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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/

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Legoshoes wrote: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.

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

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

Grimmie wrote: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.

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.

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.

FatherJack wrote: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.

FatherJack wrote: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.

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.

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

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.