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Title: What's more fun?
Post by: Indreams on December 10, 2014, 11:44:11 am
In Guns of Icarus, you can:
Repair/Rebuild components
Fire guns
Pilot the ship


What's more fun?
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Indreams on December 10, 2014, 11:45:48 am
I've found that repairs/rebuilds are, while essential, the least entertaining.

I enjoy piloting, but I never want to miss a chance of giving a good Hwacha barrage.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: ShadedExalt on December 10, 2014, 12:03:26 pm
Engi-ing can get pretty intense, and you get a kind of fierce pride in knowing that you kept the ship from falling apart.

Gunning is one big ball of explosions and Canadian hitmarkers.  That feel when you nail an HF shot doe...

Personally, Piloting is the most fun, for me anyway.  You have a sense of freedom when piloting, and it almost feels like YOU'RE the one who nailed the Hwacha barrage, and you get a sense of pride in EVERYONE, whereas individuals take pride in their own work.  Basically, what is a Captain without a crew?!
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Kamoba on December 10, 2014, 01:19:37 pm
Because of the nature of the game I find it depends who I'm with, I'll happily engineer and gun with pick up groups, but in general find being a captain with a pick up group very stressful if you have just one person unwilling to make any effort, for example a guy wanted to gun and he argued with the other guy who wanted to gun, in the end the other guy agreed to me making him ballon mortar engineer, kudo's to the guy who didn't gun he tried damn hard considering what happened, and the lvl 1engineer who took the mantle of main done an awesome job and listened to tips and tricks I gave him.
The 'gunner' though, I gave him a heavy, greased heatsink loadout... He camped on the mortar and shot one shot each engagement... While armour was up. He was not afk, his shot towards the enemy each engagement showed that... No language barrier, he made himself very well understood with his whole argument of being a gunner only, on his want to be a specialist gunner on all weapons and he accepted loadout and confirmed his gun was Gatling front right, in this situation where I had to rely on ballon engineer to Gatling and me to shoot banshee on for our only one kill while this guy just trolled... I finished the match apologising to the two engineers, the problem is not the loss itself but the lack of enjoyment for anyone on the ship..

Yet with a crew of all new players who have no idea what to do are more fun as they make the effort, aboard a ship with a language barrier and being the only English speaker was more fun as I had to base engineering on what the other engineer was doing
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: shaelyn on December 10, 2014, 01:36:43 pm
shooting crap, but it depends on the gun.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Skrimskraw on December 10, 2014, 01:47:34 pm
I get absolutely no satisfaction from being stuck on repairs, yes you do a great job keeping the ship alive, but its not fun.
Pilots who doesnt let their engineers shoot guns I refuse to engineer for, i'd rather go do womething else then.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: GeoRmr on December 10, 2014, 02:23:22 pm
Engineer - run round in circles in the same pattern doing the same thing over and over again

= boring

Pilot - watch your engineers run round in circles ~ but they're doing it wrong & watch your gunners miss their shots while the enemy kills you

= frustrating

Gunner - blow shit up & never run round in circles & its never your fault if it goes wrong & be a 'backseat-captain' pissing off constructively criticizing the 'actual captain'

= best class
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Kestril on December 10, 2014, 02:48:51 pm
I like piloting or gunning. Those are fun.

Engineering is bleck. People yell at you all the time.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Lochiel on December 10, 2014, 03:15:41 pm
Engineering, hands down. Not only is it the most hectic, but it benefits from a good degree of situational awareness. You have to adapt what you are doing on the fly based on your teammates, your allies, your opponents, and what everyone is actually doing.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Admiral Ackbar RTDT on December 10, 2014, 03:29:50 pm
I love being Pilot, Captain and Admiral all at the same time. It's a lot of responsibility but when it works you really feel like you won the match. Others I know don't like all the responsibility and would rather blow stuff up and keep us alive. That's why this is such a great game. It is fun for lots of different people you just need to find "your class".
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Dutch Vanya on December 10, 2014, 04:04:13 pm
Geo speaks the truth. Although gunners can be to blame as well if they miss important shots.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: DJ Logicalia on December 10, 2014, 04:05:49 pm
It makes me happy to be a good engineer. It's the class I've started out with, and it's the class I've put the most effort into, and I enjoy it. Engineers are always needed, and when your ship stay together all though your hard work, it makes for a good time
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: sparklerfish on December 10, 2014, 04:24:47 pm
shootin'
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Melon McCrabernathy on December 10, 2014, 05:56:59 pm
Piloting is clearly the most fun, so long as moonshine isn't used, with gunning coming at a close second in my book
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Arturo Sanchez on December 10, 2014, 06:41:02 pm
I personally like being a pilot and its where my pride lies. Not only as a person that knows how to position and evade. But to also be tactical and commanding.


And when I'm not being a pilot I'm just judging my captain's piloting.

on the other 2 classes I'm above average and I pretty much just run on automatic.


Plus that feeling when a noob crewmate backseat pilots me (like complaints for no arc when I'm fully focused on avoiding a freaking Hwacha to the face), quits and I turn the match around playing with my clan.

