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[Darkmere]

Last I heard it'd gone from multiple paths to everyone should do some of everything.

[Chiefwaffles]

Doing a bump to rant about HOW STUPID THE ERCHIUS MINING FACILITY BOSS IS.

I just don't get it! I have extreme amounts of healing supplies, steel armor, just about the best weapons I could find in my solar system, yet I just can't beat it. And every time I lose, I have to do the entire quest all over again. I don't get how they can design a boss fight so badly.

[Pencil_Art]

Hmmm. For me, unless I turn my computer off, I just start at the start of the mission with all the monsters I have killed already dead and the Erchius Horror at the health I reduced it to before I died.

[Tiruin]

Doing a bump to rant about HOW STUPID THE ERCHIUS MINING FACILITY BOSS IS.

I just don't get it! I have extreme amounts of healing supplies, steel armor, just about the best weapons I could find in my solar system, yet I just can't beat it. And every time I lose, I have to do the entire quest all over again. I don't get how they can design a boss fight so badly.

There's a trick. :3
Sometimes, there are bosses which are IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT using conventional logic--because the answer lies in the surroundings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Specifically, you can't hurt it. Ever. Just get over to the four switches to fire a main gun under the boss which hurts it.
There's lore which makes it sensible for a gun to be right under the boss, by the way

Of note, this has been a very creative (or not...) tactic used in many games since...Err...I forgot when.

[BigD145]

Doing a bump to rant about HOW STUPID THE ERCHIUS MINING FACILITY BOSS IS.

I just don't get it! I have extreme amounts of healing supplies, steel armor, just about the best weapons I could find in my solar system, yet I just can't beat it. And every time I lose, I have to do the entire quest all over again. I don't get how they can design a boss fight so badly.

There's a trick. :3
Sometimes, there are bosses which are IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT using conventional logic--because the answer lies in the surroundings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Specifically, you can't hurt it. Ever. Just get over to the four switches to fire a main gun under the boss which hurts it.
There's lore which makes it sensible for a gun to be right under the boss, by the way

Of note, this has been a very creative (or not...) tactic used in many games since...Err...I forgot when.

I know Half-Life did it.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Doing a bump to rant about HOW STUPID THE ERCHIUS MINING FACILITY BOSS IS.

I just don't get it! I have extreme amounts of healing supplies, steel armor, just about the best weapons I could find in my solar system, yet I just can't beat it. And every time I lose, I have to do the entire quest all over again. I don't get how they can design a boss fight so badly.

There's a trick. :3
Sometimes, there are bosses which are IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT using conventional logic--because the answer lies in the surroundings.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Specifically, you can't hurt it. Ever. Just get over to the four switches to fire a main gun under the boss which hurts it.
There's lore which makes it sensible for a gun to be right under the boss, by the way

Of note, this has been a very creative (or not...) tactic used in many games since...Err...I forgot when.

I know Half-Life did it.

I know Quake did it.

[lijacote]

So this game is actually still being developed? Cool. I might have to fire this up sometime. I had understood that there was a fair bit of bad blood between us little consumers and them big bad developers.

[inteuniso]

So this game is actually still being developed? Cool. I might have to fire this up sometime. I had understood that there was a fair bit of bad blood between us little consumers and them big bad developers.

I thought the bad blood was between the rhythmically undulating mass of gamers and the small group of people who decided to develop a game.

[BigD145]

So this game is actually still being developed? Cool. I might have to fire this up sometime. I had understood that there was a fair bit of bad blood between us little consumers and them big bad developers.

I thought the bad blood was between the rhythmically undulating mass of gamers and the small group of people who decided to develop a game.

The devs set the stage early on in the twitch stream at release day. It was nothing but text doge spam and the devs cheered it all on. There was no communication, just doge.

[Neonivek]

Ehh the first boss is lousy anyhow...

If they removed him completely I certainly would be like "Good riddance"

[Sergius]

I don't mind the first boss as a concept, it could be ironed out more.

However, if they really want to keep going full Megaman-X with their end bosses they REALLY could use a respawning mechanic. Like, getting 5 lives or whatever before having to completely retry the mission.

Plus make missions completely optional for advancement, or at least have the several "paths" they originally announced. Not everybody plays this game as an action platformer. And it's a mediocre one right now, compared to most SNES titles. <- this is not a criticism to the programming skill. The game clearly wasn't intented as one from scratch, which it should have been if that was the path they wanted all along. Making an action platformer first and only then working on more sandbox features.

[Gentlefish]

So this game is actually still being developed? Cool. I might have to fire this up sometime. I had understood that there was a fair bit of bad blood between us little consumers and them big bad developers.

I thought the bad blood was between the rhythmically undulating mass of gamers and the small group of people who decided to develop a game.

The devs set the stage early on in the twitch stream at release day. It was nothing but text doge spam and the devs cheered it all on. There was no communication, just doge.

It's not that they're bad developers. They're just really really shitty at PR.

[Darkmere]

Actually as many times as the game features have been gutted and rebuilt at this point they're not terribly great at development, either. The coders have been competent before they abandoned ship, but someone needs to actually nail down a plan and keep people on task.

P.S. That task people are on really shouldn't be "whatever shiny thought just slammed into my frontal lobe just now" updated daily.

[Chiefwaffles]

Yeah. That's my main problem with how Starbound is developed. While they actually make some progress, they seemingly just add random (extrinisic, usually) things instead of actually following some kind of semi-rigid plan.

I would much rather they work on the backend and mechanics over adding race-specific pets.

[PTTG??]

Actually as many times as the game features have been gutted and rebuilt at this point they're not terribly great at development, either. The coders have been competent before they abandoned ship, but someone needs to actually nail down a plan and keep people on task.

P.S. That task people are on really shouldn't be "whatever shiny thought just slammed into my frontal lobe just now" updated daily.

Yeah. That's my main problem with how Starbound is developed. While they actually make some progress, they seemingly just add random (extrinisic, usually) things instead of actually following some kind of semi-rigid plan.

I would much rather they work on the backend and mechanics over adding race-specific pets.

Everything I hate about Starbound summed up.