Verdict?

[Liz-with-a-Smile]

Reading the reviews, they all sound the same:
"I love it - but its a bug infested mess, thus, I do not recommend" seems to be the best paraphrase of what went wrong.

Is that about right in everyone's opinion?

If so, I'm pretty shocked. This game seemed....solid from trailers and they even had some ads on Youtube, I just felt like- no way, it surely can't be broken?

I may be wrong about that. Is this just the new standard? 1.0 = Broken release?

Seems to happen way too often if you ask me.

Does anyone think this is worth the buy, or even worth the wait for patch? Or a total Do not pass go, do not buy the game, kind of deal.

[Kel'Ithra]

It feels like they rushed it and made a ton of errors and mistakes and their Q&A which they had testers, missed a ton of stuff or are in on it. The Demo was flawed but compared to this was playable, and raiders and such have not changed at all since the demo. Just feels like they didn't do anything aside from unlocking the remaining content and broke a ton of stuff in the process. The question is will they actually fix it, they claim they are and the game is supposed to be considered Early Access but something prevents them from marking it as such. Just lots of questionable stuff.

[DRAGOTIA]

unfortunately at the moment it is unplayable, the settlers commit suicide and the base sometimes disappears leaving room for random blocks, wait for them to patch it hoping they will

[SoULLeSs]

The game is quite unplayable right now...I can't spend a whole hour without falling through oblivion 3-4 times, and you can't even loot your own corpse which makes things worse. Other people mentioned some bugs in the saving system aswelll and their base being filled with rock and dirt and stuff like that

[AversionFX]

Game is completely unplayable. The silver lining is that the dev is aware that it's a broken mess, so it's not like they're being intentionally scummy. Being released as a "1.0" is a joke. Game is at least ~6 months out from being in a state where Early Access would be acceptable.

[The Nintendo Patent Lawsuit Fest]

I only played the demo. I had a lot of fun with it and it was great with friends as well, but there were some major annoyances with the AI constantly suiciding, making the game not fun

Since this issue wasn't solved, yeah... that's a big problem. In the demo I only saw potential, obviously it only contained a small part of the game but it was mainly the AI that needed a big overhaul

But not only did that apparently not happen, but it seems the game got even worse with players falling through the world now, that wasn't a thing in the demo

So yeah, this sucks, hope they can fix the game. Maybe we just gotta check back in six months to a year and hope for the best

[DRAGOTIA]

i return paly Terraria for now, sad because i wait this game a lot.

[Nom]

I bought it, and kinda like Starbound I feel that over time this will be a masterpiece. I can't wait to see if there's going to be like a FU mod and stuff for it too. With the price of it I can't say that getting it now is a bad idea. You just might hafta have patience.

[Kankaku]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

It feels like they rushed it and made a ton of errors and mistakes and their Q&A which they had testers, missed a ton of stuff or are in on it. The Demo was flawed but compared to this was playable, and raiders and such have not changed at all since the demo. Just feels like they didn't do anything aside from unlocking the remaining content and broke a ton of stuff in the process. The question is will they actually fix it, they claim they are and the game is supposed to be considered Early Access but something prevents them from marking it as such. Just lots of questionable stuff.

Presumably Tiny build is what prevents them marketing it as EA.

[Basilllisk]

Originally posted by Zombwich:

Presumably Tiny build is what prevents them marketing it as EA.

Is there a source for that somewhere, or is that just the general speculation?

[I3eauLeBoi]

Seeing that there's no major changes to the game as of right now to 'emergency fix' the issue. Definitively lowers my confidence in the devs and this games.

[The Dude]

I'm obviously playing this completely wrong because other than NPCs just getting stuck, I'm not seeing any of these game breaking bugs. Maybe because I didn't know what to expect? I don't normally read reviews before purchasing.

[Basilllisk]

Originally posted by I3eauLeBoi:

Seeing that there's no major changes to the game as of right now to 'emergency fix' the issue. Definitively lowers my confidence in the devs and this games.

There (likely) won't be emergency fixes, or at least not many. The biggest issue that's keeping me from hitting the "buy" button is the broken friendly npc AI. That kind of thing is a complicated beast of an issue that won't see a quick fix. I'm speculating that'll be awhile.

[Booker T-Witt]

Lemme put it this way, this game inspired me to pick Starbound back up, and I completely left this by the wayside. I love the concept, but people complaints are crazy, I'm not tryin to fall through the floor, already had very frustrating problems, and a red flag or two popped up. Hopefully the devs can address it but definitely do not spend your money on this right now

[MasterMind]

Originally posted by Booker T-Witt:

Lemme put it this way, this game inspired me to pick Starbound back up, and I completely left this by the wayside. I love the concept, but people complaints are crazy, I'm not tryin to fall through the floor, already had very frustrating problems, and a red flag or two popped up. Hopefully the devs can address it but definitely do not spend your money on this right now

I just played a 3 hour mp session with a buddy, we took a 15 min break...left the game...came back loaded it up and all 3 hours gone. Saves are breaking, AI are breaking, Item pickup in multiplayer(lol every now and then i'll pick something up and it will literally rotate around my character and not pickup or disappear). Cant save any of the sound options, they always reset after loading the game....you can open the workbenches multiple times, forcing u to have to close out the same window several times. And don't get me started on the targeting, basically it works when it wants to...sometimes it's impossible to hit things. Oh and the funny as hell unknown damage that happens above ground(buddy and I found out it was invisible snakes, swung a bunch of times and the dead snake body appeared.

Bottomline....i'm glad i'm using gamepass cuz this would prob be the first game I ever bought for 15 bucks that actually made me feel ripped off. In no way shape or form should this have ever been full released in this state. This needed at least another 3-6 months baking before release.

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by MasterMind:

Originally posted by Booker T-Witt:

Lemme put it this way, this game inspired me to pick Starbound back up, and I completely left this by the wayside. I love the concept, but people complaints are crazy, I'm not tryin to fall through the floor, already had very frustrating problems, and a red flag or two popped up. Hopefully the devs can address it but definitely do not spend your money on this right now

I just played a 3 hour mp session with a buddy, we took a 15 min break...left the game...came back loaded it up and all 3 hours gone. Saves are breaking, AI are breaking, Item pickup in multiplayer(lol every now and then i'll pick something up and it will literally rotate around my character and not pickup or disappear). Cant save any of the sound options, they always reset after loading the game....you can open the workbenches multiple times, forcing u to have to close out the same window several times. And don't get me started on the targeting, basically it works when it wants to...sometimes it's impossible to hit things. Oh and the funny as hell unknown damage that happens above ground(buddy and I found out it was invisible snakes, swung a bunch of times and the dead snake body appeared.

Bottomline....i'm glad i'm using gamepass cuz this would prob be the first game I ever bought for 15 bucks that actually made me feel ripped off. In no way shape or form should this have ever been full released in this state. This needed at least another 3-6 months baking before release.

Sadly, I agree with you about the 15 bucks opinion, I feel like cheated at buying this supposed 1.0 product which seems to be a Beta at most... I just hope devs will act soon and fix these issues because this game has potential and it would be a shame to see it die like this