Interface icons that I can’t identify. There doesn’t appear (or I just haven’t found) a way to cursor over them, no popups to tell me what they are, how long they’re going to last, what they’re doing to my character and so on. I’ve had the same skull debuff (I assume) on my character for three days now, no idea if it is ever going to go away or how it’s affecting me. Is there some way to identify these icons at the bottom of my screen and what they are doing other than when they are inflicted or disappear, which I somehow seem to frequently miss?
My character died next to a meteor. The portal from the Sanctum appeared right next to the meteor. I bumped it. It reappeared…right next to the meteor, only closer. I bumped it again. It reappeared right on top of the meteor. I’m sensing a trend… Shouldn’t the sanctum place your portal someplace “safe?” Meteors aren’t “safe.”
So it’s not really driving me away from the game, but I think the potential depth isn’t immediately apparent and it feels very slow to start / progression isn’t well explained in the game itself once the initial tutorial concludes.
As someone who just picked this up last week, I thought the initial tutorial was great but ends much too early. By the end of the tutorial I understood how to place my beacon and craft some rudimentary tools, but not being used to recipes locked behind a skill tree in these types of games, I had no idea that I needed to invest my skills into crafting in order to unlock recipes necessary to progress beyond the basic stone tools I was using.
I still feel like a lot of what I’m doing is guesswork, and I’d probably benefit from a more active community post-wipe where I can learn from the vets, but at the moment I feel like I’m only able to tackle the game in small chunks - enjoyable chunks, but going on a mining tour for materials I’m not even sure how to use can only last so long, particularly before I wind up in a cave with no way out but to spend credits warping back from sanctum (and can I still earn those outside of leveling? I know I can sell to players but it sounds like there’s a finite amount going around).
maybe we should have (like other games) a hot key to defocuse the mouse (or w/e its called) so we can mouse over the hud elements?
Although i do know that if you ahve another in-game menue open it USED to tell you on mouse over of the elements… i have not tried to see if it still does that
It doesn’t do it any more
welcome to a sandbox game (with leveling) - but as a new player perspective i get you completely… but it does have a lot of on screen pointers ehem press J for journal (your quest log) and etc ehem and welcome to the fray dude
I do feel like the majority of my posts recently have been less positive than they could and I had told myself I’d try and not say anything else unless I could think of that was nice to balance it out, but this… this a thousand times.
I’ve been frustrated since long before Boundless that when games are intended to be cross platform, or when they are simply ported from a console to a PC, mouse and keyboard users regularly get a worse experience than they could or should have had. Whenever a control schema has to conform to the lowest common denominator, you are obliged to leave out a lot of useful and intuitive interface elements, such as tooltips or large sets of optionally complex hotkey bindings. In a lot of games, movement controls suck for m&k users.
Boundless has proven me wrong about this in places (it took me a while to come around the the two circular hot-bars but when you get used to it, it does works well) and does an noteworthy job, but it almost feels like being so close makes those minor omissions more obvious. “It’s so close to being great, if it could just…” etc etc. After all, it’s not like a web developer would build a website with no hover-states just because they know they won’t work on mobile. They put them in for desktops, and find other ways to make the UI work for mobiles.
We plan to add all the status effects to the Knowledge - we just haven’t got it done yet.
We also plan to add your current status effects to your Character GUI.
The reason why we don’t just support a hover state is that it wouldn’t be as portable to controllers.
The next update will return you ~50m+ away from the Meteorite. This is to move you away from the danger and allow you to renter the event in a more controlled fashion.
so @james just because you mention it here (due to @Kirinvar 's quote) i would like to ask…
So, you say the current (de)buffs will be located in the knowledge section? and you are planning on adding certain hud elements… Do you mean that there will also be a way to view these on the hud itself?
Because my thoughts are… as the game can never pause (because its a server) we cant exactly bring up the knowledge base as often as we would like to check things (your being chased… your in a dangerous situation… etc)
That’s why a hotkey to release the mouse would be a good idea
So the Knowledge will list everything and your Character screen will list the current (de)buffs applied to you.
We’re not currently planning to add tooltips to the HUD elements.
IMO bringing up the Character GUI and seeing all current status effects will be more efficient than mousing over each effect independently.
Additionally, when you’re hit with an effect this is presented in the HUD above the character glyphs and in the combat log. Although these could likely be a little easier to read.
And may you didn’t really understand Boundless at all.
Maybe you just took a totem and knocked a few pieces of wood and made a few stone tools and then came here to complain something…
If you look forward to Boundless adding these contents.
I suggest it would be better to give up this game, and play other game.
Your suggestions seems completely deviates from Boundless main idea, and just trying to copy some content from another game.
Boundless is a virtual world that is completely driven by players. I don’t think it needs any NPCs.
In addition, we have grapple, don’t need what you said “gravity block” any more.
hiya join our discord we will help ya and respond on all ya questions
we also a fun group off founders planning a city on release https://discord.gg/BJCQFDa
as much as i like your response, his post was from over a year ago… if he was not happy about it (i haven’t seen him post anywhere else… than maybe he actually left already?
While I am presently enjoying the game I will eventually be quitting when the challenge runs out. To keep me an others in the game you need to develop Community, Challenge, and Competition (the 3 C’s).
Ongoing Challenge - You already are on your way with this with tiered planets. Make the richer and more unique planets ever more difficult to settle and eventually have lots of tiers with each tier settlement dependent upon resources from lower level tiered resources. Advanced technology crafting and building will need resources from higher level planets. Multidimensional beacons are a key part of this. Right now they only define plots but they can also be used for repel and attract certain creatures and other powers when fed various resources (use them to repelling spitters!)
Community Building - Provide settlements with various in-game governing structures and powers proportional to that. Governing structures can range from anarachic to dictatorial. Each type of government along with the quality of it leadership will attract different kinds of players. This will start to generate community pride. Only allow communities to have automated trade routes for certain resources (including between planets), some completely unique to community beacons. Since communities get income from taxes and power from membership they will invent in community building activities to bring people in to settle or trade. This can range from mini-games like treasure hunts, to classes, to art shows if players are allowed to take in-game screen-shots and put them on blocks.
Competition - I don’t mean PvP which in this game will mainly attract gankers but soft indirect competition of communities and their backers for land and resources. Think of the cultural pressure aura of Civilization 4 but with directional control as one dimension of a beacon. Use that to gain access to certain community resources which may block another community from gaining access. Community diplomacy will be required. Communities will need small branch villages to help them in this plan but they may be isolated by more powerful auras from others.
UI - I’m confused of yours UI. It takes a long time to find what I need. I have to do a lot of steps to make somethings and scroling in this game is madnes.
Character - I play in first person wiev and if i use two hammers its hide a lot of my wiev. Colision system is vierd, mobs is like in big bubble.
Basic weapons - Where is mace, sword, spear, shield and armor ? Defens in this game is solve only with nubers and does not use any active abylities like dodge. Its a lazy resolution.
World - I need more reason to explore worlds, not only for materials.They will be in the game mysterious abandoned ruins ? (how do you post on the homepage) This game need more point of interest.
Trade - Economy is controlled only player. The first thing i can think of is to create an online auction like poe trade.
This is all for now and i apology for this creapy google translating.
One final question to me: you would recommend this game to yours friend ?
(with leveling) - but as a new player perspective i get you completely… but it does have a lot of on screen pointers ehem press J for journal (your quest log) and etc ehem and welcome to the fray dude
