Terraria

[Grimmie]

So, who's looking forward to the Terraria release today?

It's sort of a 2D minecraft-a-like, in the way that you collect resources from a randomly generated landscape, build a base, craft items using the materials.

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The big differences are:

Monsters can and will attack your base at night. Zombies slam your doors open on red-moons, horrible nether-creatures infect the landscape with a plague that will eventually spread everywhere unless you push it back. There are also a ridiculous amount of monsters in the game, ranging from zombies and slimes, to monsterous netherbeasts and flying eyes of cthulhu.

You don't lose your equipment upon death. Seems a little strange when you're running around with a wooden sword and an axe, but some of the late game items take forever to acquire, and the devs thought it would be a real kicker to lose them afterwards. We're talking jetpacks, rocket launchers, laser rifles, power armour.

http://www.terraria.org/
http://terrariaonline.com/threads/early ... ions.3261/

[shot2bits]

Ive been keeping an eye on this for a little while and shall be grabbing it when it appears on steam sometime later. Looks like good fun, especially the multiplayer

[Joose]

oh yay!

I remember seeing a video about this a while back, it looked most entertaining. I then promptly forgot all about it.

Im a bit confused though, is it coming out later today or tomorrow? There seems to be conflicting messages from official sources. Wait and see, I suppose.

[shot2bits]

Its being released today, and i assume thats today over the pond as thats where the devs and steam are based, so were most likely looking at an evening release

[Grimmie]

Far as I can tell it's not on Steam at time of writing, but I think Steam have played silly buggers with indie game release dates before.

[Legoshoes]

Hm. will keep an eye on it. The BlueXephos let's play was fun to watch.

[Grimmie]

The LetsPlay on the Terraria channel (The first one with Blue and Red) are much better, seeing as it's the devs showing off the finer points, instead of bumbling.

[Dog Pants]

Looks interesting. Kind of a platform Minecraft arcade. I think I'd probably prefer the slower pace and 3D of Minecraft, but I do like the variety this has. Is there a demo, or is it going to be really cheap?

[shot2bits]

$10, i dont know whether that gets converted into pounds properly on not by steam

[spoodie]

Hm. will keep an eye on it. The BlueXephos let's play was fun to watch.

Not sure if I want to play the game though. The similarities with Minecraft seem superficial. Not that that's a bad thing, but people may be expecting it to be very similar.

[Grimmie]

Check out the playthrough videos the devs posted, it looks like it could have all the bits minecraft seems to miss.

[shot2bits]

its out http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

some reason only the trailer shows up when searching for it

edit: steam was just being slow its there now, £5.99 or £4.50 each for a 4 pack seems reasonable

[spoodie]

Check out the playthrough videos the devs posted, it looks like it could have all the bits minecraft seems to miss.

Yeah, it certainly does and a poor choice of words on my part. What I meant was that it doesn't contain the elements of Minecraft I really like and I feel are the essence of the game. The building of interesting structures part mostly. The construction in Terriara seems purely functional. However it does have a lot of what's missing from Minecraft; genuine, oldschool gameplay.

I think I was turned off by the game because people were saying it's Minecraft 2D, which it isn't. It's got some ideas from Minecraft but it looks like a proper game in it's own right.

Anyway, bought.

[Grimmie]

Woo. I'm hosting a server on Hamachi every night, Bits, Pnut and Joose are regular Terraria's along with myself.
Prod me on Xfire if you want me to start the server when I'm home.

[FatherJack]

I watched the videos and perhaps it's just me, but I found the 'swing' animation hugely distracting. Not only did it look poor, but the trajectory of the pick/sword/whatever seemed to bear no correlation to the blocks being destroyed.

[shot2bits]

I watched the videos and perhaps it's just me, but I found the 'swing' animation hugely distracting. Not only did it look poor, but the trajectory of the pick/sword/whatever seemed to bear no correlation to the blocks being destroyed.

For mining and such it destroys the block the curser is on, you just need to be within a certain radius. For combat it hurts the enemies if they hit the weapon during its animation, where you are clicking bears no relation to the animation except for ranged stuff.

[Joose]

I watched the videos and perhaps it's just me, but I found the 'swing' animation hugely distracting. Not only did it look poor, but the trajectory of the pick/sword/whatever seemed to bear no correlation to the blocks being destroyed.

I too found the "Windmill of Death" wierd as hell to start with. Its amazing how fast you get used to things being wierd/shit though, as I had completely forgotten about it again till you said that.

[Grimmie]

It's just so freakin' good.
Here's our server, "Bums".
Server details are in the Waugh Room, or prod me on Xfire for them.

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Running Terraria widescreen is pretty simple.

Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/598322/TerrariaWrapper.exe and put it in your steamapps\common\terraria\ folder.
Create a shortcut to TerrariaWrapper, open its properties and put in a command-line argument. -width 1000 -height 800 for example.
Run the shortcut, hey presto.

[Imperatore]

Would anyone object to Mr Casual here popping on to the server?

[Grimmie]

Not at all. I was away last couple nights, but back now.
If the server's spazzing up, give me a yell and I'll reset it.