Bounty Hunting
We are implementing a new bounty hunting system. Every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 11 p.m. (EST) in game we will post bounties for you to hunt down and earn points. There will also be scattered bounties randomly throughout the week. At the end of the week the person with the highest score will get a free item.
Whoever has the most points by December 7th at 11:59pm (EST) will earn the gunner outfit “The Way.”
You can collect the bounties by taking a screenshot of you defeating an issued bounty and sending it to Bounty@musegames.com. Everyone on your side will get credit for the hunt, but whoever sends the email in first will get 5 extra points.
If the bounty can go three games without losing he is considered to have escaped and will earn the points himself.
You can find a current bounty board along with full details here.
If you’re like to sign up to be hunted and have a chance at extra points sign up here.
Caster spotlight: QWERTY2JAM
We’d like to show off a caster who’s been with us since beta. A very entertaining Australian who goes by qwerty2jam. He first gained prominence in the Thunderdunes when he won 2nd place captaining his flagship Pyramidion the “QWERTY.”
Since then he’s casted with us Devs and with the guys from the Yogscast. He often talks balance and the state of the game with other prominent players. Go check him out!
You can find his stream here
And his youtube channel here
His times are
Tuesday: 8pm – 10pm (GMT) Guns Of Icarus
Wednesday: 8pm – 10pm (GMT) Guns Of Icarus
Thursday: 8pm- 10pm (GMT) Guns Of Icarus
Friday: 8pm – 10pm (GMT) Guns Of Icarus
Saturday: 8pm – Late Free Stream
1.1 Update Newsletter
Registered players and subscribers to our newsletter saw this special 1.1 update edition dropping into their inboxes yesterday, just in time for Thanksgiving. Along with info on the latest update, it also included a code for a free set of goggles from the in-game store, our way of saying thanks for playing the game and supporting us.
To our US fans, hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving, and to our friends around the world, hope you had a really fun Thursday!
(If you missed it, you can go here to check out the full issue of the newsletter, and sign up here to receive future updates and stay in the loop!)
Version 1.1 Available On Steam
We released a patch last night to fix a bunch of little things; just open Steam and the game will auto-update. Release notes!
Features
-New users now have one week to verify their email address. During that period, they can skip the screen prompting for verification code each time they log in.
-UI: more colors, highlighting yourself and blackening blocked players.
-UI: game list displays captain counts / slots
-“Death cam”: Camera orbits the site of last ship death while respawning
– Added display and filtering of server location to match list
– Added ability to select preferred location at match creation time
– Added pregame match chat
– Global lobby chat moved to Steam group chat
Balance
-Field Gun has a decreased turn speed, rate of fire, turn radius, as well as an increased reload time and slight drop. No changes to damage have been made.
-Rocket Launcher has an increased rate of fire.
-Squid has a major boost in top speed, from 37m/s to approximately 47m/s. This should bring back kiting back and make the Squid a viable support ship.
-Discrepancy between intended balance and database numbers found. Should mitigate carronade issues
–Squid should have had 850 armor instead of 700
–Flechette modifier against armor should be 0.2 instead of 0.4
–Small Carronade should have slightly slower rate of fire and slightly longer reload time
Bug Fixes
-Stats and achievements are no longer tracked in Sandbox.
-Achievements requiring you to do something to targets that are inside a cloud now can be progressed.
-Store purchase errors caused by Steam declining transactions are now displayed to users.
-UI: player information popup refreshes automatically on rank info update.
-UI: running matches now correctly display ship names / classes.
-AI: disconnected players will now be replaced by AI crew on ship death / respawn.
-Fire Extinguisher no longer rebuilds destroyed components.
-Fixed some performance problems (sudden framerate drops) with ship deaths
-Fixed an issue with Steam integration that could cause voice bugs and possibly crash very high-end machines.
Known Bugs
-Certain routers are known to corrupt the game’s traffic, in particular the Linksys WRT54G line. We are working on a more permanent fix, but bypassing your router should work around the problem.
Launch Party Tonight!
Watch live video from gunsoficarusonline on www.twitch.tv
The office has finally been cleaned up and squared away after the storm and you know what that means. It’s time to wreck it again with an awesome launch party!
This party isn’t just a celebration of what we’ve been able to accomplish, but what we want to do looking forward.
We’ll be starting tonight at 7 p.m. EST. We’ll be talking about the development of Guns, introduce the developers to you on the stream, answer some questions, have a few drinks, and if we have time playing a few games with the devs and the community ambassadors. You can follow our crazy party right here or on our official twitch.tv channel.
As if watching to see which of us devs are lightweights or who is wearing the best costume wasn’t enough, tune in to win some great items!