There are plans for 10 tiers of gear, with a vaguely defined X tier for endgame/PvP. I've not been following the game close enough to be sure about most of the things, but at the very least monsters and guns have procedural generation going on in addition to the prebuilt stuff. Six different races to play as (with a 7th planned for full release), each with their own set of racial gear, their own ship, and tailored dialogue when examining an item.
Luckily, Starbound is also like Terraria, but with loads more stuff. Of course, simply being bigger doesn't mean anything. How much bigger? That number in the thread title isn't made up, it is an actual number provided by one of the devs when asked how many planets there would be. Following that template, Starbound is like Terraria, but loads bigger.
Now that beta is finally actually coming, I figure now is as good a time as any to start.Ī common descriptor for games anymore is 'like X, but'.
As far as I can tell from telling Google to poke around the forums, this game hasn't really been discussed much.
:edit: oh right big images stretch the page here, I'm used to other forums where it autoscales large images.
