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I went overboard with my recent Plantera kill and made a huge arena with honey ponds, heart lanterns, campfire, all possible buffs and flask of ichor, and heart statues on a timer. Beat him handily, then got Vampire Knifes(Crimson chest was just inside the dungeon) and now I can just walk up and kill him.
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I dug out the entire temple surroundings to make a big "hyperloop" to kill plantera in so to speak
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Jul 31, 2018 07:16
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I just looked for a decent space in the middle of the underground jungle and then bombed the poo poo out of it before putting in a bunch of plattforms Probably too much but whatever. Boots and shield dodge where enough to keep me alive Btw you can setup a farm for planterra if you want to get all the drops  I made this before the bulbs started to spawn. It's up to chance if bulbs will spawn there but eventually a couple should. Just clear out the bushes every now and then. If you're really patient you could collect a bunch of bulbs this way and then go hog wild
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Jul 31, 2018 12:14
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Don't forget that if your arena is too big, Plantera will decide they're not in the jungle and enrage.
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Jul 31, 2018 12:30
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Thanks everyone!!!!! I found yet another Planetera and am working on a 1.5 screen size arena using dynamite. Hopefully that's not too big. I'll post a pic when I've downed it. I love this game so much and your support is awesome, really.
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Jul 31, 2018 14:07
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My strat for Plantera is the same as my strat for the Moon Lord - cheese with minecarts. I just built a "circular" (more like a hexagon really) railway probably a little bigger than one screen size, put bumpers on each end so I can go forever, and just cheesed it with yo-yos. Crude ASCII art ahoy, but expand it to a much bigger size (b = bumper, the rest are just rails): pre: ,__________,
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Jul 31, 2018 16:42
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That's awesome, I think I'll try that!! I've got Amarok someplace.
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Jul 31, 2018 17:07
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Jaunty tunes for windy days and suicidal bunnies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecqe_U_IDCo
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Aug 1, 2018 01:52
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Windy trees look slightly less rubbery than before, I think
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Aug 1, 2018 02:34
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Potential BFF posted:Jaunty tunes for windy days and suicidal bunnies: This is making me mad that some people will probably still never play this and continue thinking it's just a dumb Minecraft clone, despite how much success its had and work they've put into it.
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Aug 1, 2018 12:52
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RareAcumen posted:This is making me mad that some people will probably still never play this and continue thinking it's just a dumb Minecraft clone, despite how much success its had and work they've put into it. Thankfully it's not a Minecraft clone.
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Aug 1, 2018 14:16
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Lorini posted:Thankfully it's not a Minecraft clone. I'm talking about people who saw it at launch and then wrote it off.
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Aug 1, 2018 14:28
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RareAcumen posted:I'm talking about people who saw it at launch and then wrote it off. I know, but hey it's their loss. I never wrote it off as a Minecraft clone but I must have tried to play it at least a dozen times. It finally clicked and now like I said, I love it.
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Aug 1, 2018 15:18
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Beat the moonlord on my second try and got rewarded with a portal gun and the cat sword for my troubles 
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Aug 1, 2018 18:59
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I used to think it looked like a game riding the success on Minecraft but both games have gone in very different directions, and Terraria keeps getting better while Minecraft keeps getting....Well not worse, just less interesting.
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Aug 1, 2018 19:01
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So when you reach and beat wave 15 in pumpkin/frost moon will the spawns just continue until 4:30?
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Aug 1, 2018 23:11
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Tin Tim posted:So when you reach and beat wave 15 in pumpkin/frost moon will the spawns just continue until 4:30?
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Aug 2, 2018 04:38
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Farming that is the goal of the event, since the bosses drop gently caress all before the last wave.
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Aug 2, 2018 05:39
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You know, if red would update the game more than once every 3 years people might see it as something good. Basically the only people who really care are those who've already purchased it and keep buying it for friends. If he also added real mod support things would be better too.
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Aug 3, 2018 04:43
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grimcreaper posted:You know, if red would update the game more than once every 3 years people might see it as something good. Welcome back to the thread!
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Aug 3, 2018 04:50
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grimcreaper posted:You know, if red would update the game more than once every 3 years people might see it as something good. It's not enough to repeatedly add ridiculous amounts of content to the game at no extra cost, he should be doing it faster?
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Aug 3, 2018 09:06
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SirSamVimes posted:It's not enough to repeatedly add ridiculous amounts of content to the game at no extra cost, he should be doing it faster? Considering that somehow most of his sales have been in the last year it probably wouldn't hurt to have some updates but Otherworld failing and the Switch port being the better part of a year behind schedule have killed any momentum they may have had on that regard. Remember when 1.3.5 was supposed to be a stopgap for the "real content patch" that 1.3.6 might end up being?
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Aug 3, 2018 09:21
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Welcome back to the thread! Thanks for the warm words friend! I like Terraria. It's a good game. But it feels like the content added is what most companies would do for mediumish dlcs. It shouldn't take multiple years for what's added. At the very least they could add true mod support. It would hugely benefit the game I think.
