impressions before picking up the game:
- A generic shooter that involves airships. It'll probably be good to waste an hour or two of my spare time before I forget about it again. Your steam advertisement really did not tease me at all. I've ended up playing this game in the first place because Phelan repetitively pushed me to get involved in a 4pack purchase (good marketing option for this game!).
- I've confused Guns of Icarus with GoIO. I've watched gameplay videos of GoI (that single player game of yours) and frankly I've been less than unimpressed. If I recall it correctly I've found one or two GoI-videos on steam back in the day. If that's right, you seem to have removed those. Good call.
first game impressions:
- What's the purpose of the minigun? It doesn't do anything! those Artemises are cool however - they seem to wreck everything! (I think muse did a pretty good by adding visual effects for breaking hulls as well as the red hit markers.)
- this community is friendly and communicative. (Special thanks to Arnox who elaborated quite some game mechanics to lvl 2-3ish Phelan, Tolarin and me.)
- the game mechanics are rich and seem to require skill in front of the monitor.
- piloting is confusing... way to much stuff to keep track of - enemy movements, my allies movements, these thingies in the 1234 slots that are supposed to help me flying this vessel, guns, mini map, repairs, structure everywhere, why are we sinking? - oh I forgot to deactivate hydro again. How the hell are some pilots able to calmly organize their crew while taking care of all this stuff?
- mouse wheel scroll is an absolutely dumb default setting for steering tool selections. (And I still firmly believe this. So in case muse didn't alter that already - it's way overdue)
- teamplay wins! (after Phelan and I have flown fairly successful against some far more experienced pilots)
- 3v3s are absolutely chaotic! - there's no way to keep track of 6 ships at the same time! (I've needed quite feel comfortable with those, even after I've gotten the hang on 2v2 matches already. Especially as a pilot)
- That Shinkurex guy surely has fucked up quite some stuff.