ALLIANCE GAZETTE VOL.6
Internal testing is back and just in time for next weeks patch!
Between cons, updates, broken test server and a rock climbing trip for the office, we’ve definitely had a break between Gazettes, but now’s your chance to get a sneak peek at everything coming your way.
If you want to hear about it first hand, follow us at twitch.tv/gunsoficarus where we show off every internal session and give away the password to the dev games early (and your chance for free items.)
New Night Map: Voyagers Cove
Night is no longer unique to Parous Glen. We’ve updated the solar cycle to also affect the normally bright and cheerful Voyagers Cove. Explore the darkened corners of this defense map and make your own light with flares, fire, and explosions. This definitely isn’t the last map where darkness will become your greatest ally so keep an eye out!
New PvP Map: Ashen King
Desert Scrap may no longer be the most deadly map with the introduction of Ashen King. Fight for a single point in the middle of the cave structure. Forced together in some of the bloodiest close quarters maps. Fight the correct assault angle and work together to hold onto the point. Tar and Mines recommended!
Too Many Games Convention Post
What a weekend!
Firstly, a big hello to all the people that visited us at our booth at Too Many Games! We really enjoyed seeing all your smiling faces and showing you all our new game!
Secondly, thank you to our devoted community. So regularly are we able to find volunteers from our game to help us at our booths, and it really speaks volumes to how awesome you all are.
As for the details, we had some awesome neighbors all around us down in Indie Row, and it was a real treat to just go around and try everyone else’s games, show off our own, and practice our pitches before we were open to the public. The sense of indie community was fantastic, with lots of us going around just to say hi and watching after each other’s booths when those inevitable bathroom breaks needed to take place. We even got invited to an indie dinner, where we all went out to grab some food after the con and really got to talk about the nitty-gritty bits and pieces of game development. It was a great time.
That’s in no way to take away from the attendees, who were also excellent. We had a whole plan to show our game trailer when there was nobody actually playing the game, and we probably got to play it for 2 minutes total. Everyone was super active and engaged, and we saw several faces coming back time and time again! We had a few special guests appear at the booth as well, and it was great to be able to talk to them and show off our game.
I love being able to show off the game in person, and I really feel like Guns of Icarus shines extra bright when a whole ship is sitting in the same room. Seeing groups of friends playing for the first time, getting excited in the chaos and screaming to ‘get on the hull!’, only to hear ‘I don’t know where the hull is!’, watching them explode, hearing them all laugh, and then watching them turn around and asking if they can try again was truly magical; I can’t wait to show off Guns of Icarus: Alliance at the next convention!
Clear Skies!
-Cameron
Better With Friends Sale, Up to 50% Off!
We’re partnering with Steam on a one of a kind sale just for Guns of Icarus owners and friends.
Owners of Guns of Icarus titles get 50% off for a limited time*, when you buy a copy for a friend on Steam!
*Offer ends June 7th at 10AM PT
2.0.2 Order & Chaos Update!
New content:
- New factions! The final factions have been added, the Arashi League and Yesha Empire. Each come with their own ship, gun, and cosmetics that are waiting to be unlocked.
- Ship: Arashi Stormbreaker. An extremely agile ship to weave in and out of combat with ease. It may not be the fastest or the toughest, but with the right pilot and crew it’ll be a hard target to chase down while packing a massive punch.
- Gun: Immortal Gaze Heavy Accelerator. Put together from the scraps buried beneath the sand, the Arashi have harnessed a mysterious and devastating power in the form of a new heavy gun. Hold down to charge its power and tear through armor and components.
- Ship: Yeshan Judgement. A powerful ship with a primary and secondary heavy gun ready for dishing out significant damage from afar. A skillful pilot will be able to train the majority of the ship’s guns on enemies, but beware a spread out component layout.
- Gun: Roaring Tiger Heavy Detonator. Exacting control are strong Yeshan characteristics that have even carried through to their weaponry. Launch powerful bombs into the air that can be detonated mid-flight with the alt fire button. Each bomb explodes 4 times!
- Game Mode: Blockade. Control the skies in this high-octane struggle between the defence of your faction’s refineries against bomber ships & repelling skirmisher attacks from the enemy fleet!
- New General Weapon: Nemesis Heavy Carronade. The robust cousin of its class, the Nemesis harks back to times when naval warfare reigned supreme. Its classic cannonball slug is a key ingredient to the power of this ordinance.
- New PvP Map: Misty Mutiny. Take the fight of the skies to an exotic and alluring landscape woven together by nature and civilization. Use the cover of the misty environment to make your strike, carry out an assault in formation in the open valleys, or dig in your heels and unleash a maelstrom of your payload!
- Each class has an additional achievement that unlocks new cosmetic items! Unlock victory poses, repair tool skins, and ship decals to use across any class while you play!
- Gunner Unlock: New Victory Pose. The language of victory is a glorious demonstration of your prowess and clever strategic skills in the battlefield. Show your foes your pride in this accomplishment with new victory pose selections!
- Engineer Unlock: New Engineer Tool Skin. Trade is on the rise and with it new gear for prospecting engineers looking to put out fires with exquisite taste. Golden Chemical Sprays are now an available tool option, show some class in tools you use with mastery.
- Pilot Unlock: New Decal. Stand tall amongst your adversaries with your own vessel’s ensign. A symbol of the loyalty and commitment to your faction and your cause
Changes:
- War has changed the world… strong borders can been erected where battles wrought the most devastation. Seek new alliances, face new challanges for an unknown future…
- All daily login rewards now include coins.
- Adjusted faction colors for colorblindness
- Added vignette to World Map
- Tempest projectile performance improvements
- Boss particles on guns tweaks
- Better inflow for ‘solo’ players
- Matched map icons for blockade to loading screen and sidebar
- Enemy faction is now randomized when rematching in the same lobby
Fixes:
- Fixed binding of inverted joystick “look” axes
- Fixed missing click sound feedback in video options
- Resolutions lower than 1024×768 are no longer shown in video options (they were incompatible with some UI anyway)
- Fixed flickering decorations on birthday Magnate
- Magnate: Fixed the “hole” where you can walk off the ship
- Fixed some joystick/controller input being framerate dependant
- Binding settings: changing tabs doesn’t go to the top
- Fix misleading adjacency lines on world map
- Fixed missing airplane sounds
- Munitions upgrade from killing supply ships no longer modifies reload time (previously was bugged and increased reload time by 25%)
- Fixed invisible hitbox suspended in mid-air on Northern Fjords
- Inconsistent fonts on icon display and map
- “Not Ready” in Match Lobby Lowercase
- Fixed boss potentially not spawning when multiple progress events trigger in very rapid succession
- Water collider and fan colliders
The War is Over, Pirate Week Begins!
The war ends with a begrudging surrender. The Northern Guard claims victory and an uneasy peace settles across the land. A peace that is more of a mask for the next insidious attacks from all the factions, piracy.
Those that don’t accept the fight as over are taking to raiding and pillaging. Some are loyalists looking to fight for honor others are opportunists looking to take the post-war chaos to make a quick buck.
So hide in your safe territory and strike out and plunder the world. Do it for your faction, for your pocket, and for an exclusive title!
The faction that has the most successful attacks by the end of the mission will all earn the exclusive Pirate title. No need to hold the territory, just capture, plunder, and move on!
This will continue until the 30th when a new patch drops and new factions join in with even more content!