Recent reviews by R8

Fun game, too many obvious cheaters. Get some anticheat please.

My overwatch team and I got this game to improve the mechanical skills in overwatch, and I can tell you that it works.
I have made drills for multiple different aim types and I love the way it measures progress.
It's got a few bugs that pop up, but the devs are always speedy as ♥♥♥♥ to fix it.
recommended.

( Paragraphs in order: Storyline, Gameplay, Graphics, Setting and mods )

STORYLINE
In starbound, you play as a character of any of the six races about to graduate to a protector. This is stopped by a violent and mysterious force, which coerces you to escape in the first ship you find. As you look to repair your ship you are pulled into a rope of interesting and exciting quests to see what parts of the universe you can salvage before the same violent force rips it apart, just like it did to your home planet.
PROS:

• Allows you to get a sandbox experience without feeling forced to do the story (there are ways to skip it)
  
• Feels complete when you're done, main story line may end, but there are always tonnes of sidequests.
  
• Easy to follow along if you don't take long breaks.

CONS:

• Low curve, would appreciate more action spread through the scavenging of artifacts. My ideal would be adding more minibosses.
  
  
  GAMEPLAY
  Although it may seem daunting with all the crafting and vague mission information at first, it is not. A general idea is to get your ship furnished before doing the missions. Get some understanding of the crafting and the traveling. Generally, looking at the starbound.wikia.com helps you with missions and obtaining items. The gameplay can shift between serene and action filled based completely on what the player wants. The serenity and action are respectively accompanied by multiple factors such as the music or dialogue. For the calmer experience, there is farming, cooking, building spectacular monuments, fishing and looking for easter eggs and pop culture references (which are spread out very frequently). As soon as you want action, you could do some hunting, exploring or doing missions in both the main storyline and ones you find in the settlements on the planets. The quests are also rewarding, with some giving gift bags and others offering to join your crew on your ship. The boss battles in this game are exciting and suits both casual and hardcore players, depending on how fast you decide to go through the story. The combat is smooth and is changeable depending on the players choice of weapons and armour. the most important part, however is the free and easy multiplayer. You can play with friends through dedicated servers or through the steam overlay join game feature
  PROS:
  • Everything is fun, there is really not a whole lot of grinding for items or currency. during mining, for instance, the game throws dungeons and new underground biomes at you to keep it interesting.
    
  • Everything is a way to progress. After some calm farming you could sell the crops to progress, if you want, you can make food with the ingredients that can help you with different effects.
    
  • Combat is very good and easily fits any player.
  CONS:
  • Some derpy issues such as settlement guards attacking you because their houses get striked by meteors.
    
    
    GRAPHICS
    "pixely" graphics remind many of terraria, but the graphics designers have really done well, seeing as there are so many branches of weapons and clothes from all races and all different weapons, magical, firearms, spears, chakrams, you name it. Everything is very varied and all the mobs are very visually adapted to their biomes and planets. The bosses do a good job of showing their origins and the attacks fit their visuals.
    PROS:
    • Modern but nostalgic
      
    • Well varied
      
    • Items and furniture convey their origins and use.
    CONS:
    • Not a whole lot of underwhelming weapons that allow the legendaries to stand out.
      
    • They took away the feature of mobs having different colors depending on their planets to give slight notability to a seemingly average poptop or gleap.
    
    
    SETTING
    The setting can change depending on choice. Staying on a planet is accompanied by one of twelve songs by day and sixteen by night. Many who play this game, including me, love the music and it fits to different parts of everyday life. My personal favorite way to listen is through the title screen, but I know I should already have bought the OST on steam. In the game, during bossfights, there are nostalgic feeling battle-music that really sets you into the idea that your character is in danger.
    PROS:
    • Amazing music that fits a serene or action-filled gameplay.
      
    • The immersion is helped so much by music.
    CONS:
    • It's hard to get around to buying a five euro soundtrack.
    
    
    MODS
    When you feel like you have completed everything you wish to have completed in starbound but crave more, fear not. There are hundreds of free mods to enrich your experience, post main-missions and during them. A noteable one is called " frackin universe " The megamod is generally the biggest mod in all of starbound and adds dozens of new biomes and monsters along with hundreds of weapons, armors, tools, items and microdungeons. It also adds a whole new quest hub and a massive eldritch dungeon to explore. There are also things to help you collect things you would normally have to work a bit harder for and very much more content. It feels like an entirely new game. Oh and did I mention? the mods are free.
    
    
    SUMMARY
    Addictive game with smooth combat, interchangeable setting, easy multiplayer, cute graphics and free mods, some of which completely renew the game, to multiply the replay value tenfold. I have over two hundred (I know, casual hours) in this game and I don't plan on stopping, seeing as I have only slightly dipped my toes into the "frackin' universe" mod.
    9.5/10 Would definately recommend if you are willing to get past a slightly slow early game