Starsand price6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() I didn’t discover most of what was in the game but the unfound recipes are visible in the crafting menu in silhouette, so I have some idea of the number of recipes there are to find. Starsand is in its first early access release and so it is quite understandably a little limited in the crafting options. The lighting effects create some lovely vistas. My playtime wasn’t enough to discover much by way of the storyline of Starsand but the taster I had was enough to make me want to see more and to find more of the ruins that would both reveal the story, and provide new items to craft. Getting turned about and losing your bearings in Starsand can be absolutely lethal.ĭotted about in the sand are various places of interest to discover many with valuable resources and others with something even more intriguing a slice of the mystery behind where you are and what happened here. I mean, you don’t know exactly where on the map you are or where they are but you’ll probably get them in about the right place. You can build markers in the game that will then add a symbol to the map, and you can always add oases, ruins or other points of interest to the map at your leisure. There is nothing on the map to tell you where you currently are, or which way you’re facing, and the only marks on the map are ones you put there. The map in the game is probably my favourite aspect of it. The latest chic from Milan is a fusion of long-distance runner and Raiden from Mortal Kombat. Even with these measures, the amount of time you want to be wandering around in the desert is finite, which is why it is very notable that it’s easy to get lost in Starsand. Finding shade to reduce body temperature and equipping yourself with a big ol’ hat and some home-made sunscreen are essential to survival. More than once I died of heat exhaustion at the bottom of yet another colossal dune. Managing heat during the day, and cold during the night, are real challenges in the game. This constant drive to gather to survive forces you out into Starsand’s vast, open world and, in doing so, introduces you to the other big challenge of the game.ĭeserts, it turns out, are not easy places to live. Once that wood was used and those coconuts were eaten, that was it for them. Soon enough I found my way to an oasis with a few trees scattered about and some frogs for good eatin’, but those trees didn’t grow back (at least over the course of the few days I played). One of the main challenges of the game is finding enough to get by. The oases may look prettier with those trees around them but deforestation is a way of life in Starsand. This is your first hint that Starsand is more in the Long Dark mould of survival games than something more casual. It took me a good while to find a rock and, over the course of three hours of gameplay, I learned to get excited at the glint of that sweet dark-grey gold lying on the ground. So, I guess, of course there aren’t any rocks you’re in the middle of the desert. The game begins with your unnamed character getting lost in a sandstorm whilst in the middle of a cross-desert marathon. So far, so typical.Įxcept, there weren’t any rocks. There is a sparse tutorial and one of the first things it told me to do was find a rock. When I started playing Starsand, the latest release from Tunnel Vision Studio, it felt very familiar. Valheim, Raft, The Forest, 7 Days to Die, Ark and others have their challenges for sure but just getting enough food or basic materials to get by isn’t one of them. “We’re still better than anything else.Over the COVID-19 lockdowns I’ve had the chance to try my hand at a fair few survival games and the thing about a lot of them is that, well, it isn’t that hard to survive in them. “AAFES Reel Time Theaters are still the best entertainment bargain out there,” she said. ![]() Glenn dismissed speculation that the price hike was implemented to enhance funding for the global war on terrorism, saying she had no knowledge of any such arrangement.īeginning Friday, patrons at overseas Army and Air Force theaters must pay the following admission rates:įirst-run movies - $4 for adults and $2 for childrenRegular releases - $3.50 for adults and $1.75 for childrenRepeat showings - $3 for adults and $1.50 for childrenCompared to commercial theaters in the United States, Glenn said, the prices remain pretty friendly. That’s led to operating losses at many locations. Rising business expenditures at the theaters over the past decade have been absorbed by local exchanges, AAFES officials said. “We’ve held prices in check for the last 10 years,” she said, “but increases in business expenses forced us to raise prices marginally.” ![]()
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