Tournament livestream Saturday! Watch, win prizes!

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This Saturday, September 15th, as 2 PM EST we’ll be holding the historic first-ever Guns of Icarus Online tournament, THUNDERDUNES!

As teams of airships line up to do battle and duke it out for honor and glory, tune into the official tournament livestream for up-to-the-minute tournament coverage, plus a chance to win a copy of the game in our special giveaway! Throughout the tournament, we’ll be holding a series of drawings and announcing the winners on the stream. You can only enter if you have the secret code that will be revealed before each drawing, so join the channel for your chance to win! The more people watching, the more prizes we’ll give away, so spread the word!

Also, if you want to compete in the tournament, remember the signup deadline is Wednesday at noon! Get your team together and enter while you can!

We’ll be embedding a player here on the site, but you can also subscribe and watch on our official Twitch.tv channel!

Shiny new monthly newsletter!

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If you want to get even more Guns of Icarus Online goodness delivered straight to your inbox, we’ve just debuted a shiny new look for our monthly subscriber newsletter!

We’ll be sending out like gear-filled, oil-streaked, steam-spewing, whack-it-occasionally-to-keep-it-running clockwork at or nearish the beginning of every month to keep you up to date with all that’s happening in the world of Guns of Icarus Online.

You can check out the September issue here, and subscribe here!

Guns of Icarus Online Beta Tournament: THUNDERDUNES!

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Welcome to THUNDERDUNES, the first ever Guns of Icarus Online tournament!

As we hurtle towards launch in the last weeks of beta, it’s time for all you airship Captains, Gunners, and Engineers to take to the skies and battle it out for the right to name yourselves CHAMPIONS OF THE DUNES!

Tournament page:

Date and time:

    Saturday, September 15, 2pm EST

Format:

    8v8 (2 ships vs. 2 ships) Battle on the Dunes

Prizes:

    Collector’s Edition copies of the game and in-game costumes and accessories. Details and pictures below!

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Collector’s Edition Captain Costumes

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Many people have asked us what is included in the Collector’s Edition costume pack. We are pleased to finally be able to present you with the final selection of Captain’s costumes, in Ladies’ and Gents’ editions!

"Port City" Captain Costume (Gents')
"Horizon" Captain Costume (Ladies')

*Note: goggles not included!

We’re hard at work putting the finishing touches on the in-game store, which will soon be ready to offer a host of sartorial delights. If you’d like to pick up a Collector’s Edition and snag these fine costumes before they hit stores, you can find it on our Steam store page now!

Beta 0.10 Patch

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Server Status: Up! Patch is live!

I’m doing some server maintenance as part of deploying the new patch, so things may be down a little longer than usual – still shouldn’t be more than an hour or two. I’ll announce here when things are back up. In the meantime: beta players, you’ll need to quit the game to download the new build from Steam. Detailed patch notes below.

Update 1:43PM EST: The patch is live, if you see any issues please report them at our GetSatisfaction page.

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Screenshot Competition Winners

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Some eye candy worth reposting: the winning entries from our last screenshot contest!

The Teeth (Submitted by StUCaboose)
Firnfeld (Submitted by Sgt_Spoon)
The Dunes (Submitted by StUCaboose)
The Flayed Hills (Submitted by Sgt_Spoon)

Thanks to all who participated by submitting and voting!

Preorder now works for everyone!

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Steam has finally helped us find a solution to the problem that was preventing players who already had the beta version of the game from purchasing the full version, so preorder should now work for everyone. Hooray!

Here’s the link to the store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/209080/

When you visit the game page you may still see the green banner saying that you already have the game, but you can ignore that. If you add one of the preorder packs to your cart, you will now have the option to purchase it for yourself, and the transaction should be able to complete normally.

Sorry to everyone who experienced problems and confusion trying to preorder, and thanks for sticking with us while we worked it out with Steam. We really appreciate your patience and support! If there are any further issues, please let us know — otherwise, store’s open! 🙂

Join us for a Group Game Night!

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Tomorrow night (Saturday) from 7-10 EST is our first of a series of Group Game Nights with the devs and CAs!

This is the first of a semi-regular series of group game nights to get larger groups of players in matches together. Once custom game functionality is in, we’ll do some organized matches and tournaments. For now, just get on and play!

If you can’t make it tomorrow, we’ll be doing this again on Sunday and Wednesday next week. You can check out the full schedule of events on the official Steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/games/gunsoficarusonline/events

We’ve also pushed a few balance changes to the server today. Of course, this is all still a work in progress and balancing is ongoing. Here’s a summary of what’s changed:

  • Missile Sling: Increased clip size to 4. Increased rate of fire and reload time.
  • Medium Flak: Reduced shell drop (increasing effective range)
  • Increased most hull and balloon health values
  • Fixed unintentionally high effectiveness of lightning damage type against armor (notably and slightly nonintuitively, this affects the howitzer).
  • Slightly reduced effectiveness of explosive damage type against armor.

That’s pretty much it. See you in the skies!