Epic Airship to Airship Combat
Just a quick announcement. All of our Kickstarter backers should be receiving their retail keys and associated keys for other goodies in their email. If you do not receive anything (please check your spam as well) in the next 24 hours please get in touch with us at feedback@musegames.com
The release of Guns of Icarus Online is on the horizon! The scheduled October 29th release is set to go. Steam will be flipping the switch some time tomorrow. It’s been one helluva ride! We want to thank every single one of our beta players and supporters for their time, effort, enthusiasm, and support. A small team like our would have never made it without you guys. Thank you so much!
Another thing that’s happening on the 29th in Hurricane Sandy, aka FRANKENSTORM. It’s hitting NYC at 3am. The reason why I’m mentioning this is that while our servers and Steam release will not be affected, us in NYC will be. There might be power outages and who knows what. What we do know is that all of us will be in game with our Community Ambassadors (anyone with a funny colored name is serious business) supporting release while working from home.
However, if there are internet and power outages then we’ll have limited access to our various communication outlets. Just want to get that out there. Some of our CA’s will be in game to field your questions though.
That’s it! Last few hours to pre-order the game for CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!
We’re pushing a lot of stuff right now (RC) and doing crazy stuff to our servers so everything will be down for several hours. Keep y’all up to date as we get the news.
Only four days till release and it’s all hands on deck in the office. We’ve been very happy with how the beta has gone. We want to thank everyone on how patient they’ve been hunting out glitches and issues for us. We hope you’re ready for the final leg of the journey.
You’ll notice in the next patch that weapons are going to have fancy new names. We wanted to give a little more flavor than “Medium Carronade.” So every weapon will be getting a new nickname.
We are also changing the name of the Missile Launcher to the Rocket Launcher and the Rocket Launcher to the Rocket Carousel.
The last change is small and medium weapons will be renamed to light and heavy weapons respectively.
We’ve revamped the tower ship, now the Spire, and it’s going through the final flight tests and will be out tomorrow. We decided on three light weapons and one heavy weapon which will require a strong crew to use effectively.
Along with the Spire coming out tomorrow is the the Hwacha missile launcher which fires a bunch of rockets for area-of-denial effect while damaging components. The Lumberjack is still in the art pipe and getting particle effects added despite Sgt_Spoon’s great suggestion.
There is also be a new vanity camera is being added so you can see your character in third person and enjoy how brave and noble your character looks against the backdrop.
We are also pleased to announce a new 2v2 map currently codenamed “The Fjords” which is currently in the works.
For news on the server front, Conrad and Alex have locked themselves in a room tending to the servers. We toss food in every so often, but they told us they’re not coming out till release. We got almost everything in place except a bad switch in Europe, but we think we’ve tracked it down and it should be fixed soon.
Yup, we know there’s server slowdown and it’ll be happening until we’re able to bring more instances online. We’ve currently ordered them but not sure how long that’ll take to deploy. This is due to the EU server being slammed like cray.
But basically this is all good news. More players are coming! And we have that other video cast this weekend too… holy crap!
You may have noticed that the site and forums were unavailable yesterday evening into this morning. It was for the best of reasons!
The popular video podcast Yogscast posted a review of Guns of Icarus Online, and the resulting traffic apparently crippled our webserver. The process of upgrading to a better server also ran across some unexpected complications.
We’re now running on a new, improved webserver, and if something like this happens again it won’t take nearly so long to upgrade next time. Sorry for the interruption!
In the new patch, your hard work in sharpening your skills will not be in vain thanks to the addition of the new Achievement System. All 3 roles (gunner, pilot, engineer) will have their own set of 6 mission chains that contain an array of achievements to unlock. With each achievement you unlock for each role, you’ll be also leveling up in the ranks and earn titles that will be displayed for you and everyone to see. Wear your rank and title with pride as you challenge your friends to see if they have what it takes to even get close to your fine skills.
Gunners also have something new to look forward to in the new patch. Gunner skills now all function as special ammunition that affects a whole clip at a time, and are changed by reloading the gun. Imagine unloading a full clip of your own special brand of might into the your enemy’s ship, showing what it really means to be the sharpest shooter in the skies.
These along with some fixes and tweaks will have you looking at your ships and crews in a new light as you ready yourselves for battles that will earn your both pride and honor.
On the development team today, things are taking shape in the form of targets for the soon-to-be-released updated Sandbox map for the game. Here players can practice things like shooting and steering out of the usual combat scenarios in order to perfect their craft. AI bugs are also being tackled and fixed so that we no longer need to worry about the AI being “less than reliable”. (ex. AI!?!?!?!?!?!)
Just FYI, Steam servers are going through an update today so that will probably take us down too 😛
And here we go!
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Let us present the promised highlights from the Thunderdunes Tournament! Twitch.TV lost some of the footage so matches one through ten unfortunately couldn’t be included despite some wonderful play from those captains.
The Muse team has been hard at work creating new content and attempting to balance the old, so I had the opportunity to put this together for them.
I want to reiterate how thankful we are to everyone who was a part of it whether through participating, watching the stream, or even hosting their own. A second special thanks to Thomas, Dynemanti, ATeddyBear and Sgt. Spoon who made the tournament possible through their work.
I hope everyone had as much fun being a part of it as I did trying to put out fires on the Qwerty.
— CA Keyvias
(The song is “I dunno” by Grapes and is free for commercial use.)
