There are many more types of ranged weapons in Starbound, ranging from bows and boomerangs to wands and guns. Ranged weapons are where things start to get a little tricky. Spears - Unique from broadswords and hammers in that the stab outwards instead of slashing, you can also hold the attack button with spears to deal damage to enemies in front of you.These have the highest raw damage potential but can be hard to get used to. Hammers - Hammers are different from other weapon types in that you must hold down the mouse button to lift them up and release the button to attack.Broadswords with the Parry skill have the potential to be defensive over offensive. Broadswords - Slower and more powerful than shortswords, with a large frontal attack trajectory.A weapon type's eligible special attacks are listed just under the weapon types themselves. Special attacks use your energy bar but are generally powerful enough to be worth it. Most special attacks apply a weapon's elemental status effects. Uncommon and above two-handed melee weapons can come with special attacks that can be used by clicking/holding the right mouse button. Shortswords - The middle-ground of melee weapons, shortswords are relatively fast and have a different trajectory from daggers.Dual-wielding fists changes the attack combo, adding a special move at the end of a combo based on the weapons equipped Fists - Fist weapons are among the rarest melee and are not randomly generated.Daggers - The fastest one-handed melees, elemental daggers are amazing for applying status effects.You must hold the attack button briefly to lift an axe and let go of the attack button to swing it Axes - Slower than the other one-handed melees but tend to do more damage.On the other hand two-handed weapons are slower and take up both slots on the hotbar, but have special attacks that more often than not make them worth it. There are one-hand and two-hand melee weapons, and both of them have distinct advantages and disadvantages over one another.įor instance one-hand weapons tend to be faster and allow you to dual wield or equip a shield, but they do not have the special attacks. Not to mention they're pretty fun to swing around. Most players are more comfortable with melee weapons than ranged as they provide a certain close-range safety net that ranged weapons generally do not. This deals a small amount of damage per second.īoth ranged and melee weapons can have elemental affinities. Poison element weapons can poison enemies on hit. This deals damage to nearby enemies based on the electrified monster's health. This reduces their move speed and jump height for a short time.Įlectric element weapons electrify enemies on hit. This deals a small amount of damage per second and makes the afflicted target light up in the dark, but the burning status effect can be doused out by hopping in water.įrost element weapons can freeze enemies on hit. The status effects last 5 seconds when applied by weapons.įire element weapons can burn enemies on hit. The element will be marked with a symbol. You can see which affinity a weapon is right in its item information. Not only will these weapons do damage of that element (and extra to enemies weak to it), but they will apply specific status effects on enemies when hit. Some weapons have elemental affinities, of which there are four total. There's pretty much something for everybody in the game's nearly infinite weapon stockpile. On top of some types of weapons packing exclusively random stats, some are ranged and some are melee - and some still are magical. Some, such as fist weapons, have no procedurally generated options and will always have the same stats while weapons such as hammers, daggers, and so on always have random stats. Starbound is packed with weapons both procedurally generated and specifically designed.
This guide is going to cover the specifics of the game's weapons and how the system works, as it can be kind Players who gave the game a rest during its extended beta period and newcomers alike can and do come into the game and find themselves a little confused over all the new weapons and how they work. If you wish to make text into a spoiler, you may do that like so: (/spoiler)Įach week /r/Starbound hosts a Build of the Week thread (BotW) with the build topic changing weekly.Combat is as big of a part of Starboundas it's ever been, if not more so with the game's new bosses and sub-bosses. Follow reddit's self-promotion guidelines ( additional note).You’ll embark on a quest to survive, discover, explore and fight your way across an infinite universe! Latest stable update: August 7th, 2019 Take on the role of a character who’s just fled their home planet, only to crash-land on another. Starbound is a 2D extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game developed by Chucklefish, a London-based independent game studio!
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