Dev Blog 26th April - Some Assembly Required

Well. I'll be. http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/mech-ideas-starbound-1-1.126919/#post-3075011

 

hahaha yeah, Ronin Rho's legs + Ronin Rho Jetpacks + Miniaturized Theta Rail Cannons on both sides = TOTAL DESTRUCTION!!!

 

No wipes should be necessary.

AFAIK, a change like this would merely require you to travel enough distance to generate a new quadrant of the universe with the new "rules".

You can see this by installing any mod that adds planets or makes changes to star systems, like Frackin Universe. Start a brand new universe and player, and play for a bit. Then install the mod. The existing systems that were already generated will not have the new stars/planets/biomes. However, if you travel far enough to generate new stars, the new stars that will be generated will be using FU rules and you will see the new stuff.

Same thing should happen with this upcoming update.

EDIT: The only time a wipe would be required is if they remove something, or if they make current stars/planets/biomes invalid so that when the game attempts to load one, it crashes. This happens when you uninstall the aforementioned mods. And I doubt that they would do that. Existing star systems should still be valid, they are just lacking stuff that you'd find in newly generated ones.

 

I hope there's a flea market to buy exotic parts.
It would fulfill my ingame trading needs.

 

Dunno if you guys have already considered this, but I think it'd be really amazing if we had some sort of docking station at the back- or under-sides of our ships where we can not only display our mechs but just exit our ships right then and there. I imagine it would look just like those laser barriers you've shown, only on our own ships.

I suppose y'all might already have something in mind for this, since we haven't seen how you actually deploy into space, but I think this would be much better than just teleporting out and you're in your mech.

 

At least would hint when there will be a subsequent patch =)
And then tired of waiting .....

 

Ocassus mech troopers
Agaran Portobello sacuers
Space Shockhoppers
The Jelly.

whole missions can be made out of this.

 

I'm sorry, but my subconscious, upon reading your post, immediately conjured up the mental image of the Jelly in a sandwhich mecha.

 

I'm hoping this gives us a more proper ability to build in space... Because while you can build on things like Asteroid Belts or Moons, they don't have any oxygen, which makes it impossible to make an actual colony there. Unless if there's been a way to give buildings oxygen that I'm just not seeing.

 

If this gets off, I can see Avali eared chicken walkers, Ningen-Neko-Kemono chibi Magical Girl mechas, Cubic, holographic Elunite fighting systems, and even better if the Xikai, and Gyrussens have beastly mechs too post-update.

 

Horn slot... HONK BLASTER 9000 when?

 

Those mechs are indeed awesome, but I'm a little worried that the entire patch will revolve around exploring space in your space mech to make your space mech better. Once you max it out I'm sure the boredom will kick in quickly.

I'm excited for the update though, but I'd like to see some new base features as well. Like those new merchants were mentioned, will they only sell mech paraphernalia or other stuff thats otherwise a pain to collect? Would be neat to see a merchant that sells pet related things like capture pods and collars. Or a legit gun store that sells an absurd amount of guns, and bring back some of the old types of guns with bouncy plasma and stuff!

Although I've got tons of faith in you guys, I think it would be cool to see more high tech space-age themed weapons in space, or derelict vessels filled with those creatures mentioned in one of the codexes...like the jelly monster or whatever it was that would attack ships in space. And finding laser weapons and plasma weapons aboard those ships!

 

A question, what if you fall into an empty space from an asteroid? Do you fall to a planet or die and lose your items?

This game invites you to start it again, it entertains a lot xD

 

In a future update, a pretty awesome feature would be to do this, but with weapons instead of Mechs.
Although the hype is still real for me.

 

I'm wondering if this is in the unstable or nightly version of the game?
And I'm also wondering if mods on the main game[via steam workshop] would impact nightly.

 

Can confirm, it is not and they don't.

 

Ah ok guess I'll wait and see when it does hit.
Cause I like the new solar system well system, also I'm wondering when someone will mod the Xs Mechs into the parts so we can use them with the default ones
when this hits stable build.

 

will mechs also have visual slots like armour and outfits have 2 sepperat slots?

 

Probably not, i'd wager.

 

I'd love an official version of this, but there's already a mod that does this. You can take the back part, middle, and end parts of guns and mix and match for various effects and visuals.

I'd like a way to make your own monsters by mixing and matching parts on randomly generated creatures. Like Spore lite.