Guns Of Icarus Online

Off-Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Indreams on January 10, 2015, 11:49:38 pm

Title: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Indreams on January 10, 2015, 11:49:38 pm: I love worlds that Hiyao animates, like Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, and Howl's Moving Castle. Guns of Icarus is pretty much the only game that puts me in that romantic world. That's my main reason for playing Guns of Icarus.

I've named two of my ships in reference to Hiyao's works. It might soon become three.

What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Riggatto on January 10, 2015, 11:51:51 pm: Mines
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: shaelyn on January 11, 2015, 12:33:16 am: skywhales.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Replaceable on January 11, 2015, 06:46:50 am: When despite overbearing odds you come out on top.

Allies don't know where the point is in desert scrap?

3v1 the whole game?

No problem.

Also landing a while clip of hades at ~2000m
(Doesn't happen to me often.)

Having every shot of an Artemis destroy a component.

The red cross of death you get from heavy flak.

Heavy clip carronade disables.

When I or the enemy charge a minefield.

When the lobby is more fun the match you play.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: GeoRmr on January 11, 2015, 08:07:19 am: Quote from: Indreams on January 10, 2015, 11:49:38 pm
Icarus is pretty much the only game that puts me in that romantic world. That's my main reason for playing Guns of Icarus.

The Edge Chronicles
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Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Dementio on January 11, 2015, 10:23:40 am: I like Guns of Icarus, because I don't die so quickly or don't have to get exp to level up die less quick.

Geo is best at advertising, apparantly.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: shaelyn on January 11, 2015, 03:51:23 pm: alright I gotta give a legit answer.

the community.
without good players and friends, good people to spend my time with in the lobbies or on the ship, this game would be nothing. you guys are what make it fun.

unloading a greased clip of Hades fire into an enemy at perfect range is fun too, as is the well-placed lochnagar mine, but the people here are what really make it worthwhile.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Arturo Sanchez on January 11, 2015, 04:03:16 pm: the feel of holding tactical superiority and when lvls mean skill than actual point for point advantage.

like mmorpgs i know.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Alexor Huxley on January 11, 2015, 04:04:38 pm: I was won over by the intense... Um... "Dogfights"? If that's the right word? Most of it was probably owed to novice public matches when everybody charges headlong into the 3v3 deathmatch, but that still kind of rocked. Peeling away at the last moment because I didn't know collisions were an effective means of dealing damage. Gunners spraying weapons like madmen.

It was all very dramatic.

And I love steampunk and post-apocalyptia, so it's kind of perfect. It also reminds me of the Mortal Engines quartet, which I really like (even though I've only read three of four so far).
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Arturo Sanchez on January 11, 2015, 05:07:29 pm: Quote from: Alexor Huxley on January 11, 2015, 04:04:38 pm
I was won over by the intense... Um... "Dogfights"? If that's the right word? Most of it was probably owed to novice public matches when everybody charges headlong into the 3v3 deathmatch, but that still kind of rocked. Peeling away at the last moment because I didn't know collisions were an effective means of dealing damage. Gunners spraying weapons like madmen.

It was all very dramatic.

And I love steampunk and post-apocalyptia, so it's kind of perfect. It also reminds me of the Mortal Engines quartet, which I really like (even though I've only read three of four so far).

Technically dog fights are only related to plane v plane but whatever.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Indreams on January 11, 2015, 05:35:19 pm: Quote from: Ceresbane on January 11, 2015, 05:07:29 pm
Technically dog fights are only related to plane v plane but whatever.

In Guns of Icarus, we have duck fights and cake fights.

...

I really should join a clan.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: shaelyn on January 11, 2015, 05:52:16 pm: and clan battles! wait...
[clan] battles?
[clan] clan clan battles?
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Arturo Sanchez on January 11, 2015, 09:00:52 pm: https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/GetJob.aspx?JobID=12073271&JobTitle=Wessex+Army+Reserve+(Salisbury+and+Old+Sarum)&jt=5&where=salisbury+wiltshire&rad=5&sort=rv.dt.di&pp=25&re=3&rad_units=miles&vw=b&setype=2&pg=3&AVSDM=2014-12-11T11%3a33%3a00-05%3a00

Does being a level 34 gunner in Guns of Icarus count for experience?
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on January 12, 2015, 01:19:27 am: Quote from: Riggatto on January 10, 2015, 11:51:51 pm
Mines

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Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Mod Josie on January 12, 2015, 05:48:41 am: Quote from: Ceresbane on January 11, 2015, 09:00:52 pm
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/GetJob.aspx?JobID=12073271&JobTitle=Wessex+Army+Reserve+(Salisbury+and+Old+Sarum)&jt=5&where=salisbury+wiltshire&rad=5&sort=rv.dt.di&pp=25&re=3&rad_units=miles&vw=b&setype=2&pg=3&AVSDM=2014-12-11T11%3a33%3a00-05%3a00
Does being a level 34 gunner in Guns of Icarus count for experience?

If it doesn't.. It should.

Quote from: -Muse- shaelyn on January 11, 2015, 03:51:23 pm
alright I gotta give a legit answer.
the community.
without good players and friends, good people to spend my time with in the lobbies or on the ship, this game would be nothing. you guys are what make it fun.
unloading a greased clip of Hades fire into an enemy at perfect range is fun too, as is the well-placed lochnagar mine, but the people here are what really make it worthwhile.

I agree wholeheartedly. The people that I met while playing this game have been a driving force in the way that I've spent my time online ever since. I have made friends that I would like to keep for the rest of my life and I hope that they will too. Another thing that really pulled me in was the engagement between the developers and the players. They weren't just on the other end of a Steam announcements page but were playing games with us and chatting with us on a weekly basis if not more often. These reasons made me want to step up and help more and that led to my becoming a CA and all the rest.