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Aug 3, 2018 09:52
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it takes years to add because instead of doing it for cash under crunch they take their time and release it for FREE yet that isn't good enough
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Aug 3, 2018 10:01
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grimcreaper posted:Thanks for the warm words friend! the first content update basically doubled the amount of content in the game. the other content updates have been of similar size. those are not "mediumish dlcs", and most companies charge for that kind of update.
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Aug 3, 2018 10:06
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I do agree built-in mod support rather than having to patch the game with TModLoader would be great. (And it'd make the GOG version able to use mods, too, because none of the TML developers care about that one.) For content updates, the first three major updates have been in 2011 (same year as release), 2013, and 2015. But there have been medium or minor content updates in 2014, 2016, and 2017 too. Hopefully 1.4 releases this year. Meanwhile, Starbound has official mod support but no further content updates planned. As much as I love having mod support in games, one can't argue that Starbound is in a better state than Terraria. (And also Starbound's mod scene is terrible.)
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Aug 3, 2018 12:14
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Pretty sure mod support would require refactoring the entire game's code from the ground up, based on what I've heard of how it's coded. (badly) This is why I keep expressing a wish to get mod support in Terraria 2, rather than it added to 1. It's much more likely to happen.
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Aug 3, 2018 12:16
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I mean I decompiled Terraria once when it was in 1.1 (when the mechanical bosses were new) and the thousands of items were all stored in a single indented if/else chain. There's no loving way they still use that method in the game's current state, it was already a hellscape to look at before new stuff got added. It's not out of the question to clean the code up further if you ask me, even if it would take quite an effort to do so.
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Aug 3, 2018 12:28
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Grimcreaped again 
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Aug 3, 2018 13:03
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I dunno, I feel like I've gotten my 10 bucks out of it 
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Aug 3, 2018 14:38
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Lorini posted:I dunno, I feel like I've gotten my 10 bucks out of it I think I paid $20 for Terraria when it came out, though I'm not sure if I got my value from it.
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Aug 3, 2018 15:38
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I think I paid $2.50 thanks to a pricing mistake in an early steam sale. I "only" have 171 hours but I'd say it was worth it.
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Aug 3, 2018 15:51
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"They should release more content faster, and also rewrite their game." That's not how this works. Personally I'd rather have first class mod support rather than new content, but you have to accept that means they wouldn't produce any new content for possibly years. I Said No posted:I mean I decompiled Terraria once when it was in 1.1 (when the mechanical bosses were new) and the thousands of items were all stored in a single indented if/else chain. There's no loving way they still use that method in the game's current state, it was already a hellscape to look at before new stuff got added. It's not out of the question to clean the code up further if you ask me, even if it would take quite an effort to do so. I remember when you posted that. (or some other time it was posted, idk.) Since it was decompiled, it's hard to say if they actually wrote that by hand or if the compiler produced it.
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Although I do wonder what's stopping them from releasing hotfix patches of urgent bugs for the current version separately from all the new code that they're working on. It's not like they forgot how the old code works or didn't keep a stable snapshot of it, it's what's still currently distributed. There's no reason not to have one of the programmers spend a few hours taking all the most major fixes they've decided on for the new code and doing just those things to the old code and releasing it. Then they could say there, we released something this past three years, don't say we completely ignored you (mobile players especially) for that long consecutively. Don't say we just let you play with known major bugs for that long. Seems like the solution to their PR problems. The crash bug that deletes the content of chests in mobile multiplayer, I'm looking at you. There's more too, people understand what a hotfix is and they would appreciate a handful of things like that patched in to show they still haven't forgotten you. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Aug 3, 2018 18:58
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Except the mobile version is handled by another company. Also lmao that is an extremely idealistic view of software engineering.
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Releasing the same ancient code from three years ago with only a couple of the most problematic lines changed is an extremely idealistic view of software engineering?
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Aug 3, 2018 19:10
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Have they talked about their software development practices at all? I wouldn't be surprised if they did not have a snapshot of the code as it was 3 years ago. And no they cannot just take the currently released version and work from that, that's compiled code not source code. Basically always assume game developers are working in the most inconsistent and terrible set ups imaginable, because they usually are.
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That's terrifying. That right there is the post that convinced me to do formal version control from now on. No more doing everything on my local machine and then running an upload script. The next release I do of my game library is going on GitHub and getting all changes tracked from that point forward, even though it's just me working on it and no one uses it I won't risk going down a road where things like this are possible.
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Good for you! I'm glad that convinced you to use something like GitHub. Sorry for derailing the thread a bit. The number of old games that can't be rereleased because the source code is just lost is staggering. Final Fantasy 7, for example. The PC release is the 1998 binary wrapped in a program that provides drivers and DRM. (Allegedly, anyway, I can't find a solid source for this.) Solumin fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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Solumin posted:Good for you! I'm glad that convinced you to use something like GitHub. Sorry for derailing the thread a bit. Final fantasy 7 should have been lost before its first released. It was a bad game. Final fantasy 8 was solid gold though.
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