A long slow clap for the beautiful gif above from Tim, our art director. This should show an outline of the process that goes into all of our maps. We’re coming up to the final week for the “Why We Fly” video event, please send in your submissions so you can get exclusive titles that will NEVER be given out again!
Our apologies for last week’s stream being missed. We had a pressing press engagement that ran long, but we’re back this week! We’re be at twitch.tv/gunsoficarus at 3 pm eastern talking about the hotfix and upcoming Open Alpha that’s in the works!
Trying out a new ambush mode, but the AI jumped us with over 100 objectives!
Hello everyone,
We’ve been testing out a lot of new ideas all through the week. Ambush, Skyball, and new VIP changes are being worked on right now. With all the work both Skyball and the VIP changes are ready to get dirty and have players run though them. You can find their testing through the Experimental Crew. We’d love everyone to show up and let us know what you think of what we’re working on.
As always we’ll be live at 3 pm eastern at twitch.tv/gunsoficarus to talk about these changes and new game modes live. Come ask questions, be a part of exclusive events and rewards, and join in the community experience!
Don’t forget the “Why We Fly” Video event is live! Exclusive titles and a chance to be one of the faces of Guns of Icarus is up for grabs!
Why do you choose to fly in these bullet riddled skies?
Hello Everyone,
We’re creating a video of the best part of our game: the community! All you have to do is send footage of yourself or of you playing in one of the listed situations. Everyone who sends in footage will receive an exclusive title reward: Evangelist. If you do one for every situation you will receive a second exclusive title: World Bearer.
The videos that make the cut will be edited together into a community “Why we fly” video. We truly appreciate the time our players put in and want to show them off to the world!
Send your entries to feedback@musegames.com, please have the subject line read “Why we fly” and include your in-game name. Contest submissions will be accepted up until July 1st
Situations:
You can send in footage for one or all of these situations. These help us put a theme to the video and make editing and categorizing much easier. Examples are included for each of these. Feel free to take artistic license with any of these ideas. Videos can use webcam, in-game, related media, or any combination. Feel free to let your creative side flare!
There is no time requirement or limit for these videos.
Why I fly: A video with a description of why you love guns of Icarus.
Favorite Gameplay moment: Some gameplay (Can be of yourself or someone else) with commentary (either taken in the moment or added after.)
My faction: Announce your faction, it’s up to you if you want to include your reasoning.
Favorite Ship: Announce your favorite ship, it’s up to you if you want to include your reasoning.
We’ve been getting questions in game and during fireside and wanted to take the time to explain the new Friend Referral system and the removal of slot swap.
Friend Referral is a pretty basic system. Give you code to a novice player who activated their account within the past 30 days, when they redeem it in the system you will receive a special reward. You will receive rewards at 1, 3, 6, 9, 15, 30, and 50 friend referrals. In these rewards will be dyes, the new store coupons, and exclusive titles. So recruit your friends and use them for special rewards and exclusive prizes.
Just as important are the changes to the slot swap. There’s been a lot of confusion on this and we definitely want to clear it up. Slot swapping was never meant to be in the game. At first it was done by players with spectator and it was done from one side to another, we planned on phasing it out once we put in slot request swaps (so at least one person on each side agreed with it,) and only in this patch have put that in.
The ability to swap freely has been abused by player before to make unfair teams, but many players came to us saying how they used it for the opposite effect. We want to keep allowing that though and in an upcoming hotfix on Friday we will be allowing slot swapping again to the weaker side. This way players won’t have to “ask permission” to try and improve the game balance.
We’re going to keep an eye on this system and see if it’s working out and once it’s in, we’d love to hear your feedback.
Thank you everyone for joining us on this crazy ride as we try to push, prod, and poke systems into the game to improve the community experience.
