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HamsterIV:
I want to start a discussion about what we expected this game to be vs what it is. Most of us have been playing for a while and our perception of the game and its mechanics match pretty closely to how the game actually works. What I am interested in are your thoughts about Guns of Icarus based on what you knew before you started playing it and during your first few matches.

Here were my misconceptions:
Every one will want to be captain.
People are going to whine if I take the captain spot as a noob.
There will be boarding.
Most captains will not be forgiving of newbie mistakes so I should master the game mechanics in single player.
There will be a single player for me to hone my skills.
There are so many gun/tool options that I will never be able to find an optimized build without resorting to a wiki on the game.
The Pyramidion is an ugly ship and is vastly outgunned by every other ship (except the squid).
Medium weapons are vastly superior to their light counterparts.
The Galleon is overpowered.
Tar barrel must be useless, the enemy can just aim for the tar.
Every one will be using the buffkit because there will be down time between combat.
The pipe wrench is the best of the three repairing tools.
The harpoon will prevent my opponent from getting away.
Popping my opponent's balloon is the fastest way to victory.

Here are my correct assumptions.
Exploiting an opposing ship's blind spot will be a common tactic.
You would have to be crazy to fly a squid.
You would have to be crazy good to win a match with a squid.
The Devs will release regular updates.
Flame throwers are the best way to mess with the enemy crew.
There will be a small group of people who play this game way too much.

Oliver Colt:

--- Quote from: HamsterIV on January 28, 2014, 02:46:10 pm ---Most captains will not be forgiving of newbie mistakes so I should master the game mechanics in single player.
There will be a single player for me to hone my skills.

--- End quote ---

This is what scared me the most when I first played xD It's why I had the game just sitting there for so long and never really played until recently. Then I was expecting a bunch of really good guys just wrecking everyone, which happens but not as much as I thought, and sometimes we newbies get to play with them too so yeah that I wasn't expecting at all, it's nice :D

I didn't really know much of the game aside from that because it was a gift from a friend, I had no idea it existed or anything so regarding boarding and all that I didn't imagine much. I thought that there were small clans (the really good guys wrecking everyone) and everyone else, and that everyone was on their own just trying to get as many kills as possible and that you could only play with your friends/clan or AIs, but I soon realized it wasn't like that. And now I love this game even though I still suck at it! 8)

redria:
"I will never want to pilot. Being responsible for my ship and team doing well? No thanks." - I played as a main engineer on pyramidions for a good amount of time before getting a little tired of it and trying to fly. The rest, as they say, is history.

"This game is so chaotic. I don't understand what is going on, we can't find anybody, I'm not sure how to tell if we are dying... what is even going on?" - I first played with a group of 3 other friends about a year ago. We played a couple matches. Only on of us had a computer that could handle the game even at minimum settings, so 3/4 of us were running about 2-3 fps. I think we played canyon ambush. None of us had done prior research into any of the mechanics. We couldn't find anybody. It was... trying.

James T. Kirk:
"this game sounds like a good solid weekend of fun."

awkm:
This thread is potentially very helpful.  Thanks HamsterIV for posing this question.  A lot of new features are going in to facilitate some of the problems that some of you went through at the beginning (newbies and pilots etc...) as we are focusing heavily on player retention as we move into Co-Op Mode Expansion.

We'd love to hear more about your honest initial opinions in order to improve the game for future players and our future games.

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