing daggers with 5 armor penetration. These daggers are extremely powerful in the lower half of the tier but near useless in the upper half.

When working with 100 levels, without the armor penetration system you end up with absurd damage/health values that are far too big to be manageable and that’s the reason this system was originally in place.

So over this weekend we’re going to work on the solution to this problem. We’re going to reduce the number of planet levels from 100, to 10. *This is not a decrease in the amount of content, it’s simply a change to how leveling functions*. The smaller number of levels means that we can remove armor penetration entirely and simplify weapon damage. You’ll be able to directly compare weapon DPS which will now appear on the weapons tooltip. Armor will become easier to understand and will gain additional buffs, such as increasing player max health. We’re also now able to remove armor from monsters and simply give more powerful monsters more health, this way you always know how much damage your weapon will do.

Monsters will no longer have a level, instead monsters will be given an easy/medium/hard marker, that shows you how difficult a monster is in the context of the sector it’s in. For example, a hard monster in sector 1 will be roughly the same strength as an easy monster in sector 2. The difficulty of monsters will increase the lower you dig, but so will the rewards.

Items with a static amount of damage will be manually balanced and useful for the entire sector you find them on. Given that the range of health difference will be lower now, we can ensure that items such as throwing daggers will be useful for the entire sector. We’re also able to make sure that when you craft the best armor in a sector, you’ll be in good shape for the next sector. By ensuring that the hardest monsters in sector 1 match the easiest monsters in sector 2, you’ll be able to progress without having to face instakills on either side.

I suspect this game will drastically improve the balance of the game and make the extra wait worth it.

Coming along with this update will be a bunch of bug fixes and some new content.

Shortly after this update we’ll be adding a complete sector 4, delta sector.

This update will probably require a character reset (I’m sorry! Beta )

Give us your thoughts guys