Month: August 2012

Drop by the official Steam group chat tomorrow night from 6-7 EST for a special event! Developers from Muse Games will be online to greet players and chat, so come say hello and ask us all those burning questions!

Event details here!

Direct link to Steam chat here!

Some eye candy worth reposting: the winning entries from our last screenshot contest!

Thanks to all who participated by submitting and voting!

A new update has just been pushed to the server! Server data was reset, so you’ll need to reenter your character and ship customization, but we made a bunch of bugfixes and balance tweaks.

Full summary of changes after the jump!
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Steam has finally helped us find a solution to the problem that was preventing players who already had the beta version of the game from purchasing the full version, so preorder should now work for everyone. Hooray!

Here’s the link to the store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/209080/

When you visit the game page you may still see the green banner saying that you already have the game, but you can ignore that. If you add one of the preorder packs to your cart, you will now have the option to purchase it for yourself, and the transaction should be able to complete normally.

Sorry to everyone who experienced problems and confusion trying to preorder, and thanks for sticking with us while we worked it out with Steam. We really appreciate your patience and support! If there are any further issues, please let us know — otherwise, store’s open! 🙂

Tomorrow night (Saturday) from 7-10 EST is our first of a series of Group Game Nights with the devs and CAs!

This is the first of a semi-regular series of group game nights to get larger groups of players in matches together. Once custom game functionality is in, we’ll do some organized matches and tournaments. For now, just get on and play!

If you can’t make it tomorrow, we’ll be doing this again on Sunday and Wednesday next week. You can check out the full schedule of events on the official Steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/games/gunsoficarusonline/events

We’ve also pushed a few balance changes to the server today. Of course, this is all still a work in progress and balancing is ongoing. Here’s a summary of what’s changed:

• Missile Sling: Increased clip size to 4. Increased rate of fire and reload time.
• Medium Flak: Reduced shell drop (increasing effective range)
• Increased most hull and balloon health values
• Fixed unintentionally high effectiveness of lightning damage type against armor (notably and slightly nonintuitively, this affects the howitzer).
• Slightly reduced effectiveness of explosive damage type against armor.

That’s pretty much it. See you in the skies!

For players who have beta keys, unfortunately we are still experiencing problems with pre-ordering on Steam.  We’re working closely with those at Steam and trying to get this problem resolved.  It’s a huge problem for you, the customer, and also for us because we totally want you to buy our game 😀

Here are the different groups of players and what will happen:

• Those who have a copy of the game already through Kickstarter and from our own pre-order store (which is now down), we will be sending you production keys in the coming future.
• Those who don’t have beta keys and never played Guns Online will be able to pre-order the game through Steam and play the beta and have a full copy of the game once it is released.
• Those of you with beta keys will not be able to pre-order through us or Steam for the time being.  Yeah… it’s not ideal.

We ask everyone to hang tight and give us some time while we work it out with Steam.  Please remember that a beta key is a beta key, it is NOT the full game.  Thanks everyone for your patience!

Send us your best Guns of Icarus Online screenshots for a chance to win your choice of a digital copy of the GoIO artbook or a hi-res piece of new concept art!

E-mail your screenshots to feedback@musegames.com, and we’ll post your entries on our Facebook page. There are four categories, one for each of the game’s environments: Firnfeld, Flayed Hills, Serpent’s Teeth, and Dunes. The screenshot that gets the most Likes in each category by noon next Monday (8/13) wins!

You can press F12 to take a screenshot in Steam, and all the screenshots you’ve taken will show up on the Guns of Icarus Online page in your library. To get to the files, click on “View Screenshot Library,” and “Show on Disk.”

So take the awesomest screens you can and send them to feedback@musegames.com, and don’t forget to visit us on Facebook and vote!

Hey, it’s your resident game designer at Muse Games, Eric.  As of late, I’ve been taking on a lot of marketing responsibilities like managing our Facebook page for Guns of Icarus Online to bantering on Twitter.  Muse is a small outfit so if any of us have free time or the skillset, we’ll try to fill in additional roles.  To some extent, I’m a jack-of-all-trades and maybe only a master at one (game design, duh).  I think that’s enough to preface the story I’m about to tell, a huge fiasco but also an unexpected win for us at Muse Games.

If something can go wrong… it will definitely go wrong if the internet is involved.

More after the jump…

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