![]() I logged out, annoyed, and came back the next day to find that the entire wall, which had been built just outside the boundaries of my beacon plots, was gone. This actually came in useful for me during my test playing of the game, as another player had tried to grief me by building a wall around my base. I did a little research and it seems to be between eight and thirteen hours after a player leaves a chunk that it will reset. Any chunk that has regular traffic from players also won’t regen. At any rate, any chunk with a player beacon won’t regen. You can also find out which chunk you’re in by checking the game’s debugging, but I’ll leave that stuff to the YouTube tutorials. You can see a chunk by attempting to expand a plot, but not when placing a beacon. Beacons not only allow you to protect your buildings and belongings from interference from other players, they also stop the world itself from gobbling up your efforts.Įssentially, the game’s maps are broken into “chunks”. You then begin to learn about harvesting, and especially about the beacons system, which is probably the single most important system in the game, for most types of players. ![]() You’re given the option to choose between a peaceful planet and one with more aggressive fauna. Then you activate portal stones to synchronize with the set location and *VOILA* you have a magical portal to a new planet. You load a portal marker into your trusty totem, aim at a planet and *WOOSH* place your mark. The tutorial begins by teaching you about one of the core aspects of the game: portal travel. I did feel there were a few glaring gaps, but that could be my issue more than the game’s, so I’ll leave those to the reader’s experience to discover or not. In truth, there are still some areas where I feel a little bit more instruction would have been welcomed, but it is difficult for a developer to anticipate everywhere that every person who might pick up their game is likely to stumble. I remember back before the tutorials were a thing, and it was very off putting not having any idea where to start or what to do next. This is a good thing, overall, but it can also be daunting at first. ![]() Boundless is a game of vast complexity and depth. Beyond this it is mostly just color selection, but there are a LOT of color options, allowing you to make an original feeling avatar.įrom here you enter the Sanctuary and are welcomed to the game with a tutorial. There are a variety of head shape options to choose from. You begin Boundless by customizing your character. I think Wonderstruck has done a good job of simply embracing a genre and making their own game within it. I really don’t think Boundless has any intention of being a “Minecraft killer” ( see Jason’s article about WoW-Killers here.) Nor should it. ![]() Yes, Boundless is a voxel based building game with a tiered crafting system, much like Minecraft, but what really makes the two different is Boundless’ focus on community creation that really makes it an MMO. Especially as it was about this time that Square Enix Collective agreed to publish Boundless on PS4, and even managed to get Sony to agree to cross platform play.īoundless has been called “Minecraft 2.0” by some, but in truth it goes way beyond that simple designation. Once upon a time the title of the game was to be Oort Online, but due to feeling restrained by the title, they decided to go with something less binding (see what I did there?) From memory, it seems that Oort Online had something of a bad reputation, and chances are Wonderstruck wanted a clean break. ![]() One of the most recent new releases to Steam coming out of Early Access is Boundless, developed by UK based Wonderstruck Games. It’s even more heartening to see when it’s a title that had some rough stages along the way. I can think of a number of titles that people have been questioning if this will ever happen (looking at you, Fun Pimps). It’s always rather refreshing to see a title leave Early Access and go full release on Steam. ![]()
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