Best Gear In Starbound Update Is Out

However, Fracking Universe adds varying degrees of danger, and for those youll need higher tiers of the pack, and so on.

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When it was first released, Starbound, like many sandbox exploration games of the time, was compared to Minecraft, but was even more closely compared to Terraria (Terraria in space), often being called a ripoff of it.

It was a fair comparison to make, especially as both were side-scrolling exploration sandboxes with a vaguely similar art style that had some shared elements.

However, like the comparisons between Terraria and Minecraft before it, both grew increasingly differentiated from each other as the 2010s progressed, and now the two are pretty dissimilar from each other in nearly every way.

Ive played a decent amount of Starbound over the years, and while its undeniable that Ive had some fun moments traversing the stars, the experience has always felt off somehow in a way that I could never describe.

Best Gear In Starbound Update Is Out

After a bit of hemming and hawing, I decided that I should give another playthrough a go (now that the Bounty-Hunting update is out), but this time I figured that I should try some mods as well, the appropriately-named Frackin Universe mods.

However, while I did have a more varied and dare I say it more fulfilling time shaping the universe by my lonesome, Starbound remains to me a game that feels somewhat empty and hollow, even after multiple updates.

Along the way you meet a quirky cast of characters that dont really do much, but at least they arent forced upon you.

Frustratingly though, the story acts as a gatekeeper to content in the early game, and youll have to play ball for an hour or three if youd like to experience the rest of the game for yourself.

Even more frustratingly, exploration and random discovery is tied to story progressaccess.

How that works is that in order to find the coordinates for each relic to open the vault your character must find certain items of relevance to the particular race and scan it in order to get clues to where a culturally important location of theirs would be.

The upside to this is that it makes sense from a narrative angle, and has the bonus of indirectly encouraging you to progress through the game.

The downside of this is that whether or not you will find a settlement of the desired race in a planet or star system is basically left up to chance, though there are planets where they will be more likely to appear on.

Where the setting of the game truly shines however is in the characterization of the races, of which you can choose between six to play as.

Each offers not only a unique commentary on the world (when you scan objects), they each have a different culture and their own mission based around them in addition to a unique spaceship that grows differently as you upgrade it.

The only exception to this are the Novakid, who have their own spaceship, but not their own mission because that was concluded before they were added.

As with a lot of these kinds of games, the story isnt the focus, and the onus is more on the player to make their own story outside of their involvement in the main plot, of which they dont get any say in.

When you start the game, youre in orbit over a threat I planet, where you can find iron, copper, silver, and gold.

To get more exoticstronger metals for better armorweaponscrafting station upgrades you have to go to other kinds of star systems.

Fracking Universe adds a whole heap of new metalsmaterials to make stuff out of on top of a legion of different planet types and a few new star systems.

However, in order to safely access these new star systems, your character will need protection directly corresponding to the system.

These are pretty easy to craft, and are pretty easy to understand the appropriate pack ahead of time, like in radioactive stars you need a radiation pack.