Alpha Battle

💭 One thing I always liked about Starbound was the variety of weapons. Boomerangs, whips, blades, firearms, staves and other unique and special options bring incredible potential to the battle system. What happens in practice, however, are firearms as the best options in the game, single weapons being forgotten for inefficiency in battle, and two-handed swords completely dominating melee combat.

With that in mind, I decided to improve some aspects of weapons that didn't have much of a role during our exploration adventures. My main goal here is to make any and all combat styles a viable, fun, and rewarding option for all players. There's still a lot of work to be done, especially on unique weapons, but this seems like a great start to improving Starbound's battle system! 💭

🛠️ Some melee weapon abilities have been adjusted to be more fun options.

🧨 Grenade Launcher proximity mines with extended duration, allowing for ambush strategies.

🪃 Boomerangs and chakrans with slightly increased damage, making these viable battle options.

🪓 Axes and Hammers with increased damage and knockback, making them viable options along with swords.

🥊 Improved fist weapons to improve damage and combat efficiency, compensating for exposure on use.

🗡️ Daggers with increased attack speed and knockback removed to function as a viable fast attack weapon.

✒️ Spears with increased damage to compensate for the difficulty in hitting the target with the spearhead.

🪢 Whips with damage, attack speed, and a few other aspects improved to match other weapons.

🛡️ Improved shields, with increased durability for larger shields, and more time for perfect defenses on smaller shields.

🦴 Gristle Gun with increased damage and number of projectile bounces.

🔫 Significantly increased Ray Gun damage to compensate for projectile path instability.

⚪ Improved Magnorbs in damage, energy efficiency, and shield defense potential.

(*By the way I changed the values, only weapons spawned after installing the mod will be affected by the changes.)

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