Also, I do quite enjoy trying to win against the odds. I like putting myself in difficult situations as a pilot and trying to escape. It lets me learn and gives me some real excitement. As an engineer I mostly zone out and take the time to chat and make jokes with my shipmates. If they're struggling then I can give them advice which leads back up to the first points. As a gunner it's all about landing superb shots - constantly trying to outdo myself: better gun disables, longer range Lumberjack hits, the works.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Silent Marauder on January 12, 2015, 07:09:45 am: Lion gun
Lochnagar heavy flak
Greased mortar
Aft poon
Looking at enemy's struggle to keep the hull up

*deep breath* And Lobbies of Icarus. God rest it's soul.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Queso on January 12, 2015, 11:31:06 am: I mean, this game is probably the launch pad for my career in game development. Like Jacob said, the devs are some of the most engaged in their community out of any game I have EVER SEEN. It's truly what has kept this game alive. Launching an indie game that is multiplayer only is nearly a death sentence. Let alone the fact that it requires intense teamwork and communication. It's a hell of a feat to say the least. The fact that this long after launch new people can just buy the game and be welcomed into it and have people of similar skill to play against is insanely awesome. The ladies and gentlemen of Muse Games have repeatedly improved the first time player experience since they just keep coming in.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on January 12, 2015, 03:47:11 pm: Quote from: Queso on January 12, 2015, 11:31:06 am
I mean, this game is probably the launch pad for my career in game development. Like Jacob said, the devs are some of the most engaged in their community out of any game I have EVER SEEN. It's truly what has kept this game alive. Launching an indie game that is multiplayer only is nearly a death sentence. Let alone the fact that it requires intense teamwork and communication. It's a hell of a feat to say the least. The fact that this long after launch new people can just buy the game and be welcomed into it and have people of similar skill to play against is insanely awesome. The ladies and gentlemen of Muse Games have repeatedly improved the first time player experience since they just keep coming in.

Yep. It is the only game of it's kind, only community of it's kind, and only devs of their kind. Course it hasn't been all sugar and spice. I'd say generally positive with moments of "arrrg!!" mixed in. Lot of things would be more positive had GOIO taken off and become a huge success. Muse could have hired more help, dedicated more resources, and made something really glorious. Lot of complaint threads wouldn't have ever existed.

But then there are moments when Muse does something and your in the process of walking away. They release something on the dev app, something you had wanted to be fixed since ever, and just as you had given up, there it is. Its like they did it just for you so you wouldn't give up on them.

Its like Muse has moments where they are this giant alien monster wiping out the world but then they stop and save a kitten and you go..."awww, I can't stay mad at you!"

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Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: ShadedExalt on April 21, 2015, 08:01:04 pm: This thread deserves a necro.

Also, Gilder speaks the truth.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: MagKel on April 23, 2015, 09:27:42 am: teamwork, oh i love the teamwork. those moments of frenetic activity to keep a ship alive in a 2v1 and declare when it is over: "Well, we lasted more than it was natural".

or the meta gunnery, the rapid exchange of information between the two gun operators trying to exploit a breach in the hull against a skilled opponent. holding your mortar, holding yourself from rushing to repairs, visualizing the trajectory and firing at the exact moment that the hull drops while the first projectile is about to connect.

but maybe the sweetest thing is when someone just arrived in the game follows your instructions and does a great job, the satisfaction in their voice for their first game where they felt the true spirit of GOIO. They stick around then, you search a new game with them (maybe invite someone else and introduce them) and while waiting every veteran tries to condense as much information as they can on the new recruits because they know they will listen. That feeling of having found someone like you, like us among the scrubs.

In military jargon is called a Cadre, the small group of officers that informally train the fresh regiment from within. It is a french word derived by the italian quadro, latin quadrus: the square. A tight formation of veterans in the center that will carry the regiment to victory.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Foxx on April 23, 2015, 02:01:14 pm: 1 - Community. the friendliest one i know of, perhaps because

2 - Teamwork. While one person can make a difference, you could have the best pilot, or best engie, or best gunner, but without the others just won't work.

3 - Munkers. just.. whenever i'm on a munker ship, i can't help but be laughing.

4 - Really do love that intro tune. <3
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: ShadedExalt on April 23, 2015, 04:22:39 pm: Quote from: Foxx on April 23, 2015, 02:01:14 pm
Really do love that intro tune. <3

I KNOW

WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Letus on April 24, 2015, 09:17:24 am: when an entire lobby is talking at once.
It's just hilarious
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Arturo Sanchez on April 25, 2015, 09:48:41 am: I like me in guns of icarus.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: PixelatedVolume on May 14, 2015, 06:46:29 am: Intro violins.

But also - and I think a lot of people can agree with this - part of what I love about the game is coming up with a plan, whether captaining with a brew load out, coordinating with the other gunners, whatever, and then seeing it work. It takes a few tries sometimes, but then there are the moments where you rise out of the clouds across a metamideon's bow and unload a lethal junker broadside into him... That's when I learned to love gat-flak Junkers.

More generally, the game is very visceral. Every gun makes a distinctive noise, recoil is perfect for giving that feeling you're shooting something POWERFUL. Hit markers are big and white and distinctive, you just feel good dishing them out.

Also - antiairship flamethrowers. Need I say more.
Title: Re: What makes you like Guns of Icarus?
Post by: Koali on May 14, 2015, 09:04:34 am: Pretty sure those aren't violins.

Pretty sure those are violas and cellos.