Category: Community

Are you new to guns and want to learn the dos and don’ts of aerial combat?  Then join some of our best veteran players as turn landlubbers into full-fledged sky aces.

At 8 pm EST they’ll start hosting games to teach people.  All you have to do is show up to be taken under the wing of some of our experts.

This event isn’t just for those stepping into the sky for the first time.  If you already have your sky legs, but want to know when you should drink your moonshine and when you should use it in your engines feel free to stop by.

If you’re looking for more information or up the second updates check out their forum thread.  For all other events keep an eye on our calender.

Watch live video from qwerty2jam on www.twitch.tv

At 4 pm EST today the Cogs Scrimmage opens up and some of the best teams will go toe to toe to prove their dominance.  To see who’s fighting who check here.

As always QWERTY2Jam will be calling the shots and explaining some of the crew’s choices.  You can watch his stream here or directly on Twitch.

Believe your team has what it takes to be the best?  Sign your team up here.

We’re back with bounty hunting season 6.  We’re revamping the system.  Targets will be designated every Friday at 11:59 PM EST and will end Sunday at 11:59 PM EST.  This will happen for three weeks to find the season’s most dangerous bounty and top bounty hunter.

Whenever you find someone with -B- or -Bounty- before their name take a screenshot of you defeating them and send it to bounty@musegames.com.  You can claim every bounty once a weekend for ten points each.

The player with the most points will crowned the top bounty hunter and gets a War Room pilot costume, gender their choice.  The player who wins the most matches during their weekend will be the most dangerous bounty and gets the Tinkerer or Aurora engineer’s costume.

To sign up to be a bounty head, click here.

To find your targets for the weekend, check the bounty board.

Hwacha (Previously hot fixed)
– Decreased AoE (6 from something crazy like 14)

Rocket Carousel
– Reduced AoE (3 from 8)
– Increased Reload Time (6 from 4.5)
– Decrease Rate of Fire (2 shots/s from 2.8/s)

Lumberjack
– Decreased Arming time (0.8s from 1.2s)
– Increased Muzzle Speed (275m/s from 250m/s)

Harpoon
– Decreased Reload Time (4s from 5s)
– Harpoon Duration Increased (15s from 10s)
– Max Harpoon Length Increased (600m from 450m)
– Decreased Pull (40000N from 60000N)
– Changed 2nd Dmg (60 Piercing from 100 Shatter)

Other
– Flechette vs Armor Decreased (0.35 from 0.5) Data Entry Error in Last Update, this is the intended change.

 

We’re calling all experienced crews who want to prove they’re the greatest to join our weekly scrimmage: The Cogs.   We want to see the best of the best throw it all on the line in a single match on a map randomly drawn by a referee.

We’ll separate teams into three cogs: champion, challenger, and upcomer.  Every Saturday at 4 pm the designated teams will fight trying to defend their position or move up in the world. Any team that doesn’t show up for their game will automatically forfeit their position. Teams not fighting will be designated bounties for the week for any hunters who can find them.  The size of the cogs will be adjusted depending on how many sign ups we receive.

The sign up for teams is here. Feel free to bring in ringers or random people online onto your ship the day of.  As long as you have someone to press ready for your team when you’re designated to fight you don’t have a problem.

The following post was written by Howard, aka Bubbles, CEO of Muse Games.

Here’s an invitation you to show off how and why you fly!  We are looking for videos in which you talk about your favorite tactics, loadouts, and moments in Guns of Icarus Online, as well as show off how you and your crew fly in real matches. With your submissions, we will be creating a short documentary for the world to see!

We are looking for 2 videos – a short interview and a gameplay footage montage.

For more info, hit the jump! Continue reading “We want to hear from you!”

The following post was written by Howard, aka Bubbles, CEO of Muse Games.

With this upcoming build, we are focusing on a few new features—improved tutorial elements, AFK detection, and commendation system—to help players learn and play better together.  While our motivation is as always based on your feedback, we just want to go over how these features work and how we arrived at the decisions we made.

 

 

 

Hit the jump for the deets…

Continue reading “Upcoming features…”

We’ll be writing quite a few posts regarding some coming changes.  Lots of fun stuff in store.  One of the big items is a balance change.  Medium Flak, Field Gun, Explosive vs. Armor, Fire, other weapons.  There are a lot of things going on.  However, what I’d like to talk about is our stance on design changes and basically how we go about creating the game.  Well, this is more of my own approach.

This was all sparked by a forum on our forum.  Click after the jump to read on…

Continue reading “Let there be light. Well, some.”

The Fjords have been claimed by the Gentlemen!
Congratulations not only to the Gentlemen, but also their stiff competition.  We had many great contenders: Zill’s Merry Men took home second, The Paddling third, and SMAC fourth.

If you have four hours to spare and missed the tournament you should watch QWERTY’s stream where you can see some of the best crews in the game facing off against each other. We’ll be posting some of the highlights later on in the week so keep your eyes peeled.

Continue reading “Claiming the Fjords: tournament recap”