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PRINT Guide to Guns of Icarus Online
Arrow Windwhistler:
Wow holy @#$% so Howard totally greenlit this thing.
And yeah, Mr.Disaster is right, it's totally more of a novelty thing that will get outdated. But the general tactics remain the same; what will be outdated are the number of weapons, ships, and skills. I can't see them changing the stats for the Whirlwind or anything like that. But, that's part of the deal when you demand stuff on print. The good thing about print though is that you can take it to work and read it surreptitiously =P (neither me nor any of my affiliates condone slacking off)
But...uh, yeah, I'm gonna be taking preorders, guys. This is my first time doing anything like this, so if you're interested, please leave your name here and I'll get in touch with the printer to determine the unit cost; I'm going to be paying out of pocket for the first run, after all.
Additionally, depending on demand, I'll be willing to continue updates when Alliance stuff comes out. We'll have to sort it out later.
BlackenedPies:
--- Quote from: Arrow Windwhistler on February 19, 2016, 08:23:37 pm ---But the general tactics remain the same; what will be outdated are the number of weapons, ships, and skills. I can't see them changing the stats for the Whirlwind or anything like that.
Additionally, depending on demand, I'll be willing to continue updates when Alliance stuff comes out. We'll have to sort it out later.
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Another peer review like your original post? https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,6664.msg113691.html#msg113691
Peer review would be useful because some of the information is incorrect. Your gat is listed as having a high reload speed, high horizontal arcs, and poor vertical depression. The gat has an "average" reload of 5 seconds, average horizontal arcs of 50 degrees, and high(est) vertical depression of 50 degrees. Instead of projectile speed, rate of fire, and accuracy, more useful measures are effective range, empty clip time (not important), and if it's a projectile or raycast weapon (and accuracy thereof). Accuracy doesn't mean anything if you don't specify what type of gun it is (projectile or raycast). Accuracy determines effective range and what ammos are best for increasing the effective range. Burst radius is important to add
Gat can break any armor in one clip while being repaired with mallet
Arrow Windwhistler:
--- Quote from: BlackenedPies on February 19, 2016, 09:43:28 pm ---Peer review would be useful because some of the information is incorrect. Your gat is listed as having a high reload speed, high horizontal arcs, and poor vertical depression. The gat has an "average" reload of 5 seconds, average horizontal arcs of 50 degrees, and high(est) vertical depression of 50 degrees. Instead of projectile speed, rate of fire, and accuracy, more useful measures are effective range, empty clip time (not important), and if it's a projectile or raycast weapon (and accuracy thereof). Accuracy doesn't mean anything if you don't specify what type of gun it is (projectile or raycast). Accuracy determines effective range and what ammos are best for increasing the effective range. Burst radius is important to add
Gat can break any armor in one clip while being repaired with mallet
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Truth be told I sort of eyeballed everything based on when I manned the weapon myself; I didn't actually count the degrees of traverse or the rate of fire or reload time. It would be a pain to do and difficult without more experienced peer reviews on the matter but I would be willing to alter that.
The other thing is that the scope of the guide itself, and the number of pages that appear per weapon. Before I started I made it a point to set aside a two-page spread for the guns: one for the gun itself, and the other for the ammunition types that best work for it. Including too much information is not a problem when you're working online with infinite space, but far moreso when you're working on paper.
That being said I'll add it to a list of changes I intend to apply for a version that does go to sell; it all depends now on the demand for it.
ramjamslam:
That's awesome! I can imagine picking up a Guns of Icarus game for my Nintendo 64, opening it up and finding that book!
Piemanlives:
While not exactly fond of the cover the rest of it looks absolutely fantastic.
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