Put the game on sale to bring in new players

[Trundamere]

@georgegroeg

And just more mobs in general at night.

They need to add more mobs in general everywhere, the game is extremely lacking in the number of creatures and it is quite sad. Minecraft has at least 60 different creatures, boundless has 5.

[georgegroeg]

Totally agree. But I think all that will come in time.

[Trundamere]

@georgegroeg

But I think all that will come in time

hopefully the new team can fix whatever problem caused the other team to abandon the planned creature.

4 years “in the making”

[georgegroeg]

I don’t think they were ever abandoned. They just couldn’t get them completed. The dev team was helping with BG3 long before they announced the transition to larian. In a year when there is a dev team in place and hopefully they can work out the problems. And we can start to see some new things. But we won’t be seeing anything new coming until then.

[Trundamere]

@georgegroeg

I don’t think they were ever abandoned.

Maybe not, but it sure felt like it thou.

[georgegroeg]

Agreed. Also there are 5 models for each creature I believe. Now they all have the same AI though. And none of the creatures are boxes either. I personally I don’t like the Minecraft’s character and creature designs. But they fit in the minecraft universe. So whatever I guess.

[Trundamere]

@georgegroeg

Also there are 5 models for each creature I believe

There are, but I don’t count variants, since it is basically the same thing, just larger for the most part. not very exciting to me.

[Wondernut]

Surprisingly i have met many a player in Boundless that all they really want to do is build. They hunt once in awhile only to get Oort for portals or coin.

[georgegroeg]

They also aren’t a bunch of cubes put together. Also not exciting.

Boundless and minecraft creatures are completely different.
If you look at some of those models they are the same with different texture maps.

@Wondernut btw I’m one of those said builders.

[Wondernut]

I like this idea more variety in resources and possible recipes for additional items or alternate recipes for current items that give them a different look or ability.

[Wondernut]

An amazing one at that with amazing creativity!

[deenw]

@majorvex

I think guilds, hunt groups, shops, the huge crafting system, grinding supplies & plots, recipes, MMO, etc all lend more towards an MMORPG (even thought that’s not what Boundless is marketed as).

I’d assume that’s one of the reasons there’s always friction around gating colors, excessive crafting times, and plot/build restrictions. For a Sandbox building game, those things should be minimal or not exist.

I was frustrated by this exact dynamic. They were promising or saying one thing but then was working on something else. I just accepted that there are things I wasn’t privy to internally.

@Wondernut

Surprisingly i have met many a player in Boundless that all they really want to do is build. They hunt once in awhile only to get Oort for portals or coin.

I’m confident that most of the vets who stayed is because they just want to build. And those who hunt only do so as a means to build. I don’t think many people stay because they actually find the PVE experience to be exciting.

[Redlotus]

@deenw

I’m confident that most of the vets who stayed is because they just want to build. And those who hunt only do so as a means to build. I don’t think many people stay because they actually find the PVE experience to be exciting.

Im not a vet but I stuck around to build, mine, hunt (I hunt mostly for Oort, but its still pretty fun on Discord with a fun group), I scan and explore exos. I still visit a ton of builds when people mention them. I run a shop and currently building a color storage that will eventually be a shop.

Maybe some vets can chime in.

[georgegroeg]

Yeah I’m with you on this. I primarily like building. But I do a bit of everything. When I don’t have ideas for builds. I forge and sell forged gear in my many shops around my place. I hunt both for Oort and and to socialize with other players. Hunting can get stale but in a good smaller group it’s still very fun. I explore people builds whenever someone says hey you wanna check out my build. I’m always interested in seeing what people create. I craft as much as I can unless I’m in a pinch and just wanna build. I don’t mine very often or collect materials unless I really have to. But in those cases I get way more then I’ll need. I’ve completed all the atlases once when I was really bored. But there’s always things to do if you want.

[tarranth]

This. I would love it if the mobs even on T1’s became aggressive at night.

[Xaldafax]

@deenw

Boundless shouldn’t attempt to compete with MC. Instead, Boundless should be attempting to forge its own identity as a game with MMORPG elements rather than try to be another builders game.

Certainly not complete with MC… not reason too but I believe Boundless should move away from MMO and support more on the building side than if currently does. It is a creative game more than a role playing game at its core. Sure quests, bosses, and stuff like that are nice but there are too many current things that need major rework to keep player retention.

[Shadykatt34]

I’m not one to judge graphics. I loved 7 days to die on console. It was my first voxel and where I discovered my love to build. It looked horrible lol.
But I could not do MC. I tried many times and I really couldn’t get past how it looked. I’m sure redstone is fantastic and I would love to see sometime similar added to boundless but for me the building is unmatched here. Even with the render distance.

[Redlotus]

The render distance is there for a reason… even MC had a render distance limiter. If there was no render distance it would make even the most powerful computer have little to no FPS.

[Shadykatt34]

Yeah for sure there needs to be limitations but it don’t mean I got to like it lol

[ardele]

I stayed because I was good at gem mining. Once alutech went dead…I was done as a miner. So I am in the minority here as I Only gathered. I hate building.