u/Skaven252

▲ 8 r/StarRupture+1 crossposts

Upgrade idea for the Building Drone: Auto Forager-gatherer

What if you could upgrade your Building Drone to quickly and automatically gather all the gatherables (fruit / plants, grubblers, vulpir eggs if their nests are open, biofacts) in a radius around you on command? This could be a handy nice feature to have.

The drone wouldn't gather anything that requires the mining tool, nor go into caverns or loot containers (like dead bodies), but it would speed up plant and bug drop gathering for sure.

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u/Skaven252 — 11 days ago

Wish: Make missed bullet impact VFX more visible

Hitting enemies looks great already. But when the bullets are missing their targets, it's a bit hard to tell where they're missing, because the current effects are hard to see. Also, big "Hollywood squib" style bullet impact that shoot out towards the impacted surface normal just feel awesome overall. (~ ̄▽ ̄)~

There's a little flash of light/flame at the impact point, and then a cloud of dust and debris shoots out (high air drag so it starts fast but then slows down quickly and lingers for a while). Tall vertical spouts from water.

Could have medium sized impacts for the pistol and assault rifle, and extra large for the heavy machine gun.

Would love to see that in StarRupture.

(video from the Generation Zero internal dev diary, posted with permission)

u/Skaven252 — 11 days ago

If you build ziplines (which automatically adds a pole if you point to the ground) and rotate the pole for a less steep curve, it seems to try to still connect to the same side of the pole as the previous pole, which then makes it collide with "something" (itself). Since ziplines are bidirectional, couldn't it just automatically connect to the side most towards the previous pole? (as marked with the red arrow)

Also, if you just build the poles first and then start connecting them with zipline, you have to really precisely sniper-aim at the exact right spot to make it connect. It seems to very easily snap to the wrong (away) side of the pole. Maybe make it prefer the "more towards you" side?

Just early access feedback, this is already a cool feature to have for fast transit around the world. :)

u/Skaven252 — 19 days ago

In abandoned bases you can find world-building plot and lore in PDAs and mainframes scattered about. But as the rupture approaches and the alien bugs hunt you down, you can't get the time to read them in full.

Subnautica has a "Pause when in inventory" option for single player QOL. Something like this would be nice for StarRupture too. That, and also saving all these in a journal you can read at your convenience.

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u/Skaven252 — 20 days ago