That internal laughter, of a noobs attempt to be spiteful by leaving the match thinking it was a loss for me.

I just can't get that feeling as a gunner or engie.


Quote from: Kestril on December 10, 2014, 02:48:51 pm
I like piloting or gunning. Those are fun.

Engineering is bleck. People yell at you all the time.

Usually I'm the engie yelling at everyone. Since most caps I've played with don't really know how to think 5 steps ahead which is required of a good pilot. And other crew mates don't show the initiative.


The amount of times I yell at a pilot to use the AI commands to fully utilise that AI crew member. Its like they don't know where the function keys are.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Admiral Ackbar RTDT on December 10, 2014, 07:03:20 pm
The amount of times I yell at a pilot to use the AI commands to fully utilise that AI crew member. Its like they don't know where the function keys are.
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I didn't know where the those function keys were for the first 8 months of playing the game. I finally mapped them.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: ShadedExalt on December 10, 2014, 09:38:29 pm
I figured errything out right quick then!
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: GurasOguras on December 21, 2014, 05:43:26 pm
Quote from: GeoRmr on December 10, 2014, 02:23:22 pm
Engineer - run round in circles in the same pattern doing the same thing over and over again

= boring
It may seem weird, but it gives me great joy when playing as buffengie I keep perfect timing on components and rebuff everything a second before the current buff will go down. It's not boring. It's about the self improvement of my skills. I hope that some day I will master my timing that much, that i will don't even need to think about it. But this is of course impossible, because after every single match I know what things I could do better.

Of course clicking on component with right tool equipped is much easier than shooting, but I do believe that the achieve of perfection as an engineer is much more difficult than as gunner. Gunner is binary class, 1 or 0 - you can hit, or you can miss.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Replaceable on December 21, 2014, 05:51:42 pm
Quote from: GurasOguras on December 21, 2014, 05:43:26 pm
Gunner is binary class, 1 or 0 - you can hit, or you can miss.

Ohhh bringing it full circle.

But I feel the road to never missing with all guns I feel is far longer than never missing a chem or buff.

Of course there's no way of fully stating when a) some is the best as possible at something and b) how long it takes

But hey I like both classes equally really.

Now there's a plot twist.

Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Manasong on December 26, 2014, 03:40:38 pm
Gunner: Watch as the engies keep firing your guns and never let you load the right ammo. Watch the captain using flak at close range and never give you arch of fire
Engineer: Watch as your captain allows the enemy to use you as a target practice. Watch as the gunner never uses the right gun at the right time.
Pilot: Watch your engineers repair guns while engines are out. Watch the gunner never use the gun and ammo you want him to.

Yeah... Well, at least as a pilot its harder to notice when your crew is bad.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Schwalbe on December 26, 2014, 04:03:11 pm
The most fun is banshee/flamer trifecta on mobula with psychotic captain who is laughing literally all the time you incenirate your foes.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Crafeksterty on December 27, 2014, 06:21:01 pm
Quote from: Manasong on December 26, 2014, 03:40:38 pm
Yeah... Well, at least as a pilot its harder to notice when your crew is bad.

what? no...

Ide say pilot sees bad crew the easiest because the pilot knows how the ship should be handled. In the end, its generaly throughout all classes, i mean it just depends on the players focus. Pilots generaly dont have to focus too much about in-ship matter so he uses that focus to make sure that the crew is where they need to be and doing what they need to be doing.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Zydrate on December 27, 2014, 06:25:26 pm
I like being an Engineer so far, it's the right amount of intense without making the game feel too PvP based (Which usually intimidates me).
Gunning is pretty simple and if my pilot is doing well, I usually end up doing some gunning -as- an Engineer anyway.

I don't think I could ever be a proper pilot.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: ShadedExalt on December 27, 2014, 09:03:07 pm
Quote from: Zydrate on December 27, 2014, 06:25:26 pm
I don't think I could ever be a proper pilot.

And that's why you'll never be a proper pilot.  Keep engi-ing, gunning, and then once you know arcs, and how much punishment the ship can take, hop in the pilot seat.  Not that we get seats.  Builds character.
Title: Re: What's more fun?
Post by: Schwalbe on December 28, 2014, 05:22:55 am
If I can suggest something, get 7th level of engie and gunner in normal pubs, and then hop in Pilot seats in novice matches. It's not like prior the 1.3.7 patch, where when I did something alike (leveling pilot before getting out novicehood) I had, like, 130 matches played and quite an experience, and learn something about flying in novice pubs. If done right, you should be able to leave anything with upper hand, and winning games yourself (well, using ally as bait or living shield), I mean - getting 5:0 results, having at least 4 kills done by your crew. After leveling out of novicehood leave pilot for getting much more experience, because there is a high chance you'll get your ass wrecked at this stage. But with proper observation you will be able to implement something to your flighting style.

And also one thing. Leveling like 7-7-7. Might seem strange huh? Well, players who do so are rather better seen by more advanced players. And, you know, nobody wants to fly lvl 1 player, right?