Guns of Icarus Online Price Drop!
Hello everyone,
We’re writing this live from PAX East where we’re showing the near complete Guns of Icarus Alliance as we gear up for our March 31st release date.
As we decide exactly what we’re going to do with our steam store page and release (keep an eye out super exciting stuff coming soon!) We decided we wanted to lower the price of the base game, to give everyone a chance to purchase a copy of Guns or icarus Online before Alliance’s release.
Hell Pays, First In-Game Alliance Event
The last and final open session brings with it an exclusive item you can only get until the 8th when the beta ends. 30 victories on hell level missions to earn the Spore shield goggles for male and female.
This is no easy mission and will take the best in you and your crew. Best of luck and remember, winners get the exclusive mask, losers get nothing.
If you don’t see the mission on the main screen, simply relog your game and download the update.
1.4.11 Release Notes
New content/features:
– The Ashen Scuffle joins PvP. Take a peek at our new content in the form of a dark and deadly, although strikingly beautiful, DM map. Take your crew through this deadly landscape in both 2v2 and 3v3. Lava flows and derelict buildings await you and your crew.
– New Gun: Typhon Heavy Flak Mk. II
The old 2 shot flak of yore in a new body. The demand was high and with new art created for it. The weapon is ready in remastered glory. Expert gunners of old and new rejoice at your chance for the most powerful and demanding weapon
– Static Story Book
Alliance is all about factions coming together, forming alliances, and waging big wars against each other in major seasonal events. We will be listening in on our various channels of communications from in-game chat to our lively forums to see how you are playing and role-playing as your factions. We will look at our data and see which players have earned the most effort, bought the most reinforcements, and overall supported their factions the best. With all this information, we will craft a unique story after each war to commemorate and recognize the events that transpired. Join us in crafting the history of Guns of Icarus Alliance together!
– Pietro’s Veil (Male and Female) for buyers of Alliance
– Recommended Ship/Loadout for matches/modes/difficulty settings
– New War Goal voting system
– War Period: When war period begins, alliances will be automatically formed and each alliance will have 24 hours to vote on their war goal. This replaces voting on what alliances to form, which was found to be confusing and less rewarding based on feedback gathered. These goals range from converting the enemy’s populace by conquering a territory, enforcing a will of strength by growing to a certain size, to activating a super weapon by accruing resources.
– New underdog icon
– Match list opens if Matchmaker goes too long
Internal Testing- Community Notes 2/16/2017
Hello everyone,
For the past couple weeks we’ve talked about some of the changes we’ve made balance wise and the issues we’ve tried to tackle.
The big part when we make these changes is we have to go back and make sure we didn’t break something.
SANITY CHECK ASSUALT
First on the docket was making sure all of the changes and tweaks to the director didn’t create any oddities on one of favorites: Assault. Despite some interesting tactical choices, we were able to muddle through on Normal while still facing a challenge. Very happy with those results!
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Internal Testing- Community Notes 2/09/2017
Hello everyone,
We lost
Every
Single
Friggen’
Match
In testing today. Sometimes we do tweaks and try things and the difficulty is just absurd. This is what testing is for. We failed fast this time and toned everything back for next week’s test. In exciting news, I’ve snuck in some shots of the new Yeshan ship!
NEW YESHAN SHIP
With 2 heavy guns and 2 light guns, the new Yeshan ship is a joy in the skies. This is definitely a work in progress shot, but I am in love with the helm area and the design. It doesn’t have a name yet, but stay tuned next week as we show off even more of the latest ship to grace the skies!
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