Starbound [Winter Update!]

EDIT: Reached the "end" once again on an Apex this time. Balancing still needs a lot of adjusting at Threat level 5 or 6 and beyond. Monsters end up reaching the status of being able to 1-2 shot you again, but they take 3-5 hits to die. I was on a Threat level 10 planet in full Violium gear and monsters were hitting me for 90-100% of my health.

From what I understand from the last few dev posts I've read, they haven't really built anything outside of Threat Level 4, at least content wise, so this isn't really all that surprising.

What I am surprised at is where people tend to get weapons from, because it seems nearly impossible to me. There's a few you can craft but once that's done there's really nothing to get better gear outside of that. The drops and loot all seem to be set for Threat Level 1. The game refuses to give me anything better through chests, drops, or scavenging homes.

I think the generation might be a little bugged, because after I unlocked Sector Beta I went to a new world in Sector Alpha and found Diamonds and Platinum, but was fighting mobs that were clearly Threat Level 1. I've already reported it so hopefully it gets fixed. Overall differentiating between each Sector seems to need more refinement. For example you shouldn't find Diamonds in excess inside Bookshelves at Threat Level 1, and mobs that hit you for 50 damage at Threat Level 3 shouldn't be dropping weapons with 15 DPS.