Starbound the awesome 2d universe sandbox game has a big content update, and we have the nitty gritty details for you.
New Stuff
Treasure Horde sub-biome development
New treasure room micro dungeon
New objects for treasure horde and treasure dungeon: golden pedestal, grail, treasure chest, gold filled barrel, safe, gold vase, diamond display, wooden gold filled crate, Venus de Pixel
New ‘Heavy Iron Bars’ block
Make meteor showers less likely
New exception system that makes Windows binary much MUCH smaller
New mysterious light object
New ruins platform tiles
New, better, faster, stronger, more entertaining item descriptions
No more version strings required on mods, it was causing more problems than it was solving
New pak update system that makes steam updates of pak changes much much much smaller
Small exception fixes, no longer rename worlds when exception is not io related, better messages in some cases
New random swords
Coordinate corruption recovery for certain world files
Updated to Skyrails 2.0
Logfile rotation for starbound.log and starbound_server.log
Support for animated elements in cinematics
Spinner on loading screen
Hailstone weather
Deadlock fix on shutdown
New random blood / bone based gun and projectile
New items in Heck, including the helmet pictured above
Internal assets and pak based mods (if it is selected during build) will be version checked between clients and servers and must match
Apex micro dungeon changes
Some extra boring bug fixes not listed here
So, as you can see plenty, this is all from their unstable beta on Steam that has been pushed to the Stable branch. If you don't see it yet give it a few minutes.
This is easily one of the most fun games available on Linux today, is there anything stopping you picking it up? You can grab it Direct & Steam:
Ps. Did you see my boss fight? Look below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk45fuQcfkE Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
New Stuff
Treasure Horde sub-biome development
New treasure room micro dungeon
New objects for treasure horde and treasure dungeon: golden pedestal, grail, treasure chest, gold filled barrel, safe, gold vase, diamond display, wooden gold filled crate, Venus de Pixel
New ‘Heavy Iron Bars’ block
Make meteor showers less likely
New exception system that makes Windows binary much MUCH smaller
New mysterious light object
New ruins platform tiles
New, better, faster, stronger, more entertaining item descriptions
No more version strings required on mods, it was causing more problems than it was solving
New pak update system that makes steam updates of pak changes much much much smaller
Small exception fixes, no longer rename worlds when exception is not io related, better messages in some cases
New random swords
Coordinate corruption recovery for certain world files
Updated to Skyrails 2.0
Logfile rotation for starbound.log and starbound_server.log
Support for animated elements in cinematics
Spinner on loading screen
Hailstone weather
Deadlock fix on shutdown
New random blood / bone based gun and projectile
New items in Heck, including the helmet pictured above
Internal assets and pak based mods (if it is selected during build) will be version checked between clients and servers and must match
Apex micro dungeon changes
Some extra boring bug fixes not listed here
So, as you can see plenty, this is all from their unstable beta on Steam that has been pushed to the Stable branch. If you don't see it yet give it a few minutes.
This is easily one of the most fun games available on Linux today, is there anything stopping you picking it up? You can grab it Direct & Steam:
Ps. Did you see my boss fight? Look below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk45fuQcfkE Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I'd just love to be able to play my copy. Maybe next year it becomes available to people who don't use Steam. What's a couple of years between friends, right? AKA The Story of How I Never Preordered Another Indie Game Again.
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Quoting: NadirI'd just love to be able to play my copy. Maybe next year it becomes available to people who don't use Steam. What's a couple of years between friends, right? AKA The Story of How I Never Preordered Another Indie Game Again.
I could be mislead, but isn't it available DRM free on Humble Store?
edit: I just saw the notice about those builds being available later. Sorry, friend.
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