Starbound

    So the beta for this game has just started.


    I'd never heard of it before but I'm now interested because of its sheer ambition. I don't think I can sum up the game better than its Wikipedia article, but to me it looks like it's essentially a 2D version of Minecraft — except it's a whole universe that's procedurally generated, the gameplay is much more in-depth, it has dungeons and missions, it fuses fantasy and sci-fi, and it has social multiplayer.


    It's apparently similar in some ways to Terraria, if that means anything to anyone. Probably better to just watch this:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMJE9ZHIqQ

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    Really looking forward to this. Have beta keys gone out yet? I bought a copy of the game ages ago but I haven't had an email.


    Yeah, the beta keys are out. I didn't get a separate email for it either. I checked the humblebundle link which gave my soundtrack when I preordered and the beta key was added there.

    Grabbed it today and I recommend it

    Played for an hour and the game feels pretty far along. Definitely a mix of Terraria / Minecraft with Space. Haven t done much with my ship yet but will play some more tonight. Had a lot of fun with it so far definitely.

    It's actually hilarious how quickly I got completely overwhelmed to the point of running out of the game screaming last night. I was on my little ship thinking that this all seems quite straightforward, but the moment I beamed down onto a planet I was immediately ravaged by a mob of horrifying creatures. I ran like shit, only to end up stumbling into like three different types of flying/jumping fucks, so I legged it in the opposite direction with all of the aforementioned chasing me. I jumped into some cavern opening, but I was in too much of a panic to figure out how to use the light source that I so obviously needed and just went increasingly deep into a dark abyss until eventually I ended up in water and drowned.


    This game definitely needs more work, but it's an interesting thing. I kind of think they should have gotten it more complete and refined before putting this out into the wild though, a lot of people are going to play this and get put off by its issues.

    Continuing to play around and I've left a UK-based server running on 178.79.176.222.

    If anyone wants to join it and mess around feel free, although I can't guarantee it won't vanish/crash because it looks like dedicated servers currently have memory leaks and shit. I'm mainly leaving it up to monitor what happens.

    If anyone does join it, let me know if you have performance issues or shitty ping (not that I can even figure out how to view pings and such in-game).

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